Dr. Rachel Searston
@SearstonR
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Cognitive scientist @UniofAdelaide. Tweets on expert decision-making, data visualisation, #rstats, forensic science π©πΌβπ»πππΌββοΈπ³οΈβπ
South Australia, Australia
Joined June 2013
A method for quantifying individual decision thresholds of latent print examiners Amanda Luby
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A method for quantifying individual decision thresholds of latent print examiners Amanda Luby
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This fellowship would not have been possible without the unwavering mentorship of my rockstar collaborators (@CreateExpertise @tangenjm @Thompsontweets, EBFI gang), the support of my wonderful colleagues, and the generosity & insight from my friends in the forensic community.π
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I am thrilled to share that Iβve been awarded an @arc_gov_au Early Career Industry Fellowship to work with Forensic Science SA @SA_AGD! βοΈ π§¬π©βπ¬π©βπ»π₯ Ready to roll up my sleeves and get to work developing tools for explaining science in court! ποΈ https://t.co/J8mkyXhAcl
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Very excited to do this - we're hiring again! 2 x Lecturer B positions in the Media Department at Uni of Adelaide. Awesome team, great courses, room to grow as a scholar, and both positions are ongoing!
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Babies are easily distracted, so we show them hypnotic and/or noisy things to get their attention during experiments. A researcher on Lookit wants to use multiple exemplars, so I'm calling all dev researchers to share their favorite/most effective attention getters!
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π°New paper exploring constructive journalism to combat misinformationπ° Our interviews with journalism professionals suggest #ConstructiveJournalism could increase positive and reduce negative consequences of news media concerning misinformation. More β¬οΈ https://t.co/RiPm9QhkJo
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The proliferation of misinformation in contemporary information environments contributes to increasing polarization and decreasing trust in institutions and exp...
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New paper out led by @sam_g_robson. We relied on two frameworks for behaviour change to suggest practical things you can do to promote the parts of open science you think should be promoted. https://t.co/KldLf1Yfoi
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Spreading the word on this opportunity to work with two fabulous supervisors β Jaime Auton and Daniel Sturman β on an industry PhD exploring cybersecurity culture: https://t.co/RsmS7k90PT. Comes with a 4-year stipend and a rare top-up scholarship! @DefenceScience @GradCentreUofA
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ππ§΅ Collection of tweets featuring open-access materials that I have shared over the last years: Talks, seminars, blog posts, hands-on notebooks, codes, and more! #rstats #ggplot2 #tidyverse #dataviz π§ββοΈ
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Interested in carving out a PhD project on the psychology of misinformation spread? This unique industry PhD opportunity at @UniofAdelaide School of Psychology could be for you. Working with @CarolynSemmler, Rachel Stephens, Keith Ransom, myself and folks at @DefenceScience.
An exciting #Industry #PhD project on #misinformation plus #scholarship with @DefenceScience is currently available! Must be an acceptable candidate for a PhD in the Faculty of Health and Med Sciences. Apps close 2 Sept 2021. Find out more: https://t.co/ZYB5x6NQOF
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DST (Adelaide) is hiring a cognitive scientist at about Level B/C. From the ad, it sounds like you'll be working with uni sector on outsourced projects (like ours). In a different life I'd apply myself. Check it out. https://t.co/GRMbdSz9Bh
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I have (finally) written up the details behind the idea of the Four-Step Robustness Check for an upcoming book on clinical psych & QRPs. Basically: before investing in a replication study, it may be wise to verify the stats. See the full preprint here: https://t.co/DoUmg9nadO
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New paper in CR:PI with @SearstonR and Jason Tangen. Compared to novices, experts are excellent at searching for the most useful information in fingerprints, but if you scramble the prints their superior search skills disappear. https://t.co/gutAEQW8pi
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In my experience what I find most shocking in #forensicscience is that many women that hold significantly higher levels of education are still paid considerably less than male counterparts that hold ZERO. #WomeninSTEM
#WomeninForensics
#engenderchange
#endgenderadvocate
"Working in the #forensic field requires a high level of education, a strong aptitude... Notwithstanding difficulties AND A SALARY UNDERPAID BY ALMOST 20% COMPARED WITH MEN" #WomeninSTEM
#WomeninForensics
#engenderchange
#endgenderadvocate
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This was a labour of love. Epstein and King said almost 20 years ago that almost all legal research was irreproducible (and I think that's still true). But, how can we go about doing a reproducible legal analysis, using modern tools? 1/11 https://t.co/0qaKM3OG9A
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The IMPRS for Language Sciences is offering 2 PhD Fellowships. Choose from 25 interdisciplinary projects with scientists from @MPI_NL @CLSRadboud @DondersInst @Radboud_Uni. Act soon -- application deadline: 1 Feb 2021. https://t.co/CEaF2qgd28
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π€© π Some beautiful interactive visualisation tools in here for psychology researchers and educators!
New feature! You can now load your own CSV file. Use it either to save and load an example you've created, or load real data and show how sensitive it is to outliers https://t.co/OH2iLkdMPn
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New feature! You can now load your own CSV file. Use it either to save and load an example you've created, or load real data and show how sensitive it is to outliers https://t.co/OH2iLkdMPn
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Adding this to the list of reasons why we need more quantitative training for lawyers (other examples here: https://t.co/gpw1JD3z14).
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