Dr Zuleyka Zevallos

2/2 and gleefully skewering a Black scientist under cloak of #scicomm. White people jump on any opportunity to capitalise on racism. STOP.

*Also White people can't annoint themselves "intersectional feminists" -intersectionality is not an excuse for White women to ignore race.

#NDTMeetScienceTwitter is functioning very differently than #BillMeetScienceTwitter & has different race dynamics. This is troubling.

Asking a White male personality for attention & recognition is very different than demanding professional Black male scientist for the same

Tyson made a comment suggesting that scientists were not in communication space. Some folks offered some examples. That's all this is.

Sorry, KF: Your ability to say just that, in addition to willingness to take NDT out of context, proves the precise point of this thread.

Help me out Rebecca. Didn't he simply comment that there was an insufficient number of scientists participating?

At issue here is how the (largely white) #scicomm community jumped on a POC PhD for words that weren't even his.