1/ PLZ RT! Students and staff in academia! If you find yourself in the situation I was in, do yourself a favor, and download all emails.If you no longer have your email account, your institution will be banking on you not having any record of your communications. #ScienceTwitter

2/ SAVE. THAT. SHIT. Every email. Every conversation. Save it all.

I took photos and videos of my old, old lab. The one I was assaulted in. I was meticulous and careful. I cannot stress enough how VITALLY important it is to have a record of these things.

3/ Look up laws in your state re: unauthorized recording. If there are none, record conversations. Tell people about your abuse as it happens. Document. Everything. I have done this, and backed up all my emails to an external server.

4/ Please, if you're being abused or manipulated, document it all. If you don't know what you should or can do, feel free to contact me. I will help you. If you need an attorney, I will help you find one.

5/ Institutions like @Yale and @YaleMed depend on you being helpless. Don't go down without a fight. Especially if you're poor or marginalized. Institutions like this COUNT on being able to exploit the most vulnerable. It's what you've seen them do to me.

6/ They also have a reputation for doing this to students of color especially. Black students, and Indigenous students. You are not alone. I have so many messages about what Yale has done to other URMs.

7/ If you're at another institution and this is happening to you, know you're not alone there, either.

It is VITAL that you #KnowYourIX

Schools MUST inform you of your rights should you be dissatisfied with an investigation. I carefully documented that @Yale didn't do this.

8/ Per the OCR attorney, who by the way, confirmed with my attorney that Yale was NOT honest in their title IX report, which is required by law, students must be aware of the OCR, and that's the institution's obligation.

9/ I meticulously documented all of the calls to employee services, and attempts to contact the deputy title IX coordinator here to obtain this information. These went ignored, and I can prove it. This is ANOTHER title IX violation.

10/ So is not following up with students who are assaulted. I've got emails from other students here who reported, whose claims were never investigated or followed up on. Title IX violation.

11/ This is STANDARD practice at Yale. The attorney assigned to work with my attorney actually is on the Title IX steering committee. As you can see here, this has been an issue at Yale for a long time.

12/ This particular attorney has been involved in these matters for a long time. She's playing a game, and she knows it. And y'all, they waited until the 11th hour and purposely blocked my appointment in another lab, during a PANDEMIC.

13/ After getting me seemingly helpless (clearly, they don't know of my resolve, determination or resilience), they offered me four months of salary in benefits in an attempt to strong-arm me into dropping my title ix and disability complaints with OCR.

14/ They didn't even do this through OCR AS REQUIRED. They ultimately offered me LESS than a year's salary to drop the complaints. Less than what I would have made had they not illegally retaliated and blocked my appointment in another lab.

15/ They said that's a final offer, and that they're happy to go forward. But my attorney also made clear that Yale is cheap, and exploitative. He said he'd never even seen them offer that much. But they know they're in the wrong, and that I have a LOT of documentation.

16/ This brings me back to my original point. Document everything. And if you want justice, do not stop. Save everything. And don't give up. Don't be intimidated. Don't be threatened.

17/ Yale seems powerful, but their hubris was ultimately their downfall here. They overplayed their hand, and didn't expect to get caught. And they underestimated how hard I'd fight. Schools will almost always do that.

18/ So don't be afraid. Don't forget to document. And don't give up. And for my other marginalized students out there, know your worth. Fight back if you can spare the spoons. #TitleIX #KnowYourIX #SciTwitter #ScienceTwitter #Science #HigherEducation #Academia #AcademicTwitter