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Elly Field @ellyfield.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Thrilled our paper is out now in AJS. Parents & scholars have long known the linked fate of schools & neighborhoods, but how does change in one domain relate to the other? We (@ebruch.bsky.social) propose a theory of coupled tipping & find support for our model in data over 20 yrs & 3,000 schools.

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Elly Field @ellyfield.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Online pub day! I examine how parents' preferences for schools and neighborhoods are intertwined, rather than independent, and talk about what those "package deal" preferences imply for racial segregation and inequality. doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...

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Understanding the “package deal”: disentangling parents’ intertwined preferences for schools and neighborhoods

Abstract. The racial segregation of schools and neighborhoods are mutually reinforcing because school districts assign students to schools based on residen

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

"In a May 21...recording..., Provost Robin Forman said that when Tulane leadership met with elected officials in April, they were pressed as to why “‘Tulane has taken a stand on the chemical industry as harming communities’,” and this “left people feeling embarrassed and uncomfortable.” "

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Tulane scientist resigns citing university censorship of pollution and racial disparity research

A Tulane University researcher has resigned, citing censorship from university leaders. Kim Terrell, a researcher with the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic, resigned Wednesday, saying in a letter the u...

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Eric Klinenberg @ericklinenberg.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Chilling report from Brown University. Administration advises all foreign students, staff, and faculty to postpone or reconsider (ie cancel) international travel, due to federal government's crackdown on universities. Brown also warns against *domestic travel* -since it's unclear what ICE will do.

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Brown University advises all international community members to postpone, reconsider travel

One week before spring break, Brown advised international community members, including green card holders and permanent residents, to postpone international travel in a campus-wide email sent on Sunda...

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I’m struck by the Trump administration’s attempt to redefine equality as discrimination against white people. This is a deeply racist idea that *equal outcomes* must be unfair, assuming white people are naturally at the top of the hierarchy. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/c...

In a statement, Mr. Zeldin suggested that environmental justice — which the agency defined in 2013 as “the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income” with respect to environmental laws — was tantamount to discrimination.

“President Trump was elected with a mandate from the American people,” Mr. Zeldin said. “Part of this mandate includes the elimination of forced discrimination programs.”

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 12/03/2025

And making the public school experience sh*ttier, especially for kids with disabilities and kids from low-income families and families of color. So that more families will opt for private schools or homeschooling. And funnel more public education funding into private companies' hands.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 12/03/2025

I just heard this as well. The entire staff of the National Center for Education Statistics, created in 1867, has been fired.

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Like many others who’ve given birth, I bled profusely afterward (enough that they had transfusion blood rushed to my room, though they didn’t use it in the end) & was given misoprostol, tho my understanding of those events is poor Terrifying & enraging From www.businessinsider.com/abortion-med...

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Abortion pill prescriptions are now being tracked in parts of the US — with help from a little-known tech company

Louisiana has started monitoring abortion pills. Some other states are likely to follow suit. It could have disastrous consequences for patients.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

they are segregationists, attacking a monument to the civil rights heroes that destroyed segregation

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Articles like this, where Harvard is centered as the soul of US higher ed by someone who "coincidentally" graduated from Harvard, is exactly why we did all that research looking at where news article authors go to college 1/ www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Screenshot of the top of the article. Title is: Will Harvard bend or break? Free-speech battles and pressure from Washington threaten America's oldest university- and the soul of higher education. By Nathan Heller and published March 3, 2025.

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