Dr. Allison Master

Resharing again! I'm looking for a postdoc with experience or interests in longitudinal data collection OR analysis: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/32132

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A Message from Your University President on the Recent Hippopotamus Attacks Dear Faculty, Staff, Students, and AI Summarization Tools, I want to express my deepest gratitude for your patience as we explore innovative soluti...

"Your steadfast commitment to our strategic mission, despite the multiple tramplings, maulings, and other encounters we shall henceforth refer to as 'terminal networking opportunities' has not gone unnoticed."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-m...

​​UMD LEAD Lab Manager Ad The Language, Experience, and Development (LEAD) lab at the University of Maryland, College Park, directed by Dr. Rachel Romeo (she/her/hers), is seeking a lab manager. Expected start date is early su...

I am hiring a new lab manager for the @umdleadlab.bsky.social to start this summer! Job ad and link to apply here. Please re-post and share with your seniors, and/or anyone else who would be a good fit! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The Danger of Silence When Academic Freedom Is Under Threat Inaction from rank-and-file workers enabled government censorship during the Red Scares.

You ever write something and there are so many parts you hope people engage with that you can't figure out which ones to quote?

I'll do a wee thread on the 3rd, and final, essay from my Red Scares series

www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

First-time at AERA and interested in learning more about how to identify and engage in key professional events beyond academic sessions? Join our annual pre-AERA skill-building workshop on Mar 25! Register today—all GSC members are welcome! tinyurl.com/2026motsigwo...

The DEI Debacle BY NIMISHA BARTON Following the infamous “Dear Colleague” letter sent out by the Department of Education in February 2025, colleges and universities rushed to shutter diversity, equity, and inclusi…

Did everyone catch @nimishabarton.bsky.social's incredible essay on the DEI debacle in Academe Magazine? If not, here's your chance to catch up on an essay we badly need academeblog.org/2026/02/04/t...

Our lab has a new postdoc position that is ideal for someone interested in a career in data science or statistical consulting and an interest in gender diversity / trans health. apply.interfolio.com/182278

I've heard there will be awards coming out after the spring panels (whenever those are...).

The Report of Stereotype Threat's Demise Has Been Greatly Exaggerated And why I'm feeling a certain way about it

Today Dominic Packer & @jayvanbavel.bsky.social republished @minzlicht.bsky.social's post about "The Downfall of Stereotype Threat" in their widely-read The Power Of Us newsletter. I felt a certain way about that & the evidence presented there & thought I'd respond:

Very cool opportunity for early career researchers interested in special education research:

Apply for access to at least one statewide longitudinal dataset with support from SPARC researchers to conduct a co-developed study on the special education workforce. sparccenter.org/sparc-center...

This is what state censorship looks like:

Also WHERE did that sword come from??? 😆

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Congratulations!!! So well-deserved!!

Ellen Markman, Rodolfo Cortes Barragan, Carissa Romero, Carol Dweck, Greg Walton and Allison Master sitting on an outdoor couch under a tree

Grad school reunions should be an official thing. I went back to Stanford today to celebrate Bing Nursery School’s 60 anniversary research panel, and it was so lovely to see old friends and the wonderful professors who forever changed my life. ❤️

The moment many of us in #edresearch have been waiting for...

Reimagining the Institute of Education Sciences has been released.

ies.ed.gov/ies/2026/02/...

Is there anyone out there who'd be willing to put up a poster for tomorrow's 8am session at SPSP? My colleague who was supposed to present is sick and I'm not available. I have the poster and will be on site after lunch!! #SPSP2026

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School psychology scholars: we have a job opening. We are Canadian and very nice humans. You can contact me for more info. mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree...

Heading to #SPSP2026? Come check out our professional development session from the Early Career Committee on alternative paths for research in these times of limited federal funding. We'll discuss other sources of funding, secondary data analysis, and more!

🚨🚨 My lab is hiring a Postdoc! 🚨🚨

Postdoc opening in my lab at Harvard Psych (start: Summer/Fall 2026).

We study identity, group dynamics, language, & politics.

Rolling review begins 3/14
Apply: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15806

Please repost + tag folks who might be a good fit! 👇

Edward L. Deci Obituary February 14, 2026 - Rochester Cremation View Edward L. Deci's obituary, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.

Remembering Edward Deci, APS Charter Member and Fellow #Psychology

The boys’ club: How Epstein’s influence shaped the exclusion of women in STEM In one email, an AI researcher suggested it’s “hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why another woman hates you.”

Good to see journalists scrutinizing “The Edge Network,” an intellectual circle of academic men who think that women are inherently inferior to men.
(and great interview by @laurenaulet.bsky.social)
19thnews.org/2026/02/epst...

The Specter of Motherhood: Culture and the Production of Gendered Career Aspirations in Science and Engineering - Sarah Thébaud, Catherine J. Taylor, 2021 Why are young women less likely than young men to persist in academic science and engineering? Drawing on 57 in-depth interviews with PhD students and postdocto...

Now, we don't have the PhD student's side of the story. But there's research on women PhD students and postdocs in STEM fields showing that they often leave their programs because of the sexist mistreatment they face from men like this.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Heading to Chicago for #SPSP2026? Come check out work from our lab! 🙂

We’re presenting 2 talks & 2 posters on interventions to promote confrontations of sexism, identity safety cues, multiracial identity, and stereotyping about nationality.

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How long are you in town? Do you need any more food recommendations? (I moved here last summer.)

Lab manager position in the Cognitive Development Lab Please forward to motivated students! Apply here: https://apply.interfolio.com/182022 Deadline: March 2, 2026 Questions? Email andrei.cimpian@nyu.edu

Looking for a lab manager! Join us! 😊
apply.interfolio.com/182022

Ocean Beach at sunset

Also the outdoor hits!

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it.

Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

Excited to share that @chrisrozek.bsky.social & I are guest editing a special issue of Contemporary Educational Psychology: “Promoting Equitable and Authentic School Belonging: Barriers, Facilitators, and Mechanisms.”

Call for abstracts due March 1, 2026: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Junior faculty- Consider coming to Princeton Psych -all expenses paid- for a few weeks to hang out with my great colleagues! (I can’t host this year, but we have so many great labs to choose from!). Application details below.