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The latest lab newsletter has been released! Read & Subscribe: statslabatcmc.kit.com/posts/decemb... Thank you all for an amazing Fall semester here at @CMCnews — looking forward to the Spring! Have a wonderful break, & we'll be back in early January with our regularly scheduled programming 😉

Interested in our book, From First Job to Career? Check out this snippet from Wyatt's story in Chap. 5: a college dropout & food runner, turned mortgage lender! 🔗 www.statslabatcmc.com/career-book All proceeds go towards future student research in careers. #careers #booklaunch #newbook

VOTE NOW!!! We are a finalist for the Future of Work Research Competition! Our team will build a zombie-themed escape room to study leadership, teamwork, and human-AI interactions. Watch the finalists' videos and then vote! Your vote matters in determining who wins the research funding prize!

What IS leadership? Despite decades of research & practice, it's surprisingly hard to answer this Q. It's gotten to the point that scholars are beginning to question some of the foundations of leadership research. Read our latest blog post to find out more! www.statslabatcmc.com/blog/2025-11...

Happy Thanksgiving! Let’s play a game… what prompt did I give AI to generate this video?

So grateful to have been featured in @cmc.edu's homepage for a story on our research lab! Read the full story here: www.cmc.edu/newsfeed/pro... #research #lab #college #studentts

Missed last week’s webinar where I gave an overview of our STATS Lab research on the intersection of #leadership & #datascience? The recording is available on YouTube! youtube.com/watch?v=k4Dk... We hope this paves the way for future academia-industry collaborations & students getting involved!

I’m working on a grant studying how ppl develop a sense of vocational calling early on in their lives. How do parenting, school, cultural values, etc. impact calling prior to age 18? As we're ideating, we'd love to hear from YOU. What books growing up most influenced your career journey?

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Excited to be sharing about my research next Thurs 11/13 in a Zoom webinar w/ @cmc.edu! Whether you’re a student, parent, alum, friend, or community member… come learn more about how we’re exploring the intersection of leadership and data science! RSVP: events.cmc.edu/e/cmcconnect...

New publication! We partnered with SIOP to ask #iopsych academics and practitioners to anonymously report their degree of usage of GenAI and what they used it for. 👉 Read the full article AND an **interactive dashboard** of all our data that you can explore: www.statslabatcmc.com/blog/2025-10...

Apparently this is what AI thinks about “statistics is scary” on Halloween… Disclaimer: I promise you won’t run away screaming from my stats classes! Happy Halloween! #stats #halloween #aivideo #ai

We had fun being interviewed by Organizational Research Methods for our publication on forced choice measurement! Here’s a highlights reel… Full interview: m.youtube.com/watch?v=woXX... Read the paper: www.researchgate.net/publication/... #research #measurement #forcedchoice #personality

This semester, I introduced structured in-class debates as a major part of students’ final assessment. They prepare to argue **both** sides of hot #IOPsych topics: – Should we use personality tests for hiring? – Should companies move to a four-day work week? Why debates? 🧵

So excited to get to teach this new class at @cmc.edu this spring! Literally one of the reasons why I was hired 😆 Find out more here: www.statslabatcmc.com/teaching

Prompt using Sora: generate a video showing a team completing an escape room research experiment to study leadership and teams as part of the STATS Lab (photo provided). Not too shabby! (PS: yep, we’re working on building this in real life! Stick around for more)

Had an amazing time attending the @theila.bsky.social Conference all the way in Prague! Thank you ILA and Jepson School for the Jablin Dissertation Award that enabled me to come present my research and talk about our new book!

Interested in learning more about our recent book, From First Job to Career, published last month with @universitypress.cambridge.org? Listen to this excerpt from the intro explaining why we wrote this book! Find out more here: www.statslabatcmc.com/career-book #careers #jobs #newbook #booklaunch

So proud to be at @cmc.edu, where @wsj.com just ranked us #6 across **ALL** colleges & universities in the US! www.wsj.com/rankings/col... Just as important: their methodology. Rankings are weighted… 33% salary impact 20% graduation rate 20% learning environ. 17% yrs to pay off net $$ 10% other

FACULTY JOB OPENING ALERT 🚨 @claremontgraduateu.bsky.social is hiring a tenure-track Asst. Professor of I-O Psychology (start: Jul 2026). Balanced teaching + research env., review begins Oct 31, 2025. Apply: dbossearch@cgu.edu More: ob.aom.org/discussion/j... #IOPsych #AcademicJobs #FacultySearch

1/ Finishing a PhD means stepping into one of the strangest job markets out there: the academic one. I went through it last year, and here are a few things I wish more people said out loud. #academia #faculty #jobs

Thrilled to have 33 applications to join my research lab here at @cmc.edu 😮😮 I want to work with every one of them on every project, but there’s only 24 hours in a day 😭 Somehow I need to form a manageable set of teams to focus on just a few of the many projects proposed… wish me luck!!

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🚨 Scientists, researchers, academics: You were trained in a language no one else speaks. You think you’re being clear. But outside the ivory tower… it sounds alien. A thread on why science communication is hard — and why it still matters 🧵

Unboxing my first book with @universitypress.cambridge.org! 📦📚 62 stories of early career journeys + a research review in vocational psychology & career counseling. Read more about why I wrote it here: 🔗 www.linkedin.com/posts/szzhou... Book info + discount code: www.statslabatcmc.com/career-book