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Dr. Sara A. Hart

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Canadian Excellence Research Chair in Developmental Science. Reading/math dev. Data Sharing. Feisty. @ldbase_repo . @poWOMENer . @Within_Between . EIC @ICDjournal

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Dr. Sara A. Hart
3 years
Hey educational and developmental twitter. It's been years in the making, but it's finally here!
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
5 years
I'm going to go ahead and assume that Newton did not have a 5yo child that would be quarantined with him.
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Michael P Gibson
5 years
In 1665, Cambridge University closed b/c of the plague. Issac Newton quarantined himself at his childhood home. It was the most productive time of his life. He discovered the calculus & laws of motion. Stuck a bodkin in his eye to study optics. How will you spend the next year?
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
5 years
What is your best (academic) writing tip?
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
4 years
💃 Promotion to full professor is complete!
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
6 years
I don’t want to brag, but we’ve unlocked the mysteries of our toddler. The promise of ice cream will make him do anything. Because I’m a developmental psychologist, I’m already planning my best selling parenting book. Tentatively titled “Bribing your toddler into submission”💰
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
4 years
Putting a person on the moon was certainly a standout example of successfully human engineering, but might I suggest it is second to this:
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
5 years
Your statistical test doesn’t care that your sample is hard or expensive to collect.
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
4 years
I am moving more and more towards using informal language in my scientific writing, because frankly, I prefer to write like that and read like that. Reviewers are...disagreeing....with my choice.
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
5 years
*opens code written in 2008 by past sara for a published paper* *reruns past sara's code with no problems thanks to past sara's excellent commenting* *able to quickly produce new info for meta-anlaysis* *profusely thanks past sara*
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@saraannhart
Dr. Sara A. Hart
3 years
This semester is really kicking my butt. Like worst of my career behind on things/dropping balls. I have no idea what happened but yeah I have talked to friends about it and it seems like lots of people are feeling this way.
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
4 years
I think a lot about this time a social psychologist told me that if they didn’t have access to Asian populations at their university, they could just prime White students with “being Asian” and study them just the same.
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
3 years
I feel fortunate to be at the stage of my career, and experience with grant review, that this makes me laugh and not cry:
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
1 year
News! After a wonderful 13yrs at FSU & FCRR, I will be leaving to return to the land of the mighty beaver. In May I’ll be moving to Psychology at @UWaterloo . I will be recruiting for a lab coordinator, postdocs (at least 2, 1 ASAP) & grad students for fall 2024. Get in touch!
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
5 years
2. Stuck on how to write a paper? Find a paper on the same topic/same field/same journal you want, and summarize in a short sentence what each paragraph is doing to the narrative. Then use that as the outline for your paper. This really helps when writing in a new field.
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
6 years
Today I learned a valuable lesson on my path to be “more feisty”. I received an answer I didn’t like at work, told it was “policy”. Normally I’d just accept it. Instead, I wrote the bigwig policy person and explained why policy sucked. 1hr later, policy interpretation corrected
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
3 years
Well tweeps, I am now the W. Russell and Eugenia Morcom Chair of Psychology at FSU. I am thankful for this endowed chair and the cool work I can continue related to the donors' vision of basic research in reading coupled with translating these findings to education stakeholders.
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
6 years
I’m only 30 pages into this book and I’m already all worked up. The erasure of women in the history of science, from their science successes, and the successes they weren’t allowed to achieve because of lack of access, is terrifyingly bad.
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
11 months
Today was the official announcement of my Canadian Excellence Research Chair in Developmental Science. I’ll be moving to the University of Waterloo in May to take up the chair!
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🎉We’ve just unveiled 34 new Canada Excellence Research Chairs at 18 postsecondary institutions! Find out who they are: #CERC #CdnPSE #CanadianResearch @CDNScience @CIHR_IRSC @NSERC_CRSNG @SSHRC_CRSH
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
7 years
Today is my last day as an Assistant Professor! Can't. Say. Anything. Bad. On. Twitter. Before. Tenure. Kicks. In. Monday.
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
3 years
I welcome turning 40 today. My 30s saw postdoc to job to two promotions. Having a kid. Amazing family and friends. Can’t wait to see what my 40s bring. I earned those lines on my face and I love them.
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
3 years
Today I got to finally hood Dr. ⁦ @RahBrook ⁩ :)
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
3 years
Yesterday I was publicly snapped at and called a girl at a conference by a presenting male colleague. It was in retaliation for me doing something that only male academics get to do at this conference.
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
4 years
Hot take: developmental psychology as an area is typically under valued in a psychology department. Do you agree? Do you have a hunch as to why?
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
6 years
I won FSU’s Developing Scholar Award! 🎉 “This award program recognizes successful FSU faculty who are several years into their careers and have reached the level of Associate Professor. This competition is intended to help identify and honor FSU's future academic leaders”
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
6 years
I don’t want to sound hysterical but today is the first day of 14 days of no daycare and it’s raining, and I’m really worried we won’t all make it alive. Thoughts and prayers appreciated.
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
1 year
"Florida State University also hit a five-year high, losing 136 faculty to resignation last year." It definitely feels like this is happening. And it'll get worse, as the job cycle catches up.
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The brain drain is real. Tampa Bay Times pulled records on faculty retention at four Florida universities. Resignations are way up, failed searches are common, fear and self-censorship are palpable. A disaster in the making.
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
2 years
The APA is putting on what seems to be a great series of free methods workshops. But wow, I wish they had women teaching. Convincing women in psych they can be methodologists is hard, and not seeing any representation is not helping. This is high profile.
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
2 years
Hey everyone, some news! On Dec 1, I’ll be taking over as Editor in Chief of Infant and Child Development! @syeducation has left big shoes to fill & I’m excited to continue what he started. Open science, author friendly, diversity in authors, editors and reviewers.
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
5 years
Writing and speaking in a way that makes your ideas seem simple and understandable is a real skill and should be rewarded. Opaque 👏 writing/talks 👏 does 👏 not 👏 equal 👏 “smart”.
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
3 years
Turns out the refreshing was worthwhile! Good news re: new R01. We will hopefully be able to follow up a sample that I happened to have active before, and now through, COVID to follow short-and long-term COVID impacts on children's reading and math development
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
6 years
I am a tenured Associate Professor millennial.
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Dr. Natalie Wright
6 years
Also, administrators leading new faculty orientations, please remember that when you say “Millennials,” you are referring to the junior faculty you’re addressing, not your student body.
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
5 years
For me, I have two. 1. Your whole manuscript should follow the same order as the constructs you set in your modeling. From how you structure your lit review to the order of the variable names in a given sentence. I feel like this makes complicated papers easier to read.
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
6 months
Today is my last day as faculty at FSU. I can’t imagine a better way to celebrate my 14yrs here than hooding @cyn_norris . Dr. Norris was my first lab coordinator, helping me lead my first grant. I was so honored she decided to do her PhD w me and now she bookends my time at FSU
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
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Hey, how about not only not pulling up the ladder behind you after you've made it, but also working on making the ladder easier to climb. Why don't we all give that a try for a change. *looks at tenured folk dead in the eye*
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
6 years
R01 NOA!!! I'm super excited to start this project with @schotz , @jeanphilli and many colleagues. We will be building a specialized data repository for learning disabilities/education/developmental researchers & freeing data collected from $175,000,000 in federal investment.
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
6 years
This week I was asked by an undergrad starting a PhD program this fall what my one piece of advice for her was. What advice would you give?
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
4 years
Yeah..ummm...you desk rejected the paper #awkward
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
6 months
Almost 12 years ago I sat in the middle of my new empty new lab at FSU and wondered what the heck I was supposed to do next. Two promotions, many amazing colleagues & awesome mentees, and many projects later, I’m standing in an empty lab again. ✌🏻
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
3 years
As of today, I'm back on the academic year contract, which means my promotion is official and y'all are stuck with Professor Hart.
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
4 years
I have two NIH grants that are eligible for a diversity administrative supplement and I'm at a university that does not have a hiring freeze for postdocs. So please get in touch if you are looking for a postdoc! Please RT see requirements:
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
3 years
Here we go, it's official from FSU university president. All operations blazing ahead like nothing is happening, full staffing back on campus on Monday, all classes start in person Wednesday. No required masks, vaccines, testing. $5 gift card if a student chooses to get tested 🤡
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
1 year
Yes I did bike with my robes on to graduation Cc @TruckTrucks @jmcin9
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
3 years
I just tried a super hipster, small-batch, raw, no dairy, no sugar added, etc, chocolate bar. And now I understand why they add all those things to chocolate bars.
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
1 year
🚨🚨🚨 I'm super excited to announce new NIH funding! Four amazing PIs ( @emilyjsolari @TheDrPT @tiffanyphogan and me) came together to center multidisciplinary team science and the translational science continuum to tackle SLD classification & treatment.
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
2 years
Happy reference letter writing weekend to all those who celebrate!
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
8 years
I made some pretty big writing gains on my new R01 today.
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
5 years
One of the most unexpected parts of having a child for me was the amount of tape said child will go through. You just have no idea, prechild.
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
6 years
Has anyone ever seen a male partner being the “postdoc” of a female faculty member? Because damn it I’m tired of seeing it the other way around.
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
4 years
I was an international student in this country. It was fucking hard. And I’m white, English as first language, and from desirable neighbor country I could drive to. I had no credit. Started with no bank, no ID. Didn’t know where to buy things. Couldn’t get a paid side gig.
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
4 months
19 years after I moved to the US for my PhD, I am sitting in the airport with a one way flight to move back to Canada! 🇨🇦 I hope I remember how to Canada!
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
4 years
Just got this interesting question from a grant writing class I was a guest in: What's your one piece of advice for an early career scholar to make their grant stand out? What say you twitter hive mind?
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
6 years
I really really really want to #subtweet something but I can't because I'm trying to not care about it. So here I am subtweeting the subtweet, and that's making me feel better. Thanks for listening.
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
3 years
I once had a Title IX office tell me that I wasn't allowed to encourage students to avoid working with a sexual predator. Because he had learned his lesson and won't do it again! And think of the potential educational opportunities those students would lose! Fuck that.
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
8 years
Achievement unlocked = tenure and promotion!
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
2 years
🚨🚨🚨🚨 New 5yr R01 NOA just received!! The title is Assessing the links between risk factors, COVID-19 impacts, and reading skills cc: MPI @cignae
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
6 years
Got myself a new piece of hardware for my office.
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
4 years
!!! Got a NOA today on a predoc training grant from IES. Can’t wait to work with my amazing colleague @TheDrPT
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
4 years
Hey, that task you are avoiding? Do it now. It'll likely be quick, and you'll be mad you avoided it for as long as you did. #protip
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
3 years
Teaching in-person, Monday, 9am. I hope beyond all hope that everyone on my campus comes out of this okay.
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
2 years
And just like that, my month of teaching abroad is done! Final grades are in. Many, many, miles of London walked and tubed. 11 classes of “cross cultural look at the nature and nurture of child development” done!
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
3 years
In the last few days I've heard of two measure validation papers being desk rejected from ed/ed psych journals because they are measure validation papers. We do a lot of talking about wanting valid measures. Much less publishing of them.
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
2 years
🚨🚨 ICYMI: I am the new Editor of Infant and Child Development! And I need a new Associate Editor team! Please consider applying for this (paid) position! No previous experience needed. You can reach out to me if you have any questions.
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
5 years
Wow, over 200 amazing academic writing tips were given in response to this tweet. Check it out, pass it along! (protip: DM the tweet to yourself as a way to store it for future use)
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
5 years
What is your best (academic) writing tip?
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
2 years
👀 My advent calendar today gave me my first day as Editor of Infant and Child Development! Come on over and submit your developmental science work :)
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
4 years
One of my most favourite papers to write was published today. It began on my sabbatical in Amsterdam, and continued to be written with good colleagues/friends @cignae and @drElsje across three continents, was published today. Check it out!
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
6 years
This weekend I found out I won an award I’m very excited about. I’m a 2019 winner of the @FABBS Early Career Impact Award (nominated by @SSSReading ). I’m excited bc it’s not only for research contributions, but also for dissemination efforts. Cc: @FSUFacultyAward
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
2 years
I don't want to brag about myself too much but today I read five papers that I was not reviewing/editing. I will not be taking questions at this time but I want to thank my family for always supporting me.
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
7 years
I'm part of a new association made up of women who want to get more women into leadership positions in education, and get them more awards
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
4 years
Just as a reminder for those finishing up their syllabi, this is an amazing resource of papers you might have missed.
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
4 years
I'm hella impressed this got published
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
2 years
No kidding, pretty much any time a photographer is at an event taking crowd shots, the picture of me is like this.
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
7 months
Do you find yourself looking around your lab thinking "I wish I had been trained in good data management"? Do you find yourself wondering how the heck to share your data from your grant funded work? THEN I HAVE SOME NEWS FOR YOU! Keeping listening!
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
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“A lot of men are happy to support and mentor a woman who is in a junior, less-powerful position. Yet, …. willingness to support and advocate generally diminishes for women as they achieve parity or seniority…”
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
4 years
That moment when you realize the Costco bulk purchase of champagne bottles is visible in your zoom feed after multiple hours of serious zoom meetings
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
5 years
I have spent the last few years building up a pretty nice work clothing selection. AND NOT NEARLY ENOUGH LOUNGEWEAR.
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
2 years
🚨🚨🚨 My department, @PsychologyFSU at @floridastate , has FOUR job openings this year! See thread for info. 🚨🚨🚨
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
4 years
Final grades submitted, special issue paper submitted, internal grant submitted, grant annual progress report submitted, and lab members advised and graduated, all means
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
4 years
These are presents I’ve gotten from girlfriends in the last month. I think I’m getting a reputation. And I like that reputation.
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
6 years
Folks, @schotz and I, with @fsulibraries , got a fundable score for our R01 to set up a data repository for education science/learning disabilities behavioral data, seeded with 6 HUGE projects worth of data. So we *might* be bringing bunches of open data to the field.
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
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It is incredibly disappointing to hear only male cognitive scientists being lifted up as the researchers to listen to about the implementation of the science of reading. One is even retired ffs!!
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
2 years
About to start our workshop on data management for data sharing at #SREE22 , with @jarlogan
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
6 years
I'm part of a group, POWER, which was started to connect, support, and advocate for women conducting research in the fields of education and child development. Do you do research in this area? Check out our group and join! Open to all.
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
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What term/idea from your field do you see most actively misused by other fields? I'll go first. Epigenetics. Yeah, it's not that. Nope, not that either.
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
5 years
I am now a 🇺🇸 citizen and a registered voter of the Democratic party. I’m ready for you Florida primaries.
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
5 years
I’m doing a thing this morning. First step after becoming a citizen is to become a voter.
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
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I'm on a roll this morning, so I also want to mention the ~28k pay gap between men and women in my department, driven by a monster gap at full level (36k). It is *not* due to seniority differences. Full women are on average 30yrs out from Ph.D. Full men are 27yrs out.
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
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This is interesting, but what struck me was “In fairness, this lack of diversity is typical in AI. ...women accounted for 20% of AI professorships...” In my *psychology* department, women account for 31% of our professors. Absolutely no where near our PhD grad numbers.
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
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I literally have no idea what people do with binder clips if they aren’t using them to close chip/cracker/cereal bags. Like, are they actually used in an office? If you say yes, you are lying.
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
6 years
Twitter has given me many professional benefits, but by far and away the best benefit has been the friends I’ve met here. I likely wouldn’t have gotten to know @fMRI_guy despite his office being 30’ away, and now we watch our kids grow up together as friends. 💙
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
1 year
Just a reminder that I am recruiting for graduate students (and likely postdocs) in my new department, Psychology at the University of Waterloo. Grad applications are due Dec 1. THose interested in a PhD or a postdoc reach out!
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
4 years
Hey y'all, as part of our related to data sharing in education and developmental science for our soon to be available data repository , we have produced some white papers that might be handy. 🧵
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
4 years
Sobbing as soon as I saw the white pant suit
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
6 years
OMG. Just got this handmade gift from an amazing undergrad I had in my lab. 😍
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
4 years
8:53, first day of classes. University zoom down. HAPPY FIRST DAY!
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
3 years
Today I did something that I have been avoiding since August. So many lost nights of sleep over it. For an hour's worth of work. Don't be me. Free yourself of your to-do list hangerons.
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If you need some good news today, on our social isolation family walk we found a wandering dog. Long crazy story later, the dog had been lost for a month! She is home now ❤️
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
2 years
I’d like to sign the petition against northern conferences during winter
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Dr. Sara A. Hart
7 years
I laughed too hard at this.
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I made a graph showing my past relationships. It has an ex axis and a why axis.
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I have successfully voted in my first US federal election, the very reason I became a citizen!
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