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Fraser Allison

@heresathought

Researcher of games, memorial technologies and voice interfaces. No longer using Twitter beyond the odd news update. Possibly at @[email protected]

Melbourne, Australia Katılım Şubat 2009
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Fraser Allison
Fraser Allison@heresathought·
Guess I have to remove this from my profile
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Fraser Allison@heresathought·
We've entered the Berlin Wall stage of Emu's free speech utopia
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@OlufemiOTaiwo·
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?
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Fraser Allison@heresathought·
@binarythis No, definitely not. Not unless there was something contextual reason to connect them.
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Hannah McCann@binarythis·
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?
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Hannah McCann@binarythis·
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??
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Hannah McCann@binarythis·
@heresathought Very good point! But I was just thinking a group chat or something not too laborious !
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Hannah McCann
Hannah McCann@binarythis·
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
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Fraser Allison@heresathought·
@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!)
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Kasper Hornbæk
Kasper Hornbæk@khornbaek·
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"?
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Ben Rubinstein@bipr·
📢 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
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Spaxe@xavier_ho·
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?"
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Fraser Allison@heresathought·
@acagamic Listening to the How To Write CHI Papers podcast and wincing every time someone gives the advice to get it done early
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Fraser Allison@heresathought·
@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.
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Paul Ryan@pryno·
@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
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Paul Ryan@pryno·
I once again have to tap the “Don’t compare long-run house prices to wages” sign
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Fraser Allison@heresathought·
@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?
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Paul Ryan@pryno·
@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)
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Fraser Allison@heresathought·
@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
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Fraser Allison@heresathought·
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.
Ethan Mollick@emollick

Kill the feedback “sandwich” 🥪! The sandwich (start with something positive, then the negative, then something positive) is bad: it backfires - not changing incorrect behavior while also upsetting the recipient. Don’t manipulate, here are feedback tips: hbr.org/tip/2019/11/fe…

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