I am going to talk a little about something that — yes, I know, I talk about it a lot — but it's been especially playing on my mind lately:
Learning how to code.





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Replying to @o_guest
Hey! One of the people in your tweet. Did some "informatics" as we called it in school, hated it thoroughly, considered it 2nd hand math (which was my thing). My high-school concentration let me choose a Math only profile and there went coding. All ur points r super convincing.
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Replying to @IoanaA_Cristea @o_guest
But I really wish coding evangelists (I really don't mean you here at all, but others, mostly men) would get off the high moral horse. As it happens, in my field u can be moderately successful academically without ur own scripts (I am not just saying this) b/c
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Replying to @IoanaA_Cristea @o_guest
Understanding methods is much more important & few people do. That said, many of us are really trying. I moved away from point-click software b/c it was limiting me & not b/c twitter rants about how science should only be done by coders and the future belongs to programmers.
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Replying to @IoanaA_Cristea @o_guest
So I guess my general point is that I really wish this conversation around Twitter would be a bit more supportive. Little progress is also progress, baby steps r steps, many of us r trying, we can't do it all at once & there r still other things we can contribute.
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Yes, definitely a lot of men are unsupportive. That's the problem. The very core of the problem is that in the West it's seen as and sadly is a male dominated landscape. With a lot of added elitism.
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