Erika Salomon
@not-the-fish.bsky.social
social psychologist, data scientist, queer
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posted this four months ago but tonight as buckaroos like mamdani sweep elections i will post again. hope this is sign to all establishment goofs that trotting to the center is not the move. protect the buckaroos who are in perilous circumstances and do not give an inch
November 5, 2025 at 3:14 AM
posted this four months ago but tonight as buckaroos like mamdani sweep elections i will post again. hope this is sign to all establishment goofs that trotting to the center is not the move. protect the buckaroos who are in perilous circumstances and do not give an inch
Got a new macbook for work and and one of my first tasks was to set up different download folders for each client (separate browser profiles), so I downloaded iTerm because how does one make folders without mkdir?
September 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Got a new macbook for work and and one of my first tasks was to set up different download folders for each client (separate browser profiles), so I downloaded iTerm because how does one make folders without mkdir?
Thank you to the several people who have recommended the @ifbookspod.bsky.social podcast to me. I started listening to the Who Moved My Cheese episode and it is hilarious and just so, so right about this terrible book www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGRZ...
If Books Could Kill - Episode 33: Who Moved My Cheese?
YouTube video by Seaquence
www.youtube.com
June 29, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Thank you to the several people who have recommended the @ifbookspod.bsky.social podcast to me. I started listening to the Who Moved My Cheese episode and it is hilarious and just so, so right about this terrible book www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGRZ...
I decided to try Couch 2 5K (c25k.com) and I didn't see the need for a dedicated app. I just wanted calendar reminders and audio tracks with cues for when to walk and when to jog, so I asked Claude to make these for me. If you want them, they are available here github.com/not-the-fish...
Couch to 5k - C25K Running Program
The Couch to 5k program was designed to gradually build up your strength and stamina, helping you transition from the couch to completing a 5K run.
c25k.com
June 9, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I decided to try Couch 2 5K (c25k.com) and I didn't see the need for a dedicated app. I just wanted calendar reminders and audio tracks with cues for when to walk and when to jog, so I asked Claude to make these for me. If you want them, they are available here github.com/not-the-fish...
With so many good people in my network being laid off from research companies and the government, I'm putting together a list of resources for finding tech/data jobs for social good. Please share any tools/tricks you use. And if you're hiring, let me know! These are folks I love working with
April 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
With so many good people in my network being laid off from research companies and the government, I'm putting together a list of resources for finding tech/data jobs for social good. Please share any tools/tricks you use. And if you're hiring, let me know! These are folks I love working with
I have learned so much by saying or doing something wrong (that I believed to be right) and being corrected. This is a core experience of schooling and of life. We need the space to be wrong and the grace to take seriously correction.
April 5, 2025 at 4:22 AM
I have learned so much by saying or doing something wrong (that I believed to be right) and being corrected. This is a core experience of schooling and of life. We need the space to be wrong and the grace to take seriously correction.
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New, from me:
Trump is whitewashing American history, removing not just people, but also the stories, images, and values to anyone who does not conform to his impoverished vision of America.
Here is a partial inventory. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whitewashi...
Trump is whitewashing American history, removing not just people, but also the stories, images, and values to anyone who does not conform to his impoverished vision of America.
Here is a partial inventory. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whitewashi...
Whitewashing American history
The Trump Presidency as a project of erasure
donmoynihan.substack.com
March 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
New, from me:
Trump is whitewashing American history, removing not just people, but also the stories, images, and values to anyone who does not conform to his impoverished vision of America.
Here is a partial inventory. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whitewashi...
Trump is whitewashing American history, removing not just people, but also the stories, images, and values to anyone who does not conform to his impoverished vision of America.
Here is a partial inventory. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whitewashi...
A case for decentralizing our feeds from platforms via RSS or a similar standard. Let creators publish their content to a single stream without being concerned about where it will be read and let followers select the software that provides them with the features they want to consume it
As a laptop girlie, the fact that several Instagram features straight-up aren't available on browser grows more annoying by the day.
March 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
A case for decentralizing our feeds from platforms via RSS or a similar standard. Let creators publish their content to a single stream without being concerned about where it will be read and let followers select the software that provides them with the features they want to consume it
Wow. I have seen companies make their emails entirely images or make all of the important content images. This is a new tactic to me. And seems ways less effective. They aren't even making a case for it. Just ordering me to do it. And buy things
March 12, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Wow. I have seen companies make their emails entirely images or make all of the important content images. This is a new tactic to me. And seems ways less effective. They aren't even making a case for it. Just ordering me to do it. And buy things
I'd love to see an RSS renaissance as part of the move away from platforms (Meta tools, tiktok, Twitter, etc.) and their inevitable enshittification. For example, I still use Insta mostly for local events and tattoo openings but there's no reason those couldn't be published as RSS and read anywhere
March 10, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I'd love to see an RSS renaissance as part of the move away from platforms (Meta tools, tiktok, Twitter, etc.) and their inevitable enshittification. For example, I still use Insta mostly for local events and tattoo openings but there's no reason those couldn't be published as RSS and read anywhere
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ATTENTION AI/ML researchers, we are hosting an open competition to predict replicability of published findings. Rewards are cash, glory, and the opportunity to advance research on automated assessment.
Announcement: www.cos.io/about/news/p...
Project webpage: www.cos.io/predicting-r...
Announcement: www.cos.io/about/news/p...
Project webpage: www.cos.io/predicting-r...
Center for Open Science Launches Challenge to Advance Automated Assessment of Research Claims
The Center for Open Science launches a new public challenge to develop automated methods for predicting research replicability, aiming to enhance the credibility and efficiency of scientific evaluatio...
www.cos.io
March 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
ATTENTION AI/ML researchers, we are hosting an open competition to predict replicability of published findings. Rewards are cash, glory, and the opportunity to advance research on automated assessment.
Announcement: www.cos.io/about/news/p...
Project webpage: www.cos.io/predicting-r...
Announcement: www.cos.io/about/news/p...
Project webpage: www.cos.io/predicting-r...
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Okay, so I’m finally putting a thread together: what is the deep-blue Delaware legislature proposing to do and why is it the most evil thing not directly involving Donald Trump happening in America today?
legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail/1...
legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail/1...
Bill Detail - Delaware General Assembly
legis.delaware.gov
February 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Okay, so I’m finally putting a thread together: what is the deep-blue Delaware legislature proposing to do and why is it the most evil thing not directly involving Donald Trump happening in America today?
legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail/1...
legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail/1...
I still believe this is the best joke I've ever made. I sincerely regret my lack of commitment to the gag. I should have 7 degrees by now!
February 20, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I still believe this is the best joke I've ever made. I sincerely regret my lack of commitment to the gag. I should have 7 degrees by now!
Not only that, note taking is an important strategy for consolidation and memory. Having something written down to refer to later is only one of the reasons to take notes
A meeting without meeting notes and action items might as well not have happened. So I’m a big fan of any tools that help with that.
However the idea replacing meeting attendance with AI bots is rude. If an AI bot is just as useful as you in a meeting then it means you aren’t that useful.
However the idea replacing meeting attendance with AI bots is rude. If an AI bot is just as useful as you in a meeting then it means you aren’t that useful.
Please Stop Inviting AI Notetakers to Meetings
Using artificial intelligence to summarize meetings raises questions around etiquette, privacy and the purpose of meeting in the first place.
www.bloomberg.com
February 15, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Not only that, note taking is an important strategy for consolidation and memory. Having something written down to refer to later is only one of the reasons to take notes
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The tech layoffs continue, and the companies are trying to present them as performance-based. There's just one problem: they're not actually performance-based.
I wrote a piece summarizing some of the data on this and telling my story from back in 2022.
open.substack.com/pub/mattmoty...
I wrote a piece summarizing some of the data on this and telling my story from back in 2022.
open.substack.com/pub/mattmoty...
February 13, 2025 at 2:37 AM
The tech layoffs continue, and the companies are trying to present them as performance-based. There's just one problem: they're not actually performance-based.
I wrote a piece summarizing some of the data on this and telling my story from back in 2022.
open.substack.com/pub/mattmoty...
I wrote a piece summarizing some of the data on this and telling my story from back in 2022.
open.substack.com/pub/mattmoty...
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If you are the parent of a transgender person under 19 and you're worried Trump's order restricting gender-affirming care may impact you, one helpful step you can take is joining PFLAG National. Trust me when I say their is safety in numbers. pflag.org/become-a-mem...
Become a PFLAG National Member
Join the nation’s largest organization dedicated to creating a caring, just, and affirming world for LGBTQ+ people and those who love them.
pflag.org
January 29, 2025 at 7:25 PM
If you are the parent of a transgender person under 19 and you're worried Trump's order restricting gender-affirming care may impact you, one helpful step you can take is joining PFLAG National. Trust me when I say their is safety in numbers. pflag.org/become-a-mem...
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Our first newsletter for the year is out!
Type/Code, ProPublica and ReFED are hiring. Coaching scholarships are available for Engineering leaders from groups that are underrepresented in technology. We've also include a lot of mid-level technical roles.
https://buff.ly/42csmO6
Type/Code, ProPublica and ReFED are hiring. Coaching scholarships are available for Engineering leaders from groups that are underrepresented in technology. We've also include a lot of mid-level technical roles.
https://buff.ly/42csmO6
Diversify Tech #321
Connecting underrepresented folks in tech with career opportunities
newsletter.diversifytech.com
January 8, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Our first newsletter for the year is out!
Type/Code, ProPublica and ReFED are hiring. Coaching scholarships are available for Engineering leaders from groups that are underrepresented in technology. We've also include a lot of mid-level technical roles.
https://buff.ly/42csmO6
Type/Code, ProPublica and ReFED are hiring. Coaching scholarships are available for Engineering leaders from groups that are underrepresented in technology. We've also include a lot of mid-level technical roles.
https://buff.ly/42csmO6
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been reading a lot of comments today about how people find man pages hard to read and it made me mad (why do they have to be so hard!)
so I'm giving away 300 copies of Bite Size Command Line to folks for whom $12 is a lot of money! (with code BUYONEGIVEONE)
wizardzines.com/zines/bite-s...
so I'm giving away 300 copies of Bite Size Command Line to folks for whom $12 is a lot of money! (with code BUYONEGIVEONE)
wizardzines.com/zines/bite-s...
January 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
been reading a lot of comments today about how people find man pages hard to read and it made me mad (why do they have to be so hard!)
so I'm giving away 300 copies of Bite Size Command Line to folks for whom $12 is a lot of money! (with code BUYONEGIVEONE)
wizardzines.com/zines/bite-s...
so I'm giving away 300 copies of Bite Size Command Line to folks for whom $12 is a lot of money! (with code BUYONEGIVEONE)
wizardzines.com/zines/bite-s...
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Chicago friends! And others.
Just FYI, administrative warrants (like the ones used by ICE) are not judicial warrants (used by cops, signed by a judge).
You do NOT legally have to open the door for an ICE officer with an administrative warrant *no matter what the ICE officer says.*
You do NOT legally have to open the door for an ICE officer with an administrative warrant *no matter what the ICE officer says.*
January 18, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Chicago friends! And others.
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Congratulations to the NIH Fellows United union for their first contract, which covers harassment, relocation benefits, parental leave, and "the right to adhere to a 40-hour workweek unless a project calls for a greater number of hours" www.science.org/content/arti... via @science.org
NIH postdocs, graduate students win union contract
Historic deal will boost researcher pay—if Congress provides funding
www.science.org
January 13, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Congratulations to the NIH Fellows United union for their first contract, which covers harassment, relocation benefits, parental leave, and "the right to adhere to a 40-hour workweek unless a project calls for a greater number of hours" www.science.org/content/arti... via @science.org
What are we calling posts on here? What sound do butterflies make? Flapping? Are these flaps?
January 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM
What are we calling posts on here? What sound do butterflies make? Flapping? Are these flaps?
Every time I watch Severance (1 week until S2), I think of the discourse around digital taylorism from the 2010s, exemplified by these pieces that place engineers as the ideators and implementers of scientific management since the 1800s
www.economist.com/business/201...
jacobin.com/2018/02/amaz...
www.economist.com/business/201...
jacobin.com/2018/02/amaz...
January 11, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Every time I watch Severance (1 week until S2), I think of the discourse around digital taylorism from the 2010s, exemplified by these pieces that place engineers as the ideators and implementers of scientific management since the 1800s
www.economist.com/business/201...
jacobin.com/2018/02/amaz...
www.economist.com/business/201...
jacobin.com/2018/02/amaz...
8 years after graduating and moving onto "data" as a profession, threads like remind me of how *interesting* I find psychology. I miss having much more time to spend reading and thinking about the science of human thought and behavior
@talyarkoni.com While this is somewhat historically accurate take on personality psychology, it is a mischaracterization of the field that exists today. I say this having just finished a preliminary list of readings for my grad seminar in personality psychology @dingdingpeng.the100.ci 1/
i don’t understand how personality psychology got stuck for 50 years studying maybe the least interesting possible interpretation of “personality” 🧵
January 11, 2025 at 1:59 AM
8 years after graduating and moving onto "data" as a profession, threads like remind me of how *interesting* I find psychology. I miss having much more time to spend reading and thinking about the science of human thought and behavior
The language being used to sunset DEI programs is trying to be Orwellian but in such an obvious and sloppy way that it reads like a jumbled, incoherent mess but will still have the impact of making having conversations harder by intentionally muddying what words mean
www.axios.com/2025/01/10/m...
www.axios.com/2025/01/10/m...
Read: Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs
Read the memo from Meta to its employees about ending major DEI programs across the company, effective immediately.
www.axios.com
January 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The language being used to sunset DEI programs is trying to be Orwellian but in such an obvious and sloppy way that it reads like a jumbled, incoherent mess but will still have the impact of making having conversations harder by intentionally muddying what words mean
www.axios.com/2025/01/10/m...
www.axios.com/2025/01/10/m...