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Daniel S. Goldberg

@profgoldberg.bsky.social

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Professor. Attorney, historian, public health ethicist. Always all ways public health. Jiujitsu🟤, Star Wars, Batman, Coffee. #LegalEpi #Stigma #PHLaw #PHEthx #Disability #HistPubHealth (all opinions mine) H/h/h. ✡️

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · Oct 22

Altho it's been out in the world, today is the official publication day for my book!!! The title indicates it's a book about concussion and American tackle football, which is true, but really this is a book about regulated industries' use of the #ManufactureOfDoubt in ways that harm public health.

Tackle Football and Traumatic Brain Injuries

A timely look at the ethical, legal, and policy issues surrounding brain injury and collision sports.American tackle football is an industry like any other. And like many industries, it sells a produc...

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 12h

I’m on exactly the same page. I’m good with any 3 of these 4 just as long as the odd team out is the Dodgers.

Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 12h

👀

I love being an AE for a journal that has SIs like this!

(I am the AE for Law & Bioethics at this journal but have absolutely nothing to do with this SI; I just think it’s cool!)

Dr. Regina Mueller @reginamueller.bsky.social · 1d

We’re excited to share a CfP for a Special Issue “Bioethics and Structural (In)justice” in Bioethics! We invite articles from all disciplines. Deadline: September 1, 2026
We can’t wait to read your contributions!
Regina Müller, Mirjam Faissner, Isabella Marcinski-Michel & Stefanie Weigold

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 12h

Yep. They’ve been the better team basically all year and it’s good for the game when the better teams win.

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 16h

Mood #AcademicCoachTaylor #ChalkUsUpOnTheBigBoard #ComingSoon

Academic Coach Taylor meme: “When you get that letter of acceptance it’s all worth it”

Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 20h

Oh man. That one really hits.

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 22h

The novice speech and debaters just finished their first competitive round ever and the excitement and smiles and relief are just so pure and so joyous.

Young people are incredible.

Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 23h

Yeah that’s real

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 23h

Interesting. I can see the point about stereotypes.

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Julia Raifman, ScD @juliaraifman.bsky.social · 1d

“Workers continued to see elevated health-related absences linked to COVID-19…

[which] has likely raised the value to workers of paid-leave policies & existing social safety net programs.

Measures to reduce COVID-19 transmission in the workplace may also mitigate these new exposure risks”

Enduring Outcomes of COVID-19 Work Absences on the US Labor Market

This cohort study examines the extent to which COVID-19 continues to generate work absences and decrease labor force participation beyond the pandemic period in the US.

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Dr. Regina Mueller @reginamueller.bsky.social · 1d

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Rachel Hoopsick, PhD, MS, MPH, MCHES @rachelhoopsick.bsky.social · 1d

No pizza party or company swag is going to fix the reality of what it’s like to be a healthcare worker in the US. Our pilot data suggest that moral injury is prevalent among HCWs and may affect suicidal thoughts and behaviors doi.org/10.1080/1555...

ABSTRACT
Research suggests that moral injury (i.e., perpetrating, witness-ing, or failing to prevent acts that transgress one's moral beliefs, values, or ethics) is associated with a range of adverse psychological sequelae among military-connected populations, including suicidality. However, little is known about how moral injury is associated with suicidality among healthcare workers or if these associations differ by gender. We collected self-reported data from a sample of United States healthcare workers (N= 200), including a modified Moral Injury Events Scale and items related to suicidality (i.e., past-year suicide thoughts, suicide plans, suicide attempts). We examined the cross-sectional relationships between moral injury and these measures of suicidality using separate logistic regression models and examined for differences by gender. Greater moral injury was significantly associated with higher odds of past-
year suicidal thoughts (aOR = 1.05, 95% CI: 1.01, 1.09) and
associated with suicide planning (aOR = 1.06, 95% CI: 1.00, 1.12) and suicide attempt at a trend-level (aOR = 1.07, 95%
Cl: 0.99, 1.16). There were no statistically significant differences in these associations by gender. Results suggest that suicidal thoughts, plans, and attempts of healthcare workers may be driven, in part, by morally injurious events experienced in the workplace.

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 1d

There you go!

Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 1d

JP Crawford hit something

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t like it, tho not because I think it’s deeply inaccurate as a representation of Jewish life.

I just don’t find it especially funny or interesting, and also don’t love the Jewface in the casting. But I recognize it’s a well-made show and no shade intended!

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 1d

Astonishing. I’m glad others are noticing b/c I’ve posted about it on here a few times and it’s been 🦗

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 1d

Oh nooooo, noooo re MMM.

But re LSS, I live in a blended family with a patri Jewish child and we’ve all been in tears as well as guffawing at multiple points.

a man wearing glasses and suspenders is saying i 'm going to have to go ahead and sort of

Alt: Lumberg disagree meme

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 1d

It’s incredible. One of the best shows about American Jewish life I’ve seen in some time.

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 1d

You’ve gotta love sports!

a man sitting on a couch with a bowl of popcorn in front of him

Alt: Seinfeld doing you’ve gotta love sports

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 1d

So Kirby gave up a lead off double and ok bring in a specialist and watch that specialist give up the worst possible outcome 🤦🏻‍♂️

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PhDeanUCLA @phdeanucla.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, made no sense. Managers hate starters in the post season.

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 1d

If I’m George Kirby I’m so mad right now

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 1d

Wow that’s an incredible throw from Raleigh ⚾️

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 1d

Unfortunately it’s really hard to make time in my current position for archival work. But it will be so great to finish it and write it up - the court records are actually the final component.

Thanks for your interest!!!

a man in a suit and tie is saying yeah well that makes two of us

Alt: a man in a suit and tie is saying yeah well that makes two of us

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 1d

The court records component relates to the criminal trials brought against the ringleaders of the riot. The records exist and have been analyzed by at least one historian but not to examine whether the TF outbreak surfaced at trial. We plan to scrutinize for the latter ...

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 1d

This was the previous paper that relied on court records, which had amazing stuff I never expected

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Current project is looking at typhoid fever outbreak in Denver of 1879-80 and putting in context of anti-Chinese race riot of 1880 (chronology is close).

The Transformative Power of X-Rays in U.S. Scientific & Medical Litigation: Mechanical Objectivity in Smith v. Grant (1896).

Abstract. The paper locates the struggle to mobilize and regulate the immense social and cultural power inherent in X-rays' capacity to remotely anatomize the living body power within the discursive s...

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting! I ask b/c I've done some legal history work in 19th c. contexts and am doing some more as a small part of an existing project and it's always so hit-or-miss whether any documents actually survive in a docket record ... When you find some they can be spectacular, IME.

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 1d

I think they’ve overachieved taking two from the Brewers, TBH.

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David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · 1d

"Senior officials at the EPA directed a team of scientists over the summer to assess whether the government could develop methods for detecting traces of abortion pills in wastewater." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Under Trump, E.P.A. Explored if Abortion Pills Could Be Detected in Wastewater

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CU Center for Bioethics and Humanities @cobioethics.bsky.social · 1d

🎙️ Catch @mattwynia at GVSU’s DeVos Medical Ethics Colloquy on Oct. 13! He joins Dr. Erika Blacksher to explore ethics in public health—vaccines, trust & life expectancy. Free & open to all! 🔗 gvsu.edu/colloquy #PublicHealth #Bioethics #Vaccines #MedicalEthics #GVSU #HealthEquity

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