Amy Freier

@molotweeterpate The Butter Tart Lady on Ness has really imperial cookies!

Winnipeggers - 2023 is the year I find out who has the best imperial cookie. Tell me your fave places to get one and stay tuned as taste my way through answering this hotly debated question!

📣 Are you a comms pro with a passion for #HealthData? @hdrn_rrds based @popdatabc is hiring a Communications Officer with strong design + web skills, bilingual an asset, to tell the story of how #data can improve #HealthEquity & health systems. APPLY ➡️ bit.ly/HDRNCommsOffic…

Come work with me at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy and the Health Data Research Network!! We are looking for a Data Equity Specialist. Happy to answer any questions. ca.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=5…

@molotweeterpate is recruiting for their dissertation research on gender diversity and cancer research! Please see details below for how to get involved with this important study!

On paper, the best academics have ▫️publications 📕📗📘 ▫️funding 💰💰💰 ▫️students 👨‍🎓👩‍🎓🧑‍🎓 In reality, the best academics have ▫️kindness 🤗 ▫️open mindedness 🧐 ▫️vulnerability 😳 Here's why 👇🧵 @AcademicChatter @OpenAcademics

Recently, one of our marketers discovered that Amazon does not allow "queer theory" to be included as a keyword in enhanced product descriptions (the fancy graphics you sometimes see at the bottom of a book page on Amazon).

Can we PLEASE stop using stigmatizing language when discussing substance use in neuro/pharmacology?? Reading terms like "opioid addicts" and "marijuana abusers" in a paper published in 2022 is frustrating.

1/14 It’s book release day for #MisconceivingMerit with @CechErin from @UChicagoPress! Using survey, interview, & admin data, we show how academic STEM culture, esp. cherished beliefs in objectivity & meritocracy, CREATES unfair outcomes for scientists & hurts science.

I spent 3 yrs leading the process to develop the policy mandating the TPS to collect race based data in order to address systemic anti- Black racism. Tomorrow we will see the 1st report & validate the magnitude of what the Black community deals with daily cbc.ca/news/canada/to…

Yes, blind people are on Twitter. But most sighted people don’t add alt text to images, excluding us from conversations. For years I’ve used alt text knowing the sweetness of full inclusion. Now, I'm able to partner w/ @MicrosoftEdge to show #AltTextAddsMore #MicrosoftPartner

Don't miss today's #VCAHSPR22 panel on "Embedding Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility in health data research – Data Research Centres and Approaches to IDEA" with speakers from HDRN Canada, @StatCan_eng and @CIHI_ICIS! @CAHSPR

Two years ago I discovered scholarship arguing that AI is creating a new colonial world order. The idea haunted me & pushed me to investigate. Today I begin to release my findings: a culmination of reporting across five continents. Here’s my introduction. technologyreview.com/2022/04/19/104…

Let me indulge in a what if for a moment. What if we had a world-wide pause on training ML models, say for a year. No new models trained for any purpose. The people usually paid to train those models instead are paid to study the human context of the models >>

Accessibility isn’t extra steps, it’s steps you’ve missed.

hey twitter hive-mind hit me up with algorithmic audit papers and/or tools please rt