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Complex systems, wicked problems. Society, technology, science and more. @UNC professor. @NYTimes columnist. My newsletter is @insight: http://www.theinsight.org 

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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 May 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Ross Garber

      The cat is out of the bag, folks! I knew this day would come, when I'd be outed.😁 And in a piece where I talk about sociological aspects of mask mandates, too. Cruel irony after more than a year of pandemic writing. (FWIW, Dr. for PhDs is NYT convention, not about me).https://twitter.com/rossgarber/status/1393565817888026626 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Ross GarberVerified account @rossgarber
      Today the ⁦@nytimes⁩ published a piece on a medical issue by someone named Zeynep Tufekci. The NYT refers to her as “Dr. Tufekci” and describes her as a professor. A reader might reasonably infer she is a physician and a professor of medicine. She is a sociologist. pic.twitter.com/44deaPq1T8
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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 May 2021

      Ironically, I've actually reached beyond my credentials a lot during the pandemic, especially to do interdisciplinary work: I *do* get the dangers of this and am always very conscious of it, but I believe my record stands for itself. But lol, this one was smack in my own field.

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 May 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Ross Garber

      True. A medical doctor is not, by training, qualified to write about the sociological aspects of mask mandates so I hope people don't dismiss my piece thinking I'm an MD, nor opinions of other MDs. These question involve all of us and many disciplines.https://twitter.com/rossgarber/status/1393943083239215106 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Ross GarberVerified account @rossgarber
      Replying to @page88 @nytimes @zeynep
      I’m ok with that too. But just tell us what the area of expertise is. It’s essential to evaluating the opinion.
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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 May 2021

      Also, I'm not complaining. After more than a year of pandemic writing, I'm good. But it's hilarious. I get this and also the back-handed "good science communicator" faux compliment a lot—as if I'm just communicating ready-made science rather than my own analysis and synthesis.🤓

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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 May 2021

      On the serious side, a bunch of what I've done is genuinely lane-crossing, and I've mostly done it in order to facilitate the interdisciplinary, synthetic analyses we do need. There's a genuine question there on how to do this well in general, and the dangers (which are real).

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 May 2021

      But also interesting how lane-crossing is not recognized the other way around. Some medical doctors or experts, including those deciding policy, routinely make really unfounded assumptions on the behavioral side, and with great confidence. Not all, of course, but a real issue.

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        2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 May 2021

          Anyway, I'm genuinely not concerned (always a worry for me when I highlight these things: please don't think I'm upset one bit). But the part about who gets to analyze complex issues and how we do it, and the hierarchies and interplay between these "lanes" are super interesting.

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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 May 2021

          When I've time, I'll try to think back on this. I started with need to get ready and masks, then on ventilation/outdoors/aerosols and overdispersion, back-and-forth on the sociology. Ended up with Lancet and PNAS etc. as well. The thread is attempts at synthetic causal analyses.

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        4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 May 2021

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci

          Anyway, this was the piece in question. By the way: "sociological aspects" do NOT mean overstate the risks to the vaccinated to compel behavior AT ALL, but about enforcement, readiness, and earning trust via clear explanations etc. Back to some other work.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1393312530932670476 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynep
          The CDC mask guidance switched too fast without enough explanation and overlooks key sociological factors for indoor mask mandates—especially to protect workers and the immunocompromised. Better to have announced benchmarks—and kept it up just a bit more. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/14/opinion/coronavirus-masks-vaccines.html … pic.twitter.com/wedLXzHlwr
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        5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 May 2021

          Remembered, this was public. (Didn't work. Next WHO guidelines put this as a risk from masks, without citation. Next one kept it, and cited irrelevant stuff about children—ignoring decades of prior research, and during this, pandemic showing the opposite.) https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/23/business/media/how-zeynep-tufekci-keeps-getting-the-big-things-right.html …pic.twitter.com/i60r73QY6R

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        2. Howl of Minerva  ⚖️‏ @EndureFlourish 16 May 2021
          Replying to @zeynep

          Yes, we need more careful, thoughtful [whatever the opposite of silo-ing is.] You do it extremely well. What we don't need are more reckless ultracrepidarians (a new fav word learned during the pandemic). Physicians, dealing w life & death, are too often elevated to demigods.

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        3. Beverley‏ @TalktoBeverley 16 May 2021
          Replying to @EndureFlourish

          Thank you for the introduction of 'ultracrepidarian' to my lexicon @EndureFlourish. How have I worked for so long in higher education without knowing this?

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        1. stefan‏ @htmldotyuck 16 May 2021
          Replying to @zeynep

          it’s always interesting how “transferred expertise” is acceptable from science/medicine/tech to the social sciences and humanities but not the other way around. symptomatic of a real problem of epistemology

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        1. Magnus Nordborg‏ @magnusnordborg 16 May 2021
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          I thought medical doctors were trained to express themselves with great confidence on, well, everything?

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        1. Beard Bouzouk‏ @BeardBouzouk 16 May 2021
          Replying to @zeynep

          It's been one of my pet peeves - physicians like Sanjay Gupta who's an academic neurosurgeon of all things opining on politics, administrative issues, social messaging, production, distribution, etc. Most neurosurgeons haven't ordered a vaccine in their careers.

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        2. Ashwin Balagopal‏ @ashwin_id 16 May 2021
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          But it's a testament to science that the data can be interpreted adequately by "outsiders", and doesn't rely on a cabal of soothsayers. You've done an incredible job of this.

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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 May 2021
          Replying to @ashwin_id

          Thank you, but I'm genuinely aware of the pitfalls, too, so whenever I try to help figure something out that crosses disciplines, not only am I constantly checking with others, I do my best do read an enormous amount of primary work. Weird though, we don't train folks to do this.

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