Gabriel Espada: “This disenfranchisement creates a civil death that undermines rehabilitation.”

The problem is: they've mistaken correlation for causation. They think their parents and grandparents had a good life *because* of manufacturing jobs. When, in reality, their parents and grandparents had a good life *despite* manufacturing jobs, because of unions, high taxes, and social policies.

This shift for all public sector workers is an aspect of Project 2025/DOGE that we aren’t talking about often enough.

A Dipshit's Excuse for Intelligence The era of actual DEI hires.

"Our government holds military personnel who aren't yet old enough to drink to the highest standards of OPSEC, and it doesn't matter if you're a kid who makes a careless mistake. There are no freebies when it comes to classified information."

charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/a-dipshits...

Bias, risk, racism: Reconciling critical and quantitative approaches to understanding racial inequality in child welfare system outcomes In this essay, I seek to reconcile critical and econometric approaches to diagnosing the causes of deep racial inequalities in child welfare system outcomes. Using a series of causal diagrams and cri...

new paper: common approaches to modeling racism in policy processes (i.e. foster care entry) try to decompose racism into a 'bias' component and a 'risk' component. this relies on a flawed theory of racism and ignores causal identification problems onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.

This is intolerable.

Cancelling ACTIVE grants that salaries already depend on is a cruel tactic that aims, not at saving money, but at terrorizing the university system and beating us into submission.

#academicsky #edusky

been thinking about this poem by @clintsmithiii.bsky.social constantly lately

Here are some facts about "facilities and administrative" (F&A) costs, what we in the business call "indirects" and what Musk is calling "overhead" as he tries to convince Americans with being ok with cutting billions on dollars from medical and public health research at universities & hospitals

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I had this conversation w colleagues the other day, who struggled to find the value of academic research in this historical moment. (I get it.)

But look, if our work and writing didn’t matter, they wouldn’t try to stop us from doing it. They simply wouldn’t care.

But they do.

Because it matters.

Let's not lose sight of the second-order effects of data breaches.

Would you be willing to answer the Census, ACS or CPS (assuming they continue) if you knew your de-anonymized answers could be accessed by a Nazi-saluting oligarch and a 19-year old tech-bro wannabe whose Insta handle is Bigballs?

This is effectively a ban on sociology. Banned words include "inequality" (and "inequalities" just in case), "socioeconomic," "status," "gender," "race and ethnicity," "institutional," "systemic," "biases," "polarization," and even "sense of belonging." Is there any subfield left?!

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Just a quick example of disappearing data at the CDC. The censoring of science and public access is so disturbing. www.cdc.gov/vaccines/adu...

🚨If you use public data products from the CDC or other US federal agencies 🚨

Download them NOW

[This is how I’m spending my Friday]

Shut down the Senate: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

2/2 me of all of the hope that still exists, even on these darkest days. I’m excited to join the BlueSky community, where I can continue to learn from, and grow alongside, so many incredible people.

1/2 As I try to make sense of an increasingly inequitable, unjust, and harmful world, it can feel hard to find much hope. Yet I am struck by the tenacity and heart that so many of my peers, mentors, and colleagues bring with each new day. It is their work, their words of encouragement, that remind