grimalkina

grimalkina, 5 days ago

@kf perfect 🥹🥹🥹🥹

grimalkina, 6 days ago

@Jackiemauro like put it this way, we carry around these beliefs about intelligence and ability that I think we extend across many individuals or even within our own selves and what we evaluate in work; when we evaluate people outside of ourselves absolutely it strongly interacts with/gets triggered by these existing biases/I certainly agree with you completely that our historical and cultural view of care work is super gendered

grimalkina, 6 days ago

@rdnielsen with respect I strongly disagree tbh. My friends who are biostatistics faculty have an ecology background in very complex modeling. Medical research is too large to make a single judgment, but their overall quality of research design and observational causal inference is so enormously undervetted in many major journals that there is an entire subfield just devoted to meta-analysis of eg odds ratios doctors get wrong. I do agree social scientists originated a lot of key methods

grimalkina, 6 days ago

@rdnielsen at any rate I was making a point about within-field ability beliefs more than between field; even if not all but SOME ecologists have very sharp stats training and expertise the point still stands because it's about what we exclude from the realm of possibility because of an attribution about a certain area. Across all scientific fields the move away from NHST and into better applied methods has been difficult, but health is not winning on this one

grimalkina, 6 days ago

I've been so interested in hierarchies of knowledge lately and what supposedly observed (not really) latent abilities are assumed to drive the activities that we see. Interesting intersectional cases of this are amazing especially when you can see the judgment flip. I see it daily for my wife depending on whether people are activating their "neuroscientist" stereotypes or "teacher" stereotypes

grimalkina, 6 days ago

@Jackiemauro I don't think it's the same thing actually but I think that sexism and racism are both very strong and very prevalent biases that interact with (& strengthen) the disparagement of certain forms of knowledge

Conversely being part of a privileged group can buffer you against the bias toward the work (see male nurses and the fatherhood bonus, not penalty)

Biases are super complex and dynamic I hesitate to say there's a consensus really!! But many things interacting for sure

grimalkina, 6 days ago (edited 4 days ago)

Ecologists do some of the sharpest statistics around because they've had to solve for observational sampling and strength of evidence in the real world against massive constraints but people always think if you worked at a chemistry bench you're somehow a hardcore scientist with objective purity of thought but if you've done field work you just must "care so hard" about the natural world

grimalkina, 5 days ago

Also happy Pride month...!

Because it is a far cry from my first gig in tech where someone told me to never come out in this industry to now be a proudly out queer leader who incorporates the important perspective of LGBTQ+ developers (a pov so rarely explored in this research) in findings, and gets to present such work to a big highly technical audience. The world is tough but the world is trying. Grateful for expansive communities that welcome me & redefine who is allowed to be "technical"

grimalkina, 5 days ago

@danilo ugh "how do I fix burnout" posts from people making me so so sad as I think about this

grimalkina, 5 days ago

@danilo although I DO believe in the power of small protective communities/healing before "systems" for people. But yeah I'm reading this infrastructure book right now making the point that we are all networked with everyone on the planet and I'm like, "psychological wellbeing is part of this! 😭 "

grimalkina, 5 days ago

@johana I think that is really profound. Naming things IS some sort of solution (not to the world but to ourselves??) if I am following correctly...I think about how it keeps us from participating in our own exclusion because we refuse the bad faith interpretation of what is happening around us and causing us suffering?

grimalkina, 4 days ago

@pencilears I think there's a lot of that for sure

grimalkina, 9 days ago

@tess ah yeah totally. Well I'm sure it would be very CONVENIENT for people to be the unit of analysis and for that unit of analysis to never change when you want people to be, you know, the currency. So liberating to see conversations as the unit of analysis instead or "people I get to be in this particular community" and so much closer to a social constructivist view of folks. Plus more accurate to the developmental lifespan

grimalkina, 9 days ago

@gdinwiddie and a great example of the debates too (for example, you can use testing as a way to primarily focus on group differences but you can use dynamic testing that allows for mistake-feedback-retry and such types of tests provide a higher fidelity view of individuals)

grimalkina, 9 days ago

@johana I'm so sorry you experienced that, it sounds incredibly hard for something that should have been met with much support and understanding! And indeed, so many unique important strengths that come from that understanding that our workplaces should value

grimalkina, 9 days ago

@EVDHmn ❤️ I never thought of that, that is a really great tip thank you!!

I also have a lot of panic triggers because of chronic pain/recovering from breathing issues and temps absolutely make it worse. I am doing pretty well with mine though and wishing you all comfort and the same

Still figuring out shoes though 😬