exec dir @investinopen. systems nerd. former: @wikimedia, @mozilla, @digitalsci, @creativecommons. ❤️@riordan. trustee: @lyrasis @codeforsociety. views my own.

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Kaitlin Thaney 😷 (she/her) retweeted
yooo I wrote an email to one of my professors about the dangers of Proctorio for students, and she actually did some research and decided not to do use it for the class anymore. if you think something is wrong, speak up about it
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Parents scheduled for their vaccine. Months away, and hoping they can stay healthy until then. Same day, another family member says she trusts vaccines (implying I don’t) after I say that masks aren’t immediately going away. Says I’m too negative, elitist. This is exhausting.
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Still. By end of March, my parents will be safer. That’s enough for today.
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it's okay if you have a VAGUE sense of why people are so excited that Dr @Alondra Nelson is going to be the deputy director for Science and Society in the Biden administration. but there are very specific reasons a lot of us are so excited that i want you to enjoy too:
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Kaitlin Thaney 😷 (she/her) retweeted
OK, here's the deal: @Smithsonian, the world's largest museum, education, & research complex, is making a significant evolution & needs highly experienced transformational leaders to do it right. Help Us! We are now hiring: Head of Digital Transformation: usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetai…
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Kaitlin Thaney 😷 (she/her) retweeted
Science pro tip: add Bob Ross to your ridiculously bad results
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From this piece on Flickr and Megaface by @kashhill , she references the “Biometric Information Privacy Act, a 2008 measure that imposes financial penalties for using an Illinoisan’s fingerprints or face scans without consent.” nytimes.com/interactive/2019…
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I also wonder how the data collection in these services jive with the state’s Data Transparency & Privacy Act, which would give consumers (students in this case) the right to know, right to opt out, right to correction, right to deletion. bytebacklaw.com/2020/01/anal…
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