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Daniel S. Goldberg
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Professor. Attorney, historian, public health ethicist. Always all ways public health. Jiujitsu🟤, Star Wars, Batman, Coffee. #LegalEpi #Stigma #PHLaw #PHEthx #Disability #HistPubHealth (all opinions mine) H/h/h. ✡️
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It took over 4 years, but the paper is finally published. In this study, we developed novel methods drawn from #LegalEpidemiology to map addiction #stigma in California law.

This #interdisciplinary work was conceptually and methodologically difficult!⤵️

#PaperSky #EpiSky #AcademicSky

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Targeting Addiction Structural Stigma Embodied in Law (“TASSEL”): Findings from an intrastate legal mapping study
Stigma is a fundamental cause of disease that reflects and intensifies health inequalities. Laws are powerful mediators for stigma; to correct them, i…
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November 27, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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Lots of schools now teach writing (VERY GOOD). However, I don't know about you, but the most useful pedagogical training *I* ever got before being unleashed on a higher ed classroom was, "the dry erase markers will always fail you, so bring your own" (side note: this is in fact very good advice)
November 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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So writing training is scattershot. People pick it up from their mentors, and if your mentor is a great writer and a great teacher then congratulations! But more likely you're just expected to pick it up through vibes and by piecing together advice along the way...
November 26, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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For graduate training, I'll talk about public health, because thats what I know. There is no systematic standard or training approach to teaching writing. AND in graduate education we devalue pedagogy as a distinct skill (and lets talk about all the ways that THAT is gendered) ...
November 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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This is just correct.
November 26, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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it was always a truism in law school that the techies had an intuitive understanding of legal writing that the fuzzies had to learn
November 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Best thing I ever did for my writing was take symbolic logic in college. I can't recommend it highly enough.
November 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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One of my most obnoxious beliefs is that the skill of making rigorous arguments in writing is a technical one and isn’t something most academic training programs in most fields actually train their students in.
a man and a woman are standing next to each other with their arms crossed and the man is yawning .
Alt: Jim Carrey hollering at a woman in an elevator and just being super annoying
media.tenor.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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It’s easier to just teach (& to use) the proper jargon, the buzzwords & code phrases that serve as passwords into the private clubs of each discipline. Well-structured essays are HARD.
November 26, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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Writing well - making cogent arguments, without using strawmen or blatant cherry-picking to “prove” your points - certainly isn’t taught in higher ed. In part because such a low percentage of academics can do this well consistently.
November 26, 2025 at 6:32 AM
One of my most obnoxious beliefs is that the skill of making rigorous arguments in writing is a technical one and isn’t something most academic training programs in most fields actually train their students in.
a man and a woman are standing next to each other with their arms crossed and the man is yawning .
Alt: Jim Carrey hollering at a woman in an elevator and just being super annoying
media.tenor.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:15 AM
I actually completely agree with the criticisms Nico Harrison had about Luka and at the same time think you never ever trade a generational talent like Luka.

An obvious and catastrophic mistake and all the Mavs fans know it.
November 26, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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"I mean, obviously, I’m not happy with the end result. Before we took our places, I was informed I’d be sitting at the kids’ table, which I think is, frankly, I think is a slap in the face given my history with this organization."
Post-Dinner Interview with the Uncle Who Was Demoted to the Kids’ Table at Thanksgiving
REPORTER: I’m here live with Uncle Bill just moments after Thanksgiving dinner. Bill, can you walk us through what happened tonight? UNCLE BILL: Su...
buff.ly
November 26, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Join us for a FREE webinar on December 8, at noon ET for Legal Epi at Lunch: Building the Field, Looking Ahead. CPHLR and our colleagues will discuss efforts to continue building the field of legal epidemiology.

Register here: https://bit.ly/4rjz4vR
November 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Begone, ham

(although pies are a lesser confection for me and green bean casserole isn't wowing me either)

h/t @akivamcohen.bsky.social
with charity and goodwill, i must here part ways with rolls.
November 25, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Two housewives chatting through the window in 1655. One is about to lose her salmon steaks to a very fortunate dog! By Nicolaes Maes, whose day is today.
November 24, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Close but not quite. (6, 7, 8 can be in a different order I guess)

1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. A New Hope
3. Revenge of the Sith
4. Return of the Jedi
5. The Force Awakens (fight me)
6. Solo
7. Rogue One
8. The Last Jedi
9. Attack of the Clones
10. The Rise of Skywalker
11. The Phantom Menace
Close, but not quite.

Ahem…

1. Empire Strikes Back
2. The Last Jedi
3. Rogue One
4. Return of the Jedi
5. Star Wars
6. Revenge of the Sith
7. Solo
8. The Force Awakens
9. The Rise of Skywalker
10. Attack of the Clones
11. The Phantom Menace
Close, but not quite.

1. Rogue One
2. Empire Strikes Back
3. Star Wars
4. Return of the Jedi
5. Revenge of the Sith
6. The Last Jedi
7. Attack of the Clones
8. The Force Awakens
9. The Rise of Skywalker
10. The Phantom Menace
11. Solo
November 24, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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A thing that happens a lot when you have any kind of bioethics training is that you get asked to opine on, or teach, or facilitate discussions regarding situations that are not ethically murky in the least, which does not engender confidence in the judgment of the person making the request.
November 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Colorado has wolves again for the first time in 80 years. Why are they dying? www.vox.com/climate/4700...
Colorado has wolves again for the first time in 80 years. Why are they dying?
A controversial reintroduction program is off to a messy start.
www.vox.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Did you know?

190 countries have infant immunization schedules that include the Hep B vaccine

115 countries recommend a universal birth-dose of the Hep B vaccine, one of the key actions WHO recommends to reduce Hep B prevalence

Read more in the WHO Hep B Report ➡️
iris.who.int/server/api/c...
November 23, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Results from 2nd varsity debate tournament of the season:

Kid got 🥈 in Informative Speaking and also narrowly missed double breaking in Original Oratory

The Lincoln-Douglas debaters I coach crushed: 9th place, 8th place, and 🥇, overall tournament champion!!!
a man in a suit and tie is standing next to another man in a suit and tie who is smiling .
Alt: Old school debate scene: That’s the way you do it; that’s the way you debate!
media.tenor.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM
These frenz are best frenz
November 22, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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I wrote about this in 'Cause for coercion: cause for concern?', Monash Bioethics Review

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Cause for coercion: cause for concern? - Monash Bioethics Review
In his 2000 book, From Chaos to Coercion: Detention and the Control of Tuberculosis, Richard Coker makes a number of important observations and arguments regarding the use of coercive public health me...
link.springer.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Lockdowns in 2020/2021 ‘undoubtedly saved lives’ but ‘only became inevitable because of the acts and omissions of the four governments’ - UK COVID Inquiry 2025

Key lesson: if you oppose lockdowns, support proactive interventions that could obviate their use.

thedoctor.bma.org.uk/articles/hea...
Government response to COVID-19 was ‘too little too late’, inquiry concludes
Report says 23,000 deaths could have been avoided with earlier lockdown
thedoctor.bma.org.uk
November 21, 2025 at 7:25 PM
This is slickkkkkk that piano hook and the smooth flow #GoldenEra #90sSound #HipHop #BoomBap

open.spotify.com/track/4M8Vzf...
MEDUSA
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November 21, 2025 at 11:11 PM