Sanjay Srivastava
Personality, reputation, lifespan development, research methods, open science. Blog: . Podcast: . He/him
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What the police really believe
Zack Beauchamp - Vox 18h 9 tweets
Inside the distinctive, largely unknown ideology of American policing — and how it justifies racist violence.
Why the term "BIPOC" is so complicated, explained by linguists
Constance Grady - Vox 8d 6 tweets
Why there is no "one size fits all" language when it comes to talking about race.
Statement from Lincoln County Leadership 6.24.20
Lincoln County Oregon 7d 1 tweets
Statement of Lincoln County Board of Commissioners and County Management Team June 24, 2020 On June 17, 2020  a public health face covering Directive was issued by Lincoln County Health and Human Services with the support of the Lincoln County Board...
Sanjay Srivastava Lincoln County, OR put out an entirely voluntary, nonenforcable mask directive that acknowledged this reality, and they received so much racist hate mail that they had to amend it 7d
Masks and Racial Stereotypes in a Pandemic: The Case for Surgical Masks by Leah Christiani, Christopher J. Clark, Steven Greene, Marc J. Hetherington, Emily Wager :: SSRN
Papers.ssrn.com 7d 1 tweets
To contain the spread of COVID-19, experts emphasize the importance of wearing masks. Unfortunately, this practice may put blacks at elevated risk for being see
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Sanjay Srivastava People "perceive a black model as more threatening when he is wearing a bandana or a homemade cloth mask... Though mandated mask wearing is an ostensibly race-neutral policy, our findings demonstrate the potential implications are far from race-neutral" 7d
A Graphical Catalog of Threats to Validity: Linking Social Science with Epidemiology
PubMed Central (PMC) 8d 1 tweets
Directed acyclic graphs (DAGs), a prominent tool for expressing assumptions in epidemiologic research, are most useful when the hypothetical data generating structure is correctly encoded. Understanding a study’s data generating structure and ...
Indians are being held up as a model minority. That's not helping the Black Lives Matter movement
CNN 9d 4 tweets
"White silence is violence." It's a simple but powerful message shouted at Black Lives Matter protests around the world. But what about brown silence? Calls are growing louder for South Asian diasporas to check their brown privilege.
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Sanjay Srivastava "The model minority myth was created to take attention away from the enslavement of Black people and replace it with 'you're just not working hard enough...'" South Asians, we need to practice solidarity and allyship, not complicity with white hierarchy 8d
Roberts Isn’t a Liberal. He’s a Perfectionist Who Wants to Win.
Slate Magazine 8d 6 tweets
The chief justice knows exactly what he’s doing.
U.S. Pediatricians Call For In-Person School This Fall
NPR.org 9d 11 tweets
The dangers of social isolation outweigh the risks of in-person classes for most children, says the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Sanjay Srivastava I don’t know what the right answer is, but I am glad AAP is putting educational disparities front and center in the conversation. If schools don’t reopen, the costs will be borne disproportionately by race, SES, disability, and more 8d
Black Unity Activist Hit By Vehicle During A Children’s Protest
KLCC - Klcc.org 9d 1 tweets
A Black Unity activist, Isiah Wagoner, was hit by a vehicle on Sunday during a children’s protest in Eugene. He was taken by medics and treated for non
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Sanjay Srivastava A man drove his car into a children’s march against racism, injuring an adult marcher. The organizers tracked down the driver themselves because they knew police wouldn’t. Cops arrested the driver in tac gear to protect *him* from the marchers 9d
The three R's of scientific integrity: Replicability, reproducibility, and robustness
Sciencedirect.com 13d 4 tweets
Sanjay Srivastava People who work in this area will want to dig into the technical details linked from the thread. But for everyone else, this editorial from McIntosh and tells a vivid and highly readable scientific tale 12d
The Adolescent Brain Is Literally Awesome
Frontiers for Young Minds 13d 1 tweets
The human brain undergoes a long period of development. While the brain is changing dramatically in childhood, there are also changes during the second decade of life that make this period, known as adolescence, awesome. Adolescents have brains more...
Introducing the Class of 2020: Molly Stellino with advice from The Atlantic’s Ed Yong - Journalism Institute
National Press Club - Journalism Institute 13d 5 tweets
The National Press Club Journalism Institute is spotlighting the next generation of journalists, students who graduated from college or Master’s programs this spring into a challenging job market.
Peer-Reviewed Scientific Journals Don't Really Do Their Job
Wired 13d 20 tweets
The rapid sharing of pandemic research shows there is a better way to filter good science from bad.
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Sanjay Srivastava Social-personality psychologists, this happened at one of our top journals. It happened to a woman, coming from outside our field's power structure, with a forward-looking vision of how science should work. And our institutions sided with power over her 13d
Do Protests Even Work?
The Atlantic 14d 8 tweets
It sometimes takes decades to find out.
Tidymodels: Decision Tree Learning in R | Cianna Bedford-Petersen
Cianna Bedford-Petersen 13d 1 tweets
Intro Tidyverse’s newest release has recently come together to form a cohesive suite of packages for modeling and machine learning, called {tidymodels}. The successor to Max Kuhn’s {caret} package, {tidymodels} allows for a tidy approach to your...
Lincoln County exempts POC from mandatory mask policy
KOIN.com 14d 2 tweets
Lincoln County is gaining national attention for exempting people of color from its mandatory face mask policy.
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Sanjay Srivastava Sometimes my state surprises me. I've been thinking about the intersection of mask mandates with racism. Lincoln County, OR took that on: Policy exempts POC concerned about harassment or profiling, says it is "self-executing" with no enforcement authority 14d
The statistical significance filter « Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
Statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu 21d 1 tweets
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Sanjay Srivastava Thanks for this thread. The press release says they tested several treatments. If dexamethasone was selected because it was significant and/or the strongest effect in the trial, could estimates of its effect size (like NNT) be upwardly biased? 21d
What I've learned about being a Black scientist
Science | AAAS 21d 21 tweets
“Scientists who look like me often have to wrestle with not just our research questions, but also with being seen—due to the color of our skin—as a problem,” our columnist writes
Resources and advice for future postdocs
Google Docs 23d 1 tweets
Note: Updated June 15th, 2020; not exhaustive @jaclynasiegel: My #firstgen is showing, but how does one *search* for a postdoc position? Is it mostly just through networking? Are there websites or articles I am missing? Alternatively: People who...
Breaking: Protesters tear down pioneer statues after Deady Hall protest
Daily Emerald 24d 1 tweets
A group of protesters that gathered at Deady Hall to educate community members on systemic racism tore down the long contentious Pioneer and Pioneer Mother statues Saturday at about 7:20