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anticolonial evolutionary arbovirologist/well-dressed cryptid @YaleEMD. started #BiInSci. opinions own. B.S. Biology, UGA ‘19. (she/her)

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    Isabel Ott‏ @IsabelOtt 2 Aug 2020

    worm discourse diminished and went into the west so that the age of “is this hypothetically dead professor potentially an incredibly deep fake” discourse could rise

    12:33 PM - 2 Aug 2020
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      2. Isabel Ott‏ @IsabelOtt 2 Aug 2020

        and i gotta say! none of it makes sense! and now i almost miss the worms!

        8 replies 24 retweets 709 likes
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      3. Isabel Ott‏ @IsabelOtt 2 Aug 2020

        anyways, anybody who knew SB beyond the pseud and outside of a BA McL context is very welcome to get in touch, because i am having about 10 concurrent conversations with various individuals/groups over this and none of us can figure any of it out

        11 replies 7 retweets 450 likes
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      4. Isabel Ott‏ @IsabelOtt 2 Aug 2020

        this is one of my big hangups. if SB was a real and autonomous human, she was allegedly interacting with MTS in a client/support capacity, and should not have been anywhere near BA’s bed, much less had an established “side.”pic.twitter.com/LkqDEuC5hM

        Screenshot of a twitter interaction in which BethAnn says, “Looking at her side of the bed and crying. Just a lot of crying.”
        4 replies 9 retweets 433 likes
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      5. Isabel Ott‏ @IsabelOtt 2 Aug 2020

        couple options arise at this point? -this was a fully invented person (by ???) -this was an unknown person selectively misrepresenting themself who has not come forward to clarify anything -SB is real & BA has crossed yet another deeply problematic ethical boundary in leading MTS

        2 replies 7 retweets 401 likes
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      6. Isabel Ott‏ @IsabelOtt 2 Aug 2020

        Isabel Ott Retweeted Fieldwork Initiative

        this is further evidence against the “real person” casehttps://twitter.com/metoofieldwork/status/1290020825119129600?s=21 …

        Isabel Ott added,

        Fieldwork Initiative @MeTooFieldwork
        Replying to @arqueolojess @geologiststephy @evodevodna
        SB tweeted this photo about arriving in Nashville to meet with BA. This photo is a generic pic from an airline's website. It couldn't have been taken by her https://www.airportsdata.net/us/airport-BNA-arrivals/ … pic.twitter.com/rYWHpw6YNi
        5 replies 11 retweets 304 likes
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      7. Isabel Ott‏ @IsabelOtt 2 Aug 2020

        Isabel Ott Retweeted Amber is pfully Pfizer’d 👩‍🔬

        this might make sense if SB was corralling emails and passing them along to BA, but in combination with other stuff feels...off. https://twitter.com/chromcatography/status/1290006777988145154?s=21 …https://twitter.com/chromcatography/status/1290006777988145154 …

        Isabel Ott added,

        Amber is pfully Pfizer’d 👩‍🔬 @chromcatography
        I sent my email, and later received an invite from BethAnn's gmail account to the google doc that aligns with the timeline of what Sciencing_Bi said to me. pic.twitter.com/ha4xe6D1A6
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        4 replies 3 retweets 220 likes
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      8. Isabel Ott‏ @IsabelOtt 2 Aug 2020

        Isabel Ott Retweeted Amber is pfully Pfizer’d 👩‍🔬

        noteworthy disclaimer that’s easy to lose track of: https://twitter.com/chromcatography/status/1290020454803976193?s=21 …https://twitter.com/chromcatography/status/1290020454803976193 …

        Isabel Ott added,

        Amber is pfully Pfizer’d 👩‍🔬 @chromcatography
        There’s no good outcome in this. Either a queer indigenous professor died of COVID, or someone pretended to be a queer indigenous professor who died of COVID. Please be compassionate as you ask questions because, regardless of what the truth is, people are hurting deeply.
        2 replies 23 retweets 393 likes
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      9. Isabel Ott‏ @IsabelOtt 2 Aug 2020

        more stock photo weirdness, captured by a friend and shared with permission:pic.twitter.com/Qhu9UMWdQZ

        Tweet from the sciencing_bi account talking about eating tacos that includes a picture of tacos
        Reverse image search of that tacos pic showing that it’s a stock photo
        Response from the sciencing_bi account with a rock wall pic
        Reverse image search showing that that rock wall pic was also a stock photo
        9 replies 12 retweets 248 likes
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      10. Isabel Ott‏ @IsabelOtt 2 Aug 2020

        Anecdotally, multiple people have conveyed to me that SB and BA’s tweeting styles were very similar in very distinctive ways, including specific punctuation quirks and weird combativeness. Make of that what y’all will.

        2 replies 6 retweets 283 likes
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      11. Isabel Ott‏ @IsabelOtt 2 Aug 2020

        The account’s vague claims of Indigeneity (understandable in a past of good faith, given how rapidly that’d de-anonymize a uni lecturer) were specified as Hopi repeatedly this week by BA. Not sure if anyone in Hopi or adjacent communities knows of someone mourning a relation?pic.twitter.com/d8ZO2hyVd3

        Tweet from BethAnn in a broader dialogue reading, “she gave the best hugs and taught me after my mom died to tell people that I ‘loved them with my whole heart.’ I’m not sure if it was Hopi, but it always stuck with me.”
        3 replies 7 retweets 205 likes
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      12. Isabel Ott‏ @IsabelOtt 2 Aug 2020

        Also, fwiw, having spoken with a number of long-serving former MTS leadership/volunteers through the course of the day, no one but BA seems to have ever interacted with this person outside of twitter DMs for that account.

        2 replies 4 retweets 238 likes
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      13. Isabel Ott‏ @IsabelOtt 2 Aug 2020

        The sciencing_bi account was made in 2016, so I was initially disinclined to believe it was fully fake, since that is a *very* long time to keep up a false persona. But at this point? When it got ASU closure dates wrong, & no profs there know any lecturers who’ve died recently?

        7 replies 18 retweets 349 likes
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      14. Isabel Ott‏ @IsabelOtt 2 Aug 2020

        I have seen no credible evidence that this was a real person (unverifiable claims from accts with <50 followers don’t count). I am seeing mounting evidence that this was a cultivated fake persona, & that BethAnn McLaughlin was the only person who would’ve known her true identity.

        2 replies 18 retweets 345 likes
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      15. Isabel Ott‏ @IsabelOtt 2 Aug 2020

        BethAnn and I have been mutually blocked for a while, given her tendency to harass my friends for publicly talking about her abusing them, & I unfollowed sciencing_bi a while back for the account’s persistent bullying of the same friends, so I haven’t kept tabs on either of them.

        1 reply 7 retweets 301 likes
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      16. Isabel Ott‏ @IsabelOtt 2 Aug 2020

        I won’t claim to have up-to-date firsthand knowledge of how either account operates. But all credible evidence currently suggests that BethAnn, a white bi woman, operated a profile pretending to be an Indigenous bi woman for 4 years, & faked that person’s death this week.

        6 replies 63 retweets 518 likes
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      17. Isabel Ott‏ @IsabelOtt 2 Aug 2020

        It should be noted that, anecdotally, the first self-IDs of the SB account as Indigenous seem to have arisen earlier this year, after BethAnn was accused of being racist & abusive of BIPOC in MeTooSTEM (again). So they don’t seem super credible.

        4 replies 25 retweets 418 likes
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      18. Isabel Ott‏ @IsabelOtt 2 Aug 2020

        Here’s some more weirdness on the Indigenous ID claims, shared by a friend. Prior to 2020, their tone re: “Native Americans” indicated ID’ing as exterior to that group; first claims of Indigeneity seem to have arisen this spring/summer and seem...fishy to me.pic.twitter.com/0H7kwMIpbC

        Tweets referring to “my indigenous roommate,” “colleague told Native America scientist,” etc
        Main tweet in this screenshot says, “I’m tired, I’m out of my mind recovering from COVID, I’m in year 3 of sexual assault reporting hell and I implore you to follow the stories of Navajo Hopi people in @nhonews and offer real help”
        Tweet saying “dean’s office asked if I have taken a dna ancestry test to validate my BIPOC heritage or if it’s ‘just something I know’.” & others self-referring as “BIPOC”
        5 replies 21 retweets 260 likes
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      19. Isabel Ott‏ @IsabelOtt 2 Aug 2020

        Isabel Ott Retweeted Rachel Leingang

        Info from the ASU side:https://twitter.com/rachelleingang/status/1290027883155480577?s=21 …

        Isabel Ott added,

        Rachel LeingangVerified account @rachelleingang
        For what it’s worth, ASU’s spokesperson said they have been looking into reports about a potential death of a person claiming to be a faculty member for the last 24 hours, and have not been able to verify any connection to the university.
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        3 replies 9 retweets 202 likes
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      20. Isabel Ott‏ @IsabelOtt 2 Aug 2020

        Isabel Ott Retweeted Rachel Leingang

        This email from BA to a reporter is weird, given her multiple claims that they met in person, including the whole bed sharing bit?https://twitter.com/rachelleingang/status/1290071722494849024?s=21 …

        Isabel Ott added,

        Rachel LeingangVerified account @rachelleingang
        Several people who had recognized the alleged death yesterday have since said they had not met them in person. And there’s this email exchange today: pic.twitter.com/PsomG0fvK9
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        1 reply 11 retweets 293 likes
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      21. Isabel Ott‏ @IsabelOtt 2 Aug 2020

        Here’s one of the alleged occasions on which BA claims to have spent time with SB in person (again, outside of the bed sharing bit???) (grabbed screenshot from a previous qt from earlier that was deleted by OP)pic.twitter.com/Ze2midjYxk

        Screenshot of a BethAnn tweet showing a person paddling in front of her in a canoe in Yellowstone and saying, “when @sciencing_bi takes a paddle break to explain all of geology ever”
        7 replies 5 retweets 188 likes
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      22. Isabel Ott‏ @IsabelOtt 2 Aug 2020

        (An aside, as pointed out by a few friends - that’s almost certainly not Yosemite, and looks more like a view in Grand Tetons, which is just a weird and confusing bonus lie to throw in there??)

        5 replies 4 retweets 289 likes
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      23. Isabel Ott‏ @IsabelOtt 2 Aug 2020

        Ah, so another friend found this article with a pic of BA with her daughter on a trip to Grand Teton National Park - different angle, but it’d indicate that that alleged photo of SB is in fact BA’s daughter given the hat/life jacket matching, etchttps://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/qa-with-scientist-and-advocate-bethann-mclaughlin-64609 …

        5 replies 5 retweets 203 likes
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      24. Isabel Ott‏ @IsabelOtt 2 Aug 2020

        (my bad: thought hat matched at a glance, but didn’t see the navy front on the twitter pic hat until @james_t_webber pointed it out? still, no certainty that it’s anyone in particular)

        2 replies 1 retweet 127 likes
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      25. Isabel Ott‏ @IsabelOtt 2 Aug 2020

        Also - I don’t have an inherent issue with people retaining anonymity, but the lengths to which this account + BA’s have inconsistently gone to launder authenticity when there’s no discernible difference in tone between the two are...odd.

        1 reply 5 retweets 204 likes
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      26. Isabel Ott‏ @IsabelOtt 2 Aug 2020

        I really don’t know any anons here who are taken seriously who are fully unknown to everyone they interact with, even close friends, particularly people they claim to have met? I don’t know everybody’s real names, of course, but there’s usually *some* track record.

        2 replies 5 retweets 177 likes
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      27. Isabel Ott‏ @IsabelOtt 2 Aug 2020

        Academic scientists meet up at conferences, they have publication track records and collaborations, they have random meetups even if they don’t learn each other’s government names. It’d be weird for no one at SB’s uni or in her field to have registered her passing otherwise.

        1 reply 5 retweets 221 likes
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      28. Isabel Ott‏ @IsabelOtt 2 Aug 2020

        (An aside/update on the stock photo front: most of the pics the SB account posted as though they were original seem to have been stock/internet photo reposts.)

        1 reply 6 retweets 158 likes
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      29. Isabel Ott‏ @IsabelOtt 2 Aug 2020

        (Also, to finish an earlier thought re: Native ID claims after a convo w a Native friend: Navajo & Hopi cultures are notably discrete, and would at least be separated by an & or / by anyone who was actively part of either group, much less an alleged anthropologist in the SW.)

        2 replies 4 retweets 220 likes
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      30. Isabel Ott‏ @IsabelOtt 2 Aug 2020

        From an ASU prof friend: “The whole thing about the Dean asking for proof she was Indigenous: ASU knows who their indigenous faculty are. They also know not to ask for a DNA test. It would first ask about tribal enrollment or if any of their family was enrolled.”

        1 reply 6 retweets 338 likes
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      31. Isabel Ott‏ @IsabelOtt 2 Aug 2020

        Isabel Ott Retweeted

        also, if you’re new to the situation, @endlesswario provided much better background; I’ve just trying to compile info as it came in https://twitter.com/endlesswario/status/1290062477657436161?s=21 …

        Isabel Ott added,

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