Writing on governance, technology, science, and more — new posts and past publications in one place.https://blog.shaunagm.net/en-ushttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2026-07-20-build-a-blog/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2026-07-20-build-a-blog/I pulled this blog together with AI. Here's a bit more detail on what that looked like.Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTOriginalmetawritingAIhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2026-07-15-hello-again-world/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2026-07-15-hello-again-world/I have a habit of starting blogs, writing enthusiastically for a few years, and then letting them fade away.Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTOriginalmetawritingAIhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2025-11-04-getting-to-know-nf-core-open-source-project-tours/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2025-11-04-getting-to-know-nf-core-open-source-project-tours/Open Source Project Tours are recorded sessions where an open source maintainer functions as a tour guide to their project, showing me the lay of the land…Tue, 04 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMTRelational Techcase studiesFLOSSgovernance transitionsinterviewsonboarding and leadership pathwaysopen source toursresourceshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2025-11-04-whole-community-sprints/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2025-11-04-whole-community-sprints/Most open source project sprints are focused on code contribution. While this makes some sense---open source software is, after all, software---it's also a…Tue, 04 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMTRelational Techcodingcommunityconferencesgovernmentopen sourceorganizingsprintsteachingwhole community sprintsworkshopshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2025-09-15-governance-questionnaire/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2025-09-15-governance-questionnaire/It can be helpful for communities to take stock of their existing governance now and again, especially if they're facing some kind of major challenge,…Mon, 15 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMTRelational Techcommunityexercisesgovernancegovernance auditopen sourceorganizingpowerhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2025-07-27-visibility-spectrum/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2025-07-27-visibility-spectrum/Some work within a software project is celebrated. Designing and building a new project from scratch, or adding big features to an existing project, is enjoyable and often prestigious work.Sun, 27 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMTRelational Techcommunitycontributor recognitionexercisesgovernanceinvisible workopen sourceorganizingworkshopshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2025-06-07-frame-tasks/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2025-06-07-frame-tasks/There are many ways for newcomers to participate in a project, from testing onboarding documentation to reviewing pull requests to showing up to community…Sat, 07 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMTRelational Techcommunitycontributor experiencegood first tasksonboarding and leadership pathwaysopen sourceprogrammingprojectsteachinghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2025-04-18-context-building-tasks/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2025-04-18-context-building-tasks/Many potential contributors have a desire to contribute but lack knowledge about the codebase and the community that would help them contribute effectively.…Fri, 18 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMTRelational Techcommunitycontext-building tasksissue triageonboarding and leadership pathwaysopen sourceprojectsteachinghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2025-03-12-six-ways-to-onboard/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2025-03-12-six-ways-to-onboard/Onboarding new contributors is hard. There's so much they don't know. How is someone supposed to contribute when they don't know the codebase, the project…Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMTRelational Techcontributor experienceessaysonboarding and leadership pathwaysresourceshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2025-02-27-how-to-decide/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2025-02-27-how-to-decide/When embarking on a governance transition, projects are often faced with an unexpected question.Thu, 27 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMTRelational Techcommunityconsultingdecision-makinggovernancegovernance transitionsopen sourcehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2025-02-26-burnout-in-open-source/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2025-02-26-burnout-in-open-source/While maintaining an open source project can be fun and fulfilling, it can also be very draining. Many maintainers struggle to get the support they need.Wed, 26 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMTRelational TechburnoutexercisesFLOSSonboarding and leadership pathwaysresourceshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2025-01-21-carol-willing-interview/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2025-01-21-carol-willing-interview/Carol Willing was a crucial part of Python's governance transition from a BDFL model to a Steering Council. She served on the first Steering Council and has…Tue, 21 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMTRelational Techcase studiescommunicationgovernance transitionsinterviewsonboarding and leadership pathwayspythonresourceshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2025-01-08-being-and-doing-in-open-source/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2025-01-08-being-and-doing-in-open-source/Back in the early 2010s, I ran a program called 'Open Source Comes to Campus'. We'd go to college campuses around the country and host day-long workshops…Wed, 08 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMTRelational TechessaysFLOSSpsychologyself-worthhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2025-01-08-psychological-safety-exercise/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2025-01-08-psychological-safety-exercise/In early 2024, PlasmaPy maintainer Nick Murphy asked me to help facilitate a workshop for their project. This "summer school" would bring together community…Wed, 08 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMTRelational Techcommunityconflictexercisesopen sourcepsychological safetypsychologyteachingtrustworkshopshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2023-09-09-players-vs-worriers-or-the-privilege-of-play/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2023-09-09-players-vs-worriers-or-the-privilege-of-play/"Move fast and break things" was the internal motto of Facebook up until 2014 they realized, a little belatedly, that perhaps a corporation with worldwide…Sat, 09 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMTRethinking Poweressaymove fast and break thingsorganizationsplaypowerprivilegetechnologyhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2023-09-06-play-and-consequences/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2023-09-06-play-and-consequences/Imagine a child playing in a sandbox, dreaming up elaborate stories about the castles they've built with their sandbox toys. Now, imagine a group of…Wed, 06 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMTRethinking Powerconsequencesessaygamesphilosophyplayrulessystemshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2023-06-24-code-as-contestable-law/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2023-06-24-code-as-contestable-law/People tend to think of laws as set in stone, but they're very changeable. They're changeable in at least two ways: the laws themselves can be altered,…Sat, 24 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMTRethinking Powercode as lawcode snippetscontestabilityessaygovernancelawpoliticsprotesttechnologyhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2023-06-14-interpretive-labor-to-develop-software/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2023-06-14-interpretive-labor-to-develop-software/Information naturally flows from those who have more power to those who have less. That is, some kinds of information do. Those who study surveillance…Wed, 14 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMTRethinking Poweressayfeedbackinterpretive laboropen sourcepowerprogrammingsystemstechnologyhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2023-02-22-the-politics-of-software-product-development/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2023-02-22-the-politics-of-software-product-development/Introduction As we've discussed previously, all systems are built on abstractions, and all abstractions are at least a little bit…Wed, 22 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMTRethinking Poweressayfeedbackorganizationspowerprogrammingsoftware developmentsystemstechnologyhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2023-02-08-roadmaps-surveys-and-community-led-software-development/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2023-02-08-roadmaps-surveys-and-community-led-software-development/Parsons is sending out its yearly community survey, and hosting two community roadmapping sessions. Why? Because people deserve a say in the things that matter to them - including the software libraries they use and the communities they're a part of.Wed, 08 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMTParsons Blogcommunitycommunity-led developmentdecision-makinggovernanceopen sourceorganizingroadmappingsoftware developmenttechnologyhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2022-12-30-technology-and-constraints/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2022-12-30-technology-and-constraints/Technologies are built with a model of the world in mind. A hammer presumes a nail, a screwdriver a screw, and so on. But there is, necessarily, a gap…Fri, 30 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMTRethinking Poweraffordancesconstraintsdesignessaypowersystemstechnologyhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2022-11-22-feedback/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2022-11-22-feedback/In my last post, I talked about how all systems have flaws, and how these flaws require interpretive labor to be patched or worked around.Tue, 22 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMTRethinking Powercommunicationcommunityessayfeedbackinterpretive labororganizationspowersystemshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2022-11-18-a-guide-to-reading-api-documentation/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2022-11-18-a-guide-to-reading-api-documentation/a short primer of how APIs and HTTP requests work, along with a detailed walk-through of an actual API's documentationFri, 18 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMTParsons BlogAPIsdatadocumentationorganizingprogrammingpythontechnologytutorialshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2022-11-11-how-interpretive-labor-straddles-the-gap-between-rules-and-reality/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2022-11-11-how-interpretive-labor-straddles-the-gap-between-rules-and-reality/As I've said a few times now, all models are wrong. That includes laws and norms, employee handbooks and product roadmaps.Fri, 11 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMTRethinking Powerbureaucracycontextinterpretationinterpretive laborjudgmentpowerrulessystemsworkhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2022-10-26-whose-context-counts/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2022-10-26-whose-context-counts/I've posted before about why it's important to delegate decisions to the people impacted by…Wed, 26 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMTRethinking Powercommonscontextdecision-makingdelegationelinor ostromessaygovernancelocal knowledgepowerhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2022-10-19-mistakes-were-made-and-thats-how-we-learn/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2022-10-19-mistakes-were-made-and-thats-how-we-learn/All models are wrong. Given this, it should be no surprise that humans are constantly messing things up — but that's often a good thing.Wed, 19 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMTRethinking Poweressaylearningmistakespsychological safetysystemsteachingtrusthttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2022-10-04-all-models-are-wrong-metaphors-for-the-insufficiency-of-metaphors/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2022-10-04-all-models-are-wrong-metaphors-for-the-insufficiency-of-metaphors/There's a saying: the map is not the territory. Farnham Street Blog has a pretty good explanation of what that means.Tue, 04 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMTRethinking Powerabstractionessaymetaphorsmodelsnarrativesphilosophyprogrammingsystemshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2022-09-28-noble-fruits-motivated-reasoning/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2022-09-28-noble-fruits-motivated-reasoning/On Trains My sister is interested in genealogy, and several years ago unearthed a gruesome family story: on June 11th, 1880, my…Wed, 28 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMTRethinking Powerbiascognitionessaygenealogyhistorymotivated reasoningpsychologyhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2022-08-31-in-defense-of-con/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2022-08-31-in-defense-of-con/Few people are happy with the US government these days. Recent Gallup polls show that 71% of people are dissatisfied with how the nation is being governed.Wed, 31 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMTRethinking Powerbureaucracycompromiseconflictdemocracyefficiencyessayfrictiongovernanceinefficiencypoliticshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2022-08-24-power-and-domination-in-the-nwsl/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2022-08-24-power-and-domination-in-the-nwsl/Sometimes, you just want someone to tell you what to do. I feel this way all the time. When I go to the doctor, I want them to tell me how to stay healthy.…Wed, 24 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMTRethinking Powerdominationessaygendernwslpowerpsychologysoccersportshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2022-08-17-stakeholder-decision-making-in-the-heart-of-hierarchy/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2022-08-17-stakeholder-decision-making-in-the-heart-of-hierarchy/"Nothing about us without us!" is a rallying cry, a catch-phrase with a clear moral imperative: that those impacted by a decision should be involved in…Wed, 17 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMTRethinking Powercorporationsdecision-makingdemocracygovernanceorganizingpowerrelational contractsstakeholder decision-makingsystemshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2022-08-16-all-about-authentication/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2022-08-16-all-about-authentication/authenticating with Parsons, in theory and practiceTue, 16 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMTParsons BlogAPIsauthenticationdataorganizingprogrammingpythonsecuritytechnologytutorialshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2022-08-05-introduction-to-python-programming-guide/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2022-08-05-introduction-to-python-programming-guide/a gentle introduction to programming using PythonFri, 05 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMTParsons Blogbeginnersorganizingprogrammingpythonteachingtechnologytutorialshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2022-07-28-software-engineering-tips-and-tricks/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2022-07-28-software-engineering-tips-and-tricks/information that may be helpful when working with Parsons or other progressive toolsThu, 28 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMTParsons Blogcommand line magicdev environmentorganizingprogrammingpythontechnologytutorialshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2021-07-01-engineering-and-postmodernism/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2021-07-01-engineering-and-postmodernism/The following is from my response to a friend’s Facebook post about the value of postmodernism to engineers, and the role that education plays in…Thu, 01 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMTHello, Governorgovernancehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2021-06-17-code-as-contestable-law/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2021-06-17-code-as-contestable-law/Last week I gave two short talks as part of the IASC Knowledge Commons conference, one on our ability to contest rules in digital spaces, and another on…Thu, 17 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMTHello, Governorcode as lawcode snippetsgovernancehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2021-05-28-three-governance-case-studies/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2021-05-28-three-governance-case-studies/One of my communities is choosing a new governance structure, and in preparation for our first conversation on the topic, I wrote up three governance case…Fri, 28 May 2021 00:00:00 GMTHello, Governorgovernancehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2021-05-12-facebooks-everything-problem/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2021-05-12-facebooks-everything-problem/Facebook's 'Oversight Board' recently affirmed Facebook's choice to suspend then-President Donald Trump from its platform the day after the Capitol riots.…Wed, 12 May 2021 00:00:00 GMTHello, Governorcontent moderationgovernancehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2021-04-30-digital-disobedience/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2021-04-30-digital-disobedience/There’s not enough disobedience online. Yes, that’s right, you heard me: there’s not enough space for disobedience online.Fri, 30 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMTHello, Governorcivil disobediencecontent moderationgovernancesocial mediahttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2021-04-15-collective-accountability-in-digital-spaces/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2021-04-15-collective-accountability-in-digital-spaces/Note: I recently started writing a newsletter about the intersection of technology and governance,Hello, Governor! I’m still experimenting with format,…Thu, 15 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedaccountabilitygovernancehello governornewslettersocial mediahttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2021-04-14-collective-accountability/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2021-04-14-collective-accountability/It can be a struggle to hold groups accountable for misbehavior, even when the group is structured through legal forms, with public membership and clear…Wed, 14 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMTHello, Governoraccountabilitygovernancesocial mediahttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2021-03-30-yo-dawg/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2021-03-30-yo-dawg/... so I put some tech governance controversy on the platform you were using for your tech governance newsletter.Tue, 30 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMTHello, Governoraccountabilitycontent moderationdigital governanceethicsgovernancelawnewsletteropen sourceplatformspoliticstechnologyhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2021-02-27-ftc-v-facebook/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2021-02-27-ftc-v-facebook/Below, I summarize the FTC complaint against Facebook, citing the relevant paragraphs so you can get more detail as needed. This was a useful exercise in…Sat, 27 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMTHello, Governorantitrustcompetitioncorporationsdatafacebookgovernancelawnetworksplatformspoliticsprivacytechnologyhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2021-02-25-hello-world/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2021-02-25-hello-world/Hello, and welcome to the very first edition of this newsletter!Thu, 25 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMTHello, Governorgovernancehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2021-02-19-wrapping-up-recurse-day-5/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2021-02-19-wrapping-up-recurse-day-5/It’s the last day of my mini-batch, although it’s not my last day at Recurse, since there’s an active alum community I’m eager to be a part of.Fri, 19 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedrecurseprogrammingracketlisphttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2021-02-18-keep-it-simple-shauna-recurse-day-4/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2021-02-18-keep-it-simple-shauna-recurse-day-4/Today I finally tackled making a code madlibs program.Thu, 18 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedrecurseprogramminglispracketmacroshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2021-02-17-macros-finally-recurse-day-3/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2021-02-17-macros-finally-recurse-day-3/When we left off, I’d written some rather ugly code that gave us the basic features of a madlibs program without using any macros. But the whole point of…Wed, 17 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedrecurseprogramminglispmacroshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2021-02-16-simple-code-vs-fancy-code-recurse-day-2/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2021-02-16-simple-code-vs-fancy-code-recurse-day-2/Building off of yesterday’s work, today my hope was to finish my humble text-focused Madlibs program, so that I could move onto code-focused Madlibs tomorrow.Tue, 16 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedcode snippetslispprogrammingracketrecursehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2021-02-15-recurse-day-1/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2021-02-15-recurse-day-1/Day 1 of my Recurse mini batch is complete! I spent a good portion of it meeting people and learning about the community, but I did also make some small…Mon, 15 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedprogrammingrecurselisphttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2021-02-12-my-plans-for-recurse/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2021-02-12-my-plans-for-recurse/Next week I’ll be doing a mini-batch at Recurse. I’m planning to blog about it each day, and I figured I’d start by laying out my plans for the week.Fri, 12 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedprogrammingmetaprogrammingrecursehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2021-02-04-a-bug-report/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2021-02-04-a-bug-report/I just fixed a Django bug that took me ages to solve. Part of why it took so long is that the errors I was getting weren’t surfacing the right search…Thu, 04 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMTDuly Noteddjangocodingbug reportshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2020-12-13-knowledge-workflows/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2020-12-13-knowledge-workflows/I have read a great many non-fiction books in my life, and I remember the details of heartbreakingly few of them. Over the last year or so, I have worked to…Sun, 13 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedknowledgenote-takingroamreadwiselet's get back in the blogging habithttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2020-04-18-the-last-mile-postal-workers-as-bricoleurs/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2020-04-18-the-last-mile-postal-workers-as-bricoleurs/This twitter thread is a great example of “minding the gap”, that is: doing the necessary improvisational work to complete a task that has only been…Sat, 18 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMTOut of Manyquotescontextdecision-makingjudgment callsuncertaintyhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2019-08-23-what-s-standing-in-the-way-of-women-s-soccer/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2019-08-23-what-s-standing-in-the-way-of-women-s-soccer/When chants of ‘equal pay!’ ring through soccer stadiums, men jump on Twitter to explain why, despite performing better internationally than the men’s team,…Fri, 23 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedsoccernwslhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2019-08-22-linkspam-7/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2019-08-22-linkspam-7/Debunking the Capitalist Cowboy by Nan Estad at Boston Review:Thu, 22 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedlinkspamhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2019-07-19-the-diverse-frailties-of-humankind/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2019-07-19-the-diverse-frailties-of-humankind/Via Martha Nussbaum’s Poetic Justice, an excerpt from Woodson v. North Carolina (1976):Fri, 19 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMTOut of Manyquotescontextjudgment callslawnegative capabilityparticularismuncertaintyhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2019-04-07-when-the-heart-s-song-ceases-to-play/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2019-04-07-when-the-heart-s-song-ceases-to-play/This TED talk by Shonda Rhimes underscores the importance of play:Sun, 07 Apr 2019 00:00:00 GMTOut of Manyquotesanxietyburnoutdepressionflowplayshonda rhimesworkhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2019-03-17-linkspam-6/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2019-03-17-linkspam-6/It’s a Crisis of Civilization in Mexico by José de Córdoba at the Wall Street Journal:Sun, 17 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedlinkspamhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2019-02-27-a-song-for-occupations-4/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2019-02-27-a-song-for-occupations-4/The sum of all known reverence I add up in you whoever you are, The President is there in the White House for you, it is not you who are here for him, The…Wed, 27 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedpoetryhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2019-02-23-legacies-of-disruption/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2019-02-23-legacies-of-disruption/“Many scientists prefer not to think about politics, but the work that scientists do has always had political consequences, from the quiet tragedy of an…Sat, 23 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedwritingarticleshistorysciencepoliticization of sciencetechnologyhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2019-02-13-martha-nussbaum-on-the-capabilities-approach/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2019-02-13-martha-nussbaum-on-the-capabilities-approach/One prominent idea of rights, common in the US political and legal tradition, understands rights to be barriers against interfering state action: if the…Wed, 13 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMTOut of Manyquotescapabilities approachfreedomlibertymartha nussbaumnegative libertypolitical philosophyhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2019-01-27-play-and-consequences/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2019-01-27-play-and-consequences/Imagine a child playing in a sandbox, dreaming up elaborate stories about the castles they’ve built with their sandbox toys. Now, imagine a group of…Sun, 27 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMTOut of Manyblog-postsanxietyconsequencesplayruleshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2019-01-05-degrees-of-separation/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2019-01-05-degrees-of-separation/With the exception of rare contrivances like king’s missives and broadcast television, we learn most of what we learn and meet most of the people we meet…Sat, 05 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMTOut of Manymoralitynetworkssocial mediathought experimentshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2019-01-05-positive-capability/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2019-01-05-positive-capability/I posted a few months ago about negative capability – that is, the ability to tolerate uncertainty, “when a man is capable of being in uncertainties,…Sat, 05 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMTOut of Manyarthegelian dialecticnegative capabilitypositive capabilitysciencesynthesisuncertaintyhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-12-12-the-contents-of-one-s-own-mind/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-12-12-the-contents-of-one-s-own-mind/This link goes to a fascinating little explainer by Popehat on Twitter. Excerpted here and lightly edited for readability:Wed, 12 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMTOut of Manyquotesjudgmentlawsupreme courthttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-12-04-agency-and-trust-in-a-digital-democracy/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-12-04-agency-and-trust-in-a-digital-democracy/Last week I was on a panel about ‘Democracy and the Digital Commons’ at Suffolk University. At the start of the panel, each of us gave a 5-10 minute talk to…Tue, 04 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMTOut of Manyblog-postsdemocracydigital democracydigital governancefree speechgovernanceprincipal agent problemsocial mediathe governance of digital platformstrusthttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-12-02-power-judgment-and-love/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-12-02-power-judgment-and-love/Back in high school and college, I had friends who offered to do tarot readings for me. I always turned them down. “What a dumb idea,” I’d think. “How could…Sun, 02 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMTOut of Manyblog-postsjudgmentlovepowerpowerlessnessresponsibilitystorytellingsymbolismtarothttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-11-21-super-princess-saves-the-night/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-11-21-super-princess-saves-the-night/[](http://superprincess.net)Wed, 21 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedwritingprojectshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-11-11-the-burden-of-doubt/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-11-11-the-burden-of-doubt/We often talk about giving people the benefit of the doubt, but seldom talk about its opposite, to the point that no agreed upon phrase for it exists. The…Sun, 11 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMTOut of Manyblog-postsbiasdoubtjudgmenthttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-11-09-linkspam-5/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-11-09-linkspam-5/How to Survive America’s Kill List by Matt Taibbi at Rolling Stone - an American citizen’s fight to escape assassination by the US executive branch:Fri, 09 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedlinkspamhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-11-08-hannah-arendt-responsibility-and-judgment/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-11-08-hannah-arendt-responsibility-and-judgment/“[Socrates] adds that as far as he himself is concerned he believes that “it would be better for me that my lyre or a chorus I direct were out of tune and…Thu, 08 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedaccountabilityhannah arendtjudgment callsquoteshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-10-20-50-ways-to-win-the-midterms/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-10-20-50-ways-to-win-the-midterms/The problem is all inside your head she said to me The answer is easy if you take it logically I’d like to help you in your struggle to be free There must…Sat, 20 Oct 2018 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedfilkspoliticsmidtermspaul simonthis filk is not very faithful to the originalsince paul simon lists only two ways to leave your loverit is actually pretty cathartic to fix that in my version'make a new plan' is not helpful paul simonhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-09-24-the-constitution-of-knowledge-is-cross-disciplinary/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-09-24-the-constitution-of-knowledge-is-cross-disciplinary/This old tweet has recently been making the rounds and sparked up some discussion among my Facebook friends:Mon, 24 Sep 2018 00:00:00 GMTOut of Manyblog-postsepistemologyhumanitiesif you two don't stop fighting i swear i will turn this car aroundknowledgesciencehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-09-10-rules-don-t-apply-themselves/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-09-10-rules-don-t-apply-themselves/There is a lot to be said about what happened to Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka yesterday, but this tweet by Jennifer Richeson captures the analysis of the…Mon, 10 Sep 2018 00:00:00 GMTOut of Manyquotesbiasenforcementjennifer richesonjudgmentracismrulesserena williamshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-09-09-a-summary-of-david-ciepley-s-beyond-public-and-private-toward-a-political-theory-of-the-corporation/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-09-09-a-summary-of-david-ciepley-s-beyond-public-and-private-toward-a-political-theory-of-the-corporation/I recently read David Ciepley’s “Beyond Public and Private: Toward a Political Theory of the Corporation”. I recommend reading it yourself, but here’s my…Sun, 09 Sep 2018 00:00:00 GMTOut of Manycorporate lawcorporationsdavid ciepleygovernancerightshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-07-22-quick-decisions/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-07-22-quick-decisions/Last week I went to a rally to protest a series of raids by ICE in my city. The rally turned into an unplanned march through the streets, and I had to make…Sun, 22 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMTOut of Manyblog-postschidi anagonyecivil disobedienceicelaws vs ethicsmoral anxietymoral decision-makingnegative capabilitypoliticsprotestthe good placeuncertaintyhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-07-10-judgment-above-principle-judgment-after-principle/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-07-10-judgment-above-principle-judgment-after-principle/Principles are really important, and by and large you should try hard to stick to them. I have tremendous respect for those who have died or gone to jail…Tue, 10 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMTOut of Manyblog-postsjournalismjudgmentmarcy wheelermoralityprincipleshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-07-04-money-and-the-violence-of-lost-context/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-07-04-money-and-the-violence-of-lost-context/It is in the very nature of a question like “What do I owe my parents?” that there is not and can never be a final, numerically answer. It is a question…Wed, 04 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMTOut of Manyquotesaaron badycontextdavid graeberdebtfamilymoneyhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-06-18-the-more-things-change/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-06-18-the-more-things-change/This is a quote from Norman Thomas’s Is Conscience a Crime?, a book about conscientious objection during WWI from the wizened vantage point of 1923. Thomas…Mon, 18 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedliberals vs radicalsthere are some people you can't compromise withhistoryww1norman thomasnewton bakerwoodrow wilsonhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-06-17-linkspam-4/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-06-17-linkspam-4/How to Not Die in America by Molly Osberg at Splinter News:Sun, 17 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedlinkspamhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-05-25-hannah-arendt-on-the-role-of-reflection-in-political-and-moral-behavior/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-05-25-hannah-arendt-on-the-role-of-reflection-in-political-and-moral-behavior/Socrates, however, who is commonly said to have believed in the teachability of virtue, seems indeed to have held that talking and thinking about piety,…Fri, 25 May 2018 00:00:00 GMTOut of Manydoubthannah arendtjudgment callsmoralitynihilismpoliticsquotessocratesuncertaintyhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-05-25-pycon/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-05-25-pycon/PyCon is one of my favorite events - the only big conference I’ve been to that feels like a small one. This year it was in Cleveland, Ohio, not too far from…Fri, 25 May 2018 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedpyconpublic speakingtalkstechnology and politicshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-04-08-a-matter-of-trust/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-04-08-a-matter-of-trust/This originated as a post to a mailing list on the subject of blockchains and how they might help the cause of open science. The quote below is the claim I…Sun, 08 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMTOut of Manyblog-postsblockchainsciencetrusthttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-04-04-levy-on-intermediate-group-power/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-04-04-levy-on-intermediate-group-power/The point is partly an intergenerational one. Recall from the previous chapter the idea that inequalities of outcomes in one generation becomes inequalities…Wed, 04 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMTOut of Manyquoteshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-04-03-refusing-the-parlements-their-right-of-remonstrance-was-an-act-of-despotism/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-04-03-refusing-the-parlements-their-right-of-remonstrance-was-an-act-of-despotism/“Refusing the parlements their right of remonstrance was an act of despotism. Liberty had taken shelter in them; it had chosen an irregular method of…Tue, 03 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedquotespoliticshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-03-21-facebook-cambridge-analytica-summary/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-03-21-facebook-cambridge-analytica-summary/Here’s a summary of what we know as of the afternoon of Wednesday, March 21st:Wed, 21 Mar 2018 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedfacebookcambridge analyticatrying to pull this all togetherhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-03-19-alinsky-on-doubt-compromise-and-the-letter-of-the-law/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-03-19-alinsky-on-doubt-compromise-and-the-letter-of-the-law/I detest and fear dogma. I know that all revolutions must have ideologies to spur them on. That in the heat of conflict these ideologies tend to be smelted…Mon, 19 Mar 2018 00:00:00 GMTOut of Manycompromisedoubtorganizingquotesrules and regulationssaul alinskyhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-03-17-civic-virtue-and-the-profit-motive/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-03-17-civic-virtue-and-the-profit-motive/In an article about Milton Friedman in the Pacific Standard, Rick Paulas quotes from an article of Friedman’s published in 1970:Sat, 17 Mar 2018 00:00:00 GMTOut of Manyblog-postscapitalismcivic virtuemilton friedmanprofit motiverulessystemsthe gapzephyr teachouthttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-03-16-wtf-is-ops/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-03-16-wtf-is-ops/I wrote an ‘intro to operations’ guide. The ideal audience is me a week ago.Fri, 16 Mar 2018 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedprogrammingtutorialprojectshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-02-28-okoye-s-judgment-call/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-02-28-okoye-s-judgment-call/Warning: Black Panther spoilers.Wed, 28 Feb 2018 00:00:00 GMTOut of Manyblog-postsblack pantherjudgment callspoliticssystemshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-02-16-linkspam-3/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-02-16-linkspam-3/To Be, or Not To Be by Masha Gessen in the New York Review of Books:Fri, 16 Feb 2018 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedlinkspamhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-02-16-mind-the-gap-navigating-between-rules-and-reality/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-02-16-mind-the-gap-navigating-between-rules-and-reality/Bureaucracy is stupid, David Graeber writes in The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy. As the premise for a book,…Fri, 16 Feb 2018 00:00:00 GMTOut of Manybook reviewsbureaucracydavid graeberimaginationinterpretive laborreviewsthe gaphttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-02-06-hannah-arendt-the-origins-of-totalitarianism/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-02-06-hannah-arendt-the-origins-of-totalitarianism/“The antisemites’ belief that their claim to exclusive rule was no more than what the Jews had in fact achieved, gave them the advantage of a domestic…Tue, 06 Feb 2018 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedantisemitismhannah arendthistoryphilosophypoliticsquotestotalitarianismhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-01-10-stealing-the-commons/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-01-10-stealing-the-commons/The law locks up the man or womanWed, 10 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedcommonspoemspoetryhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-01-06-identity-fragments/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-01-06-identity-fragments/In an essay at Brain Pickings, Maria Popova sketches out a conception of identity as a collection of fragments which is, paradoxically, being repressed and…Sat, 06 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMTOut of Manyblog-postsadaptationcommunityidentityidentity politicsindividualismhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-01-04-social-safety-nets-and-ahistoricity/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2018-01-04-social-safety-nets-and-ahistoricity/From the studiously moderate Brookings Institution:Thu, 04 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedhistorysocial mediasocietytechnologyhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-12-25-feeling-good-vs-doing-good/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-12-25-feeling-good-vs-doing-good/Back in college, I based my Division III (senior thesis) research on a set of empathy studies by Nancy Eisenberg. Eisenberg’s line of research hinges on a…Mon, 25 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMTOut of Manyblog-postsaltruismdistressemotionidentitymoralitystresshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-11-27-every-so-often-i-remember-that-the-clinton-analytics-team-s-motto-was-a/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-11-27-every-so-often-i-remember-that-the-clinton-analytics-team-s-motto-was-a/every so often I remember that the clinton analytics team’s motto was “a decision tree grows in brooklyn” and i smileMon, 27 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMTDuly Noteddatapoliticspunssillinesshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-11-27-the-yin-and-yang-of-questions-and-answers/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-11-27-the-yin-and-yang-of-questions-and-answers/In a previous post, I wrote that asking questions is harder than answering them, although I qualified that in a big way with “answering [questions]…Mon, 27 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMTOut of Manyblog-postsanswershard scienceinterdependencequestionsreplicationsciencesoft sciencethe frame problemhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-11-20-hard-and-soft-sciences/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-11-20-hard-and-soft-sciences/Back when I was a research scientist, I straddled the boundary between “hard” and “soft” sciences. I did social psychology, which is a pretty soft science…Mon, 20 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMTOut of Manyblog-postscontext-dependenceknowledge-buildingquestionssciencethe frame problemupdated postshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-11-19-linkspam-2/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-11-19-linkspam-2/Public Policy After Utopia by Will Wilkinson at the Niskanen Center:Sun, 19 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedlinkspamhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-11-19-shades-of-gray/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-11-19-shades-of-gray/What shade of gray would you say this is?Sun, 19 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMTOut of Manyblog-postscomparisonethicspoliticsstandardshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-11-12-a-flight-out-sideways/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-11-12-a-flight-out-sideways/This is a short and subtle piece by Diana Senechal about sexual harassment claims and our response to them. I by and large agree with it, but I like it…Sun, 12 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMTOut of Manyquotesassumptionsperspectivepoetryrobert frosthttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-11-12-a-perfect-circle/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-11-12-a-perfect-circle/Objective truth exists in the way that a perfect circle exists. They're both useful constructs, helpful for comparison and for motivation, but we must be careful in how we apply them.Sun, 12 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMTOut of Manyblog-postscomparisonframingperfectionsubjectivitytruthhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-11-12-compromise-and-its-discontents/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-11-12-compromise-and-its-discontents/It's easy to complain about "purity politics". It's easy to complain about "neoliberals" and "sellouts". But we live in hard times, and the easy route's not…Sun, 12 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMTOut of Manyblog-postscompromisedecision-makingjudgment callspoliticsprincipleshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-11-12-new-blog/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-11-12-new-blog/Things have been quiet on this here tumblr, in part because I have taken to blogging about a subset of topics here. If you’re interested in my thoughts…Sun, 12 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedbloggingcomplexityhumansprojectshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-10-31-a-precedent-of-subjectivity/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-10-31-a-precedent-of-subjectivity/Mike Montiero recently posted an essay to Medium "One person’s history of Twitter, from beginning to end". It's a good piece, but what really struck me was…Tue, 31 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMTOut of Manyblog-postssocial mediasubjectivitytwitterhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-10-26-beware-of-defaults/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-10-26-beware-of-defaults/I spent a good portion of yesterday staring at my Django test cases and whimpering. No matter what I tried, no matter how thoroughly I flushed the database…Thu, 26 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedmutable defaultspotential halloween costumespythonprogrammingdebugginghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-10-25-science-vs-software/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-10-25-science-vs-software/Andrew Gelman has a brief post up on his blog comparing the way bug reports in open source software are received to the way many researchers respond to…Wed, 25 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMTOut of Manyblog-postscitizen sciencecriticismcritiqueculture of critiqueFLOSSopen sciencereproducibility crisissciencehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-10-21-me-wow-django-s-case-sure-is-a-useful-addition-to-the-annotate-function/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-10-21-me-wow-django-s-case-sure-is-a-useful-addition-to-the-annotate-function/Me: Wow, Django’s Case() sure is a useful addition to the annotate function! You can use it to chain together When() functions to conditionally annotate…Sat, 21 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMTDuly Noteddjangoi'm coding in a hip local bar that's kind of like having a social lifejust because you *can* do something doesn't mean you *should*https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-10-13-linkspam-1/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-10-13-linkspam-1/The Supermanagerial Reich by Ajay Singh Chaudhary and Raphaële Chappe at the LA Review of Books:Fri, 13 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedlinkspamhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-09-28-bad-things-a-poem-checklist/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-09-28-bad-things-a-poem-checklist/☐ and you should feel bad. ☐ and that makes you a bad person. ☐ and you should at least admitthat it was bad. ☐ and you should not do it again. ☐ and you…Thu, 28 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedpoemschecklistswhatever this ismoralitywritinghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-09-17-git-praise-jevans/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-09-17-git-praise-jevans/Julia Evans, in her recent summary of her time at the Recurse Center, links to this cool little project which visualizes how you use Git. Here’s my result:Sun, 17 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedgitvisualizationscomputershttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-08-26-wild-times/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-08-26-wild-times/It’s late Friday night, technically Saturday morning, and like a party animal I’m up googling, “Could someone mess up my server if I let them run arbitrary…Sat, 26 Aug 2017 00:00:00 GMTDuly Noteddo you know the answer?i will buy you a beerin the spirit of the hourcomputershttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-08-10-math-as-myth/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-08-10-math-as-myth/This might be the best introduction to an academic paper I’ve come across. From Roger Myerson’s Fundamentals of Social Choice Theory:Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedmathmythsfablesgeneralizationsparticularismhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-08-02-who-would-you-be/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-08-02-who-would-you-be/A quote by Frank Serpico, by way of writer Lawrence Grobel, by way of Metafilter:Wed, 02 Aug 2017 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedquotesmoralityidentityhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-07-30-seminars-and-scarcities/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-07-30-seminars-and-scarcities/Catching up on the Crooked Timber archives today, I saw they’ve done several seminars since last I looked, on three books/series I’d love to read: Jo…Sun, 30 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedartificial scarcityscarcityfree cultureexpensive worldada palmerjo waltoncory doctorowcrooked timberhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-07-25-if-it-takes-starting-a-war-for-us-to-meet-it-will-have-been-worth-it/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-07-25-if-it-takes-starting-a-war-for-us-to-meet-it-will-have-been-worth-it/So I read Kushner’s statement today, which includes the line “I am not a person who has sought the spotlight” and, well, I couldn’t help myself.Tue, 25 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedpoliticshamiltonfilks@plaidadderthe true founder of the genrewritinghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-07-24-mathematical-history-and-cultural-development/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-07-24-mathematical-history-and-cultural-development/So I’m watching my way through this pop math YouTube channel 3Blue1Brown and out of nowhere comes this extraordinarily fascinating fact: the ancient…Mon, 24 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedplimpton 322cuneiform tabletshistorymathinterpretationhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-07-17-readings-on-activist-culture/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-07-17-readings-on-activist-culture/My friend Sumana Harihareswara recently posted a great collection of links on ‘call-out culture’ to MetaFilter.Mon, 17 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedjust a resource dumplinksno commentaryhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-07-13-openly-structured-communities/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-07-13-openly-structured-communities/If someone asks me, “What is open source software?”, I have an obvious answer: “Software that is licensed as open source and makes its source code available…Thu, 13 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedopen accessopen communitiesopen scienceopen sourceopennessstructurelessnessthe tyranny of structurelessnesshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-04-13-when-thing-z-is-problematic/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-04-13-when-thing-z-is-problematic/I have seen this argument happen over and over again, especially in progressive spaces.Thu, 13 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedcommunitycompromisecritiqueculture of critiqueethicsjudgmentorganizingpoliticshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-02-14-law-like-love-by-wh-auden/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-02-14-law-like-love-by-wh-auden/For Valentine’s Day, I want to talk about the poem I posted the other day, “Law, Like Love” by WH Auden, and why it means so much to me.Tue, 14 Feb 2017 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedgovernmentlawlovepoetrypoliticshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-02-12-points-and-patterns/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-02-12-points-and-patterns/I’ve been thinking recently about the human tendency to try to put things in context, to search for patterns across different situations and conversations.…Sun, 12 Feb 2017 00:00:00 GMTDuly NotedI don't even know what to tag this asphilosophy?debate?conversational dynamics?let's go with:half-finished thoughtsthat can be my short-hand tag for 'I've no idea where i'm going with this but let's get going'https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-02-10-law-like-love/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2017-02-10-law-like-love/Law, say the gardeners, is the sun, Law is the one All gardeners obey To-morrow, yesterday, to-day.Fri, 10 Feb 2017 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedlawlovepoetrypoliticshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2016-12-01-post-153915013337/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2016-12-01-post-153915013337/What's left?Thu, 01 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notednot giving uppoliticsfandombuffy the vampire slayerhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2016-11-29-not-giving-up/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2016-11-29-not-giving-up/I visited House Oversight Committee Chair Jason Chaffetz’s office today. If there’s nothing else good to say about him (and there may not be) at the very…Tue, 29 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedpoliticstaking actionsymbolic gesturesnot giving uphttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2016-07-30-let-s-say/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2016-07-30-let-s-say/Let’s say you’ve got an engineer or other employee who costs you $150,000 a year in salary & benefits. And let’s say they lose just 2 days a year to dealing…Sat, 30 Jul 2016 00:00:00 GMTDuly NotedcomputersFOSShttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2016-05-20-attention-grabbing/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2016-05-20-attention-grabbing/While I am apparently on a recommendation kick, let me share with you this essay: How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds. Have a handful of thought-provoking…Fri, 20 May 2016 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedtechnologydesignrecommendationshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2016-05-20-fandom/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2016-05-20-fandom/I’m not usually one for podcasts, but I discovered @fansplaining a few weeks ago and have really been getting a kick out of it. It is a “podcast by, about,…Fri, 20 May 2016 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedfandompodcastsrecommendationlinguisticshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2016-05-11-a-bit-of-a-scrape/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2016-05-11-a-bit-of-a-scrape/Earlier today a friend/former colleague of mine linked to a dataset on the OpenScienceFramework with the commentary “OKCupid released some of their data!“…Wed, 11 May 2016 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedethicsdata scienceweb scrapingdigital privacyprivacycomputershttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2016-05-02-a-python-testing-demo/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2016-05-02-a-python-testing-demo/The intro to testing session I ran on Saturday went well. Unfortunately the resolution on Hangouts on Air recordings is not good enough to read my code, so…Mon, 02 May 2016 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedpythontestingcodeteachingtutorialsworkshopcomputershttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2016-05-01-for-international-workers-day/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2016-05-01-for-international-workers-day/This was originally posted to my now-offline personal blog on February 15th, 2014. I’m reposting it now in honor of International Workers Day.Sun, 01 May 2016 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedlabor daysick leavebereavement leavehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2016-04-24-testing-1-2-3/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2016-04-24-testing-1-2-3/This Saturday at 11am EST I’ll be running a remote workshop with PyLadies on getting started with testing. If you’re a lady or genderqueer/non-binary person…Sun, 24 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedcomputershttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2016-04-19-i-came-up-with-over-a-dozen-app-related-puns-for-this-title-and-they-were-all-ap/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2016-04-19-i-came-up-with-over-a-dozen-app-related-puns-for-this-title-and-they-were-all-ap/Last fall I had a bit of free time and thought I’d try out making apps. It was definitely a learning experience! I got to work with Java for the first time…Tue, 19 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedprojectshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2016-04-02-rules-and-values-and-their-discontents/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2016-04-02-rules-and-values-and-their-discontents/I read a comment recently about the rules for bidding on government contracts. This isn’t the comment, but it gets at the same issue, which stuck with me:Sat, 02 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedbureaucracyethicsgovernancepoliticsprocurementruleshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2016-03-27-hat-cookies-forever/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2016-03-27-hat-cookies-forever/I have never much liked Hamentaschen but it turns out “cookie” and “hat-shaped” are not terribly limiting constraints and much deliciousness can be fit…Sun, 27 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedrecipespurimhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2016-03-23-conf/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2016-03-23-conf/So, LibrePlanet happened this weekend. It’s one of my favorite conferences, and not just because it’s local. This year Deb Nicholson and I ran a…Wed, 23 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedartificial scarcitycomputersconferencescontributor experienceFLOSSgood for your teeth and your soultalksworkshopshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2016-03-04-what-s-a-pirate-s-favorite-programming-language/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2016-03-04-what-s-a-pirate-s-favorite-programming-language/Today I had the pleasure of speaking to a Mozilla study group about The Little R’er. The Little R’er is a project of mine from about a year ago - it’s…Fri, 04 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedprogrammingstatsrsilent recyclingcomputershttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2016-02-18-debugging-notes/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2016-02-18-debugging-notes/I spent a couple of hours today wrestling with encodings. Writing out the details here to help me remember, and perhaps save someone else from grief.Thu, 18 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMTDuly Noteddebuggingpythonencodingdeveloper notebookcomputershttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2016-02-10-are-you-anti-oxidant/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2016-02-10-are-you-anti-oxidant/A friend shared this image on Facebook. I thought it was pretty funny, although perhaps not for the reasons its creator thought it was funny:Wed, 10 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedsciencebiologyi have a love hate relationship with oxygenhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2016-02-07-how-to-find-a-statistically-significant-other/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2016-02-07-how-to-find-a-statistically-significant-other/Modern dating is full of choices, whether between strangers at a bar or profiles on OkCupid. With so many options, it’s important to be rigorous in your…Sun, 07 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedpunsstatisticsdatinghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2016-02-03-can-openers-python-imports-and-other-illusions/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2016-02-03-can-openers-python-imports-and-other-illusions/There’s a body of research literature showing that people overestimate how well they can explain phenomena. Ask someone whether they understand how a can…Wed, 03 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedcan openers are pretty cool actuallycognitioncomputersprogrammingpythonhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2016-01-25-self-and-performance/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2016-01-25-self-and-performance/When David Bowie died two weeks ago, I felt sad, but it was nothing compared to the outpouring of grief and remembrance from friends and from the culture at…Mon, 25 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedartauthenticityconsultinggriefidentityperformancepersonalphilosophyprivilegehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2016-01-23-that-feeling-when/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2016-01-23-that-feeling-when/That feeling when someone links you to Leslie Odom Jr singing a mashup of the two best musical theater ballads Stars and Wait For It and you spend the next…Sat, 23 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedmusichamiltonles mishttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2016-01-19-another-year-another-mystery-hunt/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2016-01-19-another-year-another-mystery-hunt/Mystery Hunt was this past weekend and as usual I enjoyed the hell out of it. Highlights included Molly’s epic history rap battle, every puzzle name in the…Tue, 19 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedmystery is happeninghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2016-01-10-to-whom-the-earth-belongs/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2016-01-10-to-whom-the-earth-belongs/Inspired by this letter from Thomas Jefferson to James Madison.Sun, 10 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedwritingspeculative fictionphilosophyjeffersonhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2016-01-03-some-books/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2016-01-03-some-books/I’ve been reading a lot lately, but slowly. My new note-taking system seems to double or even triple how long it takes me to get through a book. Part of me…Sun, 03 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedbooksrecommendationshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2016-01-02-update/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2016-01-02-update/Whoops I am falling behind on Iron Blogger. I’ve been busy with a lot of stuff, and have yet to master the art of the casual update, apparently.Sat, 02 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedpicturespersonalposts for the iron godhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2015-12-17-stories-we-can-t-stop-telling/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2015-12-17-stories-we-can-t-stop-telling/I’ve seen a lot of trickster villains recently. Of course, tricksters are nothing new under the sun - they’ve been an archetype for a very long time - but…Thu, 17 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notednarrativestrickstersarchetypeslife storiesspoilersbatmanjokerbbc serlocksherlock holmesmoriartyavengerslokidoctor whothe masterharriet joneshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2015-12-13-adventures-in-cake/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2015-12-13-adventures-in-cake/For my birthday this weekend I tried to make a Zoetrope cake. I was inspired by Alexandre Dubosc, whose cakes you should definitely look at after this one,…Sun, 13 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedzoetropecakezoetrope cakekitchen engineeringprojectshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2015-12-10-this-recipe/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2015-12-10-this-recipe/For the record, this recipe is way easier than it looks, and super tasty.Thu, 10 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedrecipesbakingtoo pretty to eatjust kidding we ate all of ithttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2015-12-07-two-language-authentication/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2015-12-07-two-language-authentication/Last year I participated in a novel and exciting meta-analysis project called Many Analysts, One Dataset. A single dataset was given to researchers in over…Mon, 07 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMTDuly Noteddata analysispythonrto test is not enoughtwo language authenticationcomputershttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2015-11-23-romeo-v-juliet/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2015-11-23-romeo-v-juliet/ROMEO Montague, Pitcher for the New York Yankees Jason JULIET, Backup Shortstop for the Boston Red SoxMon, 23 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedwritingfictionsillinessfandomfilkshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2015-11-18-1-client/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2015-11-18-1-client/Last month I quietly launched a new company, Galaxy Rise Consulting. Yesterday, my first client Sumana Harihareswara less quietly launched hernew company,…Wed, 18 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedconsultingweb developmentmobile developmentmilestoneshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2015-11-17-speaking-goals/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2015-11-17-speaking-goals/Chiu-Ki and Cate from Technically Speaking have challenged people to make and publish a list of public speaking goals for 2016. My goals for this year are…Tue, 17 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedpublic speakinghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2015-11-14-bassel-khartabil/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2015-11-14-bassel-khartabil/Earlier this month I participated in a book sprint to raise awareness of the imprisonment of Bassel Khartabil by the Syrian government. Now, it is rumored…Sat, 14 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedfreebasselprojectshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2015-11-10-django-girls/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2015-11-10-django-girls/I did an interview with Django Girls. You can read it here.Tue, 10 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedprogrammingdjangoanywhere but herecomputershttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2015-11-10-sudo-make-me-an-operating-system/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2015-11-10-sudo-make-me-an-operating-system/Yesterday I backed up my entire computer, deleted and resized some partitions, and then attempted to upgrade my operating system from 32-bit to 64-bit. I…Tue, 10 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedpoof! you're an operating systemsudosysadminpunsfailure is always an optioncomputershttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2015-11-06-the-end-of-an-error-kind-of/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2015-11-06-the-end-of-an-error-kind-of/I missed this paper when it went around last week: The prevalence of statistical reporting errors in psychology (1985–2013). Daniel Lakens has a very good…Fri, 06 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedsciencereproducibilityarrrrrrrrrcomputershttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2015-11-05-probably-not-the-best-place-for-a-code-snippet/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2015-11-05-probably-not-the-best-place-for-a-code-snippet/Making icons for Android is pretty tedious, until you realize you can manage everything with a shell script:Thu, 05 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMTDuly Noteddeveloper notebookcode snippetscommand line magiccomputershttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2015-10-30-mobile-debugging/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2015-10-30-mobile-debugging/I recently made myself a new personal website, and I noticed there were a couple of problems with the mobile version: the font-awesome icons weren’t…Fri, 30 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMTDuly Noteddebuggingdeveloper notebookcomputershttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2015-10-29-partisanship-on-display/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2015-10-29-partisanship-on-display/Note: tumblr ate the initial, more comprehensive version of this post. :( Feel free to ping me for more details.Thu, 29 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedpoliticscampaign financeslouching towards plutocracylet's take a moment to savor the fact that twilight is the least problematic book on that shelfhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2015-10-27-aunthood/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2015-10-27-aunthood/It’s hard to trick my niece - she wasn’t born yesterday, you know!Tue, 27 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedpersonalfamilyphotosmetairon bloggerbabies are surprisingly heavyhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2015-10-20-proof-is-the-bottom-line-for-everyone/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2015-10-20-proof-is-the-bottom-line-for-everyone/A few days ago I was playing Set with friends when one of them asked how many cards could be put down without making any sets. Someone else responded that…Tue, 20 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedlogiccard gamesit's possible that would have gone faster with combinatorics'no more of that game now' tom said unsettledhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2015-10-10-schroedinger-s-scientist/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2015-10-10-schroedinger-s-scientist/The other day, as I was sipping hot chocolate and talking with my college friend Cora about the play Copenhagen, I had a thought:Sat, 10 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedtheaterphysicsstatisticsyes I have a to-ponder listit's like a to-do list but way more fungo see copenhagen it's fantasticdon't be a player haterokay sorry that was awfulhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2015-10-05-introduction/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2015-10-05-introduction/It’s been about a year since I’ve blogged regularly. My perfectionist tendencies started getting the best of me - every post needed to be essay-like,…Mon, 05 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMTDuly Notedintroductionsmetairon bloggerkittens!https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2015-04-30-moving-on/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2015-04-30-moving-on/Back in February 2013, I ran my first Open Source Comes to Campus event. It was a snowy day with a small but enthusiastic turnout. At one point during the…Thu, 30 Apr 2015 00:00:00 GMTOpenHatch blogcareercommunityopen sourceopen source comes to campusorganizingpersonalhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2015-04-03-preparing-for-the-pycon-sprints/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2015-04-03-preparing-for-the-pycon-sprints/A year or so ago I wrote the In Person Event Handbook to help people prepare their projects for in-person events like workshops, hackathons, and sprints.…Fri, 03 Apr 2015 00:00:00 GMTOpenHatch blogcommunityconferencesopen sourceprogrammingpyconsprintshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2015-02-08-how-did-we-do-part-i/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2015-02-08-how-did-we-do-part-i/Goooals. Photo CC-BY-SA by Thomas Leth-Olsen.Sun, 08 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMTOpenHatch blogcommunityessayevaluationopen sourceteachinghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2015-01-14-semester-of-events/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2015-01-14-semester-of-events/(17 of them!) Last fall, we ran seventeen events at campuses around the country, reaching hundreds of students and making abundant contributions and…Wed, 14 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMTOpenHatch blogcommunityopen sourceopen source comes to campusorganizingteachinghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-11-12-history-of-humanity/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-11-12-history-of-humanity/A few months back, a friend recommended watching the videos from a Coursera course, A Brief History of Humankind. I recently finished, and I second the…Wed, 12 Nov 2014 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloghistoryrecommendationshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-11-09-money-is-hard-too-but-you-knew-that/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-11-09-money-is-hard-too-but-you-knew-that/I received a number of comments regarding my recent posts (1,2) about how abstraction/quantification of trust leads to negative consequences such as…Sun, 09 Nov 2014 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogeconomicshistorymetaknowledgehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-10-30-certainty/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-10-30-certainty/I have a habit of qualifying my statements with estimated likelihoods and error bars. "I think about ten people are coming, plus or minus two." "I'm, like,…Thu, 30 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloggenderhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-10-21-a-summary-of-nprs-when-women-stopped-coding/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-10-21-a-summary-of-nprs-when-women-stopped-coding/A friend shared with me this 15-minute Planet Money segment called "When Women Stopped Coding". From their intro:Tue, 21 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloggendertechnologyhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-10-14-trust-is-also-hard/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-10-14-trust-is-also-hard/Building on my post about verification a few months ago, I want to talk about quantifying trust. As full verification of all knowledge by a single…Tue, 14 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogmetaknowledgehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-10-12-grace-hopper/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-10-12-grace-hopper/In between weddings both this weekend and last, I made it out to Phoenix for the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. I gave a talk at Open…Sun, 12 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMTShauna's BlogFLOSSgenderspeakingtechnologyhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-10-03-be-a-poster-child/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-10-03-be-a-poster-child/CC BY 2.0 by Taavi BurnsFri, 03 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMTOpenHatch blogcommunityconferencesopen sourceposterspublic speakinghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-09-28-list/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-09-28-list/Things I've accomplished recently, and future plans, offered up as justification for the lack of a "real" post:Sun, 28 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogexploring privilegeFLOSSlinkspamopen scienceorganizingspeakinghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-09-19-when-everything-looks-like-a-nail/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-09-19-when-everything-looks-like-a-nail/I've long known the adage "When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail" but I've only recently come to appreciate its truth.Fri, 19 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogorganizingpersonalprogrammingwritinghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-09-14-supporting-adacamp-and-the-ada-initiative/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-09-14-supporting-adacamp-and-the-ada-initiative/If you've never been to a feminist conference, you're missing out. If you've never found yourself surrounded by dozens of brilliant, empathetic, creative…Sun, 14 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogexploring privilegeFLOSShttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-08-09-verification-is-hard/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-08-09-verification-is-hard/A while back I interviewed some core contributors to Wikipedia Project Medicine. While I'm wildly enthusiastic about their work, I can't help feeling that…Sat, 09 Aug 2014 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogexploring privilegeFLOSSmetaknowledgeopen sciencesciencehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-07-27-just-one-in-a-crowd/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-07-27-just-one-in-a-crowd/A few months ago, I joined a project called Crowdstorming a Dataset. It's a project affiliated with Center for Open Science and its basic premise is this:…Sun, 27 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogmetaknowledgeprogrammingsciencestatisticshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-07-20-attention-rob-thomas/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-07-20-attention-rob-thomas/I could write plenty about my experiences at Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) this weekend, and I probably will, later. But I had a quick thought during Steve…Sun, 20 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMTShauna's BlogFLOSSgeneral sillinesshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-07-11-its-my-time/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-07-11-its-my-time/A little over a year ago I did a survey at the job fair of a major tech conference. At each booth I asked whether they were hiring people part time. The…Fri, 11 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogpersonalworkers' rightshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-07-10-this-is-just-to-say/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-07-10-this-is-just-to-say/I got interviewed about OpenHatch / Open Source Comes to Campus for an article in Wired. Pretty cool!Thu, 10 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMTShauna's BlogFLOSStechnologyhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-07-05-how-to-hit-a-softball/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-07-05-how-to-hit-a-softball/I did a lightning talk at AdaCamp called "how to hit a softball". This talk was born of frustration: the only activity I participate in which is less…Sat, 05 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogsportshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-06-29-open-source-bridge/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-06-29-open-source-bridge/Three things to share from Open Source Bridge, which I went to this week.Sun, 29 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMTShauna's BlogFLOSSspeakingstatisticstechnologyhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-06-23-adacamp/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-06-23-adacamp/I don't like making quick low-content posts just to avoid paying \$5 to the Iron Blogger pool. (No shade on those who do!) But I am so exhausted from AdaCamp.Mon, 23 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogexploring privilegeFLOSSfree & open culturegenderracehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-06-15-i-think-this-posts-mostly-filler/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-06-15-i-think-this-posts-mostly-filler/I feel vaguely indignant that, despite working hard on a number of projects this week, I have nothing in particular to post about.Sun, 15 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogmetapersonalhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-06-05-op-open-humans/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-06-05-op-open-humans/This article is the second in a series highlighting open science projects around the community. You can read the interview this article was based on: edited…Thu, 05 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMTOpen Science Collaboration Blogcitizen sciencecommunityhumansopen dataopen sciencesciencehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-05-31-when-women-refuse/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-05-31-when-women-refuse/Earlier this week, after the UCSB shootings, Deanna Zandt started a tumblr to document violence against women who refuse or reject men. She was inspired by…Sat, 31 May 2014 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogexploring privilegegenderhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-05-20-clinical-trials-day/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-05-20-clinical-trials-day/Today is International Clinical Trials Day, held on May 20th in honor of George Lind, the famous Scottish physician who began one of the world\'s first…Tue, 20 May 2014 00:00:00 GMTOpen Science Collaboration Blogclinical trialsopen sciencereproducibilitysciencetransparencyhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-05-12-real-t-shirts-are-also-reproducible/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-05-12-real-t-shirts-are-also-reproducible/I decided recently that I want a reproducibility-themed t-shirt. Technology being what it is, I was able to make one in a matter of hours:Mon, 12 May 2014 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogmaking thingsopen sciencesciencehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-05-12-short-event-big-impact-open-source-at-suny-stony-brook/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-05-12-short-event-big-impact-open-source-at-suny-stony-brook/I spent weeks going back and forth with Hanne Paine, a student and open source enthusiast at SUNY Stony Brook. For every date she suggested, we already had…Mon, 12 May 2014 00:00:00 GMTOpenHatch blogcommunityconferencesopen sourceteachinghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-05-07-selecting-for-fraud/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-05-07-selecting-for-fraud/This post is in response to Jon Grahe\'s recent article in which he invited readers to propose metaphors that might help us understand why fraud occurs and…Wed, 07 May 2014 00:00:00 GMTOpen Science Collaboration Blogcorruptionessayethicsnatural selectionopen sciencereproducibilityresearch integritysciencehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-05-04-focus/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-05-04-focus/I am borrowing a very nice camera for work. I'll be returning to my regular (broken, fuzzy, cell phone) camera tomorrow, so I thought I'd grab the chance to…Sun, 04 May 2014 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogart & musicsciencehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-04-26-free-software-open-science/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-04-26-free-software-open-science/Back in March, at LibrePlanet 2014, I organized and participated in a panel session on the intersection of open science and free software with Jeff Warren…Sat, 26 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMTShauna's BlogFLOSSopen sciencesciencespeakingtechnologyhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-04-23-memo-from-the-office-of-open-science/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-04-23-memo-from-the-office-of-open-science/Dear Professor Lucky,Wed, 23 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMTOpen Science Collaboration Blogdataopen sciencereproducibilityresearch infrastructuresciencesillinessteachinghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-04-06-2048-exponential-growth-edition/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-04-06-2048-exponential-growth-edition/[](http://games.usvsth3m.com/2048/exponential-growth-edition/)Sun, 06 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogmaking thingssciencehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-04-05-the-spherical-elephant-in-the-room/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-04-05-the-spherical-elephant-in-the-room/There's a joke you probably know:Sat, 05 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloggenderracehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-03-29-on-solutionism-and-lolcats/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-03-29-on-solutionism-and-lolcats/Spending as much time as I do teaching, writing and thinking about technology, I come across solutionism a lot. (From the link: Morozov defines solutionism…Sat, 29 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogpsychologytechnologyhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-03-19-summer-internships-for-open-source-enthusiasts/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-03-19-summer-internships-for-open-source-enthusiasts/It's the heart of internship application season, and we want to spread the word about opportunities to contribute to open source this summer. The following…Wed, 19 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMTOpenHatch blogcommunityinternshipsopen sourceorganizingteachinghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-03-13-100-beautiful-things/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-03-13-100-beautiful-things/A while back, when I was still volunteering for Samaritans, I had a particularly rough evening. I don't remember why: might have had a long conversation…Thu, 13 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogart & musicsciencehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-03-07-slides-from-the-southern-california-anything-linux-expo/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-03-07-slides-from-the-southern-california-anything-linux-expo/\ A friend asked what SCaLE stood for, and I got everything but the 'a'. He laughed and said, "It could mean literally anything!" For the record, it's the a…Fri, 07 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMTShauna's BlogFLOSSprogrammingspeakingteachinghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-02-27-introducing-setup-sprints/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-02-27-introducing-setup-sprints/[](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9OnENhRah8)Thu, 27 Feb 2014 00:00:00 GMTOpenHatch blogcommunityopen sourceprogrammingsetup sprintsteachinghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-02-25-all-the-fields-a-stage/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-02-25-all-the-fields-a-stage/My good friend, a theater professor, is interested in sports as performance, but isn't too familiar with most sports. I collected the following links to…Tue, 25 Feb 2014 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogclassgenderracesportshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-02-23-ancient-battles/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-02-23-ancient-battles/[](https://sites.google.com/site/pydatalog/pypl/PyPL-PopularitY-of-Programming-Language)Sun, 23 Feb 2014 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogtechnologyhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-02-15-a-privilege-i-wish-i-didnt-need/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-02-15-a-privilege-i-wish-i-didnt-need/My aunt died this week. She was a private woman who tried to keep her internet presence to a minimum, so I won't memorialize her here, except to say that…Sat, 15 Feb 2014 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogeconomicspersonalpoliticsworkers' rightshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-02-07-goals-for-open-source-comes-to-campus-in-2014/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-02-07-goals-for-open-source-comes-to-campus-in-2014/Goooals. Photo CC-BY-SA by Thomas Leth-Olsen.Fri, 07 Feb 2014 00:00:00 GMTOpenHatch blogcommunityopen sourceopen source comes to campusorganizingteachinghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-01-24-o-frabjous-weekend/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-01-24-o-frabjous-weekend/Another year, another Mystery Hunt. This iteration was especially nice. For the first time I was able to finish the hunt.Fri, 24 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloggames & puzzleshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-01-22-op-wiki-project-med/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-01-22-op-wiki-project-med/This article is the first in a series highlighting open science projects around the community. You can read the interview this article was based on: edited…Wed, 22 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMTOpen Science Collaboration Blogcommunityglobal healthknowledgemedicineopen scienceorganizingteachingtranslationwikipediahttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-01-08-hard-science/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2014-01-08-hard-science/When it comes to opening up your work there is, ironically, a bit of a secret. Here it is: being open - in open science, open source software, or any other…Wed, 08 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMTOpen Science Collaboration Blogcommunityessayethicsnatural selectionopen scienceopen sourceopennesshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-12-18-friends-of-openhatch-at-pycon-2014/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-12-18-friends-of-openhatch-at-pycon-2014/The list of talks, tutorials and posters accepted to PyCon 2014 was announced yesterday. Excitedly, we took to Twitter to congratulate the many OpenHatch…Wed, 18 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMTOpenHatch blogcommunityconferencesmentorshipopen sourceoutreachpycontalksteachinghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-12-16-over-there/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-12-16-over-there/Time for another list of excuses for shamefully neglecting this blog:Mon, 16 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMTShauna's BlogcookingFLOSSlinkspammaking thingsopen scienceprogramminghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-12-16-ready-set-contribute-a-handbook-for-preparing-your-open-source-project-for-events/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-12-16-ready-set-contribute-a-handbook-for-preparing-your-open-source-project-for-events/Today, we're releasing a handbook to help open source projects prepare themselves for events.Mon, 16 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMTOpenHatch blogcommunityconferencesevent planningopen sourceresourcesteachinghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-12-13-chasing-paper-3/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-12-13-chasing-paper-3/This is part three of a three part post brainstorming potential improvements to the journal article format. Part one is here, part two is here.Fri, 13 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMTOpen Science Collaboration Blogessayopen sciencepublishingreadabilityscholarly publishingscienceteachinghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-12-13-what-contributing-to-open-source-can-give-back-to-you/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-12-13-what-contributing-to-open-source-can-give-back-to-you/Contributing to existing open source projects isn't just about improving those projects -- it's a chance for contributors to grow, too. When we run Open…Fri, 13 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMTOpenHatch blogcommunitycontributor experienceopen sourceprogrammingteachinghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-12-12-chasing-paper-2/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-12-12-chasing-paper-2/This is part two of a three part post brainstorming potential improvements to the journal article format. Part one is here, part three is here here.Thu, 12 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMTOpen Science Collaboration Blogessayopen sciencepublishingscholarly publishingscienceversion controlhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-12-11-chasing-paper/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-12-11-chasing-paper/This is part one of a three part post. Parts two and three have now been posted.Wed, 11 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMTOpen Science Collaboration Blogessayhistoryopen sciencepublishingscholarly publishingsciencehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-12-10-open-source-comes-to-campus/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-12-10-open-source-comes-to-campus/A little less than a year ago, I was asked to direct OpenHatch's Open Source Comes to Campus event series. Open Source Comes to Campus is a workshop…Tue, 10 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMTOpenHatch blogcommunityessayopen sourceopen source comes to campusorganizingteachingversion controlhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-11-27-the-state-of-open-access/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-11-27-the-state-of-open-access/To celebrate Open Access Week last month, we asked people four questions about the state of open access and how it\'s changing. Here are some in depth…Wed, 27 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMTOpen Science Collaboration Blogcitizen scienceinterviewsopen accessopen sciencepublishingscholarly communicationsciencetransparencyhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-11-10-when-you-just-need-space/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-11-10-when-you-just-need-space/Recording this for posterity, in case it helps someone the way random websites helped me today.Sun, 10 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogprogramminghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-11-03-the-conversations-we-arent-having/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-11-03-the-conversations-we-arent-having/Here are two stories about conversations I didn't have this week:Sun, 03 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogcommunicationgenderracehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-10-29-infrequently-asked-questions-bloomington/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-10-29-infrequently-asked-questions-bloomington/At each Open Source Comes to Campus event, participants ask unique, thought-provoking questions. We decided to write down these questions and answer them…Tue, 29 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMTOpenHatch blogcommunityfaqopen sourcequestionsteachinghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-10-15-five-women-bringing-open-source-to-campus-for-ada-lovelace-day-2013/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-10-15-five-women-bringing-open-source-to-campus-for-ada-lovelace-day-2013/For Ada Lovelace Day this year, we decided to profile some of the women who have helped us organize and run our Open Source Comes to Campus events. The five…Tue, 15 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMTOpenHatch blogada lovelace daycommunityopen sourceorganizingsexismteachingwomen in techhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-10-10-hacking-the-hackathon/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-10-10-hacking-the-hackathon/Friends, romans, civic tech enthusiasts, lend me your eyeballs. I come to bury hackathons, not to praise them.Thu, 10 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogclasscommunicationopen governmentorganizingtechnologyhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-09-11-two-anniversaries/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-09-11-two-anniversaries/Today, September 11th, is the anniversary of a number of events, but two in particular are being talked about today: the twelve year anniversary of the…Wed, 11 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogglobalization & imperialismhistorypoliticshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-08-05-comprehensive-review-of-uss-clinical-trials-system-needed/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-08-05-comprehensive-review-of-uss-clinical-trials-system-needed/An editorial in Nature by Arthur Ammann points out a number of problems with our current clinical trial system:Mon, 05 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMTMeta-scienceauthor: Ammannclinical trialsethnocentrismresearch ethicssource: Naturehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-08-05-daisy-chained-replications/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-08-05-daisy-chained-replications/This is a little old - I’m going through my bookmarks - but:Mon, 05 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMTMeta-scienceauthor: Kahnemanjournal: Naturelinksopennessreplicationshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-08-05-these-problems-are-not-new/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-08-05-these-problems-are-not-new/From a paper published in 1945 by Vannevar Bush, head of the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) during World War II:Mon, 05 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMTMeta-scienceauthor: Bushsource: The Atlanticmeta-analysisorganization of knowledgehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-08-05-university-of-california-opens-one-door-and-closes-another/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-08-05-university-of-california-opens-one-door-and-closes-another/The recent announcement that the University of California - the world’s largest public university system - will be embracing open access has been meet with…Mon, 05 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMTMeta-scienceopen accessmoney in scienceauthor: BondGrahamsource: East Bay Expressconflict of interesthttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-08-04-the-perfect-journal-article/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-08-04-the-perfect-journal-article/If I was the Supreme Dictator of Science, able to marshal all sorts of resources to support my decrees, I would require that every single journal article…Sun, 04 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogmetaknowledgeopen sciencesciencehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-06-30-networks/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-06-30-networks/My sister came to visit this week and one of the places I showed her around was the Media Lab. She was curious about the display near the front door, which…Sun, 30 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogpersonalrecommendationshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-06-27-northeastern-university/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-06-27-northeastern-university/On Saturday, June 22nd we ran our tenth Open Source Comes to Campus event, at Northeastern University. Many thanks to Ali Ukani and the Northeastern…Thu, 27 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMTOpenHatch blogcommunityconferencesopen sourceteachinghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-06-23-retractions-as-political-statement/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-06-23-retractions-as-political-statement/From Retraction Watch, a story about a retraction is really a story about Nature’s failure to publish a refutation:Sun, 23 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMTMeta-scienceretractionsjournal: Natureauthor: Vauxeditorial policypublication biashttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-06-20-the-end-of-an-era/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-06-20-the-end-of-an-era/I've been doing Iron Blogger, in one form or another, for almost two years now. That's over a hundred weeks of posts, with a few misses here and there, paid…Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloglinkspammetateachingwritinghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-06-05-improving-trust-in-science/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-06-05-improving-trust-in-science/There's a letter in the Guardian today calling for study preregistration. This is super exciting - I've been wanting this for years.Wed, 05 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogmetaknowledgeopen sciencepsychologysciencestatisticshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-06-04-me-vs-competition-2/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-06-04-me-vs-competition-2/When I was a young teenager, twelve-thirteen-fourteen, I played fairly high-level softball. I enjoyed the challenge of trying to hit sixty-mile-an-hour…Tue, 04 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogpersonalhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-05-23-progress-free-thought-untrammeled-lives/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-05-23-progress-free-thought-untrammeled-lives/Ever since I first heard of Victoria Woodhull about a year ago, I've been meaning to read the weekly newspaper that she put out with her sister, Tennessee…Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloggenderhistoryhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-05-19-pressure-to-publish-and-the-prevalence-of-positive-results/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-05-19-pressure-to-publish-and-the-prevalence-of-positive-results/This PLoS One study attempted to look at how pressure to publish might influence the prevalence of positive results. The author, Daniele Fanelli, made an…Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:00 GMTMeta-scienceauthor: Fanellijournal: PLOS onelinkspublication biaspublish or perishhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-05-16-solutions-open-science-data-cloud/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-05-16-solutions-open-science-data-cloud/This article about Bionimbus, about an effort to efficiently and securely share cancer genomics data, mentions the Open Science Data Cloud. The OSDC is a…Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 GMTMeta-sciencelinksopen dataplatformssecuritysolutionssource: phys.orghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-05-10-infrequently-asked-questions-wellesley-college/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-05-10-infrequently-asked-questions-wellesley-college/At each Open Source Comes to Campus event, participants ask unique, thought-provoking questions. We decided to write down these questions and answer them…Fri, 10 May 2013 00:00:00 GMTOpenHatch blogcommunityfaqopen sourcequestionsteachinghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-05-09-softer-sciences-publish-more-positive-results/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-05-09-softer-sciences-publish-more-positive-results/A colleague referenced this 2010 paper which measures proportion of positive results by scientific discipline.Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 GMTMeta-sciencejournal: PLOS oneauthor: Fanellipublication biasmeta-analysiscomparing disciplineshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-04-30-copyleft-for-experimental-data/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-04-30-copyleft-for-experimental-data/A quick note on an interesting point raised by Roger Peng:Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMTMeta-scienceopen accesscopyleftpre-registrationsource: the scholarly kitchensource: simply statisticshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-04-30-umass/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-04-30-umass/On Sunday, April 14th, we ran our ninth Open Source Comes to Campus event, at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Many thanks to Tariq Ahmad, Andy Yee,…Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMTOpenHatch blogcommunityconferencesopen sourceteachinghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-04-28-the-gifs-that-keep-on-giving/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-04-28-the-gifs-that-keep-on-giving/My new favorite thing on the internet is math gifs.Sun, 28 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogmathhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-04-27-solutions-p-curves/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-04-27-solutions-p-curves/A paper and associated web-based tool have been proposed to detect publication bias and p-hacking in the literature. From the paper:Sat, 27 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMTMeta-sciencesolutionspublication biasp-hackingstatisticsstatistical powerauthor: Simonsohnauthor: Simmonshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-04-27-tcamp/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-04-27-tcamp/TransparencyCamp is a yearly unconference to celebrate, and work toward, government transparency. It's run by the Sunlight Foundation, and we're honored to be a sponsor!Sat, 27 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMTOpenHatch blogcommunityconferencesgovernmentopen governmentopen sourceorganizingtechnologytransparencyhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-04-26-methods-reporting-in-the-fmri-literature/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-04-26-methods-reporting-in-the-fmri-literature/I spent three years working in fMRI labs. To this day it’s not clear to me if the field has exceptionally ambiguous standards, or if it’s only one of many…Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMTMeta-scienceneuroimagingjournal: NeuroImagestatistical powerdegrees of freedomresearcher degrees of freedomstandardsmethodshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-04-21-gardening-party/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-04-21-gardening-party/It turns out the soil in our back yard is fairly toxic. My housemate Molly, rather than give up gardening, decided to invite a bunch of people over to help…Sun, 21 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogcookinghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-04-16-coding-error-influences-public-policy/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-04-16-coding-error-influences-public-policy/There’s an op ed in the New York Times about how a coding error in an economics article may have had profoundly negative influence on economic policy:Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMTMeta-scienceopen accessraw datatransparencymethodssource: new york timesjournal: national bureau of economic researchhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-04-15-women-in-tech-the-three-minute-explanation/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-04-15-women-in-tech-the-three-minute-explanation/I ran into Adelaida on the train yesterday morning, on my way out to Amherst for an OpenHatch event. We struck up a conversation which eventually turned to…Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloggendertechnologyhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-04-10-power-failure/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-04-10-power-failure/There’s a new article out in Nature Reviews Neuroscience about the failure of scientific studies in general (and neuroscience and fMRI studies in…Wed, 10 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMTMeta-sciencejournal: Nature Reviews Neurosciencesource: National Geographicstatistical errorsstatistical powerpublication biasneuroimagingauthor: Nosekauthor: Ioannidishttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-04-07-mediocre-books/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-04-07-mediocre-books/I'm afraid of flying.Sun, 07 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogreviewshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-03-30-word-games/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-03-30-word-games/I've been hearing good things about the Capitol Words API for months now, so I decided to try doing something with it. I wrote a script which queries the…Sat, 30 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogdata explorationsopen governmentpoliticsprogramminghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-03-24-thoughts-about-pycon/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-03-24-thoughts-about-pycon/I spent the last week and a half at PyCon. I have a lot of things to say about it - too many, really, to form a coherent narrative. So here are some…Sun, 24 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloggenderopen scienceprogrammingracetechnologyhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-03-12-fraud-on-the-rise-especially-in-the-united-states-and-in-high-impact-journals/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-03-12-fraud-on-the-rise-especially-in-the-united-states-and-in-high-impact-journals/An article in the Washington Post details an alleged case of Fraud which led to an as-yet-uncorrected Nature paper and a suicide:Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMTMeta-sciencefraudfundingjournal: PNASlinkspublish or perishretractionssource: the washington posthttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-03-04-my-life-in-links/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-03-04-my-life-in-links/A round up of recent goings on:Mon, 04 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloglinkspammaking thingsopen governmentorganizingprogrammingstatisticswritinghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-02-27-avoidable-waste-in-the-production-and-reporting-of-research-evidence/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-02-27-avoidable-waste-in-the-production-and-reporting-of-research-evidence/An opinion article from Iain Chalmers (of the very well regarded though not fully open access Cochrane Collaboration) and Paul Glasziou (of the Center for…Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMTMeta-scienceclinical trialswastestandardsmeta-analysisstudy registrationconflict of interestacademic culturepublish or perishjournal: the Lancethttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-02-24-obama-administration-enacts-qualified-open-access/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-02-24-obama-administration-enacts-qualified-open-access/The Obama administration has announced that all research funded by federal agencies (with R&D budgets greater than $100 million) should be made open access…Sun, 24 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMTMeta-sciencefundinggovernmentlinksopen accessopen sciencehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-02-21-the-harm-done-by-tests-of-significance/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-02-21-the-harm-done-by-tests-of-significance/An interesting article from Accident Analysis and Prevention from 2004 goes over three case studies where Null Hypothesis Significance Testing may have cost…Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMTMeta-sciencesignificance testingjournal: Accident Analysis and Preventionstatisticsstatistical errorsmeta-analysishttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-02-21-why-paywalls-have-to-go/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-02-21-why-paywalls-have-to-go/On the PLoS blog, an article from Jack Andraka, winner of the 2012 Intel Science prize for the invention of a dip stick test for pancreatic cancer, on…Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMTMeta-scienceopen accesssource: PLoS blogspaywallshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-02-20-open-data-day/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-02-20-open-data-day/This Saturday, February 23rd, is Open Data Day, "a gathering of citizens in cities around the world to write applications, liberate data, create…Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMTShauna's BlogFLOSSopen governmentopen scienceorganizingprogramminghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-02-14-how-to-find-a-statistically-significant-other/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-02-14-how-to-find-a-statistically-significant-other/Modern dating is full of choices: whether between dozens of handsome strangers out at a bar, hundreds of friends and friends-of-friends on social networking…Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloggeneral sillinessstatisticshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-02-12-correcting-the-lies-that-data-tell/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-02-12-correcting-the-lies-that-data-tell/Found this interesting paper from a couple years ago: Detecting and Correcting the Lies that Data Tellby F Schmidt.Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMTMeta-sciencestatisticsstatistical errorsstandardsmeta-analysisjournal: PoPShttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-02-12-open-access-and-its-consequences/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-02-12-open-access-and-its-consequences/This post at the Scholarly Kitchen touches on a number of arguments against mandatory CC-BY licensing. They’re all worth talking about, although none seem…Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMTMeta-sciencesource: the scholarly kitchenopen accesslicensingdigital dividehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-02-11-trials-with-positive-results-published-faster-more-often-than-trials-with-negati/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-02-11-trials-with-positive-results-published-faster-more-often-than-trials-with-negati/A new PLoS one paper looked at the outcome of 1054 trials submitted to the ethics committee of a major Spanish hospital from 1997-2004. This flowchart…Mon, 11 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMTMeta-scienceclinical trialsjournal: PLOS onelinkspublication biashttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-02-06-conflict-of-interest-in-pubmedcentral-indexing/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-02-06-conflict-of-interest-in-pubmedcentral-indexing/It’s been my experience that I wildly disagree with some of the fundamental values of the folks at Scholarly Kitchen, but I get a lot out of their posts and…Wed, 06 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMTMeta-scienceconflict of interestcorruptiondatabasesinefficiencysource: the scholarly kitchenhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-02-04-ben-goldacres-petition-to-register-all-trials/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-02-04-ben-goldacres-petition-to-register-all-trials/A relevant follow up to the last post. Science critic Ben Goldacre has a new project: a petition to get all trials registered and to enforce reporting…Mon, 04 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMTMeta-scienceclinical trialsstudy registrationsource: Ben Goldacrehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-02-04-most-trials-subject-to-mandatory-reporting-do-not-report-within-a-year/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-02-04-most-trials-subject-to-mandatory-reporting-do-not-report-within-a-year/An article in BMJ explores how well registered trials adhere to reporting deadlines.Mon, 04 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMTMeta-sciencebig pharmaclinical trialscorporationsjournal: BMJlinksstudy registrationhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-02-04-no-clear-evidence-on-how-pharmaceutical-promotions-influence-prescribing/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-02-04-no-clear-evidence-on-how-pharmaceutical-promotions-influence-prescribing/A new PLoS Medicine report investigated how pharmaceutical promotions and advertising influence prescriptions:Mon, 04 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMTMeta-sciencebiasbig pharmaclinical trialsjournal: PLoS Medicinemeta-analysishttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-02-01-the-long-way-from-error-control-to-validity-proper/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-02-01-the-long-way-from-error-control-to-validity-proper/Back in November, Perspectives on Psychological Science put out a special issue on replicability. I’ll be attempting to summarize each of the articles in…Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMTMeta-sciencereplicationfalse negativesjournal: PoPSspecial issue projecthttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-01-31-misuses-of-models-overstates-significance/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-01-31-misuses-of-models-overstates-significance/A brief comment points out a major flaw in a published study, in part by using simulations:Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMTMeta-sciencelinkssimulationsstatistical errorsstatisticshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-01-30-most-medical-research-true-or-false/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-01-30-most-medical-research-true-or-false/A friend forwarded me this paper, “Empirical estimates suggest most published medical research is true”, perhaps in an attempt to challenge my cynicism. I…Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMTMeta-sciencefield: medicinepublication biassource: andrew gelmansource: arvixhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-01-30-release-of-toxics-in-ma-over-two-decades/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-01-30-release-of-toxics-in-ma-over-two-decades/As I mentioned in my last post, I chose to look at the EPA Toxics Release Inventory this month. The full dataset was way too large for my little netbook to…Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogdata explorationsopen governmentprogrammingstatisticshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-01-30-study-on-data-compliance-unearths-incorrect-analyses/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-01-30-study-on-data-compliance-unearths-incorrect-analyses/A post at Retraction Watch summarizes the situation:Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMTMeta-sciencelinksopen accessraw datareproducibilityretractionssource: retraction watchhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-01-29-fifth-times-the-charm-a-case-study-in-data-accessibility/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-01-29-fifth-times-the-charm-a-case-study-in-data-accessibility/I try to explore a bit of government data every month. Previously, I've just grabbed data from the Sunlight Foundation's cleaned up APIs. This month, I…Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogdata explorationsopen governmenttechnologyhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-01-23-zlfgrel-uhag-erpbzzraqngvbaf/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-01-23-zlfgrel-uhag-erpbzzraqngvbaf/At last year's Mystery Hunt, when I woke up early Sunday morning to discover that the coin had already been found, I turned to a teammate and said sadly, "I…Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloggames & puzzleshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-01-17-why-it-matters/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-01-17-why-it-matters/My father forwarded an article to me this morning: Clinical trials flawed by biased reporting. It's a write up of Bias in reporting of end points of…Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogopen sciencepsychologysciencehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-01-15-bias-in-reporting-efficacy-and-toxicity-in-breast-cancer-trials/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-01-15-bias-in-reporting-efficacy-and-toxicity-in-breast-cancer-trials/A recent paper did an analysis of breast cancer studies published over the last 16 years. They evaluated 164 trials and looked at whether results re: the…Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMTMeta-sciencesource: new york timesjournal: annals of oncologypublication biashttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-01-15-is-the-replicability-crisis-overblown-three-arguments-explained/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-01-15-is-the-replicability-crisis-overblown-three-arguments-explained/Back in November, Perspectives on Psychological Science put outa special issue on replicability. I’ll be attempting to summarize each of the articles in…Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMTMeta-sciencereplicationjournal: PoPSspecial issue projecthttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-01-13-pleasant-distractions/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-01-13-pleasant-distractions/I had a conversation with some of my housemates earlier this week about our favorite games, and I thought I'd expound on a few of mine for just a bit. These…Sun, 13 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloggames & puzzlesrecommendationshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-01-03-replicability-in-psychology-research/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-01-03-replicability-in-psychology-research/Perspectives on Psychological Science recently came out with a special issue on replicability in psychology research and its implications for the…Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMTMeta-sciencejournal: PoPSlinksreplicationreproducibilityspecial issue projecthttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-01-03-replications-in-psychology-research-how-often-do-they-really-occur/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-01-03-replications-in-psychology-research-how-often-do-they-really-occur/Back in November, Perspectives on Psychological Science put out a special issue on replicability. I’ll be attempting to summarize each of the articles in…Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMTMeta-sciencereplicationjournal: PoPSspecial issue projecthttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-01-03-science-fraud-faces-legal-threats/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-01-03-science-fraud-faces-legal-threats/In recent days this site has been the subject of numerous legal attacks, and as such we have no option other than to suspend things. A lawyer attempted to…Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMTMeta-sciencebacklashfraudlinkshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-01-01-critiquing-scientific-practice-in-2012/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-01-01-critiquing-scientific-practice-in-2012/I have a tumblr, Dismal Science, which I use to keep track of newspaper articles, journal articles, and blog posts on the topic of how scientific research…Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogopen sciencepsychologysciencestatisticshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-01-01-the-academic-cookie-jar/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2013-01-01-the-academic-cookie-jar/This review of Diederik Stapel’s autobiography quotes this interesting passage:Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMTMeta-scienceacademic culturefraudjournal: psychological sciencehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-12-31-overfitting/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-12-31-overfitting/I found this 2004 article through the footnotes of Nate Silver’s book. Here are the highlights (but I recommend reading it all the way through.)Mon, 31 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMTMeta-sciencestatisticsstatistical errorsdegrees of freedomhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-12-24-does-one-party-control-stifle-transparency/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-12-24-does-one-party-control-stifle-transparency/Massachusetts is not a great place for transparency. We have some of the worst public access to information of any state in the country, and legislators…Mon, 24 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogdata explorationsopen governmentpoliticsstatisticshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-12-22-uncited-research/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-12-22-uncited-research/This article raises, for me at least, the interesting question of whether the large amount of research that remains uncited in medical/scientific literature…Sat, 22 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMTMeta-scienceacademic culturecitationslinksmetadatasource: the scholarly kitchenhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-12-17-review-the-lady-tasting-tea/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-12-17-review-the-lady-tasting-tea/David Salsburg's The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century is a book that doesn't know its audience. Billed as a…Mon, 17 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloghistoryreviewsstatisticshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-12-16-sweet/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-12-16-sweet/I made five kinds of truffles last Saturday.Sun, 16 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogcookinghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-12-11-scientists-propose-central-database-for-disclosing-conflicts-of-interest/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-12-11-scientists-propose-central-database-for-disclosing-conflicts-of-interest/In a piece appearing in the November 28 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, physicians Allan Lichter and Ross McKinney argue that a…Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMTMeta-scienceconflict of interestjournal: JAMAlinkssolutionshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-12-09-the-weirdest-people-in-the-world/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-12-09-the-weirdest-people-in-the-world/This article (warning: pdf) talks in detail about how the psychology community frequently fails to account for the great diversity of cultures in our world.Sun, 09 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMTMeta-scienceacademic cultureethnocentrismexperimenter biasfield: psychologylinkshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-12-07-medical-journals-are-an-extension-of-the-marketing-arm-of-pharmaceutical-compani/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-12-07-medical-journals-are-an-extension-of-the-marketing-arm-of-pharmaceutical-compani/From this article in PLoS Medicine:Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMTMeta-scienceclinical trialsconflict of interestcorporationscorruptionfield: medicinefraudjournal: PLoS Medicinehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-12-07-now-is-the-time-for-transparency-and-access-to-clinical-trial-data/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-12-07-now-is-the-time-for-transparency-and-access-to-clinical-trial-data/The lack of access to clinical data has harmed patients, led to additional cost, and is preventing progress in many therapeutic areas. Rofecoxib, a…Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMTMeta-sciencebig pharmaclinical trialsfield: medicineopen accesshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-12-06-review-the-signal-and-the-noise/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-12-06-review-the-signal-and-the-noise/When Nate Silver correctly called the winner of all 50 states in this year's presidential election (and 31 out of the 33 Senate races), how many people…Thu, 06 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogreviewsstatisticshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-12-05-article-level-metadata/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-12-05-article-level-metadata/While there are an increasing number of OA articles in these hybrid titles, there is no standard way to represent to readers, or to discovery systems, that…Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMTMeta-sciencediscoverabilitylinksmetadataopen accessopen sciencesolutionssource: the scholarly kitchenhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-12-02-campaign-songs/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-12-02-campaign-songs/On the six hour drive to New York City last week, my family somehow got on the topic of political campaign songs. Campaign songs today are pretty boring,…Sun, 02 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogart & musichistorypoliticshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-11-29-citizen-science/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-11-29-citizen-science/This article focuses on making study results available to patients who are providing the medical data. But it touches on more general themes - on the right…Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMTMeta-sciencecitizen sciencelinksopen accesssolutionssource: Wall Street Journalhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-11-29-stapel-report/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-11-29-stapel-report/In the recommendations, the Committees not only wish to focus on preventing or reducing fraud, but also on improving the research culture. The European Code…Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMTMeta-scienceacademic culturediedrik stapelfield: psychologyfraudlinksopen sciencereplicationreproducibilitysolutionshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-11-29-underrepresentation-of-women-in-science/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-11-29-underrepresentation-of-women-in-science/I normally do not post about sexism, racism, and other forms of bigotry in the scientific community here. While I obviously think they exist and am against…Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMTMeta-sciencesexismacademic culturesource: chronicle of higher educationjournal: Naturesource: new york timeshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-11-23-psychology-links/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-11-23-psychology-links/I spent last Saturday teaching neuroscience/psychology to 100+ kids via Splash. It was a survey course, so there were a lot of references and…Fri, 23 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogpsychologyrecommendationsteachinghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-11-16-worked-to-death/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-11-16-worked-to-death/This post lists common ways that people used to die from their jobs. They're mostly due to inhaling toxic chemicals. One of them, Soot Wart, is a type of…Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloghistorypersonalpoliticsworkers' rightshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-11-13-figshare/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-11-13-figshare/From the copy on their website:Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMTMeta-scienceopen accessopen sciencescholarly publishingsolutionshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-11-08-obligatory-political-post/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-11-08-obligatory-political-post/I tend to have complex feelings about elections.Thu, 08 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloggenderpoliticshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-11-06-retractions-stigmatize-scientific-fields-study-finds/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-11-06-retractions-stigmatize-scientific-fields-study-finds/The study, published this week as a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, used the PubMed Related Citations Algorithm (PMRA) to fish out…Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMTMeta-sciencefundinglinksreputationretractionshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-11-04-busybody/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-11-04-busybody/I've been a bit busier than usual the last few weeks. Missed last week's post. More beer for everyone! Here's a list of things I've done between my last…Sun, 04 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloglinkspammaking thingsopen governmentorganizingpersonalprogrammingteachinghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-11-02-false-positive-psychology/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-11-02-false-positive-psychology/Quoting my own write up:Fri, 02 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMTMeta-sciencepublication biasresearcher degrees of freedomreplicationresearcher biassolutionsauthor: Simonsohnauthor: Simmonsjournal: Psychological Sciencehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-10-16-ada-lovelace-day-2012-angela-zhang-brittany-wenger-and-shree-bose-teen-girls-fighting-cancer/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-10-16-ada-lovelace-day-2012-angela-zhang-brittany-wenger-and-shree-bose-teen-girls-fighting-cancer/Some of you who read this blog may know that a close relative of mine has been dealing with an aggressive cancer for the last year or so. When I say I…Tue, 16 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloggendersciencehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-10-13-meta/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-10-13-meta/Last weekend I flew out to Urbana Champaign to give a talk at their annual Reflections \| Projections conference. The talk was on how to get started…Sat, 13 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMTShauna's BlogFLOSSspeakinghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-10-06-guess/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-10-06-guess/This week I visited New York and stayed with my cousins while their mother was in the hospital. Over the course of several days, my younger cousin, K, and I…Sat, 06 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloggames & puzzlesmaking thingshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-09-23-puzzling/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-09-23-puzzling/My sister asked me to make a puzzle hunt for her bachelorette party. While it's tailored to her interests, it should be possible for anyone to solve - and…Sun, 23 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloggames & puzzlesmaking thingshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-09-16-lets-make-it-official/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-09-16-lets-make-it-official/I'm marrying my sister next weekend.Sun, 16 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloggeneral sillinesspersonalhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-09-09-following-money/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-09-09-following-money/Life has been super busy lately, so here's another link-and-run:Sun, 09 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogopen governmentprogramminghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-08-29-guest-post/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-08-29-guest-post/My post for the week is aaaaaaaall the way over at the Sunlight Foundation blog.Wed, 29 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogopen governmentorganizingre-postshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-08-26-hes-got-the-job-sewn-up/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-08-26-hes-got-the-job-sewn-up/(Written for a friend.)Sun, 26 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloggeneral sillinesshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-08-15-plug-it-in/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-08-15-plug-it-in/A week or so ago the founder of a feminist blog I lurk on asked if anyone could help update their commenting system. It was a real pleasure to realize that…Wed, 15 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogprogramminghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-07-22-black-hole-cake-wont-you-bake/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-07-22-black-hole-cake-wont-you-bake/Made some cakes. The first was for my friend Lisa's birthday, and was conceived on this very blog!Sun, 22 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogcookingsciencehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-07-15-one-time-at-hackerspace-freeschool-camp/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-07-15-one-time-at-hackerspace-freeschool-camp/Just finished off my three weeks at camp with an afternoon of making chocolate gears, legos, and chess pieces using the latex molds we created during the…Sun, 15 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogart & musicmaking thingsteachinghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-07-03-making-things-making-things-happen/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-07-03-making-things-making-things-happen/Missed last week because I was so busy at camp. The first week of the summer is Girl's Invention Week and instead of the usual 7ish:1 ratio of boys to…Tue, 03 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogteachinghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-06-15-the-sopranos-and-mezzo-sopranos-and-contraltos/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-06-15-the-sopranos-and-mezzo-sopranos-and-contraltos/For whatever reason, much of the music that I've found and liked has been by men. My favorite singers/bands/acts - Andrew Bird, Sufjan Stevens, Great Lake…Fri, 15 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogart & musicrecommendationshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-06-11-the-alcatraz-proclamation/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-06-11-the-alcatraz-proclamation/41 years ago today, the US government forcibly ended the nearly two year long occupation of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. Alcatraz was a famous…Mon, 11 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogglobalization & imperialismhistoryracehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-05-30-review-on-killing/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-05-30-review-on-killing/(A discussion at last Tuesday's Iron-Blogger meetup reminded me of this review I wrote a few years ago.)Wed, 30 May 2012 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloghistorypoliticspsychologyreviewssciencehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-05-28-i-don-t-really-believe-about-95-of-what-gets-published/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-05-28-i-don-t-really-believe-about-95-of-what-gets-published/Vaughn Bell of Mind Hacks interviews researchers about the problems with fMRI:Mon, 28 May 2012 00:00:00 GMTMeta-sciencesource: the guardianreplicationpublication biasacademic cultureneuroimagingstatisticshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-05-28-skeletons-standards/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-05-28-skeletons-standards/Dorothy Bishop critiques a 2003 neuroimaging paper:Mon, 28 May 2012 00:00:00 GMTMeta-sciencejournal: PNASlinksneuroimagingretractionsstandardsstatisticshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-05-22-gamechangers/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-05-22-gamechangers/One of my favorite things to do at camp is to visit the game shelf. It's stacked high with donated games, most of which sit unused for months at a time.…Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloggames & puzzleshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-05-20-if-i-were-a-network-executive/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-05-20-if-i-were-a-network-executive/I recently watched Miss Representation, a documentary about how limited and disparaging portrayals of women in mainstream media hurt society. While I agree…Sun, 20 May 2012 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloggenderwritinghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-05-13-a-sharp-rise-in-retraction-prompts-calls-for-reform/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-05-13-a-sharp-rise-in-retraction-prompts-calls-for-reform/[B]efore long they reached a troubling conclusion: not only that retractions were rising at an alarming rate, but that retractions were just a manifestation…Sun, 13 May 2012 00:00:00 GMTMeta-scienceretractionsacademic culturesource: New York Timesjournal: Infection and Immunityjournal: New England Journal of Medicinehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-05-13-how-many-scientists-fabricate-and-falsify-research/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-05-13-how-many-scientists-fabricate-and-falsify-research/“A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Survey Data”Sun, 13 May 2012 00:00:00 GMTMeta-sciencejournal: PLOS oneacademic culturefraudmeta-analysishttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-05-13-pew-research-center-survey-on-science/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-05-13-pew-research-center-survey-on-science/(Lots of other interesting non-dismal-sciencey results here.)Sun, 13 May 2012 00:00:00 GMTMeta-scienceacademic culturemoney in sciencesource: Pew Research Centerhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-05-13-reforming-science/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-05-13-reforming-science/A pair of articles in Infection and Immunity. In addition to summarizing problems, they offer the following reforms (all greatly abridged in the excerpts…Sun, 13 May 2012 00:00:00 GMTMeta-sciencejournal: Infection and Immunitystatisticsacademic culturepublish or perishcollaboration vs competitionsolutionshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-05-13-solutions-alternative-forms-of-peer-review/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-05-13-solutions-alternative-forms-of-peer-review/In the first stage, manuscripts that pass a rapid access-review are immediately typeset and published in the discussion forum in an onscreen format. They…Sun, 13 May 2012 00:00:00 GMTMeta-sciencelinkspeer reviewscholarly publishingsolutionshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-05-13-solutions-crossref-org/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-05-13-solutions-crossref-org/As described in this Nature article:Sun, 13 May 2012 00:00:00 GMTMeta-sciencecross-referencinglinkssolutionshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-05-13-the-trouble-with-retractions/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-05-13-the-trouble-with-retractions/Perhaps surprisingly, scientists and editors broadly welcome the trend. “I don’t think there’s any doubt that we’re detecting more fraud, and that systems…Sun, 13 May 2012 00:00:00 GMTMeta-scienceretractionsjournal: Naturefraudhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-05-08-4-things-i-thought-about-at-transparency-camp/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-05-08-4-things-i-thought-about-at-transparency-camp/Following up from last week with a more in-depth post. While I heard a bunch of compelling stories and found out about a ton of amazing projects, ultimately…Tue, 08 May 2012 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogopen governmenthttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-04-29-11-things-i-learned-about-at-transparency-camp/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-04-29-11-things-i-learned-about-at-transparency-camp/I just spent the last two days at Transparency Camp. My capacity for coherent thought is pretty much used up after all the talks and sessions, and I want to…Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogopen governmenthttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-04-22-labs-laptops/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-04-22-labs-laptops/Over the last week, I've come across a couple new 'science experiments' - that is, experiments in improving science by encouraging the involvement of the…Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogopen sciencepsychologysciencehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-04-21-reproducibility-project/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-04-21-reproducibility-project/Do normative scientific practices and incentive structures produce a biased body of research evidence? The Reproducibility Project is the first known…Sat, 21 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMTMeta-sciencelinksreproducibilitysolutionshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-04-13-i-think-that-i-shall-never-see/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-04-13-i-think-that-i-shall-never-see/The other day I was cutting up cauliflower for soup. It looked rather a lot like this:Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogsciencehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-04-11-why-most-published-research-findings-are-false/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-04-11-why-most-published-research-findings-are-false/Corollary 1: The smaller the studies conducted in a scientific field, the less likely the research findings are to be true. Corollary 2: The smaller the…Wed, 11 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMTMeta-scienceauthor: Ioannidisjournal: PLoS Medicinelinksmeta-analysispublication biasresearcher biashttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-04-07-chametzcakes/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-04-07-chametzcakes/When searching for recipes for our passover seder - an extra challenge with vegetarians and people with nut and gluten allergies sharing the table - we…Sat, 07 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogcookinghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-04-07-surely-youre-joking-the-oil-drop-experiment/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-04-07-surely-youre-joking-the-oil-drop-experiment/We have learned a lot from experience about how to handle some of the ways we fool ourselves. One example: Millikan measured the charge on an electron by an…Sat, 07 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMTMeta-scienceacademic culturelinkshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-04-05-contradicted-and-initially-stronger-effects-in-highly-cited-clinical-research/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-04-05-contradicted-and-initially-stronger-effects-in-highly-cited-clinical-research/Results Of 49 highly cited original clinical research studies, 45 claimed that the intervention was effective. Of these, 7 (16%) were contradicted by…Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMTMeta-sciencedecline effecthighly cited resultsjournal: JAMAlinksmeta-analysisnonrandomized studiesreproducibilityhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-04-02-402-citations-questioning-the-indiscriminate-use-of-null-hypothesis/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-04-02-402-citations-questioning-the-indiscriminate-use-of-null-hypothesis/Ironically, null hypothesis testing as it is currently practiced is a hybridization of R. A. Fisher’s significance test and J. Neyman and E. Pearson’s null…Mon, 02 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMTMeta-sciencefurther readinglinkssignificance testinghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-04-01-holiday-spirits/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-04-01-holiday-spirits/In lieu of writing an actual blog post this week, here are some pictures of our easter keg hunt. (Apologies for the quality, it's a camera phone.)Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloggames & puzzlespersonalhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-03-31-the-decline-effect-and-the-scientific-method/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-03-31-the-decline-effect-and-the-scientific-method/For instance, after Palmer plotted every study of fluctuating asymmetry, he noticed that the distribution of results with smaller sample sizes wasn’t random…Sat, 31 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMTMeta-sciencedecline effectessayfield: biologyfield: psychologylinkspublication biasreplicationreproducibilitysource: New Yorkerhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-03-23-walking-fast-and-slow/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-03-23-walking-fast-and-slow/The perspective that behavior is often driven by unconscious determinants has become widespread in social psychology. Bargh, Chen, and Burrows’ (1996)…Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMTMeta-scienceexperimenter biasjournal: PLOS onelinkspsychologyreplicationhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-03-23-we-must-stop-the-avalanche-of-low-quality-research/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-03-23-we-must-stop-the-avalanche-of-low-quality-research/Too much publication raises the refereeing load on leading practitioners—often beyond their capacity to cope. Recognized figures are besieged by…Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMTMeta-scienceacademic culturelinkspublish or perishhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-03-22-under-the-sea/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-03-22-under-the-sea/I love making cakes, especially for friends' birthdays. Yesterday was my housemate Mitchell's birthday, and he requested a carrot cake but did not specify a…Thu, 22 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogcookingsciencehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-03-15-if-you-want-reproducible-science-the-software-needs-to-be-open-source/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-03-15-if-you-want-reproducible-science-the-software-needs-to-be-open-source/Modern scientific and engineering research relies heavily on computer programs, which analyze experimental data and run simulations. In fact, you would be…Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMTMeta-scienceFLOSSjournal: Naturelinksnatural selectionopen scienceprogrammingreproducibilityhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-03-15-solutions-dryad-data-repository/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-03-15-solutions-dryad-data-repository/Dryad is an international repository of data underlying peer-reviewed articles in the basic and applied biosciences. Dryad enables scientists to validate…Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMTMeta-sciencedatalinksopen accessopen sciencereproducibilitysolutionshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-03-13-upward-and-onward/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-03-13-upward-and-onward/It's Women's History Month, which I'm going to use as an excuse to ramble about a very cool historical lady I learned about only recently: Victoria Woodhull.Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloggenderhistorypoliticshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-03-12-journal-disavows-study-touted-by-abortion-foes/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-03-12-journal-disavows-study-touted-by-abortion-foes/Critics say the paper is flawed enough to be excised from the scientific literature. “This is not a scholarly difference of opinion; their facts were flatly…Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMTMeta-scienceconflict of interestlinkspoliticized sciencescience and politicsstatisticshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-03-11-how-corporations-corrupt-science-at-the-publics-expense/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-03-11-how-corporations-corrupt-science-at-the-publics-expense/Unfortunately, censorship of scientists and the manipulation, distortion, and suppression of scientific information have threatened federal science in…Sun, 11 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMTMeta-sciencecorporationscorruptionfraudghostwritinglinksmoney in sciencesuppression of informationhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-03-05-too-hard-for-science/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-03-05-too-hard-for-science/Too Hard for Science? is a series on a Scientific American blog asking researchers what experiments they would do if money, ethics, or the laws of the…Mon, 05 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloghistorypsychologysciencehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-02-26-degrees-of-freedom-arent-free/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-02-26-degrees-of-freedom-arent-free/There's another article out this month on all the false positives being published in psychology [pdf].Sun, 26 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogpsychologysciencestatisticshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-02-15-youve-got-a-song-about-friendship/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-02-15-youve-got-a-song-about-friendship/I had friends over for Valentine's Day, as I frequently do, and this year I decided to make a playlist of songs about friendship, which were astonishingly…Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogart & musicrecommendationshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-02-06-show-me-the-stats-correlation-coefficients/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-02-06-show-me-the-stats-correlation-coefficients/So. Correlations. They're fairly simple creatures: they measure the relationship between variables, without making any assumptions or assertions about cause…Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogopen governmentpoliticsshow me the statsstatisticshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-01-28-seriously/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-01-28-seriously/The other day at work, while I was hanging around the coffee machine, I saw a flyer for an IAP (read: Jan Term) course on "Serious Games". It looked neat,…Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloggames & puzzlesreviewshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-01-17-puzzled/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-01-17-puzzled/The Mystery Hunt was last weekend. It was unexpectedly musicals-themed and expectedly exhaustingly awesome. I wanted to briefly highlight my favorite…Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloggames & puzzlesrecommendationshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-01-13-the-social-responsibility-of-social-networking-sites/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-01-13-the-social-responsibility-of-social-networking-sites/I'm usually one of the first to criticize Facebook, but I'm really pleased about the new suicide prevention initiative they've rolled out.Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogpsychologyhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-01-09-cool-cool-cool/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2012-01-09-cool-cool-cool/I like the word cool. Unlike other positive adjectives, like groovy, gnarly, or dope, it's been around for 50-150 years (depending on whether you count this…Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogart & musicsciencehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-12-24-lies-and-statistics/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-12-24-lies-and-statistics/My previous post about p-values has reminded me that I've been meaning to brush up on my statistics. I'm hoping to do this by writing a series of tutorials…Sat, 24 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogopen governmentpoliticsshow me the statsstatisticshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-12-19-significant-problems/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-12-19-significant-problems/"You keep using that statistical test. I do not think it means what you think it means."Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogsciencestatisticshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-12-10-musicals/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-12-10-musicals/It's my birthday today! My present to myself is a quick, fun post.Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogart & musichttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-11-27-the-peoples-team/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-11-27-the-peoples-team/On the road back from Thanksgiving, my dad and my sister's boyfriend Alex were discussing the NBA lockout (which was just resolved yesterday.)Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloghistorysportshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-11-18-nature-vs-nurture/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-11-18-nature-vs-nurture/There's a dispiriting article being passed around feminist-friendly corners of the blogosphere today. What makes this article different from all the other…Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloggendersciencehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-11-06-science-vs-romance/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-11-06-science-vs-romance/I'm in the middle of an incredibly busy month, so I thought I'd be efficient and document one of my favorite procrastination activities as a blog post. I…Sun, 06 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogrecommendationssciencehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-11-01-halloween/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-11-01-halloween/I was a mid-90s geocities page for Halloween. It was a fairly mediocre costume - I had a bunch of ideas for it, some of which worked and many of which…Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloggeneral sillinessmaking thingshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-10-26-three-talks/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-10-26-three-talks/I've given three public talks in the last six months. What really strikes me is how different these talks were, in content, structure, and intent.Wed, 26 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogopen governmentprogrammingpsychologyspeakingteachinghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-10-19-results-blind-reviewing-a-solution-for-publication-bias/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-10-19-results-blind-reviewing-a-solution-for-publication-bias/Last night at a dinner party made up mostly of science folks, I pitched an idea that's been stewing in my head for a while: results-blind submissions…Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogmetaknowledgepsychologysciencehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-10-08-ada-lovelace-day-mary-whiton-calkins-elizabeth-spelke-and-the-variability-hypothesis/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-10-08-ada-lovelace-day-mary-whiton-calkins-elizabeth-spelke-and-the-variability-hypothesis/For Ada Lovelace day I thought I'd go back to my roots and write about a psychological scientist. Being as I am prone to digressions, I ended up writing…Sat, 08 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloggenderhistorypsychologysciencehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-10-06-fiction/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-10-06-fiction/I have an idea in my head for an interactive fiction story: a depressed young man sits in a cafe, waiting for a phone call from his girlfriend. Depending on…Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogpsychologywritinghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-09-23-thoughts-for-food/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-09-23-thoughts-for-food/There's a conversation going on over at metafilter about how people cook and eat in this country.Fri, 23 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogcookingpersonalhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-09-19-what-we-owe/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-09-19-what-we-owe/"But congressman, are you saying that society should just let him die?" Debate moderator to candidate Ron Paul. The audience with cheers and shouts of "Yeah!"Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogclasspoliticshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-09-14-the-football-game-of-the-moral-universe-or-historical-radicals/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-09-14-the-football-game-of-the-moral-universe-or-historical-radicals/In what is surely the longest and most informative comment I've ever gotten on this blog, Stone points out that the story of oppression and reform I…Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloghistoryhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-09-07-commute/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-09-07-commute/I took the overnight train last night from DC, where I was visiting my family, back to Boston.Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogpersonalworkers' rightshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-08-29-who-dreams-of-joy-and-radiance/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-08-29-who-dreams-of-joy-and-radiance/This interview with anarchist/anthropologist David Graeber, who has a book about the history of debt coming out, is pretty interesting. In it, he talks…Mon, 29 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloghistorypoliticshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-08-21-hunting-grounds/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-08-21-hunting-grounds/The last two weeks my attention has been pretty well captured by Parts & Crafts, the summer camp my housemates run. They invited me to come teach this past…Sun, 21 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloggames & puzzlesmaking thingsteachinghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-08-11-pour-some-sugar-on-me/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-08-11-pour-some-sugar-on-me/The last couple of days have been FULL of cake. My friends' theater company turned five this summer, and they requested a cake from me to have at their…Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogcookingmaking thingsteachinghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-08-09-stories-for-days/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-08-09-stories-for-days/Story a Day projects frequently result in large clumps of dross - I should know, I've done one myself. So when I stumbled across Ommataidia, an archive of…Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogrecommendationshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-08-02-like-riding-a-bicycle/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-08-02-like-riding-a-bicycle/There's a thing I like to do, whenever someone says something is "like riding a bicycle".Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogpersonalsportshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-07-20-book-lust/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-07-20-book-lust/The other day I was talking with one of my housemates about putting shelves up on the wall outside my room. Now, I had a totally underhanded reason for…Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogmiscellaneoushttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-07-13-some-body/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-07-13-some-body/I think bodies are neat. I always have, especially the insides. I think I'm the only person in the world to enjoy a root canal, thanks to the awesome…Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogpersonalsciencehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-07-08-yet-another-recommendation/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-07-08-yet-another-recommendation/I've been sporadic about blogging lately, but that's all about to change: my friends/housemates Molly and Asheesh and I are doing "Iron Blogger". Basically,…Fri, 08 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogmetarecommendationshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-06-20-let-us-eat-cake/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-06-20-let-us-eat-cake/I've been doing a lot of baking lately. Last weekend I made banana bread, mango bread, and a vegan gluten-free chocolate raspberry torte all within a…Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogcookinghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-05-09-balloon-geometry/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-05-09-balloon-geometry/Yesterday my friend Nagle and I ran an activity at Bring Your Grandmother To Math at the MIT Museum (a part of the Cambridge Science Festival). A few days…Mon, 09 May 2011 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogmaking thingsteachinghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-05-02-tales-from-sumer/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-05-02-tales-from-sumer/I have another old story of mine I'd like to share. But first, let me explain something: for years and years I've been obsessed with ancient Sumer.Mon, 02 May 2011 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloghistorywritinghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-04-25-matzah-rella-sticks/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-04-25-matzah-rella-sticks/Occasionally I come up with puns that are, shall we say, executable? And although it may take me years to follow through on them, eventually I do. I'm not…Mon, 25 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogcookinggeneral sillinesshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-04-23-my-week-in-haiku-a-challenging-endeavor-please-comment-in-kind/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-04-23-my-week-in-haiku-a-challenging-endeavor-please-comment-in-kind/Monday even horseradish tastes good eaten near loved ones well maybe not goodSat, 23 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloggeneral sillinesspersonalhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-04-21-same-song-different-meaning/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-04-21-same-song-different-meaning/I was at a parade a few days ago when the brass band marching by played what I'm sure they thought was the Battle Hymn of the Republic. What fewer people…Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogart & musichistorypoliticshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-04-12-ilm-al-nafsiat-the-science-of-self/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-04-12-ilm-al-nafsiat-the-science-of-self/I spent pretty much all my free time last week studying for the psychology GRE subject test, and I have to say that I resent how much I now know about…Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloghistorypsychologyscienceteachinghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-04-06-debugging/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-04-06-debugging/I've been tutoring a friend of a friend in Matlab, and we spent a good hour this afternoon chasing down a bug in his program. He asked how I can stand it,…Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogprogramminghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-03-31-totally-gay-fiction/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-03-31-totally-gay-fiction/The blogs of my writing and editing friends have been buzzing today with the story of a YA author who was told by the editor of an anthology to change the…Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogrecommendationshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-03-26-walking-away/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-03-26-walking-away/There's a provocative short story by Ursula Le Guin called The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas. You can read it online here, and I suggest you do so before…Sat, 26 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloghistorypsychologyhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-03-18-surreal-women/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-03-18-surreal-women/I've never really been a connoisseur of the visual arts. I'm not drawn to them the way I am to music or writing, so I don't really know much about them -…Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloggenderrecommendationshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-03-11-and-its-surely-to-her-credit/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-03-11-and-its-surely-to-her-credit/I share other bloggers' hesitations towards Women's History Month (and International Women's Day). It seems, sometimes, like a sop to distract us from the…Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloggenderhistoryhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-03-04-up-against-the-wall-boardgamers/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-03-04-up-against-the-wall-boardgamers/A few days ago I was browsing around Play This Thing, looking to find a present for a friend, when I stumbled across something else entirely: a review for…Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloggames & puzzleshistorypoliticshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-02-26-silence/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-02-26-silence/I've put off posting my original fiction to this blog, because most of the stuff that I think is really good - that I'm really proud of - I'm trying to…Sat, 26 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogwritinghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-02-21-another-recommendation/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-02-21-another-recommendation/The Great Lake Swimmers are one of my favorite bands, although I didn't really understand just how incredible they are until I got a chance to see them…Mon, 21 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogart & musicrecommendationshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-02-17-greatness-and-depression/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-02-17-greatness-and-depression/Several years ago I read an article in the Atlantic Monthly that has stayed with me: Lincoln's Great Depression.Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloghistorypoliticspsychologyhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-02-14-electronic-literature-collection/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-02-14-electronic-literature-collection/Found via a friend: the Electronic Literature Collection is a treasure trove of stories, statements, and pieces of art that use their electronic medium to…Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogrecommendationshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-02-10-making-molehills-out-of-mountains/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-02-10-making-molehills-out-of-mountains/I've only been semi-following the PAX east/dickwolves controversy, so I'm not going to write a novel about what happened and who was in the wrong and why.Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloggenderhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-01-29-we-all-shine-on/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-01-29-we-all-shine-on/This gorgeous graphic has been making its way around the internet lately:Sat, 29 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogglobalization & imperialismsciencehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-01-27-natural-born-scientists/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-01-27-natural-born-scientists/Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find…Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogscienceteachinghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-01-22-a-recommendation/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-01-22-a-recommendation/Reading a novel or story by Milan Kundera is not like reading anything else: he has a languid style which slides imperceptibly from narrative to essay and…Sat, 22 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogrecommendationshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-01-19-blogkeeping/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-01-19-blogkeeping/It's been about a year since I started this blog, and I'm slowly getting a sense of what I want it to be, on multiple levels.Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMTShauna's BlogFLOSSmetaprogramminghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-01-19-community-supported-education/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-01-19-community-supported-education/Parts and Crafts, the kids' hackerspace that I've been working with on and off since the summer, has launched a kickstarter. They've made an awesome video…Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogscienceteachinghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-01-11-fun-and-games-4-thoughts/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2011-01-11-fun-and-games-4-thoughts/Hannukah has always been my favorite Jewish holiday. No fasting, no seders - just candles, latkes, and dreidels. Here's a confession, though. I don't like…Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloggames & puzzlesmaking thingspersonalhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2010-12-24-a-christmas-present/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2010-12-24-a-christmas-present/Ah, Christmas Eve in a Jewish/agnostic household. My tummy is full of Chinese food and my stockings stuffed with feet.Fri, 24 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloggeneral sillinesshistorywritinghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2010-12-14-twenty-six-candles/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2010-12-14-twenty-six-candles/My birthday was a couple of days ago. I got obsessed with making the electrically conductive cake described in The Hungry Scientist, only I didn't get a…Tue, 14 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogcookingpersonalhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2010-11-28-the-perfect-woman-in-an-imperfect-world/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2010-11-28-the-perfect-woman-in-an-imperfect-world/My family and I watched Agora, the new movie about Hypatia of Alexandria, over Thanksgiving weekend. We were all very excited about this, having been…Sun, 28 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloggenderhistoryreviewshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2010-11-20-beyond-belief/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2010-11-20-beyond-belief/A few nights ago, Sprout had their monthly spaghetti dinner. Every month is a different theme, and I had been looking forward to this month's - mythology -…Sat, 20 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloghistorypoliticshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2010-10-18-crying/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2010-10-18-crying/I went home last weekend, and I was excited for a chance to snuggle my cat, cook with my mom, and engage in the endless after dinner conversations my family…Mon, 18 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloggendersportshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2010-10-13-the-street-beest/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2010-10-13-the-street-beest/Over the last month or so, the folks at Sprout have been putting together a walking machine based off of Theo Jansen's models.Wed, 13 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogmaking thingshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2010-09-25-why-the-stars-shine/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2010-09-25-why-the-stars-shine/A few months ago I was browsing through a comic book store with my friends Orli and Skim. You'd think a nerd like me would be a devourer of comic…Sat, 25 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogpersonalreviewssciencehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2010-09-25-learning-in-the-time-of-cholera/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2010-09-25-learning-in-the-time-of-cholera/A few weeks ago, I spent the afternoon at Parts and Crafts, the learning-by-doing oriented summer camp a friend of mine co-founded. I wanted to try out a…Sat, 25 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloghistorymaking thingsscienceteachinghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2010-09-10-questionable-content/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2010-09-10-questionable-content/I ask a lot of questions. I get curious about things I don't understand and, fortunately or unfortunately, I don't understand a lot of things around me.…Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogquestionable contentsciencehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2010-08-18-delusions-of-objectivity/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2010-08-18-delusions-of-objectivity/As a psychologist, I find it extremely frustrating when people attempt to explain away gender differences as genetic or evolutionary, rather than exploring…Wed, 18 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloggenderpsychologysciencehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2010-08-08-how-to-make-an-led-bracelet-in-10-steps/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2010-08-08-how-to-make-an-led-bracelet-in-10-steps/The other day I was visiting my friend's summer camp when I saw a young camper fiddling around at the electronics table. She showed me the bracelet she had…Sun, 08 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogmaking thingsteachinghttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2010-08-05-aliens-among-us/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2010-08-05-aliens-among-us/I've been an avid science fiction fan since I read Madeleine L'Engle's "A Wrinkle In Time" when I was a teensy one. Since then I've read Asimov and…Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogsciencehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2010-07-11-obama-and-the-fundamental-attribution-error/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2010-07-11-obama-and-the-fundamental-attribution-error/The transition from Bush to Obama has been a strange one for me. There is a certain ease to opposing someone whose ideology is so different from yours.…Sun, 11 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogpoliticspsychologyre-postshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2010-06-30-rotten-apples-bad-barrels/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2010-06-30-rotten-apples-bad-barrels/When it comes to social psychology, everyone seems to know two names: Milgram and Zimbardo. It's funny, because they both studied essentially the same thing…Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogpoliticspsychologyre-postssciencehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2010-06-08-finding-a-woman-in-a-haystack/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2010-06-08-finding-a-woman-in-a-haystack/The ever-insightful Echidne has up a though-provoking post on genealogy and how patriarchal naming practices cause women to "disappear into the midst of time".Tue, 08 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloggenderpersonalhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2010-04-21-the-crimson-cauldron/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2010-04-21-the-crimson-cauldron/I've been fascinated with volcanoes ever since I was a little kid, so of course the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland has got me pretty excited. This…Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogpersonalhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2010-03-24-ada-lovelace-day-barbara-mcclintock/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2010-03-24-ada-lovelace-day-barbara-mcclintock/Today is Ada Lovelace day, which means its time to celebrate women in technology and science! If you have the time, consider writing a blog or facebook post…Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Bloggendersciencehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2010-02-19-the-carrot-and-the-stick/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2010-02-19-the-carrot-and-the-stick/The other night I gave a talk at one of Sprout's Spaghetti dinners. I thought I'd throw it up here for everyone's enjoyment. I've edited it a little bit,…Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogpsychologysciencehttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2010-02-13-human-test-subjects/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2010-02-13-human-test-subjects/Last night, after much fun during the day, Orli, Russ, Keith, Cora and I sat down to play Morton's List. Now, for those of you who've never heard of this…Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogpersonalpsychologyre-postshttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2010-02-13-the-man-who-knew-too-much/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2010-02-13-the-man-who-knew-too-much/With a subject as complex and influential as Alan Turing, how could this biography fail to be fascinating? The premise of the book is an examination of…Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogre-postsreviewssciencetechnologyhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2010-02-01-getting-your-hands-dirty/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2010-02-01-getting-your-hands-dirty/I've had a couple of really good conversations lately about the value of doing. By doing, I mean creating: baking, sewing, hammering, soldering, writing,…Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogpersonalhttps://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2010-01-11-welcome/https://blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2010-01-11-welcome/Hi everyone! Welcome to my blog. I wanted to put this post up as a place for people to comment on the blog as a whole. I've written the code for the blog…Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMTShauna's Blogmeta