People with lower skills tend to misjudge their ability, something known as the Dunning-Kruger effect. But there's a gender twist: while men overestimate, women underestimate themselves.
Interesting National Park Service postdoc (passed along by a friend in NPS) with the goal of "exploring the way that communities form their civic or cultural identities around rivers." Check it out and share it with anyone you think might be interested:
“Poverty is rising in one of the world’s oldest colonies: In Puerto Rico, 41.7% of people, including 57.6% of children, live in poverty. This is nearly four times the US rate. And Puerto Rican workers are getting poorer even while unemployment falls.”
![There is a “centre” where the money, the fame, is; most likely your proposal gets funded because it’s on the most favourable topic. Maybe today, RNA is [most favourable]. If you are working with mRNA, maybe that's the centre there.
And then there are people in the periphery. There is no fame, there is no money, no nothing there. The only thing in the periphery is freedom. You can do what you like to do, what you feel is important.
Here’s what a proposal is: why they should give me money. And they should question that. “She came from university nobody knew about.” “She never had a mentor who was famous.”
And somehow it gravitates always to the same people, same circle. They get published there, they get the money. And that's another explanation: I was not famous enough or didn't have anybody who would support me in a way that somebody that’s a famous and well-established scientist stands behind you and says, “Oh, look at this, it’s good.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:h6srr75ahvugj6gts7ql4cpl/bafkreie7jkxonqwgbbcuni4dh54nhodteq24wv4dp6smnvsomdpwpve4we)
There is a “centre” where the money, the fame, is; most likely your proposal gets funded because it’s on the most favourable topic. Maybe today, RNA is [most favourable]. If you are working with mRNA, maybe that's the centre there. And then there are people in the periphery. There is no fame, there is no money, no nothing there. The only thing in the periphery is freedom. You can do what you like to do, what you feel is important. Here’s what a proposal is: why they should give me money. And they should question that. “She came from university nobody knew about.” “She never had a mentor who was famous.” And somehow it gravitates always to the same people, same circle. They get published there, they get the money. And that's another explanation: I was not famous enough or didn't have anybody who would support me in a way that somebody that’s a famous and well-established scientist stands behind you and says, “Oh, look at this, it’s good.”
Katalin Karikó on the status economy of academia. She’s the hero we don’t deserve.
Source: josephnoelwalker.com/147-katalin-...
#sociology I need your help. I remember reading at least one paper around the ethics of conducting interviews during the pandemic (or before) on populations that are already overburdened with asks on their time. Are there ethics stuff out there related to burdening overburdened people with our asks?
Thank you! Cool photo!
How do you get invites on this ? 😬 Do I have to do a survey or perform a trick? Haha
Introducing myself with jobs I’ve had in the past :-)
-DEI Project Director for UC-Berkeley
-Bartender at MetLife Stadium
-IT Support Staff for Rutgers University
-CENSUS field representative
-Manager at Ben and Jerry’s
We’re hiring! @utrgv sociology is hiring a TT Assistant Professor, applications are open now! Open specialization, but gender, sexuality, qualitative methods, Latinx or Border studies preferred. I’m search chair. Plz share!
careers.utrgv.edu/postings/40085
"Potential areas of departmental interest include Latinx/Chicanx/Hispanic-heritage, Black, or Indigenous rhetorics and literatures, digital humanities, disability studies, and rhetorics of science." Full ad here: joblist.mla.org/job-details/78…
Josen Masangkay Diaz, Dolores Inés Casillas, April Petillo, and Cathy Hannabach. Text reads: Feminist Futures of Peer Review, September 25, 2023, 1-2 pm EST, Zoom, with the Ideas on Fire logo
There’s still time to register for FEMINIST FUTURES OF PEER REVIEW! Join April Petillo, @josendiaz.bsky.social, Dolores Inés Casillas, & Cathy Hannabach for a virtual panel discussion of how feminist peer review is remaking the future of scholarly publishing ideasonfire.net/feminist-fut...
But have you watched the short film “the last of the chupacabras” on Disney+? It’s 14 min. 😬
When you and someone have followed each other for ages on Twitter and now you’re waiting to see if they’ll follow you back on all the new social media sites.
starting to think this place has the juice to be The Next Place - been offline for a few days with my family and I have no idea what you’re all mad about, great sign
