Connecting with patients in a hospital can be tough without resources like facial expressions, touch & time to chat. During this pandemic @ShahdabulF finds other ways: explicitly offering support, pausing to say hi & gestures like moving a phone within reach. #healthcomm #COVID19

For academics (especially White academics, but this goes for everyone) reading #BlackintheIvory and wondering how you can support Black students and academics here is a thread of things to consider a number which have been especially supportive of my own professional development

I see a lot of potential in CA for antiracist work, but we have too few examples of it. We have a reputation for being distant and unconcerned with justice. And while I’d like to resist that reputation, I fear that we have earned it.

Today's the day to #Strike4BlackLives and #ShutDownAcademia! At 9am PDT, I'm starting the day with a Zoom call with fellow #EMCA scholars to talk about race/racism and what we can do to learn & take action. (EMCA folks, DM me if you want to join.) shutdownstem.com

📣⭐️EMCA for Racial & Social Justice! ⭐️📣 If you are interested in joining the effort to address racial and social justice within & outside of the #EMCA community, please DM or email me to get added to our list. RT & share widely! rolsi journal and [email protected] International Society for Conversation Analysis Ethno/CA News emcawiki

Review several areas of #communication in #healthcare and the changing interactions impacted by COVID-19, including mounting concerns related to race and health disparities. ACH Communication in Healthcare ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

Great thread!👇 I’m teaching a class I taught in person last summer and it’s actually going way better this time. Using the features that are available to us (esp. chat) gives the students more ways to actively engage. Online interaction ≠ low-quality interaction!

I finally published my first paper from my dissertation! "When patients demur: Resisting diagnostic closure in US primary care." sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🔓Registration for CA&CE 2024 1-3 July OxPrimaryCareSci is now open-early registration advised! Join us amongst the dreaming spires for 3 days of excellent speakers, hands-on data sessions and networking with international CA colleagues🗺️ #EMCA International Society for Conversation Analysis phc.ox.ac.uk/events/convers…

Good episode on race based medicine today on NPR's Code Switch—really accessible for undergrads. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cod…