I'm slowly teaching myself how to break down and talk about studies in video format which is absolutely and one hundred percent not optional if you want to do modern scicomm but God damn is it tiring
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@grimalkina I'm sad about this, ADHD makes video watching difficult for me. I prefer to read papers!
But as you say later, nobody is gonna read linked research papers.
There's one exception, the paper I show off at parties is "the science of cycology" by Dr Rebecca Lawson.
I get everybody to draw a bicycle and see if they did as well as they predicted.
It's always fun!
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@shapr oh I don't think the written word is going away lol
What is wild though? is while I have been posting about science on text microblogging platforms for years and years, people RARELY go read papers when you post them. But I'm getting really high engagement on papers off videos
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@grimalkina i think microblogging is a perfect format for taking things out of context. YouTube is much better suited for longform discussion with nuance.
One of my favorite channels is Two Minute Papers.
@grimalkina I try to read them. Sometimes I actually do. Usually I get distracted :p
@grimalkina Weirdo, maybe, but I prefer papers. While they tend to be more jargon-heavy than videos, papers offer easier random access. I can easily step back, go research a term or concept, and return to the paper.
Apart from "How To" videos, most instructional videos online cause me to think, "this could have been a blog post".
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@elight I'm talking about getting engagement ON papers FROM a video though
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@elight but thanks for the note of discouragement lol, not sure what the point of that is !
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@grimalkina Oh, I'm sorry! I thought I read that you were writing MORE papers. I dig that.
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@elight I'm definitely always going to write papers as long as I can! Just trying to find ways to communicate about them so the results help people :)
It's probably a function of reach and quantity of views but you know, it could be a function of social cognition and the density of information you get in video idk, which I really do respect because I like that too
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@grimalkina for me it would be maybe almost the opposite: when i read a thread, and it gives me the level of detail i need and looks legit, i might be satisfied, while, if i watch a video, i'm never really sure if i actually caught everything, and i might click on a link to something written to verify 😅
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@malte I think it is so interesting how many people are responding to this with their needs and no comment on MY needs lol. That's fine, and like here I am writing threads and posting papers and books, but you know, I can't have a career doing this public facing work or continue to get funding for it if I don't have an audience
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@grimalkina i think your needs are absolutely valid, and i was just braintickled in a positive way how a thing can help different people in different ways.
i'm not sure if i misread or miswrote in some way, but i really appreciate your content. it's always solid, and often thoughtprovoking in just the best way. thank you!
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@malte oh no worries at all, I was just lightly counter pointing not annoyed! Thank you for the kind words and haha, I'll keep making videos that do connect to deeper content
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There was a wave of people talking about this where lots of people posted about how it's really hard to be on camera if you're femme or have anything people can pick apart about you. I am well familiar with this lol. You would not believe the comments I've seen about every aspect of my face and body ✌️
But what's the answer? DON'T try to reach people? Cede the space? Not for me.
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It is interesting you know, because I was raised to not take up space and not be on stage and not be visible. Wore a veil every morning of my life. Women were to be seen, not heard, and were not deserving of education or microphones. So I bring a certain level of "fuck that" to the whole thing
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@grimalkina I was raised the same way by my conservative Christian Republican mother.
Even now I feel like I'm offensively bragging when I talk about things I've accomplished.
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@shapr I'm so sorry to hear you went through this/go through this. I found a lot of healing in realizing that this seeped into how I influenced other people and if I wanted to truly champion and motivate other people I needed to match that with self-compassion and being my own champion as well. We deserve it.
And when I started doing serious public speaking in software spaces I was having horrendous post-covid lung issues. I worried about my voice lasting, I was regularly the only person on stage in a mask, I've been the only woman on stage often, the comments I've fielded....
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So it's not that feeling the weight of being visible is not real and completely valid. It's not for everyone. But there is also joy in being visible: there's an authenticity and a courage it takes to show people that you do deserve to take up that space.
@grimalkina makes me think of this amazing poem
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@grimalkina Thank you. You're making the world a better place for my daughters by fighting this fight. It's BS that it's even a thing. I try to help by boosting posts like this to improve awareness. I hope humanity can grow up someday.
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@hosford42 every person's daughter we encourage is, to me, worth one thousand times more than one thousand jerks out there.
@grimalkina ugh, people are terrible. You're out here trying to do scicomm and people are like "your hair is the wrong shade of brown".
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@dave they love to talk about my eyebrows and I'm like jokes on you dude I love these eyebrows every comment makes me stronger
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@dave and to be honest I started leaning into it like you will see me fresh out of bed in my hoodie and glasses on TikTok and I LOVE IT considering how many mornings I've had to spend getting a thousand physical appearance things right for a keynote (not that I don't enjoy parts of that too usually when I'm wearing an outfit I made lol)
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