I have a LOT to say about this but let me start with - we knew our number one goal as a lab hiring was to find more scientists who knew action research means centering kindness & rigor together. John Flournoy 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️☂ exemplifies this and we are SO excited to be your new team!!

One million percent this.

Danielle Huddleston, Kali Trzesniewski, and colleagues found that freshmen anticipated HIGHER academic belonging and LOWER anxiety in 2020! Perhaps due to normalization of concerns and community of care?

Everything is peer-reviewed if your spouse is judgmental enough

Was invited to share some thoughts on our research into Belonging on software teams and doing better by the women who are building our technology.

Watch here:
youtube.com/watch?v=WU2XqA…

Dr. Cat Hicks and Carol Lee, PhD and I are giving talks and facilitating workshops at LeadDev London this June, folks! We're stoked, and hope to see you there!

leaddev.com/leaddev-london…

A quick recap of the first day of talks from 2024 #monkigras !

redmonk.com/rstephens/2024…

Featuring the fantastic work of Richmond Alex Chan Patrick Debois Dr. Cat Hicks Zack Akil Mathis Lucka of deepset Luke Marsden Farrah C Brooke Jamieson https://hachyderm.io/@rafeco Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸

🔥 'Skeptics beat their chests about evidence-based medicine and never grapple with what patients should do when medicine doesn't bother to create an evidence base for your condition.' --Ed Yong is not here Simon Fraser University 🔥

Eclipse traffic will only be matched in volume by the economists getting out their lil calculators to churn out a million weird hotel studies I'm sure

Incredible reporting. Incredible data viz.

This is going to be SUCH a fun conversation with the Developer Success Lab on a topic near and dear to all of us: how we navigate thriving and battle misconceptions in tech careers! Join us!

Y'all, Dr. Cat Hicks is hosted tomorrow by Rebel Astronaut & Dr. Jennifer Pierce to talk about 🎉 Belonging & Creating Environments where Women Thrive in tech. 🎉

meetup.com/rebelastronaut…

“Every time I teach math in a way that’s accessible and real for my students, I’m teaching them: ‘The math is yours,’” writes Jose Vilson.

Building on this, we asked our audience to share strategies for connecting math to students’ experiences. 📚 📐 edut.to/3TmrkcF

'Centering cultural knowledge means turning to questions about what is helping a community survive and thrive.' - from the Transformative Research Toolkit (belonging.berkeley.edu/transformative…)

I am attending my first ever SIGCSE Technical Symposium this week to present our work at the intersection of programming and biology! 🌱💻 #sigcse2024

Both papers are being presented tomorrow (Thurs) at 4:35 pm, or you can read them here:

#1: doi.org/10.1145/362625…
#2: doi.org/10.1145/362625…

Have recently learned to ask for help more, 10/10 would recommend