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Ryan Lei

@ryanlei.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Psychology at Haverford College. Interested in social cognitive development.

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Benedek Kurdi @benedek.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🚀 Project Implicit’s critical work continues! Our website remains fully operational 24/7, collecting data and launching new studies. We are finalizing a new organizational structure to carry our research and educational mission forward. Thank you to our global community. ➡️ implicit.harvard.edu
September 17, 2026
Project Implicit Continues its Critical Work
We are more excited than ever to not only continue but to expand the scientific collabora-tion at the heart of Project Implicit. With the non-profit that served as our operational home for two decades shutting down, a new organizational structure is being finalized to carry our research and educational mission forward.
In the meantime, the Project Implicit website (http://implicit.harvard.edu/) remains fully operational and continues to collect data 24/7. New studies, programs, and educational ef-forts are actively underway. We expect public data to remain available in perpetuity, and new data from 2026 will be released in January of next year.
We express our deep gratitude to everyone who has helped create, sustain, and grow Pro-ject Implicit. This includes the founders, members of the Board of Directors and the Scien-tific Advisory Board, staff members of the non-profit, international collaborators, and the students across dozens of labs tending to tasks big and small. We are also thankful to our generous donors who have answered our calls and supported our mission, and especially the millions of annual visitors who continue to honor us with their curiosity, time, and data.
We look forward to providing more details in the weeks ahead.
Jordan Axt, McGill University
Yoav Bar-Anan, Tel-Aviv University
Benedek Kurdi, University of Illinois
Calvin Lai, Rutgers University
Ryan Lei, Haverford College
Curtis Phills, University of Oregon
Kate Ratliff, University of Waterloo
Colin Tucker Smith, Wilfrid Laurier University
Jennifer Steele, York University
Heidi Vuletich, University of Denver
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Julia Strand @juliafstrand.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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...
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Assistant Professor in Developmental Psychology
The Carleton Psychology Department is seeking candidates for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Developmental Psychology (preferably with a focus on social, personality, and/or identity de...
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Ryan Lei @ryanlei.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
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...
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
“Research is essential to the task of humanistic formation, even at a teaching-focused college… a prime opportunity to promote the virtues academics are best positioned to model for students: curiosity, persistence, devotion to the truth, and humility in the face of everything we do not know”
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Opinion | The False Choice That Could Kill the Humanities
The tension between teaching and scholarship is not as acute as critics pretend.
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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 22/07/2026
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.
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Project Implicit
Project Implicit runs on small donations, most under $5. That’s what keeps the tests online, the data public, and the science accessible to anyone around the world who is interested in learning about…
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Ryan Lei @ryanlei.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
España!!!!!!
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Ryan Lei @ryanlei.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
i know summer is a time for people to be productive, but dear god I have gotten so many review requests.
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Fat Amy (Rebel Wilson) Screams Enough!
ALT: Fat Amy (Rebel Wilson) Screams Enough!
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Ryan Lei @ryanlei.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
CABO VERDEEEE
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Ryan Lei @ryanlei.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
MD-Ph.D. who works in an academic setting
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Ryan Lei @ryanlei.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The drama of the Senegal-Belgium game makes me understand why straight men love sports. As good as any reality TV show.
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Ryan Lei @ryanlei.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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...
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Ryan Lei @ryanlei.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Had fun chatting with Deon about the work my lab does, and the journey to get there!
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Ryan Lei @ryanlei.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Thanks for these suggestions!
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Ryan Lei @ryanlei.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
anybody in my network do YPAR? Would love to chat with you if you do!
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Ryan Lei @ryanlei.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Source is @jeremymberg.bsky.social's excellent tracker: grant-witness.us/funding_curv...
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Grantmaking over Time for NSF – Grant Witness
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Ryan Lei @ryanlei.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I went to go look, and this time last year, NSF SBE had funded 216 awards. This year, they have funded 2.
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Ryan Lei @ryanlei.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
This is, not hyperbolically, catastrophic
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Hilary Barth @hilarybarth.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
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...
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Applications are invited for a 1-year postdoctoral research fellowship in the Department of Psychology at Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT). The position may be ren...
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Ryan Lei @ryanlei.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I'm at the point of writing where I think nothing I do is interesting. What is this pathology?
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Ryan Lei @ryanlei.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
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
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Ryan Lei @ryanlei.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
I am generally a big fan of @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social's perspectives but today, I am not sorry to say #COYR
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Ryan Lei @ryanlei.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
are you doing sesp?
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Ryan Lei @ryanlei.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
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
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Ryan Lei @ryanlei.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
96 olympics opening and closing ceremonies haha. it was in atlanta and i was 8. a bit of a technicality
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Ryan Lei @ryanlei.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I was in the Olympics
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Ryan Lei @ryanlei.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
You already know I have your voice in the back of my head for like all the research decisions hahaha
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Ryan Lei @ryanlei.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Researchers. For example, many in social psych use the CFD. But, I'd wager that using those faces in any sort of AI application or AI modification is inappropriate use.
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Ryan Lei @ryanlei.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
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.
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Ryan Lei @ryanlei.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
I was like when did this happen?? I was aghast
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Ryan Lei @ryanlei.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Let’s gooooooo!!!!
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Ryan Lei @ryanlei.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
this is so, so sick
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Eric Hehman @erichehman.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
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
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Ryan Lei @ryanlei.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
This halftime show is incredibleeeeee The energy is booming off the screen
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Ryan Lei @ryanlei.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
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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Ryan Lei @ryanlei.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
It is a clear signal that one is a millennial these days (lol)
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Project Implicit @projectimplicit.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
A generous donor has offered to match $1,000 for any individual or coordinated group donation of $1,000 or more, up to 50 matches total. Group gifts must be coordinated with the Project Implicit team. To participate, contact our team: www.projectimplicit.net/contact-us/
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Ryan Lei @ryanlei.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Congrats Daniel! Next time we connect lets talk about a study idea I had around similar ideas wrt why people don’t vote!
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Ryan Lei @ryanlei.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
you forgot mighty in your description of where you work
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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 27/01/2026
Street art memorializing Alex Pretti in Seattle. Per r/Seattle, it was painted on a building facing Swedish Hospital in the First Hill neighborhood www.reddit.com/r/nursing/co...
A bearded man in nurse's scrubs offers aid to Justice, wearing a blindfold and holding a sword and scales, who has fallen to her knees.
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Ryan Lei @ryanlei.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
My hot take is that if more editors actually edited, instead of repeatedly sending papers back out to reviewers or used reviews as scorekeeping marks, then the culture of peer review might improve and more people might accept.
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Ryan Lei @ryanlei.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The genius of Jim Sidanius was (among other things) identifying social dominance orientation as a way that people approach the world.
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Ryan Lei @ryanlei.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
the way that "sunshine" has a grip on the girls and the gays...
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Ryan Lei @ryanlei.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Somebody (maybe on here?) recently called airport lounges upper middle class golden corral and this could not be more accurate
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Calvin Lai @calvinklai.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Project Implicit is facing an existential threat. After almost 30 years, 60 million visitors, and hundreds of published papers, funding for our work has disappeared. We’ve never held a fundraising drive before, but we need your support to keep our site running. Please consider donating! 🙏
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Ryan Lei @ryanlei.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
This is feeling very Philly coded. Villanova??
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Ryan Lei @ryanlei.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
I did this too and the speech in 6 makes the ending of 5 so much more powerful
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Ryan Lei @ryanlei.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
For the first time ever, I am done with grading before Christmas. A miracle, or better course design? You decide.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 21/12/2025
“‘My most daring idea is to refuse,’ she said to applause.”
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Professor Warns That the Wealthy Are Trying to Use AI to Seize Control of Everything
Renowned sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom says that AI is a tool for the rich to cement control over society.
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Ryan Lei @ryanlei.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Taking some time to rest over break, and then back at it in the new year! Wishing you all a restful break and time for self-care and re-energization.
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Ryan Lei @ryanlei.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
👉 I came up with new ways to assess student learning that were AI-resistant, including asking students to build a toy for developmental psych, and oral exams for my seminar. 👉 We got a grant from the American Psychological Foundation to support our lab's work.
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