Thankful for each and every single one of you in my lab!!

It’s letter-of-recommendation season again, when universities ask me to rate a 21 year old student’s ability to “see the big picture of life” while I eat leftover pasta in a Tupperware…

Do your hands talk when you do? 🗣️✋ Check out this @duke-university.bsky.social write up about my new work with my postdoc Esha Naidu (she is on the job market!) showing gestures reflect culture & identity—our nonverbal “accents” can shape interracial communication. trinity.duke.edu/news/talking...

So happy for my lab!!! See you in Chicago!

“The vote is precious. It is the most powerful non-violent tool we have in a democratic society, and we must use it.” —John Lewis #electionday #govote

So incredibly honored to be named a @spspnews.bsky.social Fellow this year!! Hooray for science!! 🎉🥳 spsp.org/news/spsp-ne...

No tricks here, just the best lab!!

"Data manipulation by the US Gov...makes crucial datasets untrustworthy and unusable. If the US Government secretly changes datasets for political reasons, researchers relying on the data might erroneously recommend ineffective or counterproductive interventions." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Best academic related phone autocorrect I had this morning: instead of “prep” it corrected to oreo. Yes, we all need more oreos!!

Check out some coverage of one of my past papers highlighting multiple identities and flexible thinking in kids! @dukeidlab.bsky.social is running some follow up studies now for anyone with 8-10 year olds out there, the study is on zoom! Let me know! #psychology iol.co.za/lifestyle/fa...

I find picking a journal SO stressful! It is like dating!!!

Check out the newest pub from @dukeidlab.bsky.social Led by Mercedes Munoz (my amazing grad student on the job market this year!!), we argue for the need to consider all of our various identities when thinking about racial/ethnic socialization messages! www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Happy FDOC to me!! My motto for this school year “Let laughter happen” We all need to laugh sometimes!! No matter what!!

I like to celebrate accomplishments and make fall goals. One of my grad students asked me, “Was this your dream? To be sitting at a table like this with so much diversity?” I answered, “Yes!” The science we do isn’t possible without diversity at the table. So let’s all find a seat at a table.

A few students from our department went to SISSP this year! This is such a great @spspnews.bsky.social program to help train the next generation!

Look at my new lab home!!!

As you may know, my PhD adviser Sam Sommers passed away suddenly. He was an incredible mentor and teacher and spent all of his time helping others. I am asking you all to help his wife and daughters during this tragic time which has created financial hardships. Thank you. ❤️ gofund.me/e214cc60

Mentoring and teaching is the best part of this job!

New paper with my collaborator Eva Chen! Children in Hong Kong notice both ethnicity and wealth status by preschool, with majority kids preferring their ethnic ingroup, but ethnic minority kids don't. Status shifts preferences! Free access through this link! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A nice write up of our newly accepted paper led by Nancy Zucker stressing the importance of peer support programs in college! We also talk about our own DukeLine peer texting program we launched here @duke-university.bsky.social #psychology #mentalhealth psychiatry.duke.edu/news/study-s...

Summer lab outings are the best!! 🐵

Even more science presentations!!

So proud of Jalen and Olivia!!!

So glad Mariam is on our team here at Duke now!!!!

So happy our work got out to new people at this conference! #psychology

I really truly love my lab family!! ❤️❤️

Tose had a great time presenting at BGCP (Black Graduate Conference in Psychology) at VCU last week! So much amazing feedback on her Black and African socialization work! #psychology

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I just learned I was rated by my students as being in the top 5% of all faculty at Duke for my teaching!! 😀 It meant the world to me! A reminder to us all that teaching really can bring us all together!!

Come join us at Duke! @doctaphia.bsky.social is hiring a lab manager and a postdoc in our department!!! More details here and please share!! Lab Manager Position: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30127 Postdoc Position: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30128

Even more alumni news! Rose, who finished up her Fulbright Fellowship this year, is headed to a Masters program that feeds into Med school at the University of Alabama at Birmingham! We couldn’t be happier!! 🩺

Esha had a great time at the SSEA (Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood) Conference in Charleston, SC this week presenting new work on multiple identity experiences and flexible thinking! #psychology

More than a century after the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, one of the most horrific episodes of racial violence in U.S. history, the city’s mayor announced a $105 million reparations package on Sunday. It is the first large-scale plan committing funds to address the impact of the atrocity.

Thank you, Sydney for everything!!!!! Go get that PhD!!!

Brand new paper in @jexpsocpsych.bsky.social from the @dukeidlab.bsky.social 🤩 We are among the first to test cross-culturally how Asian American and Chinese Nationals categorize racially ambiguous biracial faces!! #psychology

I have a new chapter with co-authors Zoey Eddy & Diana Sanchez about unique pluralistic identity stigmas in the new Handbook of Experimental Social Psychology edited by Chadly Stern! Check out the book here! #psychology www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/han...

Happy graduation to all of my seniors! So glad I was able to find some of you on your magical day!! #foreverduke #classof2025 #psychology @dukeidlab.bsky.social @dukeuni.bsky.social

This was my office for my entire time here @dukeuni.bsky.social and I just left it for the last time since we are being moved off campus for two years for a building renovation! #peaceout #wewillseehowthisgoes

Ummm…not what I was expecting to see on my morning dog walk this morning today…as if I need more stress in my life lol

One way we have decided to try and help others during this time is by signing up for our local CSA! Everyone needs produce in our life and this supports our farmers and local businesses when they need it most!

Couldn’t be happier!!!! 🥳🥳

International Society for Self and Identity (ISSI) seeks nominations for its 2025 Outstanding Early Career Award. Nominations due by June 13, 2025. Selection committee (Kim Rios, Lora Park, Erin Cooley) will make a decision by mid-July. Send materials to [email protected] www.issiweb.org/awards

GRADES ARE DONE!!! Summer research time for me now!!

Conferences are the best! #srcd2025

The best distraction right now for me by far are my almost four year old twins. The pure joy they get when the garbage and recycling trucks arrive in the morning is next level!!!

Our building on campus has been my home for nine years!!! Will be strange moving off campus for a while, but we will still keep the science going!! #psychology

Even though the school year is ending, that doesn’t stop the science!!

We have 10 seniors graduating this year @duke-university.bsky.social @dukeidlab.bsky.social! A huge deal! I will miss them so much, but can’t wait to see what they do next! “There’s nothing and no one that can stop you from changing the world. I see you. You’re unstoppable.” —Alicia Keys

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

Some more amazing news from my amazing trainees!!