Shauna's Writing

Whoops I am falling behind on Iron Blogger.

I’ve seen a lot of trickster villains recently.

For my birthday this weekend I tried to make a Zoetrope cake.

For the record, this recipe is way easier than it looks, and super tasty.

Last year I participated in a novel and exciting meta-analysis project called Many Analysts, One Dataset.

ROMEO Montague, Pitcher for the New York Yankees Jason JULIET, Backup Shortstop for the Boston Red Sox

Last month I quietly launched a new company, Galaxy Rise Consulting.

Chiu-Ki and Cate from Technically Speaking have challenged people to make and publish a list of public speaking goals for 2016.

Earlier this month I participated in a book sprint to raise awareness of the imprisonment of Bassel Khartabil by the Syrian government.

Yesterday I backed up my entire computer, deleted and resized some partitions, and then attempted to upgrade my operating system from 32-bit to 64-bit.

I did an interview with Django Girls.

I missed this paper when it went around last week: The prevalence of statistical reporting errors in psychology (1985–2013).

Making icons for Android is pretty tedious, until you realize you can manage everything with a shell script:

I recently made myself a new personal website, and I noticed there were a couple of problems with the mobile version: the font-awesome icons weren’t…

Note: tumblr ate the initial, more comprehensive version of this post. :( Feel free to ping me for more details.

It’s hard to trick my niece - she wasn’t born yesterday, you know!

A few days ago I was playing Set with friends when one of them asked how many cards could be put down without making any sets.

The other day, as I was sipping hot chocolate and talking with my college friend Cora about the play Copenhagen, I had a thought:

It’s been about a year since I’ve blogged regularly.

Back in February 2013, I ran my first Open Source Comes to Campus event.

A year or so ago I wrote the In Person Event Handbook to help people prepare their projects for in-person events like workshops, hackathons, and sprints

Goooals.

(17 of them!)

A few months back, a friend recommended watching the videos from a Coursera course, A Brief History of Humankind.

I received a number of comments regarding my recent posts (1,2) about how abstraction/quantification of trust leads to negative consequences such as…

I have a habit of qualifying my statements with estimated likelihoods and error bars.

A friend shared with me this 15-minute Planet Money segment called "When Women Stopped Coding".

Building on my post about verification a few months ago, I want to talk about quantifying trust.

In between weddings both this weekend and last, I made it out to Phoenix for the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.

CC BY 2.0 by Taavi Burns

Things I've accomplished recently, and future plans, offered up as justification for the lack of a "real" post:

I've long known the adage "When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail" but I've only recently come to appreciate its truth.

If you've never been to a feminist conference, you're missing out.

A while back I interviewed some core contributors to Wikipedia Project Medicine.

A few months ago, I joined a project called Crowdstorming a Dataset.

I could write plenty about my experiences at Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) this weekend, and I probably will, later.

A little over a year ago I did a survey at the job fair of a major tech conference.

I got interviewed about OpenHatch / Open Source Comes to Campus for an article in Wired.

I did a lightning talk at AdaCamp called "how to hit a softball".

Three things to share from Open Source Bridge, which I went to this week.

I don't like making quick low-content posts just to avoid paying \$5 to the Iron Blogger pool.

I feel vaguely indignant that, despite working hard on a number of projects this week, I have nothing in particular to post about.

This article is the second in a series highlighting open science projects around the community.

Earlier this week, after the UCSB shootings, Deanna Zandt started a tumblr to document violence against women who refuse or reject men.

Today is International Clinical Trials Day, held on May 20th in honor of George Lind, the famous Scottish physician who began one of the world\'s first…

I spent weeks going back and forth with Hanne Paine, a student and open source enthusiast at SUNY Stony Brook.

I decided recently that I want a reproducibility-themed t-shirt.

This post is in response to Jon Grahe\'s recent article in which he invited readers to propose metaphors that might help us understand why fraud occurs and…

I am borrowing a very nice camera for work.

Back in March, at LibrePlanet 2014, I organized and participated in a panel session on the intersection of open science and free software with Jeff Warren…