Working on a piece about academic computer science/software engineering. If you're in academia, or have recently left, I'd love to talk.
I dunno if relevant but I've been in neuroscience/psychology/cogsci for roughly 8 years. I am not a developer. I worked really hard
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to get to where I am. I'm a cognitive computational neuroscientist. People keep redefining me without permission. It's exhausting.
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Yes, I my undergraduate degree was in computer science. I have never left academia. I have a phd in computational cognitive modeling. I am
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really happy with my area. But I'm so tired of coworkers in past labs essentially taking my PhD away from me.
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thanks for sharing that - super valuable for me to get your perspective. I think it relates to what I'm writing about after all :)
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Topic is how CS and SEng departments prepare students to work in industry (& whether they even should).
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I'd love to hear more from the perspective of someone who didn't take the common path of heading into industry after undergrad.
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There are a lot of us in cog/neuro. I can think of 6+ including permanent staff with compsci undergrad in my department. Not that unusual.

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I code but I think it's tangental to what I'm doing. I love programming but it's not my job.
this side conversation on identifying as a dev.