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NC State PS Professor. I excel in sharing smarter people's tweets. Diet soda addict. Dad. Soccer coach. Armchair epidemiologist.

Cary, NC
Joined December 2009
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@HankGreene
Steve Greene
2 years
That the Colorado Springs shooter was able to legally purchase a gun is absolutely insane. *Only* in America. Great stuff from @Timodc
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@MacLennanMike1 @kdrum @neilsinhababu @jessesingal @jonathanchait That is a *gross* mischaracterization of Chait and Singal. Either you have never read a single word they have written on this or you are just lying to feel good about your side. You are exactly the problem Drum is talking about.
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4 years
@HelenBranswell We need much better messaging. And clear bipartisan messaging on the importance of masks. Far too many people still don't get it (in large part due to the problematic initial messaging). Honestly, there should be frequent PSA's on this and regular news stories.
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Steve Greene
6 years
When the cat has peed over the whole house, you just don’t smell it any more.
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a luminous presence shaped like Seth D. Michaels
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Betsy DeVos, Alex Acosta, Elaine Chao and Wilbur Ross all had scandals this week that would be multi-day stories under a regular administration
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2 years
@CentristStacy This is actually pretty typical for NYT articles on transgender issues. Comments are dominated by variations of "I'm a good liberal, but this stuff is nuts" (which is where I'd put myself). NYT commenters *far* more sane than liberal twitter.
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Steve Greene
7 months
I can’t believe I actually say an art but make it sports in person. This was pretty unbelievable.
@ArtButSports
ArtButMakeItSports
7 months
The Fall of Icarus, by Marc Chagall, 1975, 📸 by @RyanLoco
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Steve Greene
4 years
This is good news. It was never worth taking at face value public opinion before an approved vaccine. And opinion may still evolve based on side effects and how distribution goes. People are really bad at predicting their future behavior in survey questions.
@ABCPolitics
ABC News Politics
4 years
BREAKING: More than eight in 10 Americans say they would receive the coronavirus vaccine, with 40% saying they would take it as soon as it’s available to them and 44% saying they would wait a bit before getting it, according to new @ABC News/Ipsos poll.
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2 years
@nathankw Great thread. As a professional social scientist who studies gender (and politics), this is just *awful* social science. As an extreme case of drawing conclusions well beyond what the data supports as I have seen.
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4 years
@LilyMasonPhD This would make a great NYT Op-Ed, especially coming from you.
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Steve Greene
3 years
The idea that it's *still* illegal to pump your own gas in NJ and that a solid majority of residents prefer it that way seems just insane to me.
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5 months
@PatrickRuffini You surely know that the existence of elections is no guarantee of democracy. Ask Vladimir Putin. Heck, Saddam Hussein had elections.
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4 years
@JohnHMcWhorter I am moderately concerned as teaching about American politics I inherently cover race and gender regularly. I'm a good, standard, American liberal, strongly for race and gender equality, but I also prize empirical evidence and critical thinking-- that's not always popular
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Steve Greene
4 years
This is completely spot-on. Joe Rogan and the doomed politics of shunning by @mattyglesias
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Steve Greene
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@jessesingal Best evidence is that it's not been so much "shy" Trump voters but simply that "low system trust" is both correlated with supporting Trump and with not taking polls (far more than with any candidate in the past).
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Steve Greene
6 years
Damn!! And I thought NC was bad.
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Steve Greene
2 years
Thinking about this as I await a $90 reimbursement for buying pizza for a group of students that has probably used up hundreds of dollars of administrative employee time.
@matthewstoller
Matt Stoller
2 years
Why do universities cost so much? One piece of evidence is that there's twenty layers of bullshit to get reimbursed for a cab ride. Higher ed bureaucracy is worse than the Pentagon's. That's a hint.
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2 years
@fotini901 @MacLennanMike1 @kdrum @neilsinhababu @jessesingal @jonathanchait I'll venmo you $10 if you can find me a quote from either that would be *remotely* consistent with "“trans people should not exist"
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Steve Greene
1 year
This is nuts. This isn't complicated stuff. My school district just put upgraded HVAC and MERV-13 fiters everywhere.
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zeynep tufekci
1 year
Billions were allocated to schools, including to improve air quality — against viruses, allergens, fire smoke and high CO2. Salespeople descended. Many schools overpaid for inferior products. Worse, many bought potentially harmful devices. Gift link:
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Steve Greene
3 years
Once again, nobody does it better than @dr_kkjetelina in very clearly breaking down the key issues. I especially liked the explanation of trying to time the booster, as I've been thinking about.
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Steve Greene
2 years
@DavidAFrench @TheAtlantic Wow-- I certainly don't always agree with French, but generally respect his reasoning. This is just *really* weak tea. To completely elide the incredibly coercive power of the coach role is a complete intellectual cop-out. He's *leading* players in prayer.
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Steve Greene
5 months
@thomaschattwill 1) Agreed. Rude and inappropriate. 2) That said, I don't love Jefferson (and Overbey) jumping to the assumption that Baker saves rude and inappropriate emails for Black faculty. Maybe he does, but I'd like evidence before a claim like that.
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Steve Greene
3 months
@DanielleLangWa @ruthbenghiat I’ve known stutterers. That’s an absurd explanation. And as the parent and brother of genuinely disabled persons, I find this use of “ableism” offensive. Oh and I think Biden has been an excellent president, but his time is up.
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Steve Greene
3 years
Great to have @dr_kkjetelina back at it. Terrific summary of the latest from Denmark and what to make of BA2. (And nice to read something not about Ukraine this morning)
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Steve Greene
2 years
Just another day in a country, which somehow makes it so murderous 15-year olds can far too easily obtain highly lethal weapons.
@KeenanNBC5
Keenan Willard
2 years
Remembering the victims of the Raleigh mass shooting. Nicole Conners, seen with her husband. Susan Karnatz, “the kindest person.” Mary Marshall, 2 weeks away from her wedding. Officer Gabriel Torres, leaves behind a 2-year-old daughter. 16-year-old James Thompson. @WRAL
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Steve Greene
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@CitizenCohn Had the exact same thought when it landed in my NC mailbox (for my registered Independent son)
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1 year
@BrendanRMarks I'm sure there's an explanation, but I've never read one for why we don't just have football only conferences and then everything else can be sensible and geographically reasonable.
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Steve Greene
2 years
@mattyglesias All about the risk perceptions. From a publication you might be familiar with ;-).
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Steve Greene
4 years
Short answer: we need more immigration. Maybe not a billion Americans, but @mattyglesias is on the right path. (I thought One Billion Americans was great, by the way).
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼
4 years
1/Today's @bopinion post is about the economic threat from population aging.
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Steve Greene
1 year
@GidMK OMG-- thanks so much for this! I was literally waiting for your take. My initial read was that they were *way* overselling the results and that whole "destroys DNA" is just so clickbait-y.
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Steve Greene
6 years
This is just not long-term tenable in a functioning democracy.
@Redistrict
Dave Wasserman
6 years
And, 60% of the Senate now represents just 24% of the country’s population. This penalty for Dems is on full display in 2018:
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@Tyler_A_Harper This is a really thoughtful and interesting take.
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This thread is such a marvel of thoughtful nuance it's hard to believe it exists on twitter.
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3 years
@jeremychrysler @m_millsey @MTV I've been on a huge R.E.M. kick since reading this. Had kind of forgotten just how much I used to love them and how great they are.
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Steve Greene
3 years
@adamdavidson @conor64 Long-time Adam Davidson fan, here, but... come on. Saying you would quit the most prestigious news org in the country because you disagreed with an editorial *is* a big thing. This ain't quitting Arby's.
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Steve Greene
3 years
*Really* want to experience Dune for the first time on a big screen, but also, feel like there's this little devil on my shoulder..."it's just sitting there on HBO Max"
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Steve Greene
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@michigeese How is this not funny?
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Steve Greene
6 months
@tbonier @we_are_toast @Nate_Cohn Anecdote, because that's what I'm here for as a quantitative political scientist :-), but, my own 18-year-old son, is among these figures and just registered Unaffiliated and would never vote R. It's uncool to like D's, even for very liberal kids.
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Steve Greene
6 years
Forget what partisans “think,” actual evidence says Democrats are right.
@pewresearch
Pew Research Center
6 years
What makes someone rich or poor? Most Republicans link a person’s financial standing to their own hard work – or the lack of it. Most Democrats say that whether someone is rich or poor is more attributable to circumstances beyond their control.
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Steve Greene
4 years
@mtnance @ProfEmilyOster Thank you for this. I had forgotten that it was totally excusable to be nasty to people on twitter for writing epidemiological takes one disagrees with. And that being white, female, and an Ivy leage prof means it doesn't suck to be zealously and unfairly attacked.
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Steve Greene
2 years
I always love @brianbeutler 's weekly take, but this on the importance of turning paid media into earned media (and how the Democrats are bad at it) is sooo good.
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Steve Greene
5 years
@dnewhauser @AOC UPDATE: AOC is right.
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Steve Greene
6 years
Billboard of the day
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Steve Greene
3 years
@shadihamid "censor" is a pretty strong word for "[do] more to call out misinformation and disinformation." I'm a very first amendment guy and Rogan gets to speak, but combatting clear misinformation is *not* censorship.
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Steve Greene
7 months
Among other things, we simply need more doctors!!
@AlecStapp
Alec Stapp
7 months
New research: Letting more foreign-born & educated physicians immigrate to the US ***does not*** crowd out US-trained doctors. Boosting the supply side to give more people access to healthcare — huge win for America.
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@SurvivalByBook @emollick Fun with "carnies" aside I have read *so many* admissions essays 90% similar to this. Not "obviously canned" at all.
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Steve Greene
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@SurvivalByBook @emollick Yes. Pretty much all the essays I read are for potential honors/scholarship students already admitted to NC State. This is actually what a good college essay looks like.
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Steve Greene
2 years
Particularly good this week.
@brianbeutler
Brian Beutler
2 years
The advantage Dems opened this summer narrowed because voters now say crime and inflation are top issues. Did crime and inflation get worse since August? Or are voters responding to media, which in turn allowed itself to be manipulated by propaganda…
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Steve Greene
3 years
Family vaccination level unlocked-- 10-year old daughter got first dose today 🙂🙂
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Steve Greene
3 years
@HuffmanLabDU @ApandaInTO @kprather88 @DavidElfstrom How did it not occur to me until just now that, obviously, my 5th grade daughter's science project just has to be on air quality and put our PM2.5/CO2 monitor to work?! (Hopefully, she will not object 🙂)
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Steve Greene
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@admcrlsn PPP is a Dem-firm, but it got it's partisan reputation because it used to delight in polls to embarrass Republicans (e.g., polling them on opposition to interracial marriage or desire to bomb Agrabah) not because of unrealistic D-supporting polls.
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2 years
@jessesingal Can't say I ever read Pediatrics, but this research is social science and it's *awful* social science. The measurement issue is a huge problem, but, damn, talk about making conclusions well beyond what the data suggest.
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Steve Greene
3 years
@juliettekayyem As the parent of a 22-year old who would be exactly in the same boat, not even a close call. Do it.
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Steve Greene
5 years
This seriously has to be one of the dumbest things I've ever seen. I think I'll be talking about it in federalism lectures for years to come.
@atrupar
Aaron Rupar
5 years
JARED KUSHNER: "The notion of the federal stockpile was it's supposed to be our stockpile. It's not supposed to be states stockpiles that they then use."
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Lots and lots of smoke about Russia
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@HistoryBoomer NPR, especially, is a beyond laughable inclusion on that list.
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Steve Greene
2 years
Really kind of amazing they don't have a simple solution for this. Major design failure.
@rickhasen
Rick Hasen
2 years
So I had one of the worst customer experiences at a hotel last night at the @Marriott University Park in Salt Lake City. (Worse than #APSAonFire ). A few tweets on what happened, but first a video of how my evening went:
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Steve Greene
2 years
@benryanwriter Love this! As an academic and "expert" on various topics, I question any academic who cannot handle appropriate skepticism. I wish I faced it more when I'm interviewed (and I love it when I do-- I love talking to reporters who think deeply about issues).
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Steve Greene
2 years
@fotini901 @MacLennanMike1 @kdrum @neilsinhababu @jessesingal @jonathanchait Nice Motte and Bailey move there! Now I'll challenge you to show me where they are promoting the views of those who believe that "transness is false." As if Singal and Chait, etc., are the problem and not the Republican politicians passing these laws they both disagree with.
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Steve Greene
6 years
@LilyMasonPhD This thread needs to become an NYT Op-Ed!
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Steve Greene
3 years
I did this pretty regularly in 1978.
@FreeRangeKids
Lenore Skenazy
3 years
6-Year-Old Walks Home from School by Self Somehow this is a NEWS STORY? How LITTLE do we trust KIDS or other HUMANS that it is a "miracle" this kid survived an unplanned half mile walk home???
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Steve Greene
4 years
I have reached the point in my armchair epidemiology where I enjoy reading twitter disputes between droplet folks and aerosol folks (the aerosol people have completely won me over).
@jljcolorado
Prof. Jose-Luis Jimenez
4 years
@angie_rasmussen I beg to strongly differ. Guangzhou restaurant was a problem particle **because** it did not have good filters or ventilation. The attack rate could have been reduced to 1/5 or 1/10 by simple measures, just see
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Would rather watch Belgium vs Japan 10 times than watch that dreadful Spain-Russia game again. Now that was soccer!
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2 years
@jessesingal This is an amazing explanation of complicated and important issues. Worthy of being taught in a graduate research methods class for any social science.
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Steve Greene
3 years
Good thread! TL;DR. It's worse, but the vaccines still work great-- get vaccinated, damnit!
@meganranney
Megan Ranney MD MPH 🌻
3 years
Lots of fears about delta variant right now. Some of it is right. Some is overblown. A thread 🧵
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@COSDawg85 @jasongay If you'd ever actually given "participation trophies" to a rec you team, you'd know there's not "no benefit." They make kids happy is a pretty big benefit in my book. Nobody is under the mistaken assumption it means "everybody is special" or that's why kids play.
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Steve Greene
2 years
@mattyglesias I kind of wrote on this 20 years ago (and should update!) but a lot of "independence" is negative attitudes towards parties and polarization has led to even more reason to feel negative.
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Steve Greene
2 years
Plain English has rapidly become among my favorite podcasts. @DKThomp is so good and this conversation is spot-on. People are nowhere close to appreciating how much of a game-changer (on multiple dimensions) readily available medication abortions are.
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Steve Greene
3 years
Actually managed to get my 15-year old boosted today on his first day of eligibility-- hooray!! Now all Greene household members are boosted or recently vaccinated (in the case of my 11-year old).
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Steve Greene
3 years
Also, everybody in NJ gives reasons they like not pumping gas and how it doesn't affect prices, etc., but, fine, keep full service if people *really* want it and let other people pump their own gas. That's how things worked when I was a kid and it seemed fine.
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Steve Greene
4 years
Really kind of a Baghdad Bob feel to this.
@IanSams
Ian Sams
4 years
Jared Kushner, the morning after we hit 1 million cases and more deaths than in the Vietnam War: “We’re on the other side of the medical aspect of this. The federal government rose to the challenge, and this is a great success story.”
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Steve Greene
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In exciting news on the personal front, @DavidGreeneNC will be transferring into @NCState and joining me this fall.
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@HuffmanLabDU @jljcolorado @cenmag Definitely one of the people I have learned the most from during the pandemic. Just great public science.
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Steve Greene
4 years
Taught two in-person classes today and my CO2 monitor didn't budge from 400ppm (that's outdoor level). Thanks to @ncstate for doing such a good job ventilating the hell out of my classrooms.
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Steve Greene
4 years
Pretty sure I got the Covid vaccine and not the placebo. Very unpleasant night of chills, fatigue, and headache. Or, my body is playing a hell of trick on me.
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Steve Greene
3 years
Not every day your research gets mentioned in the first line of an NYT column!
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Steve Greene
4 years
You're probably not familiar with qualified immunity (I wasn't until a year ago), but it really is just the worst. You should read this thread and read this article. For reals. And thanks @ConLawWarrior for enlightening me on this.
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Steve Greene
2 years
@JMitchellWSJ @JHWeissmann @_cingraham Anecdotally, seems like handguns mass shootings result in lots of injuries and fewer deaths. AR-15 shootings just result in a ton of dead people. All else being equal, I'd argue fewer murdered people is a good thing.
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Steve Greene
4 years
Imagine how different today would've been if Republicans in PA had not prevented the timely counting of mail ballots we've seen in many other states.
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Steve Greene
3 years
Some newly-published research with Laurel Elder and Mary-Kate Lizotte. From 1992-2016: Women, especially college-educated became much more feminist. Also more polarization as much bigger shifts among Dems.
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Steve Greene
4 years
@aktbarIAm @dylanhmorris @AntellPhilippa The article linked above does. The currently available vaccines in US all use it. As does J&J and Novavax. AstraZeneca does not.
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Steve Greene
4 years
@angie_rasmussen @BallouxFrancois @RachelAlter007 Except her whole argument was about the individual risk to kids of serious disease, *not* how they contribute to population immunity. And you don't need a PhD in epidemiology to understand the studies saying these individual risks are very, very low.
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Steve Greene
7 years
Read this thread. America in 2017.
@samswey
Samuel Sinyangwe
7 years
I thought I understood racism and mass incarceration. But nothing prepared me for what I saw in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (1/x)
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Steve Greene
4 years
Was thinking this myself.
@NickHanauer
Nick Hanauer
4 years
Is it me, or is this by far the best Biden has ever been??
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Steve Greene
4 years
Shocked, shocked that the anti-mask, anti-science crowd is also the Islamophobic crowd.
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Steve Greene
2 years
@HistoryBoomer Everybody should read this. I've been sharing my gift link version far and wide.
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Steve Greene
2 years
I'm omicron-boosted now, but there are still such *huge* gains to focusing on and improving indoor air quality.
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Steve Greene
1 year
One of my recent tells as to whether you are dealing with a person who actually takes public policy seriously is whether they favor more immigration. The benefits *so* outweigh the costs that pretty much all opposition is ultimately rooted in bigotry and/or ignorance.
@crampell
Catherine Rampell
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More immigration may not fix all of the nation’s problems. But it would help resolve a lot of the big ones.
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Steve Greene
2 years
Love this soooo much.
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Steve Greene
3 years
@froomkin @jessesingal You may see FIRE that way, but this is not exactly an advisory board of Dan Bongino and Joe Rogan. Illiberal excesses are still illiberal, whether earnest or not.
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Steve Greene
4 years
There's an academic debate about just how important Gingrich was in changing the Republican Party in the 1990's. What cannot be debated is that Gingrich is one of the most malign figures in modern American history.
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Steve Greene
2 months
@pescami My thoughts exactly while watching! I did appreciate that they finally got to the clavicle in the studio.
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Steve Greene
4 years
Could we be doing testing any more wrongly? We need @michaelmina_lab 's rapid testing plan yesterday.
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Steve Greene
4 years
I was just now injected with the Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccine. Or a placebo. Here's hoping for the former!
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Steve Greene
3 years
This is an important story about problems in our schools, but, I still just can't resist being impressed by the Bojack dedication of a K-12 student.
@RosieGray
Rosie Gray
3 years
One teacher I spoke with had a student who managed to watch seasons 3 and 4 of Bojack Horseman while in class.
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Steve Greene
3 years
Few things more anti-science than closing outdoor spaces in response to Covid-19. Might as well be pushing hydroxychloroquine while doing it.
@DFisman
David Fisman
3 years
24 hours after we publish a paper that really shows why outdoor spaces are vastly safer than indoor spaces, our provincial response to a public health disaster is...to restrict access to outdoor spaces.
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Steve Greene
4 years
Was just offered $50(!) to take down a 1-star Amazon review of some earbuds where I had 2-pair die in less than a month. Makes me wonder how many other negative reviews are just bought off. (I'm leaving mine up).
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