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JUN 2023 • You can learn more about the work I’ve been doing in Connecticut to help folks renew their SNAP benefits on Bloomberg, and in Minnesota to automatically renew Medicaid recipients’ health care benefits on Slate.

JAN 2023 • New year, new job! Starting a new role at Code for America as a Senior Data Scientist.

NOV 2022 • Gave a short talk about git to undergraduates at Reed College. Teaching materials here.

SEP 2022 • Promoted to Senior DS at Twitter!

AUG 2022 • Final chapter of my dissertation is out in Nature Human Behavior today! We described the journey from initial survey design all the way up to publication here. Thanks to my wonderful coauthors and the anonymous reviewers who helped to improve our paper!

APR / MAY 2022 • Gave a talk about our research on parenthood in academia at Santa Fe Institute, and finally got hooded. I also presented this work for Dani Basset’s lab group at UPenn. I’m on the program committee for IC2S2 and a reviewer for ICWSM.

SEPT 2021 • Was invited to give a talk about my dissertation work at the “Responsible Data Science and AI” speaker series at University of Illinois (virtually). Presented these two papers. Slides can be found here.

JULY 2021 • Became a “tweep”! Our work was recently featured in The Scientist and Nature Magazine.

JUNE 2021 • Accepted an offer as a Data Scientist at Twitter. Our paper was selected as paper of the year by the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI). Taking a little break from work

APR / MAY 2021 • I earned the Computer Science Department’s Outstanding Research Award! Gave a presentation about social class and epistemic inequalities in academia to faculty at University of Aberdeen (slides).

MAR 2021 • Busy month! I successfully defended my dissertation, and am looking for data science or research opportunities in industry or as a postdoc. We posted this preprint on Twitter, and received an overwhelming response! It’s been covered by Science Magazine, Forbes, and Chronicle of Higher Education.

JAN 2021 • I’m speaking to the Women In Network Science Seminar in a couple of weeks about my research on parenthood in academia.

JULY 2020 • I was invited to present a lightning talk at the Graphs & Networks workshop hosted by Metric Geometry and Gerrymandering Group at Tufts.

APR 2020 • I’m really proud to be a part of this massive collaboration just out in PNAS! Also, I passed my dissertation proposal to become a PhD candidate. I’ll be presenting our work on the impact of parenthood on tenure-track faculty this summer at IC2S2.

JAN 2021 • I’m speaking to the Women In Network Science Seminar in a couple of weeks about my research on parenthood in academia.

JULY 2020 • I was invited to present a lightning talk at the Graphs & Networks workshop hosted by Metric Geometry and Gerrymandering Group at Tufts.

APR 2020 • I’m really proud to be a part of this massive collaboration just out in PNAS! Also, I passed my dissertation proposal to become a PhD candidate. I’ll be presenting our work on the impact of parenthood on tenure-track faculty this summer at IC2S2.

DEC 2019 • After participating in many cookie competions, I won “most creative” in my building’s holiday bake-off!

OCT 2019 • I’m helping to organize a local meetup for the Society of Young Network Scientists (SYNS). Join us!

AUG 2019 • Spent the summer at the New York Times. I’ll be in Melbourne, AUS to talk at an epistemology workshop in early September (slides), and Atlanta, GA for a conference on science and innovation policy in October.

MAY 2019 • I picked up my Master of Science in Computer Science this semester And our paper was published in PNAS!

FEB 2019 • I’ll be presenting new work analyzing retention, promotion, and attrition in academia using digital trace data at NetSci 2019 in May. I was invited to discuss work on prestige with the Society of Young Network Scientists.

JAN 2019 • I accepted an offer from the NYT to be an intern on their Data & Insights Group this summer! Also, a short description of our paper was featured in Scientific American. McKenzie Weller won CU Boulder’s Center for Research Data & Digital Scholarship Data Visualization Contest! The visualization was inspired by our recent research.

OCT 2018 • Our paper was published in EPJ Data Science! We did an short interview about the piece on the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage. I’ll be presenting some preliminary results from a survey of CS faculty at the Rocky Mountain Celebration of Women in Computing next month. (Update: I received an Honorable Mention Award for Best Presentation! )

SEP 2018 • Dan Larremore and I were interviewed for a story in The Daily Progress about our parental leave project.

AUG 2018 • We wrapped up CU Boulder’s SICSS. Here are our teaching materials, and our review of how it went. Our paper (“Automatically assembling a full census of an academic field”) was published in PLOS One.

JULY 2018 • Slides for my talks at IC2S2 can be found here and here.

MAY 2018 • I’m co-organizing a satellite of the Summer Institute for Computational Social Science (SICSS) in Boulder this August. I successfully defended my preliminary exam and finished my second year of grad school!

APR 2018 • I was awarded the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship!

MAR 2018 • Aaron Clauset presented our work at CompleNet 2018. Our paper was accepted as a talk for the workshop on Demographic Research in the Digital Age (part of PAA) this April. I will be presenting our research at IC2S2 this July. I will be attending the Santa Fe Institute’s Complex Systems Summer School this June.

FEB 2018 • This semester I am taking a software engineering class. My weekly essays can be found here.

DEC 2017 • I organized a cookie competition on campus. Unfortunately, I did not win any of the prizes. But I did learn how to make these cool plots!

NOV 2017 • We contributed a letter to the editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education called “More Inclusive Scholarship Begins With Active Experimentation”.

OCT 2017 • Our paper was published in PNAS!

AUG 2017 • Started year two!

JUN 2017 • Slides from my talk at NetSci, “Ideas worth spreading: How does network position influence the spread of research topics?” can be found here.

MAY 2017 • I finished my first year of grad school!

MAR 2017 • Our abstract, “Modeling the Spread of Research Areas in the Computer Science Faculty Hiring Network” was accepted as a talk at NetSci. I will be attending the Russell Sage Foundation’s “Summer Institute in Computational Social Science” hosted at Princeton.

FEB 2017 • Sam Way will be presenting our paper, “The misleading narrative of the canonical faculty productivity trajectory” at ICWSM.