Researcher, writer, and editor interested in SciComm, museums, climate change, group dynamics, + systems of power. I also like nature things. She / her
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This is pure gold for #journos, #writers and anyone in #comms who writes about stats, math, and numbers 😍
#Museum people too! Interpretive panels can benefit from a lot of these guidelines
Thrilled to share a @knologyresearch & @NewsHour piece with recommendations for journalists who are communicating numbers with the public. Recommendations in 🧵
tandfonline.com/eprint/ZUTG2…
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Re-upping a prior request: does anyone have good resources about alt-text for data viz? I'm trying to figure out how to balance straightforward description (which is almost unprocessable) with some more interpretive description...
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Protip: If you aren't an expert in an area & are asked for info on it (espec if it's abt race/racism/decolonization), there's no harm in saying "this isn't my area" pls refer to X, X, X scholars. Pls especially do this if you're yt & there are BIPOC experts working in these areas
"I reject the notion we are experiencing some epic failure of feminism. What we are experiencing is a failure of common sense, of understanding, of imagination."
Feminism is Fine., by @rgay audacity.substack.com/p/femi…
"What prison tourism can show us is how far we haven’t come."
themarshallproject.org/2022/…
Writers, speakers,...people who use words:
terms + phrases can change over time, but asking people how they'd like you to refer to them will always be a good thing to do
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Workers at another large + famous U.S. museum have successfully organized 👏👏👏
Keep watching what museum workers can accomplish, including at smaller institutions. They are wise + mighty folk
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Help Us Investigate Museums’ Failure to Return Native American Human Remains and Cultural Items propublica.org/getinvolved/h…
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Alright, #AAM2022 Tweeps, while we're thinking about relevance & prof dev, here's some real talk about white supremacy culture embedded in the operations of our professional associations, including @aamers, via an of-the-moment case study w/ @EmpatheticMuse. A 🧵1/
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As Associate Editor of @CuratorJournal Please read & share widely this free Special Issue on the Museum Response to War Crimes. @AAMers @blackmuseumsemp @nempnetwork @aam_msn @icomus @DrexelAAML @incluseum onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/…
Despite many "datasets and applications which can, in theory, help create more resilient spaces, little is known about how they are helping improve social, economic, and environmental conditions, and how the people impacted are equitably engaged and benefit from the process."
How can evaluators ensure that data is produced & used to equitably solve messy societal challenges?
Read this thought piece I co-authored with my @ESIPfed colleague Arika Virapongse bit.ly/3xxpUmh #EarthWeek @aeaweb
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Despite a reckoning with the politics of citation, what the ways in which having Black citations have been instrumentalized as the academic equivalent of claiming to have a Black friend?
Looking for a museum worker or group interested in writing about the unionization process in museums for an academic journal. First-hand experience = important
Anyone into it? DM me. Know someone in a museum union? Pls share 🙏
Authors, if you want to have your great new book reviewed by a journal, here's a tip: Don't try to bully the editor into choosing someone who will do a favorable review for you
Level-up tip: Don't misattribute negative reviews about your last book to this journal
I'm reading: Nancy Mithlo + Aleksandra Sherman's Perspective-Taking Can Lead to Increased Bias: A Call for ‘Less Certain’ Positions in American Indian Contexts.
This study compared how people in museum + lab settings responded to historic photographs of Indigenous people
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They call for museum workers + visitors to embrace ambiguity and not knowing -- a "less certain" perspective based on curiosity and modesty.
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If you can't tell, I think it's an EXCELLENT paper. Please read it (it's open access!)
doi.org/10.1111/cura.12373
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