Fraser Allison

Thursday, 2:30pm – 3:30pm in the ‘Auditorium – JMC Academy’ (Level 2, 561 Harris St) #SXSWSydney With @marcusdcarter @madmacsfuryroad @heresathought and @sodapop_exe 🖤💀

I'm speaking at @SXSWsydney next week about death and games, alongside @marcusdcarter, @madmacsfuryroad and Susan Dang from @ghostpattern. sxswsydney.com/session/death-… (I'm no longer using Twitter besides the odd news update, see my profile for other ways to keep in touch.)

@madmacsfuryroad Oh, that's what I meant to use! Copy-paste error. 🤕 I'll delete and re-post

Guess I have to remove this from my profile

We've entered the Berlin Wall stage of Emu's free speech utopia

@OlufemiOTaiwo Fall Of Civilisations is very good

still not sure what will happen to this app, but just in case I want to add to my list of better things to do. so: anybody got any good educational history or politics podcast recommendations?

@binarythis No, definitely not. Not unless there was something contextual reason to connect them.

I guess what I’m asking is if you’ve never heard of critical femininity studies would you have thought I meant gender critical feminism?

Okay so I would describe my work as sitting within the field of critical femininity studies (a bit like masculinity studies but focus is on femininity) BUT someone recently pointed out that people might confuse this with gender critical feminism (my worst nightmare). Thoughts??

@binarythis I'm happy to be part of it 🙋

@heresathought Very good point! But I was just thinking a group chat or something not too laborious !

I think we need a little network of parents of babies/young children at UniMelb to chat about how we can make sure our collective needs are being met. DM me if you’re interested

@khornbaek Huh, I've never thought of that possessive connotation. To my mind "our approach" doesn't usually mean "the approach that's ours", but simply "the approach we took" (hah, the possessive language is hard to escape!)

My #chi2023 writing pet peeve is "our". Our approach, our data, our paper, our participants, our results, etc. Why be possessive? After all, you are trying to offer the data, paper, participants, results, etc. to the community. Why not "the"?

@DilishaBP My playlist has been a single two-minute track of soothing white noise on infinite repeat 🙉🎧 open.spotify.com/track/5WQyF7t0…

Interesting... What soundtracks are people using to get through the next 10 hours? #CHI2023

📢 We're hiring continuing (equiv. tenure track) 4x at @cis_unimelb @engunimelb @UniMelb in ML, TCS, fairness, IS. Looking for ppl passionate about research, teaching, engagement to come to beautiful Melbourne 🇦🇺 for great 🧑‍💻🐨☕️. Pls RT 🙏 1/5

@zornsllama @Xavier_Ho I'm searching for the "dislike" button for this one 😫

Coming from a non-tipping culture, it seems a lot of restaurants in Greece are really pushy about tipping? They put the card machine in front of you and look at you in the eye "do you want to tip?"

@acagamic Listening to the How To Write CHI Papers podcast and wincing every time someone gives the advice to get it done early

Hey #chi2023 crowd, how are you spending your pre-submission weekend?

@pryno @MattCowgill Even if rates only go down, that seems like better news for the 16% interest rate loan than for the 4% interest rate loan. Point is that comparing initial repayments doesn't tell the whole story either. But I'm not an economist, maybe I'm missing something.

@heresathought @MattCowgill I don’t think it’s fair to say interest rates have regressed to the mean over our lifetimes. Maybe things are different now. But a key reason housing is the way it is is because people have been surprised (downwards) by rates

I once again have to tap the “Don’t compare long-run house prices to wages” sign

@pryno @MattCowgill This chart tracks *initial* repayments on a new mortgage, right? So what happens to those repayments over a 25-year loan term? As interest rates regress to the mean, presumably the initially-higher-interest loans get cheaper and the initially-lower-interest loans more expensive?

@MattCowgill For example, real repayments are surprisingly stable over time (although interest rate rises mean we’re likely to challenge the peaks in 2008 over the next year)

@DanaChatter It's a bit like one of these lost in cross-cultural translation things. (By the same token we should also make sure our praise is clear and direct!) twitter.com/qikipedia/stat…

@DanaChatter I agree we should remember to point out good work and not only bad. But burying criticism in praise back-to-back can obfuscate it, I think. I see some int'l students look confused and miss the message when someone's making a long diplomatic point rather than a short direct one

I wonder about this when marking university essays. Since students come from a range of communication cultures, the indirectness of the feedback sandwich seems like a real hurdle to their understanding.