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Jul 26, 2022

My paper "School in the time of Covid" is now published! It's not timely and won't be as widely read as the terrific op ed pieces on this topic over the past 2 years. But I'm glad to contribute something to the academic record about this catastrophe. May it never be repeated.

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Jul 25, 2022

“This article argues that extended school closures during the Covid-19 pandemic were a moral catastrophe.” link.springer.com/article/10.100

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Messi refutes Aquinas by creating something out of nothing.

Dec 1, 2022

With 20 minutes to go my Japan prediction stood! Though, I admit, not quite in the way I'd imagined it.

World Cup 2022 predictions: —Japan progresses from group E at the expense of Spain. —England beats Denmark in the quarters, loses to Uruguay in the semis. —Germany vs Brazil in the quarters, the winner wins the tournament.

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Nov 19, 2022

Was thinking of World Cup predictions this morning and remembered these from 2014. Those first two were

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Nov 19, 2022

Pity about the third 😂

Was thinking of World Cup predictions this morning and remembered these from 2014. Those first two were 🎯!

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@HikeMix

May 23, 2022

Philosophy is great because you start out thinking you're gonna answer all the hard questions and you end up thinking you can't even ask them.

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I still think Elon knows what he's doing and is probably 10 steps ahead of everyone. If nothing else, when Twitter doesn't collapse everyone currently freaking out will have a renewed sense of how much they value it.

U.C. Workers Strike on All 10 Campuses

Nov 18, 2022

Twitter is dead! Long live Twitter!

The walkout involves nearly 48,000 unionized academic workers at the prestigious public university system.

insists that "supervisors" should not express support for employees striking this week, but refuses to clarify whether I count as a "supervisor". If they can't be clear, perhaps I can be: I fully support UCB employees striking for a fair living wage.

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Terry Taplin

@TaplinTerry

Oct 22, 2022

It’s rare a leader comes forth from the community itself to serve the public good. No inside ties, no factioneering, only the will & vision to serve. We deserve a Board that puts equity-centered service & students first. Love the dynamism of

@ReichiLee4BUSD

@KaDijahBrown6

Reichi Lee 李瑞琪

@ReichiLee4BUSD

Nov 3, 2022

My remaining funds went to a second small batch mailer. I hope it conveys the vibrancy, hope & action I will bring to the role if I'm elected on Nov. 8. Thank you to all the everyday people of Berkeley who donated, supported me w/ their sweat labor & made this campaign possible!

Oct 31, 2022

I bet you do.

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Randi Weingarten

@rweingarten

Oct 31, 2022

I agree with @ProfEmilyOster on this twitter.com/ProfEmilyOster…

Oct 30, 2022

If you don’t already follow

@DanielHadas2

, start now.

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Daniel Hadas

@DanielHadas2

Oct 30, 2022

Some 2,400 years ago, Herodotus wrote: "No one is so foolish as to prefer war to peace: in peace children bury their fathers, while in war fathers bury their children".

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Tara Henley

@TaraRHenley

Oct 23, 2022

Lean Out guests continue to widen the Overton window in all kinds of interesting ways...

Oct 20, 2022

This is glorious. twitter.com/notinaboyband/

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Reichi Lee 李瑞琪

@ReichiLee4BUSD

Oct 19, 2022

It's unfortunate I have to issue this statement but I needed to speak up. Dirty campaigning has no place anywhere, and certainly not in Berkeley.

Anthony LaMesa

@ajlamesa

Oct 15, 2022

Trump's CDC director held up a surgical mask and suggested it could be more protective than a vaccine and Biden's CDC director said masks can reduce chance of infection by more than 80%. Can we have a serious and sober conversation about the harms of exaggerating mask efficacy?

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, I'm a parent of 2 kids in BUSD and have been trying to contact you through the form on your website. I haven't heard back and can't find an email address for you (sorry if I'm missing something). Could you get in touch pls? My DMs are open. Thanks!

Terry Taplin

@TaplinTerry

Oct 12, 2022

Renowned non-resident radical bike lobbyist here. I grew up West of San Pablo & attended both Ruth Acty & King. West Berkeley families—yes we live in this city, even go to school, work, & shop (!). We deserve safe routes that allow us to move through the city w/o risking death.

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Newman Nahas

@NahasNewman

Oct 7, 2022

Thinking epidemiologists are experts on how to balance the value of mitigating COVID against other competing human values is like thinking locomotive scientists are experts on how to respond to the trolly cart dilemma.

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Kulvinder Kaur MD

@dockaurG

Oct 7, 2022

I highly recommend reading this peer-reviewed issue of Monash Bioethics Review by esteemed ethicists globally

et al ENTIRELY re unethical, unprecedented, unscientific lockdowns which imposed known/foreseen horrific harms🧵

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I edited a special issue of Monash Bioethics Review on pandemic public health ethics For background, read my paper in link below For the excellent contributions by @pgodfreysmith @DiegoSilvaPhD @ShamikDasgupta1 and other non-twitter stars, see next

link.springer.com/article/10.100

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Jun 5, 2022

Powerful statement from

@SunetraGupta

: "The one thing we did know was that the measures we were proposing to implement lockdowns and other restrictions would have enormous costs. That was the one thing we were certain about and yet...

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Kulvinder Kaur MD

@dockaurG

Mar 8, 2022

"We inverted precautionary principle of trying to minimize harm by doing the one thing that we knew would cause harm: lockdowns.. What we do see very sadly.. harms unfolded.. We sit watching devastation that we knew these measures would cause 2yrs ago” —Oxford Prof @SunetraGupta

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Angie Schmitt

@schmangee

Oct 5, 2022

100% agree with this from

especially in poorer districts like Cleveland link.springer.com/article/10.100

Anthony LaMesa

@ajlamesa

Oct 4, 2022

Whoops.

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Oct 5, 2022

Very happy that my paper “School in the time of covid” is part of this special issue on public health ethics during the pandemic. I hope the volume inspires more critical analysis of pandemic policy from a range of academic fields.

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📰I edited a special issue of Monash Bioethics Review on pandemic public health ethics For background, read my paper in link below For the excellent contributions by

@pgodfreysmith

@DiegoSilvaPhD

and other non-twitter stars, see next 🧵 link.springer.com/article/10.100

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7/ School in the time of covid, by

School in the time of Covid

This paper argues that extended school closures during the pandemic are a moral catastrophe

link.springer.com

Monash Bioethics Review - This article argues that extended school closures during the Covid-19 pandemic were a moral catastrophe. It focuses on closures in the United States of America and...

Paul Bailey

@WAAMBMEDIC

Sep 29, 2022

Remains the greatest contribution to the toxicology literature *of all time*.

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Present & Correct

@presentcorrect

Sep 20, 2022

Paper stacked to form a bridge. Lake District, England. stevemessam.co.uk/paperbridge By

@rougeit

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js “really not here any more, to be clear” thrill

@js_thrill

Sep 23, 2022

Oxford and Cambridge simultaneously change their logos. “What the fuck are you talking about?” asks everyone who doesn’t like obscure metaphysics jokes.

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Prof Francois Balloux

@BallouxFrancois

Sep 18, 2022

Fascism is a set of political beliefs that call for control of society by the state, a powerful role for the police, and the suppression of political opposition. Whether it's driven by a fear of foreigners, perceived wokeness of some in society, or a virus, is largely irrelevant.

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I talked with

on her Lean Out podcast about school closures during the pandemic. Thanks for the great conversation, Tara!

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Tara Henley

@TaraRHenley

Sep 16, 2022

Today on the Lean Out podcast: UC Berkeley philosophy prof @ShamikDasgupta1 joins me to talk about a recent paper he authored - and to make the case that extended pandemic school closures were a moral catastrophe. tarahenley.substack.com/p/school-in-th

Opinion: America has a problem. We, my fellow progressives, must admit it | CNN

Sep 9, 2022

IMO the article gives way too much credence to the idea that extended closures were necessary (they weren't - they had no measurable effect on the pandemic). But maybe that's intentional, if the aim is to unite progressives in repairing the damage done.

Must-read article for progressives from

@JillFilipovic

. Even those who think 1.5yr public school closures were necessary must reckon with the immense harm they inflicted on children, esp those most in need of the safety-net that public education provides>>

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As American students return to school and new test results show 9-year-olds lost two decades of learning progress, Jill Filipovic aruges that fellow liberals need to admit Covid-related school...

The principal of my kids’ school just said there’s a “parenting crisis” in Berkeley. Apparently we’re “not involved” enough. This after Berkeley parents homeschooled their kids for 1.5 yrs, while schools were shut and only provided ~50% of regular instructional hours by zoom. 😡

Sep 2, 2022

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Brandon Warmke

@BrandonWarmke

Sep 1, 2022

Reminding you of this paper by

Governor Hochul Commissions New Report on Women in the Workplace in Honor of Women's Equality Day

. He called extended school closures a moral catastrophe and Very Smart People were still mocking him, even as recently as this summer. link.springer.com/article/10.100

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The New York Times

@nytimes

Sep 1, 2022

Breaking News: Test results show the pandemic’s effect on U.S. students: The math and reading scores of 9-year-olds dropped steeply, erasing two decades of progress. nyti.ms/3KF1dJe

Full speech here:

Governor Hochul announced that the New York State Department of Labor will provide a report analyzing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women in the workplace with a particular focus on the...