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  1. Pinned Tweet
    23 Dec 2021

    One of my resolutions for 2022 is to write more & bureaucracy less I welcome your requests, suggestions, advice (DM or reply in this thread) Sign up here to follow along:

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  2. 2 hours ago

    Offer for any faculty or instructors at any university If you'd like a guest lecturer on topics I have expertise in (incl: science policy, climate, sports) I'd be happy to Zoom in I gave about 10 guest lectures last fall & am happy to do so, if only to give you a COVID respite!

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  3. 2 hours ago

    My Spring 2022 syllabi are just about in shape What a time to be teaching policy at the intersection of science, politics & society I'll post up when done

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    6 hours ago

    🚨EVENT ALERT🚨 Next Thursday, December 13th, 2:00 PM EST join us for another informative webinar with : RACIAL EXPLOITATION IN COLLEGE SPORTS: A CONTINUING DISGRACE Register for free here:

    A Continuing Disgrace: Intercollegiate Athletics Race Issues via
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  5. 7 hours ago

    A Continuing Disgrace: Intercollegiate Athletics Race Issues via

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  6. 7 hours ago

    Would you like to see a “graph/chart of the week” at The Honest Broker newsletter?

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  7. 7 hours ago

    With word that Djokovic has received and exemption to play the AO vaccine-free, that special treatment raises some interesting questions . . .

    Unfortunately, I will not participate in this year AO event. I’m really happy with a level of tennis I showed on a last few events and I wish to play in 🇦🇺 but Sputnik is not verified yet. Good luck for all participants and AO team, who always made amazing events!🎾🦘
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  8. 7 hours ago

    “In order to confidently report on the power of nudges there needs to be honest reporting of their failures as well as their successes so that the public can determine for themselves just how useful and effective they are” Dr. Magda Osman in today’s

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    Jan 3

    What have we done wrong in our response? I asked ⁦⁩ in a recent interview. “This interview could go on for a while,” Ryan replied without losing a beat.

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  10. 21 hours ago

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    What we know from recent papers + data deposited into NCBI by the Wuhan Institute of Virology / EcoHealth Alliance just before the pandemic is that by 2016 they were actively sampling bat viruses in Yunnan and North Laos, where the closest relatives to SARS-CoV-2 have been found.
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  11. 21 hours ago

    The essential weekly science policy newsletter The Week of January 3, 2022

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  12. 21 hours ago

    Trust and the illusive force of scenarios

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  13. 23 hours ago

    Great work being done by my friend & colleague 🧵⬇️

    As we gear up to start a new year in our lab, here are some quick highlights from 2021 (sorry in advance for any I missed): 1/
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  14. Jan 3

    Policy Causality plus Proximal Causality Distal Causality Model Causality Narrative Causality Learn about all of them & why they matter here:

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    Jan 3

    A meditation on the Colorado fire disaster

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  16. Jan 3

    Policy Causality Achieving societal goals requires understanding how action leads to consequence. The recent Colorado fire disaster shows the complexities of causality.

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  17. Jan 3

    Useful app to get your class meeting dates correct for your academic syllabus:

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  18. Jan 2

    If we take weekly drought 2000-2021 and number of wind events 1977-1996 (20 yrs), then the joint probability (assuming independence) of >70mph winds & most extreme drought is a 1/300 yr event, but much less if just restricted to Dec (when extreme winds are most common)

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  19. Jan 2

    From 1969 to 1996 Boulder averaged >70mph wind events in ~50% of years, spanning 41 events (~1.5 events/yr) Data:

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  20. Jan 2

    And here is the trend for drought in Boulder 2000-2021 (time period of available data at US Drought Monitor)

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  21. Jan 2

    Boulder, CO drought severity 2000 to 2021 Source:

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