Excited to share a new method to reveal children’s visual stereotypes at #SPSP2026 Origins of the Social Mind Preconference!

Cover of "Picture an Astronomer: Best Practices for Retaining Talent in Astrophysics", which features an illustration of a 19-year-old Vera Rubin looking through a telescope over a backdrop of a first light image of spiral galaxies from the Rubin Observatory.

Happy New Year! + happy (white) paper day!

arxiv.org/abs/2512.24465

Whether you're waiting for the ball to drop or looking to start 2026 off right, you can read about evidence-backed best practices for retaining talent in astrophysics, which came out of discussions at our March symposium :)

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Thrilled to share our TiCS paper! We review the latest research on how beliefs about “brilliance” shape gender disparities across fields, and, these beliefs take root EARLY! Check it out! Free access before Oct 10: tinyurl.com/yc6sttaw

A high-dimensional model of social impressions People form social impressions from visual cues such as faces, which are argued by various models to arise from some limited set of fixed dimensions (e.g., trustworthiness and dominance). We argue tha...

In a TiCS paper, @chujunlin.bsky.social & I propose a high-dimensional model of social impressions.

Existing models focus on 2–4 latent dimensions (e.g. trustworthy/warm), but they often fall apart across different contexts, cultures, & perceivers. We need a paradigm shift.

shorturl.at/7GD1n (1/8)

So excited to present our work and connect with old & new friends at SRCD!!

📸 Join us at #SRCD2025 to explore impression formation!
📍 Sat, May 3 | 10:20–11:50am | 200A

Awesome multimodal work from @markthornton.bsky.social showing how information from face, voice and substance of convos combine to impact person-perception judgements #SANs2025

New writeup of this work on Kudos with a little infographic summary of some of our findings: link.growkudos.com/1f345o9vthc

New paper in @pnas.org with my incredible advisors @linbian.bsky.social & Susan Goldin-Meadow found that the EQUAL gesture mitigates gender stereotypes subtly communicated to children via biased language, which may offer a new approach to promoting equality with our 👐.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...