Building and maintaining trusting relationships with our readers and our partners has always been our guiding principle.
We do that by doing what we have always done. And we will continue to do that now.
We will:
- Provide evidenced-based information
- Address events and decisions that affect public health rather than focusing on the decision makers.
- Continue to be empathetic to all of you who are trying to make sense of a complex and overwhelming stream of information.
- Avoid stoking fear or fortune-telling. We will stick to what has happened and what we know are the current consequences. We may discuss past experiences and extrapolate, being clear when we don’t know how it will apply to the current situation.
- Aim to educate rather than provide commentary
- Provide actionable steps and any available resources when available, including links to social support resources, hotlines and/or databases that can connect people to local/global social services
- Keep you updated with new information as it develops
- Be responsive to your questions and comments
- Remind you that we are with you
Concretely, you will see some new elements popping up in many of our posts in the coming months.
🤓Nerd Alerts: Nerding out has always been our spice, and we will continue to make complicated science and health information fun and accessible with these Nerd Alerts.
⚖️Health Equity Alerts: Public health is deeply connected to health equity, and we will now intentionally bring those connections to the surface when applicable.
🌐Web archive links: We are starting to add web-archived links to ensure none of the information and sources we cite in our posts get lost. A web-archived link refers to a preserved “snapshot” of a webpage stored in a digital archive. These links provide access to a historical version of a webpage as it appeared at a specific point in time, even if the original page is later modified, moved, or deleted.
What are the benefits, and why are Those Nerdy Girls adding these links?
- Credibility: By providing an archived link, we ensure readers can verify our sources even if the live link breaks in the future.
- Preservation: Archives capture the webpage in its original context, which can be crucial for historical or research purposes.
- Longevity: Web-archived links save a snapshot of a webpage at a particular point in time, ensuring the content remains accessible even if the original page is deleted or changed.
- Trustworthiness: We hope that our readers appreciate that in our posts we account for the impermanence of the internet and provide reliable references wherever possible.
- Integrity, Accountability, and Transparency: We want to ensure that our mission of providing fact – and evidence-based information can be upheld by providing access to the resources we use.
Those Nerdy Girls is ever grateful for your active participation in this massive effort of sharing quality information with the goal of improving the lives of people in our communities.
Please continue to send in your questions, your experiences, your knowledge, and your wisdom AND share our work with others. 🙏
As the former U.S. Senator for Minnesota, Paul Wellstone, is quoted as saying,
We all do better when we all do better.
Love,
Those Nerdy Girls&+
