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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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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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@srvanderplas thank you so much!! I would fully love to share work as it emerges!! Watch this space 😄

grimalkina,
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@matthewskelton appreciate you!! ☺️ Have admired that whole catalog what a culture there must be there! I did see they're closed to unsolicited submissions so do feel free to drop me a line if you think there's someone I should talk to!

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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.

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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.

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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,
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Woke up early and stared at the ceiling thinking about this paper on tools I've been wanting to write forever and how I WOULD have already written it if this industry were not a culture in which you have to spend 85% of your time fighting for room to even do psychology even though everybody in this industry desperately, I mean desperately, needs psychological needs to even be acknowledged as a remote possibility

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@codefolio so true and real. but at the end of the day it is a privilege to be considered part of that first category and what you hope for, you know? ❤️

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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

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"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 )

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mastodon/fediverse/or whatever makes you the least mad: we love it when you share science about social structures!!!! 😎

also mastodon/fediverse/or whatever makes you the least mad: don't you DARE call the collective assemblage of behaviors you experience "a place" 😡

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god I love the idea of using assemblage theory to better understand how we relate to and through technology though

grimalkina,
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@justin ding ding ding!!! Right on.

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@pencilears in my head the place is actually "my porch" and my posts are the porch pull up have a lemonade

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@justin I really did not know it and I feel like I'm reading someone describing the way I already wanted to think 😭

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"Rather than thinking of categories as what people are or possess, they can be conceptualized as environments that people inherit, inhabit and change"

SCREAMS FOREVER not nature vs nurture but a secret third thing!!!! damn are we allowed to be phenomenologists in psychology again

grimalkina,
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@cyberlyra I've read some! Very cool to see this stuff applied to my world so directly though

grimalkina, (edited )
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@MarekMcGann thank you so much, I really look forward to reading this!!

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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

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@Jackiemauro hate that for us

mhoye, to random
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Any idea what this is about, plant fans?

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grimalkina,
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@mhoye woah that's wild looking, but I bet it's a gall related to insects

grimalkina,
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@mhoye this guy!! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eriophyes_tiliae

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Today I realized "resilience" in psychology is inequality in sociology. Something is a "risk factor" if it has an average negative effect. If everyone overcame the risk equally there would be no negative effect and thus no resilience. Resilience means some people overcome it and others don't.

grimalkina,
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@bthalpin @philipncohen I mean many, many subfields of psychology including all the work I've ever done or studied in crisis work and applied psych start deeply with structure. Having literally worked on "resilience" in areas like trauma-informed health design I really don't think this is a fair point. Maybe a specific fight you want to have with some small academic subset, not the whole big field.

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@bthalpin @philipncohen like, social constructivism and similar theories are from psychology! Plenty of ways to be a psychologist who doesn't really believe in fixed individual diffs at all and in fact many historical traditions in psych for this

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@philipncohen ah I see I see. Some of the replies here seem to be taking this in a different direction and reading that colored how I read your original post!

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