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Melanie Z. Plasencia
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Postdoc Fellow @Dartmouth I PhD @ucberkeley @ethnicuc | Latina/o/x Aging, Immigration, Poverty and Inequality | @NASEMFordFellow I @Rutgers McNair | 🇵🇷+🇨🇺
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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.
Revisiting the Dunning-Kruger Effect: Composite Measures and Heterogeneity by Gender
The Dunning-Kruger effect (DKE) states that people with lower levels of the ability tend to self-assess their ability less accurately than people with...
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February 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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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:
Ripple Effect: The American River Experience Postdoctoral Fellowship - Omaha, NE
usaconservationmellonfellowships.applicantpool.com
October 27, 2023 at 2:38 PM
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“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.”
Poverty is growing in Puerto Rico, under US colonialism: 57.6% of children live in poor households
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 ...
geopoliticaleconomy.com
October 4, 2023 at 12:02 AM
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Katalin Karikó on the status economy of academia. She’s the hero we don’t deserve.

Source: josephnoelwalker.com/147-katalin-...
October 3, 2023 at 8:20 AM
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#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?
September 26, 2023 at 8:13 PM
How do you get invites on this ? 😬 Do I have to do a survey or perform a trick? Haha
September 26, 2023 at 3:42 AM
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
oooh fun -- intro yourself w some jobs apart from what you do now:

- election poll clerk
- bartender
- martial arts instructor
- freelance editor
- AV technician
- help desk rep
- film consultant
- after school math teacher
- TV host and writer
Introduce yourself w/ some jobs apart from what you do now:
• medical transcription
• journalist
• college radio show host
• waiter & catering
• writing tutor for 6-12 graders
• nonprofit research
• federal grants research
• program staff & UG student mentor for WoC center
• development & copyeditor
September 26, 2023 at 3:18 AM
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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
September 18, 2023 at 5:46 PM
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"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…
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September 19, 2023 at 9:58 PM
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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...
September 22, 2023 at 1:02 PM
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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.
September 20, 2023 at 9:18 AM
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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
September 26, 2023 at 1:34 AM