Carol Lee

Clinical Scientist researching how can cope and thrive through stressful circumstances. Expertise in , , cognitive-behavioral change and interventions, measurement, and experimental methods. Clinical Psychology PhD.

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Adrian Howardadrianh
2025-04-30

Quiet Stories 189: Worshipping Efficiency, In Praise of “Normal” Engineers, Understanding Software Cycle Time is Messy Not Magic, and more!

A little bit of an efficiency / performance theme in this issue!

mailchi.mp/f613c4d6ecd5/quiet-

Including work from Indi Young, @mipsytipsy, @flourn0, @CSLee, Maggie Wu, @grimalkina, Andi Plantenberg, @juliaferraioli, @eamon, @phire, @ag_dubs, Jared Spool, & others.

Cover of Quiet Stories 189 — illustrated with a photo of a cloudy blue sky.
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Dr. Cat Hicksgrimalkina
2025-03-10

🚨 new preprint paper alert 🚨 - led by
@flourn0 !!

In "No Silver Bullets," we take a big, mathy swing at a complex topic: measuring cycle time in software development and why we think it's messy, not magic

arxiv.org/abs/2503.05040

Carol LeeCSLee
2025-03-10

Just realized that I’ve been completely finishing my chapsticks for the last couple years and if that isn’t a flex I don’t know what is.

Carol LeeCSLee
2025-03-09

@glamcode @b0rk @grimalkina love this! The workshop from that paper is also publicly available as a workbook here: developer-success-lab.gitbook. I’d also check out Michaela Greiler’s work on code review best practices! Her website is here: michaelagreiler.com

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2025-03-09

Looking for resources on how to do good code reviews - technically, as a crafts-person, socially. Do you have suggestions?

I would love to read a zine by @b0rk on the subject 😊

One interesting article I recently read was “Understanding and Effectively Mitigating Code Review Anxiety” by @grimalkina and @CSLee. doi.org/10.1007/s10664-024-105

#programming #codereview #softwareengineering #pullrequest #mergerequest

Carol LeeCSLee
2025-01-31

Genuinely confused as to why all the baby boy clothes I’ve received have pockets, while the baby girl clothes do not. The pocket deprivation starts at birth 😭.

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Dr. Cat Hicksgrimalkina
2025-01-28

This public service announcement brought to you by the fact that I realized I never posted our second code review anxiety paper to this collection and now it's there ->

"“My code is shit”: Negative automatic thoughts and outcomes of a behavioral experiment for code review anxiety" 😂

dsl.pubpub.org/pub/cranx-toolk

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Dr. Cat Hicksgrimalkina
2025-01-16

We are designing a new research project in the Developer Success Lab, and we're seeking to understand software engineers' experiences with *incidents* ! Good, bad, ugly, all of it!

Have a big story or strong POV on this? We're bringing together a small community group for a one time zoom session, to share stories and help us learn. You'll directly influence what the lab studies on this.

You can let us know if you're interested here (more details below):

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI

Carol LeeCSLee
2025-01-02

Unsurprisingly, sleepily putting your newborn’s diaper on backwards at 3am results in a very messy morning 😬

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Dr. Cat Hicksgrimalkina
2025-01-02

People are not neutral observers of their environments; people + their environments create interactions, and the same environment can be sampled by different people with extremely different OR extremely shared perceptual filters because of our shared (or conflicting) social identities.

This is why it is neither about individuals, nor about "systems without individuals"; it is about multisystems models that understand emergent interactions (sorry! it's way harder)

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Dr. Cat Hicksgrimalkina
2024-12-11

"We don't have to let the numbers play god with our inferences"

So I promised that @flourn0 and I were going to sit down & have a casual chat about that "ghost engineers" viral stuff we've been seeing in the news & our POV as scientists working on activity data in software development. So we did! And I posted my very first youtube video! We hope that this provides some help and support if you're a developer feeling overwhelmed by big claims like this!

youtu.be/e4gJxiDIFJ8?si=fS3U5p

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2024-11-21

Issue 2 of the Developer Science Review is out! We highlight research on

- social identity threat
- compassion fatigue
- evaluating thought-leadership
- and measuring traits.

describing how each piece of research is relevant for #softwaredevelopers and those who study #DeveloperExperience. 1/7
dsl.pubpub.org/volume-1-issue-

Carol LeeCSLee
2024-11-21

Finally, in this issue, How to measure individual differences: a contemporary understandings of traits:

>Whole Trait Theory is an important reminder that the expression of behavior is an interaction between the person and situation even when we accept the existence of stable individual differences.

dsl.pubpub.org/pub/whole-trait

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Carol LeeCSLee
2024-11-21

Also in this issue, Think big, then scrutinize: evaluating thought leadership with scientific methods.

>How do we know thought leaders are right? That the ideas they propose are sound? That the strategies and techniques they evangelize are effective in achieving the gains they purport to achieve?

dsl.pubpub.org/pub/think-big-s

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Carol LeeCSLee
2024-11-21

Also in this issue, Coming back from compassion fatigue:

>While we typically think about compassion fatigue in the context of health, caregiving, and education professions, it can happen in any profession that involves helping, mentoring, or managing others, including software development!

dsl.pubpub.org/pub/compassion-

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Carol LeeCSLee
2024-11-21

In this issue, How the cues hypothesis helps us understand social identity threat:

>While a lot of work has gone into studying why women don’t participate in Math, Science & Engineering environments, these authors consider women who already do, and who are highly motivated to succeed in them.

dsl.pubpub.org/pub/threat-cues

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Carol LeeCSLee
2024-11-21

What’s the context? The DSL comes across a lot of scholarly work that is relevant to the broader software engineering community. From conversations we’ve had with our audience of developers and engineering leaders, we’ve learned that they find reading peer-reviewed, empirical research valuable.

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Carol LeeCSLee
2024-11-21

The Developer Science Review is a scientific overlay journal highlighting empirical research that the scientists and software engineers in the DSL think is relevant for people interested in and the science of and

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Carol LeeCSLee
2024-11-21

Issue 2 of the Developer Science Review is out! We highlight research on:

- social identity threat
- compassion fatigue
- evaluating thought-leadership
- and measuring traits.

describing how each piece of research is relevant for and those who study .

dsl.pubpub.org/volume-1-issue-

1/7

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2024-10-17

Just read a new paper about “Understanding and effectively mitigating code review anxiety” by Carol S. Lee @CSLee and Catherine M. Hicks @grimalkina. I am definitively sometimes reluctant to seek out or provide code reviews. It's interesting that someone tries to look at it from a psychological angle.

doi.org/10.1007/s10664-024-105

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