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dongningren.bsky.social
Social psychologist @MaastrichtU | inequality/diversity science, mental health & wellbeing, social connections & solitude, causal inference | She/her https://sites.google.com/view/dren
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Had so much fun working on this paper with @chrbuettner.bsky.social & a team of brilliant collaborators!

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As someone who often uses self-reports and has found that they work pretty well for what we want, this is a refreshing perspective pointing out that they work and they work better than the oft-cited alternatives.

New paper on "the practices of wage theft that often surround academic promotions, and specifically, the common requirement that someone must already be working at the level for which they are hoping to be promoted" BSky author @troyheff.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0729... #AcademicSky #HigherEd

Remote work can't solve the childcare crisis. Treating it as the solution risks forcing parents (especially moms) to be full-time caregivers while also working for pay full-time. And it risks gaslighting parents (especially moms) if they can't manage that impossible task.

The average Nobel laureate grew up in an 87–90th percentile household. Access to opportunity doubled from 1901–2023, but remains highly unequal. Barriers are higher for women, but lower for Americans. cepr.org/publications...

Toronto Metropolitan University is hiring in Quantitative Psych. hr.cf.torontomu.ca/ams/faculty/...

More evidence that underrepresented groups face considerable bias in P&T decisions/outcomes Universities, surely we (of all types of organizations) can do better! www.nature.com/articles/s41... #AcademicSky #PrejudiceResearch

Hi Bluesky🌍! I’m newly on the job market and seeking a PhD in social psychology. I’d love to connect with potential supervisors or collaborators! Feel free to check out my research card below! #PhDSearch #SocialPsychology #Research

It's OUT! 🥳 My first (shared) first author paper with @kimdoell.bsky.social , @madalina.bsky.social , @jayvanbavel.bsky.social and 254 amazing collaborators is published 🌍 Hope our dataset would be useful to many! Cant way to see the research that will come from it 🤩 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I gave a 2-hour workshop on Structural Equation Modeling and Confirmatory Factor Analysis in lavaan for the Psych #rstats Club. the recording is available here: youtu.be/YrxvV8zlNLY?... Supported by @improvingpsych.org!

If you're going to be teaching open science to undergraduates this year, check out our course and free resources on @forrt.bsky.social forrt.org/educators-co... #openScience

Four more days to apply! We would love to see your application! 🤩any questions? Drop me a line!

Posting for a friend: Unique 2-year post-doc at Maastricht University with a tight application timeline (deadline: Sept 22). The topic? Causal Inference, public mental health, and psychology vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,678,438! 🎉

Last semester, I taught myself how to plot maps using R. Because I suffered a bit too much through this process, I figured I would make an easy tutorial for choropleth maps like the one below. I put this tutorial up on my website: sites.google.com/view/egarcia... I hope this helps someone!