Come join us! I will be recruiting a PhD student and have flex to hire a postdoc for Fall 2025 at Rutgers University. If you or someone you know is potentially interested in joining the Diversity Science Lab, please check out calvinklai.com/join-the-lab!

🚨🚨 The Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota is searching for an assistant professor of developmental psychology! To find the ad, use job opening number 364590 in the following link: hr.umn.edu/Jobs/Find-Job

NEW: @ucberkeley launches Palestinian & Arab Studies endowed program & chair. Inaugural chair Ussama Makdisi says Palestinians should not be taught "as simply a problem or conflict" but as a people with a long, rich and ethical history. bit.ly/4gmaAN0

I am recruiting graduate students for Fall 2025 to join the Purpose Functioning in Daily Life (PFiDL--yes, the P is silent) lab!! (please RT/share!) humsci.auburn.edu/hdfs/grad/admi… My research focuses on: 1. when and why people feel purposeful in daily life 1/5

I'm hosting a FREE online workshop about experience sampling methods & how to implement them for American Psychological Association! If you wanna run an experience sampling or a daily diary study but don't know where to start, I'll help you out with lots of practical advice! apa-org.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Please RT. 📢I'm recruiting a PhD student for Fall 2025 Berkeley School of Education! I'm particularly interested in students interested in early math learning (kindergarten - 3rd grade), working memory, and inequities in early childhood using quantitative methods. Deadline is Dec 3rd!

Today is publication day for the volume "Resistance to Repression and Violence: Global Psychological Perspectives", co-edited with Fouad Bou Zeineddine (Fouad Bou Zeineddine). Link to book: global.oup.com/academic/produ…. A 🧵with brief summaries and links to the 16 chapters in this volume.

Small thread: Academic freedom matters. We have to be free to pursue ideas, work through them, without threat of retaliation or losing our job. But that doesn't mean ideas don't deserve scrutiny. And when bad ideas emerge, it's also our job to put those bad ideas to bed.

A working paper by Michael W. Kraus and Dr. Chyei Vinluan shows that Asian Americans working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic reported fewer incidents of racial discrimination, and hybrid work eased stress for Asian and Black Americans. #WorkingPaperWednesday spr.ly/6014WoVFC

Check out Dr. Chyei Vinluan new paper on remote work and discrimination (and hire her)!

New—Washington Senator Patty Murray & Rep. Pramila Jayapal are calling for “an immediate, transparent, credible, and thorough” US investigation into the killing of Ayşenur Eygi. They request an answer by 9/24 & on what concrete steps the US has taken to get accountability.

Next Tuesday (Sept. 17) is the 2nd part of the book launch panel discussion with contributors to the new edited volume, Resistance to Repression and Violence. This time we focus on "Adaptations and Articulations of Street Protest and Beyond". Registration link & other info in 🧵

I’m so excited to announce my dissertation proposal was approved🥳🥳🥳 It’s crazy how fast everything is moving but it’s happening! Dr. Jada loading!

Out now: The Effects of the 2020 BLM Protests on Racial Bias in the United States journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01…

I am sharing here my review of more than a decade of my work, and others, on narrative interventions delivered through media (focusing on edutainment) to address intergroup conflict and violence. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

🧵 1. "The dream of a lot of journalists is that our work leads to some kind of change." For no reason at all, here is a thread of times Medill and Northwestern touted my approach to social justice and research (in non-“objective” ways) on their social media channels…

I hope I’m not too late! I’m thrilled to announce that I will be attending Northwestern this fall to pursue my PhD in Social Psychology under the primary mentorship of Sylvia Perry! #AcademicChatter #phdchatter #ScienceTwitter Academic Chatter™ Psych Chatter

What happens to companies when their workers unionize? Workers and managers become more liberal in their campaign contributions as a direct result. arxiv.org/pdf/2209.02637

Incredible paper by David Silverman and colleagues. The more high-SES parents believe in the American Dream (i.e., upward mobility), the more they engage in "opportunity hoarding"—that is, behaviors and policy preferences that unfairly advantage their own children.

there are absolutely costs to speaking out, and dear friends have endured them both in prisons in Cairo and in academia in the United States. However, I also feel that being authentic to your voice and your spirit is rewarding. It can be relationally rewarding 1/