Gregg Gonsalves / is on Nostr

Epidemiologist. Activist. Drugs and Bugs.

Email: gregg.gonsalves@yale.edu
Yale Faculty Profile: https://ysph.yale.edu/profile/gregg_gonsalves/
My Writing at The Nation: https://www.thenation.com/authors/gregg-gonsalves/

Last Notes

2024-06-16 09:53:14

The way university trustees have decided to embrace crackdowns on students, overrule faculty on allowing student graduation (e.g., Harvard), voluntarily adopt "neutrality" in a time of crisis, call for limits on free speech should send shivers down your spine. H/T Tim Snyder (text)/Ralph Lazar (graphics).
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2024-06-03 10:26:14

Watching H5N1 extend its host range, now show respiratory symptoms in a human case, should concern us all. We are whistling past the graveyard, not remotely prepared for what comes next. Perhaps H5N1 will not acquire the mutations necessary to ensure efficient human-to-human transmission, but counting on good fortune is not a strategy.
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2024-05-30 19:11:47

The attacks on higher education are part of a well-funded campaign by right-wing donors and think-tanks. https://www.aaup.org/news/new-aaup-paper-examines-partisan-megadonors-funding-attacks-higher-ed

2024-05-29 11:03:21

With Harvard's announcement on institutional neutrality, I urge you to read Yale Law's Robert Post's piece on the subject where he also warns "advocacy of institutional neutrality is associated with conservative efforts to cabin institutions of higher education." https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4516235

2024-05-13 21:49:50

If you are cheering on the violence of police against students and faculty, the disciplinary actions against students without due process, just realize which side you are on now. It's with the dictators, the authoritarians, the demagogues. It can happen here. https://www.saih.no/en/nyheter/attacks-on-student-activism-is-an-indicator-of-democratic-backsliding

2024-04-28 09:31:07

So, Jason Stanley is a colleague here at Yale. He's been writing on fascism for several years now. His next book is on fascism and the university. Whatever you think of the protests, they are being used to set up students and professors as internal enemies of the state. https://grabien.com/file?id=2391545

2024-04-14 20:21:25

What do we do if he wins again?
Image: David Szauder for The Washington Post
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