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21 Jun, 8 tweets, 3 min read
Supreme Court judgment in Alston
Here-->
supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf…

"amateur" in scare quotes in second sentence👀
Important passage
We likely won't be hearing much more about Board of Regents from NCAA in future cases on compensation
Another passage I expect to be hearing invoked again in the future . . .
The "no Lamborghini" rule

Of course the NCAA has no business or qualifications determining what is or is not an "educational benefit"
That is a job for us faculty
All of a sudden the wall between athletics & academics is broken
ADs & provosts gonna freak
Kavanaugh's concurring opinion puts the NCAA on notice
Holy cow🔥
"Price-fixing labor is price-fixing labor"
Wow
Kavanaugh has basically put the NCAA and universities on notice that the Supreme Court is no longer a safe space for NCAA "amateurism" arguments

Get ready for the policy debate to move fully to Congress
"The NCAA is not above the law"

Absolutely historic decision in the landscape of college sports

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22 Jun
Here I find myself 100% in agreement with @Scienceofsport on the scientific issues but largely in disagreement about the policy issues

A good example how it is that science doesn’t always/often settle policy disagreements - sometimes it starts them
Our policy differences result from different views of “competitive sport”

Ross see it to “reward performance excellence” based on “physiology”
Well, yes
This is true like the stock market exists to “reward business excellence” based on “economics”
But there’s a lot more going on
Competitive sport actually has a history
And we can look at history to see justifications provided when it was created
And it turns out, it’s a pretty complicated & sordid history, reflective of the broader society of which sport is a part
That’s right - Sport is part of society
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Roger Pielke Jr. Profile picture
21 Jun
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Some thoughts on guidelines for the appropriate use of climate scenarios in climate assessments intended to inform policy
Any scenario that is used to project a future deemed plausible needs to be justified explicitly in terms of plausibility

Presently this is almost never done
Here is an example of a plausibility analysis: cliccs.uni-hamburg.de/results/hambur…
Here is another: osf.io/preprints/soca…
The language of scenarios lends itself to confusion

scenarios can be inputs or outputs
scenario outputs can be pathways
pathways can result from many scenarios

Precision in language is needed, not for standardization, but for simple communication
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15 Jun
Core issue in doping suspension of Shelby Houlihan: No one knows what to believe!

1. Half +/- of elite T&F athletes dope w/ huge uncertainties based on best research: link.springer.com/article/10.100…
2. WADA has a track record of sanctioning innocent athletes: doi.org/10.1080/194069…

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According to USDA ARS 2020 saw almost no pork imports from Mexico to US Jul-Dec 2020

US pork imports from Mexico were 0.001% of total imports (and far less of total US pork consumption)

So these data say pork from Mexico unlikely basis for the AAF

Data: ers.usda.gov/data-products/… Image
Gonna have to write a post on anti-doping regulation and pork imports, aren't I?
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15 Jun
🧵One of the most remarkable aspects of science advice in the COVID-19 pandemic was how utterly unprepared the US government was ... I look back at how this happened from Bush to Obama to Trump in this post ... here is a short thread as well ...
The US government paid little attention to pandemic planning before Pres GHW Bush, who read a book on summer vacation in 2005 that sparked his interest
In fact, during his presidency in his public remarks Ronald Reagan only mentioned the word "pandemic" 1 time and GHWB not at all. Climate mentioned "pandemic" 16x, then GWB at 214
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14 Jun
I was curious
So I graphed percent of CONUS in drought according to the US drought monitor, data is weekly from 1/2000
droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap.aspx
Here from US EPA is the same data by drought category
epa.gov/climate-indica…
And here from EPA is a longer time series, 1895-2020 for CONUS
Note: On this graph up means wetter, down means dryer
epa.gov/climate-indica…
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10 Jun
How to make biomedical research (and biosafety labs) less dangerous and more ethical, post-COVID-19 thebulletin.org/?p=86600 via @BulletinAtomic
I've noted some confusion over whether EHA and/or WIV was actively involved with so-called "gain of cuntion research"

This article says EHA was
No one in gov't monitors or tracks laboratory acquired infections
Covid-19 aside, this needs fixing ASAP
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