I’m so glad I moved here 👍👍👍👍

Sloan rescued a formerly NSF-supported project on intersectional transphobic discrimination in mental healthcare access for which I lead an NLP substudy with one of my most important mentors. A crucial new role. Please circulate.

Sloan rescued a formerly NSF-supported project on intersectional transphobic discrimination in mental healthcare access for which I lead an NLP substudy with one of my most important mentors. A crucial new role. Please circulate.

It will never cease to be funny that in academia (and only academia), Bluesky is considered the “cool” social media to “hang out” on. If only because the alternative is apparently _LinkedIn_.

I just found out this article presents “weighted” estimates of prevalence from Aella’s Big Kink Survey. That is borderline malpractice. You can’t slap population weights onto a convenience-sampled survey and claim representativeness. The data weren’t even deduplicated. Get a science editor, please.

Saturday > Sunday as a 43-year-old who still parties.

I just found out this article presents “weighted” estimates of prevalence from Aella’s Big Kink Survey. That is borderline malpractice. You can’t slap population weights onto a convenience-sampled survey and claim representativeness. The data weren’t even deduplicated. Get a science editor, please.

#AcademicSky, especially those of us still applying for U.S. federal funds, fyi. I’ve already nuked my whole feed from orbit once for job-adjacent reasons; it’s worthwhile to get granular about it.

#AcademicSky, especially those of us still applying for U.S. federal funds, fyi. I’ve already nuked my whole feed from orbit once for job-adjacent reasons; it’s worthwhile to get granular about it.

Lol at all the stern media men debating the “reach” of this place when I’m here to shitpost with other trans women, talk about nerd stuff with academics, and keep up with local PVD busybodies: the Three Correct Ways to use Bluesky.

Hi, it’s me: I literally built my own Lego streetcar beachfront town as a tyke, inspired (in retrospect) by the Delaware shoretown we visited for vacation and Baltimore’s then brand-new light rail, with which I was (of course) obsessed.

“Must have robust record of publications and external funding. Live SQL technical assessment required.” Yeah bro, that person definitely exists. Godspeed.

Some cynical AI techlash rhetorics have zeroed in on health tech, of late: EHR analytics, behavioral monitoring, standard tools of my field. I was worried the smug Luddism would turn to pharma next. What is the endgame here? AnPrim? Get mad at VC and shareholders, not the very notion of invention.

Anyway here’s the passage of Judith Butler that the Guardian censored years ago

I prefer having slurs shouted at me on the street to this affectedly prim savagery.

I prefer having slurs shouted at me on the street to this affectedly prim savagery.

NYT: our college education does almost nothing to develop the sense that what we do in our day-to-day lives resonates with people beyond ourselves. Also NYT: we will never visit or report on CUNY.

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Stop making people move for contract positions that offer less than 2 years of job security and that pay less than 60K/year. It is disruptive to people’s lives, relationships, and financial stability.

So will it make things better or worse if I point out that arXiv is not exactly a bastion of high-quality science in the first place?

It's a different culture that does different work using different norms. Having written in both traditions I think it would be nice to have more interdisciplinary curiosity and less accusing an entire field of academic fraud.

I just saw a “not checking every ref is the same as ICE, actually” take. Stay classy, Bluesky.

This is why my code samples for potential employers are like 90% fussy housekeeping and integrity checks and 10% sexy model specifications and viz.

I support the arXiv thing fwiw. But some of the e.g. archaeologists on here theatrically aghast that a PI with a $50 million portfolio, 70 staff and postdocs, and multiple RCTs fielded isn’t painstakingly googling every ref on every paper is revealing of their parochialism more than anything else.

“Gen Z often treats emotional experience not as a replacement for evidence but as a signal that something deserves attention, investigation, and action.” Yeah, that’s called: an emotion. This is baseless puffery (also a book ad) formulated to rile up Millennials. Chill.

In about a year I could drop some bangers but they’re just a tad raw atm.

Pretty sure everyone on here is young enough to be my child, but go off.

Good. There is no legitimate workflow that permits the publication of hallucinated refs. None.

Toru Iwanati's original sketches of Pac-Man's death animation

I’m about to write a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action proposal for the EU: a <1% payline (more selective than an NIH R01) and if I get it I’ll have to take a $15K pay cut below the NIH _minimum_ I currently make. Despite everything, my odds for career survival (if not dignity) are still higher here.

I’m about to write a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action proposal for the EU: a <1% payline (more selective than an NIH R01) and if I get it I’ll have to take a $15K pay cut below the NIH _minimum_ I currently make. Despite everything, my odds for career survival (if not dignity) are still higher here.

People will be like ‘Bluesky is all academics & historians’ & I’ll be like, ‘You mean the people who enthusiastically tell me the coolest shit I ever heard?????’

Every behavioral scientist in the U.S. is still expected to atone for questionable methods Wansink et al. used in like 2011 and meanwhile Journalism(TM) routinely pulls shit I would’ve considered beneath me in undergrad.

A Rhode Island judge blocked the US Department of Justice from obtaining medical records of transgender children and teens, hours before the deadline set by another judge for Rhode Island’s largest hospital system to hand the documents over.

I love Southern cities, man. A friend and colleague just took a job at UT San Antonio and I caught myself getting just a little bit jealous yesterday.

Topping off my truly crap weekend by getting sick.

Lol at all the stern media men debating the “reach” of this place when I’m here to shitpost with other trans women, talk about nerd stuff with academics, and keep up with local PVD busybodies: the Three Correct Ways to use Bluesky.

Utterly bizarre and baseless rationale for this fascist project I haven't seen mentioned elsewhere: '[DOJ] said the agency was looking into whether pharmaceutical companies were providing “financial incentives” for the doctors to prescribe puberty blockers off-label.'

Small pilot, overwhelmingly white, but fantastic results at 6M f/u. Even when I was a heavy and precontemplative tobacco user, I never smoked on psilocybin. The heightened and holistic sense of embodiment made it all too obvious how awful it was for my body (N = 1, of course).

Note the UK-style refusal to properly gender “the student” throughout.

Note the UK-style refusal to properly gender “the student” throughout.

Small pilot, overwhelmingly white, but fantastic results at 6M f/u. Even when I was a heavy and precontemplative tobacco user, I never smoked on psilocybin. The heightened and holistic sense of embodiment made it all too obvious how awful it was for my body (N = 1, of course).

Something I’ve seen, incidentally, in ~9 years of mental health/social epi field interviewing: I’d hazard a _lot_ more people have rich, very idiosyncratic, spiritual lives, firmly held, if fluid, and unmoored from formal religious tradition, than is often discussed in the mainstream.

My PhD is more social epi than traditional social sciences, but this is what I did. For “CS” I’d substitute applied ML. Add econometrics with a (non-monetary) policy focus. Do the miserable gruesome coding challenges and replications. You could learn amazing things about what you’re capable of.

Of my stack of secret ‘90s girl albums, Luscious Jackson’s debut EP is by far the best of what I could scrounge up at the time.

Of my stack of secret ‘90s girl albums, Luscious Jackson’s debut EP is by far the best of what I could scrounge up at the time.

My PhD is more social epi than traditional social sciences, but this is what I did. For “CS” I’d substitute applied ML. Add econometrics with a (non-monetary) policy focus. Do the miserable gruesome coding challenges and replications. You could learn amazing things about what you’re capable of.

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