Susan Mason

Epidemiologist. Mother of 4. Lover of old houses, gardening, and naps.

[Susan Mason @SMarshallMason]

@rwidome But the question is about cost-benefit. Healthcare facilities are not entirely safe either, but we don't close them down because doing so would be enormously harmful. The harm from closing schools is also enormous yet we're acting as though that's not the case.

[Chris Uggen @chrisuggen]

This could be big news. Or it could be like the time my high school band broke up -- and all the other guys reformed the next day with a new name and a different guitarist. https://t.co/7rBMtnaMmU

[Susan Mason @SMarshallMason]

@rwidome I’m on board! I just think we need the cultural shift along with the defunding of the MPD. That’s all.

[Susan Mason @SMarshallMason]

@rwidome Oh I don’t disagree. I just think of all the relatively inexpensive services that are constantly being cut and then being cut again.

[Susan Mason @SMarshallMason]

@rwidome Okay here’s something that’s weighing on me. I think we should have more appropriate services (e.g. social workers) do much of the work the police do (poorly) now. But how do we keep those new services funded? They won’t be as good as MPD at extortion.

[Susan Mason @SMarshallMason]

@rwidome It’s possibly because I’m so tired that I appreciate what it takes to build things. So I am generally much more in favor of building on and reforming existing institutions than tearing them down. But the MPD is a big fat exception. Defund. Disband.

[Mike Spangenberg @MikeSpangenberg]

A quick anecdote on my own devolving credulity with respect to MPD. About a decade ago, I visited the home of one of my students, who's black and lived in N Mpls. When I arrived, the front windows were all smashed out. (1/X)

[Jeremiah Bey Ellison @jeremiah__bey]

This isn’t anywhere near the most important thing about police violence—the devastating loss of life is—but...

Our police have been bankrupting our city for years.

Consistently and absolutely gutting taxpayers of money.

I thought we’d seen the worst of it but probably not.

[Susan Mason @SMarshallMason]

@MichelleSPhelps I’m in!

[b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie]

a fun fact about rand paul filibustering an anti-lynching bill today is that it is in keeping with the traditional function of the filibuster, which is to kill anti-lynching bills!

[Susan Mason @SMarshallMason]

@WajahatAli @rwidome

[Susan Mason @SMarshallMason]

I love this so much

[Shaquille Brewster @shaqbrewster]

The scene tonight in South Minneapolis.

I’d be lying if I said this didn’t warm my heart.

[Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @EpiEllie]

Fellow faculty of #epitwitter, we need to talk: our students are not ok.

Have you talked to your students about how they’re feeling this week? If you asked, would they even tell you? Have you told them how you’re feeling? Have you told them they are more than the work they do?

[Dr. Sealy-Jefferson @Dr_S_Jefferson]

It was on my heart to do a Q&A for early-career scholars of color. If I can help you with personal or professional development, kick-it w/ me (*for free*) this Saturday from 1:30-2:30 EST on zoom. Taking pre-submitted and live ?'s!
👇🏽Register here. Peace

https://t.co/ev66t00Zv7

[Kyrra Rankine @kyrrarankine]

This is what we need to work on in Minneapolis #8cantwait @deray

[Susan Mason @SMarshallMason]

@MichelleSPhelps I'll have to read in more detail but looks like it may be talking about the same (or similar) thing as collider stratification.

[Susan Mason @SMarshallMason]

@MichelleSPhelps Is this one of the studies that finds that, conditional on an encounter with police, that white people are more likely to be killed? There's a concept in epidemiology called collider stratification bias that I think might explain this.

[Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @EpiEllie]

As one of the original creators, I endorse this revised graphic. Defund, disarm, and abolish.

[angela vang @angvaj]

young people in the twin cities have spent YEARS advocating for their school districts to cut ties with police and that effort has continuously been led by black students. they laid the groundwork for this.