Academic Life and Culture

(divorcing) WHITE SUPREMACY CULTURE

This website is a long-time dream finally bearing fruit, a needed remix of the widely circulated article WHITE SUPREMACY CULTURE originally written and published in 1999.

Adopting Open Educational Resources as an Equity Strategy

Social determinants of learning (SDOL) impact students’ abilities to successfully complete their courses. An economic barrier for vulnerable students is the skyrocketing cost of textbooks. An innovative strategy to promote equity in educational …

All the Weight of Our Dreams On Living Racialized Autism

For those of us who are autistic and racialized, we often struggle to find representation in mass media, academic work about autism or race, and the activist and advocacy movements that focus on autism, neurodiversity, disability rights, or racial …

Artificial intelligence and responsibility gaps: What is the problem?

Recent decades have witnessed tremendous progress in artificial intelligence and in the development of autonomous systems that rely on artificial intelligence. Critics, however, have pointed to the difficulty of allocating responsibility for the …

Authorship practices must evolve to support collaboration and open science

Journal authorship practices have not sufficiently evolved to reflect the way research is now done. Improvements to support teams, collaboration, and open science are urgently needed.

Autistic community and the Neurodiversity movement: Stories from the Frontline

A book about the autistic community and the neurodivergent movement

Beyond kindness: A proposal for the flourishing of science and scientists

We argue that many of the crises currently afflicting science can be associated with a present failure of science to sufficiently embody its own values. Here, we propose a response beyond mere crisis resolution based on the observation that an …

Biomedical publishing: Past historic, present continuous, future conditional

Academic journals have been publishing the results of biomedical research for more than 350 years. Reviewing their history reveals that the ways in which journals vet submissions have changed over time, culminating in the relatively recent appearance …

Changing the Culture of Peer Review for a More Inclusive and Equitable Psychological Science

Peer review is a core component of scientific progression. Although peer review ideally improves research and promotes rigor, it also has consequences for what types of research are published and cited, and who wants to (and is able to) advance in …

Conducting Research With People in Lower-Socioeconomic-Status Contexts

In recent years, the field of psychology has increasingly recognized the importance of conducting research with lower-socioeconomic-status (SES) participants. Given that SES can powerfully shape people’s thoughts and actions, socioeconomically …