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Passed my dissertation defense today! I’m officially Dr. Payne 🎉 Could not have don’t this dissertation with community! Huge thanks to my committee co-chairs @drmuenks @Dr_GigiAwad Also huge thanks goes to #AcademicTwitter for participating

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@jochantee23 Yes please!

@HeyTpayne it is! I can send you the virtual link if you want to attend?

My dissertation defense is Tuesday. TUESDAY. Y’all I’m about to be a whole doctor outchea 😩😩

@NotTroyBolton_ Congratulations!! Well deserved

Whew, sitting on this for a while but I’m happy to share that I’ll be joining @TowsonU as an Assistant Professor of Psychology beginning in Fall 2025. 🐯 Looking forward to joining my new colleagues in such a fun and communal department!

Shoutout to therapists, who parkour from talking about political anxieties to infidelity to childhood trauma to celebrating milestones to grief to climate change concerns to harm reduction to parenting strategies to last night’s bad date in the span of a day or even in a session.

this is where I'm at these days.

Academics will have a 2 hour conversation about how busy they both are that ends in them agreeing to co-write something new

Somewhere along the way, many social sciences divorced themselves from the philosophy of science and adopted positivism in the name of “rigor” While (post)positivism have their place (and are necessary in some research) they are not the only epistemologies than can be used.

as a mixed method researcher…we don’t talk enough about how you need the kind of nuance provided via interviews, ethnography, focus groups etc…to be able to form and ask the right questions for your quantitative surveys.

The thing I like about qualitative work is that sometimes you gotta spend a little time in the community and take history seriously to get a better understanding of certain demographics. They ain’t filling out that survey. I get in trouble every time I say that, but it’s true.

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me checking my manuscript status on the journal portal 5 minutes after submitting it

@junegruber This paper was helpful when I faced that issue osf.io/preprints/psya…

Dear Twitter friends: My wonderful student found an apparently high # of bots in a recent online survey. Any tips for how you have filtered/ruled them out? Any IRB-related language you used (if appropriate)? Gratitude in advance!

Is the AERA review portal down for anyone else or is it just me 🫠

@HechoEnAfrica I think one of them could not hear themselves/ear piece was not working

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@_inherlane I’m happy to chat! 🙋🏾‍♀️

I need some guidance. Any Black women PhDs in education willing to talk career and dissertation with me?

Yesss!! You’re an amazing scholar - this is well deserved

@_inherlane Yay!! So happy that they were helpful

@HeyTpayne Thank you again for the drafts! They really helped in getting my proposal submitted.

Did I turn my AERA submission at 11:59? Why yes, yes I did. I am the problem 🫠🤫