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JMMaok

@JMMaok@mastodon.online

Advancing open knowledge and civic technology

PhD in Public Policy, M.S. in Technical Communication. Research focused on science and technology policy, especially scientific workforce and university research centers.

Current interests: open science, including science as a human right and multilingual science. Also an active civic tech volunteer with current / recent projects in open government and open data.

Posts will include policy, politics, and propaganda awareness content.

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impactology, to random
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Old project pitch

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@stephenpa @impactology

These sound good. I have a brainstorming template in a Google Doc that I default to pageless mode, sort of a baby step in that direction.

A problem I observe is that the complexity / richness of something like Mural tends to be overwhelming to people who only use any given tool like that once every 6 months. People who work in design / consulting and use the same tool every day have a completely different level of muscle memory.

mikemccaffrey, to tesla
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I love how the senate minority leader's sister-in-law died while operating a product from the country's richest man, but all the public details about what happened are locked behind a Wallstreet Journal paywall.

https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/angela-chao-death-texas-tesla-safety-c435daa0

JMMaok,
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@mikemccaffrey

Wikipedia has the key points: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Chao

impactology, (edited ) to random
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How does this participant screener sound for an edtech design studio and for this research proposal

https://mastodon.social/@impactology/112048965474083708

JMMaok,
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@impactology

I have some thoughts on the screener. First, the word "screener" seems to go against a lot of what you seem to care about. Maybe reframe it a bit as "is this opportunity for you?" rather than "will we select you?"

Also, a screener is usually brief. Can you make a list of yes/no questions to use as a first screen?

You have a lot of questions! Some thoughts: Try a simpler approach, give a word count range, have an AI policy.

impactology, to random
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Have you ever encountered design conventions or industry norms that you felt compelled to challenge or subvert?

JMMaok,
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@impactology

Yes, teaching economics from the starting point of perfect competition.

JMMaok,
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@impactology

I taught in a very applied context, economics for public administration and policy. So I’m mainly referring to how the CORE economics curriculum (which we discussed before, I think) starts with markets with some market power. This is in contrast with every other economics textbook I encountered, which start with perfect competition. Asking students to set aside the many market failures they already know well from lived experience. 1/2

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@impactology

🤨 Not sure how you meant that.

As it plays out in the US, starting from perfect competition is usually a wealthy white man authoritatively telling others to disregard their lived experience, and it is a fairly violent part of teaching economics. Asking people to start from a position where markets don't have asymmetric information, power differentials, externalities, etc. turns a lot of people off of economics, no matter how it might simplify the math or narrative. 1/2

misc, to random
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When people say that they don't want Bluesky people over here - I hate to break it to you, but a lot of Bluesky people are also Mastodon people. Getting harder to tell the timelines apart, fr.

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@misc

Possibly related, but I think there is also a consent frame. A listen to a wide variety of users about their preferences before you assume your growth takes precedence frame. One of the most disappointing things to me about the bridge announcement (if that’s the right word) is that it seemed very individualistic, or at least not seeing the same people who are always invisible in tech until it’s too late.

augieray, to random
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STUDY finds that leads to acute bone loss. “Utilizing a humanized mouse model of COVID-19, this study provides the first direct evidence that SARS-CoV-2 infection leads to acute bone loss, increased osteoclast number, and thinner growth plates. This bone loss could decrease whole-bone mechanical strength and increase the risk of fragility fractures, particularly in older patients, while thinner growth plates may create growth disturbances in younger patients.” https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jor.25537

JMMaok,
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@augieray

Well, that’s horrifying. In mice, but horrifying.

impactology, to random
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Is there some kind of forum (whether online or offline) where people doing research in these areas gather to discuss & collaborate on pedagogical skill or teacher training

JMMaok,
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@impactology

Here are a few ideas:

In terms of conferences, you might find good discussions at https://openeducationconference.org/ and OEGlobal.

Also some in the open education channel of the Creative Commons Slack (many folks in that community care about openness beyond licensing).

Not sure where they hang out online, but maybe there is an Ungrading community.

Also the OE4BW program.

JMMaok, to random
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@algernon @evan

Even as someone who mostly replies, I think these would be good features to have. If someone really only wants to talk to their followers or mutuals, I don’t want to be there. Giving people mod power over their replies appeals to me less.

Maybe until the feature is built folks could experiment with a hack, like start with # for followers only and ## for mutuals only? Some Twitter features started as hacks like that.

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@algernon @evan

People who ignored the norm by mistake could delete their posts, and people who ignored it on purpose could be comfortably ignored.

JMMaok, to UX
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For my friends : -)

From: @overholt
https://glammr.us/@overholt/111913545525298029

impactology, to random
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Teachers, professors, educators, PhD advisors

(or anyone who came up with something novel in their domain for which there was not established examples of expertise)

How did you overcome your fear of failure or help your students overcome it?

https://mastodon.social/@impactology/111901272303185794

JMMaok,
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@impactology

I have one general piece of advice on fear of failure that people say is pretty good. It’s specific to journal rejections, though, which is before you submit an article make a list of at least 3 other potential journals you could submit to. That way when you get a rejection (we all get rejections!) you don’t need to dwell. Just incorporate any useful feedback and submit to the next journal.

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@impactology

I was pretty nervous the first few times I had to drive across the state to ask strangers for donations of thousands of dollars. Not sure I have any amazing insights. It helps that everyone in fundraising knows prospects are unpredictable. The job is to try. Maybe that’s the best takeaway.

impactology, to random
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Trying to find intersections between librarian's curatorial skill with DJing and that led to the current inquiry.

Thinking about what skills could a librarian learn from DJs

Coz Librarian ~ Book DJ?

Would be fascinating to see how grandmaster flash (and DJs of his generation) curated and organized his records for retrieval

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@impactology

Audibooks on LP was / is a thing! You could do this. I bet you could get gigs at book festivals.

Also might be a way to close down a venue at last call. Start mixing in more spoken word until it's just someone reading a classic novel or poetry.

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@impactology

OK, this is a horrifying example, but here you go: https://www.ebay.com/itm/314840247312?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=rxI_AOgbQLa&sssrc=2047675&ssuid=xIZtXTs7Tge&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

One could definitely clear out a disco with this one!

impactology, to random
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What are the fundamentals to be a good PhD supervisor?

Is there a craft to being a good coach/mentor/supervisor specifically for supporting people to traverse uncertain and untrodden pathways in research that's unique and different from being a teacher/lecturer/professor

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@impactology

Probably an unpopular opinion, but I think that the best PhD supervisors mostly learn how not to cause extra crises, self-doubt, and anxiety. Given that they must maintain an active research agenda themselves, which is a full time job, the more reasonable expectation is that supervisors give PhD students flexibility/ space to access other resources. Also, advise students on tractable topics for the PhD and how to view a research agenda as a longer journey.

JMMaok,
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@impactology

Ethically and effectively counseling people about anxiety and self-doubt and crises is its own profession requiring graduate study. Playing amateur therapist can be tempting, but without training it is too easy to project “what worked for me” onto students who are actually in quite different situations.

impactology, (edited ) to random
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Random idea

Canva like tool tailored specifically for science communicators to create, beautiful animated infographics, 3D models for narratives.

To enhance the visual appeal of research and teaching material for engineers, scientists, and textbook authors.

Templates to create scientific illustrations and models with a set of primitives and modules you can pipe data into and then you can customise how it looks, functions and behaves

JMMaok,
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@impactology @praveen

I was going to suggest that maybe a package could be developed for PenPot!

Em0nM4stodon, (edited ) to privacy

What new word should be
created to describe the specific angst of a privacy professional having their own data harvested left and right by HR third-party software while ironically applying for jobs in the privacy field? :dumpster_fire_gif:​

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@Em0nM4stodon

Not that you probably have the energy for it, but it would would be kind of cool to keep a running evaluation of each company. Maybe a rubric of best / worst practices.

b0rk, (edited ) to random
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was chatting with a friend about some of the challenges with teaching yourself programming topics:

  • you have random gaps that you don’t even know about
  • it's hard to assess your level, you might know a lot about one subtopic and be a total beginner elsewhere
  • it's very difficult to guess what other fellow autodidacts know about the subject

I've had to learn how to suss out what shared knowledge base I have with another programmer on any given topic quickly so that we can talk

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@bynkii @b0rk

Building on this idea, I think some autodidacts could benefit from guidance on how to choose educational materials. Scaffolding of concepts is a real thing. Learning multiple concepts in a consistent structure reduces cognitive load. Random YouTube or Stack Overflow can be good for experienced folks filling gaps, but I see newer folks wasting a lot of time by consuming bits and pieces (often full of filler).

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@bynkii @b0rk

lol, masters in technical communication in my distant past

grimalkina, to random
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This thread is a great example of something applied scientists like me warn about A LOT with assumptions about average increases and decreases. Disaggregated and longitudinal analysis with domain expertise is necessary to understand changes in complex experience, most of all those that are about evaluations of complex systems like our social systems.

In fact this exact problem of response collapse was something I raised an objection about in my first tech job at Google

https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/111811331356331786

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@emjonaitis @grimalkina

A thorough preregistration of the study could do that, although you would also need to find a way to net out the key points for participants.

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@grimalkina @emjonaitis

As a participant, you might be more inclined to respond if you knew aggregate responses would never be reported for groups of less than, say, 6. Especially if you’d been burned before as something like the only Black woman physicist …

And the preregistration goes a ways to communicate that it’s binding on the researcher.

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@emjonaitis @grimalkina

Yes, what I mean is to put it in your preregistration, then find a way appropriate to your invitation and consent process to communicate just key points like this in participant-friendly language.

I have personally either not responded at all or left the demographic questions blank on surveys when I was pretty sure they uniquely identified me.

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