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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

1 year

It’s publication date for #Conservatorship ! That means it’s a good time to thank @ei_schwartz and the team at @ColumbiaUP , as well as @pibourgois , @JoshSeim , @JonathanSimon59 , and Rod Shaner for their humbling blurbs for the book.

Conservatorship | Columbia University Press

Winner, 2024 Eliot Freidson Outstanding Publication Award, Medical Sociology Section, American Sociological AssociationIs involuntary psychiatric treatment t... | CUP

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

4 years

My mother has truly produced the pumpkin of our era.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

5 months

31 faculty members at NYU Sociology have signed the following letter condemning the university's repression of the campus encampment on Monday.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

4 years

The needle tears a hole The old familiar sting Try to kill it all away But I remember everything

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

4 years

Did I understand correctly that after your 10th ASR rejection you get one article published free?

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

5 years

I hereby forbid anyone from doing any more translations of Weber’s Protestant Ethic. I’m tired of buying them for every new class and I don’t care if the German was mistranslated, if he didn’t say ‘Iron Cage’ he should have.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

2 years

After being turned away from urgent care because he was "not cooperative", insurance is now contacting me to make sure that my son's employer won't cover his treatment (2 stitches in ER, $8000 bill) through workers' comp. My son is three years old.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

6 years

Thrilled to officially announce that I'll be joining @NYUSociology next fall! I feel so grateful for the support I've had these long 7 1/2 years at @UCBerkeley and honored to have such an exciting next step ahead of me.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

1 year

This graph is intriguing, but unless you can show how the modal asylum resident (an elderly white woman) turned into the kind of person most targeted by mass incarceration (a young Black man) around 1975, you might have to accept the story is a bit more complicated than implied.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

4 years

The inexorable march of time has transformed the pumpkin into a haunting representation of the fleeting character of fame and ephemeral nature of human beings’ organic existence. Or just how people feel after a day of zoom calls.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

1 year

Missing #ASA2023 for some time in the mountains but look what arrived! #Conservatorship

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

3 years

Once again, reviewed a paper that did a great revision, got positive reviews from myself and another reviewer, and was rejected thanks to a third reviewer, who wrote the least detailed commentary. 1/

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

1 year

Very excited that #Conservatorship is one step closer to being out in the world. So grateful to @ei_schwartz and the team at @ColumbiaUP for making this happen!

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

5 years

RCT shows students learn more when they are made to participate actively, but think they learn less. This resonates so much with my experience with students who - to my great surprise! - preferred that I lecture in discussion section.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

4 years

Just saw decision-letter for an article I reviewed. I recommended reject, so did someone else, and we both identified the same problems. But the other reviewer included words like "disappointing" "meandering" and "unsophisticated." People, we don't need to do this.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

5 years

Some times when I actually follow a citation trail, the care with how we use literature scares me. Currently reading a paper that says "Rates of involuntary hospitalisation vary greatly worldwide" and have "risen substantially" across countries. Source: One study on England.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

5 years

Following what's happening with #cola4all at UCSC and the terrible response of the university administration, and it's making me reflect with a few months of distance on being a graduate student, and realizing how completely insane it is.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

4 months

So far having a front row seat to the NYU Palestine encampment has involved hearing a lot of serious conversations and music, although now my son is saying he won’t go to bed until he hears them chant “free Palestine” so now I’m mad.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

5 years

After many years in the purgatory of my parents' basement and in-laws' attic, my books have finally been reunited. I can only imagine what it will do for my academic productivity to have easy access to Parsons and Volume II of Capital.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

3 years

One of my students critiqued that our course began with only white theorists like Marx and W.E.B. DuBois, and I guess sometimes I can't take criticism too personally.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

7 months

The premise that all this is driven by push back to woke leftist professors teaching majors with no economic utility is kinda belied by the fact that they are cutting physics and nursing programs. The right just doesn’t like public universities, full stop.

Dr. Natalie Hinkel

@natalie_hinkel

7 months

The University of North Carolina Greensboro has dissolved the Physics & Astronomy department. A major pillar of science education at that university is gone. I have no words. My heart goes out to my friends and colleagues.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

4 years

Very excited to have officially broken ground on my book, Mental States, today! I forgot how much more enjoyable I find book writing than articles - there's so much more space for telling a story about the social world.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

4 years

Note to self: don't make slides after midnight.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

3 years

There is so much methodologically strong qualitative research with substantively important findings that is getting rejected because of rote comments about theoretical framings and macro-/meso-/micro-linkages that could be written in a review of just about any paper. 2/

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

4 years

I'm glad it's such an easy moment to concentrate on work, since my university just e-mailed me to remind me "The standards for both promotion and tenure, and third-year reviews are continually rising."

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

4 months

Encampment at NYU is getting really dicey, walked by with my daughter and some students came out of nowhere to offer her some chalk.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

3 years

Excited to be the lead on @sfchronicle 's opinion page. The #conservatorship vs. voluntary services debate is not going to be resolved anytime soon, but there is an opportunity for consensus on greater state authority, accountability, and a guarantee of a full continuum of care.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

5 months

I was proud of how #Conservatorship turned out but I never would have expected such a kind review. "It is rare that a book saturated in ambivalence and complexity is so eminently readable and insightful...he narrates with unfailing empathy."

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

4 years

As most social media influencers will tell you, the best way to go viral is to ask your mom for awesome content to share.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

5 years

On the advice of @JoshSeim I let my students submit diagrams in lieu of weekly reading response papers. So highly recommended! This week we're reading Eyal's Autism Matrix alongside Hansen's Pathologizing Poverty and they are just so much more clever than I.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

4 years

Every reviewer should finish with a checklist: - Did the author commit gross research malfeasance? - Is the author wantonly misrepresenting or appropriating other work? - Did the author harm someone in your family? No? Cool. Then tone it down. It's okay they didn't cite you.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

8 months

If I were a psychiatrist, and I wanted society to take my discipline more seriously, I would drop the endless search for a new neuro-biological wonder cures, and re-focus on not-doing this:

Contributors to psychiatry's bible, the DSM-5, got $14 million from industry

A new study found that 60% of the physicians who helped compile the APA’s official manual of psychiatric disorders received payments from industry totaling more than $14 million.

www.statnews.com

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

2 years

Can California come up with a new model of care that serves those left behind by the existing mental health and homeless services systems? Neil Gong ( @NeilMGong ) and I have a piece in the @washingtonpost on Governor @GavinNewsom 's #CARECourts proposal.

Perspective | Forcing homeless people into treatment can backfire. What about a firm nudge?

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed Care Courts have set off a debate about civil rights and human needs

www.washingtonpost.com

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

4 years

Waiting for this election feels like waiting for Santa Claus when I was 8, except if Santa Claus had a 10-25% chance of deliberately setting fire to our house.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

5 months

Excited that this article with Nick Rekenthaler is in print in @socprobsjournal ! In it, we examine three different proposals to expand involuntary psych treatment for "the homeless mentally ill" in CA.

Chronic, Disruptive, or Resistant? Target Ecologies and the Medicalization of Homelessness in...

Abstract. How do place and social context shape how policymakers construct the targets of state interventions? This paper analyzes recent proposals in Cali

academic.oup.com

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

1 year

Excited to have an OpEd in @latimesopinion based on my research for #Conservatorship . California is about to expand involuntary care. The risks are huge. The state is going to need to take a much more engaged role for this to have a chance of going right.

Opinion: California needs new rules as it forces more mentally ill people into treatment

The state certainly has a crisis of mental illness and substance abuse, visible on the streets of every city. But can involuntary commitment under SB 43 be part of the solution?

www.latimes.com

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

6 months

Prop 1 passed. CA is going to get 11,500 more "beds." Reupping this thread about why "bed" doesn't mean anything - whether Prop 1 will help or harm will depend enormously on what kind of "beds" actually get built, who runs them, and how we demand accountability from them.

Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

6 months

The second component of #Prop1 is a $6.4 billion bond to build "beds", 4000-or-so would be in independent supported housing (partly earmarked for veterans) and 6000 "treatment beds."

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

3 years

Excited to see my article on media coverage of involuntary psychiatric treatment in print at @society_mental journal. The topic - California's LPT Act - is a bit obscure, but there's broader implications for research on stigma and MH policy.

From the “Magna Carta” to “Dying in the Streets”: Media Framings of Mental Health Law in California...

This article analyzes 575 newspaper articles across 53 years of reporting on California’s landmark 1967 Lanterman-Petris-Short (LPS) Act to examine framings of ...

journals.sagepub.com

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

7 months

Although I'm grateful for the publicity in general, I'm particularly glad that this story made it seem like I'm actually a guitar player who does a bit of sociology on the side.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

2 years

These days, rarely get to talk about the year-and-a-half I spent studying mental health in France, and am grateful for UCLA giving me a chance to in two weeks!

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

1 year

As I show, when state hospitals closed, almost no one talked about people with mental illness going to jail or onto the streets - because they didn't go there, they largely went to boarding homes, nursing facilities, and back to their families.

From the “Magna Carta” to “Dying in the Streets”: Media Framings of Mental Health Law in California...

This article analyzes 575 newspaper articles across 53 years of reporting on California’s landmark 1967 Lanterman-Petris-Short (LPS) Act to examine framings of ...

journals.sagepub.com

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

5 years

Hey hey! This article made it into print, thanks in part to (among others!) @santiagojmolina , @JoshSeim , and @beingwhatever , and the journals who rejected it at just the right times to give me a chance to improve it (really).

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

1 year

Today’s #Conservatorship Thread: Crisis (As a reminder, you can order my book from the press with the code CUP20 and get a 20% discount. Cats everywhere are finding it an excellent pillow.)

Conservatorship | Columbia University Press

Winner, 2024 Eliot Freidson Outstanding Publication Award, Medical Sociology Section, American Sociological AssociationIs involuntary psychiatric treatment t... | CUP

cup.columbia.edu

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

9 months

Parents strategically placing my book on their nightstand for the holidays to make it seem like they’re reading it.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

3 years

I feel incredibly lucky to get to spend my days learning about a topic I care deeply about, but there are times when the abuse and neglect of people with mental illness is just too much, and I wish I still studied dumpster divers the food we abandon, not the people we abandon.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

3 years

As a result, I get the sense that much of the revision time a quant person would spend running other models or robustness checks, we spend far away from our data, coming up with new italicized concepts that we do not need. 3/

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

5 years

In the last year, I have enjoyed figuring out: - Why my health insurance kicked off a dependent abruptly. - Why 90% of OBGyns in NYC won't take women who are 'too pregnant.' - Why a doctor charged $35,000 for one hour in a delivery room and then changed it to 1/10th that.

David Smith

@SmithInAmerica

5 years

Buttigieg: “I trust you to figure out your own health care.”

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

5 years

In the abstract, no one can prepare you for parenting, but concretely, someone could tell you how weird infants' heads look.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

4 years

I am grateful for social scientists helping us make sense of yesterday's mess (and also those who saw it coming). I still find Kathleen Blee's "Inside Organized Racism" (2002) to be incredibly revealing, and also highly recommend @schradie 's book on right-wing organizing.

American Sociological Review

@ASR_Journal

4 years

In light of yesterday's events at the U.S. Capitol, sociology & other other social science research provides critical insight. Below, several recent ASR articles that people may find helpful in contextualizing yesterday:

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

5 months

Learning so much from this powerful teach-in, and definitely voting "Yes" on the ASA Justice in Palestine resolution.

Sociologists for Palestine

@Soc4Pal

5 months

We’re holding a teach-in! Come join sociologists Ruha Benjamin @ruha9 , Michael Burawoy, Roi Livne @RoiLivne , Areej Sabbagh-Khoury & Sharmila Rudrappa reflect on their support for the ASA Resolution for Justice in Palestine! Register here:

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

5 years

A freshman came to my office hours and said it was her *first ever* office hours and left saying that the class had blown her mind and that meeting with me wasn't as scary as she thought and I think I'll just retire now on a high note.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

4 years

It's somehow fitting that after spending my twenties eating garbage off the sidewalks of New York I am spending my (hopefully, just early) thirties preventing my child from eating garbage off the playgrounds of New York.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

4 years

Good advice under all circumstances, really.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

2 years

"Don't let anyone tell you your memes aren't funny" - A Student The kind of feedback we as teachers live for.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

4 years

Apparently I am giving a talk in French ("From dumpsters to institutional activism" - it rhymes) next Tuesday! Judging by the fact that I don't feel comfortable writing this tweet in French, this will be an adventure. Sign-up below!

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

3 years

Looking through these interview transcripts, I have concluded that about ~40% of what Americans think they know about mental health still comes from what they remember from watching One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

4 years

That terrible moment when you change your single spaced paper in Garamond to double spaced Times New Roman for a journal, and realize that it is now not only ugly but more than twice as long.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

3 years

I was grateful to be interviewed for this piece on how California's mental health system is failing vulnerable citizens.

Heather Knight

@hknightsf

3 years

“The reality of the state of California right now is there are a lot of people who have been so repeatedly failed by the social service system and the mental health system that they do need a higher level of care that isn’t available to them.” — @avb_soc of @nyuniversity

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

4 years

306. Landslide. Blowout. Historic.

Kellyanne Conway

@KellyannePolls

8 years

306. Landslide. Blowout. Historic.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

2 years

Final manuscript: sent.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

6 years

"We're still dealing in America with black people being killed in some of the most arbitrary ways, driving while black, walking while black and now we have to add living while black," co-counsel Benjamin Crump said. #justiceforbo #BothamJean

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

7 months

Very excited to see that this event on #Conservatorship with @JonathanSimon59 and @rettagliata is happening. Berkeley folks - hope to see you on March 18th at @SocSciMatrix !

Conservatorship: Inside California’s System of Coercion and Care for Mental Illness - Social...

Please join us in-person or on Zoom on Monday, March 18 for a discussion of Alex V. Barnard’s new book, Conservatorship: Inside California’s System of Coercion and Care for Mental Illness. The book...

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

5 years

Rewriting the methods section of a qualitative paper and have to admit that we really are pushed to say a lot of bullshit. I mean, how many people out there are *actually* doing grounded theory, versus reading their notes and finding interesting stuff?

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

4 months

Very excited for this virtual joint presentation on Friday at 3:00 p.m. with @NeilMGong on "Fixing Public Psychiatric Care" through the Problem-Solving Sociology Workshop. All our welcome, zoom link available here:

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

2 years

Was feeling FOMO for not being able to support my striking comrades in #UAW2865 at UC Berkeley, but then realized that there was a picket at the New School. It seems adjunct and graduate academic labor is under-valued just about everywhere. #toddlersforafaircontract

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

6 years

Extended family congratulating me on how I'm "going to get paid now" and "have my own health insurance" and I realize they think my parents have been paying tuition and room & board for the last 10 years of graduate school.

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@avb_soc

6 months

While we're all happy to have autonomy in grading, I think it'd be helpful if universities communicated that a B+ is not a Rupture in the Sacred Ethic of Care Between Professors and Students, and just a way of communicating you did good but not great work.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

6 years

I realize that the chance of getting any given academic job is vanishingly small, but there is a small moment of pleasure in looking at the scholars at the universities I am applying to, whose work I have read and cited, and imagining that maybe, someday, I could be a colleague.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

3 years

It's more impetus for me to start a Journal of Substantively Important Findings and a SocArXiv but just for rejected framings that authors can slap on the front of papers in response to vague reviewer comments.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

5 years

If all these grad applications are to be believed, the people coming into our discipline are excited about studying climate change, applying intersectionality and queer theory, and putting research into practice. I'm not sure we're ready for them.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

5 years

A student wrote "seemed passionate, yet not very confident" on my course evaluation and I feel so seen.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

11 months

I’m Alex Barnard and I definitely approve this message.

Heart Forward LA

@HeartForwardLA

11 months

Ep 3 live today. An interview w/ Prof Alex Barnard of NYU highlighting the findings of 4 years of research into CA's FRAGMENTED mental health system. This is a book for our time. Buy two copies; one for you and one for your favorite elected official.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

4 years

I mean, if you’re comfortable with the U.S. have 30x the rate of gun deaths as other developed countries, why not also offer up an order of magnitude more COVID deaths than those countries to the altar of American exceptionalism?

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

3 years

Alex: What works well in the French mental health system? Interviewee: Nothing. Alex: There's nothing the U.S. could learn? Interviewee: Well... of course, having universal free healthcare is good. Some things are just assumed, until you remind people you're from the U.S.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

4 years

Final theorist line up for the spring: Smith, Marx, Du Bois, Durkheim, Arendt, Foucault, Fanon, De Beauvoir, Davis, Collins, Anzaldúa. So excited!

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

6 months

Excited that this paper is in print in @CSSHJournal . I ask why French psychiatry has kept its distance from "mainstream" biomedicine, in stark contrast to American psychiatry's endless (if flailing) insistence it is a specialty 'like any other.'

A Discipline Like No Other: Marginalized Autonomy and Institutional Anchors in French Public...

A Discipline Like No Other: Marginalized Autonomy and Institutional Anchors in French Public Psychiatry (1945–2016)

www.cambridge.org

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

1 year

There's no question the failures of our mental health system are leading to people being incarcerated or left on the streets, but the reason everyone is sharing this graph this week (that if we still had state hospitals, Jordan Neely would not have been murdered) doesn't track.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

2 years

To be clear: thank you for the well wishes, but my son is definitely fine! It was probably the least serious thing for which you can be stuck in a pediatric ER. The American healthcare system, on the other hand, is not fine.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

4 years

People say you shouldn't take peer review personally, but on days where I submit a manuscript, I like to frame it as sending a piece of my soul for final judgment as to my worth as a person.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

5 years

How come Berkeley sends out a campus-wide e-mail for every high level administrator they hire, and never for faculty? I'd be far more excited to learn about the new professor of medieval literature than the "Chief Innovation & Entrepreneurship Officer."

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

10 months

So honored at the prospect of sharing a (virtual) stage with Keris Myrick @KerisWithaK . Looking forward to a conversation about changes to California's #Conservatorship system and improving support for people who are being failed by the state's current approach. Register below!

Disability Rights California

@DisabilityCA

10 months

California laws related to mental health and conservatorship have changed dramatically in the last several years. Please join us for a conversation with Alex Barnard and DRC Board member Keris Myrick about the implications of new laws expanding involuntary treatment and voluntary

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

4 years

I've been thinking about the claim that defunding police or abolishing prisons is unprecedented or unrealistic, and realizing how much we have a precedent for it in terms of de-institutionalization of psychiatric hospitals. 1/

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

5 years

[BTW, to end the story, the union went to the mat for me and I didn't have to pay the tuition, which is one of many reasons I think all grad students (I mean, workers) should be unionized.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

2 years

How we fail the most vulnerable: "our system was built around the idea of discrete populations that fit neatly into specific boxes—homeless, older adult, drug user, mentally ill—and thus frequently has no place for those that check “all of the above.”

American Society Aging

@ASAging

2 years

Alex Barnard details the depressingly holey safety net for older unhoused adults with dementia, mental illness or substance abuse issues—and nowhere to go. In May–June’s #GenerationsToday : @NYUSociology @avb_soc

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

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I can speak from two days of experience that it is an excellent place to... well, give a job talk, and I’m pretty sure to work. Come join us!

Paula England

@EnglandPaula

5 years

@NYUSociology is hiring! 2 assistant professor lines, with possibility 1 could be associate. Topic, method open. Apply here . For recs, click on as if you will upload recs, & use option to have Interfolio send message to your recommenders asking for recs.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

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Honestly Washington Square Park is just the best place in the world.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

4 years

My 110,000 word outline for Chapter 3 does not bode well for how much of my research is actually going to make it into this book. But if anyone wants excruciating detail about some random debates in French social policy, DM me.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

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And, judging by the above average number of delivery bikes out tonight, wealthy New Yorkers continue to think staying safe and inside requires having poorer New Yorkers be unsafe outside.

Colin McCarthy

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1 year

New York City now has the worst air quality of any city on Earth. If exposed to the current air quality in NYC for 24 hours, it would be equivalent to smoking about 6 cigarettes.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

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That moment when you open a new word document and think, "A new paper! Soon I will share my knowledge with the world" and then you realize, no, you'll still be trying out new theoretical framings four years from now.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

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2 years

Finally managed to work in an irrelevant Durkheim reference so as soon as I can find a place for Pierre Bourdieu this book manuscript is good to go.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

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3 years

Honestly I would be totally fine if the daycare just "your child played with paint today."

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

4 years

Today in gender inequality: Marie: I felt bad I had to leave my work call early. Alex: Did you say it was to do child care? People think you're cool when you do that. Marie: No, people think you're unprofessional. Alex: Okay, people think men are cool when they do that.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

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7 months

I think it's understated just how incredibly demoralizing AI is for instructors. I've spent hours preparing a lecture on some of my favorite readings, and response papers are just a mass of ChatGPT. How are we supposed to stay motivated as teachers?

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

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I think it was the moment where I realized this idea that we are "trainees" and therefore should be paid a joke wage is incredibly stupid. That semester, I was teaching and I was producing research, with very little oversight in doing either.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

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3 years

With @GavinNewsom 's proposal for "CARE Courts" to compel treatment for unhoused people with mental illness, we're going to hear more and more claims about whether involuntary treatment 'works' or 'doesn't work.' Blanket statements will be almost always be over-simplifications.

Sam Levin

@SamTLevin

3 years

@EveGarrow @Jeharrislaw and others pointed out that empirical research has repeatedly cast doubts on the effectiveness of coercing treatment ... and that housing and accessible *voluntary* services + community-based resources are more effective.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

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New followers: come for the amusing pumpkins, stay for the research briefs about involuntary mental health care in California.

Reform with Care: Expanding Mental Health Conservatorships in California | Scholars Strategy Network

For fifty years, policymakers, clinicians, and advocates have agreed that people living with serious psychiatric disabilities should have access to voluntary, community-based care. Since the 1960s,...

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

6 years

Every time I am frustrated that my students don't seem able to do easy things - do the readings, get papers in on time - something reminds that they are doing seemingly impossible things every day - working full time, raising kids, supporting parents, getting degrees #WillMissUCB

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

4 years

After one week with @kjhealy 's very helpful "Data Visualization" book, I have already managed to turn data on involuntary psychiatric care in California into abstract art.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

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I'm pretty sure the 15th revision of this literature review is bound to reveal some novel theoretical insights and not just a new haphazard mix of references some reviewers told me to add.

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Alex Barnard 🇺🇦

@avb_soc

5 years

My father in law thinks baby is crying because he's stressed that he's not baptized and, well, I can't prove that wrong.

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