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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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grimalkina, to random
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Being precise about very well understood uncertainty is not the same thing as imprecisely communicating something you actually have certainty about but don't understand you want to communicate. Aka why science writing is so hard and I'm really tired these days.

grimalkina,
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@gvwilson it does help actually

grimalkina, to random
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Is it self care if I go watch Spiderverse every night while my wife is gone

grimalkina,
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@GrantRVD @magsol we actually only JUST started playing the first one ☺️ and I was JUST about to buy myself my own switch to take on travels so great call all around

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Next time you read a paper about the allegedly-magical capabilities of machine learning, it’s helpful to remember that pigeons can diagnose mammograms with 85% accuracy with sufficient training

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4651348/

grimalkina,
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@mhoye @natematias love that you remember this and also love the pigeon index, no shade to pigeons, as all the vision neuroscientists in my life would remind me, they are the product of a lot more complex evolution than our silly little models :)

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My continuing issue with relegating all concerns of developers-as-humans to "developer experience": I've seen what doing that for "user experience" failed to solve.

We deserve better tbh.

grimalkina,
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Take it from the researchers, do not confuse the relief of having a Defined Title in the Ladder with true strategic weight in decision making about your work and life. Accepting "the human stuff" as an add-on will mean it's ALWAYS already being cut.

grimalkina,
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@josh yeah to me the whole "experience" framing in most businesses just translates to undefined notions like people vaguely feeling happier instead of actual sociocognitive mechanisms that create positive behaviors and problem solving and pathways

grimalkina,
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@martinicat re: researchers I was mostly thinking of my fellow psych and cog sci phds who have contorted themselves into UXR roles and not actually gotten to drive true behavioral impact or decision making at their companies 🥲

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@mostalive I just spied on your bio and hey... I'm going to be in Bath in a couple of weeks -- interested in a coffee? 👀

seldo, to random
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Whenever I take a survey these days I spend as much time critiquing the design of the questions as I do answering them.

grimalkina,
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@seldo this is the way

grimalkina,
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@seldo me: "surveys are all so gosh darn broken"
Also me: "well if the only way you're ever going to let me ask about this incredibly important thing is a survey... guess I'm the survey queen now"

grimalkina, to random
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My latest with LeadDev on a topic near and dear to my heart: why building a learning culture is a science-backed key to supercharging your software teams' work AND has a career-long impact on the developers you manage.

Read on for best practices from our research:

  • Setting team level learning goals
  • Stop using stifling "identity" praise and use effort praise instead
  • Call out when developers apply previous learning across new projects

https://leaddev.com/team/building-learning-culture-unlock-developer-thriving

matthewskelton, to random
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Observation about organizational agility: the video call and chat tools used by an organization correlate strongly with organizational agility.

  • Slack + Google Meet or Zoom: good agility and nimble processes 🕺
  • Microsoft Teams: limited agilty and sluggish processes 🐌
  • Webex or BlueJeans: ... 😶

This holds for maybe 9 in 10 cases in my experience since 2019. 🤷

grimalkina,
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@matthewskelton I would dispute pretty heavily that slack usage unidirectionally signals nimble. I bet there's a massive drag for badly-operationalized slack culture inside of orgs that aren't handling remote well, because it creates digital presenteeism at scale :)

Fun testable research question!

grimalkina,
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@matthewskelton actually something I bet you would find very interesting that I learned doing efficacy research on educational tools: the great agility effects you see when tooling is NEW can reverse as organizations start to calcify and then use the tooling over time in less productive ways. This can be subtle to catch but explain a lot of conflicting impacts. I believe this happens all the time with collaborative knowledge management tools.

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@mostalive @JuttaEckstein @matthewskelton I never choose a specific tool explanation when I can choose a tool+environment+historical moment explanation ... Will check that out!!

I have thoughts about what we mean by "agility" having consulted with gov and nonprofits often written off as "plodding" but actually have many people using poor tools to do extraordinary things and just not interested in the same battles we might be interested in...

grimalkina, to random
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What stats do the cool kids do for repeated measures and pre post intervention testing these days

I'm drowning in a sea of time series correlation debates I don't have time for

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@schwinghamer "from each animal" I work with humans but indeed we are animals! No, many repeated measures over time with an intervention that also scales up over time (like increasing dosage)

grimalkina,
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I should've defined cool which == rigorous, kindly and practical OF COURSE :))

grimalkina,
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@paulralph @schwinghamer @hye Rad - I was thinking mixed effects - although the estimation looks complex with lagged variables - this gives me a starting point to read more thank you!

So impressed with this Empirical Standards resource

grimalkina, to random
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You come into my house, in the month of Pride, with your survey that mismeasures MY PEOPLE !!!!!!

dataandme, to random
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🫤 Unfortunately, I was affected by last week's layoffs at @Posit along with a handful of other talented colleagues.
🖤 I’m bummed, but so grateful for the 5½+ yrs w/ my incredible team.
🔍 Taking some time to recoup, but will be on the hunt for new opportunities soon!

grimalkina,
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@dataandme so sorry to hear this. Wishing you all peace and good next things.

grimalkina, to random
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My dad just asked for a copy of my talk about what we're getting wrong with developer productivity so it's over for all y'all, guess I'm gonna to bring it with this one. 🥲

I don't think he's ever thought about software engineering in his life but I described my research as trying to help people who are collaborating across years of logic and rhetoric decisions (he is a philosophy teacher) and he said oh, good, sounds like they need it.

grimalkina,
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@wakingrufus there will be! It'll be at LeadDev London at the end of the month if you want to Livestream OR it'll also be posted after the conference, I'll share here

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People who tout the number of views their videos get on YouTube do not have children under the age of 10 and therefore do not realize that a guy picking up toy garbage cans with a toy garbage truck can rack up 35 million views. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGPimhrbvz5OZcIPSXvdpnaHxz7KGs6dN

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@bkeegan Me, childless, watching this channel with devoted concentration now that you've brought it to my attention

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