Mascha Pauelsen, PhD

Physiotherapy researcher. Movement science lab. Postural control. Active school transportation. Ageing and health.
She/her.

[Mascha Pauelsen, PhD @MPauelsen]

Tweets about trials and tribulations of:
- Research in ageing and health
- Research in other areas of health science

But also about:
- Life with dissability/chronic illness
- Academia with dissability/chronic illness
- Just simple life thingymabobs

[Mascha Pauelsen, PhD @MPauelsen]

@JGothilander @sjoerdmb @metanutter Are you changing your topic? I understood it as you wanting to do both?

[Mascha Pauelsen, PhD @MPauelsen]

@sjoerdmb @JGothilander @metanutter Yes. And I did some peer-reviewing during my PhD but only if I was sure the method, data, questions were similar enough to my project so I knee what I was looking for.

[Mascha Pauelsen, PhD @MPauelsen]

@sjoerdmb @JGothilander @metanutter Now, this final argument I agree with.

As for your first answer...
Of course you'd have a thorough understanding of the method you use in relation to your project, not sure that that is enough depth to also analyse its correct/incorrect use in other projects. That's all.

[Mascha Pauelsen, PhD @MPauelsen]

@JGothilander @metanutter You don't think there is a difference between learning to use a statistical method to study your subject and truly understanding and studying its ins and outs as the subject of your research?

[Mascha Pauelsen, PhD @MPauelsen]

@JGothilander @metanutter And as to the credibility question... No, it's not comparable. You're doing a PhD in your subject. I'm assuming you don't even have a bachelor's in data science or statistics.

Yes, assuming things and sorry if I'm wrong. :)

[Mascha Pauelsen, PhD @MPauelsen]

@JGothilander @metanutter I constantly questioned what I and my co-authors were doing though. And I think that maybe that questioning and learning (recording the learning too), is the best you can do at this stage to lay the ground works for something later on.

[Mascha Pauelsen, PhD @MPauelsen]

@wandedob Wow. Thought this was the standard everywhere. I mean, I'll still get paid without grants, but I won't be doing any research. Uni pays for me teaching, grants pay for me researching. Isn't that the standard?

[Mascha Pauelsen, PhD @MPauelsen]

@PhDVoice @PostdocVoice (if writing a compilation thesis)

Start writing your thesis during year 1 and keep updating that document untill it's an actual thesis. Don't wait to get all the sub-studies done first.

[Mascha Pauelsen, PhD @MPauelsen]

@JGothilander Yes, absolutely! You've got this! :)

[Mascha Pauelsen, PhD @MPauelsen]

@JGothilander I don't know what your questions and results look like, but maybe your work could be an important voice in lowering the status of independence as the "ultimate goal" by showing the variability/heterogeneity in the population?

[Mascha Pauelsen, PhD @MPauelsen]

@JGothilander Just some personal, non-academic thoughts, that might contain a word that triggers your expert level eureka moment. ;)

[Mascha Pauelsen, PhD @MPauelsen]

@JGothilander But I'm only an adult with an acquired disability. So no childhood experience.

I DO think children have a pretty good idea of what gives them QoL or well-being and I think it depends on the factors above wether or not independence will be a part of that.

[Sebastian Gabrielsson @seb_gab]

Få saker provocerar mig så mycket som vårdpolitiker som skryter över överskott i budgeten samtidigt som de inte förmår bemanna vården. Bra sammanfattning i artikeln av hur vi hamnat här.

[Mascha Pauelsen, PhD @MPauelsen]

@ekvall_eva It's a VERY exciting process! I loved those meetings in my doctoral projects and learned so much. :)

[Mascha Pauelsen, PhD @MPauelsen]

@EKing_Sci I didn't feel like an expert until during my defense and the examiners actually treated me like an expert, instigating very interesting discussions and curious for my takes.

[Mascha Pauelsen, PhD @MPauelsen]

In 10 minutes, the break in this seminar is over and students will be discussing a published paper of very poor quality. Always one of my favorite items in this course. :)

[Mascha Pauelsen, PhD @MPauelsen]

@louislhansen Or maybe not multiple axes, but at least not a linear or equal-steps scale. Or something. Not simple at least.

[Mascha Pauelsen, PhD @MPauelsen]

What's the most ethical and simple way to include a question on gender?

The problem with man/woman/non-binary is that the non-binary people disappear (or even get excluded) in the statistical analysis, basically binary washing research.

Suggestions?

[Mascha Pauelsen, PhD @MPauelsen]

@louislhansen I have the suspicion that such a scale would not be a simple line from female to male. I think there might be multiple axes.

No researcher is interested in that though, because then they cannot replicate (or compare to) any study that has used the binary (which is all).