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grimalkina, 7 days ago to random

Pointed to this paper from a column on it: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4464593

Folks in dev psych and elsewhere often talk about girls being underconfident. But how rarely we frame in terms of boys' overconfidence.

"Across a range of countries, contexts, and domains, men have been found to exhibit higher degrees of confidence in their ability than women (Kay and Shipman, 2014). This phenomenon has been particularly salient in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)."

grimalkina, 7 days ago to random

Great day to be reminded that when you are creative and different and innovative, most business structures will basically do everything they possibly can to suffocate that and stuff you into their pre-existing little well controlled boxes.

Intellectual and knowledge work is no protection in a world where the meritocracy of intellect is a distraction narrative.

grimalkina, 9 days ago (edited 8 days ago) to random

Well I'm finally reading this study and yah this is about as depressing as I thought it would be

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2818061

grimalkina, 9 days ago to random

Even though I'm not and will never be a software developer, I can't tell you how it has enriched my life with technology to understand and immediately think about developers so constantly, those who made what I encounter every day. When my texts work and when I get a security message and when I notice some feature I have this little ping of empathy & awareness that someone built that. It has un-alienated me from so much technology and I wish more people-who-aren't-developers felt this with me

grimalkina, 9 days ago to random

One of my favorite things about playing lever harp is that all my folk music books have "easy arrangement" on one side and "hard arrangement" on the other and I feel like more things in life should present us with that choice in our day

luis_in_brief, 9 days ago to random

Have had a very large Eagle Creek backpack for 26 years, including two happy usages of their lifetime warranty.

Am doing more short travel these days (a few days here, a few days there) and airlines are getting stricter about carryon sizes. So... got a new Eagle Creek rollaboard. So far, am impressed with a lot of the small design touches. Check back here in 26 years for a review.

grimalkina, 10 days ago to random

We are trying to find/pick a place to stay for a few months for my wife's sabbatical and omg. We're not even going that far from home for that long and we are so stressed about it. How do people even do this.

grimalkina, 10 days ago to random

This post made me feel like maybe I would consider allowing knowledge about Linux into my brain

https://kind.social/@PurpleJillybeans/112480588977913630

grimalkina, 10 days ago to random

THIS is what scientists are like

https://jorts.horse/@nasamuffin/112476563602199433

kzodasnowman, 12 days ago to random

Contempt culture! I love learning new terms that perfectly encapsulate an idea. A reminder to redouble efforts to be generous and graceful

From: @grimalkina
https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/112469110584168773

grimalkina, 12 days ago to random

I have enough followers on here (👋 💞) that I think it is worth a little thread on how I relate to social media and online conversations & try to cultivate community

1. I am a person, not an object. I have personal thoughts, feelings, experiences, a family, & a life. Angry interactions from strangers & esp those interested in exploiting me as An Example Of Some Battle of Yours are dehumanizing & will get blocked (e.g.: "this is why those Ex Twitter people should be banned by default")

grimalkina, 12 days ago to random

Life would be easier for many scientists if the general public would get past the stereotype that all science is just about "surprise" and novelty and completely unknown things and that studies don't matter if they match your lived experience 😭 there is massive need to document well known things into the scientific record and establish specific evidence examples for them in ways that will be legible and useful for policy, public action, etc....!

Media really fuels this misconception

grimalkina, 12 days ago to random

I have NOT read this paper yet so this is not a Cat endorsement yet but the title and premise is good enough to share 👀

https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(24)00105-0

matthewskelton, 13 days ago to random

"Surprisingly, our results show that women's contributions tend to be accepted more often than men's. However, when a woman's gender is identifiable, they are rejected more often. Our results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists nonetheless."

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308716997_Gender_bias_in_open_source_Pull_request_acceptance_of_women_versus_men

🤬

grimalkina, 14 days ago to random

A public service announcement with an expiration date: if you've loved my writing and science, I have a book proposal+sample chapter out on submission right now. The pitch is "The Psychology of Software Teams": a general audience, warmly human, accessible book for teams, leaders, and curious minds, filled to the brim with practitioner stories AND the new empirical social science of technology innovation. 🙌❤️

Let me know if you know editors who might be interested in this uniquely cool project.