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grimalkina

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Social & Evidence Scientist. Defender of the mismeasured. 🦄🏳️‍🌈 she/they

I do #psychology and #measurement theory and #research with #software teams on how developers thrive. My focus areas include how people form beliefs about #learning and build strategies for #resilience #productivity & #motivation. Quant Psych PhD (but with a love for qual) and VP of Getting Tech to Do Real Open Science.

Founder of the Developer Success Lab ❤️
Neighborhood Cool Science Aunt

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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

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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

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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

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@cyberlyra wow truly???! How unusual and delightful!! Also lever harp or pedal?

grimalkina,
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@brittag @dys_morphia yeah I have some of her books! I primarily learned in oral tradition so I actually don't have a lot of sheet music but yeah major influence in harp revival wasn't she

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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,
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@luis_in_brief I've had one of their rollers for like twelve years, checking in 🫡

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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,
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@willyyam noooooooo :((( oof

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

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

grimalkina,
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@shom how kind!

grimalkina,
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@chrishuck @shom we're in the realm of gripes I am NOT going to let enter my brain 😂

grimalkina, to random
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THIS is what scientists are like

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

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

From: @grimalkina
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grimalkina,
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@kzodasnowman I heard this from Aurynn Shaw! https://blog.aurynn.com/2015/12/16-contempt-culture/

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@kzodasnowman that being said I think it is closely related to Contest cultures which I have developed a bit empirically in software :) https://www.drcathicks.com/post/new-research-from-me-ai-skill-threat-contest-cultures-on-software-teams

grimalkina, to random
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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")
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  1. I am a scientist, and science is very hard and complicated. That means I think out loud and ponder and am wrong sometimes, including on topics that are very personal and real to many of us. Genuine questions ("basic" or otherwise) give me great joy; credibility deficit behavior and being asked to prove my credentials over and over again does not. To hold space for being warm and welcoming on science communication I opt out quickly from one-way "prove it" style conversations.
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  1. For some reason I find it peaceful to treat social media like my own open-in-public lab notebook but am not as prone to being embedded in a lot of replying (feels like walking up onto somebody else's porch??). I don't think this is how everyone else feels and it's just how I feel. It leads me to expect folks to do their homework by paying attention to cues outside of one post like reading replies, reading my bio, spending time to figure out who I am before leaping to interpret something.
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  1. The quickest route to a block from me is creating contempt culture. I value when people want to interact with my conversations (esp on social science in tech) as a space to ponder WITH me, & I am honored when people share with all of us their personal experiences and deep feelings in response to & alongside science. Plus, I work in topics where many people have felt little room for it and have many scars.

Contemptuous dismissive reactions against those feelings is brutal & not the vibe here.

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  1. Not everything I share is for everyone -- how could it be? Sometimes I make silly jokes, or sideways references; sometimes I might understand a word differently than you do or make a typo or don't finish a clause. I also have , which means managing my stress, fatigue, and exposure to threat is quite LITERALLY life and death for me.

I block anyone who reads into this as moral failing. I don't tolerate "you didn't mention x, therefore you must be evil and hate x" on social media.

grimalkina,
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I think these are my main "rules" (more like guidelines, really :D ) that I keep in my head to try and cultivate the type of social media that I want for me and the folks who join me in conversation around here.

Feel free to share your own strategies for wellbeing, dialogue, and online social communities in reply to this thread, I do really enjoy knowing how others think about this!

grimalkina,
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@benjamincox what does this mean? 😅

grimalkina, to random
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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

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@brad Amen 🥹🥹

grimalkina, to random
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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,
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@pencilears lol, this is the eternal struggle of policy

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"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

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grimalkina,
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@EVDHmn @SRDas @matthewskelton yeah extremely. "Weathering" is a good area of research to look at for this

grimalkina, to random
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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.

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@michaelaubert lovely, thank you!

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