End of the year gifts from my long-time RA 😭

How come “shrinking government” always involves taking away school lunches and building 3,000 more prisons.

An image with a prescription pill bottle. Text on the image reads: 99% of all new medications resulted from federally-funded university research through NIH

Did you know? 99% of all new medications resulted from federally-funded university research through #NIH

Learn more about #ResearchSavesLives: hub.jhu.edu/research-sav....

Why aren’t universities using their billion-dollar endowments to fight Trump? Rich universities can afford to push back against the administration. Here’s why they aren’t.

www.vox.com/education/40...

Justice for Rümeysa Öztürk Dear Friends, Allies, and Supporters,

Legal fund for Rümeysa Öztürk:
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Michigan watching Columbia give in and continue to get attacked:

I also find it presumptuous that we (Americans) assume we can just move to and work in any country for an indefinite amount of time??

A thank you note from a student where they drew my oft-mentioned cat Stella 🥺

This International Women's Day, I'm thinking about how it wasn't required for NIH-sponsored trials to include women until 1993.

ICPSR at University of Michigan has been one of the longest-running secure data archives in the world and is stepping up to the challenges being presented in the current U.S. environment to keep government data as a resource for researchers and policymakers. isr.umich.edu/giving/suppo...

Not a birth cohort or health focused, but the new ECLS-K being cut by DOGE broke my heart. Glad to see other countries are prioritizing comprehensive, long-term datasets.

Scatterplot titled “Empirical Evidence of Ideological Targeting in Federal Layoffs: Agencies seen as liberal are significantly more likely to face DOGE layoffs.” • The x-axis represents Perceived Ideological Leaning of federal agencies, ranging from -2 (Most Liberal) to +2 (Most Conservative), based on survey responses from over 1,500 federal executives. • The y-axis shows Agency Size (Number of Staff) on a logarithmic scale from 1,000 to 1,000,000. Each point represents a federal agency: • Red dots indicate agencies that experienced DOGE layoffs. • Gray dots indicate agencies with no layoffs. Key Observations: • Liberal-leaning agencies (left side of the plot) are disproportionately represented among red dots, indicating higher layoff rates. • Notable targeted agencies include: • HHS (Health & Human Services) • EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) • NIH (National Institutes of Health) • CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) • Dept. of Education • USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development) • The National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE), despite its conservative leaning (+1 on the scale), is an exception among targeted agencies. • A notable outlier: the Department of Veterans Affairs (moderately conservative) also faced layoffs despite its size. Takeaway: The figure visually demonstrates that DOGE layoffs disproportionately targeted liberal-leaning agencies, supporting claims of ideological bias. The pattern reveals that layoffs were not driven by agency size or budget alone but were strongly associated with perceived ideology. Source: Richardson, Clinton, & Lewis (2018). Elite Perceptions of Agency Ideology and Workforce Skill. The Journal of Politics, 80(1).

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

Todd is clearly not into the reality tv life!!!

On Saturday, my Northwestern child and family policy class went on a tour of Bronzeville with Chicago historian Shermann Thomas (6figga_dilla). We learned and laughed a lot and then got to eat amazing soul food at Pearl’s Place!

When you buy five reams of 8.5x14 paper instead of 8.5x11 😑

Congrats Neil!!

I love Sailor Moon and this has me 😂

Ok serious villain character!! And am I automatically in the blue team alliance because I also have a September birthday??

My cholesterol 😅

Resisting the urge to reward myself with a little treat after every basic task

I think I’m going to start watching this season!!

Those hours make me cry 😭