Ryan Lei

New paper accepted at JEP:G with @sakierahudson.bsky.social, Brandon Kinsler, & former students Ian Davis and Alissa Vandenbark! Come for the opening Aladdin quote, stay for a developmental perspective on SDO! osf.io/preprints/ps...

My department is hiring 2 (TWO!) Tenure Track faculty in Developmental Psych and Biological Psych, to start Fall 2027. Deadlines 9/1 (Developmental) and 10/1 (Biological). More info here: www.carleton.edu/psychology/i.... Reach out with questions! carleton.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Carlet...

Less helpful now that citation software like Zotero exists, but i just discovered that cmd-T (or cntrl-T) auto-indents your citations. It's the small things sometimes...

Congratulations to the “Project Implicit,” which received🏆2026 SIPS Mission Award! Project Implicit offers online tests to millions of participants, uses those tests to document implicit and explicit biases, and shares massive open datasets to power discoveries in psychology and beyond.

España!!!!!!

i know summer is a time for people to be productive, but dear god I have gotten so many review requests.

CABO VERDEEEE

The drama of the Senegal-Belgium game makes me understand why straight men love sports. As good as any reality TV show.

do people know about china's data sovereignty law? says that data can't leave china. seems like a major issue for cross-cultural work/cross-national collaborations...

Had fun chatting with Deon about the work my lab does, and the journey to get there!

anybody in my network do YPAR? Would love to chat with you if you do!

This is, not hyperbolically, catastrophic

Postdoctoral fellowship in developmental science at Wesleyan University. Joint in H. Barth & R. T. Dubar labs. Particular focus on undergrad research mentoring. 1 year, extendable to 2 years. Share and apply! wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...

I'm at the point of writing where I think nothing I do is interesting. What is this pathology?

Maybe it's because i'm writing a paper about ethics but we're re-watching Grey's anatomy from the beginning and Izzie Stephens is so un-ethical is makes my blood boil

I am generally a big fan of @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social's perspectives but today, I am not sorry to say #COYR

I like the science my lab does and I think it's more important to do now than ever, but uhh...also I'm kinda into event planning (e.g., workshops, conferences)? Did not really expect that to be my post-tenure exploration

I was in the Olympics

One thing that I'm increasingly concerned about is people using face database faces in ways that are likely way beyond the scope of what the participants consented to. I hear plenty of discussion around (un)ethical use of AI in writing, but this facet of the AI revolution feels less discussed.

this is so, so sick

Postdoc position! Myself and @jordanaxt.bsky.social are seeking applications for a shared post-doctoral researcher at McGill, beginning Fall 2026. Topic area broadly centered on intergroup dynamics, prejudice, discrimination Full description here: hehmanlab.org/ad 1/2

This halftime show is incredibleeeeee The energy is booming off the screen

Have been thinking of writing something that argues the underrepresentation of non-white samples in dev psych is because of embedded cultures of whiteness into structures -- particularly the primacy of the nuclear family. But where to send something like that

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The genius of Jim Sidanius was (among other things) identifying social dominance orientation as a way that people approach the world.

Somebody (maybe on here?) recently called airport lounges upper middle class golden corral and this could not be more accurate

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For the first time ever, I am done with grading before Christmas. A miracle, or better course design? You decide.

You don’t have to be a parent to know this is heartbreaking

Brown University now says police do NOT have a shooting suspect in custody and that community members should continue to shelter in place.

wondering aloud: might LLMs be the death of humor? If they just generate the probabilistic words/phrases, then you dont get the unexpectedness that is characteristic of humor. Probably not all humor of course -- some of the LLM-generated roasts are somewhat amusing. but not what i'm talking about

I ate it on a patch of ice walking to work this morning and if that’s not a metaphor for the end of the semester, idk what is

Corny, but since it's thanksgiving season, I'm thankful that @sakierahudson.bsky.social invited me to be part of a fantastic new paper forthcoming in PIBBS on how intersectionality can be fruitfully and concretely applied in policy. Preprint link here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

#AcademicSky anyone remember a Science™️ article published that challenged the orthodoxy that men and women sorted into hunter and gatherer roles, respectively because of evolved biological diffs? I can't google my way to it so hoping someone knows what i'm referring to....

My hot take for the day: abolish asking “how are you” as a greeting. takes too much energy to lie and say fine when everyone is just hanging on by a thread

One thing I continue valuing about doing work with kids is that you have to interact with them to collect data

The Wicked marketing has gotten out of hand

why even bother having schedules @septaphilly.bsky.social? these days it’s more like show up and see what you get. Maybe it’s on time or maybe it’s 45 min late. or canceled.

And the pretty copy-edited version of paper is out here: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

Increasingly believe tenure is protection for sucking at your job when service takes up all your time