Post by @grimalkina@mastodon.social

@mlevison thank you!! This is what I'm thinking about. To start I think I just need to talk to people with experience I don't have willing to donate a little time to this

https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/116590878378240689

Cat Hicks

@[email protected] · 4 days ago

My dream would be to assemble a small group of tech advisors who want to see this work happen to chat with, even just 1 call & follow-up emails. I am really really willing to roll up my sleeve and learn lots but I want to be self-aware about the unknown unknowns. I might just be overthinking risks, but creating a form of infrastructure for SAFE and TRUSTABLE open source studies even just surveys would be my dream. And I've seen first-hand how dev data is vultured over so ownership matters to me

Chip Butty

@[email protected] · 4 days ago

@grimalkina good hunting. I don't think I'm the right person to help, but this sounds cool

Cat Hicks

@[email protected] · 4 days ago

I guess the thing that paralyzes me is I want to take the respondents privacy and data security very seriously for obvious reasons -- I debate whether I need demographics but it really really helps evaluate the impact of these measures for different groups -- and I have been thinking about building my own thing so it's all Catharsis-owned start to finish but as you can imagine as a social scientist I would just be mucking around with a LOT I've never done

Cat Hicks

@[email protected] · 4 days ago

Michael Newton

@mavnn · 4 days ago

@[email protected] feel free to get in touch if I can help, I do this kind of thing when I'm not ill: blog.mavnn.eu/2024/01/29/sho...

Short term help

Michael Newton

@mavnn · 4 days ago

@[email protected] Also, as a very random side note the EU (as an organisation, and various governments within the EU) are currently funding open source infrastructure work. It gets in the weeds quickly, but it may be something of interest: even if you don't need/want to engage with it yourself, individuals can apply for support to help projects as long as the maintainers agree the work benefits the project.

Cat Hicks

@[email protected] · 4 days ago

Eventually I want to do bigger things, like think about deploying and testing interventions, but this is a place to start!

discobeez

@[email protected] · 4 days ago

@grimalkina not sure I can do much to help, but here's my vote of support in case it's helpful. How devs experience work matters, a lot. If you can think of some way I can help, lemme know!

Cat Hicks

@[email protected] · 4 days ago

This is messy, but I am putting it out there!

In case you don't want to respond here, feel free to email me at dr.cat.hicks at gmail with LET'S DO SCIENCE as the subject line. I am looking to chat with folks who can help me not steer my little kayak of open science onto the rocks when it comes to collecting large-scale social science surveys, running psychology studies on a website, collecting and storing that type of data outside of classic software like Qualtrics etc

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Michael Newton

@mavnn · 4 days ago

@[email protected] Well, given the type of people who follow you it doesn't seem like it would be hard to get help on the technical implementing of anything that needs implementing. But is that actually the aspect you're feeling paralysed by, or is it more the getting funding etc side of things?

Cat Hicks

@[email protected] · 4 days ago

@mavnn I think this thread is me calling upon my followers! I am willing to fund the start of this with my consulting and newsletter right now

https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/116590878378240689

Michael Newton

@mavnn · 4 days ago

@[email protected] I saw just as I posted! I hadn't spotted how recent your posts were or I would have waited in case you were still writing (as you were...)

Mark Levison

@[email protected] · 4 days ago

@grimalkina how can we help you?

Cat Hicks

@[email protected] · 4 days ago

@mlevison thank you!! This is what I'm thinking about. To start I think I just need to talk to people with experience I don't have willing to donate a little time to this

https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/116590878378240689

Mark Levison

@[email protected] · 4 days ago

@grimalkina Always happy to chat, I don’t think I have the experience you're looking for, since I've not had a real job in 15 years.