As I've reflected, in 2026 I'll be prioritizing deeper conversation on other platforms with more of a culture for social science than this one. My TikTok is tiny and I'm still figuring it out, but catch me there 🥰 www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8yACV7P/

Cat and Ashley work so hard to do justice to both: - the scientific rigor of their fields - the human duties of making those fields serve us equitably, honestly, without distortion or manipulation You have been misled about girls and math ability. Don’t miss this one:

Here we go: www.changetechnically.fyi/2396236/epis...

Yeah bsky is no longer a place you can be a quant social scientist. It's done for that.

We recorded a podcast episode about the research on gender and math ability yesterday. I did so much research for it I felt overwhelmed trying to summarize it. These issues and discriminatory experiences are too massive -- like they destabilize you with their gravity.

A lot of people are posting things about how bad it is to rely on AI for lit reviews but also as a society we have made it extremely difficult for non-scholars to access bodies of literature!! Of course people want this!

I'm really having a battle with my relationship to academics & academic research these days. Yeah, I'll always follow a ton of meta science and methods stuff, because I want to do what I can to create the highest quality work. But the feeling of total lack of regard for any applied context is tough.

"I’ve never experienced it a single time where someone who learned slowly in early life had anything remotely valuable to contribute later in life." Comment I read this morning on one of my posts

I think this would be a huge cultural win. Some things are so difficult to measure or so mired in dysfunction that people are left feeling very betrayed because their rich observation of their own life and careers feels like it has no weight. Qual can have serious weight!!

"it seems reasonable" is the absolute curse of developer experience afaict

PLS-SEM considered harmful

Watched the new Knives Out movie and I went in COLD not even knowing it had Catholicism in it Um having been a queer girl in an isolated homeschooling radically right-wing Traditional Catholic community I cannot really figure out whether I think it was good or not Massively bold though

God it's so funny-sad to me how much some folks in software criticize psychological survey based research and talk about "objective measures" and meanwhile I'm in a multi-million dollar extremely big medical study and what are they using? Surveys lol

Ahem. I never do this kind of recommendation but I would like to tell you, if you are looking for a personal trainer, someone who is skilled, knowledgeable, kind, long covid educated (!!!), compassionate, inclusive, trains remotely: BRENDA. SAVES. MY LIFE. www.body-by-brenda.com

god this stuff is beyond. heartbreaking.

I loved this book and this writing a lot!!

This is why I'm paying so much attention to the people with deep domain knowledge but who don't know what they don't know in terms of construction code, let's say, and the implicit guardrails & checks they are able to create for themselves WITH that domain knowledge

I hear this often, but if people were trying to replace programming languages why would they be trying to generate so much programming language output though? I think it's pretty clear that people want multiple things here

I have been beating this dead horse re: cluster analyses & I'm back. I regret to say I just played around with creating some clusters from my own developer research but one of the charts looks ......how do I put this ....... like something that would be drawn on a teenager's desk? so I cannot share

Is this a good time to say I gave a talk about this 😂😱🥰 proud of all I've fought for this year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8na...

Year in review, things HIGHLY paid specialist doctors have said to me, a complex chronic pain long covid patient: "That sounds like nerves, we don't do nerves, that's not skin" (nerves exist in your skin btw) "The medication only works because it gives you digestive issues" (completely untrue)

I feel I may need to do a 2025 Books I Read list, I read SO MUCH this year

I always wonder about queerness in these contexts. Can report from my own life that sexual harassment*in the context of the corrective violence directed at queer women, hits hard. And I suspect can be categorically different than cis straight women's experiences, while there's much solidarity ofc.

People are willing to forgo a significant portion of their earnings—between 12-36% of their wages—to avoid hostile work environments. Women exhibit a stronger aversion to exclusionary workplaces and environments with sexual harassment.

You love to see it!!

Any evidence strategy giving inordinate weight to simplistic contextless measures of "developer throughput" in the AI era is fundamentally unserious

As I know you know, in addition to prejudices in hiring, the candidate pool for faculty jobs is absurd, and couldn’t possibly sort on ability. When you have hundreds of applicants and dozens of well-qualified candidates, the criteria you use to winnow that pool rarely even nod at objective ability

First sign it's going to be the shittiest achievement commentary ever is always when they pick something absurd re the numbers and selection processes, like tenured faculty. These sort of pieces always do this for things like "math faculty" too! I was literally just reading something doing this!

Played around with visualizing data from one of my projects all day today and remembered that I love this

This poll dropping 24 hours after so many people freaked out at Jamelle for saying that front-facing social media was the best way to reach persuadable citizens is pretty funny Also, lol Twitter

I think this is a really, really interesting and compelling way to think about a class of behaviors here, and there is clearly a lot of joint attention sociality happening with how people engage with content that is different from the other individual attention effects that are easy to reach for

Never do I feel more like an open source maintainer than when people tell me my research is bad because I didn't interact with them as promptly and cheerfully as they wanted on social media

"no one can read that's why short form video content is popular" seems to me to show a lack of curiosity about the actual genres that are involved in these spaces because honestly, a lot of it is much more information-dense than microblogging and text hooks are huge lol

i was reading this at the bus stop and having complicated feelings about it, and the bus came and i got on and sat down and i noticed the guy next to me was watching tiktok (you know, like everyone on the bus), and i glanced over, and it was a jamelle bouie video so ok universe you win this time

In a rapidly changing world and workplace, where so many are struggling, solidarity could be a powerful way to improve most people’s circumstances. Yet, many white men continue to see themselves as *uniquely* deserving of opportunity and access and their non-white, non-male colleagues as…not.

It's funny how often these bizarre exchanges come back to "you're not respectful enough" 🤷‍♀️

🚨New OPEN-ACCESS publication alert! 🚨 "The Role of Stereotypes in Gender Development and Disparities" in Annual Review of Developmental Psychology with @poojaroy0514.bsky.social @lucaspbutler.bsky.social @patelkhushboo.bsky.social and Sydney Baker. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... (1/5)

The more my wife and I do science communication and try to take it seriously, the more this is extremely obviously true. People just ARE in those other spaces and want to consume content in these modalities.

It took a full calendar year of episodes of excruciating, life-disturbing and very classic nerve pain to get a neurology referral that was accepted.

At a certain point I think we have to move beyond saying things are "sociotechnical" and defining the actual socio- that we mean

This piece is so good

this is what I hear in my head when I argue with software engineer guys who decide to give back by teaching programming and fail like 90% of their students btw www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"can you ship code" as the only form of credentialism is weak as hell and will not protect all the things people think it's going to protect

Counterpoint to the article: “Loss of promising talent supported by these [DEI] programmes will substantially weaken our research capacity, limit innovation and substantially reduce discoveries important for driving scientific advancements.” pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41131402/

I posted a thread on mastodon about programming ability, which I like to do once in a while because I'm a masochist, that blew up a bit and it is truly astonishing to me that people still say things like "coder gene" and "geek gene."

“If the complexity makes measuring the water use of a given data center difficult and contingent, isolating the effects at the level of a single user or prompt is nearly impossible.”

My wife, who spends her life helping students access science and studying how to make scientific career pathways more successful, who creates millions of dollars of economic growth value to communities plus new scientists, has to face unhinged threats from bigots about her work because of these men

You can do this right now: Think of a person who wrote a paper you love, whose work influenced or helped you, or has made your professional life better. Search up their email address. Shoot them a quick email of thanks. It means so, so much. This is a rough time of year, share some joy.

End of year anxiety hits different when it's also the end of your book project 😱

🧵My talk w/John Weiser, an HIV expert & doctor who resigned from CDC after refusing to censor data. "I thought about my transgender patients and how I would face them...knowing that I had erased their existence from CDC." kffhealthnews.org/news/article...