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Academic moms - trying to quantify how Covid impacted your research productivity? Our newest paper can help. Check out this 🧵 (Lee-Fay Low Andrew Baillie Sydney Health Academic Mom, PhD)

Visualizing the digital divide: how often homes in historically redlined areas were offered internet speeds so slow, the FCC doesn’t consider it to be broadband.

Years of job experience is one of the WORST predictors of future performance for new hires. Asking for X years of experience (without measures of how someone actually performed) doesn’t tell you anything. Updated paper on what works & doesn’t in hiring: psycnet.apa.org/buy/2022-17327…

🚨New study🚨 Annenberg Institute at Brown National Student Support Accelerator 💲💲 is being spent on tutoring. Many places are choosing virtual, on-demand tutoring options. But do students use it? Is this type of tutoring equitable? Can it improve student outcomes? Can we increase student usage? A 🧵: 1/

#AsianAmericans make up 27.6% of Harvard University's class of '26. In the war on affirmative action, the plaintiffs argue that the % would be higher if admissions were based strictly on objective metrics, unconstrained by race. But even grades are subject to bias. nytimes.com/2022/11/01/opi…

Recently I learned about a man who has trained 1,000+ people to block wind and solar projects. I read through all his training materials, presentations, and seminars. Here's what I learned about him and how his students plan to "win the war on clean energy." 🧵

Compared to other states with crucial midterm elections, youth voter turnout in TX is down. It is not because the young are lazy or do not care— it is because our state legislators specifically made it more difficult for students to vote by passing SB1- Please Read👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

New: Over 1,000 mail-in ballots in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania are going to be discarded due to voters filling out a wrong date or no date at all. This comes after Republican officials in Pennsylvania passed a law disqualifying all mail-in ballots without accurate dates:

Congrats Michael Rizzo, Tobi Britton, & marjorie on their pub in PNASNews on the developmental origins of anti-Black bias in White US children: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… Society for Research in Child Development They found: Racial biases in 4-8yo White children across the US are predicted by... (1/3)

1/ I reached into the console and fished around for my badge. It wasn’t there. My brow furrowed. Me: “Badge, we are not doing this today.” My hand swept over my passenger seat as I eked closer to the parking garage. Still no badge. Now I was almost at the entrance. Grrrr.

This is such an important study. The authors conducted a video experiment of 1,339 teachers in 295 US schools. They found that Black and Latino boys are perceived as more “blameworthy” for identical misbehavior. But that’s not all... 1/2 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

My colleague Steven Roberts was recently invited to comment on a "debate" about diversity at a Association for Psychological Science journal. His experience was troubling and surreal, and lays bare the very biases he studies. He describes it in this important pre-print. 1/ psyarxiv.com/xk4yu

@GordonHodsonPhD On that subject, “what counts as prejudice” is often slippery. It moves about in ways that protect the status quo, and shield White men from recognising discrimination against others: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

Dr. Roberts's preprint and the disclosures of other marginalized scholars has given me more urgency in my plan to redesign my undergrad methods course next year. I want my students to understand how psych research has been done, what it's supported, and where it can go. 1/

Being Black in a predominantly white work environment makes you hypervisible. In my eval, the comment “I don’t see you very much,” was made. Another colleague said, “We don’t want to bug you. It’s helpful if you’re close by.” Y’all. I’m going to do my best to articulate this 1/

Today, December 6, 2022, at 9:35 a.m. ET (2:35 p.m. UTC), at the request of the APS Board of Directors, Klaus Fiedler, Editor-in-Chief of Perspectives on Psychological Science, submitted his resignation, which has been accepted. psychologicalscience.org/news/news-rele…

Hi all! My doctoral student Oyin (twitterless) is trying to organize a speaker symposium for #AOM2023 centered on the challenges and successes for women in STEM positions. If you are doing work in this space and are interested, feel free to reach out!

The phrase “knocked up,” referring to pregnancy, originated with U.S. slavery. The Oxford English Dictionary traces the expression back to 1813. Back then the price of enslaved African women was “knocked up” by the auctioneer when she was pregnant—promoted as a deal for buyers.