Severe symptoms before hysterectomy more common for Black and Hispanic vs. white women. Read more by Whitney Robinson PhD, MSPH (research also previously published in @greenjrnl https://t.co/yxEPkFC37t @WhitneyEpi @DukeHealth @DukeMedSchool

@SidraBonner 7/x @SidraBonner @kiranlagisetty @jgriggs50 @RishiReddyTSurg @tsvalley I’m happy to be corrected about places where I have misunderstood your work. Thanks for pushing the envelope here for deeper empirical work in this area.

6/x The above is my non-clinical social Epi take and may be wrong @SidraBonner suggests a more straight-forward clinical explanation: assuming that Black people have lower lung volume impairs dx of conditions & workers comp claims but inflates likelihood of aggressive surgery

5/x In systems where decision-makers hold entrenched racial stereotypes, simply removing information about racially patterned risk factors isn’t enough to root out bias Removing data (wo other data offered) can just gives more weight to stereotypes & other outside factors

4/x This increase in bias is likely bc employers fall back on grossly exaggerated racial biases in the absence of info tempering their biases. Employers assume much higher likelihood of felony convictions among young Black applicants than actually exists

3/x From what I can from tell from up, these findings are in line with the employment literature. In multiple experiments, restricting info on felony convictions increases racial disparities in hiring

Here’s a link to the paper.

In the movement to remove race-“corrections” from clinical algorithms, it is really important to evaluate the replacement formula Just bc something is “race-neutral” (omits explicit incorporation of race) doesn’t mean it’s unbiased

2/2 Michael Lewis did *not* like that. Transcript below includes his reaction But, in the *same* interview, Lewis explicitly says that a kid like Michael Oher’s only economic value comes from his usefulness in sports Also back then Lewis seemed to believe the Tuohy adoption lie

1/2 Steve Almond’s review of #TheBlindSide book is worth reading. “The essential message is that poor black children matter, and are seen as worth helping, not because of the content of their characters but because of their physical prowess.” https://t.co/3eihMn0GA8

This was so so so good - on the topic of how to collaborate in academic medicine, but was just so much more. Thank you @KemiDoll and @WhitneyEpi for being open and for such a powerful and touching discussion. https://t.co/dGcnRAIfm8

“It takes a long time to recover from the gaps in the evidence base that resulted from exclusion,” says Sarah Temkin, M.D., Associate Director of Clinical Research at ORWH, in this @Nature article on women's health research. Read more:

This @nytimes article touches on (almost) everything I love about gynecological health (no paywall here) The state of research is a mess because of chronic underfunding, etc. But that also means there is so much room to improve care and knowledge. https://t.co/uZIUiIKY8f

Around 1:19:00, there’s an interesting discussion of parallels (and distinctions) between the extremist edge of the 20th century Black Power movement and the far-Right flank of political Right in the US today.

Listening to this deep and interesting conversation on this #MLKDay2023 @brandonmterry interview on the @EzraKlein Show https://t.co/Qg7xtoi1al

Here’s an update from @nyunews on the labor issues in the Maitland Jones, Jr., (fired NYU Orgo prof) case: https://t.co/Ci88o7e4YT Anyone know how the new instructors and students are faring? How was the classroom environment in the Fall 2022?

🧵(6/6) **Caveat about the Dec 26 #WCDHT ep: Towards the end, Glennon invokes some Oppression Olympics https://t.co/cNqXBUGwWA @TheRaDR side-stepped it & gave compelling response wo OO #WCDHT isn’t perfect, but I keep coming back bc the hosts are on sincere growth journeys w us

🧵(5/6) I enjoyed this Word for the Year practice when @birkensarah and I used to do it on @AcaDamesPodcast I’m looking forward to seeing what it brings in 2023

🧵 (4/6) And, for me, the repentance will include harms I commit to myself. For a lot of academics, that’s overwork and self-forgetting. I’m starting the year reading the @TheNapMinistry / Tricia Hersey’s book, Rest Is Resistance

🧵 (3/6) Listening to the #WCDHT ep with @TheRaDR (see tweet 1), it clicked that I can go deeper & broader, leaning more into the active & generative work of repentance In my religious tradition & @TheRaDr’s, repentance is an active turning around to go another, better way