Nicks. Buckingham. Silver Spring. Staring daggers.
This appears to be the current Trump/Musk vibe, and I'm ready for it.
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Nicks. Buckingham. Silver Spring. Staring daggers.
This appears to be the current Trump/Musk vibe, and I'm ready for it.
My kid was asked to label a "map of Africa" on a recent test. And what am I looking at? 🤨
Proud of Mass!
Black and Asian queer-owned Loyalty Books has a list of BIPOC preorders that you should regularly peruse! #BookSky
🧵 of books on the list that I am especially excited about
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Don't forget to block maga trolls if they follow you 😊
One of the many reasons I left
Tell your students to apply to UMass Developmental Science! I've been vetted and endorsed 😉
It was so nice to hear quotes from my students' letters of support when receiving this award 🥹
people who have never experienced open racism — or open bigotry of any sort — do not appreciate the way it can be psychologically destabilizing. and on the main, it actually isn’t healthy to be so resilient and thick-skinned that you don’t react to slurs and dehumanization
Effective mentorship in the academy isn't just kind - it's strategic. We strengthen our academic community when we support and elevate our junior colleagues. We create a supportive community with a culture of collaboration and innovation. I benefited from having precisely this kind of mentors.
Different forms of mentoring Image Source: https://frntofficesport.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/mentoring-dr.-sara-taylor-1024x784.jpg
Faculty mentoring in academic institutions, a thread.
As I advance in my academic career (read: as I keep getting more gray hair), I've come to appreciate, even more than before, the profound responsibility we (senior-ish faculty) have to support and nurture emerging talent, not diminish it.
I love seeing my new affiliation on my badge
Do y'all have a library card to your local public library? You should get one and USE it! This is my ridiculously gorgeous local library. They have books, ebooks, apps and tablets for kids, video games, DVDs, and puzzles, passes to local museums, seeds for the garden etc. Protect our libraries!
I've said it before -- I'm not sure my career will ever recover following the pandemic. It was hard. And it was enraging to sit in zoom meetings with men saying "I've had so much time to write" 🙃🫠
This is true 🤣
As much as I feel silly doing this, I got one of my strongest students ever because I posted on that other app and her mentor passed along to me. She's so great she's now my postdoc
Sharing again since I got quite a few new followers 👋🏽 -- send me your students who are interested in the role of culture in adolescent development and/or Latinx adolescents and families!
As much as I cackled, they don't deserve your energy
The Handmaid's Tale is a good book. But did you know that there's a book written by a Black woman about a post-apocalyptic Earth heavily affected by climate change and societal decline. The book was published in 1993, but is set in 2024 following a presidential election 👀 #BookSky #BlackBookSky
#UMass Amherst urges international students going home for winter break to return to campus before Jan. 20
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#Massachusetts
From the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma…
What began as a casual online discussion among Choctaw community members has grown into a cultural rebirth, reconnecting Native communities with their ancestral roots through the Inchunwa Project.
Learn more at the following link 🔗: bit.ly/4ftJjYk.
My first starter pack! Adolescence is all about exploration and learning, right? 😅 For researchers studying #adolescence from all angles (biology, brain, mental/physical/global health, cognitive/social/identity development, YPAR, PYD, education, etc.)! Reply if you want to join! go.bsky.app/HzkrXH8
I've moved to UMass, Amherst! If you know any promising students who are applying to doctoral programs encourage them to apply to our developmental science program! I'm hoping to accept at least one doc student. Please share!
I guess we're sharing our cats. Here's Gustavo Tacocat I. He owns a beautiful house that he allows me to live in
Developmental Psychology Starter Pack
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