Excited to be included in Nature’s roundup of 99 lab hacks! I shared advice on lab meetings + clear expectations for trainees. Small structures that can make a big difference in mentoring. Check out the full piece here: doi.org/10.1038/d415...

Reminder 🚨 The NIH Workshop for Early Career Investigators in HIV is this Friday! I’ll be speaking at 1:35pm ET, but the whole day is packed with great sessions. 📅 Sept 26, 2025 | 11am–3pm ET | Virtual Register here: www.scgcorp.com/eciworkshop2...

@qmmmmliu.bsky.social and I just gave a presentation for the UChicago internship program on writing faculty job statements. We talked through what makes them compelling (and what to avoid). Slides are here if interested 👉 osf.io/3skx4/?view_... Thanks to Dr. Shona Vas inviting us!!

🚨 New publication in Archives of Sexual Behavior! ❤️ Co–first authored w/ Dr. Qimin Liu — we applied conditional inference trees to examine intragroup nuances in discrimination + psychological distress among U.S. sexual minority adults. @psychillinois.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A critique in my review: “The authors used omega instead of alpha.” Cool, let me just return my master’s in measurement.

No other leads???

🚨 New paper in JMIR! 🚨 With @qmmmmliu.bsky.social, we analyzed nearly 1,000 Facebook comments on our LGBTQIA+ parent research ads. While frustrating to read, we’re excited to share this work to shine light on the stigma researchers & families face in digital spaces. 🔗 doi.org/10.2196/79080

✨ REGISTRATION OPEN! ✨ I’ll be speaking (1:35pm ET) at the NIH Workshop for Early Career Investigators in HIV, hosted by NIH OAR 🎤 Join us to talk NIH resources, funding, and advancing #EndingTheHIVepidemic. 🔗 www.scgcorp.com/eciworkshop2...

A retired civil engineer tried to join my lecture today. Why? “After 50 years, I realize psychology is IT even though in my youth I mocked it. You deal with happiness and wellbeing. That’s LIFE.” And you chose my CLASS? Well, now I’m inspired.

#NLPA2025 Summit registration is open. Excited to soon learn from and be in community with other Latinx psychologist. If you haven’t already, consider attending this timely conference. Hope to see you in Texas! www.nlpa.ws/2025-confere...

Happy to share that I passed the EPPP today! 🎉 In Illinois, this comes after completing supervised hours, which I fulfilled through pro bono asylum evaluations and therapy with unaccompanied minors from around the world. Grateful for the chance to serve, and excited for licensure!

Reflexive practice doesn't need to be esoteric. Just in time before Fall: the SpORE Manual is now live and open access on OSF: osf.io/rx4bn SpORE is a modular, beginner-friendly framework to support reflexive practice in applied learning, designed for both instructors and trainees.

Happy to be back at Yale as a panelist for Yale Ciencia Academy—5 years after being a fellow. Full circle. 💫 Grateful to share space with brilliant minds & talk about making change in academia. Thank you Yale, Mónica, Giovanna & crew for building this incredible community. 💜 #AcademicLife

📣 HIRING! The Health Equity and Action Lab (@ UIUC) is looking for a Coordinator to support an NIH-funded study on parents. 💼 Start by 9/1 📍 Champaign, IL ✍️ Apply: [email protected] (CV + cover letter) RT to help us find someone great! 💜 #AcademicJobs #PsychologyJobs #HealthEquity

Folks have started reaching out again, so here’s your reminder: I will be reviewing PhD applications this fall! 📅 Deadline: Nov 15, 2025 🔗 Info: publish.illinois.edu/healthequity... 📨 Questions? [email protected] 🔵 @vjrp.bsky.social #PhDChat #HealthEquity #ClinicalPsych

So proud of @antoniayuxinhua.bsky.social for winning the APS RISE award and presenting her incredible work on her birthday! What a way to celebrate. May every birthday be this inspiring and impactful—congrats, Antonia! And thanks @qmmmmliu.bsky.social for working with us on this project!!!

Huge congratulations to my honors student Flor Quiroz on her graduation from @psychillinois.bsky.social — and to all the amazing grads of 2025! ¡Felicidades, Flor! Watching students cross the stage felt like witnessing the future of our field take flight! #PsychMajor #UIUCGrad2025

I took this survey and took me 3 minutes. Take it!

Just wrapped up the Dr. Sandra J. Finley Teacher Scholar Certificate at UIUC! Taught across 3 semesters, developed a teaching project, engaged in service, and reflected on how/why I teach. Grateful for programs that treat teaching as scholarly work. #Teaching #HigherEd #UIUC #PedagogyMatters

So proud of my amazing master’s and PhD students present their work at #SRCD2025 today! From parenting stigma to psychometrics to intersectional mental health—each one did so great! Thank you to everyone who showed up, and to Chair Dr. Sungha Kang for leading such a meaningful session!

Excited to be joining brilliant colleagues this Saturday for a roundtable on Advancing Developmental Science through Anti-Racist Practices at #SRCD2025 (chaired by @dllabarrie.bsky.social). Come by if you’re interested in building a more equitable science! #DevelopmentalScience #EquityInResearch

One of my amazing friends took our HEAL lab logo and made embroidered polos and zip-ups with our names! The quality is AMAZING! If you’re looking to do something like this, reach out to her! @thedancingbearstitchery on IG or email [email protected]. #AcademicLife #CustomMerch

Wanted to give a big shout-out to my MSPS student @antoniayuxinhua.bsky.social, for presenting her work today at the @psychillinois.bsky.social MSPS Fair! So proud of her incredible work. Also, huge thanks to all the faculty and staff who make this fair possible and support our students’ growth!

Harvard just scrapped it's office of Diversity Inclusion and Belonging and has renamed it the office of campus and community life. They will move focus from underrepresented minorities to first generation and low income students instead. Resegregation comes to Harvard.

Birth rates are falling. But a $5K check doesn't address the top barriers to having children: ✅maternity care deserts ✅no paid leave ✅high maternal mortality rate ✅childcare deserts ✅high cost of infertility treatment yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/birth-rate...

So proud of my grad students presenting at #SRCD2025! Our symposium focuses on how parenting and parental mental health relate to child outcomes across diverse family structures. Come see their work!! @srcdorg.bsky.social @antoniayuxinhua.bsky.social #devpsyc #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

My very first honors thesis student, Flor Quiroz, presented her work on Latinx parents today at @UIUC’s Undergraduate Research Symposium! She’s poured so much thought, rigor, and heart into this project, and it showed. Here’s to many more! 💫 #ProudMentor #URS2025

Why did no one tell me writing tenure and promotion letters is so fun? Y’all out here gatekeeping the good parts of academia?

Here’s a list of people the Secretary of Health and Human Services says "will never pay taxes. They'll never hold a job. They'll never play baseball. They'll never write a poem. They'll never go out on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted."

Me in 2023: No more degrees. I’m over it. Me on my birthday, 2025: “Hi! Just submitting requirements for yet another academic certificate!”

In a new study published in JAMA Network Open, the team of @vjrp.bsky.social & @qmmmmliu.bsky.social shows how the stigma parents in sexual and gender families encounter is associated with their children's mental health. go.illinois.edu/vq

Excited to present on this today at #MPA2025 on how stigma experienced by sexual and gender minority (SGM) parents influences child mental health. I’ll be speaking during the Parent and Child Issues session — hope to see folks in Salon 10!

New in JAMA Network Open with @qmmmmliu.bsky.social Stigma faced by SGM parents is associated with child mental health symptoms — after controlling for parental psych symptoms. Stigma is a family burden! Link: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Ran into @doggonepsych.bsky.social at the Midwestern Psychological Association conference — such a great surprise!

It's that time of year again: I'm teaching Linear Regression. As such I've updated my writing guide for linear regression. Tips and tricks for writing accurate and clear interpretations and inferences in regression. You can check it out on OSF osf.io/aeqn6

Someone said em dashes are canceled because only ChatGPT uses them… I PROMISE you can find one in the intro of my honors thesis—typed with my own two little hands. Don’t take this from me. We have so little left!!

Two years ago: “Overambitious”? Rude. Now: [flipping through my own NIH proposal] “I proposed WHAT???” Dear reviewers, I owe YOU an apology and MYSELF a nap.

My grad student once rescheduled our 1-on-1 because she had to adopt a dog that day. So yeah, I’m clearly recruiting the right people—and that should absolutely go on my tenure dossier under “mentorship excellence.”

Congratulations @antoniayuxinhua.bsky.social!! So proud of you! And thanks to @qmmmmliu.bsky.social for working with us on this project with SGM parents!!

Excited to present my poster “Psychometric Evaluation of the Regulating Emotions in Parenting Scale (REPS) in Sexual and Gender Minority Parents” at #aps25dc. My first time attending APS, and my presentation happens to be scheduled on my birthday, which makes it extra special!🤓

Congratulations to my mentee, Flor Berenice Quiroz, for her exceptional work with Hispanic/Latinx families, which she presented at the 26th Annual National McNair Scholars and Undergraduate Research Conference at the University of Maryland, College Park!

I went the extra mile!

Thanks to @vjrp.bsky.social for sharing her experience with what is on the minds of so many researchers who rely on NIH funding www.science.org/content/arti...

My friend @vjrp.bsky.social wrote this feature for Science on the current state of funding and its impact on early career scholars! www.science.org/content/arti...

"Even NIH officers don’t know what will happen next." In our latest @science.org Working Life essay, an assistant professor expresses frustration with stalls at NIH and asks: "Will my grants ever be reviewed?" @vjrp.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...

In my latest article for @science.org, I reflect on the current challenges faced by early-career researchers, including delays in grant reviews, uncertainty around NIH funding freezes and changes, and the critical need for continued support and advocacy. www.science.org/content/arti...

Gutting Medicaid, which many rely on for maternity care and to pay for the NICU (birth weight < 1,200 g), is the most anti fetus, anti-newborn legislation possible.

Happy to report that APA wrote this letter, gathered a coalition across science, and will now pay for ads for it to be disseminated in Science and Chronicle of Higher Ed to spread the word!! unitedsciencealliance.org

I removed the ID of the posters but at what point do we have a moral imperative here? I would not want to participate in a process that explicitly discriminated against minorities. If the applications aren’t reviewed they are basically rejected no? Pull out of the reviews.

Was anyone else’s NIH application up for review today and now showing blank after this email? Trying to figure out if this is just a review delay or yet another case of casual viewpoint suppression!