Hey there Bluesky community — for better or worse, I need to consolidate where I'm posting content. So, moving forward, you can find me on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/szzhou4/ And public versions of content from my research lab, the STATS Lab: www.linkedin.com/company/stat... See you there!

The latest lab newsletter has been released! Read & Subscribe: statslabatcmc.kit.com/posts/decemb... Thank you all for an amazing Fall semester here at @CMCnews — looking forward to the Spring! Have a wonderful break, & we'll be back in early January with our regularly scheduled programming 😉

Interested in our book, From First Job to Career? Check out this snippet from Wyatt's story in Chap. 5: a college dropout & food runner, turned mortgage lender! 🔗 www.statslabatcmc.com/career-book All proceeds go towards future student research in careers. #careers #booklaunch #newbook

VOTE NOW!!! We are a finalist for the Future of Work Research Competition! Our team will build a zombie-themed escape room to study leadership, teamwork, and human-AI interactions. Watch the finalists' videos and then vote! Your vote matters in determining who wins the research funding prize!

What IS leadership? Despite decades of research & practice, it's surprisingly hard to answer this Q. It's gotten to the point that scholars are beginning to question some of the foundations of leadership research. Read our latest blog post to find out more! www.statslabatcmc.com/blog/2025-11...

Happy Thanksgiving! Let’s play a game… what prompt did I give AI to generate this video?

So grateful to have been featured in @cmc.edu's homepage for a story on our research lab! Read the full story here: www.cmc.edu/newsfeed/pro... #research #lab #college #studentts

Missed last week’s webinar where I gave an overview of our STATS Lab research on the intersection of #leadership & #datascience? The recording is available on YouTube! youtube.com/watch?v=k4Dk... We hope this paves the way for future academia-industry collaborations & students getting involved!

I’m working on a grant studying how ppl develop a sense of vocational calling early on in their lives. How do parenting, school, cultural values, etc. impact calling prior to age 18? As we're ideating, we'd love to hear from YOU. What books growing up most influenced your career journey?

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New publication! We partnered with SIOP to ask #iopsych academics and practitioners to anonymously report their degree of usage of GenAI and what they used it for. 👉 Read the full article AND an **interactive dashboard** of all our data that you can explore: www.statslabatcmc.com/blog/2025-10...

Excited to be sharing about my research next Thurs 11/13 in a Zoom webinar w/ @cmc.edu! Whether you’re a student, parent, alum, friend, or community member… come learn more about how we’re exploring the intersection of leadership and data science! RSVP: events.cmc.edu/e/cmcconnect...

Apparently this is what AI thinks about “statistics is scary” on Halloween… Disclaimer: I promise you won’t run away screaming from my stats classes! Happy Halloween! #stats #halloween #aivideo #ai

We had fun being interviewed by Organizational Research Methods for our publication on forced choice measurement! Here’s a highlights reel… Full interview: m.youtube.com/watch?v=woXX... Read the paper: www.researchgate.net/publication/... #research #measurement #forcedchoice #personality

This semester, I introduced structured in-class debates as a major part of students’ final assessment. They prepare to argue **both** sides of hot #IOPsych topics: – Should we use personality tests for hiring? – Should companies move to a four-day work week? Why debates? 🧵

So excited to get to teach this new class at @cmc.edu this spring! Literally one of the reasons why I was hired 😆 Find out more here: www.statslabatcmc.com/teaching

Prompt using Sora: generate a video showing a team completing an escape room research experiment to study leadership and teams as part of the STATS Lab (photo provided). Not too shabby! (PS: yep, we’re working on building this in real life! Stick around for more)

Had an amazing time attending the @theila.bsky.social Conference all the way in Prague! Thank you ILA and Jepson School for the Jablin Dissertation Award that enabled me to come present my research and talk about our new book!

Interested in learning more about our recent book, From First Job to Career, published last month with @universitypress.cambridge.org? Listen to this excerpt from the intro explaining why we wrote this book! Find out more here: www.statslabatcmc.com/career-book #careers #jobs #newbook #booklaunch

So proud to be at @cmc.edu, where @wsj.com just ranked us #6 across **ALL** colleges & universities in the US! www.wsj.com/rankings/col... Just as important: their methodology. Rankings are weighted… 33% salary impact 20% graduation rate 20% learning environ. 17% yrs to pay off net $$ 10% other

FACULTY JOB OPENING ALERT 🚨 @claremontgraduateu.bsky.social is hiring a tenure-track Asst. Professor of I-O Psychology (start: Jul 2026). Balanced teaching + research env., review begins Oct 31, 2025. Apply: [email protected] More: ob.aom.org/discussion/j... #IOPsych #AcademicJobs #FacultySearch

1/ Finishing a PhD means stepping into one of the strangest job markets out there: the academic one. I went through it last year, and here are a few things I wish more people said out loud. #academia #faculty #jobs

Thrilled to have 33 applications to join my research lab here at @cmc.edu 😮😮 I want to work with every one of them on every project, but there’s only 24 hours in a day 😭 Somehow I need to form a manageable set of teams to focus on just a few of the many projects proposed… wish me luck!!

Each semester, @cmc.edu’s Data Science Capstone pairs talented student teams with organizations to tackle real-world data challenges. dscapstone.cmc.edu

🚨 Scientists, researchers, academics: You were trained in a language no one else speaks. You think you’re being clear. But outside the ivory tower… it sounds alien. A thread on why science communication is hard — and why it still matters 🧵

Unboxing my first book with @universitypress.cambridge.org! 📦📚 62 stories of early career journeys + a research review in vocational psychology & career counseling. Read more about why I wrote it here: 🔗 www.linkedin.com/posts/szzhou... Book info + discount code: www.statslabatcmc.com/career-book

We had a great time as new psych faculty talking with students about our new research labs and upcoming research opportunities!! @cmc.edu #research #college #students

Today's the first day of classes at @cmc.edu, so I thought I'd share some more personal reflections in the latest edition of the STATS Lab newsletter. Thank you for those continuing to follow my journey in academia! www.statslabatcmc.com/blog/2025-08... #academia #careers #faculty #newsemester

Proud to serve on the Board of Directors & as a mentor at @projectshort.bsky.social, a nonprofit offering free 1-on-1 mentorship for grad school applicants. 🤝 Mentors & mentees needed! Apps close Aug 25 ⏳ 👉 dashboard.project-short.com/registration... #GradSchool #Mentorship #HigherEd #PhDLife

POV: Curious new @cmc.edu faculty member hiding in the corner to see what the hype at First Year Orientation “Welcome to CMC!” event is like 😆

Semester’s starting at @cmc.edu — and my office door is finally decorated. Course info ✅ Research opportunities ✅ I-O psych & stats memes ✅ Hoping this draws students in… and not scares them off 😅 #IOPsych #OrganizationalBehavior #FacultyLife #AcademicHumor

1/ I get this question from undergrads all the time: Should I go straight into a #research #PhD program in #iopsych or #obhr… or work first? My answer usually surprises them: I recommend getting a “normal” 9-to-5 job for a few years before grad school.

🧠 Why do we treat “Table 1” like a formality instead of the foundation? New from STATS Lab at @cmc.edu reviews Murphy (2021) on the power of descriptive stats — and what it means for how we teach & do org research. 🔗 statslabatcmc.com/blog/2025-08... #IOPsych #DataViz #Research #Teaching #Stats

🎓 Excited to teach Organizational Psychology (PSYC 037) at @CMCnews this fall — a small, interactive class exploring the science of work: leadership, motivation, hiring, culture, and more. Preview of slides attached. More info here: www.statslabatcmc.com/teaching 🧵

📊 Following up on our recent review of forced-choice (FC) measurement research: lnkd.in/edEEiB6h 🧠 Full article here: lnkd.in/eWHf64Y5 Here are a few extra visualizations I had the pleasure of working on (sadly, cut from the final paper due to space) 👇

📢 New research from the I-O lab at @georgemasonu.bsky.social: A systematic review of 80 yrs of research on forced choice measurement! We hope this will be a foundational work for anyone using FC measures, summarizing what we know & what's still to be discovered. journals.sagepub.com/share/YR5CVM...

And so the cross country move and road trip begins!

If you want to study people's interactions with chatbots, or use LLMs to generate novel experimental materials, this paper will walk you through it. Technical and practical considerations included. #iopsychology link.springer.com/article/10.1...

If ur in #iopsych check out my latest publication in TIP about #iopsychology practitioners that are the only ones with an IO background in their organizations. This was a group effort co-authored with my #siop25 session facilitators give it a read when you get a chance www.siop.org/tip-article/...

📘 From First Job to Career is here! 60+ real stories + career research = a fresh roadmap to work life 🎯 @universitypress.cambridge.org 🎉 Join the DC launch party (June 24 @ 6p) hosted by www.joinyv.org 🎁 First 25 get a free copy! RSVP: lu.ma/vesib34i #career #firstjob #booklaunch

This weekend - on our final family vacation before moving, hitting one of our bucket list places - I finally met the author behind my out-of-office autoreplies the past few years! www.visiticeland.com/outhorse-you...

So cool to get my copy of Ilana Horwitz's latest book The Entrepreneurial Scholar ... And especially grateful to be one of the interviewees in the book 😁 #highered #academia #gradstudent a.co/d/c9cxNco

We're hiring a Postdoctoral Scholar! Come join our @conflictcollab.bsky.social at Purdue PSY in the fall 🎉 The role involves opportunities to research and lead writing projects on humanizing organization, conflict mgnt, workplace discrimination, goals, and more! drive.google.com/file/d/1tke0...

Tomorrow morning at #SIOP25 ... A hands-on, interactive Introduction to Tableau workshop led by yours truly! Whova link: whova.com/portal/webap... 10:30-11:20 in Rm 304 Learn how to build interactive data dashboards in Tableau, starting from scratch. See you there!

Had a great time chairing the #SIOP2025 Ambassador Program this year! We paired newcomers with experienced SIOP-ers to share wisdom and advice, then welcomed them all to a newcomer reception before the plenary. Join us next year!! www.siop.org/events/the-a...

As I-Os, we have a lot to offer -- but we need to be able to translate our science to public audiences. Come learn and practice science communication #scicomm in contexts ranging from government and policy, to book publishing, to social media and podcasts! whova.com/portal/webap...

Excited to attend #SIOP25 in just a few weeks! I'll be presenting at 3 sessions - the first is a symposium on occupational #calling & #careers, where we'll be discussing our BOOK coming out in JULY 2025! Whova: whova.com/portal/webap... Book: www.cambridge.org/core/books/f...

Wrapping up a visit to our future home in just a few short months...

I'd really like to know who came up with these scale labels for the #AOM2025 review form... 🤣

Are you interested in U.S. legislative history? Newly-available complete dataset on all persons serving as legislators in the 50 state houses between 1900 and 2016: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...