Tag: academia
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Keep competent ethical institutions!
Earlier this year I asked for help with a single IRB process. I run a bunch of clinical trials and when we wrote them as grants, we noted they would be a single IRB platform. I wrote to anyone that cared as to why such a process mattered. In the end, I received no help.…
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Keep inviting dreamers!
If you are a dreamer come. If you are a big dreamer, a storyteller, a designer, or a beginner, come. If you are also a star, a warrior, the praying kind, or the restful type, come. If you like to dance, maybe even travel, come, come sit by me near a park named Forest. We…
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Keep using me!
The thing I love most are words. I am learning that now. The idea of looking through the day and finding words to keep in a way that lifts my spirits, your own, is a gift. Sometimes these words come to me like a prayer. Strings of words form in my mind and out to…
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Keep positions that matter!
Today, I stepped into my essence. God, my Zobam, family and friends were with me. No one told me it would be like this. That I would be in positions that matter. Positions in which I get to decide the nature and quality of other people’s lives. I see the world must be the way…
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Keep but God!
To be a woman, a vast continent within, like anthills of a savannah. Owner of the drink of life. Mountains at your footstool. Breath as sweet as the earth. Voice as deep as thunder. To be a woman, full of silence and survival, unafraid to walk to the unknown, past landscape spells of bitter sun…
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Keep knowing we are living in an age of spectacle!
We are living in an age of spectacle within some spaces, one where the goals are no longer formalized curiosity but a desire to inflict pain and shame where necessary. Not only are we not engaged as humans, some of us are profoundly evil, unable to discriminate between shock or empathy. The danger of a…
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Keep the litany for survival!
I keep Audre Lorde’s litany for survival very close to me. It has become a reminder for the times we face. We are not afraid too. Just glad that we know where we stand and how far we have come. See where you think you laugh last, we laugh long, remembering always that we were…
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Keep knowing they will never take your power!
How do you find voice in a space that would rather stifle it? How to you even confront the fear of expression knowing that what you say or do can be used against you? They say often that there is a bad side to life in academia. I saw it with my two eyes this…
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Keep fighting for God’s glory.
The past couple of days have been trying. I expected this. But living through it has been something else. But here is what I’ll keep. Know your worth. I came for a higher glory. I lived for a greater good. None of that changes even if my decisions with life seems unsettling. I am still…
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Keep Beyoncé’s Renaissance for Dissemination and Implementation Science!
I am a researcher, an implementation scientist and Ms Carter is my teacher. Name anyone whose career for over 25 years has closed a know do gap with implementing and disseminating anything they created within a year without waiting for 15 years. Chances are Beyoncé would not come to mind. Ignore her though at your…
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Keep this peace!
You will begin again in light. You will step out beyond your comfort zone. Step out to the middle of an ocean. Step into waters that will not drown you. Your feet will stand firm remembering How to stand. When you feel like falling. When you do not know whether you will survive or how…
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Keep this Rest!
Some people want to know when it all happened? Truth is if you have been following my blog you would have seen why proverbs are the palm oil with which words are eaten. I have been intentional with using this space to reflect on my life in academia as well as my parenting. Nothing is…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 