Cat HicksAug 23, 2024

Today I'm launching something near and dear to my heart...VERY near and dear 😂 -- a podcast project with my phenomenal favorite neuroscientist (& wife), @analog_ashley !

On "Change, Technically" we're coming to your ears to share tales of who gets to be technical. We dig into STEM pathways & how leaders can learn from psych and neuroscience to think about cultivating innovation. We share our stories from classrooms to software teams. Plus new Cat & Ashley lore!

https://www.changetechnically.fyi/

Change, Technically

Ashley Juavinett, PhD and Cat Hicks, PhD explore technical skills, the science of innovation, STEM pathways, and our beliefs about who gets to be technical—so you can be a better leader and we can all build a better future.Ashley, a neuroscientist...

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Show threadjonny (good kind)

@grimalkina
@analog_ashley
I AM LOVING THIS. esp when ya'll are getting to this conversation of "do only the rich kids get to have fun" - if there's one way I would describe how I teach it would be "empowerment first," and that includes all the things like giving license for errors by conspicuously making them myself, telling them about the kinds of mistakes that can be made, and creating conditions where I can say to them "now there is nothing you could possibly do to break anything," BUT ALSO CULTIVATING JOY like "you get to invent the reason for why you are doing this, so lets pick a fun thing you would never have imagined being able to talk to a computer about and make that happen"

First podcast ive ever listened to about programming (except darknet diaries, which is sorta a different thing) and only time I feel like I can hard relate to how people are talking about programming education in particular

Aug 25, 2024 at 5:11amWeb
Show threadjonny (good kind)Aug 25, 2024
Also I hope this doesnt mess up the research but
@analog_ashley when I talked to your lab member a few months ago for a survey I was basically saying the same thing re: my programming history as you, it's uncanny, and @grimalkina the "everyone thinks they are the untrained one but actually everyone is untrained" is so so real and a frequent mantra I try to give students when im teaching them - im teaching you because nobody taught me, and hopefully one day you teach someone else, because none of us know what we're doing and the only thing we can do about that is help each other as much as we can.
Show threadjonny (good kind)Aug 25, 2024
@analog_ashley
@grimalkina
Sharing this with my STS, scholcomm, and library friends who I feel like are thinking along very similar lines from very different perspectives
Show threadjonny (good kind)Aug 25, 2024
@analog_ashley
@grimalkina
Also saw this first shared in the @pyOpenSci slack and I think yall would love hanging with this group if ya havent already been invited a million times ♥
Show threadAshley JuavinettAug 28, 2024
@jonny @grimalkina @pyOpenSci ahh hey! thanks so much for all of this thoughtful commentary. thanks for helping spread the good word!!