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Dr. Joyce Vromen
@joycevromen.bsky.social
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Mother, friend, senior lecturer, psychologist, and potter - blending academia, clinical practice, and life with authenticity and compassion. www.joycevromen.com
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crunchies cause autism.
Breakfasts cause mornings.
Umbrellas cause rain.

(Correlation ≠ causation. Even if the president says so.)
September 22, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Most orgs reward the coder, not the connector in early career - often overlooking talent that might shine later.

👉 Read my latest article: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/dive...

#PsychologyToday #Leadership #Careers #Equity #SoftSkills
Whose Ladder Do We Climb?
Equity requires rethinking our narrow, staged model of career progression—a system built around the “ideal” worker and blind to diverse strengths and developmental tracks.
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September 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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My @psychologytoday.com article on why we still reward code over care is now amongst the top 6 most-read pieces on the platform internationally 🎉

👉 www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/dive...

#SoftSkills #Bias #Workplace #career #gender
September 17, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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My Psychology Today article Soft Skills, Hard Truths has been selected as an Essential Read in both the Career & Gender sections 🏆.
👉 www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/dive...

#SoftSkills #Career #Gender
Soft Skills, Hard Truths
From coding to caregiving, society skews which talents matter and are compensated. The hard truth is that "soft" skills are crucial.
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September 16, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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From coding to people management, society skews which skills matter. Assigned value mirrors socially constructed hierarchies of gender, race, and culture.

My latest #PsychologyToday article:

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/divergent-minds/202509/soft-skills-hard-truths

#Workplace #selfesteem
September 15, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Autism is still diagnosed by looking - focused on external behaviours - not including internal experience.
Honoured my new @psychologytoday.com article has been promoted to an Essential Read.
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#Autism #Neurodiversity
Autism Diagnosis: Too Much Looking and Too Little Listening?
Autism assessment still often leaves lived experience unheard and unseen by focusing almost exclusively on outwardly observable behaviours.
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September 12, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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📚 Love literature reviews? Our team is looking for Research Assistant (casual, Oct start) to join a project in developmental computational psychology. Must have Australian working rights.
📩 Contact: jvromen@csu.edu.au

#Research #Psychology #AcademicJobs
September 12, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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As a potter I love this video 👐 🎨 tiktok.com/@brettwulc/v...

Clay collapses. Therapy sessions derail. Academic papers get rejected.

Not failure - feedback. Hold it lightly → grow stronger.

#FailForward #NonAttachment
a months worth of pottery fails and bloopers 🥴 #pottery #ceramics #fail #satisfying
TikTok video by brettwulc
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September 11, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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With DEI rollbacks & anti-immigration rallies, belonging matters now more than ever.

📰 Check out my latest @PsychToday article on belonging: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/dive...

#Belonging #Inclusion
The Pain of Not Belonging
Belonging isn’t a luxury, it’s a human need. Exclusion can hurt like physical pain, but small acts of inclusion can heal. Are we building places where people feel at home?
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September 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Reposted by Dr. Joyce Vromen
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"Will women ever stand on equal economic footing with men, and what would it take to equalize domestic labor … in the home? … Two new books … provide clear steps forward."

Read the #ScienceBooks Review of Patriarchy Inc. and What’s on Her Mind: https://scim.ag/4mqvxbP
Valuing women’s work
Achieving gender equality is possible if we admit to past mistakes and tackle the mental load
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September 9, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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✨ Calling practising psychologists! I’m forming a working group to co-create a strengths- & gender-inclusive framework for adult autism assessment.

We’ll work towards a conceptual research paper + practical clinician tools. Interested? DM me to connect.

#Autism #Neurodiversity
September 9, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Research translations for practising psychologists

✨ Did you know your client may actually perceive the world differently?

New Nature paper shows that prior expectations are represented across the whole brain 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#Neuroscience #Psychology #MentalHealth
Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making - Nature
Brain-wide recordings in mice reveal that prior expectations are distributed through recurrent loops across all levels of cortical and subcortical processing.
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September 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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👉 If you’ve made a post-PhD career transition, I’d love to hear: where did you end up?

My interviewees’ journeys are colourful and inspiring - full of doubt, strength, growth, value and new possibilities.

#PhD #BeyondAcademia #CareerPathways
September 8, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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When I finished my PhD, I felt unsure where my skills fit beyond academia. Since then, I’ve worked across govt, health, non-profit & private practice. The past year, I interviewed PhDs who’ve taken paths into policy, business, data science & more.

#BeyondAcademia #CareerPathways #PHD
September 8, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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It is @SocSciWeek 2025! From 8–14 September, we celebrate social sciences in Australia.
👉 socialsciencesweek.org.au

#ssw2025 #SocialSciences #Research
Celebrate Social Sciences Week
Every September Social Sciences Week celebrates and showcases the diverse range of social sciences disciplines and research in Australia.
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September 8, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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I am excited to share I have launched the Cognition in Health & Illness (CHI) Lab at Charles Sturt University.

Our research looks at how cognitive processes influence mental health and illness, with a focus on bridging research and clinical practice.

👉 joycevromen.com/CHI_lab/
September 7, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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A golden oldie ✨ My first @psychologytoday.com post, A Strengths-Based Approach to Neurodiversity, has now surpassed 17,000 reads.

Its message still rings true: when we shift from deficits-only to include strengths, people can truly thrive.

👉 www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/dive...
A Strengths-Based Approach to Neurodiversity
Our thinking still focuses primarily on deficits and those behaviors and cognitions that people with autism or ADHD cannot perform as well as neurotypical individuals.
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September 7, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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These are the faces of immigration: my Australian kids with a Dutch mother and a Turkish father, who’ve also lived in the UK. Where do they belong then? Immigration is about real people, families, and lives - not the scary abstractions painted by recent anti-immigration rallies in Australia.
September 6, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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The World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap Report shows gender parity remains a distant goal. Progress is happening, but painfully slow for too many around the world.
August 31, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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🚨 Just out and chosen as Essential Read by #PsychologyToday

Amnesia of Achievement - When women become mothers, the world forgets their brilliance and abilities. 🌱 Intelligence isn’t lost. We just stop seeing it.

👉 www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/dive...
Motherhood and Achievement Amnesia
When women pause for motherhood, it’s not their brilliance and potential that fades, it’s the world’s memory of it.
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April 22, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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🧠 Connection between therapist & client is often paramount to progress. 3 reads that explore the heart (and humour) of therapeutic relationships:
📘 The Gift of Therapy – Irvin Yalom
📘 Maybe You Should Talk to Someone – Lori Gottlieb
📘 What Women Want – Maxine Mei-Fung Chung
April 18, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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My latest psychology today article 'Workplace Desire' is amongst the 6 most popular articles on the platform currently. It seems to have struck a nerve!

www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/dive...
April 8, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Fun with the latest ChatGPT trend - action figure doll inspired by oneself. Sparkles, clipboard, coffee & chaos included💫.

Because being a psychologist, researcher, mental health client, and a mum of twins is nothing short of superhero work ;)

Though, waist? 12-year-olds?
April 8, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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In my latest piece for Psychology Today, I explore the messy, very human dynamics of workplace desire - through the lens of power, silence, workplace culture, & emotional literacy: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/dive...
Workplace Desire
Sexual tension at work is the unspoken force many feel, but few name. It lingers in glances, rewrites your emails, and makes you question your outfit choices.
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April 7, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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In my latest #PsychologyToday article, I explore how outdated #SocietalExpectations continue to fail #parents of all #genders - and why moving towards real change is long overdue. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/dive...
The Motherhood Penalty and the Fatherhood Competence Gap
Mothers face career setbacks, while caregiving fathers are isolated. Breaking gendered biases with equal leave and support arrangements will progress gender equity.
www.psychologytoday.com
April 4, 2025 at 8:25 PM