I'm AliceD and the new pro-tem moderator replacing Josh.
Maybe a post will be added from SE at large, but I just wish to introduce myself and give some backgrounds.
- First, many thanks to Josh for being a pro-tem mod here for all those years. As far as I understand, Josh has too many other responsibilities in his beyond the in-silico-world of CogSci to deal with the tasks here as a mod;
- Secondly, pro-tem mods are not voted for and I received a personal invitation from SE to replace Josh as pro-tem mod and I gladly accepted it. I know that there are some very active and very knowledgeable users here that may have been around longer than I am. Perhaps my recent appointment as elected mod at Bio had something to do with it. One way or another, I hope that the long-term active users (and the new users for that matter) can find themselves in me taking over the role of Josh;
- I'm still actively learning the role of mod over at Bio and at a Beta site like CogSci my responsibilities are likely bigger. Please don't hesitate to grab me in chat or flag away if you have anything you'd like to tell me;
- I am trying to give high-quality answers including references to credible journals and I'm trying to fulfill an exemplary role in this. However, I'm just a biologist/neuroscientist (actively doing psychophysics, but still :-) so don't hesitate to correct me on CogSci matters;
- My activity here at CogSci has hit rock bottom lately, mainly because my recent elected mod ship over at Bio, workload, fatherhood, and what else. Don't worry, I'll better my life;
- One of my long-time goals here is getting us out of beta. The ways to get there are, basically, two-fold. From my vantage point this is: 1) passively go on as we do now and slowly build this site further; or 2) actively change site focus, name changes, improving site stats through more aggressive close voting etc. I'm leaning towards the latter approach as that got Bio out of Beta, but I will try to fit in this community first and support the current focus. In my opinion, I'm here primarily to support the current team, not to change directions. That may, or may not come later. If it does, it will only happen after reaching mod-agreement behind (or in front of) the scenes. I'm here for you, not vice versa.
Cheers, AliceD { better known as Chris (it's a long story) }.
