"...this love letter is to Black women in the academy. ... while you may be the only one in your program ... you are not alone. You belong, despite what anyone tells you. You are brilliant. ... do [YOUR] thing" 💃🏾#ISMMSMSTP21DayEquity #BlackGirlMagic insidehighered.com/advice/2022/12…

Day 10: Read this article by Jasmine R Marcelin, MD, FACP, FIDSA 🦠 Nada Fadul, MD, FIDSA Kelly Cawcutt MD MS Jacinda Abdul-Mutakabbir (Dr.JAM) PharmD MPH on opportunities for improvement in diversity in clinical trials bit.ly/3CnUNex #ISMMSMSTP21DayEquity

Day 11: Read this article by Heather Burrell Ward, MD in Academic Medicine highlighting gender and race disparities among physician-scientists. journals.lww.com/academicmedici… #ISMMSMSTP21DayEquity

I'm glad that we're talking more about the problematic underrepresentation of people with disabilities in STEM, and I'm looking forward to pursuing solutions as well! #ISMMSMSTP21DayEquity

Day 13: Listen to this NEJM Audio Interview: COVID-19 and Health Equity with Mati Hlatshwayo Davis, MD, MPH, FIDSA on the importance and challenges of establishing health equity #ISMMSMSTP21DayEquity nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Day 14: Read “Seeing is believing: Representation as a powerful tool in the fight against racism in science” by Binyam Mogessie ቢንያም ሞገሴ doi.org/10.1016/j.stem… #ISMMSMSTP21DayEquity

Day 15: Watch Dr. David Williams TED Talks How racism makes us sick ted.com/talks/david_r_… #ISMMSMSTP21DayEquity

Day 16: This needs to change. 35% of graduate students from minority racial or ethnic groups have experienced discrimination or harassment. #ISMMSMSTP21DayEquity nature.com/articles/d4158…

Day 17: Learn about the new Graduate School Racism and Bias Initiative (#gRBI) through the Center for Anti-Racism in Practice #CAP with Drs. Leona Hess, Ann-Gel Palermo and SinaiMSTP Director Talia H. Swartz reports.mountsinai.org/article/grad20… #ISMMSMSTP21DayEquity

Day 18: Join us today for JEDI Journal Club: “‘Health equity tourists’: How white scholars are colonizing research on health disparities” by Usha Lee McFarling in STAT News statnews.com/2021/09/23/hea… #ISMMSMSTP21DayEquity

Currently reading Range by David Epstein for the SinaiMSTP book club and finding it a super beneficial read as a 33-year-old still in #DoubleDocs training. Excited to participate in our book club discussion next week!

Day 19: ANAMS Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai with SinaiMSTP student deanalisaj read Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer, Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist x.com/DeanalisaJ/sta… #ISMMSMSTP21DayEquity

Day 20: Read this scoping review in JAMA Network Open by describing interventions for increasing racial and ethnic diversity in graduate medical education Russyan Mark Mabeza, MD, MPH (he/siya) @briChristphers @phia34 @ejglenn030 Jasmine R Marcelin, MD, FACP, FIDSA 🦠 jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman… #ISMMSMSTP21DayEquity

Day 21: Listen. On this final day, we reflect on equity, race & racism in American education, and implications for the STEM pipeline: apmreports.org/episode/2022/0… and thisamericanlife.org/550/three-miles #ISMMSMSTP21DayEquity

Congratulations @tracymlayne and Center for Scientific Diversity at ISMMS on this very important contribution to science and DEIA in academia!

I'm thrilled to share this informative piece by my colleague, Dr. Terri Bacow, published in Psychology Today, "3 Factors That Make People Vulnerable to Anxiety Disorders." It's an excellent read! psychologytoday.com/us/blog/goodby… #mentalhealth #MentalHealthMonday

If you know, you know. The Longest Game 30for30podcasts.com/episodes/the-l… #RhodeIsland #LittleRhody #BiggestLittleStateInTheUnion #PawSox

52 of us Black science faculty came together to discuss Juneteenth and how we can use this holiday to reflect on the ongoing barriers Black scientists face and how we can come together as a biomedical enterprise to tackle these challenges. cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

As we celebrate #IndependenceDay a reflection from Assoc. Prof Dr. Nathan A. Smith URochester SMD "Let us unite and continue the journey toward a brighter future inspired by the promise of genuine freedom and equality for all." via Medium bit.ly/44aAMDR

🚨Apparently all NIH Study Sections have been suspended indefinitely. For those who don’t know, this means there won’t be any review of grants submitted to NIH Depending on how long this goes on for, this could lead to an interruption in billions in research funding.