Thread by @usnehal

LOVE being faculty at @MIT this semester for a class on #dataanalytics & #datascience. I tend to PM my mentees, especially women and #blackexcellence to start to prepare questions to ask. Too often people stay silent. Speak up. Never be embarrassed to show #curiosity.

Listening right now to mid-semester progress reports from teams and am feeling like such a proud #datascience #BigData #bigdataanalytics momma. Bear cubs doing good (well AND good in world)

LOVE that this is a space within @MIT that focuses on #SDoH and #equity.

Literally right now, hearing about a study on #socialmedia chatter as a driver of vaccines hesitancy driven by #Twitter - start postulate "cause/effect" by an incident that happens within days after a vaccine - like ppl automatically assume a death is "caused" by vaccine

Meanwhile #Twitter, at same time, ppl saying: perimenopausal menses changes "caused" by a single dose of the #vaccine. You can't make this stuff up. When you are a person who seeks out information in multiple spaces, you have these experiences that are almost comical... #COVID19

..it would be comical if spreading #vaccine #disinformation manufacturing fear via illogical "this must be a side effect"

is a matter of life/death both by actual spread of #COVID19 #pandemic + secondary impacts thru long COVID, economic impacts, #mentalhealth impacts etc etc

Grateful to my mother for encouraging me to go back to school to do @mit. I was feeling SO stuck. Repeatedly was able to rise into what should be positions of power then realizing those with power, privilege, resources seek to maintain that NOT change things to promote #equity

Also realized: was adapted to a culture of shame in #medicine/#healthcare as well as society in general

Shame is a form of social control to avoid speaking clearly on problems, wrong priorities, misallocation of resources, poor outcomes

Shame -> silence
academicmedicineblog.org/breaking-the-s…

As we see more women, BIPOC, LGBTQ, those with disabilities in #healthcare #medicine, we will have additional lenses, lived experiences, questions.

#Quality requires curiosity, #transparency, reporting. Thing is too often error is perceived as "shaming" pmlive.com/blogs/smart_th…

Yet, without naming things, how can we be accurate or how can we improve? It's easy to focus only on "patriarchy" but the issue is imbalance. You need men AND women and every gender in between. You need neurotypical and neurodivergent, you need abled and disabled.

We NEED varied perspectives & interdisciplinary work. We also need a common language=#data

"roadblock to progress with data & #analytics is poor #dataliteracy, rooted in ineffective #communication across a wide range of increasingly diverse stakeholders"

gartner.com/smarterwithgar…

Do I get "momma grizzly" on #quality? Totes. Spot on if you identify me as protecting #dataintegrity. I've seen #disinformation harm. It is those most marginalized & least empowered who get harmed.

Garbage in, garbage out is not advancing knowledge. Make the effort for quality.

Unapologetically committed to quality #safety #accuracy #dataintegrity ✅

In fact, if you map the trajectory of my career that is why I pursued certain paths or left certain roles

Why I admire @timnitGebru
Why I am carefully considering right next step

wired.com/story/timnit-g…

My tour through #compliance is what allowed me to advance into a manager role, matches what we know about roles to which women are hired.
I sought to advance #Quality
BUT, reality role: control others per rules written by patriarchy, be a female face.

law.com/corpcounsel/20…

#publichealth =answering to women like Dr. Birx, whom I've tweeted on at length
They model #leadership #womeninleadership with #Compliance
= only what men will allow them to say or do
= just a female face on patriarchy but maybe worse as it "reassures"

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1243583231200542721?s=20

Notice which #womeninleadership #womeninmedicine do NOT comply, resign when they get pushed too far from delivering #quality #safety for #populationhealth. These tend to be WOC who have lived experience of the very barriers they are hired to address.

nytimes.com/2020/08/04/nyr…

I invite you to reflect on who has the biggest issues with me tweeting "too much"
=keyboard warriors who do not appear to have either lived experience and/or professional commitment to advancing #equity, #QualityTime
=No #accountability on real outcomes (including life/death)

True, I could totally save myself the creeps, stalkers, harassers, mis-labeling snarkers

I could be "discrete", be known for sophisticated coiffure & Hermes scarves. It's what women do who serve, not disrupt, patriarchy

Patriarchy, btw, harms MEN as much as women

I disrupt

Women who "know no bounds" are often labeled in a variety of terms that imply they are anti-social, deranged, dangerous, etc, etc. This goes back to the theme in this thread of shaming to control to serve patriarchy and pit the "good" woman vs the "bad"

https://twitter.com/usnehal/status/1353499259115630592?s=20

I share this a lot cuz we NEED this #womeninleadership

rather than #compliance with the rules of the past that control via shame or craft perfect image..yet poor outcomes

It speaks to me in many ways (& reminds me why I am spending @MIT tuition. LOL)

https://twitter.com/usnehal/status/1265425020551077888?s=20

Yes, I love Amanda Gorman, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison. They serve as inspiration. In order to address the issues of #quality, like @SaniaNishtar describes here, you need to work through issues like #data and #budget. If #LMIC can do it, why not U.S.?

This is VERY important to listen to for #womaninleadership
Say "no" to ppl above you (or leave)
You have to not accept second rate
If the choice is #safety risk to others or risk to your perfect career (she had won 16 gold medals), pick latter
#MedTwitter

When anyone
particularly women
do not comply
question
disrupt

the usual policers of social order show up with:
"Shame on you"
"Be embarrassed"

because for them, optics matter more than outcomes - they reveal OWN motivations: ego
Notice ppl's priorities & actions
in a #pandemic

What liberated me from culture of shame of #healthcare was my return (a childhood in/out of hospitals then a reasonably healthy period) to the patient side. #Physicians are notorious for shaming #disease, #ableism - so it affects professional identity

jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…

My #health issues, #womenshealth, invite layer upon layer of internalized shame & external shaming. I support others + take notice of who works within #healthcare (or comments on it) whose "go to" tactic is shaming. It identifies who is toxic #MedTwitter

https://twitter.com/usnehal/status/1228862768863961089?s=20

#womeninleadership need to model, not #compliance, but being messy, "out of control" even, as long as we deliver results. For me that is because with a 23-page CV, I feel reasonably secure that I can say "call me crazy or call me crazy good at delivering results others can't"

Modeling #womeninleadership is one domain of advancing #Equity
#data= #language & #currency of the future

Are you a data creator, collector, monetizer, user

or written about?

Who defines data, categories, labels, #quality? #womenintech #womeninSTEM

knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/barret…

That's why am loving being faculty/mentor for this @MIT class on #DataScience #bigdata #bigdataanalytics and I love that faculty include current students because you want ppl who are curious as well as current on the latest methods. I have a lot to learn

github.com/criticaldata/h…