Med Soc PhD Student @UCSF 📚. Qualitative and mixed methods. Suicide + crisis services + tech research 💿. Art fan 🎨. Climber 🧗. Mom 👧. Pear enthusiast 🍐.
Portland, OR
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Check out our recent @eSTSjournal article on community resistance to automation in LA!
estsjournal.org/index.php/es…
Published with an amazing team of @calstate co-researchers who brought so much insight to the project. Companion piece to our zine AI For Whose Good? with @shufshenwang
Interested in the Sociology of AI? Check out our critical zine on AI and automation in LA! Free copies below!
AI FOR WHOSE GOOD? Lessons from Community Resistance to Automation at the Port of Los Angeles
By Sophie Wang @wangshuf and Taylor M. Cruz
taylormcruz.com/zine-ai
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Impostor Syndrome! It's here. I set out to write the biography of an idea, and--like anything worth thinking about--found myself surprised many times. newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…
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🚨New Pub Alert🚨 Interested in knowing what it means to help Black women feel safe in qual interviews?! Check out our new piece @ppkennedy1 @BunmiPhD & Phylicia Allen journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
“Exit is not benign withdrawal” - A fabulous piece on the current state of technology, politics, and demigods 👩🏼💻harpers.org/archive/2023/01/…
What a wonderful experience writing this with @DiscoPapita and other brilliant colleagues at #ucsfsociology 💕 #emancipatorysciences
📢 @kate_laforge, PhD student at @SocUCSF, asks the question "What Does the Writer Owe the Reader?" in this NEW blog post, which is part of the "Inquiring Minds: On Decolonizing the Sociological Canon" series. Read the blog here 👉 buff.ly/3zWXqCT #emancipatorysciences
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🚨Internet speed has serious implications for tele-health access and equity.🚨 “To put it plainly, we found these providers offered the worst deals to people who are the most in need of affordable prices for high-quality, high-speed internet.” themarkup.org/show-your-work…
An amazing upcoming event on “the rush to create new algorithms that can even assess or predict a diagnosis of mental illness” 🧠 cdt.org/event/big-brother-me…
Great work furthering our understanding of participating in research on suicide and centering the participant perspective ✨
How do people with psychosis feel about taking part in #suicideresearch? Check out a new mixed methods paper from @CARMSproject:
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
#suicideprevention #psychosis #researchethics @sjkp121 @donnalittlewood @gillianhaddock @daniellpratt @kerryhoz @kamelia_harris
“Whether the apps actually improve mental health isn’t really clear. Research to support their efficacy is scant and has mostly been conducted by the companies that have created them.” 💻
The Problem With Mental Health Bots wired.com/story/mental-healt… via @wired
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NEW: Provisional @CDCInjury data shows USA suicide deaths⬆️in 2021, reversing a two-year trend. Although suicide increased in nearly every age group, the largest increase (8%) was among youth 15 - 24. Every month needs to be #SuicidePreventionMonth.
abcnews.go.com/Health/number…
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For the Times, I wrote about the politics of mental health, and what reification means when it comes to disease categories.
nytimes.com/2022/09/20/opini…
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20 Concrete Steps to Achieving System Change
By Robert Nikkel, MSW
I offer the following 20 suggestions for advocates who want to get something done and not just vent their quite justifiable criticisms of the mental health system.
madinamerica.com/2022/09/20-…