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grimalkina

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Social & Evidence Scientist. Defender of the mismeasured. ๐Ÿฆ„๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ 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 โค๏ธ
Neighborhood Cool Science Aunt

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grimalkina, to random
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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

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@internic for completely baseless reasons I don't take seriously (tired and didn't know where to start learning/had a bad experience with the community years ago and decided to ignore it even though I knew it wasn't fair to the community as a whole/scientific statistics seemed more trusted with R)

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My wife (she teaches Python): who's the inferior language NOW ๐Ÿ˜

Me: ๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿ˜… LET ME IN

grimalkina,
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Wow actually so emotional about this because every time my wife goes to a conference even though she masks, she books an extra couple of nights away from me to be extra safe because of my high risk status. It is exhausting and expensive and always makes us miserable and sad. To imagine a conf we could conceivably even BOTH go to and just not shoulder the burden of being the only people masking would be a completely different experience.

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@onepict @phpledge totally. I have covid/public health safety and ventilation called out as a criteria on my speaker page and always ask every organizer about it. But I've felt very pressured and gate kept from professional opportunities about it and punished for raising the issue, and as a high risk person in this world you can't always blow your entire spoons budget or keep risking your livelihood over it. So yeah the conf side is key.

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My empirical software research: "cultures with a high sense of belonging and many learning entry points drive more rapid and efficient technology innovation"

Also me: committing to learning a programming language I've thought about learning for years because of a mask policy

This is like the mirror universe of me-search. Didn't-know-they-would-get-me-search

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@coral https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/112462954483778947

grimalkina,
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@smach my heart breaks for your loss. Thank you for sharing.

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@faassen @internic thank you!

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@faassen @internic I'm not above my choices also being about supporting friends

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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 ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

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

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@erikareads @mononcqc ah thank you I THOUGHT the name was familiar but mainly remember handles ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ™Œ

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@mononcqc @RainofTerra thank you for your patience, my brain is SO not great at remembering names online ๐Ÿ˜‚

This is so lovely and means the world to us. Thank you for bringing your writing, thinking and time to this and being a model for how to open up that convo with teams!

@CSLee will be thrilled. "It's not just you" is really the heart of this whole line of work.

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@RainofTerra @mononcqc @CSLee I think there is a need for a lot more work on what staff/principal etc engineers experience rather than just being like "they should know everything" I mean GIVING feedback is also very hard and shouldering so much mentorship responsibility is also something that deserves psychological support

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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

๐Ÿคฌ

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@matthewskelton

Great demo of a pervasive dynamic, to get through a gate in fields that activate gender biases we require women to be at the highest achievement level to be treated comparably to lower achieving men

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/math-intensive-fields-have-a-gender-problem-the-men-are-worse-at-math/

Also potentially demos the backlash effect, where socially punishing bias incongruence can be considered more important than getting the value of the work itself. Highly technical women can be hated FOR technical achievement

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191308508000051

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@matthewskelton men suffer so much in these systems. I talk to my little bros all the time about this. All human innovation work would thrive in an more collaborative and equitable world โค๏ธ

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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. ๐Ÿ™Œโค๏ธ

Let me know if you know editors who might be interested in this uniquely cool project.

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@matthewskelton ๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿฅณ!!!

grimalkina,
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@gvwilson appreciate you!! Drop me a line if they're open to connecting!

grimalkina,
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@MartinVeart hugely, hugely agree. The human & global cost of getting this wrong is enormous (and already here)

grimalkina,
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@jchannon tons of room for you if you want to join us in this intersection! Some of my ideas in a more academic form here: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/qz43x

grimalkina,
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@dadakopf yeah I have that one !! ๐Ÿ™‚ Old school now but charming in many details. Unfortunately it feels like it was easier back THEN there was a lot of psych of tech stuff vs now!

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@trenner @bynkii @MartinVeart humans are the hardest problem of any science I like to think ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ™Œ

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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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@jkohlmann and also just whether desired behavior is even seen by people as personal productivity in the first place!

grimalkina,
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@GrantRVD I love how high quality this is

danilo, to random
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encouraging my cat as though sheโ€™s an impressive up-and-comer whose ambitions and career I want to support

grimalkina,
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@danilo @theblackbunny I am dying hahaha

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