@amyfreier

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

Joined October 2012
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📣 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/HDRNCommsOfficer
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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/toronto/t…

Toronto police chief to apologize to Black community as force unveils race-based data: sources |...

Toronto police Chief James Ramer plans to apologize to the city’s Black community, CBC News has learned, as the force prepares to pull back the curtain on data that will reveal the extent to which...

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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
Holding up a golden pastry with a bite missing, my eyes are wide open in astonishment. The sweetest, smoothest, most cinnamon-infused custard in a gently crisped crust! The edges of the round pastry are a darker golden brown, and the center is more yellow. The first time I sampled Pastéis de Nata was on that rainy day in Portugal. I’m an Eritrean American woman with my dark hair in a casual ponytail over my black raincoat. Behind me there are people forming a line down the cobblestoned sidewalk. Along the bottom of the image is a blue bar that reads "Alt Text Adds More" with the Microsoft Edge logo.

ALT Holding up a golden pastry with a bite missing, my eyes are wide open in astonishment. The sweetest, smoothest, most cinnamon-infused custard in a gently crisped crust! The edges of the round pastry are a darker golden brown, and the center is more yellow. The first time I sampled Pastéis de Nata was on that rainy day in Portugal. I’m an Eritrean American woman with my dark hair in a casual ponytail over my black raincoat. Behind me there are people forming a line down the cobblestoned sidewalk. Along the bottom of the image is a blue bar that reads "Alt Text Adds More" with the Microsoft Edge logo.

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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
Headshots of Dr. Amy Freier, Dr. Robyn Rowe, Nicole Aitken, and Lisa Nowlan, with the title of their session, "Embedding Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility in health data research – Data Research Centres and Approaches to IDEA" and the date and time, May 31, 2022 from 3:00pm to 4:15pm EDT.

ALT Headshots of Dr. Amy Freier, Dr. Robyn Rowe, Nicole Aitken, and Lisa Nowlan, with the title of their session, "Embedding Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility in health data research – Data Research Centres and Approaches to IDEA" and the date and time, May 31, 2022 from 3:00pm to 4:15pm EDT.

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Karen Hao
@_KarenHao19 Apr 2022
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…

Artificial intelligence is creating a new colonial world order

An MIT Technology Review series investigates how AI is enriching a powerful few by dispossessing communities that have been dispossessed before.

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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@emilymbender12 Apr 2022
Replying to @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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Accessibility isn’t extra steps, it’s steps you’ve missed.
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Disabled people only! What are the 'low-hanging fruit' accessibility and inclusion issues that you would like to see fixed and promoted to non-disabled people as things they could and should be fixing and working on.
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More and more, health crises are used as a cover for exploitative data collection. This is one important example.
REDE4BlackLives@rede4blacklives22 Mar 2022
Replying to @rede4blacklives
Rather, these apps largely function as data grabs that re-entrench surveillance & create pathways for data linkages while doing nothing to offer concrete services. 2/2 Article on Pocketwell app here: healthydebate.ca/2022/03/top…
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With my fabulous colleague, @RobynKRowe, we are working to explore a key question across HDRN’s Indigenous Data Team and Inclusion Diversity Equity and Accessibility Team: Can data be used to advance equity? Subscribe to our newsletter and watch for the first edition in April!
HDRN Canada - RRDS Canada@hdrn_rrds15 Mar 2022
Subscribe to the new ‘Data for Equity?’ newsletter! The Indigenous Data Team (IDT) and the Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA) Team will share new initiatives, resources, and more: hdrn.ca/en/data-equity
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