Here's just a reminder that if you are a computational cognitive modeller and also part of any minority in the field, join this club full of amazing people: http://compcog.science/ And if you organize conferences / workshops / etc: It's also a good source for possible speakers!
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I've looked in/around similar issues myself re: lists of people for a while. If I were to do something like this now, I would (i) consult with a lawyer specifically re GDPR (ii) start over again, and only include people who self-nominate/volunteer to be on it >
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This is good advice -- I really think self-vol is crucial for many reasons. One of them being tied to identity-- I've been really uncomfortable when people slap me onto lists of "women in CL/AI/etc." Despite their good intentions
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Absolutely. I only have one public Twitter list, and I only add people to it when I have their permission to do so, for specifically this reason.
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FWIW I can take it down if you two feel this way, but I'm a bit worried as people use it to find others and offer them jobs.
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As a non-queer man (allocishet) I don't have any valid take on this, IMHO - it's only that when talking with others about lists of this kind (e.g. around bioinformatics) that what I describe seems to be a consensus-ish around the opinions I've heard from others.
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What you describe though isn't what I've done. I didn't collect any data for each person, merely that they belong to some of the minority categories in modeling. If you think it's a problem, I respect that and I offer to take the list down.
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FWIW I would keep it up, and/but if anyone on the list, or from any of the minorities involved in it asks you to change it in some way (delete it, remove them, etc.) then I'd do it. It clearly has value. My engagement >
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with these issues is dominated by the fact that I am only very rarely part of one of the minorities being discussed.
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I know people on that list who are nonbinary, so that concerns me too -- I'm nonbinary and "women in X" groups make me severely uncomfortable/feel excluded.
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Like, more than one person. Not gonna name names since the info isn't there; but I agree w you that binarism isn't the way to go
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What is, in your opinion?
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I mean, I'm not a lawyer but I fail to see the issue with people self-disclosing how they identify, with the option to opt-out/remove it if necessary? It would be nice to not have to sift through an entire list to find ppl like me, if that makes sense.
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Because GDPR probably would have issues with how and where we store the data.
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