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Jessica Schonhut-Stasik
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Doctoral Candidate in Astronomy at Vanderbilt University 🎓, Project Manager for the Frist Center for Autism and Innovation🧠, Telescope Systems Specialist at UKIRT🔭🗻, Host of AstronomerAND🎙️Autism self-advocate 🦸🏼‍♀️. www.jessicastasik.com
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Why do Private Investigators on TV always turn up the bad stuff... "she had a prison sentence", "he secretly killed a man". And never "he always feeds the ducks his leftover lunch in the park". I want balance if I'm trying to decide if someone's a threat/potential love interest.

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Now that I've started having coffee in the shower I guess that's just what I do now.

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No way did a student I work with find bugs in her hotel room to then get moved to a GROUND FLOOR, SMALLER, NOISY ROOM (on her own). I'm gonna be getting real British when I get back to the hotel.

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Nothing makes me feel old like Tony Hawk on statin ad.

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This has GOT to be my favorite spam of all time. PLEASE SUBMIT ARTICLES TO OUR JOURNAL, YOU CAN HAVE UP TO 15% PLAGIARISM. Who's in?

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Spending a week in Lindau for #lino24 is just like Science Bachelor. Laureates are the bachelors and young scientists the contestants. "Can I steal you for a second?" Gotta know @nertushka and I are getting all the roses with our loud mouths. 😉😉🌹🌹

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I wrote about Ryan Gainer, Sam Bankman-Fried, which type of autistic boys and men get to use their autism diagnosis as an excuse and who dies because of their autism. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Ryan Gainer, a 15-year-old Black autistic boy wearing a black t-shirt, stands smiling in the woods.
Sam Bankman-Fried, a white man wearing a black suit, white dress shirt and blue-and-white-striped tie, with big scraggly hair, standing outside of a courthouse.
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The full paper can be found here: frontiersin.org/articles/10..... I want to thank my amazing co-authors, particularly Kim Arcand and Sarah Kane, I adore working with you to make astronomy more accessible.

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Finally, I want to include this incredible Word Cloud, indicating text responses from participants about how the sonifications made them feel.

A word cloud of the words participants used to describe their emotional response to the sonifications. Words that were used more frequently by participants are represented by larger text, whereas less frequent responses are represented by smaller text. The largest and thus most commonly used words are “awe,” “calm,” and “curiosity.” Slightly smaller words include “peaceful,” “interesting,” “curious,” “wonder,” “relaxing,” “soothing,” “beautiful,” and “intrigued.” Some of the smaller words include “exciting,” “ethereal,” “mysterious,” “amazement,” and “impressed.”
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We also asked some overall questions that were not specific to the individual sonifications. We found that the experience encouraged sighted users to learn more about accessibility!

Three histograms separately representing the responses of the BLV and sighted groups to the final prompts provided after listening to all three sonifications (see Section 2.3 for the list of prompts). For all three prompts, the average rating of the BLV group is higher than that of the sighted group, and there is a noticeable difference in the distribution of both groups’ ratings. Again for all three prompts, BLV participants were more likely to give a rating of 5 than sighted participants, and the mode rating for the BLV group in response to all three prompts was 5. By contrast, the mode response of the sighted group was 4 to the prompts regarding being motivated to listen more and about wanting to learn more about how others access information about the Universe and was 5 for the prompt regarding wanting to learn more about the Universe. The average rating is greater than 4.0 for both groups across all three prompts, and ratings of 4 or 5 make up the majority of responses.
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Jessica Schonhut-Stasik
@jesstella.bsky.social
Doctoral Candidate in Astronomy at Vanderbilt University 🎓, Project Manager for the Frist Center for Autism and Innovation🧠, Telescope Systems Specialist at UKIRT🔭🗻, Host of AstronomerAND🎙️Autism self-advocate 🦸🏼‍♀️. www.jessicastasik.com
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