Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
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Sociologist/demographer @UMNews ; mortality, racial inequality, infectious disease. My more interesting posts are on Bluesky: @wrigleyfield .bsky.social
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I asked how many whites would have to die of COVID, through all direct and indirect pathways, for white mortality in 2020 to rise to the best level that Black mortality has ever been.
The answer: 400,000.
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My university is running a “Keeping Our Faculty Symposium” designed to help retain faculty of color
The symposium involves a keynote address from Isabel Wilkerson and costs $150 for faculty and staff, $50 for students & postdocs
A well-conceived plan sure to meet its objectives
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@lawrence_farms
Your son is going to be better at math than you are (unless you teach him to discount what he’s learning because you feel contempt for it)
It’s not your fault that you weren’t taught in more flexible ways; you should have been.
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The 1918 pandemic changed architecture, hospitals, and other kinds of infrastructure as people had new knowledge of the importance of clean air
This time, we’ve chosen to squander every opportunity that’s not aimed at drug development
It’s the 3rd summer of this airborne pandemic & even in the hot weather, US governments have failed to make large, open-air tents & covered, open wall structures easily available for weddings, picnics, family reunions, worship that would allow ppl to gather w less transmission
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A friend is arguing with a relative who says Covid is "just a bad flu," so I made him this
Even now, in the lowest sustained period of "low mortality" we've had (after the lowest-low blip of mid-summer 2021), it's like the peak week of a bad flu season... every single week
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Random appreciation
My first publication was critical of the work of a senior, famous person in my field. He was a reviewer on the paper & could've definitely killed it w criticisms. Instead, he was very fair and read it thoughtfully
That article got me my job
That guy's cool
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@bfishbfish
I feel like this hair-splitting is unlikely to be compelling to anyone who’s had a fertility journey of any kind, and thus is just one more way that Republicans are showing off how totally alienated they are from the range of women’s experiences.
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Separate from everything enraging about labor and delivery, here’s what was great about it
Welcome to the world, Fiona Plum Wrigley-Field. You’re perfect.
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Since my kid was born, at every medical visit for her or for me, I get formally screened for depression
Nobody has ever asked even informally how her dad, who also spends all day with her, is doing
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@LeahLibresco
I am very sorry for your losses
I also find it bizarre to pretend that those of us who support abortion rights must minimize the losses & meanings of desperately-wanted pregnancies. My pro-choice values mean I respect parents' multiplicity of ways they make sense of their losses
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@NateIsBack2
Dude invited me over for dinner and then chastised me for eating too much.
He wanted leftovers.
The dinner was tuna melts. You can't even reheat that shit.
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@ProfessaJay
Some of this I see as a good shift toward making college more accessible by relying less on secret implicit knowledge and actually teaching what we want/expect them to know
And some I see as us taking on responsibility that should be theirs, which is demoralizing
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@CarnegieMellon
No. This is how you handle a situation like this.
(From 2017, a model response from Syracuse’s then-provost)
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@Amber_Coffman
@RomancingNope
I think some really good general advice when talking to someone who lost a loved one is:
Don’t ask about the person’s death. Ask about their life.
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@sarahradz_
I had so much fun singing, playing with the salad spinner, reading, stacking, cleaning, bouncing, pretending, and playing peek a boo with my 20-month-old this morning
During the 40 minutes that her dad was at the dentist before I went back to work
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One thing we owe the people of Afghanistan is open doors to all refugees.
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@eveewing
Thank you for this thread. I’m part of a collective that runs a very small bookstore (
@boneshakerbooks
) and for us Bookshop is a lifesaver right now since we’re not allowed to have our store open at all at the moment. It means we can still run book clubs, etc.
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As part of an incredible team I was lucky to work with, today I finished some research I'm really proud of arguing that age-based COVID-19 vaccination schedules systematically prioritize white people over higher-risk BIPOC people, and evaluating alternatives.
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Controversial opinion:
Full-time, tenure-stream academics who describe service work as "unpaid labor" and think they're making a progressive point about exploitation are actually furthering the gigification of our jobs and incursion of market logic into our work lives.
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2 weeks ago today, I was admitted to the hospital to give birth. 1 week ago today, I was finally discharged
In btwn I received some excellent medical care, esp when my blood pressure spiked postpartum & wouldn't come down
I was also subjected to what I'd call medical bullying
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Peak Minneapolis
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More considered thoughts later, but I just got out of my community vax meeting & this is written in anger:
I want everyone in a position of power or w a huge platform who said, "Kids can't really even get Covid!" to go door to door in my nbrhd apologizing, bc ppl believe them
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I really wanted to get a maternity shirt made that says
“Just another
pregnant person
for
free abortion on demand”
But, uh
I guess it went the way of most of my plans
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I said a very garbled version of this in my dept meeting today, but, I think this is a principle I stand by that's relevant to most of us at universities right now:
Having a reduction in staff but choosing to do the same number/intensity of things is objectively anti-worker, no?
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NEW paper compares vax strategies (under scarcity) based on age, age/race, age/geography, & just geography
The tl;dr: Age-based vaccination (by itself) prioritizes lower-risk white people above higher-risk people of color
Big research team tagged below
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@timgill924
The most important thing, though, is to keep this practice in perspective:
Failing to do this is only ONE OF MANY ways that you can reveal yourself to be unworthy
It's important to ask yourself at least a few times a week, "Am I sure I really belong here?"
A healthy exercise!
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Unfathomable horrors and our government is choosing this.
52,000 pregnant women and over 30,000 babies under six months of age are currently drinking brackish or contaminated water in Gaza, according to an internal U.S. State Department document's assessment
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This research shows that racism produces pandemic-scale deaths every single year.
So why aren't we just as willing to embrace disruption and reorganization to fight racism?
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Every time people talk about LeVar Burton, I remember that as a 10-year-old I auditioned to be on Reading Rainbow and was rejected for being TOO NERDY
They asked what I like to read and I said, "Well, my favorite genre is realistic narrative."
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@marxforcats
"Why are legacy newspapers needing to find new economic models?
For starters, journalists are highly educated and command high salaries."
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1. There is by now a huge group of people whose pandemic experiences I almost never see discussed:
those who brought Covid to their loved ones, who died.
I assume we don't hear about them because they feel profoundly ashamed.
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Real talk... is the EditorialManager login process a long-running social psych experiment?
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It’s less than two weeks until Thanksgiving,
COVID cases are skyrocketing in Minneapolis—FAR worse than I expected—and rapid antigen tests still cost about $25 for a two-pack and are sold out at nearly all local stores.
We are still failing at all of this so, so badly.
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This Juneteenth let’s remember that abolishing slavery seemed unrealistic/impossible to many “pragmatists” who believed they were on the right side of history & take a moment to wonder what other hard-to-fathom, morally necessary revolutions might be possible in our own lifetimes
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They could spare us all so much risk, so much illness, and so much work by mandating safe air quality in workplaces, schools and public buildings.
I think it’s worth repeating that ‘people are tired of Covid’ because people are doing all of the Covid work that governments and businesses are supposed to be doing.
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@ghhorsfield
@LByock
We’ve found the guy who thinks sidewalk chalking outside a senator’s house is just too mean
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@GovTimWalz
sent a literal military operation after a group of more-or-less kids, people who looked to be my students' age, who were assembled because another kid was murdered by his police, & he cares more about taming the protesters than taming the cops who can't stop killing.
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“The tragedy is that the alternative world where we’re more prepared for the next pandemic is so tangible. We’re just not living in it.”
(Quoting myself from memory so, you know, don’t quote me)
The way you get through a crisis like a pandemic is with a spirit that everyone is all in it together,
@ewrigleyfield
says at
#TAF22
. “That has mostly not been the spirit of this pandemic in the way that we have responded.”
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@KateHarding
@loather
This is a reductio ad absurdum of lesser evilism. 'Can't kick out sexual abuser because then other abusers will get kicked out too'- Pathetic argument from a feminist. History will judge you on this the way it will judge Joe Biden on Anita Hill and Maureen Dowd on Monica Lewinsky
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@robinhanson
@buffsblg
@smhten
I don't understand the argument even if you're right about the facts. How is holding my children AS SLAVES not a form of "illegitimate pressure"? How is choosing bondage for myself to have a hope of freeing my children FROM SLAVERY a freely-made choice? WTF is happening here?
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Have yet to read a letter for a male applicant that describes him as "lovely" or notes that he is "always in a good mood."
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It's abt the time when ppl are starting to get TT job offers. Open invite:
If you're a sociologist/demographer evaluating/negotiating an asst prof offer & want data pts, email my work email & I'll tell you anything you want about my experience, incl salary
Secrecy hurts workers
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The
@UMNews
decision to hastily shut down huge parts of campus in the middle of the last day of classes, in response to wholly peaceful protest, has caused material hardship for campus workers.
It is OUTRAGEOUS that custodians are going w/o pay bc the uni fears its own students.
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The extreme inequality in COVID deaths combined with extreme segregation of intimate and public life in the U.S. means that most whites have very little grasp of what has happened in the last six months.
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A little while ago I tweeted, "Can I get away with writing a pandemic commentary called 'A bad denominator'll really fuck you up'"
and, though I didn't get to use that title, I did get to write this piece.
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PSA for pregnant people: If your insurance will pay for it, get physical therapy.
It would've never crossed my mind until an OBGYN recommended it and I wasn't sure it was worth driving out to the suburbs for. BUT IT WAS.
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Air pollution kills twice as many Twin Cities residents as homicides (even with the higher recent homicide rates)
It also significantly harms infants' brain and other organ development and sets people up for Alzheimer's
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@nilocobau
I once lived in a mid-gentrification neighborhood whose grocery store had a “spiced” section with tiny expensive spice bottles and, at the far end of the same aisle, a “Mexican spices” section with large, cheap bags of the same spices
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Something I've unfortunately found to always be true even when we convince ourselves that it won't be:
When organizations choose to keep toxic people, they are also choosing to lose better people.
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The US labor movement owes a huge debt to Mexican radicals and revolutionaries who crossed the border and led labor struggles here, sometimes teaching other workers in the US how to do it.
Radicals in the Barrio is an attempt to bring into focus the rich and deeply interwoven history of Mexican working-class people in the hardscrabble labor and civil rights struggles of the early 20th century.
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@SarahSpain
It’s a deal… you buy a round for me and I’ll supply the drinks for the youngest Wrigley-Field
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I miss when my job was to think rather than to meet.
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"If Black disadvantage operates every year on the scale of Whites’ experience of COVID-19, then so too should the tools we deploy to fight it. Our imagination and social ambition should not be limited by how accustomed the United States is to profound racial inequality."
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Seeing so many vindictive tweets about teachers teaching symptomatic while waiting for test results. Show me the school where school staff (teachers & support staff) can actually take all the sick and quarantine days they need.
We’re setting so many tragedies in motion
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@prof_mirya
What kind of childcare did they off—
You know what, it’s not even worth the joke
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@raspberrih
@lamathews
@GraceLP
@RGibsongirl
Did you read the link, though? I thought it was reasonable and not mean.
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We have put our baby onto a strict bedtime schedule
With only the rarest exceptions, we get her down sometime between 7pm and 12:30am
And after 1-4 night wakeups, she wakes up like clockwork between 5 and 9
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Grad students, some things that helped me most:
1. 4-student writing group. Brief check-ins then focus on 1 person's work, every single week
2. Weekly writing center appointments. Never again will it be FREE TO YOU to have someone read a new draft every week. I pay for this now
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46 hours from my second Moderna shot, still sick as shit (sorry, PAA coauthors), I'm also feeling hopeful. In the month since my 1st shot, the exercise-induced asthma I got from Covid in March 2020 has steadily declined. I don't get it, but I'm holding out for a return to normal.
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My partner & I were leaving the Brooklyn Center protest just before 10 pm when the National Guard came. We saw the school buses pulling in & thought they were for hauling people off to jail, & we were so angry--the protest was hundreds, maybe 1,000 mostly young people chanting.
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Back in my day, a little Wrigley-Field would have to work for recognition of her name. No one would just up and send her an official Cubs Rookie of the Year onesie. But babies today, they grow up soft.
(Thanks,
@Cubs
!!!)
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@MNReformer
Can't wait for tens of millions in public money to pay for the "don't hunt the populace" training
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@pmgentry
In high school I was getting home from a debate tournament in the middle of the night and unknowingly got off NJ Transit, probably, at “the OTHER Penn Station.” Many further errors ensued.
I called and woke up my mom, and she taught me about the PATH train, a useful life skill.
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@madelms
@libbycwatson
The idea that people who get COVID are bad people who bring it upon themselves, not The Good People I Know, could not be clearer
(It's really natural to think about disease this way, I think--it's a very deep drive. It's also wrong! Factually incorrect, dangerous, & reactionary)
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In prison for “sedition” after a fiery anti-war speech on the campaign trail.
On Nov. 2, 1920, Eugene V. Debs won almost a million votes for president on the Socialist Party ticket from his jail cell.
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Hey so
@JamalOsmanMN
, here's what happened last night:
- I get a normal (if odious) robotext abt supporting cops by voting for you
- I reply: no I will not
- We have a long argument, in which they repeatedly assert they ARE you, personally (not staff)
- They send a dick pic
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@emgbar
From the perspective of an outsider to this field, absolutely bizarre for faculty to collectively outsource their professional responsibilities of peer review to students.
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@andreapitzer
You're already supposed to not fight back if armed men break into your home, I guess, in case they're cops who didn't bother to identify itself before it started shooting you.
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@ConserveChange
Wow, what a self-own on the part of a PhD advisor who’s done it so poorly that they can’t even be sure the student wrote their own diss.
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So here are the complete, except for redacting, screenshots w the person who claimed to be
@JamalOsmanMN
& appeared to actually be a very drunk or high campaign volunteer
It started w a very normal apparent robotext, as we've all gotten a lot of, w Osman's talking points
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Remembering that first day of class in 2019
when I filled up the whiteboard with class agenda, key concepts, diagrams, reading tips
with the marker that I found there in front of me.
Toward the end of class, with board full, I discovered
it was not a dry-erase marker at all.
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Hear me out:
What if we never finish this paper but just circulate it among the author team, undoing and redoing each other’s edits and panicking alternately that we’ve undersold or oversold our results, forever
…Who’s with me?
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@alixabeth
My mom is a prof at a public university. Early in her career, a Harvard prof published a book that very closely followed the citation patterns of her own 1st book, w/o ever citing her.
Later she met the RA whose summer job it had been to go thru her book & look up the citations
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Let's find ways to advocate for service to be recognized/rewarded AND more equitably distributed w/o breaking our jobs into a million tiny pieces & demanding each be compensated separately. Personally, I'd like to remain one of the highest-autonomy workers around, by a mile--
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Among my core beliefs are that some jokes never stop being funny, and that everything surrounding my name is one of them.
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Gave my students an anonymous survey about their own COVID & flu vaccinations & what they guess the class percentages are. (This is relevant to our course material.)
54 students are vaxxed; their guesses: mean 90%, mean 95%, min 70% vaxxed
1 student unvaxxed, guesses 30% vaxxed
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Who’s that napping, you ask?
Why, it’s a baby who just had her first Covid and flu shots
❤️💜🧡💙💛🎉🎊🍾🥳
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In a faculty meeting where someone proposed we implement a semesterly "no meetings allowed" week and I feel like the man dying in the desert who spots a small bottle of water in the distance and knows it cannot keep him alive yet cannot stop imagining what it tastes like
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Heartbreaking and enraging. The consequences of acting like lives in the rest of the world don’t matter will be immense.
Only 1% of people in low-income countries have been given at least one dose of a COVID vaccine, and most will have to wait another two years to be vaccinated.
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When white ppl protest the Minneapolis city council's doubling down on environmental racism, council members sneer that they don't represent community
but when BIPOC ppl turn out en masse, like Little Earth residents did, VP
@LineaPalmisano
calls them "paid protesters"
Prove it
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Minneapolis highs and lows:
1. There is an amazing event at a bog today that I will be taking my child to
2. The 9 bus is door to door from my house to this thing
3. But we can’t take it bc it only comes once an hour bc
@metrotransitmn
thinks transit is only for commuters
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Career-long union membership is associated with an even larger lifetime wage premium than completing college — even though it’s also associated with retiring younger.
Really important work from
@ZParolin
and my colleague
@TVanheuvelen
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Today’s my kid’s 1 month bday & my reflection is:
Having a partner w exceptional parental leave has been 100% essential to my physical & mental recovery from labor, as well as to the care of our child. My health would’ve been seriously threatened w/o it
All parents need leave
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Giving a talk in my best shirt, seeing the hosts share the event flyer with my 8-year-old headshot in the same shirt, wondering:
Should I have more than one shirt?
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In my line of work, we talk a lot about "imposter syndrome." So one thing I'd like to assure anyone struggling out there with this is:
Whatever job skills you may lack, I *guarantee* you, you are better at your job than
@broomtorowicz
The end, 13/13
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"Geographically-targeted COVID-19 vaccination is more equitable than age-based thresholds alone"
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@mathewkiang
@aliciacita
@MagaliBarbieri
@ch272n
@cadkat
@EMatthay
@dcvanriper
Kirrthana Jegathesan
@KBibbinsDomingo
& JP Leider
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"It's no use crying over spilled milk," said nobody who has ever pumped
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For white life expectancy to fall to the best-ever Black life expectancy would take at least 700,000 excess white deaths this year.
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My family are fighters. We have ideas about how we will fight back, when we choose to; right now our focus is on our beautiful, perfect baby. We are safe at home where nobody at the hospital can mess with us.
But we're not done with this.
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One thing about having a newborn (and parental leave and no other kids) is that time has no meaning.
Should I be drinking coffee or whiskey right now? Who can say, who can say
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@toddedillard
I'd be thrilled! I've only been teaching for six years but I love hearing from students after they've graduated, especially when they write because they just used something we did in class. (Sometimes it was a super tiny moment in class that ends up being what stayed with them!)
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I legit love this idea. Explaining the redlining & restricted covenant history of the beautiful neighborhoods we traverse; stopping on particular corners to discuss the particular robber baron who built that mansion. Let's be sure to include the schools.
Socialists should start having Meet the Bourgeoisie walking tours in their cities where we take people on a walk through the nice neighborhoods and reflect on how different it is from where most people live. These places are all hidden away, I think people ought to see them.
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--or rather, I'd like to help other workers reach our levels of autonomy rather than dragging us down to a level where we account for every tiny contribution and attach it to its proper market value.
Our shitty annual merit reviews are bad enough thank you very much
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