grimalkina

grimalkina, 5 hours ago (edited 4 hours 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, 12 hours 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, 1 day 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

grimalkina, 1 day 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, 1 day 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, 2 days ago to random

THIS is what scientists are like

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

grimalkina, 3 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

grimalkina, 3 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, 3 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, 4 days ago to random

I'm sorry WHAT and none of you told me?????

Position ENTIRELY reversed on Python. Literally going to learn it now. Call me pythonista Cat. I am so serious. WHAT.

https://masto.machlis.com/@smach/112462436451472935

grimalkina, 4 days ago to random

I stumbled across this post while looking for our workbook and omg! What a very thoughtful and understanding summary of our code review anxiety paper, model, and takeaways. I don't know this person to tag them but 👏👏👏

https://ferd.ca/notes/paper-understanding-and-effectively-mitigating-code-review-anxiety.html

grimalkina, 4 days ago (edited 4 days ago) to random

Always surprised when basic observations from the disparity toolkit get boosted but I forget not everyone does social science 🙂 when you work with education data, achievement data, and anything STEM education these kinds of effects are pervasive so of course they show up in software communities as well. I have a great bookmarks folder for studies on these effects I named Gender Delusions lol I should share that syllabus sometime.

https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/112462910096042402

grimalkina, 5 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.

grimalkina, 5 days ago to random

Do people want to be productive? A perspective from a PhD scientist studying innovation on software teams:

Yah, when the benefits flow to them.

Nah, when the benefits don't flow to them.

Hell nah, when actual damage flows to them instead.

Ok we solved Developer Productivity. Good talk.

grimalkina, 6 days ago to random

"Each assemblage gains emergent properties produced from interactions between its components and relies on those interactions to continue existing. For instance, a tight- knit neighbourhood can build a collective memory about the reputation of all of its members and develop norms to promote prosocial behaviour. "

(still reading this paper https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/112440065311802043 )

grimalkina, 5 days ago to random

I've been waiting for this day 🥲. I'm so proud of all that @CSLee and @KFosterMarks have accomplished with this -- the FIRST science-backed workbook from the Developer Success Lab based on our carefully empirical research into code review anxiety. Completely yours to use.

https://mastodon.social/@CSLee/112456425795414721

grimalkina, 5 days ago to random

Sharing depthful open access materials that loads of people asked for based on our empirical research into pressing topics that impact so many developers 🥰 /on the same day literally struggling to find funds to even go to a conference, struggling to find a journal to publish our social science, struggling to get reviewers to not reject established social science methods because they're "not computer science" 🥲. Lord I love this work but the slog is so brutal and unnecessary

grimalkina, 5 days ago to random

Every day I recommit to being in tech for the stupidest but cutest reasons!!! I just saw a customer support exchange that was so wholesome!! Or somebody said "oh I'm not technical" at a conference and a bunch of extremely intimidating og tech people spontaneously organized to be like "YOU DID A DEMO LOOKS TECHNICAL TO ME"

The human breaks out, y'all. The human breaks out. It's there. We deserve this version of tech not just in nooks and crannies but everywhere.

grimalkina, 6 days ago to random

So one of my first conference trips after focusing my research on software teams, I'd worked really hard & shared innovative science in a talk that was widely acclaimed. But what I remember most is I was crossing the street with a bunch of men in tech and a car pulled up on us really close to me and I jumped and they all laughed and mocked me for the next block and said it revealed my "real personality"

Anyway that DID perfectly describe every day as a queer woman in tech 10/10 no notes

grimalkina, 7 days ago to random

Random but: just before I got really ill I did a cool research project with my consultancy Catharsis about mid career women in tech using sudden pandemic WFH (along and despite its adversities) to advocate for being seen differently or to get chances that were denied when they were in person. Qualitative interviews with really cool stories about strategy in these moments. Then obviously I got crushed by illness so the data is just sitting on my shelf.

I should find the time to write it up 🥰

grimalkina, 7 days ago to random

When u are the strategic link saving ur building from catastrophic collapse and ur tired 😭

https://press.coop/@Nature/112445993229102567

grimalkina, 8 days ago to random

It's REALLY weird to me when people in software mine research papers for their content and say "researchers" instead of naming the scientists who actually did the work they're using. We're human beings and our work is our livelihood (at a fraction of yours I might add). Name us.

Blessed for the community around me that has this value, side eye at the content engine that doesn't.

grimalkina, 7 days ago to random

Went to a new trainer today as I continue on my sometimes terrifying #LongCovid recovery journey* and I'd messaged them before about my accessibility needs and she whipped open the garage door of the training space as I walked up and said "woo let's get that ventilation!!" 😭

So rare and amazing to be celebrated not treated like a huge imposition

*I don't have PEM I am extremely informed do not give me any medical advice

grimalkina, 8 days ago to random

"Reliance on categories as explanations can lead to theorizing that categories are entities that transcend context. Without a consideration of how categories develop and are maintained, categories become taken-for-granted units of analysis." (Cikara, Martinez & Lewis Jr, 2022)

https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10432387

grimalkina, 10 days ago to random

I can't figure out if mastodon is a high context culture or not. People seem to be expected to give long introductions and do a lot of identity/positionality disclosure, but also an enormous reply guy culture which is defined by low context drive-by. Conversational turn-taking is extremely low compared to other platforms ime, but depth-seeking is high. What an interesting mix.

*obviously, these experiences are all situated within my own network effects, and I'm not well networked here.