Amy Freier

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Amy Freier

Amy Freier

@amyfreier

PhD in media studies from @WesternU. Working at the cross-sections of critical media studies, human rights, and health equity.

Katılım Ekim 2012
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Morgan Stirling
Morgan Stirling@molotweeterpate·
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!
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Amy Freier
Amy Freier@amyfreier·
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…
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Dr Lisa Nivison-Smith
Dr Lisa Nivison-Smith@LNivisonSmith·
On paper, the best academics have ▫️publications 📕📗📘 ▫️funding 💰💰💰 ▫️students 👨‍🎓👩‍🎓🧑‍🎓 In reality, the best academics have ▫️kindness 🤗 ▫️open mindedness 🧐 ▫️vulnerability 😳 Here's why 👇🧵 @AcademicChatter @OpenAcademics
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The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social
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).
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Dr. Justin (he/they) 🏳️‍🌈 is moving to blue sky
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.
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Dr. Notisha Massaquoi
Dr. Notisha Massaquoi@NotishaMassaqu1·
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…
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Karen Hao
Karen Hao@_KarenHao·
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…
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@emilymbender.bsky.social
@emilymbender.bsky.social@emilymbender·
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 >>
@emilymbender.bsky.social@emilymbender

"We have to figure out how to slow down, and at the same time, invest in people and communities who see an alternative future. Otherwise we’re going to be stuck in this cycle where the next thing has already been proliferated by the time we try to limit its harms." @timnitGebru

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Nick Tillem
Nick Tillem@NickTillem·
Accessibility isn’t extra steps, it’s steps you’ve missed.
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Abeba Birhane
Abeba Birhane@Abebab·
hey twitter hive-mind hit me up with algorithmic audit papers and/or tools please rt
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