zrickyang.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Industrial-Organizational Psychology at Baruch College and CUNY Graduate Center
👤 Joined on 17 October 2023
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@zrickyang.bsky.socialI spent the past semester building interactive teaching apps with AI-assisted coding. I used my personal website to share them with my students, but that makes them hard to find for other educators. So I built Galvoro — galvoro.app
Show Post#AcademicSky People turned more anti-immigrant after jobs went overseas, misperceiving that immigrants stole their jobs at home. I truly worry that the speed of AI taking jobs will unleash some very dark forces directed at immigrants.
Show PostNew preprint! ✨ Do you and your partner have made-up words ("eggy" to mean awkward)? Do you and your bestie have an anecdote you love to tell together (that time one of you tripped over an acorn)? Do you and your closest colleague have a cherished ritual (weekly lunch at "the usual spot")? 🧵
Show PostI used to buy the idea that threat—>superordinate identities would pull people together. In the absence of intelligent leadership and system level change, these threats made intergroup relationships worse, not better.
Show PostI decided to remove my final lecture "How to improve intergroup relations" - I talk about recategorisation, contact theory etc. To be honest, at the peak of this global invasion, I no longer believe any of these theories to make a difference. We need sane leaders to start with for anything to work.
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