Sebahat Gök
@sebgok.bsky.social
//only random musings…//
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i wouldn't be surprised if this generalizes to other disciplines
Are female economists treated differently than males in academic seminars?
These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research.
So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023...
These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research.
So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023...
February 3, 2026 at 9:54 PM
i wouldn't be surprised if this generalizes to other disciplines
reading a book chapter on how to conduct field experiments, and this line is a good warning when you're reading any paper with a method you haven’t personally used, but when you can still track its main ideas:
January 31, 2026 at 10:42 PM
reading a book chapter on how to conduct field experiments, and this line is a good warning when you're reading any paper with a method you haven’t personally used, but when you can still track its main ideas:
I had LOVED reading Justin Reich’s ‘Failure to Disrupt’ that included lit review on how intuitions and hyping around ‘digital technologies transforming and democratizing education’ didn’t pan out. I’ve just started his newer book on iterative school innovation, and it’s so inspiring.
January 25, 2026 at 5:39 PM
I had LOVED reading Justin Reich’s ‘Failure to Disrupt’ that included lit review on how intuitions and hyping around ‘digital technologies transforming and democratizing education’ didn’t pan out. I’ve just started his newer book on iterative school innovation, and it’s so inspiring.
wow just done with this... after years of design tinkering, experimenting, and scripting when vibecoding was not a thing...
January 25, 2026 at 4:55 AM
wow just done with this... after years of design tinkering, experimenting, and scripting when vibecoding was not a thing...
it’s so heartbreaking to think of Iranian friends who haven't heard from their family for several days now 💔
January 13, 2026 at 3:50 AM
it’s so heartbreaking to think of Iranian friends who haven't heard from their family for several days now 💔
It’s year 2026 and when I see a “new“ paper that opens with “LS is done in authentic educational settings, as opposed to psych/science of learning done in lab“, I’m a bit underwhelmed.
January 3, 2026 at 7:41 PM
It’s year 2026 and when I see a “new“ paper that opens with “LS is done in authentic educational settings, as opposed to psych/science of learning done in lab“, I’m a bit underwhelmed.
My annual visiting home and buying a Turkish book routine. This year‘s pick is a novel and it’s called “My name is red”
December 25, 2025 at 10:02 PM
My annual visiting home and buying a Turkish book routine. This year‘s pick is a novel and it’s called “My name is red”
%💯 "I think that cognitive scientists usually have unique strengths in making sense of the complex behaviors of a complex system, and that these strengths are often more useful than any particular insights we might have about natural intelligence."
New post! Last week I shared why I thought cognitive (neuro)science hasn’t contributed as much as one might hope to the design of AI systems; this week I'm sharing my thoughts on how methods and principles from these fields *have* been useful in my work. infinitefaculty.substack.com/p/how-cognit...
How cognitive science can contribute to AI: methods for understanding
#2 in a series on cognitive science and AI
infinitefaculty.substack.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:11 PM
%💯 "I think that cognitive scientists usually have unique strengths in making sense of the complex behaviors of a complex system, and that these strengths are often more useful than any particular insights we might have about natural intelligence."
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This smells distinctly like collider bias and/or selection bias and/or regression to the mean... You simply can't select teen prodigies, and world class athletes rom databases, and go run regressions without serious consideration of the selection process!
"Most top achievers (Nobel laureates and world-class musicians, athletes, chess players) demonstrated lower performance than many peers during their early years. Across the highest adult performance, peak performance is negatively correlated with early performance" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance
Scientists have long debated the origins of exceptional human achievements. This literature review summarizes recent evidence from multiple domains on the acquisition of world-class performance. We re...
www.science.org
December 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
This smells distinctly like collider bias and/or selection bias and/or regression to the mean... You simply can't select teen prodigies, and world class athletes rom databases, and go run regressions without serious consideration of the selection process!
2026 goals: improving my expertise on bug/insect identification
December 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
2026 goals: improving my expertise on bug/insect identification
2025 has also been the year I've found my favorite podcast so far.
Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
podcasts.apple.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:53 PM
2025 has also been the year I've found my favorite podcast so far.
lol. this year i finally came to terms with the idea that i will die and most of my books will stay unread.
Amazon, please stop asking me if books I bought month ago met my expectations. I still have unread books I bought in 2012. Be real.
December 3, 2025 at 4:50 PM
lol. this year i finally came to terms with the idea that i will die and most of my books will stay unread.
I would consider 2025 as a year I evolved as a researcher but it turns out it’s rather the year I converted into swiftism 😱
December 2, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I would consider 2025 as a year I evolved as a researcher but it turns out it’s rather the year I converted into swiftism 😱
A book i‘m returning back tonight years later is Scott Stossel’s My age of anxiety and I’m once more amazed by the amount of scientific and historical research he‘s put into this. Just wow
November 23, 2025 at 6:56 AM
A book i‘m returning back tonight years later is Scott Stossel’s My age of anxiety and I’m once more amazed by the amount of scientific and historical research he‘s put into this. Just wow
read John Anderson today after a loong time for an unfinished project that i am returning back to, and remembered again how much i love how his super clean and clear writing.
September 18, 2025 at 6:57 PM
read John Anderson today after a loong time for an unfinished project that i am returning back to, and remembered again how much i love how his super clean and clear writing.
I feel like every research community has this one thing they make a big deal of; and in bio education, it seems to be teleological reasoning??
September 5, 2025 at 4:24 AM
I feel like every research community has this one thing they make a big deal of; and in bio education, it seems to be teleological reasoning??
one of those nights working on the project with the most mind-numbing data work of my life... hit code line 1380 and still going... lesson learned in the process is...
August 28, 2025 at 2:58 AM
one of those nights working on the project with the most mind-numbing data work of my life... hit code line 1380 and still going... lesson learned in the process is...
there is a word called 'fana' in Sufism; it's something like annihilation of self; being one with God. this song is about fana. sometimes, when I am writing and be lost in the rhythm of it, i will suddenly remember it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsCT...
Erkan Oğur - Bir sevda şarkısı
YouTube video by Muhammed Sadık Erdoğan
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August 24, 2025 at 12:58 AM
there is a word called 'fana' in Sufism; it's something like annihilation of self; being one with God. this song is about fana. sometimes, when I am writing and be lost in the rhythm of it, i will suddenly remember it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsCT...
reading a very well known methodology/metascience tutorial paper on how to pick an effect size of interest and seeing how un-insightful it is in guiding our decision in our specific study…
July 8, 2025 at 2:04 AM
reading a very well known methodology/metascience tutorial paper on how to pick an effect size of interest and seeing how un-insightful it is in guiding our decision in our specific study…
i also found a youtube video of this, and being a non-economist, I very much enjoyed watching the talk and got inspired by it. what an amazing presenter: www.youtube.com/watch?v=K45a...
July 4, 2025 at 2:14 AM
i also found a youtube video of this, and being a non-economist, I very much enjoyed watching the talk and got inspired by it. what an amazing presenter: www.youtube.com/watch?v=K45a...
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1/ I'm feeling real pain at the cuts to Indiana public universities, especially IU, especially cogsci. These are some of the biggest brains in cogsci and edupsych in the world, but why do *I* care? I'll tell you what they've done *for me, personally*. ↵
www.ipm.org/news-section...
www.ipm.org/news-section...
Indiana public colleges cut almost 20% of degrees
Public Indiana colleges and universities have eliminated 19 percent of their degree programs to meet requirements added to the state’s budget, according to the Commission for Higher Education.
www.ipm.org
July 2, 2025 at 2:41 AM
1/ I'm feeling real pain at the cuts to Indiana public universities, especially IU, especially cogsci. These are some of the biggest brains in cogsci and edupsych in the world, but why do *I* care? I'll tell you what they've done *for me, personally*. ↵
www.ipm.org/news-section...
www.ipm.org/news-section...
I like this phase of the research project where it gets under your skin. Going to bed at night and writing in your mind it’s introduction. Waking up in the morning and noticing some analysis you are doing doesn’t really answer the question.
June 12, 2025 at 4:53 AM
I like this phase of the research project where it gets under your skin. Going to bed at night and writing in your mind it’s introduction. Waking up in the morning and noticing some analysis you are doing doesn’t really answer the question.
So nice weather makes Chicago so awesome. How am i gonna leave this town 😍
May 30, 2025 at 3:25 AM
So nice weather makes Chicago so awesome. How am i gonna leave this town 😍
reading Esther Duflo's "The Economist as Plumber" and noticing how this plumbing metaphor captures how I've long viewed education research as opposed to what others have instisted how I should think about it.
May 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
reading Esther Duflo's "The Economist as Plumber" and noticing how this plumbing metaphor captures how I've long viewed education research as opposed to what others have instisted how I should think about it.