Science and research practice

How research gets done and taught: causal inference, reusable software research, open science, and science education.
04
Jun
A large mural painted on the side of a building shows a man examining his own heart on a microscope, the heart is still attached to his body

On science teaching and science teachers

I expected to love Project Hail Mary (this was an easy prediction. Things I like: space movies, puppets, problem-solving,
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21
May
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Software research must become more reusable

This month I gave two invited talks that as paired pieces form a kind of bracket to hold together several
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01
Feb
A photo from a museum shows a large fossil skeleton

Science at the Edge of the World

I decided to change my own mind about evolution in my freshman year of college, which is common: college is
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04
Dec
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Access the Design-a-Study Workshop & become an advance reader for my book!

I hosted another Developer Science Office Hour last month, and for some reason, decided I needed to blackmail myself into
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14
Nov
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Can we make Security Empirical, and why might we want to?

There's a paper I recently came across by Mohammad Tahaei and colleagues called Privacy Champions in Sofware Teams:
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20
Aug
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What you've helped me do this month

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09
Jun

Unfortunately, you have to think about cause

So somebody came to you (maybe it was your own mind, that traitor!) and said you need to think about
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