Retweets & comments on Bloomberg article are great 😁
A good #epitwitter teaching example: In research, we can frame causes as 1) personal biological deficits or 2) structural systems that (for some reason!) don’t accommodate common life processes mostly affecting women 🤔
2/ Meanwhile accommodations for sexual harassers, people who frequently have violent outbursts, who fail to pull their weight re: tedious administrative work, etc, are so culturally ingrained in many orgs that they are not even written policy…
3/ These kinds of off-the-books, unwritten, but very real, accommodations are expensive (eg, lawsuits, revolving door of talent, decreased productivity of others) but often framed as unforeseeable and absorbed as a cost of doing business
4/ So there’s this bind when people ask for written policies making space for people like them. They are seen as asking for *special* accommodations for people like them… even though there’s already a system of accommodations for people-not-like-them, already built in
5/ People with disabilities or mental health challenges have been so eloquent in articulating these inconsistencies in the wake of the #COVID19-era mass move to work-from-home in many industries
6/ We live in an amazing time.
We’ve seen that more inclusive workplaces are possible!
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1/ Good overview of challenges of doing “big data” health care research in US. For instance, nice description of basic pros and cons of insurance claims vs #EHR health care records
2/ But the article has a prematurely triumphant tone at the beginning (and in the default Twitter tagline). N3C is great but limited, as the article does make clear
3/ And it’s not totally novel. But the novelty to me is that it’s
a non-“federated”* model
*not* run by for-profit companies,
so the data are accessible to the public for analysis
1/ For those wondering what the heck is happening in North Carolina, it’s a foreseeable train wreck that left the station in December 2016
(I could go back further to 2010, but let’s stay focused on state boards for now) npr.org/sections/thetw…
2/ In 2016, Republicans won NC’s electoral votes for US presidency and kept control of the gerrymandered state legislature (“surgical precision”, the Appeals court said).
But Dem Roy Cooper won the governorship…
3/ So fine, it would be split-party control (which lots of people prefer as an affirmative good)…
🧵1/ I find #COVIDvaccine focus groups like this fascinating. I was struck by the broad distrust of physicians in this group of reproductive-aged women...
🧵2/ I study this kind of population a lot in my #gynhealth work through #EHR medical systems data. As a social epidemiologist, it’s a cool population to study in EHR data bc so many have frequent contacts with the medical system through routine gyn and pregnancy care...
🧵 3/ So you really get a peek into a broad cross-section of the population, unlike other kinds of EHR research.
“To be able to get high volumes like that in a one-day setting, you need to have proper outreach...We rely heavily on our community partners to flyer the apartment buildings and, you know, contact local groups or agencies to make sure that they’re aware of the pop up as well.”
🧵2/ I’ve still been processing the response to CDC’s change in guidance about *outdoor* masking! Remember that?! npr.org/sections/healt…
🧵3/ In that case, I thought guidance was pretty sound bc that’s basically how I’d been living even before I was vaccinated. Outdoor transmission risk so low. My family wore masks outdoors when close to people (playgrounds etc) or long face-to-face talking or just as a courtesy
1/ New #COVID19#K12 paper in @ScienceMagazine: the part that most excites me is zooming in on the safety measures that best predict low #COVID19 risks...
2/ Parents & school staff & community members really want to know: What is most important? What measures should be prioritized at my school? This paper models that in detail: results reinforce findings from previous work
3/ importance of extracurriculars consistent with a lot of what’s seen in contact tracing of #K12 outbreaks - it’s usually not the classroom contact; it’s the less regulated extracurricular time.