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Incoming assistant prof (equivalent) @EdinburghUni . Social cog, gender, androcentrism. Formerly @Yale @NYUPsych @UofNH @colgateuniv . Dancer. Wannabe cyclist.

University of New Hampshire
Joined May 2015
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April Bailey
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New work in press at PSPB! With @aashnapod @AndreiCimpian @adinamwilliams We find intersectional male-centric and White-centric biases based on a list of 4,000+ first names in large-scale (English) text using word embeddings Results overview ⬇️
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April Bailey
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Some news. I’ll be joining the University of New Hampshire @UofNH as an assistant prof in Aug 2022! When I visited this campus in the woods, I couldn’t stop grinning from ear-to-ear. It felt RIGHT.
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April Bailey
2 years
first day of teaching @UofNH !! thinking of all the other first-year tt folks and wishing you well. we got this.
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New chapter ahead! I'll be moving to @EdinburghUni this Fall. I am immensely grateful for my time at UNH and the incredible colleagues and students I've gotten to work with. Excited for the new adventure in Scotland ✈️
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3 years
#psychtwitter please share! I’m recruiting a PhD student at @UofNH to start Fall 2022. My group uses methods from soc, cog, and dev psych and computational linguistics to study questions about social groups and bias
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2 years
In press! @adinamwilliams @AndreiCimpian Our collective concept of a "person" is not gender-neutral but instead prioritizes men. Based on 630+ billion words, people think about "people" & "men" more similarly than how they think about "people" & "women"
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April Bailey
4 years
At the end of in-progress manuscripts I have a section called "Graveyard" to dump snippets of discarded text. It helps me edit more decisively because something can always be resurrected as needed.
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April Bailey
1 year
Officially out today at PSPB w/ @xphilosopher Thinking a group has an biological “essence” relates to bias about group members. It is often thought that this is because essentialism CAUSES bias We reexamine this given some surprising results
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3 years
submitted >> in press JEPApplied Do changes to gendered language matter? Yale used the term “master” for a faculty leadership role for decades. “Master” emphasizes men (e.g., vs “mistress”). In 2016, Yale switched to a more gender-inclusive term “head.”
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4 years
Story on Networking in Academia: A few years ago, I was a grad student at Yale and Gordon Pennycook was a postdoc there. We’d never formally met. But I’d see him at the coffee shop near the dept ALL the time, and I’d always give a super friendly smile/nod to be collegial.
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3 years
last day in my office at Yale -> first day in my office at NYU! I thought these pictures would be taken a little closer together in time... but here we are.
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4 years
It's lab page official! Beyond excited to be starting a postdoc with @AndreiCimpian at NYU this summer. I don't know if Andrei knows this but he was my top choice. Catch me in Greenwich Village when the pandemic lets up 💁‍♀️
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April Bailey
3 years
I recently got my first invited talk request (that's not a job talk and that's not from a friend). I was already feeling very wholesome and seen. After I accepted, they followed up that there's an honorarium...and I just... in academia where so much labor is unpaid...
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April Bailey
2 years
Out in @TrendsCognSci today! We see face-like objects—toast that looks like a face—as men more than women (Wardle et al) Is this b/c of (a) bias in how we THINK about concepts or (b) bias in how we SEE faces? I had so much fun writing this Spotlight
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9 months
📢 I am recruiting a PhD student to start Fall 2024 @UofNH ! Interested in gender and other social groups, language, NLP...? Check out the Join Us! section of our lab website for a letter to prospective students w/ more info and FAQs. Apply by 1/15/24!
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April Bailey
3 years
While postdocing with @AndreiCimpian I've been diving into computational NLP approaches with @adinamwilliams . These tools show that "people=men" in our shared, cultural understanding of concepts at a massive scale. See our #apsvirtual21 flash talk for a sneak peak of this work!
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April Bailey
2 years
How do folks decide which collaborations to say yes to? It seems every few weeks a tantalizing project comes across my email, and I want to join them all I'm particularly uncertain as I JUST went from a 100% research postdoc to my first faculty job. Please send wisdom 🙏
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April Bailey
4 years
Which makes more sense (intuitively)? (a) "She is both a woman and a human being" (b) "He is both a man and a human being" Check out our JESP to find out what most folks said! (in bet-subj ratings)
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April Bailey
4 years
New research out of Yale SOM looked at covid restrictions county by county in the U.S. and covid deaths down the line. policies that helped: mask mandates, closing restaurants, stay-at-home orders, and limiting gatherings to 10 people
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April Bailey
2 years
I have a lab name @UofNH !! The BIAS Lab Bailey Identity And Social Cognition
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April Bailey
5 years
In the last 30 minutes I 1) retrieved my keys from the elevator shaft ☑️ and 2) submitted my dissertation to the registrar ☑️... #killinit
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April Bailey
6 years
"Women are people too," but many of us seem to forget. Our new article reviews the psychological tendency to think of a person as a man and draws on basic categorization research to explain why this bias occurs and what can be done about it.
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April Bailey
5 years
Today I failed the marshmallow test (1/2). I ordered a cookie and a cortado, but my cortado took awhile. Even though I knew I would enjoy the cookie/cortado combo more than each individually, I couldn't resist and ate the entire cookie before my cortado was ready.
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April Bailey
3 years
🧵 I’m overwhelmed by your support, including from many on the 21-22 psych job market. Especially for them, here’s a jumble of #’s and reflections to help demystify as much as I can based on my own narrow experience.
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April Bailey
3 years
Some news. I’ll be joining the University of New Hampshire @UofNH as an assistant prof in Aug 2022! When I visited this campus in the woods, I couldn’t stop grinning from ear-to-ear. It felt RIGHT.
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April Bailey
1 year
31 years today and another 4000er down 🥳 🎂
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April Bailey
4 years
For the next several months I then continued to run into “Gordon” aka Ethan at coffeeshops and house parties and had to act like we were acquaintances. Which I guess, at this point, we technically were. I’ve still never met Gordon Pennycook.
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April Bailey
5 years
A stranger and I were chatting at the airport about how bad it would be if we accidentally picked up the wrong laptop from security. He goes, "and I use mine for work so it would be worse for me"
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April Bailey
3 years
tell me you're obsessed with your pet without telling me you're obsessed with your pet
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April Bailey
2 years
New headshot. Same face. #websiteofficial
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April Bailey
2 years
paper acceptance hits different during your first faculty year... needed it this morning
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April Bailey
4 years
"under review" ->> "in press" Most of the lit on essentialism and social groups focuses on biological essences. We find that people think of the essences of certain social groups, not as biological, but as shared values.
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4 years
New paper from @ahbailey04 on essentialism about social categories (in JEP:G) Some categories are seen as having a biological essence (e.g., women, white people) But others are seen as having an essence constituted by *values* (e.g., Christians, punks)
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April Bailey
1 year
Writing the "future directions" section of your paper knowing that you already have most of the data for that "future direction" project
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April Bailey
1 year
Students sending thank you emails to profs at the end of term... you're doing gods work. "Professors such as yourself are what make UNH such a great place to attend." 🥹🥹🥹
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April Bailey
3 years
preprint with Josh Knobe @xphilosopher Thinking a group has an innate “essence” relates to bias directed at group members. It is often thought that this is because essentialism CAUSES bias to increase We reexamine this in the face of surprising results
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April Bailey
1 year
Hiring a part-time research coordinator @UofNH to start ~Fall! Our current 🔥 RC @NichDiMaggio is heading off to grad school! In-person or remote. Recent or current undergrads can apply. Folks from marginalized groups encouraged. RTs welcome. Details:
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April Bailey
4 years
Had my first zoom meeting today! In the first 2 minutes I adjusted my seat cushion, inadvertently pushed the chair back (without realizing it), and promptly fell to the floor and out of frame. #killinit
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April Bailey
4 years
Last bike ride @Yale ! Had to make it special so went for a new personal record, 40 miles 🙌 This trail helped keep me sane through grad school
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April Bailey
3 years
I was also rejected (from the PhD program) where I'm currently doing my postdoc! Rejections don't mean everything, and if it's right for you, keep going.
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Just realized that I was rejected (for undergrad) where I’m currently doing my PhD & was denied (from the PhD program) where I’ll be doing a post doc 🥲 hang in there, y’all!
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April Bailey
6 months
Now in press at JEP:Gen! With psychologists @ElifGozdeIkizer @AndreiCimpian and philosophers Daniel Wodak and Robin Dembroff We asked English and Turkish speakers whether languages should have gender pronouns? race pronouns? totally neutral pronouns?
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April Bailey
6 months
@PsychScience selected me for a Rising Star this year!! To celebrate, here's my body of research in star shape⭐️ to make your own check out @morinryan
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April Bailey
3 years
Buying my SPSP flight like...
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April Bailey
4 years
When I date men 85% of the conversation is just me trying to figure out how sexist they are so I dont end up in this situation down the line... smh
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April Bailey
8 months
Teaching and research are often framed as enemies But I'm teaching in my area for the first time, and I'm surprised how synergistic it's been! I wrote an R&R this week using citations from class. It's also pushing me think more "big picture" and see my work in a broader context
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April Bailey
4 years
I'm clearly coping with #COVID19 anxiety via mis-placed tweeting but... one ray of sunshine was the "pleasure to accept your manuscript in its current form" email sitting in my inbox this morning
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April Bailey
2 years
Just in time for PhD recruitment season, our new lab website is up!! Thank you to my lab manager Nich for putting this together 🙏 We're considering PhD apps this cycle. Apply by Jan 1. Folks from underrepresented groups especially encouraged
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April Bailey
3 years
Am I doing #SPP2021 right? It's 10am and I'm already at the bar.
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April Bailey
4 years
saw this on fb but it was too good not to share
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April Bailey
4 years
My mom wrote to congratulate me today on my one year anniversary of becoming Dr. Bailey. I wasn't even thinking about it—so sweet 😊! And my what a year it's been.
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April Bailey
4 years
A mentor recently sent a note saying he was impressed by my code. If you're a mentor, do stuff like this! Esp. as a woman who entered grad school with 0 experience, I always cringe when I shared code, assuming it's inelegant. I needed to hear this and your mentees might too :)
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April Bailey
5 months
My phd student Trish just got their first big thing, a summer research funding fellowship! I'm SO happy. This has real stakes for them. Is this what mentorship feels like? 10/10 would recommend.
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April Bailey
3 years
As a grad student I was tasked with coordinating the brown bags in the dept. This week I gave my first invited brown bag talks @PsychIllinois and @StanfordPsych ! Full circle moment. Thank you to the organizers for having me and to the depts for engaging so deeply 🙏
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April Bailey
5 years
It's happening! #ProfBailey
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April Bailey
4 years
My partner and I decided that because we're working from home we're basically coworkers. We designated my partner to be the head of HR. We considered reporting our work place romance to HR... but decided it'd be more exciting if we kept it a secret. #keepthesparkalive
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April Bailey
5 years
Luckily I'm an adult so I solved this problem by just buying another cookie (2/2)
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1 year
we survived our first-year as tt faculty @UofNH !! communications, compsci, education, and psych here's to year 2 🤞
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5 years
Just signed my first "Prof. Bailey" to an email. Bit of a moment 🤓
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April Bailey
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As an assistant prof, I finally get the emails thing. It's not just about the *emails* it's that many of the emails morph into multi-step bonus *tasks* on your to-do list
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Jaimie Arona Krems
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Junior grad student: How can one person read all of these great papers?! Senior grad student: How can one person do all of these great study ideas?! Assistant Professor: How can one person read all of these g*ddamn emails?!
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#SPSP2020 was a year of firsts. First time talking at the gender preconference, first time in New Orleans, first time attending as EC, first time missing my flight... 🤦‍♀️ ...🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️
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April Bailey
9 months
Had a blast speaking at @NYUAbuDhabi 's psych department! Thank you for inviting me. The spark ✨ of engaging conversations and Q&A were just the midsemester boost I needed. Special thanks to @AndreaCVial 🙌
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April Bailey
5 years
13-Year-Old Scientist's Research Shows Hand Dryers Can Hurt Kids' Ears
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April Bailey
3 years
reviewers critiquing your work by (unknowingly) citing you is my new favorite form of criticism
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April Bailey
1 year
Me to me Sat morning: "I'm exhausted, gonna call it early tonight and go straight to bed after dinner" Me at 1am: 🤩🤥🙃🤡💃👍😭 But truly... grateful to (re)connect with so many of you at #SPSP2023 . I found it extra joyful and extra meaningful during this first faculty year
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April Bailey
3 years
Tweeting again for awareness, from Michael Freeman: I used this visualization today to talk through hlms with an undergrad. Extremely helpful.
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April Bailey
5 years
Thrilled to announce that after 4 years of listening to harry potter audio books almost every night I realized that "Diagon Alley" is "diagonally" and "Knockturn Alley" is "nocturnally"
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April Bailey
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Recently i was prepping for a intense career thing that my partner knew about. To help, he emailed me a pdf file called "Resources," but when I opened it and it was just this, made my day.
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April Bailey
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Doing media interviews for the ~1st time this week I'm surprised, I'm enjoying it! I always (falsely) thought of it as me watering down the science. Instead it's been me conveying the science to extremely thoughtful science writers who have diff fresh perspectives and priorities
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April Bailey
4 years
New preprint w/ Josh Knobe and George Newman! What causes certain social groups to be essentialized more than others? There is good evidence that beliefs about biology increase essentialism. We ask whether bio is necessary (or only sufficient).
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April Bailey
3 years
I don't know what wordle is and at this point I'm too afraid to ask
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April Bailey
4 years
@Sakiera_Hudson breaking down her intersectional approach to prescriptive gender stereotypes! Much of what we know about gender steroetypes is based on "women" and "men" categories....i.e., presumed straight and White (in the US)
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April Bailey
6 years
Giving a talk to prospective PhD students on Interview Day! It's a bit of a moment. I remember sitting in those seats and listening to talks by @chazfirestone @Jill_Jord and others on my own interview day.
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April Bailey
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Rainy day in NYC! 🌧️ Had a great time presenting @NYUPsych social brown bag. Thanks for the invite and to all the folks that made for such an invigorating day, esp @eric_knowles @rasha_rasha @marjorie_rhodes @EricMShuman @TessaWestNYU @AshuAshok ++
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April Bailey
3 months
32 today! Birthday hike yesterday. It rained on the way up and down but was sunny and warm on the ridge above the clouds 🌞
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April Bailey
5 years
New Haven! I'll be giving a talk @yale Psych Dept Mon (10/4) from 2:30-3:45pm, Kirltand Rm 207 (2 Hillhouse Ave). Come through to see new data on how men are at the center of our institutions AND our minds. Inspired by @Ivuoma who is constantly telling me to #takeupspace
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April Bailey
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Had a dream I was speaking in a symposium with Nina Strohminger, David Melnikoff, and John Bargh but then when it was time for my talk the whole audience got up and left Completely unrelated, excited for my talk in SocialCog Precon this morning #SPSP2023 !! See you ALL there 😘
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April Bailey
2 years
Launched my first (new) study @UofNH !! For my first faculty semester hitting this milestone feels all the feels... 🥳
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April Bailey
1 year
PIs, what policies do you have for RA deadlines/attendance/dropping the ball-ness? I want to strike a balance between being firm and flexible. Esp since folks from marginalized backgrounds often face additional challenges How firm is too firm? How felxible is too flexible?
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April Bailey
4 years
that feeling when... a manuscript that got desk rejected gets revisions at a journal you're low-key even more excited about
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April Bailey
5 years
A suitor asked me to teach him something after learning I was getting a PhD. I told him people tend to think of a person as a man. Thank god he "double checked" me by Google image searching the word person, otherwise...decades of research would've been down the drain
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3 years
Does this count as team science? If yes, I think my collaborator is slowing down the writing process more than he's helping 🐱
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Thank you @forbes for the excellent coverage of our recent work, led by @AndreaCVial ! We found that accommodating OTHERS sexism at work caused perceivers to view YOU as sexist, highlighting personal reputational stakes
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April Bailey
5 years
Just gotten my third rejection for the same paper and appreciated this thread, in particular the image of Dr. King maniacally laughing at the realization that rejections couldn't force her out!
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Dr Laura King 🌈
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Hey ECRs, related to the recent buzz I'm offering an experience of failure in my fantastic career. My 1st job (SMU) had a pretenure sabbatical in yr 4. This was a wonderful time of analyzing & writing up all the great studies I'd conducted during my 1st yrs as a professor
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The BIAS lab's very first undergraduate research assistants in action at a @UofNH mini con! 👏👏
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2 years
new commute, bit of a change from Manhattan
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1 year
What about internal direct replications? I like to see my own findings at least twice before being too confident about them, and most of my papers include programatic studies with built-in direct replications or straight-up direct replications in supplementary materials
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Not too many direct replications published in psych journals- just 0.2% as seen by Beth Clarke and team at #Metascience2023
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April Bailey
3 years
Data are coming in, and they makes sense ✅ Pilot study is showing effects ✅ I'm asking questions and the participants are teaching me!! Today is a good science day
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April Bailey
5 years
I am thrilled to be chairing (my first!) symposium at #icps on gender, just in time for #IWD2019 . Talks cover gendered language (hen), metoo, leadership, and quota-based hiring, presented by Robbie Sutton, Christa Nater, Anna Lindqvist, and yours truly. Tomorrow, 1pm, rm351
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April Bailey
2 years
Being back in New Haven this weekend was bliss 😊 Thank you to all who made Jacks celebration so special!! Bonus, it felt like a mini con getting to catch up with so many friends / collaborators @RDembroff @xphilosopher @BenedekKurdi @carlsonr_ et al.,
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I'm drafting letters of rec this week for two absolutely outstanding research assistants who are applying for grad school in clinical and social+ psyc. This is a new task for me. Please send advice / common mistakes my way!
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April Bailey
2 years
Looking forward to this!
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Jennifer Kubota
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Kate Ratliff and I are super excited about our Social Cognition Preconference!! Join the amazing lineup by submitting a poster or data blitz starting 9/1 #SPSP2023 @mwkraus @ahbailey04 @Sakiera_Hudson @JinXunGoh @Dasgupta_Psych Yoav Bar-Anan Paige Lloyd Keynote: @jw_sherman
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April Bailey
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For years I've been having mild hallucinations in the corners of my eyes (flashing lights etc.) and have been worried about what it might mean... Today I realized it's because I wear glasses and the lens reflects stuff sometimes. 🤦‍♀️
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April Bailey
5 years
Excellent talk by Gracie on perceptions of mind and moral harms. Both percived agency and experience can increase beliefs that a victim was harmed. Regional Five College Conference at NYU! @mgreinecke
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April Bailey
3 years
Seeing my mom for the first time today since Dec 2019 ♥️ feeling a lot of feelings including gratitude for vaccinations
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April Bailey
2 years
Last teaching day of my first semester! We made it 💪 Same outfit. Same cat.
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first day of teaching @UofNH !! thinking of all the other first-year tt folks and wishing you well. we got this.
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April Bailey
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First-year grad students talks today at Yale; they're crushing it! With everything virtual, it's great to be able to tune back in to support folks and hear what they've been working on.
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1 year
We're about to move (again, 4th time in 3 years). Hoping to be as unbothered about it as my cat <3
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April Bailey
4 years
I got selected to lead a mentoring lunch at SPSP 2021! I'm excited. The mentoring lunches I attended with @cmossrac and @LorneJCampbell still stand out as some of my most helpful spsp grad student experiences
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April Bailey
3 years
@MikeyPasek omg. there's tons of fire candidates out there and the wiki's all like:
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