Oh, haha. CogSci Soc's Twitter account unfollowed me after following me for a couple years. Laughed out loud. 
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This is only whoever runs their twitter account, but this action is indicative of an organisation that is deeply flawed and a poor reflection of the larger cognitive science enterprise. It's totally sensible to put your energy elsewhere.
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How so?
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Too much to say on twitter, but just look at the conference. it's a ton of parallel tracks of hit-and-miss quality to suck in sufficient numbers of junior researchers into a pyramid scheme in which they pay tribute to baby boomer club members awarding each other prizes.
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Which conference isn’t like that?
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If true, which it might be, then I guess it's a problem with academic/conference culture then more broadly.
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ideas: 1/blinded reviews (with rebuttals) to improve paper quality 2/major awards chosen by popular society vote not a "select" panel 3/more outreach to aligned disciplines so field isn't so cliquish for psych+dev 4/paper awards not for current year but a "test of time" award
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Yeah, that would remove some corruption. I think more focus on what people are doing lately, as opposed to lifetime achievement awards, would help in terms of steering the field, but also in terms of diversity. Imagine if Rumelhart Award was for achievement in the last 10 years?
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Something I learned from the many discussions private and non- that the women and gender minorities in comp cog sci generated is that I and others'd like to see discrimination (structural, institutional, not only individual) addressed/discussed with men included in the
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discussions and implementation of the solutions. No fig leaf inclusivity. No more "but there are many women in developmental psychology". the leaky pipeline leaks for reasons. The stories of Amy Perfors and Eliana Colunga and myself (from the
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for reasons.
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Olivia Guest | Ολίβια Γκεστ Retweeted Natalia Vélez
I want to meet more people like me, but we should not be the only ones getting through. Eliana's slide was pretty damning for the fields we move in. I wish all the men who think "but there are women in dev psy" isOK to say had been there!https://twitter.com/natvelali/status/1022243679208136704 …
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