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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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    3. onisillos‏ @onisillos 1 Dec 2020

      I’m sorry you were forced to do this. In many ways Twitter is its own worst enemy when it comes to sci comms. My notifications have been rendered largely useless by the noise

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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Dec 2020
      Replying to @onisillos @jakescottMD and

      Yep & why having to rely on Twitter is a public health disaster. Their communication on ventilation & short-range airborne transmission has not been helpful because it isn't concrete, early or understandable enough. Twitter=very hard to use. Hence "outdoor" dining greenhouses.😢

      1 reply 0 retweets 12 likes
    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Dec 2020
      Replying to @zeynep @onisillos and

      I get a lot of use out of social media—so many excellent experts!—but it's hard for everyone, and it comes at a cost to those experts who have to battle through the mobs etc. (I do too but I do because of its use!) It's a lot of work to separate signal from noise. alas

      1 reply 0 retweets 11 likes
    6. Dr. Angela Rasmussen‏Verified account @angie_rasmussen 2 Dec 2020
      Replying to @zeynep @onisillos and

      I've found Twitter to be very helpful but share some of your reservations about using it to dispense guidance. It's not even my actual job to dispense guidance or communicate at all via social media, but I see it as my duty to public health, as well as amplifying other...

      1 reply 0 retweets 10 likes
    7. Dr. Angela Rasmussen‏Verified account @angie_rasmussen 2 Dec 2020
      Replying to @angie_rasmussen @zeynep and

      ...relevant experts from other fields. In that sense, Twitter is an important tool, but it's not the only tool. That's why I (and many others) also write and give interviews for mainstream media outlets. But that's still not official guidance. The agencies tasked with that...

      1 reply 0 retweets 9 likes
    8. Dr. Angela Rasmussen‏Verified account @angie_rasmussen 2 Dec 2020
      Replying to @angie_rasmussen @zeynep and

      ...work do need to do a better job of communicating clearly and consistently, via social and mainstream media and their own published materials. I hope in the pandemic post-mortem this is addressed. It would be tremendously useful to all the experts here as well.

      2 replies 0 retweets 11 likes
    9. Sam Horwich‏ @samhorwich 2 Dec 2020
      Replying to @angie_rasmussen @zeynep and

      I think the key question in any postmortem, was the lack of or insufficient discussion about aerosol transmission a significant contributor to spread? Regardless of the platform (only a small proportion of the population uses twitter), was this a *massive failure* or not?

      2 replies 1 retweet 4 likes
    10. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Dec 2020
      Replying to @samhorwich @angie_rasmussen and

      It's December 1st & today the WHO *finally* updated guidance to say "if ventilation is poor wear masks indoors even if separated by 1m/3ft." Until now—eleven months!—WHO didn't advise people to wear masks indoors if one was a mere meter away from others. Very much a failure imo.

      5 replies 29 retweets 114 likes
      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Dec 2020
      Replying to @zeynep @samhorwich and

      I wrote a single article on ventilation and still constantly contacted by desperate people whose workplace guidance has huge emphasis on deep cleaning (with bleach! indoors! without ventilating it out!) but either no or vague advice on ventilation. We didn't get here by accident.

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        2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Dec 2020
          Replying to @zeynep @samhorwich and

          So Twitter help aside, people needed simple, actionable guidelines and proper intuition about transmission. In my view, some concerns here about the word aerosol/airborne/analogies may apply to healthcare settings but were not a problem with public discussion.

          4 replies 2 retweets 17 likes
        3. Matthew Noah Smith‏ @MattNoahSmith 2 Dec 2020
          Replying to @zeynep @samhorwich and

          Hi there. Here's something that is widely distributed that has simple guidelines regarding school re-opening: https://schools.forhealth.org/ 

          2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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        1. Jeremy Chrysler‏ @jeremychrysler 2 Dec 2020
          Replying to @zeynep @samhorwich and

          This is true. It was the first question I asked when it wasn't in our reopening plan. I end up taking a HEPA filter with me to work and sitting with it blowing filtered air across my face. Try burning incense in an office and seeing how long it takes for people to notice :).

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