Associate Prof. and Director of the Locomotor Control Lab at USC (@FinleyLabUSC). Father of 3, trail runner, and slow cyclist. Hip hop and hoops enthusiast.
Nov 18, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
One of the most disappointing work-related things about the collapse of Twitter is that we're about to lose a space that allows historically marginalized scientists to control their own narrative and build a virtual community that may not be possible to create locally.
I don't know if we'll ever have a way to assess the positive impact Twitter has had on some of our careers, but I've found it to be an incredibly valuable way to navigate academia without feeling like I'm always constrained to operate within established networks.
Oct 14, 2021 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Educating the next generation about incentives and rigor in science, a thread
One of my teaching responsibilities at @USCBKNPT is to direct a course for 1st-year graduate students on experimental methods for analyzing human movement. (1/11)
Over the past few years, like many others who teach research methods, I’ve been integrating more content about reproducibility into the course. (2/11)
Oct 8, 2021 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Earlier this year, we began a series of discussions in our joint @FinleyLabUSC and @KLeechLabUSC lab meetings that we refer to as Science, Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity (SIDE) discussions. (1/10)
These discussions started as a response to our growing awareness that research training and practice often fail to interrogate our role in maintaining, or hopefully, breaking down barriers to access and participation by marginalized groups. (2/10)
Apr 9, 2021 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
How do you specify properties of figures created in Matlab to make sure that they are appropriately sized for publication? As a student, I wasted weeks resizing things in Canvas b/c I didn't know any better, but here's my current recipe with added mods from @ChangLiuMaggie.
Decide if the figure you are making will be the width of a single column, 1.5 columns, or 2 columns if published in a journal.
May 31, 2020 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
As you continue to have discussions among friends, family, and colleagues surrounding recent events, please don't promote the overly simplistic narrative that the ongoing protests and outrage are solely about George Floyd.
Obviously, we're enraged about George Floyd. But, this is also about an endless list of George Floyd's that is embedded in the combined life experiences of generations of black people in the U.S. This is about generational trauma.
