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#Scientist #Academic #Advocate #Research #EDI #DEI #accessibility #SciComm #ScienceUpFirst #dogs #LegacyBlueCheck Joined 2012 | she/her
Jun 1, 2020 16 tweets 15 min read
Looking for ways to bring discussions of #racism in your #science classes? Some ideas I use in class & in talks e.g. genome-wide sequencing studies, databases are skewed. Must be accounted for when extrapolating these data (e.g. personalized medicine) nature.com/news/genomics-… 1/n Especially when those findings are used to develop decision #algorithms otherwise #racism gets "baked in" #ArtificialIntelligence is not neutral. Healthcare outcomes reflect societal racism nature.com/articles/d4158…
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