There has been a sudden and rapid increase in hate crimes against Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities over the last year, and yet you may be hearing about this for the first time right now. …

In a social psychology model of training, a lab — which I will define as a group of researchers, trained in similar research methods and interested in similar topics, that is organized to further develop research projects — is common. When I was training as an undergraduate, graduate, and postdoc…

As a junior professor, I spend a fair amount of my time worrying about how many conferences I will miss in a given year. The decision to attend or not usually revolves around a few questions: Where is the conference? Who is going to be there? How much will it…

In my first year as a faculty member at the University of Illinois I remember having one person really stand out in my small pile of prospective graduate school applications: Stellar letters of recommendation, high GRE scores, a close relationship with a couple of academic advisors, and an active research…

Science is changing. Change is hard though and I have struggled while trying to reconcile my own self-interested pursuits (e.g., being right, tenure) with what I see as crucial changes in methodological and statistical approaches across science. This transition time can be a hard one for those of us with…