Craig Williams
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Social/emotional user experience and behavior. Senior UX Researcher @Vanguard_Group. Psych PhD @Stanford. Ex-@Meta @instagram. He/him.
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Joined July 2018
Thrilled to share that today marks one week since I joined @Vanguard_Group as a Senior User Experience Researcher! 🎉 (1/7)
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How do we identify people who are kind and mindful of others? In new work with @Isaac_Davis_8c, @yarrowdunham, and Julian Jara-Ettinger, we show how observers detect kindness from people's personal choices that indirectly impact others. đź§µ 1/n https://t.co/mRo652xATh
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DivE In 2023 application is live! Apply to come to Penn Oct 13-15 for *fully funded* weekend focused on mentoring, networking, and the hidden curriculum of graduate school in mind sciences with @PennMindCORE. Please RT and share widely! https://t.co/ExksYww7kt
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Especially if any of your identities are underrepresented, you are an early career researcher trying to transition to industry, and/or you have been affected by the ongoing layoffs—let me know how I can help! 👋🏻 (7/7)
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There’s no paying it back, only paying it forward, so please reach out if you’re interested in this path or others like it and would like to chat! (6/7)
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Of course I am deeply indebted to everyone who has helped and supported me these past few months—you know who you are and I thank you from the bottom of my heart ❤️ (5/7)
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I am especially grateful and proud to be joining the only 100% client-owned firm of its kind—and I’m excited to start generating insights in this space with the goal of enhancing our users’ experience and financial well-being (4/7)
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Together we’ll work to reach new users and meet them wherever they are on their personal investment journey (3/7)
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I’m joining Vanguard’s in-house creative agency where I’ll work closely with an amazing team of growth-minded researchers, strategists, designers, and other UX experts to help stand up our research operations (2/7)
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📢 I'm hiring a lab manager to help launch and run my lab @ Princeton! Please share with anyone who wants to deepen their experience in cog sci, developmental psychology, or cognitive neuroscience before grad school. Review starts 3/31, start date 8/1! https://t.co/R7JvazE9Fc
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The @StanfordSNL is hiring! We have openings for multiple full-time research assistants. This is a great position for folks interested in going on to grad school in psych / cog neuro. Please RT and spread the word! Ad with links here: https://t.co/Ucn2ZCBgng
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We wrote a piece on "Promoting Neurodiversity Within Open Scholarship" for APS Observer! https://t.co/yxAx7gZwtN
https://t.co/FcQoppBAE5 Our main message is that neurodivergent inclusion requires a shift from pathologizing and “deficits”, to acceptance and accommodating.
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đź‘‹Come work with us! Excited to announce that @NourKteily and I are hiring a postdoc for joint projects on the broad theme of collective behavior and intergroup conflict in the digital age. Please share widely! More details:
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Moments like these are opportunities to connect. Reach out if you were affected by the layoffs and want to talk. Reach out if you’re transitioning from academia to industry and unsure how, especially now. And if you see an opening and think of me, then please reach out (7/8)
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With that, I’m now #opentowork for these and similar quant-leaning research roles (order alphabetical): Behavioral Scientist, Consumer Insights Researcher, Data Scientist, Marketing Researcher, People Scientist, Research Scientist, User Experience Researcher (6/8)
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This is an unexpected ending and it is also a new beginning. I can’t know what the future will bring exactly, but I do know how I hope it will feel. I’m looking forward to seeing where my research journey takes me next (5/8)
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I feel proud too. Proud of how I ramped up in a new complex space to start conducting impactful research. Proud that I generated foundational insights and contributed towards our team strategy and roadmapping. And proud to have helped shape our new user experience (4/8)
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I also feel profound gratitude. I’m grateful to have worked with some of the kindest people I’ve ever met. Brilliant and capable and visionary, but most importantly kind. I’m grateful to have done this work and started down this path. And I’m grateful for everyone’s support (3/8)
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Being a Quant #UX Researcher at @Instagram was a dream job for me and it’s hard to believe that dream is over. I miss my team, the research community, and our work. Most of all I miss the fulfillment that came from helping users make meaningful and positive connections (2/8)
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