Kate Flinner

Researcher, writer, and editor interested in SciComm, museums, climate change, group dynamics, + systems of power. I also like nature things. She / her

[Kate Flinner @HeyFlin]

This is pure gold for #journos, #writers and anyone in #comms who writes about stats, math, and numbers 😍

#Museum people too! Interpretive panels can benefit from a lot of these guidelines

[Dr. Jena Barchas-Lichtenstein @drNYCnerd]

Thrilled to share a @knologyresearch & @NewsHour piece with recommendations for journalists who are communicating numbers with the public. Recommendations in 🧵

https://t.co/k9HgzyBIaL

[Kate Flinner @HeyFlin]

@sierra_vrd Accommodations for all types of disabilities, whether permanent or temporary, visible or invisible. If someone says they need an accommodation, respect the request and the person

[Kate Flinner @HeyFlin]

This should be the norm, rather than a pleasant surprise

[Dr. Jena Barchas-Lichtenstein @drNYCnerd]

Every so often, you get peer reviews that remind you of the best of the process: they're generous, thoughtful, and engage deeply with what you were trying to do. Sharing a moment of deep gratitude and invigoration.

[Dr. Jena Barchas-Lichtenstein @drNYCnerd]

Re-upping a prior request: does anyone have good resources about alt-text for data viz? I'm trying to figure out how to balance straightforward description (which is almost unprocessable) with some more interpretive description...

[Axel Folio, PhD, White Tears Distiller 🪁 @ISASaxonists]

Protip: If you aren't an expert in an area & are asked for info on it (espec if it's abt race/racism/decolonization), there's no harm in saying "this isn't my area" pls refer to X, X, X scholars. Pls especially do this if you're yt & there are BIPOC experts working in these areas

[Kate Flinner @HeyFlin]

"I reject the notion we are experiencing some epic failure of feminism. What we are experiencing is a failure of common sense, of understanding, of imagination."

Feminism is Fine., by @rgay https://t.co/EzTVNBkkt3

[Kate Flinner @HeyFlin]

@sierra_vrd YES! Congrats! This is fantastic. Museum Hue has such an amazing team 🤩

[Kate Flinner @HeyFlin]

"What prison tourism can show us is how far we haven’t come."

https://t.co/GcpsjyoKjw

[Kate Flinner @HeyFlin]

Writers, speakers,...people who use words:
terms + phrases can change over time, but asking people how they'd like you to refer to them will always be a good thing to do

[Kate Flinner @HeyFlin]

@_kathytu What kind of approach are you looking for? Surgery? Physical therapy? Or just starting from square one?

[Kate Flinner @HeyFlin]

Workers at another large + famous U.S. museum have successfully organized 👏👏👏

Keep watching what museum workers can accomplish, including at smaller institutions. They are wise + mighty folk

[Kate Flinner @HeyFlin]

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Help Us Investigate Museums’ Failure to Return Native American Human Remains and Cultural Items https://t.co/vZjUpTklNB

[Kayleigh Bryant-Greenwell @KayleighBinDC]

Alright, #AAM2022 Tweeps, while we're thinking about relevance & prof dev, here's some real talk about white supremacy culture embedded in the operations of our professional associations, including @aamers, via an of-the-moment case study w/ @EmpatheticMuse. A 🧵1/

[Kate Flinner @HeyFlin]

@dangerchang - if you have a PDF copy of Presumed Incompetent II that you can share, I would be very appreciative. I'm researching editorial practices in academic journals, and feel that this might be relevant. Also, I'm simply interested!

[Laura-Edythe Coleman @LauraEdythe]

As Associate Editor of @CuratorJournal Please read & share widely this free Special Issue on the Museum Response to War Crimes. @AAMers @blackmuseumsemp @nempnetwork @aam_msn @icomus @DrexelAAML @incluseum https://t.co/vLfTxWKdc4

[Kate Flinner @HeyFlin]

@iSmashFizzle We got a 1940s house, in which every 👏 room 👏 is 👏 gray 👏 Living room? tan-gray. Bathroom? purple-gray. Dining room? decomposing-gray. There is one room that isn't gray.... they painted the trim gray instead 😭

[Kate Flinner @HeyFlin]

@sierra_vrd "Don't listen to education + visitor services workers' perspectives; they are not as valuable as [everyone else's]."

This is never explicitly advised, but is 100% clear based on compensation, institutional structure, + org culture

[Kate Flinner @HeyFlin]

@stephacunning Congratulations, Stephanie! This is incredible. I'm smiling so big right now 💚

[Kate Flinner @HeyFlin]

Despite many "datasets and applications which can, in theory, help create more resilient spaces, little is known about how they are helping improve social, economic, and environmental conditions, and how the people impacted are equitably engaged and benefit from the process."

[Rupu Gupta @RupuG]

How can evaluators ensure that data is produced & used to equitably solve messy societal challenges?
Read this thought piece I co-authored with my @ESIPfed colleague Arika Virapongse https://t.co/hCZheyVRwH #EarthWeek @aeaweb

[Dr. Xine Yao @xineyaophd.bsky.social @XineYaoPhD]

Despite a reckoning with the politics of citation, what the ways in which having Black citations have been instrumentalized as the academic equivalent of claiming to have a Black friend?