Personal website, Seo-young Silvia Kim https://sysilviakim.com/ So there are some strong opinions about paper titles. Some are very much against cheeky, “cute” paper titles. Some hunt for the most memorable ones. Some argue that the paper title should actually deliver the bottom line of the paper up front. There’s even a Twitter account called “Cliffhanger Paper... Fri, 24 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0900 https://sysilviakim.com/2023-02-24-fun-paper-titles-in-social-sciences/ https://sysilviakim.com/2023-02-24-fun-paper-titles-in-social-sciences/ In Jan 2022, Melanie and I wrote a manuscript, titled “Thriving in Graduate School as an International Student: How to Combat the Hidden Costs and Barriers,” on what are potential costs and barriers that international students face that might not be immediately recognizable. This was rejected from PS, and we... Tue, 13 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0900 https://sysilviakim.com/2022-12-13-thriving-in-graduate-school-as-an-international-student/ https://sysilviakim.com/2022-12-13-thriving-in-graduate-school-as-an-international-student/ In Oct 2020, I shared a rough draft of what I wrote up as a guideline on political science R1 job market for Caltech graduate students as I prepared to graduate. Seeing how many people came up to me and said this was helpful, especially the month-to-month to-do list, I... Tue, 09 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0900 https://sysilviakim.com/2021-03-09-political-science-academic-job-market/ https://sysilviakim.com/2021-03-09-political-science-academic-job-market/ I gave a talk today at R-Ladies Dallas via Zoom. The meetup was recorded and a video is now available here. The slides are here. TL;DR you should not do the following things for reproducibility within and across research projects: Not working in an R project Not using Git (version... Mon, 25 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0900 https://sysilviakim.com/2021-01-25-r-ladies-dallas-presentation-reproducible-r-workflows-for-research-papers/ https://sysilviakim.com/2021-01-25-r-ladies-dallas-presentation-reproducible-r-workflows-for-research-papers/ The Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, which I am part of, issued an advisory PDF titled “Making Sure That Your Vote Is Counted In 2020.” The full text is below: Making Sure That Your Vote Is Counted In 2020 The 2020 presidential election is the first in a century to be... Wed, 07 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0900 https://sysilviakim.com/2020-10-07-caltech-mit-vtp-advisory-making-sure-that-your-vote-is-counted-in-2020/ https://sysilviakim.com/2020-10-07-caltech-mit-vtp-advisory-making-sure-that-your-vote-is-counted-in-2020/ Thanks to the 2020 Iowa Caucus Conference hosted by Caroline Tolbert at the University of Iowa, I have been able to see the rallies, the field office operations, and ultimately the 2020 Iowa caucuses myself. Here are some of the pictures that captured the storm. Supporters for Elizabeth Warren prepare... Tue, 04 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0900 https://sysilviakim.com/2020-02-04-2020-iowa-caucuses-in-pictures/ https://sysilviakim.com/2020-02-04-2020-iowa-caucuses-in-pictures/ The 3rd annual Election Sciences, Reform, & Administration Conference wrapped up successfully, at the University of Pennsylvania. Sat, 13 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0900 https://sysilviakim.com/2019-07-13-esra-2019-short-brief/ https://sysilviakim.com/2019-07-13-esra-2019-short-brief/ I have given a public talk at the LA East R Users meetup on July 8, 2019, at the USC Health Campus. The slides on the meetup GitHub are here. A three line summary of the presentation is as follows: Never work with anything that doesn’t pass HMC checks or... Sat, 13 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0900 https://sysilviakim.com/2019-07-13-bayesian-analysis-with-rstan-rstanarm-and-brms/ https://sysilviakim.com/2019-07-13-bayesian-analysis-with-rstan-rstanarm-and-brms/