Timnit Gebru (she/her).Oct 3, 2023

Wow it gets better.

“she was forced to leave Temple University for neighbouring UPenn after a dispute with her boss, who then attempted to have her deported.”

& Penn

“They issued an ultimatum, if she wanted to continue working with mRNA she would lose her prestigious faculty position, & face a…pay cut.”

”…that same week, I had just been diagnosed with cancer…I was facing 2 operations, & my husband, who had gone back to Hungary to pick up his green card…got stranded…”

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/mrna-coronavirus-vaccine-pfizer-biontech

How mRNA went from a scientific backwater to a pandemic crusher

For decades, Katalin Karikó's work into mRNA therapeutics was overlooked by her colleagues. Now it's at the heart of the two leading coronavirus vaccines

WIRED UK
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@timnitGebru I read this and compare it to all the interviews done by this and other magazines to techbros.
The people that is doing really important work are invisible and unrecognized for decades if at all.
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Oct 3, 2023 at 9:08pmElk