This phrase comes from our racist legacy of knowledge suppression & the struggle of enslaved people. It’s a powerful idea and a beatiful phrase, even more so in context.
May it be a touchstone & reminder for #SacklerSciComm that science communication is a social justice issue.
If you want something to believe what you *do* know, you ought to be upfront about what you don't know. - Charles Manski #sacklerscicomm
Full disclosure: I am an unabashed @laurahelmuth fan. In a training she once joined me for, she talked about incandescent rage re: science misconduct & moral courage needed to confront it. Everybody needs heroes. She’s one of mine #SacklerSciComm
In #SacklerSciComm discussion of scientific misconduct, press narratives, & reputation management, remember that journalists play an essential watchdog role.
Sure, science is self-correcting... in the long run. External criticism *is both valid & necessary* for engaged science
Q from audience at #SacklerScicomm is a familiar one: “Doesn’t using anecdotes/stories to persuade ultimately the undermine goal of valuing science/data? Doesn’t it win a battle at cost of the bigger war? (1/2)
Shoutout to @NMAAHC - Illah Nourbakhsh saw cotton gin there, reminded how it actually increased the amount of work slave-owners required enslaved people to do. #sacklerscicomm
“Cui bono?” Who benefits?
Perhaps the single most important question at #sacklerscicomm. May we keep asking it.
Robotics in this messy, human world is actually social science. - Illah Nourbakhsh #sacklerscicomm
It's hard for me to believe that we don't have good measures for Twitter yet. It's more than a decade old. #sacklerscicomm
most of us know that the deficit model is wrong, but we still operate as though it wasn't, because that's what we're "used to" and that's what's "cheapest" and "easiest" and lets us check the deliverable boxes. But we need to do better. #socmar #consmark #scicomm #SacklerSciComm
Who wants to fund an alternative to the #SacklerScicomm meeting? Judging by the Twitter engagement & critique, there's a big group that has a lot to add to the conversation.
How many people are talking about this @NewYorker piece on the Sacklers and the opioid epidemic at #SacklerSciComm?
www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/30/the-...
And of equal importance, to this #SacklerScicomm audience, is that these hierarchies of credibility create assumptions about what constitutes expertise, status, “evidence”... or, you know, who is chosen to speak on stage.
Back in New York after an amazing #SfN17 in which #SciComm was featured prominently! Today and tomorrow I'm e-attending the @theNASciences Sackler Science of Science Communication conference through the webcast https://ssc3_webcast.eventbrite.com and #SacklerSciComm on Twitter!
#sacklerscicomm Leshner: "Communication is an acquired skill." How do we get more scientists/institutions to recognize & value the expertise of #scicomm practitioners who can teach them those skills?
Hot on #scicomm and coming to DC for #SfN? Stay 2 more days and attend @theNASciences #SacklerSciComm workshop. http://www.nasonline.org/sacklerscicomm
November in DC: Science of Science Communication III #SacklerSciComm #scicomm www.cvent.com/events/the-science-of-sc...
Building capacity awards for #scicomm researcher-practitioner partnerships: apply @theNASciences #SacklerSciComm http://www.nasonline.org/sacklerscicomm
