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Mar 6, 2023 7 tweets 4 min read Read on X
There is an attrition of women that increases across the stages in academia and in medicine. This is true across all countries and in all (many!?) disciplines. We need to change this. Is it a leaky pipeline or broken glass tunnel? Image
What about in 🇨🇦? Our numbers are very similar in Canada and within hospitals across Ontario. When we lose the diversity we lose a lot. How can we have equitable engagement in undergraduate schools but attrition ramps up with each stage. For POC it is much worse. ImageImageImage
Why is diversity so important?? Because diversity breeds discovery… we need ally’s. #heforshe Image
Katalin Kariko’s story is a great ex of the biases that exist. Basing our decisions on our past ideas of traditional metrics she had no early career awards, she was denied grants but now. Her work has had a huge impact. Same with Feed Sanger. We have a very narrow view… ImageImage
Citations & money is not the only metric to evaluate scientists. There is evidence of bias in many of our measures. We need reproducible and valid…publication numbers are an issue. JIF inaccurate predication of quality!!! JIF went up substantially with COVID-19 pubs. Shows skew ImageImage
What can we do? DORA is great but doesn’t give us any metrics to use. So what can be used? Why do we keep using metrics that are deeply flawed? We wouldn’t do that in our science… EMPIRE is quantitive…and qualitative is Science Impact Framework. Neither is perfect but… ImageImage

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