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2 Feb, 9 tweets, 8 min read
This 👇🏿👇🏼👇🏾
Many feel professionally unsafe, especially those working in academia & hospitals, too. If you look at the stories of @ayshakhoury @uche_blackstock @timnitGebru you see this over and over. This exists on a spectrum and tolerating “mild” hate, racism, & bigotry is a slippery slope
It can also kill. Look at how #drsusanmoore was treated in the hospital

then posthumously called “intimidating” by same nurses who should have been caring for (not Karening) her

clinician at your bedside to care may be of #insurrection beliefs

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
How many hospitals are monitoring their employees to assess for this?

Shouldn’t we be checking the #socialmedia of doctors & nurses & others to ensure the people working in hospitals are safe, not advocating harm or not posting QAnon? #MedTwitter

npr.org/local/305/2021…
@AOC - respect your courage in speaking up

I am no longer living in #NYC but would love to work with you on addressing this hind of hatred and violence in the workplace at every level & sector

In healthcare, racism kills patients and kills careers
A @becker_sbecker #podcast on #racism in #healthcare - that can be triggering to those w/ past trauma from sexual assault, police brutality, school brutality, living through war

#insurrection #CapitolRiot was overt violence & hate yet still brushed aside

go.beckershospitalreview.com/scott-becker-i…
I got curious on QAnon in #healthcare. Started looking thru FB of healthcare workers w/in 1-2 degrees of separation. Found this. No @IlhanMN has not been getting terrorist training.

This medically inaccurate info posted by a nurse - is she or doctors like her safe for patients?
I did a long thread on QAnon #disinformation spread via #socialmedia & religious groups, drew from past anti-terrorism efforts, best practices on #SciComm, & what we do poorly so should change

Too many in SciComm teach ineffective and even harmful approaches
Would this licensed, employed pharmacist have flown under the radar to harm the vaccine distribution if of another race?

We have people w/ ability to administer death instead of life in positions in police, healthcare, Congress who are not factual, rational, don’t respect law.

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4 Feb
@FBI - I have been marked as a target by alt right already - my #GOTV work is what #MarjorieTaylorGreene spreads hate on - citizen rights of minorities. The violence that smashed the skull of #OfficerSicknick on Jan 6 was about effective #votingrights work of @staceyabrams ImageImageImageImage
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What I threaten is the power differential in #healthcare -by my identity & work - all bullying is about power first & foremost. Yes, I threaten bullies & their sidekicks. I open, expand, include vs paranoia to exclude, block.

Other Muslims like me, shot: dailytarheel.com/article/2020/0…
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4 Feb
Important to keep in mind that #AI is made by humans. Our flaws and biases get encoded and amplified. We need the right diversity of people at the table to design and implement #ArtificialIntelliegence and #ML. #humancentereddesign for all of humanity. #design
Who determines definitions, labels of #data cut offs? Too often we get all nerdy on which variables & factors in the model. But are we even using the right data? #tech #technology types might consider reading Maya Angelou & Toni Morrison and others to think outside the box
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Example: many people are interested in #SDoH #socialdeterminantsofhealth & #data for it.
Who has existing large #databases?
Banks
Banks are traditionally risk averse, block/exclude those who are labeled high risk
So can their data improve health equity?

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3 Feb
Some outcomes are for best. I considered 2 jobs in CT in recent years. (As a kid, lived in Cheshire & Branford)

Got one offer. Other, hiring manager wanted to hire me but person to sign off heard I was “activist” so passed on my candidacy. Maybe cuz:

juberoad.com/cheshire-and-t…
We had a lovely house in Cheshire w/ a big yard & fireplace, right near my school

the realtor told us that it had been suddenly put on the market because a black family had moved in next-door

I bet when we also moved there it was seen as a negative?

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My sis, in high school, had it rough. Really rough. Girl groups make up bizarro rules to police belonging.

My sister actually saved me from stuff I did not even know she had saved me from - like the girly girl dress in the last tweet? Mom’s choice.

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3 Feb
Not only experience, which is important, but clinical #research does not parse out the Japanese man or woman from the South Asian man or woman on heart disease risk, epidemiology, treatment.

#EBM lacking for us then

#MedTwitter #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter
And then there is the question of who is white.

Iranian/Persian & Arabs are white on census.
Does the rest of America agree?

Racists & xenophobes tend to use loophole to say being anti-Muslim (whom they consider to all be Arab) is “not racist.”

latimes.com/projects/la-me…
Proving again: race is a social construct

Not until 2020 Persians really started to call selves “POC” (for self protection)

Have lots of Persian friends
Urdu culture has Farsi roots

But let’s be honest: Persians have seen selves as superior race, apart

wbez.org/stories/renewe… ImageImageImageImage
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3 Feb
Oooooh.

Yes, riling up Scotsmen & women, expecting them to back down, from a fight seems
SO logical
SO aligned with Scottish history & spirit

*makes popcorn*

Between this & trending #seashantytok what is not to love about our kilt wearing neighbors across the Atlantic?
On the #seashantytok #Seashantytiktok in case you were not up to speed

I would like to point out I was already following him & had watched all his videos, long before he got the 7 million views, record deal, or noticed by Kermit or Andrew Lloyd Webber

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2 Feb
Also, if you notice a pattern of certain women who are very concerned about “cancel culture”, these are often women whose income, power, position comes from those men who avoid/fear accountability.
There is no reason to be afraid of women if one already was doing the right thing. Have good ethics yourself and have a good radar for that yourself. I have NEVER had problems with male mentors as we align on values/mission first. We work through trust.

hbr.org/2019/03/advice…
If you are playing a dirty game or don’t have standards to who you hire, do business with, etc (or no standards to own behavior), yeah, I get why you are paranoid.

Drain your own swamp then.
Not all women are pawns in a man’s game like:

apnews.com/article/donald…
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