#dr fatima

[lemedstudent2021]

dr fatima i love u forever and ever

[karinyosa]

from earthseed by octavia butler.

thinking about this excerpt because of this very very good video essay by dr fatima, and the fucking epic reading of it by thedaintyfunk that precedes the essay.

if that video essay interests you, i also highly recommend this one. be prepared to get emotional at some point.

[ladymazzy]

Watch "How Science Pretends to be Meritocratic | A Dr. Fatima Video Essay" on YouTube

Just watched this video and I'm a little obsessed

If you've got 40 mins to spare and you want to hear some *extremely* good commentary on the nature of implicit & structural bias in academia, watch this video (this is the scientific community, but it's also relevant to other disciplines & non-academic fields. it's relevant to any field that reckons it's meritocratic)

tldr; science bloke wrote a research paper suggesting formula for hiring researchers that was based on models riddled with biases, the paper was critically discussed on twitter by other scientists (as scientists are wont to do), he then retracted the paper (possibly because it was saying the quiet part out loud, revealing the fallacy of 'meritocratic' hiring...), with a weird unhelpful apology that no-one asked for, and then the science status quo & their fans cried 'Cancel Culture' even though no-one had tried to cancel him...