Adia Benton @Ethnography911 Twitter profile

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Adia Benton

@Ethnography911

1 year

joined the other blue thing, same handle

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Adia Benton

@Ethnography911

2 years

Yesterday I arrived in Seoul-Incheon and showed my QR code confirming my negative COVID test from 24h before. I walked across the street to get a RT-PCR test-took about 10mins. Took subway into the city where everyone was masked. received my results via email a few hours later.

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Adia Benton

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4 years

“But who will investigate and solve murder and rape crimes?” Oh, you’re thinking of television

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we will form a committee

Dr. Apropos of Nothing

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4 years

What is the academic version of 'thoughts and prayers'?

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Adia Benton

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2 years

Not saying it’s paradise or anything but it’s jarring to now read from CDC, leaders from a range of professional associations, “We’re dropping all our recommendations because we would like to move on from this…”

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Adia Benton

@Ethnography911

2 years

Breakfast buffet at my hotel had gloves and sanitizer for people to use before they touched the utensils. Most folks masked until they ate. They ask folks to not talk — aerosols!— but who’s doing that? It was fairly quiet still. People spaced out.

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Adia Benton

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3 years

The “innocent children” thing bugs me. Why exceptionalize the violence? Why establish innocence and (certain) youth as threshold for care, compassion —as the bar for legitimizing state violence

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Adia Benton

@Ethnography911

2 years

dear mr president: Instead of urging that cities and state use unspent covid relief money to fund cops, why not urge them to spend it on covid relief + mitigation? summer's coming! school ventilation upgrades! cooling centers w improved ventilation! testing centers! housing!

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Adia Benton

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I don’t think DEI is the opposite of white supremacy

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Adia Benton

@Ethnography911

6 years

We told y’all. Stop sending your material to these people.

NBC News

@NBCNews

6 years

Home DNA test results from the 5 million customers of 23andMe will now be used by drug giant GlaxoSmithKline to design new drugs, the two companies announce.

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@laurawritesit Maybe it’s even possible, get this, that they were able to abuse her *because of* her bipolar disorder

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2 years

in the name of civilization in fact

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@arothmanhistory

2 years

The worst atrocities of human history have been committed by its most "civilized" powers.

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Adia Benton

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4 years

Slightly confused about the surprise that elite institutions produce white supremacists. Like, where do you think it was born, how do you think it reproduces?

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Adia Benton

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5 years

7 years 2 kids 1 book I don’t know how to count the other publications Lots of advice and review and editing for others because I like it Tenure

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Adia Benton

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1 year

Thinking about a colleague who was interviewing ebola survivors, months to years after they were discharged ‘ebola-free’. He found lots of people who said they’d never quite recovered. But their symptoms were fatigue, anxiety, sadness—none of which compelled diagnosis + treatment

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Adia Benton

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6 years

Tender moment on the el: a man on the train expresses admiration for another man’s shoes. Shoe guy: my woman bought these for me. Admirer: that’s nice. She got good taste. My girl buy me something and I don’t like it, I wear it anyway because fuck it, she showing she cares.

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Adia Benton

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6 years

Native ‘blood’, black ‘friend’: fictive intimacy as absolution for benefiting from white supremacy

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@SRuhle the *actual* Emmett Till "moment" did what, exactly? Did it end white supremacist violence against Black boys?

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@HillaryHaldane I’m trying to figure out how she still has this job

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3 years

what the and I cannot stress this enough fuck

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7 years

I generally stop reading anything if I see the phrase “on both sides” unless it’s about cooking.

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Adia Benton

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9 months

“When you call it genocide, you lose supporters—people who would otherwise join your cause” listen to yourselves

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2 months

The thing I hate about the job advice stuff is that you really don’t know why tf you got the job

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2 years

@gerrycanavan He was certain he was the clever one in this whole thing

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@RottenInDenmark I’m stuck on “I knew they’d hate me if I mentioned a $19 sandwich.” From the David Brooks handbook of elite sandwiches + cured meats

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Adia Benton

@Ethnography911

4 years

They might assume that these good looking actors is what the royal family actually looked like

Film Updates Back-Up

@TheFilmUpdates

4 years

The UK government has asked Netflix to include a disclaimer at the beginning of #TheCrown stating that it is a “work of fiction”: “Without this, I fear a generation of viewers who did not live through these events may mistake fiction for fact.” ()

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Adia Benton

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2 years

So the remainder of my loans have been cancelled.

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Adia Benton

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3 years

This morning, my father, Joe Benton, “the peacemaker” (my nickname for him) passed away. An ancestor now. The past few weeks at home, I’ve seen how many people have been touched by his work and service in the community.

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Adia Benton

@Ethnography911

2 years

Re-reading Paul Farmer's Tanner Lectures from 2005 about human rights and health, and here's a nugget from a footnote (I realize we were criticizing from different vantages back in those days, not sure she'd even gotten her PhD yet)

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Adia Benton

@Ethnography911

1 year

I won an award.

American Anthropological Association

@AmericanAnthro

1 year

We’re proud to announce this year’s recipients of the AAA Awards. Congratulations to all the honorees for their work in advancing the field of anthropology.

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Adia Benton

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4 years

I don't know why a letter and a CV can't be the first level. Then writing sample and syllabi. Then letters. Come now.

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Adia Benton

@Ethnography911

1 year

I guess what I’m saying is post-viral syndromes already pose a significant challenge to biomedical models of disease and capitalist health care models; add this challenge to health systems largely shaped by donor aid + ideologies of colonial tropical medicine

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Adia Benton

@Ethnography911

3 years

Editor: please add a concluding paragraph Me: no I can’t that’s why there isn’t one

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Adia Benton

@Ethnography911

5 years

I... There isn’t one?

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Adia Benton

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2 years

@CarnegieMellon You are wrong for this. You have essentially amplified and opened the floodgates for harm against Prof Anya

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Adia Benton

@Ethnography911

2 years

People objecting to her use of “ethical” don’t realize that this study, along with Nuremberg, form the basis for ethics review protocols (IRB). There is even an exhibit about this “lesson learned” in the museum! That said, “sacrifice”? whose altar? All suffering is not sacrifice.

Mandy K. Cohen, MD, MPH

@CDCDirector

2 years

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the end of the Tuskegee syphilis study. Tomorrow, I will be joined by colleagues & #PublicHealth leaders as we honor the 623 African American men, their suffering & sacrifice, and our commitment to ethical research and practice.

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Adia Benton

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4 years

Today the NYT published something about the pulse oximeter letter that came out in the NEJM last week. There are many things that piss me off about it -- knowing what I know about how all of this came to be -- but the basic thing is...

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Adia Benton

@Ethnography911

5 years

For class, I link to journal websites for newer articles/ junior authors instead of circulating PDFs. This way, students learn how to access library resources and those authors get the download metrics. 🤷🏾‍♀️

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Adia Benton

@Ethnography911

3 years

earlier my child approached me with "I have two comments and a question. First, my comments."

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Adia Benton

@Ethnography911

4 years

@itsmeRachie Moisturizing cream in a black neighborhood Walgreens

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Adia Benton

@Ethnography911

5 years

This “Who’s my favorite republican“ question is some bullshit

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Adia Benton

@Ethnography911

4 years

how they name all of the men in the article and give their appropriate titles (!) but fail to note that the person whose work inspired this NEJM letter, Amy Moran-Thomas, is also a professor of anthropology at MIT, not simply a chick worried about her husband w covid.

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Adia Benton

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2 years

Where are the good-at-their-job, effective public health communications people and what resources do they need to be/do better, get more well-conceived messaging out there? I’m scratching my head about the poor messaging from public health leadership at nat’l level

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Adia Benton

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2 years

Um, you do a virtual (instead of in-person) event because there’s a strike? Is this still not crossing the line?

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Adia Benton

@Ethnography911

6 years

if people are sitting in a bar quietly absorbing Mr Rogers docu maybe it's because they miss seeing and hearing humane kindness from a guy on tv

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Adia Benton

@Ethnography911

1 year

“Oh y’all are just tired? Sounds like you’re making shit up to get more donor attention while they’re listening” Many do manual labor, household work, hustling… when they say they’re tired and winded and don’t want to get out of bed in the morning, you have to wonder

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Adia Benton

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3 years

heartbroken

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3 years

This aged well

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The ‘easier’ to spot cases— folks w ophthalmological and neurological problems (e.g., seizures, blindness, hearing loss)— were tip of the iceberg. “Being extremely tired”, no one seemed to know what to do with that in a setting where ‘charismatic’ disease gets $$ and attention

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Adia Benton

@Ethnography911

2 years

Well, NYT newsletter this morning wants us to know that white people are now dying more than any other group from Covid. (And they still managed to get in a little racism)

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Adia Benton

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2 years

Sorry. What? Asking for Haitians

CBS News

@CBSNews

2 years

The Biden administration is launching a program that will allow U.S. citizens and groups to financially sponsor Ukrainians displaced by the Russian invasion of their country so that they can come to the U.S. sooner, the DHS announced.

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@racquelgates He was walking arm-in-arm with Billie Jean King and talking about promoting women’s sports to whomever was recording them

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Adia Benton

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4 years

Maybe I should pin a tweet about how you can’t assume an MD has any decent knowledge about public health just because they’re an MD.

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@Ethnography911

4 years

Elmo’s out in the streets

CNN

@CNN

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Programming note: The #CNNSesameStreet town hall has been postponed until next weekend due to breaking news.

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Adia Benton

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4 years

The more I read people’s responses to cases of covid-19 in the US- their lack of knowledge about basics of transmission, special remedies, anger and accusation - the sadder I am about lack of clear communication about what’s going on

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Adia Benton

@Ethnography911

3 years

Thinking a lot about the idea that accountability for people who are not used to being held accountable can feel like harassment, how systems of complaint are set up to punish some forms of complaint while they also enable already marginalized folks to be targeted

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Adia Benton

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3 years

Been thinking a lot about who is privy to information that 'everybody knows.' Access to the whisper network is sometimes a space of privilege. The number of times I didn't get the warning until after the fact.

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Adia Benton

@Ethnography911

4 months

I’m still tripping over the fact that they enlarged the cover of the book. A book. They found on a college campus.

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Dep. Commissioner Daughtry says he found "a book on terrorism" at Columbia. (The book is not a how-to book, but a history written by a renowned British historian.)

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Adia Benton

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Imagine if a billionaire actively campaigned to get a list of pro-Palestinian students’ names so he could conspire to blacklist them from jobs and other opportunities

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@BillAckman

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And now let’s pretend you are an intensely private person, fundamentally an introvert How would this whole experience make you feel? Would it feel fair and just?

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5 years

Boyz in the Hood

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Name this film. Wrong answers only.

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1 year

A perfect tweet, no notes

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4 years

Public health is never not political. Pass it on.

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@Ethnography911

3 years

The actual guidance does ask vax’ed folks to wear masks in hospitals, public transport, etc but that part was not well reported and that is also a problem.

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If you are fully vaccinated and don’t wear a mask, fine. A little foolhardy if you are on public transit tbh but fine. But please, if you feel a little under the weather, wear a mask? Not for covid, but to quash flu and other ills that a mask can reduce. It’s polite, and it is

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Adia Benton

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3 years

"decolonizing criminology"

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4 years

I can’t deal with the “higher ed discourse” right now. Not at all. Except maybe economists shouldn’t be university presidents

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2 years

Holy shit

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3 years

They might be “following” *a* science, but it does not appear to be any of the sciences that examine behavior and practices, socialization, politics or history... I think that’s all I can say. “Following the science” has long been an inadequate position

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Adia Benton

@Ethnography911

4 years

Once upon a time, kids, there was this thing called “anthropology”

Justin Amash

@justinamash

4 years

A scientist may know a virus’s characteristics, but he doesn’t know a community’s characteristics: how they feel, eat, shop, work, and operate businesses. These items constitute the most useful kind of knowledge—available only locally, and crucial to limiting the virus’s spread.

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Adia Benton

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3 years

who's written the best think piece about how it doesn't matter what CRT is and that the push to define what is and what isn't (and whose work is and isn't), is designed to waste everyone's time

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Adia Benton

@Ethnography911

5 years

I hate applying for things. For some, it’s fear of rejection; for me, it’s fear of putting deliberate, focused energy and effort into something that most likely will be judged arbitrarily.

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Adia Benton

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3 years

@ztsamudzi But also implies that being Black and experiencing violence for that reason somehow garners sympathy, as he is... showing that to not be true? Almost cunning

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@Ethnography911

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They’re not organized They’re not committed They’re protesting something that has nothing to do with them It’s on private property It’s on public property It’s infringing on others’ rights to move freely (to class/exams) They’re threatening the safety of

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And if you read her Boston Review essay documenting the fairly long trail of knowledge about racial bias built in pulse oximetry, then you would also know she didn't just "dig up" this information, but read and engaged with the literature in a way that, ahem, appears to have

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I just deleted a tweet because it actually occurred to me that I didn't care.

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So you gonna say rest in power when Clarence Thomas dies

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@Ethnography911

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@PatBlanchfield @JeremyTate41 Douglass and MLK, like flecks of pepper in the special salt of great books

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@Ethnography911

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Textbook Karen Stalking behind you while also accusing you of making her feel unsafe

The Sparrow Project

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“Thank you for walking through neighborhoods with your terrorist scarf.” A Harvard graduate student wearing a keffiyeh, was subjected to Islamophobic harassment on campus by Eve Gerber, wife of Jason Furman, professor at Harvard's Kennedy School and a former Obama Admin advisor.

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@AjaRaden @IamNiaRae So… the other photographers are…Sears photographers? Not artists?

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@Ethnography911

4 years

I’ve been thinking a lot about her and her interviews. She’s definitely thought about how to communicate this technical work to the public ... so young, so thoughtful 😊

Anderson Cooper 360°

@AC360

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NIH’s lead scientist for coronavirus vaccine research Kizzmekia Corbett lays out the government’s race to create a vaccine, saying they could be on track to have a vaccine from sequence to the general population within 8 months.

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Bro you can’t RCT all this

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Just had a thought: do people like heist movies because everyone is competent — and competent in the most niche way?

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I wonder who the YOU is

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New York Times funny as hell l m a o.

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Adia Benton

@Ethnography911

8 months

So this is when people then say, “but blocking roads to airports is not the same as sitting in at a counter or boycotting a busing system! The war is overseas, not at the airport!”

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@ztsamudzi Warren had to properly reckon with her pretendian stuff, but I’d say there’s another level w JK policing the boundaries of blackness and latinidad, minstrelsy, etc. Ppl can argue EW was on basic settler shit but we didn’t see her at the powwow, beading, teaching her “traditions”

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@Ethnography911

3 years

It occurs to me that colorism itself might skew self-identification so errrrm

Pew Research Center

@pewresearch

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Chart: The distribution of skin color among U.S. Hispanics

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@Ethnography911

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i'm puzzling over the use of the word 'domestic' in relation to violence, exercised by a former intimate partner, in a public space. thinking about how it modulates, modifies violence -- scales it down spatially

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never in my lifetime would I think that "we eradicated smallpox" is something non public health people would say regularly lol what they don't tell you is how fucking long that took, what the politics of it were, and and and (there's still polio)

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@eveewing :( I can see the George Washington statue from my back porch and when I saw the police guarding that shit a few weeks ago (while also pulling people over for bullshit reasons and putting us in some kind of protest curfew), I was... even angrier than I usually am. 🖤🖤🖤

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Yay: I just won an award for my research project on epidemic modeling!

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@Ethnography911

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hint: they're not just bad experiences, but bad institutions working their way into our bodies, our practices, our relations

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They read, write and teach them. As you were, tho

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@michaelharriot

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Everybody chill. Racists don’t read history books

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Ruth Baby Ginsburg

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@DocWak

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Baby RBG would appreciate it if you all voted this year!!

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It’s true; racial hierarchies and white supremacy can be present in places where the people are not majority-white

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@matthiasellis not atmospherically violent (not gonna unleash the gas, just the batons, folks)

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Part of me thinks he’s just trying to get punched in the face so he can say, “see? I fear for my life”

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@ztsamudzi Apparently the only “actual black” Jews in occupied territories are Ethiopian. A fascinating take, indeed. The same folks the state tried to sterilize, yes, i see.

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I would also like to add that Dr Amy Moran-Thomas has published on other diagnostic devices and is well-known (and highly regarded) for this work in the fields of anthropology, global health and STS.

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@jessicawluther "sir, you're an asshole" has to be the weirdest attempt at shutting down mild dissent

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Oh, word?

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Sometimes when I say “I disagree,” I mean I think you’re wrong, but I don’t see the point of showing you how/why you’re wrong.

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