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Complex systems, wicked problems. Society, technology, science and more. @UNC professor. @NYTimes columnist. My newsletter is @insight: http://www.theinsight.org 

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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 4 Sep 2020

      Those COVID apps some colleges are trying to force students to download? Worse than useless. You know what else is worse than useless? Bringing the students together for a few weeks, and then sending them home in a panic, to seed new clusters. New piece. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/09/pandemic-no-excuse-colleges-surveil-students/616015/ …pic.twitter.com/ii8svQx7Sb

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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 4 Sep 2020

      I've seen a lot of psychologizing of higher-ed and COVID: students are young & have a risk-taking brain etc. I think that's the wrong approach. We should, instead, sociologize the question. College is *also* about socializing. We all know this & pretending otherwise doesn't work.pic.twitter.com/sJvKwkcFVx

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 4 Sep 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Jacob Schulz

      Yes but... Problem remains even if digital contact-tracing worked perfectly. Institutions have manifest and latent functions. A latent function of K-12 is childcare. A latent function of higher-ed is socializing. Pretending these don't exist will not work.https://twitter.com/jacob_r_schulz/status/1301871089329504260 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Jacob Schulz @jacob_r_schulz
      Sad but not just a bad reflection on colleges; it's part of a broader story of people in power way over-estimating the efficacy of contact tracing apps, something I wrote about w @e_setzer and @chas_gk back in July https://www.lawfareblog.com/what-ever-happened-digital-contact-tracing … https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1301850844548288514 …
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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 4 Sep 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Armchair epidemiologist (self-certified)

      For anything to do with humans and institutions, you have to get the sociology of the situation right. Smart people often think everything about society and people is obvious. Physicists *especially* seem to think this. Usually ends like this. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯https://twitter.com/yellingatwind/status/1301588828860235777 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Armchair epidemiologist (self-certified) @yellingatwind
      U of Illinois brought back 40,000+ students to campus based on a model created by 2 very confident physicists, who said epidemiology was important but intellectually unchallenging. Things are not going as planned, because it turns out students party and live together. pic.twitter.com/g5abUj1KsC
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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 4 Sep 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Margaret O'Mara

      Yep. And, somewhat surprisingly, we even saw this failure of missing the true sociology of the situation in some portions of the medical community in response to the pandemic. Not to mention many governments.https://twitter.com/margaretomara/status/1301903113150967814 …

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      Margaret O'MaraVerified account @margaretomara
      See also: Silicon Valley https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1301896856373526530 …
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    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 4 Sep 2020

      Pictures, thousands of words, etc. https://twitter.com/xkcdComic/status/1301962895303925762 …pic.twitter.com/DkK0RdKRRp

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    7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 5 Sep 2020

      But that's not what's happening in colleges. Northeastern is reported to have dismissed 11 students found in violation of COVID gathering guidelines, and without refunding their $36,500 tuition for the semester. https://twitter.com/Aging_Scientist/status/1301987853820456960 …pic.twitter.com/SnMemrIQw9

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    8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 5 Sep 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted The Boston Globe

      How is this supposed to work? Young people will learn to hide better, and will seed outbreaks since they can hide their (usually mild) symptoms, too, even if they get sick.https://twitter.com/BostonGlobe/status/1302234866164142080 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      The Boston GlobeVerified account @BostonGlobe
      Northeastern University has dismissed 11 first-year students after they were caught violating social distancing rules, the school announced Friday. Their $36,500 tuition for the semester will not be refunded. http://bos.gl/9ypBJi7 
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    9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 5 Sep 2020

      I know whose responsibility it is not: the 18-year-olds brought together to a place where socializing *is* one of the (latent) functions of the institution. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/09/pandemic-no-excuse-colleges-surveil-students/616015/ …pic.twitter.com/wtc0XNFp0k

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    10. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 6 Sep 2020

      Unsurprising. Nothing else could be expected. And if we blame young students instead of admitting the obvious—that we set them up to fail—they'll hide infections to avoid draconian punishment and perhaps seed outbreaks with parents/vulnerable communities.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/06/us/colleges-coronavirus-students.html …

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 6 Sep 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Ricky Bryant

      Cannot have a successful public health strategy without public trust, part zillion. Especially with young adults who cannot just be ordered around and locked up, and do not get very ill.https://twitter.com/ricky__bryant6/status/1302073105066717185 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Ricky Bryant @ricky__bryant6
      This was on the @LSU parents Facebook page. Students aren’t reporting their positive COVID-19 tests over fear of football being cancelled. pic.twitter.com/NK8Rg3Gmi5
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        1. Wear a mask don't be a murderer‏ @theolddelewis 6 Sep 2020
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          Zero Tolerance is never a good strategy. Rehab over Punishment Communication over Dictation

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        1. Ted Perlmutter‏ @tedperl 6 Sep 2020
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          Campbell's Law in reverse? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell%27s_law …

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        1. Vaxxed & Boosted EMC‏ @EMC_Maine 6 Sep 2020
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          Yikes. I worry about someone taking a sudden bad turn and those who will develop chronic conditions. It's awful.

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        1. chris‏ @chris98730 6 Sep 2020
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          Can we also talk about the lack of care kids who test positive are getting on college campuses? These quarantine dorms are worse living conditions than prison. Our plan was to move our daughter to the quarantine dorm if she tested positive. No longer. We will bring her home.

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        1. A.Specter  🇵🇸‏ @A_Specter 6 Sep 2020
          Replying to @zeynep @thegrugq

          You can’t have successful public health policy in a society that puts football, a public health threat in its own right, above public health.

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        1. Alfie‏ @WndlB 6 Sep 2020
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          This wasn’t a matter of distrust; this was a matter of a higher goal.

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        1. George Mokray‏ @gmokery 6 Sep 2020
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          I got tired months ago of republishing Camus' home truth from The Plague: "It's not about heroism in all this. It's a matter of honesty. That's an idea which can make people smile, but the only means of fighting against a plague is honesty.” We seem to prefer lies instead.

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        1. Kartik Cating-Subramanian  🏳️‍🌈 ♿ ⚛‏ @selfification 6 Sep 2020
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          School official re-re-re-re-re-re-discovering that abstinence only plans under threats of punishment or shame don't work. I wonder what was done for that scenario... free BC (masks), free anonymous screening, discrete reporting to partners (contact tracing) without blame. Huh!

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        1. jacob‏ @_jakery 7 Sep 2020
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          jacob Retweeted Mark  🦈

          burgeoning story at sdsu, san diego state universityhttps://twitter.com/sharky_marky17/status/1302361276945895425 …

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          Mark  🦈 @sharky_marky17
          I might lose my job by posting this, but at this point idc. SDSU is literally killing students with their incompetence. Here's a thread exposing SDSU coming from someone who works in the residence halls
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        1. Wanting better‏ @cschneider8224 8 Sep 2020
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          Cue the shaming of students and parents, which is a nice distraction from the university filling its coffers.

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