Daphna Harel

I got two very hurtful course evaluation comments this past semester and honestly, it’s still bothering me and I still don’t know what to do about them. They weren’t constructive. They were just mean, derogatory, and intended to hurt my feelings (and they did).

I want to listen to student voices. Their input is extremely valuable. But I just don’t believe that anonymous evals collected during the highest stress time of the semester is the way to get constructive and high quality feedback.

My new friend - as seen on my sloth tour this afternoon

I’m fortunate that I get to spend a lot of my personal life around other queer people, but I want the same thing for my professional circles.

Who are your favorite queer statisticians on here so I can go ahead and follow them?

One of my favorite parts of the start of a new semester is setting my priorities for which papers to work on. My full to-do list is a ridiculous 24 items, but my priority list is a much more manageable 6 papers. However, I'm still on a "no streak". No new things until I'm < 15 on the full list.

Take a moment of self reflection: Check in with yourself, or let us know how you’re doing using this secret code.

❤️ I’m doing great
🧡 I’m pretty good
💛 I’m okay
💚 I’m starting to struggle
💙 I’m having a hard time
💜 I’m not doing okay

I was just writing out a statement of work for a grant and I mistakenly wrote "Dr. Harel will participate in weekly team meetings, meetings, and other meetings"

I'm not actually sure it's a mistake.

My 40th peer reviewed article was just accepted for publication. If I could go back 10 years and tell grad school me that I'd have 40 papers, I would never believe it.

Please excuse a delay in response. I’m currently out of the office

I never thought that what drove me to social media was having a platform, but having a platform on a site where my content was seen is what helped me build community and make friends. Having a much narrower reach on a platform that has no algorithm, and the loss of any audience on the other site has left me feeling alone on these things, taking away all the fun for me.

Not asking for anything, just coming to terms with my feelings and relationship with these sites.

Data Rescue Project put out an amazing tracker today of data saving efforts for federal data. Check it out. https://www.datarescueproject.org/data-rescue-tracker/

I’m moved over to Bluesky as well (handle is just my first name). Follow me there if you’re on there!

@VickyRampin@octodon.social would you mind if I adapt this and use something similar?

We’re hiring an assistant professor (TT) of computational social science at NYU. We value statistics and computational social science in service of tackling social problems and for the social good. Check out the ad here:

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I have to prepare some last-minute content on cleaning and analyzing text data in R for a class. Anyone have any worked out examples they want to share with me? Something socially relevant would be a plus but not necessary.

I know I'm not the only one who experiences this, but I struggle so much with saying no. It really upsets me that I have to, and I know that what I'm really doing is making sure that I have sufficient time to follow through with my current commitments, but still... any advice?

Two new textbook editions sent to the publisher. This is a good start to the new year.