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Assistant Professor @UCLA, Former RWJ Health Policy Scholar @UMich. Research: #inequality #race #education #mentalhealth #discrimination @audit_studies
Mar 16, 2022 10 tweets 2 min read
Tenured*

*my raise didn't cover inflation in the last year.

Five years in LA. No closer to buying a house. University response: "Go get an outside offer."

Nose to the grindstone in the machinery of academia. I've been holding onto this for over a month because I was so upset about their response. Still stings. Deflated what should have been a happy and proud day for a kid who was the first in his family to go to college.
Dec 28, 2020 13 tweets 3 min read
Why we need to teach scientific literacy, a thread...

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In late November, @NatureComms published this paper on COVID-19 screening in Wuhan that occurred during a period approximately 5 to 8 weeks after lockdowns ended.

nature.com/articles/s4146…

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