Rich Lee

This award no longer effectuates agency priorities. Research programs based primarily on artificial and non-scientific categories, including amorphous equity objectives, are antithetical to the scientific inquiry, do nothing to expand our knowledge of living systems, provide low returns on investment, and ultimately do not enhance health, lengthen life, or reduce illness. Worse, so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”) studies are often used to support unlawful discrimination on the basis of race and other protected characteristics, which harms the health of Americans. Therefore, it is the policy of NIH not to prioritize such research programs.

My federal grants with @wendymanning.bsky.social and Ann Meier were terminated last week. The language from the termination is below. It has been sad as we are being forced to say goodbye to members of our team. We are figuring out next steps. We remain deeply committed to studying all families.

Don’t forget we need joy in our life to offset the misery in the world #radicaljoy and follow my brother and my comic @theotheronesbylee.bsky.social

What’s the best way to disseminate research findings? Try comics! My brother and I worked with a scholar to convey the experiences of women, racialized minorities and people with disabilities on public transportation

This won an Ignoble Award back in the day

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Like how people we know who study adoption but don’t actually study life as an adopted person 🙂

In science and in backlash, identities matter In this political moment, anti-science and anti-diversity social forces are resurgent, and they threaten diversity within our disciplines. In this reflection, I discuss why diversity matters by summa...

I wrote a little reflection on objectivity and diversity in science. Could be useful if you are teaching research methods, as is the companion paper on objectivity interrogation.

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AITAA for expecting a grad student who is the first author on a student-led research project to write a first full draft of the manuscript?

#AITAA should be the academic equivalent of #AITA from Reddit. The second A is obviously for Academic. I’ll go first…

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Follow my brother and my daily comic!

For Minority Working-Class Voters, Dismay in Democrats Led to Distrust In scores of interviews throughout 2024, Latino, Black and Asian American voters, many of whom voted for Donald Trump, said they no longer trusted Democrats to improve the economy.

So, I'm going to share a maybe unpopular opinion: while stories like this focused on rightward shifts among AsAms voters of color have some value, they also serve to distract from the fact that Trump won because white voters supported him 2-1 despite his rhetoric.

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/u...

How do we memorialize monsters?

A few years ago, the city of Gwangju had an idea, and Hyun Sook and I made a comic about it for The Nib.

Someone please tell me these proposed studies have now been published

This CV discovery still astounds me and cracks me up. Academics need to chill out. We are not that important or impressive.

This was one of the first articles I started working on as faculty member, and I'm glad to have done so with my awesome co-authors, Riana, Xiaoran, and @richleephd.bsky.social!

Article link: doi.org/10.1037/amp0...

How to support marginalized parents in our communities?

UMinn scholars partnered with local Somali-American parents & community leaders to develop a low-cost (high-value?) way.

Tuned to Somali-American culture.

Audio based, no reading required.

In Somali, with English option.

That’s why it’s called karaoke

Wherever the best rock band of your dreams is playing! There is likely a conference of interest there 😂

My major holiday break win - I fixed my @Baratza encore grinder by replacing two broken parts. Shipping cost more than the parts but worth it nonetheless!

Where are all the kids of color in the #comic world of #ThePeanuts? My artist brother and I created #TheOtherOnesByLee as this alternate world. We focus on normalizing and making visible the racial and ethnic experiences of communities of color. Check it out!

www.instagram.com/theotherones...

There is! It’s not very good. But it only involves editor-in-chief. It should involve associate editors who do the bulk of work. Also there is this FWIW. Reach out to Annie Hill

www.apa.org/pubs/journal...

I was perusing a CV of a senior faculty member and noticed they put their class rank from undergrad on there. Not just saying graduated summa or in top 1% or 10%, but the actual numeric rank of x out of xxx graduates. That’s a first and I hope the last time I see that sort of thing

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I'm looking to recruit a new Ph.D. student for Fall 2024, particularly someone interested in meta-science, and preferably intersections with diversity/structural perspectives. Full consideration given to applicants from inside or outside the U.S. Deadline is Dec 1. cla.umn.edu/psychology/g...

‪People who own a cat or rat are more creative than people who own a dog or fish because the letters in cat/rat are in the word creative ‬

As a faculty of color, same

People with five letter first names do better at Wordle. Someone will publish this study in JPSP within the next year. Already starting my 2024 prediction. What’s yours?

Reminders of Japanese redress increase Asian American support for Black reparations - Communications... Across two experiments, exposure to a brief informative video on Japanese American incarceration and subsequent reparations led to greater support among Asian Americans for the payment of reparations ...

Across two experiments, exposure to a brief informative video on Japanese American incarceration and subsequent reparations led to greater support among Asian Americans for the payment of reparations to Black Americans.

New paper with Chyei Vinluan!

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

I’m known to repeat myself. My former students call it “richisms”

Intergroup contact is just a theory for psychology researchers, not an actual practice (Lee, RM, personal communication, 11/6/23)

We are a “full size candy bar” house