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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

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If ever a single meme could completely capture the historical moment we live in, then it is this one:

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

1 month

@NBCLA "Hamas-leaning faculty!?" I work at UCLA and a former grad student. I haven't ever met a single faculty member, in 20 years of being here, that is pro-Hamas. Stop spreading lies!

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

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@themaxburns This is just pathetic. You restore faith in the court by holding the justices accountable, not be continuing to let them act with impunity. Such loser energy.

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

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Two weeks ago: "The @UCLA protestors destroyed Royce Hall!" Royce Hall yesterday:

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

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@GavinNewsom , why are you allowing this? CHP should not be used against nonviolent protestors.

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CHP ON UCLA CAMPUS! California Highway Patrol is now in riot gear on UCLA campus. That makes 3 police departments here to attack students: UCPD, LAPD, CHP + Apex private security. Last time CHP was on campus, they shot 5 people in the head with “less lethals” @UCLAchancellor

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

2 years

@jbouie I mean the Constitution IS a problem insofar as it's not democratic. Sullivan should read Dahl's How Democratic is the American Constitution. Dahl is far from a leftist but shows how undemocratic and flawed our system is compared to other "democracies".

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

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@emangaza48 @VanityFair It' not just petty, it's censorship on behalf of a foreign state. Lots of institutions are showing us how little they care about freedom of speech.

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

2 years

@AOC False equivalence is one of the pundits' favorite tactics

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

1 year

I just don't know how anyone in academia thinks it's a good idea to have a promotion process that takes 9 months, and can end with the person up for promotion being banished entirely from the department they work for. This is psychological torture for me

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

3 years

@native4data Also tribes are literally recognized as sovereign nations by the federal government, so they are political identities in a formal sense! These reviewers were so wrong

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

1 year

@erinrpineda I'm sick of ppl making us feel guilty for having boundaries and standards

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

1 year

@whstancil Yup, not every social problem is caused by capitalism. I hate that kind of reductionism because it detracts from accurate critiques of capitalism.

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

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@jangles3475 @NBCLA Oh you're right, me - a Jew who hates Hamas - just needs to open my eyes. Thanks for the suggestion /s

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

3 years

@native4data Wow, as a fellow academic, I'm sorry you have to deal with that crap. The genocide of indigenous peoples is a historical fact!

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

2 years

@PeterHotez Thank you. I think it's important to have some sense of where this might be going. If we are going to be stuck in a world of recurrent variants, then we need much more testing capacity to control the spread and make it easier for people to quarantine/get back to work.

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

1 month

Shame on Academic Senate. Shame on Chancellor Block. Shame on UCLA. I'm really wondering if I should quit and have nothing to do with this awful institution anymore.

Teresa Watanabe

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1 month

BREAKING: ⁦ @UCLA ⁩ Academic Senate rejects censure and ‘no confidence’ vote on Chancellor Gene Block for handling of pro-Palestinian protests. w/⁦ @jaweedkaleem ⁩

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

3 years

@rorycooper 14th amendment: If you supported insurrection, you can be barred from holding office.

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

2 years

@kindenough2018 @SenSanders @profgalloway No reform can get 60 votes because the GOP is completely beholden to the NRA. The only way this will get done is if the filibuster is eliminated.

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

1 year

@atrupar Omg we need to all get off of this site...but yet I keep coming back bc it's still the best place for breaking news

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

2 months

@adamjohnsonCHI And also demonization - protestors are called "Hamas," lies are spread that they are being funded by Qatar or Iran or even George Soros! It is an obvious strategy to distract from what's really happening and legitimize violent repression.

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

3 years

@paulkrugman The MSM is dropping the ball badly. That @washingtonpost story yesterday that gave Alex Berenson a platform was particularly disgraceful. Full of false equivalence and bad faith. (I cancelled my sub)

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

3 years

@kdrum @chrislhayes Are you joking? It's the worst mass-casualty event in our lifetimes.

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

3 years

@CNNPR @brianstelter Good, this was the right thing to do

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

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I wrote an open letter to the UCLA community. I hope others will join me in resisting repression at UCLA and protesting genocide in Gaza. #FreePalestine @UCLA

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

1 month

@adamjohnsonCHI They believe they are part of the in-group "whom the law protects but does not bind" while their opponents are "whom the law binds but does not protect" - Frank Wilhoit

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

3 years

@belle4beau @sfchronicle Are you deliberately ignoring the point of this article? There IS NOT solid evidence of an increase in shoplifting.

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

3 years

@mattyglesias Pretending to be objective while presenting a biased framing.

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

2 years

@UCAFT_UCLA @UCLA Is this even legal? And even if it is, who in their right mind would agree to teach @ ucla without any compensation?

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

3 years

@mattyglesias So, how are young people supposed to understand how the government works? TikTok? Or is it better to have a society that has no idea how it's run?

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

2 years

#ucla is neglecting to give faculty any instructions about what we are supposed to do if we can't submit final grades because of the strike. They're putting all the burden on individual faculty, making us fear for our jobs 1/2 #fairucnow #UAWonStrike

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

3 years

@DrTomFrieden This is bad messaging. Be honest with us - vaccines reduce the likelihood of transmission. There is evidence of this. People won't take the vaccine if they don't think it will let them have more normal lives.

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

1 year

@NGrossman81 Yeah, it has become apparent that a small minority of "leftists" aren't anti-imperialism so much as adherents to an anti-American ideology where anything America does is bad and anything America's enemies do is good. (1/2)

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

2 years

@AoDespair "because you don't agree with me 100% on abolition, your show about how screwed up policing is in Baltimore is conservative." Wow!

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

2 years

@BreezeVelazquez @UCLA Yuck. Ask them were they were last Monday when Philosophy Dept received a mass shooting threat and the admin didn't bother telling most of us til hours later, let alone deploying police to protect campus.

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

3 years

@crashfrog @mattyglesias People also have a poor understanding of finances and statistics. That doesn't mean the answer is to not teach those subjects in schools.

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

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@jangles3475 @NBCLA Are you just assuming they support Hamas, or did you see any evidence of that - a sign, a speech, etc.? I was there on multiple occasions and didn't hear or see any pro-Hamas messages.

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

3 years

@crashfrog @mattyglesias So the solution is to not teach civics at all?

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

2 years

@NateSilver538 This seems wrong to me. It's the first-past-the-post system and the presidential structure (as opposed to parliamentary) that inhibit third parties in the US, not the issue positions of the two major parties.

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

3 years

"Losing the election didn’t lead to an epiphany, it drove Republicans to spread COVID to children. Their extremism leaves the most vulnerable people in the country at risk. Playing it down won’t make it go away"

Big Tent

Crooked Media’s Editor-in-Chief Brian Beutler is here to walk you through the big debates unfolding among Democrats in real time. New edition every Friday

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

2 years

@Taamera__94 @SenSanders It's called the filibuster. Dems can hardly get anything done in the Senate without GOP consent. The Senate is not a democratic institution.

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

3 years

@MaryMoriarty @PhilippeDuhart Key question - did the judge know he was starring in a Tucker Carlson documentary?

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

1 year

@medievaliste Yes, and leads to self-devaluation. It's a great example of the looking-glass self (or perhaps false consciousness)

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

2 years

@doc_thoughts I think that's reasonable. Convos about race should start from an understanding that racial categories are socially constructed. Otherwise they often descend into essentialist gibberish.

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

2 years

@joshtpm It's akin to the way an abuse victim pre-emptively alters their behavior to avoid further abuse. It's so pathetic and depressing.

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

3 years

@PatriciaMazzei I feel like one of the great mysteries of the pandemic is why FL hasn't had a higher death toll given it's relative lack of restrictions. I do wonder if it's in part due to 'juking the stats,' as they say on The Wire.

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

2 years

@brianbeutler is so right. The mass media are completely failing to cover this election accurately:

Big Tent

Crooked Media’s Editor-in-Chief Brian Beutler is here to walk you through the big debates unfolding among Democrats in real time. New edition every Friday

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

3 years

@mattyglesias It's one of the most predictable phenomena in Am politics, as regular as the seasons. A Dem becomes president and then suddenly they care about the debt.

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

3 years

@mattyglesias Yeah, this is so dumb. Then on the other side you have Zionists claiming that the Palestinians aren't a real "nation," as if they can just be convinced they're all Jordanians and repatriate to Jordan.

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

7 days

Every other email I got from a student today was about how they were injured, traumatized or disturbed by the events last night @UCLA .

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

3 years

@SaraNAhmed @mstambolis As a social constructionist and sociologist, I second this. The sex-gender distinction is useful to some extent, but sex is not purely biological. Best work I've seen on this is Fausto-Sterling's Sexing the Body.

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

3 years

@DrTomFrieden As an educator, I'm concerned about this messaging. There are plenty of places in the country where community transmission is just too high to reopen schools, right? For example, LA County right now

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

3 years

@waitasequitur @gartmartin9 @JRubinBlogger I purposefully am avoiding checking NYT and WaPo this morning. If the top headline is still Afghanistan my head might explode

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

3 years

@whstancil Yup, this is key. Biden should be working to find the least he can concede in exchange for Manchin's vote, not continually granting more concessions to him until he gets 100% of what he wants. Biden has really allowed himself to get played on this.

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

2 years

It appears that yesterday @UCLA failed to notify students and faculty working in Dodd Hall that the Philosophy Department - located upstairs - had received a credible shooting threat. It let classes - including my own - continue downstairs without any warning or extra security.

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

3 years

@ezraklein No, I don't think he's psychologically capable of that. It's probably the fear of legal exposure that's leading him to agree, reluctantly, to make these statements.

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

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@ASFleischman Um, did nobody tell him "Freedom Summer" has already been taken, and he's not gonna like what it's about?!

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

2 years

The correct response to 'whataboutism' is always "two wrongs don't make a right." Those of us who actually have principles oppose BOTH Russian imperialism and American imperialism, and don't use America's war crimes to deflect attention from Russia's war crimes in Ukraine 1/2

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

2 years

@smgaddis Yup. This has also been a problem for UCLA grad students and lecturers for as long as I've been here. We are paid at the same rate as those at other UCs - no adjustment for local cost of living.

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

3 years

@brianbeutler This is the culmination of months of LAPD refusing to issue fines or make arrests of anti-maskers, even when they are actively harassing other people. The cops either don't see it as their job or sympathize with the anti-maskers.

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

2 years

UC's management failure to settle this strike is having really negative consequences for students and faculty. This has gone on long enough! #ucop needs to make a deal NOW. 2/2 #UAWonStrike #FairUCNow

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

2 years

@NateSilver538 Murders are a small fraction of crime overall. So yes, you can have an uptick in murders without an overall increase in crime. Isn't it your job to understand statistics? (Perhaps I'm missing your point).

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

3 years

Shame on @UCLA for how lecturers are treated. Most students aren't aware of this practice of churning through lecturers to avoid giving us job security. It's wrong.

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

3 years

@NormOrnstein The MSM has been horribly disappointing lately. Nearly every day Afghanistan is the lead story at @nytimes and @washingtonpost , and Covid-19 barely gets frontpage coverage anymore.

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

1 year

@hebagowayed Its become clear to me that "it's a calling" is a rationale for exploiting us - getting us to accept low pay and overwork. Yet somehow I still FEEL like it's my calling 🤷‍♂️

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

1 year

@nycsouthpaw Normalizing periodic hostage-taking

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

13 days

@TaliaRinger THIS. I do not understand this logic at all. Israel is not like French Algeria, where the French colonists could just go back to France. Neither is the U.S.A., yet there are Americans making this argument about Israel.

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

3 years

@NateSilver538 Yeah, I too think that was a big mistake from the pov of the party as a whole. However, the bigger problem is the recall system itself. In its current form, it is anti-democratic and counterintuitive.

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

2 years

@alexanderburns Yeah this is a total distortion. Dems literally enacted the "Inflation Reduction Act" this year. They haven't been ignoring voters' economic concerns.

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

3 years

@jljcolorado Thank you for writing this thread. As a layman (sociologist with no epidemiological training), I've been struck by how much ppl, even experts, clung to the idea of fomite transmission and resisted the idea of airborne trans.

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

3 years

@joshtpm @NateSilver538 Exactly, why now? It was obvious months ago that they were killing their own supporters. Was it the stock market tanking on Monday?

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

2 years

@JeffreyASachs Clearly they thought this one through really well, given that the English language has gendered pronouns. Wow.

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

2 years

@Nilesh_Patel14 @AoDespair Have you even seen The Wire?! It's not Law and Order. Perhaps you could say that the show holds out hope for a better world with good police, but it certainly doesn't suggest we live in that world today, or are headed there anytime soon.

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

3 years

@NormOrnstein @nytimes @washingtonpost I'd really like to ask the editors and managers of these outlets why they think withdrawing from Afghanistan is THE biggest story right now, as opposed to the virus that's killing thousands of people each day and the efforts to contain it.

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

1 year

@BeltransOldMole Covid is actually still killing lots of people. Just because it doesn't make a big black cloud in the air doesn't mean its not a threat.

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

3 years

@HadleyBump @JamesSurowiecki Perhaps there's a lesson to be drawn here about the danger of lying, even in the service of a noble cause. It's only possible to learn from mistakes if we admit them.

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

2 years

I strongly agree with this piece on college student disengagement and loss of skills (sharing it as a "gift article" that can be read by anyone):

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

1 year

@NGrossman81 Plus some leftists subscribe to Lenin's absurd and ahistorical argument that imperialism is a stage of capitalism, and thus that non-capitalist powers can't be imperialistic. I for one remain opposed to imperialism no matter who is doing it. (2/2)

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

3 years

@DavidZahniser Lol. Vaccine mandates are a well-established legal power of governments and employers. If they don't like it, then they can quit.

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

3 years

@linseymarr Wow. It's sad that even the physical sciences can suffer from "groupthink." Thanks so much for pushing on this issue!

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

2 years

@or_el_dudereno @zackbeauchamp Ridiculous nuclear war fantasies?! Yeah let's play a game of chicken with the possibility of nuclear war, seems like a great idea /s

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

3 years

@paulkrugman The OSHA policy is not really a vaccine mandate, though - it's a vaccinate-or-test-regularly mandate

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

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@jayrosen_nyu As a sociologist, I think people definitely are experiencing different "social realities" - beliefs about the world and what is true. However, that doesn't mean the role of the press should be to present "both sides" rather than present the actual facts.

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

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1 year

It strike me today that undergraduate education at big universities is now considered a side-gig by basically everyone involved: TT faculty focus on research and try their best to avoid teaching; lecturers are usually not paid enough for it to be their only job;...

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

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@whstancil oof, let's hope Biden isn't LBJ (one-termer who had to withdraw because of an unpopular war)

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

1 year

@whstancil The thing about neologisms like "cancel culture" and "wokeness" is that once enough people start talking about them as if they are real, ppl become convinced they are real. Then I have students who want to write research papers on "cancel culture" 😭

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

2 years

@whstancil It's not exactly the same, though, because most of the deaths are unvaxed people. I think I speak for a lot of ppl when I say we have empathy fatigue - it's hard to care about those who won't care for themselves or care about us.

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

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@whstancil This is exactly right. We lack social solidarity. However, I think at least a part of it comes from a place of exhaustion. Many people tried to do the right thing while others deliberately undermined our efforts, and so they've given up.

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

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I am truly inspired by @UCLA student activists, by the bravery and cooperation they demonstrated. They have shown us that remaining silent is a choice and that, if we work together, we might actually be able to change the world for the better.

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

2 years

I've decided to finally share my "Why I gave up on the academic job market" story. I want this to be a cautionary tale to up-and-coming sociologists. I was on the job market for three years, had two articles in respected journals and a strong teaching record (1/x)

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2 years

There needs to be a federal investigation of #UvaldeschoolMassacre . Since Columbine it's been standard protocol to not wait around for backup during an active shooter incident. These police failed their community.

Deepa Seetharaman

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2 years

“From 12:03 to 12:46, 911 dispatchers received numerous calls from within the classroom, including repeated calls from a child whispering that people were dead and begging ‘Please send the police now.’”

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@bigblackjacobin @NathanJRobinson The ppl who deserve the most blame are the politicians and media figures encouraging anti-vax sentiment. Governments deserve some blame, but certainly not all of it

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We need media and lawyers to @UCLA right now. Something is happening

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1 month

Breaking: about 30 students are detained in a UCLA parking structure. Unclear why.

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@QueenMab87 I agree. But I also think that protestors would just be better off not saying "globalize the intifada" given it's so prone to being misinterpreted as a threat against Jews.

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

3 years

@nicholasmberg @sfchronicle Right, I'm sure that your gut feeling is more reliable than systematically collected data.

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

3 years

@maggieNYT Hahahahahahaha. Those of us who don't have hangars see the homeless issue a bit differently.

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

3 years

@zeynep This is fantastic, thanks! (from a fellow sociologist). One thing that still stumps me is why there was such a focus on fomites early on. Was there a reason to doubt it would be airborne? Aren't other coronaviruses airborne?

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

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1 year

@anthonyocampo They knew where to look?

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

28 days

3 weeks have passed since a violent mob attacked @UCLA , while police stood by and allowed it to happen. AFAIK there's still been not a single person arrested, even though journalists have ID'ed multiple attackers. We still have gotten no official report of what happened either.

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

3 years

@Dollarlogic @ScottGottliebMD @TheAtlantic You have got to be kidding me. You think we are gonna be able to get ppl to stop going to live meetings and cramped restaurants FOREVER? Good luck with that

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

2 years

I really wish there wasn't a "no-strike clause" in UC-AFT's contract with UC. It sucks being caught between a contract that prohibits me from striking and a mass movement asking everyone to respect the picket line. #uawonstrike #fairucnow #ucstrike

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Isaac Speer, Ph.D.

@speer_isaac

2 months

We've gone from "I could shoot someone on fifth avenue and get away with it" to the Supreme Court actually contemplating allowing a President (Trump) to assassinate his political rivals. American democracy is a joke right now.

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