Galen Auer

Health, science and tech reporter for @ProvBusNews. Got a story? Send me a DM or email [email protected]. RT ≠ endorsement. Opinions are mine.

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If you're here for the latest in RI tech, you're in the right place. But if you want more of my work and commentary, follow @galenauer. ✌🏼

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"We all have unconscious bias... Don't feel guilty anymore. When you recognize it, do something about it." @KenoMullings (right)

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Diversity "makes plain business sense" says @TejalTarro "and it drives me crazy that people don't see that."

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Follow my live tweets from this morning's @Tech_Collective diversity panel over at @galenauer! https://t.co/3yS6tZCBdJ

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Looking forward to attending this morning. Good to see @Tech_Collective facilitate important conversations like this at a local level. https://t.co/1z173qdadZ

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TBT: that time I talked w/ @blankslatejoe and other ex-38 Studios devs about the infamous Project Copernicus: https://t.co/3Z6Gqnro0Z

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The @betaspring RevUp fund started screenings today w/ potential investees in D.C. and Baltimore, via @ProvBusNews: https://t.co/ixq0tm15sD

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@dougwhitephd @ProvBusNews The great irony? The Foundation offered patients affected by the incident a year of complimentary credit-monitoring -- provided by Equifax.

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@dougwhitephd @ProvBusNews A former Foundation employee copied sensitive information, including patients' financial and medical info, onto an external hard drive.

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@dougwhitephd @ProvBusNews But credit giants aren't the only ones at risk. Six days before the Equifax debacle, The Neurology Foundation in PVD reported a data breach.

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@dougwhitephd @ProvBusNews White: "Unless you go live in a cabin and trade gold coins and shotgun shells as currency," there’s almost no way to avoid credit reports.

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Check out my full interview with RWU professor @dougwhitephd, and a look inside a smaller local cybersecurity breach, at @ProvBusNews. https://t.co/CF63HEt765

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RWU cybersecurity expert @dougwhitephd says more regulation is needed after Equifax breach, via @ProvBusNews: https://t.co/cej4uOOFWf

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@steveahlquist @DanMcGowan @projomike @bobplain Not sure we can remove all bias from journalism, but we CAN bring more diverse voices/perspectives into our newsrooms, and listen to them.

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@steveahlquist @DanMcGowan @projomike @bobplain True. But in my experience, good journos do good journalism. The voices in the newsroom make the calls, not the name on their checks.

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@steveahlquist @DanMcGowan @projomike @bobplain Not to say money's irrelevant. But while political bias is hard to weed out of journalism, bias due to lack of diversity is an easy fix.

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@steveahlquist @DanMcGowan @projomike @bobplain The overwhelming whiteness of RI media likely affects coverage bias more than corporate ownership. Gender split is better but not great.

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@steveahlquist @DanMcGowan @projomike If we're talking media bias, let's also talk about the fact that every journalist commenting in this thread is white and male. @bobplain too

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.@BrownUniversity gets $19M for next-gen therapy w/ wireless neural brain stimulation. h/t @FlashGowdey @ProvBusNews https://t.co/Z75l41ywCc

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"Too many schools separate the education process from the apprenticeship process." @ArnellMilhouse on #TechEd: https://t.co/xBLzMknsXw