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21 Dec, 7 tweets, 3 min read
A 🧵of my hottest 🔥 takes of 2021 as indicated by views.

No. 1 – The Academic Publishing System is a Failure where I argue that academic publishing actively inhibits the dissemination of knowledge

nicolebarbaro.substack.com/p/failedjourna…
No. 2 – Introduction to Psychology with Better Readings where I give you a full reading list of popular books that are way better to read than your dated intro psych textbook

nicolebarbaro.substack.com/p/introbooks
No 3. – Not a hot take, but 10 🔥books that you should absolutely be reading.

bookmarkedreads.substack.com/p/interestingb…
No. 4 – Five Differences Between Doing Research in Academia and Industry, part of a broader series of articles I have written about #altac research careers (more coming in 2022!)

nicolebarbaro.substack.com/p/differences
No 5. – Who’s Right About What’s Wrong with Higher Education? Where the answer is “everyone” + a full reading list of politically diverse #highered reads.

nicolebarbaro.substack.com/p/hediversity
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21 Dec
PhDs - if you’re not super into stats and data analysis and looking to shift to #altac/non-prof roles the skills you want to hone & excel at are:

- Writing (but not dense academic writing)
- Project management
- Strategic, big picture thinking

You have a leg up here ^^ use it.
Now two years out, I look on whether my PhD was “worth it”.

If only based on job requirements then no. Most roles I want don’t need a PhD.

BUT my PhD gave me the writing, PM & strategy skills I use everyday that will get me on a new path. So yes, it was worth it.
I did so many types of tasks during my PhD and it really is all about leveraging those things and being able to translate what you did for a new career audience.

Your PhD also gives you confidence and leadership skills that most just don’t have coming out of undergrad.
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19 Nov 20
🚨Highlight reel thread of today's talk.🚨

I spoke to students and faculty at @AbertayUni about how we do #edtech research at WGU Labs, and advice for psychology PhDs looking to land an #altac role.

[THREAD] with pics, links to posts, and the full presentation at the end 👇🏼 1/
The #edtech industry has been on the rise since 2018, but #COVID19 has acted as a catalyst for online learning at scale in 2020. Edtech adoption by educators has been a huge output of this pandemic & all the more reason that our work at Labs is super relevant right now. 2/
However, there are some three key problems that I see with #edtech research👇🏼

Edtech research should focus IMO on enhancing core learning processes. I've talked about some of this here: nicolebarbaro.com/2020/06/16/usi… 3/
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6 Aug 20
A study that does not measure racism but is framed as a study showing that “racism is a genetic trait”.

Oof.

An example of horrible #scicomm

THREAD 1/

phys.org/news/2020-08-r…
I saw this title and “thought this is so unlikely to be what the actual scientific paper said” and I was right. First things first – let’s look at the title of the actual paper, linked at the end of the article 2/
Well the article must at least talk about race and racism, right? Right?!

Ope. Never mind then. 3/
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1 Aug 20
I feel like doing a brief live tweet reading thread of this paper: A Validity-Based Framework for Understanding Replication in Psychology

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

1/
Juicy take on why replication attempts *really* fail: The phenomenon I studied was super complex and you probably didn't do something correctly.

2/
Their proposal is a(nother!) framework or "lens" to evaluate failed replications across 4 types of validity to identify the potential ways in which the replication study differed that could explain the failed replication.

3/
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10 Jan 20
[Thread] I'm a bit late but as people are prepping courses for the new semester (or already started) I wanted to share all my teaching materials for those that may find them useful! #TeachPsych #PhDchat please RT to share!
1. The Psychology of Human Sexuality [3000 level, elective, 4 credit hours]. I took an evo, cross-cultural approach. The 2-day a week course was split, I did lecture one day & discussed a recent research article the other. Term paper materials included osf.io/qn3w2/
2. Intro to Lifespan Developmental Psychology [2000 level, program req & gen ed, 4 credit hours]. Formatted for a 2-day a week full semester (fall 2019) and a 8 week 2-day a week summer semester. Scientific literacy assignments included! osf.io/af8rk/
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23 Nov 19
[THREAD] There is a lot of twitter buzz about this new paper on gender and race bias in student evaluations.

Well, I have some comments *about this paper*

1/ cambridge.org/core/journals/…
First, the good: The basic research design is great. The classes are online courses that were run by a single admin throughout the semester. The only difference was the brief video intro by the professor. This is a really clean way to run a realistic quasi-experimental design. 2/
Now for the less good: The overall sample size is small -- 14 professors. The analysis used t-test to determine differences in overall course ratings by gender and race, and then a regression to see how gender and race uniquely predict course/prof ratings. 3/
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