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Last year, an English teacher at my school came to me with an all-too-common concern about an essay a student named Kyle had just turned in. The ...
Atlassian has implemented a new performance review strategy designed to give their workers a better evaluation of how they’re performing. The new strategy focuses more on whether an employee adheres to Atlassian’s values rather than how technically skilled they are. Atlassian’s global head of talent, Bek Chee, said the company […]
Are the most successful people in society just the luckiest people?
You might expect this post to discredit ill-defined hiring criteria like smart or assertive. While that is also a tech hiring scourge that I hate, this post is not about that.
Being asked to keynote code4lib was a literal dream come true for me. I shared some of the diversity and inclusion work we’re doing at Mozilla, called out whiteness and racism in libraries and shared some personal stuff. This wasn’t the first time I’ve cried while giving a talk, but this was the first time … Continue reading "blah, blah, blah: diversity and inclusion, the code4lib edition"
Sexual-harassment training doesn't work. Bystander training DOES.
Opinion: Humans train the machine-learning and AI systems at Facebook, Google, and Twitter to filter out bias. The problem: they don't know what they're looking for.
New research says some straightforward interventions are effective in addressing faculty workload disparities.
Avoid open-ended questions.
Researchers focused on female cadets at the U.S. Military Academy.
When a professor posted a Twitter thread about how Cornell University improved diversity in its computer-science PhD program, it quickly went ...
Meet the scientists finding out how we can defeat our inner trolls and build more cooperative digital societies.
In the years since implementation, such harassment has ceased to be a problem.
The cold impartiality of science has something to add to the individual experiences of sexual harassment we've read about this year. And it can help chart a course forward.
When “The Voice” premiered in 2011, it distinguished itself from other televised singing contests by featuring a blind auditions phase. Contestants had ...
Nothing's foolproof, but there are research-proven changes companies could make.
If no one has told you yet, as your career in tech progresses you will eventually become a custodian of culture. If you run a meetup or a team, if you lead an open source project, or if you organize an event people will be looking to you to know what is and isn't okay in that space. You get this responsibility whether you want it or not. You don't have to be internet famous to have this responsibility. If there are people you work with who have been around for less time than you, then you are going to help set the culture for them.