I state, highlight, mark up, not insinuate
Why is someone who likely does not menstruate a sudden expert on #womenshealth to identify a WOC seeking #data #quality & #integrity as the threat...to women?
"Respecting" social science = using respectable methods, not online surveys.
What you see in the tweet and the "study" is ego, defensiveness & flagrant Dunning-Kruger effect for #womenshealth, #menstrualhealth, #COVID19, #vaccine #research.

The best way to demonstrate the value of a field is to be consistent on #quality not

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Academic language on #online #survey #data:
"systematically assess carelessness in a crowdsourced sample" Denial that quick & dirty is poor #quality is an odd use of time & ineffective. One could better defend one's merit, by delivering #quality per best practices and standards.
This is an extremely important issue that is bigger than anyone's ego or tribalism. #COVID19 #pandemic has killed >500,000 Americans and is already affecting #womenshealth via long COVID. Why ignore this to claim "side effect" of vaccine?

Be responsible

medicalnewstoday.com/articles/long-…
If one had authentic commitment to #womenshealth or #menstrualhealth would already know this: 65% of women, prior to #COVID19 #vaccine, were already experiencing menstrual irregularity due to stress, lifestyle change

Relevant to claiming "side effect"

womenshealthmag.com/uk/health/a339…
I am supremely unimpressed with a male anthropologist seeking to create an online mob - which is the go to tactic of anti-vaxx vs #tweetiatrician that do #SciComm to address vaccine hesitancy - to protect poor #quality #data on #WomensHealth & #vaccine

fiercehealthcare.com/practices/anti…
There are valid, even interdisciplinary ways to assess immune-biological mechanisms of vaccine "side effects" in the varied hormonal & physiological states that are found in #womenshealth from teen to menopause, including pregnancy.

Responsible #research & #quality #data needed
My intention: I am followed by multiple health reporters.

I outline valid vs invalid approaches and the the pro-science, pro-#woman, pro-#quality approach into the twitterverse so that illogical "side effect" "#data" #misinformation are not misused in a #pandemic. #Twitter
GIGO or "garbage in, garbage out" #data will be misused, of course. That is the nature of online #misinformation. It is often taken to the most vulnerable & already traumatized to add to existing reality-based fear of authorities.

This is my lane:
statnews.com/2017/05/08/mea…
Those who newly expert on #vaccines & #womenshealth or believe their own personal experience can replace responsible hypothesis generation or survey design for #qualitative research

are not dealing with this daily thus cavalier
(Menses=fertility btw)

statnews.com/2021/03/25/inf…
The best way to not make #qualitative #research a butt of jokes is to do it well and adhere to #quality #standards

My knowledge in this area is cuz I teach this, review such studies, publish

I recognize that factual women, WOC often invoke anger tho:

qz.com/work/1722398/w…
Question is, what is the most offensive to you?

1- You heard criticism backed up with academic standards, data, references, context?
Or
2-In a #pandemic we still struggle with #vaccine #Misinformation?

What is your priority?

What is your #SciComm?
scientificamerican.com/article/how-to…
The comments & retweets amplify the thread such that more people - who care about saving lives (not defending ego or tribalism) - can have access to the information on #womenshealth and #vaccine. (The actual commenters are not the target population for factual #SciComm)
But mostly, given the followership I have from #healthcare #media, this is out there as a source of references & context. You simply cannot collect biological "causation" #data, then wordsmith as "experience" of "side effects", on menses for all women via 15-minutes online survey
Some folks are focused on metrics of clicks and such. For me: long as people are better educated and have more access to appropriate benchmarks, standards, baselines, context, relevant information and are more capable of critical thinking for having read a tweet, that is success.
The more that ego-driven folks try to evade the issue of #quality #safety #data #integrity, defend things that have no logic/plausibility, the more they dig the hole they seem to be wanting to cover

There is valid #qualitative #research
Quality requires effort, not carelessness
For further context, my mother passed from #COVID19 a bit over a month ago, prior to her having access to the #vaccine. As a grieving daughter, I was dealing with explaining why the latest "#Twitter #research" was not valid on "side effects" This is as personal as it gets.
People can focus on ego. For others #COVID19 is literal life & death

What is your priority?

I'm exhausted addressing others' irresponsible #misinformation

responding w/ factual #SciComm

I am taking care of myself & those who will have #poor #data communicated to drive fear
When you do fieldwork at margins you hear the stories. Communicating the richness of human experience is what I thought anthropology is about. work.chron.com/cultural-anthr…
But this is not my field. If current anthropology #quality is defined by online surveys, you all know best.
I'll stick to producing #publichealth #COVID19 #vaccine #SciComm for marginalized communities as well as my work for #maternalchildhealth - that is my actual training. Where there are collisions, folks of tribal mindset, not committed to #quality will find I have a lot to say.
The nature of merging lanes is collisions. Not sure if you've heard of M*ssholes drivers?

You just found one.

#bostonstrong #Massachusetts #Masshole

theodysseyonline.com/11-signs-typic…
#Tweetiatrician have been playing catch up to the seemingly innocuous poor #quality #data from Wakefield #vaccine scare for a couple decades. We're on #Twitter w/ deliberate factual, pro-#science pro-#childhealth ( includes pro-#womenshealth) agenda

aappublications.org/news/2016/11/2…
Talking to oneself in long threads will, of course come across as odd. (Doctors who wear unicorn horns at work are odd) Thing with #pediatrics is we are SUPER nice to kids while having expectations of adults to protect the vulnerable and be responsible.

Every outlet or cabinet you put a child protective lock on is not actually a source of danger. Some are. #prevention mindset notices #risk & addresses early. It is why pediatricians become the "Cassandra" & put things out there for public to find like

My lived experience as a WOC in marginalized communities as a member, #endometriosis patient & as a clinician make me very aware of what drives this. I use my time to address this via free accessible #publichealth #SciComm videos/content without paywall.

blogs.bcm.edu/2021/01/22/red…
This crowd is often the source of the greatest #misinformation online on #vaccines, often believing themselves crusaders of #equity, while generating the #disinformation that is taken to those at the margins to drive fear, barriers to care, even deaths.

sciencemag.org/news/2011/01/w…
There is some overlap between different URM & BIPOC communities in America, best described by what is described by black doctors. The rest of us experience a fraction of this but still do become the bridge between community & #COVID19 #pandemic health.

npr.org/2020/06/27/883…
When it comes down to life & death outcomes in a #pandemic, you will see what could be called a "frenzied" response or any other term you choose. Is the nature of overcompensating for #system & #leadership failures.
For some of us, this is our family:

apmresearchlab.org/covid/deaths-b…
That is not to discount the validity of #data #integrity or #quality in #research and #studymethods. Is easy to discount the content because of the volume
#Tweetiatrician #SciComm strategy: outcompete this #misinformation & #disinformation #MedTwitter

thelancet.com/journals/eclin…
If you were not there when my/others’ mothers ill or dying, not combatting harms that reached these women, I am not interested in your uninformed opinion/ego now.

I would do ANYTHING to have my mom back. Barring that, will protect other women from #misinformation & bad #data
Prof of “embarrassment” and “shame” @OrganJM is this woman sufficiently broken, depleted, in pain for you to feel hero now? Why do you need someone to bleed? Why not care about #data #integrity on #COVID19 #vaccine #womenshealth?

Why do you perpetuate this as an academic?
The more effective mislabeling of a WOC or POC who speaks up on basic #standards, #safety, #quality is by a woman, btw like:

In the future, manage your ego so your lack of commitment to #quality #data on #womenshealth or #COVID19 is not so exposed

bet.com/news/national/…
Am I “polite”?
Question is: how “polite”
..is it to add to #womenshealth #COVID19 #vaccine #misinformation?
..are >500,000 deaths?
..should a #scicomm #tweetiatrician be while in active #grief over loss of a mother?

I admit, I am no Dr. Birx

wsj.com/articles/dr-bi…
Help save lives
or
Generate valid, quality #data on #womenshealth #menstrualhealth #COVID19 #vaccine
or
Get out of the way of those who are

Women deserve #quality

Respect as an academic is earned

Use standards for #data #integrity
=everyone stays safe even if in others’ lanes
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11 Apr
Also, btw, any woman who has been in c-suite in NYC has literally worked with/around people with mob connections.

I take a lot of stands & speak on things that people want to keep hidden.

If there were “dirt” on me to find, it would have been found & used against me already.
I’m super annoying that way (in many ways) to folks who align against me.

When you are Muslim, activist, female, not seeking anyone’s patronage or protection, you are always exposed, surveilled, at risk - it is unavoidable.

Protection is in transparency, ethics, standards
These are life’s trade offs, I avoid certain shackles or cages and in doing so, carefully check off certain boxes to stay protected. I have worked in #compliance vs #fraud & #abuse, and I have seen every tiny detail that gets people caught up in the system. Stay out of harm’s way
Read 8 tweets
11 Apr
One of those times a #tweetiatrician
entered anti-vaxx space to speak truth to conspiracy

Claiming victim status & “witch hunt!”, Wakefield rallied support via anti-system/science distrust

-> loyal mob of supporters, now cyberbullies (yet who claim to be bullied) #medtwitter
Experience of past medical harm is not itself evidence every doctor is bullying you. As a woman & WOC, in/out of hospitals as a child, there is tons of trauma & medical sexism & racism I have experienced

yet all that is erased/denied by those using one lens vs intersectionality
#tweetiatrician online for decades fighting fear & fake news #MedTwitter

doctors beaten down, made caricature of evil, gotten death threats @NicoleB_MD @DrToddWo

@AmerAcadPeds needs to step up on supporting clinicians vs #cyberbullying

Of online doc-celebs only @ZDoggMD helped ImageImageImageImage
Read 4 tweets
10 Apr
I have a range of writing & #communication styles

Outside the ED of hospitalist medicine, when I “talk like a man” - direct, unvarnished truths and or “taking up too much space”, there is pushback, affront. Others have noted men with same style as me are👍
#WomeninSTEM
#SciComm
In reality women can’t just email or communicate “like a man” for same results. Society *expects* different communication from women.

I’ve never been an exclamation point person but I use smiley faces

#womeninleadership
#womeninSTEM
#WomenInMedicine

vice.com/en/article/8xy…
These studies + anecdotal experience:

“women don't negotiate for a very simple reason: they sense—correctly—that it will hurt them if they do... when women *do* negotiate... they end up worse off than if they’d kept their mouths shut”

#womeninSTEM

psychologytoday.com/us/blog/family…
Read 25 tweets
10 Apr
This “fertility” fake news has been going on since December, apparently.

focusonreproduction.eu/article/News-i…
“CDC report found that 62% of nursing home workers are refusing the vaccine”

“...First responders in New Mexico have sued after a county official ordered firefighters, corrections officers and other first responders to receive injections.”

#MedTwitter

abcnews.go.com/US/employers-g…
Lawsuits over staff mandates to vaccinate or mask boggle my mind.

This has been brewing for years.

There is SO much anti-science rampant within #healthcare staff more so in those “anti-establishment” on either extreme of political spectrum

nbcboston.com/news/local/jud…
Read 19 tweets
9 Apr
Shame & #impostersyndrome = energy waste you canNOT afford (I realized w/ chronic illness & pain). You WILL fall - while rest & recovery are important - sometimes the ball about to drop is too important
Don’t miss your shot

#womeninleadership
#womeninSTEM
#womeninmedicine
BUT do miss a lot of shots. I promise you, it will drain you of less energy to try over and over than to try to be perfect. You will ALWAYS fail to be perfect. You will only sometimes fail to make the shot

#womeninleadership
#womeninSTEM
#womeninmedicine

Of course there will be these people, (whether in reality or your perception of it - but perception becomes reality).

They have only as much power as YOU give them.

Go to your beginner’s mind. Find that inner child’s courage.

#womeninleadership
#womeninSTEM
#womeninmedicine
Read 8 tweets
9 Apr
When folks online think women at midcareer are “too much” or “overcompensate”

you are 100% right

=working 3-10x as hard to get 1/2 as far
on display

Tired of experiencing us online?
Try living this way ALL THE TIME
#womeninleadership
#womeninSTEM
#womeninmedicine
#Medtwitter
If you don’t recognize it, ask yourself whether your goals and/or identity align with power, privilege, structural inequity

..and in how many domains?

How complex or intersectional is your identity?

Centering on self is the best way to misinterpret the world around you.
If you start by asking yourself questions

you will start to learn to ask others questions, not assume

One version is called “the beginner’s mind” or a child-like curiosity about the world that promotes learning & understanding

Opposite of expert

theemotionmachine.com/beginners-mind/
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