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grimalkina

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

Studying 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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Fancy tech jewelry is an unexploited niche do not give me a T-shirt give me a gold necklace that says MODEL FAILED TO CONVERGE in elegant little gold letters

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@JeffGrigg amazing!!

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This message brought to you by the fact that I just sewed little gold chains into a blazer..... Blazer jewelry isn't really a thing but it should be and no one can stop you

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Retrieval based learning is so effing interesting I am obsessed with it

So much of learning doesn't look like what we think it looks like and this translates into what gets rewarded and recognized probably

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If your manager doesn't have a good understanding of what learning a new technical skill looks like, will your manager recognize when it's happening?

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After reading a hell of a lot of pharmacology papers I have so much respect for scientists trying to understand the impacts and complexity of medication, this stuff is not for the faint of heart. So hard.

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The human body and all its systems is so massively complicated and we can measure some things happening in it way better than others and then there are a million billion constraints and proxies we have to rely on and obviously you have to do it all while actively working to do no harm. All respect to people innovating in how we even test in this world because it must be so thankless and invisible to most of us.

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I just straight up walked out of a medical appointment. Stopped speaking when it was clear I was not being respected and that I was not being allowed to correct inaccurate information. Got up and walked out with her yelling through the building after me.

Like that was a miserable experience but on the other hand the power I felt???? Untouchable. Did you know you can just leave?? Happy Pride Month my friends!!!

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@kf perfect 🥹🥹🥹🥹

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I guess "burnout" is the new "imposter syndrome" because apparently it explains absolutely everything (and nothing at the same time)

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

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@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! 😭 "

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@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?

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

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New Infrastructure book loaded up on my Kindle...ready to hit up London to give a talk at LeadDev next week 😎

Every once in a while I have to stop and remember how exceptionally wonderful it is to get to be a psychologist on stage sharing research about what helps folks in software feel, think, and work better

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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"

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My friend just came out to the whole world and I'm so effing proud of her 😭😭😭

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Anyone have recommendations for solo hiking in Snowdonia (Wales)? 🧐 Particularly for someone who absolutely loves a view and is in really good shape actually but also has enough lung health issues to know she shouldn't BE NUTS alone out there 😞 (it me). Might investing in a mountaineering guide be worth it??

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It's kind of amazing how much people disparage work that's really intentionally about helping people. I don't even think people know they're doing it. Even when people emphasize the care aspect it's almost always at the cost of acting like you're less intelligent

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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

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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

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@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

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@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

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@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

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@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

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