Standing here dealing with lung pain today and other challenges of healing from my scary covid case & at the same time having a friend call to berate us for asking folks to be vaccinated at our years-delayed rescheduled wedding which we've put every effort into making safe... I have nostalgia for the good old days when my wife and I just got yelled at for wearing masks and the argument was just about the one virus!! Now it's custom bespoke anger that calls us up at home to argue about all of science!

I know multiple people (and mostly women of color) doing groundbreakingly good and needed work in CS and the stories they have told me about this "lack of novelty" thing are really stunning to me

https://twitter.com/natematias/status/1567583700204011520

People will do really relevant, social-science informed work and especially and have some reviewer come back with "this isn't interesting data because we already understand human behavior" and then blithely publish a paper that uses youtube-kid-level ideas about cognition

Doing research with developer teams, something that really strikes me is how much people look for ways to make complex problems easy rather than make it easy to work on complex problems What I mean is, sometimes it's really useful to admit we just are trying to accomplish tough things. Asking how we can support our teams who NEED the time and space to work through that, it's often a much more tractable lever than trying to change the inherent nature of the work

How do you support people exploring career paths you haven't experienced, or that are rapidly changing, or that are leading toward futures that aren't here yet? This is something I think about re: every "industry v academia" debate that happens on here. You can't eschew the question if you're in a position of authority, mentorship, or guidance. Even in my consultancy when I staff projects, I consider people management & career development questions. It is fundamental ethics of working with people.

If you have a robust skincare routine you have demonstrated aptitude in many core skills of data science. I will not be taking criticism of this idea. Girls who have developed personalized skincare routines know more about multivariate causal inference than many engineers. Effects over time. Interactions. Mediation analysis. It's all there. If they can keep acting like hanging out in garages is "computers" we get to have this.

I have been consulting on hiring and assessments and evaluation equity a lot lately (I have little about this online, but catharsisinsight.com/workshops). Situations are unique and hard! But something that I've found super useful, so sharing to you is this: Most questions start with "what new data can we get about a candidate." I try to move people to thinking of the evaluation *moment* (hiring, performance eval) as an *interaction*. It reflects the person, but also their previous environments, and it reflects your environment.

I am serious about this, this is a research backed position, not a hot take: we will not improve CS education, and fields facing overlapping issues (STEM, math) if we don't recognize that many of the people teaching it are on a huge power trip and doing active harm all the time

https://twitter.com/TaliaRinger/status/1483607453870735361

Last night I read this paper, which I highly recommend for a sweeping summary of how exclusionary features of educational environments compound over the lifetimes of marginalized learners...AND, commensurately, how solutions must be about these features.

https://twitter.com/Dasgupta_Psych/status/1483559159211741192

This guy is such a troll but do you think that in his brain, he imagines that there is like a giant randomizer in the sky that can just implement this. Like just think for two seconds about waltzing into a school district and telling them to shut down for your "RCT" my god

https://twitter.com/CaraFrankenfeld/status/1483495975008145411

I did a dissertation in schools and we weren't even doing difficult intervention work and we still had a whole structure of reporting the research back to the school, ensuring that they benefitted from it, research inside schools is not a right it is a privilege

Interesting thread. As someone who did a dissertation on foundational perceptions of performance feedback and how we use cues to decide whether or not to disclose need for help, it's always been interesting to me how little tech reflects on what feedback IS.

https://twitter.com/mrdonut/status/1429592718951342080

From the perspective of performance research I mostly agree with this thread but not entirely. E.g., do not think authenticity is opposed to "saying something nice." The "say something nice" impulse is a perfectly valid social rule that we use to try to reassure someone about...

It's sunny, my fuzzy little dog is carefully watching squirrels navigate our trees as if he will EVER have success with these creatures much faster than he is, there are flowers all around me.

I'm ready to say something to academics with power & tenure in this community.

https://twitter.com/grimalkina/status/1397286935324880898

Today is the tenth anniversary of the day I filed a police report nearly immediately after defending my qualifying exam, which was the requirement to advance to candidacy as a grad student.

Here is a random list of super small ordinary things that have had an outsize impact on my ability to get things done, in this life of working from home and pandemic! In case other people find this stuff fun to think about :) -my gym was the MAIN place I went other than home (I already worked from home) so it closing was really hard. We started using a little whiteboard to write workout drills on and it has measurably helped my commitment to finishing workouts. I prop it on the fence of my yard!

I am an *actual* social scientist who has done work on resilience and achievement as opposed to a neuroscientist speculating in flippant simplicity and I have lived through long-term dramatic disruption and I am marrying a neuroscientist so I can say, with full force: BAD TAKE

https://twitter.com/Medium/status/1304195214307987457

This in-group out-group take..............I cannot. You people in neuro need to get your people.

Funny how hustle porn rears up so aggressively during the literal one week a year that the US actually reliably treats as a holiday? FUNNY! Anyway here are some favorite things about rest: The "10,000 hours rule" (never a rule, decried by a thousand cognitive scientists, plucked from research to be cast into podcast-perpetual-pandering by Gladwell, Like He Does) in original context actually talks about deliberate practice and *rest* cycles.

Once upon a time my little brother and I decided we were going to learn to do Science. This was a challenge because we were homeschooled so had no lab, had a general fear of biology because it didn't seem like something God much approved of, and it seemed to involve sticky things Nonetheless being older I had to figure out how we were going to conduct Science without offending God and so I picked the most Scientific books I could find in the downstairs bookshelf, J Henri Fabre's The Insect World and a beautiful book by Capon called Botany for Gardeners

I've given feedback on 3 grad school research statements so far this fall. I do this every year for folks in my fields, and every year, I see really similar patterns! Here are a few of them: Good paragraphs but bad/no overall flow. I tend to think that an application is all about showing exactly why you're a great fit for a program. So every experience is a step in the story of "...and that brings us to right now, me perfectly set up to succeed in this program!"

There are some questions I always ask when I'm looking at edtech intervention claims that seem to have at least a reasonable grounding for producing effects on learning: A big one is whether they controlled for novelty. New approaches are definitionally novel for learners. Novelty brings with it attention effect, engagement effect. It might bring social effects (as students chat and react and joke about new tech). Did they control for that lift?

When I took the SAT, it was the first time I'd ever set foot in a high school. I was already working most days. I'd never taken a formal math class. I was pretty stressed out by how much the test fee cost. I drove myself. I'd practiced with five year old books from the library.

https://twitter.com/juliareinstein/status/1105490488830906368

This whole story is hilarious, but only in the darkest way, because it's also devastating. I feel cold all over, reading shit like this. When I took the SAT, I was in tenth grade. I already knew that getting into college was going to be solitary, difficult, nearly impossible.

A lot of people seem to think that adding the blurb “women and minorities are encouraged to apply” at the end of a job ad will fix their hiring practices.

It…will not. I mean it’s not bad to add this. But there are so many intricacies. For instance, one thing I've been really interesting in for a while: job ads that emphasize essentialist framings of ability, call for "brilliance" and “a genius," absolutely make equitable hiring less likely