New from Chyei Vinluan finds that Asian Am workers (1) exp more discrimination working & (2) felt less in control/able to manage conflict in-person v. remotely; and (3) were more inclusive/equitable in policy support after learning about (1) & (2) 🔓🧵 online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...
Join us this Sunday for a rally against Escondido's maga four:
www.mobilize.us/indivisiblen... @indivisible-ncsd.bsky.social @chavinsky.bsky.social
“…both Asian and Black Americans who worked hybrid reported less interpersonal conflict and stress but more positive affect and control when they worked remotely than when in the office”
As a professor, providing accommodations doesn’t impact me at all, and it helps students out. The fact that anyone cares about this is baffling to me.
But then I remember that the country is currently run by eugenicist freaks and they’ve just found a new group to hound.
Thank you to the @russellsagefdn.bsky.social for funding some of this work!
New from Chyei Vinluan finds that Asian Am workers (1) exp more discrimination working & (2) felt less in control/able to manage conflict in-person v. remotely; and (3) were more inclusive/equitable in policy support after learning about (1) & (2) 🔓🧵 online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...
This is the impact of the intervention on inclusive equitable policy on our Asian Am samples. Reminders of Asian racism during the pandemic and information about how remote work protected some people tended to boost support for inclusive equitable policy relative to a control. Interestingly, simply reminding about the pandemic racism also tended to increase support for equitable policy.
These studies found that the intervention increased support for inclusive anti-discrimination policies, and the study of those policies.
Anyway, check out the paper here: online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...
...and congratulations to A. Chyei Vinluan for bringing it into the world!
Studies 3-5 used this information as an intervention--Asian workers learned that the pandemic created a wave of racism against Asian folks, and the importance of policies (like remote work) that protected from discrimination, vs a control condition that simply moved onto the next questions.
...These data helped us understand why remote work might be protective (it gives more agency in managing conflict and controlling work boundaries).
These are plots how hybrid workers who were Black and Asian that experienced racism during the pandemic felt about hybrid work environments. Workers in both groups felt more agency in general and around conflict, also more positive affect, in remote settings v. in - person.
Our second study found that, of those working hybrid, Asian and Black workers who experienced racial discrimination at work felt more agency, less negative affect, less conflict, and equal in motivation in remote v. in-person work contexts...
This is a table showing some differences in proportion of racist experiences for Asian Ams working remotely or in-person during the pandemic.
Our first study found that Asian folks working remotely experienced less discrimination than those who had to work in person during early COVID-19.
That got us thinking, did remote work protect some Asian folks from experiences of racial discrimination?
The answer from our work is probably yes it did!
Reflecting on the period also made me feel thankful for the remote work barrier. You know, in case any coworkers were harboring some of these racist views, I didn't have to run into them on the way to work, or in the office kitchen, or in seminar.
This rhetoric fueled some pretty terrible experiences of racism. One I remember, our oldest had a child say (right before schools closed) that they couldn't play with them anymore because they were Asian. YIKES.
I want to take you back, for a moment, to 2020. We are at the beginning of the pandemic and many of us are working remotely. I don't remember this time particularly fondly--this was pre COVID-19 vaccines, and there was a lot of rhetoric around how the virus had come from China. 🧵
I'm drafting a letter to the Provost, who oversees libraries, to highlight how integral it is and why we need to stop cutting funding to it
Today Dominic Packer & @jayvanbavel.bsky.social republished @minzlicht.bsky.social's post about "The Downfall of Stereotype Threat" in their widely-read The Power Of Us newsletter. I felt a certain way about that & the evidence presented there & thought I'd respond:
“The victims were between seven and 12 years old, according to Iran's Tasnim and Fars news agencies.”
THE PRESIDENT OF WESLEYAN ATE TYLER AUSTIN HARPER UP LOL
“Harper follows in the grand tradition of Senator Jesse Helms in mocking areas of research he expects will be unpopular with the general public.”
www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...
“History doesn’t repeat. It rhymes,” he said. “And there is a shared syntax of supremacy and racial domination that affected our community then and that is being wielded against a community now.” - Rev. Kenji Kuramitsu
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/22/j...
Whoa-ohh, we're halfway there:
"This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby"
www.404media.co/this-app-war...
bsky.app/profile/wolv...
More cowardly actions by Harvard.
I was genuinely considering going to my 25th reunion this year, because there are friends I'd love to see. No more.
I DO have a talk scheduled there in April. Guess I'll have to bring this up!
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
My family was among them
History repeats until we do something to stop it
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
About NSF GRFP's being rejected without peer review:
[from submitted info to Grant Witness]
"12 RWRs as involving ecology, six in cell biology, five in psychology, four in neuroscience, and 14 in other subfields of biology"
www.science.org/content/arti...
“The Trump administration’s decision to not appeal this preliminary injunction means that for the foreseeable future, they cannot use civil rights laws or federal funding as a cudgel to remake the UC in its ideological image,”@veenadubal.bsky.social @aaup.org @aft.org
www.latimes.com/california/s...
This is what authoritarians are never gonna understand: average, everyday citizens do not like watching paramilitary thugs brutalize children. All the vaporware memes in the world can't fix that for them
It's a service I provide to all you worst-case-scenario planners 🫠🍻
