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Ellen Bryer

@ellenbryer.bsky.social
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Postdoc @ Annenberg Institute at Brown. Philly -> Providence RI. I study higher education and economic inequality among young adults

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Thirty five. Hundred. Three thousand. Five hundred. Three. Five. Zero. Zero.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I feel like I’m going to throw up
Screen shot of an Instagram post that says the academy of natural sciences is closing its museum after nearly two centuries
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Annenberg Institute @annenberginstitute.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
A new study by @ellenbryer.bsky.social, @aizatnurshat.bsky.social & @linzpage.bsky.social finds that data availability & local priorities shaped how colleges identified students, leading to very different approaches under the same policy. 🔗 buff.ly/YnMOo2G
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Equity in Context: Institutional Agency in Targeting Student Supports in Massachusetts Community Colleges
How do related, but independent community colleges operationalize and implement an equity-oriented initiative? In 2021, Massachusetts established the SUCCESS initiative to provide nonfinancial…
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Here is a graph with dollar amounts of funding committed. The curves look very similar to those based on the number of awards.
A line graph of total NSF funding to date in fiscal year 2026 compared to curves for fiscal year 2021-2015. The fiscal year 2026 curve is much lower with $0.22B funding to date compared with ~$1.5B in fiscal years 2021-2024 and close to $1B in fiscal year 2025.
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Great coverage of new work by my colleague Nick Graetz (and collaborators) showing the extent of credit score-based home insurance pricing. Pricing insurance by credit score is a proxy for pricing it by poverty. (Minnesota friends, note the two local examples)
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How Rising Home Insurance Costs Are Linked to Your Credit History
In many states, homeowners with “excellent” credit scores are charged less for home insurance than those with worse scores, even if they live in a disaster-prone area.
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Ellen Bryer @ellenbryer.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
I learn so much from @katharinemeyer.bsky.social's context-rich and succinct summaries of higher ed policy issues!
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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
thanks for doing this analysis @robertkelchen.com!
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
An invaluable new report. A "premortem" is exactly what we need.
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The risks of AI in schools outweigh the benefits, report says
A new report warns that AI poses a serious threat to children's cognitive development and emotional well-being.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
It would appear I am now a columnist at Inside Higher Ed. My first piece focuses on McCarthyism, censorship, and our current moment in higher education. This is an essay I started nearly 6 months ago so I'm glad to finally share it with y'all. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
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Censorship Arrives on Campus
In her debut column, “Echoes in the Quad,” higher education policy scholar Dominique J. Baker explores how the political oppression of the McCarthy era reverberates in the stifling of academic freedom...
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Tiffany J. Huang @tiffjhuang.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
New in @socprobsjournal.bsky.social w/ @estelabdiaz.bsky.social: the rapid growth of the admissions consulting industry has raised questions about inequality, privilege, and merit. We combine two original data sources to ask how consultants make sense of their work. academic.oup.com/socpro/advan...
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Inequality and moral meaning-making in the admissions consulting profession
Abstract. Prior research has described how middle-class and affluent families draw on private supplemental educational resources to help their children mai
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Jesse Bruhn @jessebruhn.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Hey #econsky! I'm organizing a workshop at Brown this Spring in partnership with Eric Nielsen and Viviana Rodriguez. The topic is educational measurement. Please submit a paper/extended abstract! We'd love to consider your work. And please help us spread the word to folks who aren't on bluesky!
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Barnaby Edwards @barnabyedwards.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Amazon is making money off AI copies of books - and putting the onus on authors to prove they’ve been plagiarised. Honestly, just stop buying books from Amazon. Get them from an actual bookshop or order them from a reputable book supplier like bookshop.org www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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Amazon Is the World's Biggest Online Book Marketplace. It's Filled With AI Knockoffs
Authors say Amazon's knockoff book problem is leaving them frustrated — and making the internet worse in the process.
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Annenberg Institute @annenberginstitute.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
🚨 New report! “The Road to SUCCESS” documents how Massachusetts built a statewide student support initiative across all 15 public community colleges. Comprehensive support services. Local flexibility. Rapid scale-up. Report 👉: annenberg.brown.edu/publications...
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Ellen Bryer @ellenbryer.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Thanks for sharing! I'm glad it resonates so far!
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Ellen Bryer @ellenbryer.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Our new working paper is out and free to access! The paper is about all of the the human collaboration that is working "behind the scenes" of a technology-based student-support intervention.
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Ellen Bryer @ellenbryer.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Hooray for my hometown!
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
I spoke w/ @npr.org's Here & Now about pronatalism. The conversation about low birth rates is really about creating a moral panic. Once folks are convinced that low rates cause major problems that can *only* be addressed through raising rates, it opens to door to all sorts of regressive policies.
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The state of the pronatalist movement
The pronatalist movement, which claims to be rectifying what some of its members describe as the likely collapse of civilization due to population decline.
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Catherine Mata @catherinematah.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Are you attending #SREE? #EduSky Join @ellenbryer.bsky.social for her presentation on 10/10 at 2:15 PM. We’re excited to see this work coming out! Ellen will share valuable insights on how faculty & staff collaborate to support student success @katharinemeyer.bsky.social @linzpage.bsky.social
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Annenberg Institute @annenberginstitute.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Do RCTs in higher ed risk contamination? From a large in-person college course intervention, @catherinematah.bsky.social, @katharinemeyer.bsky.social & @linzpage.bsky.social show when individual-level randomization is preferred 📄 Full paper here: edworkingpapers.com/ai24-1083
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Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
We've been having the same damn conversation coming on 9 years now. I feel pretty sure this is the #1 reason Trump won again (racism is up there, but this is #1). Men want #jobs back that don't exist anymore, and haven't existed for decades, and refuse to adapt to the #21st century
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Why Men Don’t Want the Jobs Done Mostly by Women (Published 2017)
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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Something about the way LLMs build in the idea that to find something out, you shouldn't read an already existing text that other people have also read (ew!); you should get fresh text generated just for you. Each time, new disposable text.
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Lindsey Kaler @lindseykaler.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Excited to circulate another @caldercenter.bsky.social WP! Another study from my dissertation, w/ @roddy-theobald.bsky.social‬. Using data from WA, we track individual paraeducators to predict exit from the state education workforce. Ungated WP here: ‬ tinyurl.com/3wtfrm2m 🧵 below:
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Greer Mellon @greermellon.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
In our polarized political environment, I’m excited to share my new ASR publication: “Competence over Partisanship: Party Affiliation Does Not Affect the Selection of School District Superintendents”. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
JOB! Please RT. Swarthmore is hiring for our Social Science Quantitative Lab Associate to support & do teaching quant methods to undergrads. Especially looking for people familiar with sociology and/or political science, and R. Apply by 4/18. apply.interfolio.com/165892 Happy to answer questions.
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Social Science Quantitative Laboratory Associate
Swarthmore College: Sociology & Anthropology Department
Location
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
Open Date
Apr 05, 2025

Description
Swarthmore College is seeking an individual to serve as an Associate in its Social Sciences Quantitative Lab (SSQL). This appointment is for a full-time, academic-year position for three years, with the possibility of renewal upon successful review. The expected starting date is August 2025.


The SSQL promotes students’ quantitative skills by providing tutorial services, statistical consultation, and research support to students in the social sciences. More information about the SSQL can be found here: https://www.swarthmore.edu/ssql.

Swarthmore College is a highly selective liberal arts college whose mission combines academic rigor with social responsibility. It is located in the suburbs roughly 10 miles west of Philadelphia and 15 miles north of Wilmington and has a SEPTA stop right on campus. Swarthmore has a strong institutional commitment to diversity, and actively seeks and welcomes applications from candidates with exceptional qualifications, particularly those with demonstrable commitments to a more inclusive society and world. Applicants from traditionally underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged to apply. For more information on Faculty Diversity and Excellence at Swarthmore, see http://www.swarthmore.edu/faculty-diversity-excellence/information-candidates-new-faculty

Responsibilities (continues in next image)
Planning and facilitating in-person workshops and classroom visits to support the teaching of quantitative methods in the social sciences—particularly in Political Science and Sociology/Anthropology—with the goal of familiarizing students with statistical software (R, Stata, and Excel) and helping them develop related data skills, including data collection, management, visualization, analysis, and exportResponsibilities (continiued) 
Providing statistical support to students during regular office hours and by appointment, including assisting students with the identification, manipulation, and analysis of data sets for their empirical research projects

Planning and hosting stand-alone workshops to train students to work with statistical software commonly used in the social sciences, such as R, Stata, Python, Matlab, and/or Geographic Information System (GIS)

Collaborating with social science faculty teaching quantitative courses on how best to support their courses and their students

Creating additional opportunities for students with less experience in quantitative and computational methods to develop skills and confidence

Offering supplementary workshops in quantitative social sciences to help students develop skills for success as research assistants and to prepare them for quantitative careers and job markets

Qualifications
A Master of Arts or Science (MA or MS), or equivalent, in Political Science, Sociology, Economics, Public Policy, Statistics, Data Science, or a related field is required; a PhD in one of these fields is preferred.

Familiarity with statistics/econometrics, causal inference methods, and preparing data for quantitative social science research is required. Familiarity with computational and simulation methods is a plus.

Programming expertise in R and Excel and ability to learn new technical skills are required. Expertise in Python, Matlab, GIS, and/or other related software is a plus.

Demonstrated excellence in inclusive and equitable teaching practices that support the success of students from diverse backgrounds and with varying levels of preparation in quantitative skills. We seek applicants who cultivate welcoming classroom environments and use pedagogical strategies that promote belonging, engagement, and academic growth for all students.
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Ellen Bryer @ellenbryer.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
I am! For paper on faculty and staff collaboration on the implementation of an academic intervention. Would love to join a panel and maybe take @taylorodle.bsky.social up on his offer to chair/discuss :)
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
columbia, brown, georgetown, cornell and now tufts — they’re taking our students, our colleagues, our kin www.boston25news.com/news/local/int…
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International student at Tufts University reportedly taken into federal custody – Boston 25 News
Tufts said they were told the student’s visa had been terminated.
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AERA @aeraedresearch.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...
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Carrie Conaway @clconaway.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
What a surreal experience to be leading a workshop for education researchers on how to write about their research, in a building directly across from the US Capitol, and wake up to discover that the entire national education statistical staff has been fired.
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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Anyone have guidance on IES restricted data contracts now that NCES is gone? Is disclosure review just not happening anymore? Is this a license agreement violation? Devastating blow for education research, and for early career folks whose research relies on these data #edusky #socsky
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Katharine Meyer @katharinemeyer.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Two new pieces in our series on why we have and need a US Department of Education! First up, from the past, current, and presidents-elect of AEFP and SREE - "Cutting research funding would make education less effective and efficient" www.brookings.edu/articles/cut...
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Cutting research funding would make education less effective and efficient
Presidents of education research associations explain the impacts of recent funding cuts to the Institute of Education Sciences (IES).
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Katharine Meyer @katharinemeyer.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Why we have and need a US Department of Education 🚨 New from @brookings.edu scholars, an initiative to walk through the federal role in education, particularly the ongoing need for a Department of Education and all it does www.brookings.edu/collection/w...
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Why we have and need a US Department of Education
This series considers what the U.S. Department of Education does to shape education policy and practice in the United States.
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Timothy Hyde @hydetimothy.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Allegory alert!
Photo of a bald eagle under the headline "Bald eagle in Massachusetts euthanized after testing positive for bird flu"
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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 11/02/2025
It goes without saying, but if you see the need to access any data about American education from the federal government, you should go download it now. Like stop reading this post and do it immediately.
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Erica Greenberg @ericahgreenberg.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
🌟 Did you know that most federal education data are archived in the @urbaninstitute.bsky.social Education Data Explorer? It's a great resource for research and analysis - and there's even a full API version linked in thread. 🌟 #EduSky #EdPoliSky #EduSkyECEC educationdata.urban.org/data-explorer
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Education Data Explorer
Explore education data
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Just added: @nathantankus.bsky.social, whose reporting has been essential, will be joining. Not too late to register.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 04/02/2025
The Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics, a great org, asks individuals & orgs to sign their letter requesting Congress act to restore data that has been removed & ensure a similar purge does not reoccur. #EconSky #PolicySky #sociology #PoliSky docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Courtney Boen @courtneyboen.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
🚨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]
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Ellen Bryer @ellenbryer.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
The paper addresses social class (dis)advantages in the most elite tiers of education, which are consequential for economic and occupational inequality more broadly. The paper also raises the question of: what the heck is going on with master's degrees? (which motivates a lot of my work!)
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Ellen Bryer @ellenbryer.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
In addition to using parents' highest degree attained, I borrow from literature on first-generation undergraduate students and measure parental education as the number of parents a student has with graduate or undergraduate degrees.
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Ellen Bryer @ellenbryer.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
The first article from my dissertation on graduate education is out! I find that having parents with graduate degrees is associated with enrollment into doctoral education, but not master's education. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Ellen Bryer @ellenbryer.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
“Switzerland feels like a rich country, while the United States feels like a country with rich people.” Yes!! Transformative (and a bit melancholy as an American) to experience a whole other possibility for what wealth could mean for daily life.
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Ellen Bryer @ellenbryer.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Yes, this is what I heard from Gen Z men in my family (with area codes in a purple county in a swing state)! Especially in the few weeks before the election, the number of messages/calls/handwritten letters was admittedly overwhelming.
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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 16/12/2024
Conditions Under Which College Students Can be Responsive to Text-based Nudging www.nber.org/papers/w3325...
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Conditions Under Which College Students Can be Responsive to Text-based Nudging
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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Cody Orr @cody-orr.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Exciting grant opportunity for econ of ed researchers! The Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes Coalition is awarding 5+ $15k grants to use the PSEO data. See here for more details. Deadline Jan 13! docs.google.com/document/d/1... Note: This is not affiliated with the US Census Bureau (1/2)
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PSEO Research Grant RFP
Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes Coalition Request for Proposals to Fund Grants for Projects Using PSEO Data Overview and Background The Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO) Coalition generate...
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
"People say mean things on social media" is never news. This, below, is news.
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Ellen Bryer @ellenbryer.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
New blog post about the emergence of racial wealth disparities in young adulthood is up on @ccfamilies.bsky.social! Very happy to be able to share the findings from this paper with @socinequality.bsky.social without all the tables and figures 😅 thesocietypages.org/ccf/2024/12/...
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Racial Wealth Inequality Emerges in Young Adulthood - Council on Contemporary Families
The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota
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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 02/12/2024
I have a new @nberpubs.bsky.social working paper out with @dubravkaritter.bsky.social and @dougwebberecon.bsky.social that examines the extent to which college closures can be predicted. Using machine learning, we improve on traditional models. But it's still hard to predict exact closure dates.
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Predicting College Closures and Financial Distress
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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ProfKori @profkori.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
@ruha9.bsky.social: "Why can we imagine growing heart cells from scratch in a lab, but not growing empathy for other human beings in our everyday lives...? Even well-resourced schools where young people are encouraged to dream big fall short when it comes to cultivating moral imagination."
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