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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...

press.jhu.edu

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Philippa Nicole Barr @philippabarr.bsky.social · 3h

My latest article for Health and History @anzshm.bsky.social explores how emotion helped establish new hygienic norms in turn-of-the-century Sydney, revealing how disgust and pride motivated both compliance with and resistance to public health policies on plague and TB:
dx.doi.org/10.1353/hah....

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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 4h

Over 80 gay men were murdered when they were either thrown or forced off the cliffs of Sydney's beaches--attacked by gangs of young men. Police did little at the time & usually ruled these deaths suicides. All homophobic violence is horrifying, but I've found these stories to be especially chilling.

Did a Brother’s Quest for Justice Go Too Far?

Scott Johnson’s murder case became synonymous with a movement to redress anti-gay violence in Australia. But the evidence that led to a man’s conviction has never been made public.

www.newyorker.com

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Jonathan Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 6h

The Department of Environmental Studies at CU-Boulder is searching for a new Assistant Professor in the area of energy and environmental policy, with an emphasis on sustainability and decarbonization. #EnergySky

jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

Assistant Professor in Environmental Studies

jobs.colorado.edu

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Atheendar Venkataramani @atheendar.bsky.social · 6h

I hope people find this generative.

There are a lot of policy effects that are larger and quicker than what we would expect (based on what the policy actually does).

www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 11h

"A Tale of Two Cities" is basically 19th c. Jerry Bruckheimer

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 19h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Hell-issa Johnson, PhD 🎃 @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 13h

Columbus was bad! He was an enslaver! He was cruel to indigenous people! But we have to tell the truth. Otherwise history is just propaganda, and that's not okay just because it supports your political beliefs

*gingerly steps down from soapbox*

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Hell-issa Johnson, PhD 🎃 @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 14h

Ah yes, the annual day when I have to just let the historical inaccuracies wash over me and not try to correct every single thing. Columbus sucked, but he didn't do all the things people claim he did, and he wasn't arrested for mistreating Indigenous people. It's way more complicated!

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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 19h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 1d

Public bathrooms don't have to be awful. Example: MINNESOTA.
www.startribune.com/best-bathroo...

See the Minnesota park bathroom that won an award for best in the country

The park facilities “raise expectations for public spaces everywhere,” according to Cintas, which gives out the award.

www.startribune.com

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

The idea that education of any kind is the antidote to oppression is so strange to me, even if I believe very much that a liberal arts education can help make a better society ("can" /= "will").

8 of the 15 people in the room at Wannsee had PhDs, FGS.

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 1d

Most of these people are deeply trained, or at least highly educated, in humanities. Knowing isn’t being.

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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Phil Weiser @philweiser.bsky.social · 1d

We are living in a time of rising hate--and that hate must be called out. Thank you, Jefferson County, for treating hate against any of us as hate against all of us.
www.denverpost.com/2025/10/12/s...

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

What a sh*tshow. Jew hatred, spawning ravenous brain worms for two thousand years.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 1d

Most of these people are deeply trained, or at least highly educated, in humanities. Knowing isn’t being.

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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Melissa McCradden @mdmccradden.bsky.social · 1d

The worse part though is that as their costs go up for adding these nonsense features, they inevitably offload it onto us, the consumers. 😡 I’m now looking into old school options again to get away from this stuff.

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Madeline T. Morcelle @reprolawyer.bsky.social · 1d

Building a public interest career can feel like finding your way in the dark. Many law and graduate schools lack strong public interest career advising services, so there’s no one to explain what’s expected, normal, & beneficial. #EarlyCareer #PublicInterest www.madelinemorcelle.com/blog/things-...

Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me (Advice for Early-Career Public Interest Professionals) — Madeline T. Morcelle

Struggling to break into public interest law or advocacy? This guide offers practical advice for early-career professionals on job searching, networking, managing imposter syndrome, owning your unique...

www.madelinemorcelle.com

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

Samesies

Courtney E. Thompson @cethompson.bsky.social · 1d

Dear AI pushers:

You cannot force me to use AI, no matter how many weird pop-ups and icons and auto-settings you generate in your apps, browsers, and search bars. I can work around you, and if it comes to it, I am happy with pen and paper.

Fuck off very kindly,
Courtney

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 1d

The reason Nazis make memes like this is to get leftist crossover and inspire others to make their own copies. People fall for it

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

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

The ongoing insistence that Jews, wherever they are from, have no legitimate connection to the foodways of the PLACES THEY ARE FROM is one of the more disgusting forms of Jew hatred I see on this site.

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🎃😱Slaybell Romero loves Halloween👻👹 @maybell.bsky.social · 1d

Jews have been here in New Orleans since the 1700s, and there was a lot of assimilation, intermarriage, and all kinds of delicious melding and mushing together of food cultures. So of course there’s Southern Jewish food. blog.cjh.org/index.php/20...

Babka & Beignets: Jewish Foodways of the South

By Cassia Kisshauer Reference Services Librarian, Center for Jewish History Babka & Beignets: Jewish Foodways of the South Food is a way to maintain cherished traditions and connect to ancestor

blog.cjh.org

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🎃😱Slaybell Romero loves Halloween👻👹 @maybell.bsky.social · 1d

What’s weird about this meme is 1) seeing some of the comments conflate Judaism with Israel but also 2) the ignorance of very long standing Jewish communities in the South who have been making gumbo for a long time.

Here’s one family’s recipe for kosher gumbo: jewishsa.org/kosher-chick...

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

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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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

Mood #AcademicCoachTaylor #ChalkUsUpOnTheBigBoard #ComingSoon

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

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Madeline T. Morcelle @reprolawyer.bsky.social · 2d

🏜️Ahead of #IndigenousPeoplesDay, we have to talk about why it’s time to drop “health care desert” (and similar desert imaginaries) from our vocabularies. 🧵

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 2d

Oh man. That one really hits.

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

Yeah that’s real

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