I'm a Stanford law prof. I work on ethical, legal, and social issues in biosciences. My book CRISPR People came out in Feb 2021, joining 2016's The End of Sex.
Jun 3, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
13/ expression issues globally. It is crystal clear to me that, as the university concluded yesterday, the satirical flyer is constitutionally protected speech.
I have received many requests this year to condemn, punish, or otherwise suppress speech, from all sides of the
/14 political spectrum. I want to reiterate that I will not be entertaining any such requests. Experience shows us the costs of policing speech are too high, & that vigorous & open debate of ideas is essential to a free society. While I urge thoughtfulness as people choose how
Jun 3, 2021 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
An email just sent by our @StanfordLaw dean, Jenny Martinez:
Dear Stanford Law Community:
I wanted to send a follow-up to my email last night [must have been students only, I didn't get it] to provide you with a little more information and context about the Fundamental Standard
/2 complaint against 1 of our students & resulting coverage in the national media.
But 1st and foremost, I want to acknowledge how upsetting the last 48 hrs have been for you, our students, for our entire community &, especially, for the student at the center of this problematic
Mar 15, 2020 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
From a friend-an email from 1 of his bicycling friends who lives in both Rockford, IL & Italy but is now trapped in Italy:
Message from the Red Zone of the pandemic Coronavirus COVID-19.
To all my cycling friends,
Please get ready for the pandemic that it’s on its way to US
/2 . Here in Italy it is unreal!!!
Go buy gloves and masks and sanitizer products ASAP. The US is now in the same situation of Europe 2/3 weeks ago. In some regions people keep spreading the virus because they haven’t been tested yet.
Here in Italy, more than 90% of shops/bar/
Jan 6, 2019 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
Warning: long thread. I just finished listening to @WiringTheBrain's (Kevin Mitchell's) new book, Innate, based on a tweeted rec by @carlzimmer. I loved it - excellent book. It is VERY powerful in pointing out all the ways things can be "innate" w/o having been parents' DNA.
2/ These include notably the often overlooked effects random variations in humans & our development. Mutations in egg/sperm, somatic mutations, & the chance outcomes of much of embryonic development (esp in the brain). It argues powerfully (& somewhat against my own preferences)
