Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD

I am over the moon to share that I’m starting a new position as a Research Fellow at the Kinsey Institute! I am so inspired and impressed by the research (and the researchers) at Kinsey, and I'm looking forward to getting involved with this work! :)

Overheard a woman ask “so there’s more than one supreme court justice?” The man she was with responded by explaining that James Comey was the ninth Supreme Court justice.

After getting health insurance married in May, Davis and I had our real wedding ceremony with our families and a handful of our closest friends in Olympic National Park on Friday, and it was everything I ever dreamed it would be.

Overheard at the Dodger’s Stadium entrance: Dad, we are late! Otani already hit a home run. I bet we already missed the wave.

Believe women, even when it is politically inconvenient.

The academic job market continues to humble you even after you have accepted a faculty position. Just received a rejection for a job I applied to in September.

I buried a one-question extra credit opportunity on the first page of a module on Canvas for my PSY 355 class, which has 400 students. I didn’t set a due date, so it didn’t show up on the homepage on Canvas. You had to actually click on the module to see it. 21 students found it. 5% of students.

LinkedIn alerts as an academic sound much like a well-meaning but woefully misguided parent: “San Jose State is hiring in the music department! Can’t you just get a job there? You love music!”

How “am” I?

Every time I talk to students about predatory journals, I preface the conversation with “I am about to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but, unfortunately, this is all true.”

I have seen many videos explaining that estrogen-progestogen oral contraceptives are classified by the CDC as class 1 carcinogens, like smoking, and to avoid hormonal birth control. Here are some others: - Processed meats - Ultraviolet radiation - Salted fish - Air pollution - Alcoholic beverages

Two manuscripts and a set of proofs submitted this week, and we’re submitting another next week! Thrilled to see my work from the last year and a half finally moving along.

Euphoria premiere down the street. Living in Hollywood will never not be weird!