Anyone else test their mic before a Zoom with "Microphone check 1-2, what is this?/Five foot..."

SRCD wants to spotlight the SRCD Black Caucus and their Members. To learn more about Alexandrea R. Golden and her work visit our SRCD Member spotlight webpage here: https://www.srcd.org/news/member-spotlight-alexandrea-r-golden-ph-d

Just a reminder! This latest Special Issue has Letters of Intent Due on February 15. Reimagining developmental science through the lens of Black girlhood www.apa.org/pubs/journal... @apajournals.bsky.social

Boosting this work, nimbly led by Dr. Mike Medina and appearing in J of School Psychology Special Issue - free access via this link: authors.elsevier.com/c/1m9dR56ZNX...

Bumping - starts next week Wednesday! Happy to share that the (BlueSky-less) Dr. Kelvin Afolabi will serve as TA

Sharing free access to our paper, led by Constance Flanagan & 8 co-authors (so many handles!) -> quasi-exp. to foster science motivation among minoritized youth in CEP 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Join "Psychometrics" w/ @mattadiemer.bsky.social on Nov. 12-14 to learn about #psychometrics and how to to understand, detect, and remediate bias in measures. Topics include exploratory factor analyses, confirmatory factor analyses, MIMIC models, invariance & more.

📢 #EdWorkingPapers: How can we measure student behavior at scale? @tiffanyxwu.bsky.social, @weilanch.bsky.social, @mattadiemer.bsky.social, Rebecca Unterman, @annakshapiro.bsky.social, & Thomas Staines use PCA and factor analysis to build behavior composites from admin data. 📄 bit.ly/4ofre5b

Looking forward to working with @pbost.bsky.social !

@pmetricsoc.bsky.social has the 2026 conference location been announced yet?

Gratitude to Drs. Dania Francis & Shanyce Campbell for organizing this special issue in JREE! Our paper w/ Michael Frisby & Aixa Marchand - Critical Quantitative Approach to Measurement with MIMIC Models - is now in print. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

On request I'm sharing a youtube link to an IRT workshop I provided last year with the talented Dr. Matthew Truwit. Happy viewing! www.youtube.com/watch?v=mALN...

Can someone parse or translate the newest NIH notice I just saw about "recission of civil rights language?"

Is there a German word for schadenfreude?

Read about Andres Pinedo's experiences: myumi.ch/R3W6N Stay in on-campus housing! General Session participants receive a 10% discount on their course fees when they also stay in on-campus housing. For details: myumi.ch/y2zJw #SumProg25 #ICPSR #DataAnalysis #StatisticalSkills #ResearchSkills

Hey I know him! Looking forward to offering this IRT workshop with @stathorizons.bsky.social Please reach out with ?s

Come join members of the University of Michigan community who are marching in support of reinstating DEI work at the institution on Tuesday, April 22nd, at 5 pm at the U-M Diag. Hope to see you there! #WeareDEI @umdeidefense.bsky.social

Learn how Item Response Theory (IRT) enhances measurement! @mattadiemer.bsky.social’s seminar (June 3-6) covers IRT fundamentals and figures, the Graded Response Model, and practical applications in research. Watch the first hour now to see what IRT can do for you: youtu.be/B-oLR7XRVCU

Receiving earlier-than expected statements from workplace 403b, bank etc I wonder what reason, pray tell, that these are being sent now?

I see you sly dogs Schedule-sending emails for Mondays @ 8:02am or 8:03am to look like 'real' emails

Hope everyone enjoyed sleeping in their time machine Sat night/Sun early morning

Paraphrasing conversation with an academic friend from {redacted} this AM: "I'd wake up every morning, and the leader would say something $^#, and then that would become law that evening. That's why I left {country name here} for the U.S., but now I'm waking up everyday to the same thing."

Hi! Sharing info re: webinar organized by SSHD, for a special issue on Critical Consciousness in Research in Human Development Link to register: montclair.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Please reach out w/ ?s !

Looking to add some work on contributors, perceptions or experiences of environmental racism to my racism, psychology, and society course. Any recent work in this area you’d rec?

Hot take: Die Hard is most definitely a holiday movie

High school students enrolled in ethnic studies develop the ability to think analytically about the causes of social inequalities. @mattadiemer.bsky.social via Michigan News: myumi.ch/zXANr

Midlife update: - Attended concert where lead singer (David Yow) looked more Gandalf than rockstar - Some friends wore earplugs, thats a new thing - My brother bought said lead signer a beer at a concert so long ago -> that beer itself would now be legally eligible to buy beer - Had great time

“This review applies critical consciousness theory to shed light on the factors that spur youth political activism and to highlight how developing critical consciousness engenders developmental benefits.” @profandy.bsky.social @mattadiemer.bsky.social Michael Frisby #UMich #PsychSky #PoliSky

Amplifying great 👍work by @profandy.bsky.social & Michael Frisby (no bsky) in Annual Reviews, focusing on critical consciousness & activism. Hope you can access via 👇 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Happy to boost this release, featuring work led by the talented @profandy.bsky.social 👇 news.umich.edu/ethnic-studi...

This is a nice change of pace, enjoying the Bluesky experience after one week....

Myles Durkee, @rcgd-isr.bsky.social James Jackson Emerging Scholar, describes racial code-switching as a double-edged sword, with major psychological and occupational costs and benefits. #UmichResearch #blacksky #umisr #PsychSciSky