I don’t know but I also want the answer!

When you just learned about the preschool potluck yesterday, and it’s scheduled to start 15 minutes before you normally pick up your twins… you bring the donuts.

Congrats @danielaurbinaj.bsky.social !!

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"I was certainly not expecting how intensely popular it would be with adults," Neiburger added. #IFeelSeen

How a public library's summer game took over a Michigan city Summer in Ann Arbor, Mich., means thousands of people hunting for hidden codes around the city and reading books to earn points. It's part of a popular game organized by the public library.

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Peak #AnnArbor townie: wearing a library summer game shirt, refreshing the election results to see whether the library will get even cooler, smelling a skunk from my open window.

Twin toddler bedtime stories:

A: “once upon a time, there was a rabbit, and a bunny, and a rabbit, and a bunny.”

B: “what did the rabbit, and the bunny, and the rabbit, and the bunny do?”

I’m in!

We hit up 7 different playgrounds across Ann Arbor this weekend.

Oh cool! I’m excited to read it :)

This looks great, congrats!

#WeAreDEI rally on the University of Michigan Diag, in beautiful evening light.

Faculty senate resolutions are attached to the doors of the Ruthven building beneath a #WeAreDEI sign. The logo above the doors says "Truth conquers by itself".

There was a big #WeAreDEI rally and march at U-M this evening. Started on the Diag, then off to Ruthven where the 4 new resolutions of the faculty senate were posted on the central administration's doors.

Great turnout at the UM #weareDEI march!

Trump Aides Solicit Ideas to Raise Birthrate, From Baby Bonuses to Fertility Planning Baby bonuses and menstrual cycle classes are among the ideas pitched to Trump aides as they consider plans to try boosting the birthrate.

“I think I’ve seen this film before,
and I didn’t like the ending…”

We decided last year to switch off until our kids get a little older so that one is not related to the insanity of US politics, just to the insanity of twin toddlers :)

I’m skipping!

What about here?

As ICE Jails Palestinian Protester, Universities Must Commit to Academic Freedom Universities may sow their own demise if they continue to aid the suppression of pro-Palestine campus movements.

For @truthout.org , @hebagowayed.bsky.social and I wrote about how universities have opened the door to Trump’s authoritarianism by suppressing pro-Palestine voices and how they must commit to the principles of academic freedom and free expression before it is too late.

U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.

“People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi, executive director of the African Population and Health Research Center, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”

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These data were used to make crucial policy decisions, and to provide many countries with vital information on child health, nutrition, and other indicators.

At this moment when science is under threat, this feeds the narrative that people who use these data are removed from real life, which couldn’t be further from the case.

Trump Administration Ends Global Health Research Program The Demographic and Health Surveys were the only sources of reliable information in many countries on metrics such as mortality, nutrition and education.

Happy to see coverage of the termination if the dhs, but disappointed to see it called “obscure” in the very first sentence. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/h...

Heart wrenching decision, the DHS are an incredibly important data source. They have long been the only option available for studying change over time in individual- or family-level outcomes across Africa. My heart aches for everyone whose research, teaching, and other work depends on them.

All star authorship team! 🤩Congrats and looking forward to having this one on my shelf

Twins just discovered the toddler sized carts at the grocery store… one went on a joyride through the frozen aisle, while the other knocked over some flowers. Both were still given suckers at checkout, which proves that people are good at heart.

Going on my door tomorrow- thanks @sashakillewald.bsky.social!

Trends is definitely for the cool people- you always wanna be a trendsetter 😎

A little bit about my research:
I am studying geographic disparities in health and mortality and their environmental and structural determinants. My previous research focused on state and county levels, but I am now shifting to an individual-level approach for better causal inference & explanation.