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Haley Ragsdale, PhD

@haleyrags.bsky.social
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Biological anthropologist studying the evolution of human development, pregnancy, life history, & maternal health. she/her

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Eva-Lotte Schwarz @lotteschwarz.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
🧵 (1/7) What a great think piece on the conservative obsession with suffering and conflict — especially in light of the “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” logic behind the new tariffs.
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Jaweed Kaleem @jaweedkaleem.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
NEW: The Trump administration swiftly cancelled dozens of international student visas Friday at Stanford and University of California campuses, including UCLA, UC Berkeley and UC San Diego. One UC San Diego student was taken into custody at the border for deportation: www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Trump administration cancels more than a dozen international student visas at University of California, Stanford
Amid a national sweep over student visas that has hit colleges across the U.S., the Trump administration on Friday canceled more than a dozen international student visas at the University of Californi...
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
the present shortcoming is not that people protesting are cringe it's that there isn't presently a mass commitment to the kind of action that would force regime change. that isn't a criticism, just an observation. these things take time. and with time all things are possible.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
New horrific footage shows that Israel lied through its teeth about its massacre of paramedics and rescue workers. But still Western media outlets will keep treating Israeli lies as credible. Accessories to genocide 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/israel-lie...
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Jen in Motion @jeninmotion.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
When you realize you aren't alone and lots of people are mad, it makes it easier to speak up! Also sometimes you get new ideas.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
CHICAGO…
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BluesterB @bluesterb.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Good call.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
discussing the reality of Trump is hard because despite everything that has happened, if you talk about the reality of what geopolitical order and American politics look like, no one actually believes it
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Jim Johnson 🇨🇦 @jimjohnsonsci.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
www.nature.com/naturecareer... UBC LSI Job!!
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Assistant Professor (tenure track) – Chromatin, Epigenetics - Vancouver, British Columbia (CA) job with The University of British Columbia (UBC) | 12837841
Assistant Professor (tenure track) - Chromatin Regulation, Genetic Regulatory Mechanisms, Epigenetics, Epigenomics
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
In a move that *should* be precedent-setting for other scholarly organizations, the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS) announces that this year’s conference will be held concurrently at sites in the US and Canada and online due to the dangerous US political climate.
1.    We have decided not to host a single-site in-person conference in Seattle this year. Instead, we will have two in-person sites and a robust online participation option. While we are still working out the details, we will have an in-person conference site in Seattle, another in-person conference site in Vancouver, B.C., and significantly more opportunities for online participation than in years past, as well as opportunities for sessions that virtually bring together folx in the two in-person locations. We emphasize that we want your own safety and comfort to be the primary consideration as you decide whether and how to participate in this year’s conference. Wherever you live and whatever your citizenship status and/or subject position, we encourage you to carefully consider which of the three participation options (if any) you decide to take up. It is entirely up to you whether you feel safe or willing to cross a border or to travel at all. To help us with our organizational efforts, we will be sending out a very short survey in the coming days. It is imperative that we hear from as many NASSSers as possible both in terms of organizational efforts and to minimize our financial liabilities.
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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Regular, non-expert people can maybe be forgiven for thinking we'd get a redux of the first administration. But nobody who fancies themselves a thought leader should have expected that. This was a consistent theme during the election: no guardrails this time.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Other fact-based ways to frame these attacks are: a) part of an ongoing GOP war against higher ed because they view it as a hostile institution b) an authoritarian breaking any venues of dissent. Going with the Trump framing is a choice to support the war and give credence to the authoritarian.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 04/04/2025
wokeness was keeping the economy afloat. wokeness kept planes in the air. wokeness kept us all safe
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
True. Also true that a lot of Americans burned things the last five years. Our militarized police attacked them and I believe there are credible accounts of assassinations.
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Excellent critique of childhood development interventions: "The privileged of Global North & South can find solace in the idea they have little responsibility for inequality. If bad childcare & poor brain development are major contributing factors to poverty, then it's parents’ job to overcome it"
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The problem with parenting interventions in the Global South | Aeon Essays
Early childhood development interventions in the Global South is a huge industry built on highly questionable assumptions
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
this is a good post and "decadence" is a good way to think about a lot of things. true decadence is, eg, thinking you could let an insurrection go unpunished and the country would just keep chugging along nbd
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Zombies. The undead. You know, ghouls. @edgarallanbro.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I'm 18. The economy enters a once-in-a-century recession. A Republican president is responsible. I'm 29. There is once-in-a-century pandemic that leads to a once-in-century-recession. A Republican is responsible. I'm 35. Tarriffs trigger a once-in-a-century recession. A Republican is responsible.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Don't know about other cities but in Seattle, this is the first winter since 2020 that fewer people have died of COVID than the flu (it's been a really nasty flu season!) kingcounty.gov/en/dept/dph/...
37 deaths from COVID in the last 6 months87 deaths from the flu this season
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Haley Ragsdale, PhD @haleyrags.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
resnikoff.beehiiv.com/p/living-wit... Highly recommend this essay and the 1964 Hannah Arendt lecture it references, "Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship"
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Living With a Murderer
On personal responsibility under the second Trump administration
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Started/Going. Two infants died of pertussis in Louisiana, where last month the state’s surgeon general banned health department staff from encouraging vaccination.
Screenshot of the headline of an article from WWNO Public radio on Feb 14, 2025. It says Louisiana Department of Health officially ends all vaccine promotion, events
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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
When traveling, or otherwise expecting potential encounters with law enforcement: Locking your phone with a long, strong pin code, turning off biometrics like Face ID is a strong contender for the one change the average person can make to vastly improve their personal digital security situation.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 30/03/2025
imagine having enough money to where you could part with and donate this much money to sway the entire political ecosystem. pure evil
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Michael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.
Excerpt from Rutgers University Senate resolution calling for a Mutual Academic Defense Compact. The excerpt reads:

"BE IT RESOLVED THAT, the Rutgers University Senate urges the President of Rutgers University to formally propose and help establish a Mutual Academic Defense Compact (MADC) among all members of the Big Ten Academic Alliance;

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, under this compact, all participating institutions shall commit meaningful funding to a shared or distributed defense fund. This fund shall be used to provide immediate and strategic support to any member institution under direct political or legal infringement;"
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Malevolent Maelstrom @chemicalchaos.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
There is this really interesting phenomenon that happens in science communication where the updating of ideas is see as breaking the trust in science rather than a commitment to being accurate
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
This is the text of the email just sent to hundreds of international students telling them that their visas have been revoked due to activism or social media posts.
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Haley Ragsdale, PhD @haleyrags.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
"While much of the discourse surrounding college campuses has revolved around Ivy League colleges, virtually all the cases Zeteo reviewed occurred at state schools across the country."
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
"SCOOP: ICE Revoking Students’ Immigration Statuses Without Their or the University’s Knowledge" “Never seen something like this,” say university officials about the secret targeting of Middle Eastern students. @premthakker.bsky.social latest shocking exclusive for Zeteo:
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SCOOP: ICE Revoking Students’ Immigration Statuses Without Their or the University’s Knowledge
“Never seen something like this,” say university officials about the secret targeting of Middle Eastern students.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 27/03/2025
*taps mic* please for the love of all that is holy and good in the world, stop announcing to everyone that "NO ONE IS PRO ABORTION." YOU'RE WRONG. I AM. A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE. ABORTION IS HEALTH CARE. I'M PRO HEALTH CARE. I'M PRO CHEMO. I'M PRO BUTTERFLY STITCHES. STOP SPREADING STIGMA.
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a man with long hair and a beard is smiling and saying thank you .
Alt: a man with long hair and a beard is smiling and saying thank you . that man is keanu reeves and he's bowing with his hand to his heart.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
The Trump regime will round you up off the street and arrest you because you spoke your mind. And federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars who refuse to identify themselves will be the ones to do it. It's fascism. Call it what it is.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
An article that makes you sick to your stomach.
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The men disappeared to El Salvador because of their tattoos
The Trump administration sent Venezuelans to El Salvador’s most infamous prison. Their families are looking for answers.
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Air-Moving Device @airmovingdevice.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
DOGE/Musk preferentially cancelled grants and contracts to recipients in counties that voted for Harris in 2024. Among cancellations with election data available, 92.9% and 86.1% cancelled grants and contracts went to Harris counties, representing 96.6% and 92.4% of total dollar amounts.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
"Everyone is fair game." More than 300 students have apparently had their visas revoked in the 'Catch and Revoke' program for their solidarity with the right of Palestinians to exist. www.axios.com/2025/03/27/t...
Zoom in: The idea of prohibiting colleges from enrolling any student visa-holders grew out of Secretary of State Marco Rubio's "Catch and Revoke" program, which now is focusing on students who protested against the war in Gaza.

A senior State Department official called the demonstrators it's targeting "Hamasniks" — people the government claims have shown support for the terror group.
More than 300 foreign students have had their student visas revoked in the three weeks "Catch and Revoke" has been in operation, the official said. There are 1.5 million student visa-holders nationwide.
"Everyone is fair game," the official said.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 27/03/2025
"Grants are getting killed “without any scientific input anywhere. It is purely political,” said a member of a senior NIH leadership team. “The science in this country is going to be destroyed if you can change what the priorities are going to be every four years. You can’t do science that way.”"
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These 5 words have killed millions in grants and advanced Trump’s agenda
Five words in an obscure regulation are being deployed by Trump’s appointees to kill grants unilaterally across the government.
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Nutrition Funding Cuts Could Claim 369K Young Lives This Year www.forbes.com/sites/daphne...
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Nutrition Funding Cuts Could Claim 369K Young Lives This Year
Nutrition funding cuts could claim 369,000 child lives this year, halting treatment for millions and reversing decades of progress against malnutrition.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports. A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
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Adam Van Arsdale @apv2600.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
This is straight Nazi shit
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Melissa Bates @batesphysio.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Even if it’s not intentional, when people are worried about their jobs they spend a lot of effort talking about the situation, planning for contingencies, and generally being unmotivated to do more than the minimum for an enterprise they don’t feel values them.
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Katie Lee @resourcefulsqrl.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Reminder for Louisiana voters: there is an election on March 29. It’s got some shady-ass state constitutional amendments. Vote NO on ALL, y’all. I can drag up some citations & explainers if ya want. But GO VOTE against the shit Landry et al are trying to slide into a historically low-turnout time.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 27/03/2025
it is VERY important that anyone who lives in wisconsin votes for crawford for wisconsin supreme court on april 1st. wisconsin is only just starting to recover from the damage of the scott walker era and this would help solidify a new era in the state
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
"I have a colleague...his fingers were crushed... They showed him a picture of his wife & said 'we're going to gang rape her in front of you if you don't admit you're Hamas.'" Dr Mark Perlmutter, in Gaza, on what Israel is doing to Palestinian doctors. My full interview: zeteo.com/p/us-embassy...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/03/2025
Here NIH officials target contracts that "may be related to any form of censorship at all or *directing people to believe one idea over another regarding health outcomes*." Directing people to believe one idea over another regarding health outcomes IS public health. It's also education.
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
We're paying attention to what, four prominent cases? But the State Department says there are another 296. www.axios.com/2025/03/27/t...
More than 300 foreign students have had their student visas revoked in the three weeks "Catch and Revoke" has been in operation, the official said. There are 1.5 million student visa-holders nationwide.
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Pablo J. Varas Enríquez @pablovarase.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
🚨CALL FOR POSTERS🚨 Last days for you to apply, and attend, the 12th EconBio Workshop on “Sex Differences in Human Life History Evolution”! Just send your CV+abstract+cover letter before March 31 to econbio_poster@iast.fr More info in www.iast.fr/conferences/... @ehbea.bsky.social
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Not sure if this has been shared here yet, but this is video of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest posted by WCVB. It's terrifying.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
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Annals of Human Biology @annalshumanbio.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
📈GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT Human Biology, Climate Change & Sustainability Read this OA study on WBT & b/feeding patterns in relation to maternal work - at the intersection of climate change and maternal & child health @bioanthmags.bsky.social @kstark8.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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High wet-bulb temperatures, time allocation, and diurnal patterns of breastfeeding in Bangladeshi fisher-traders
Climate change is a growing threat to population health, with dangerous combinations of heat and humidity increasing in frequency, particularly in South Asia. Evidence suggests that high temperatur...
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
The Shame of Columbia: violating academic freedom “Not even during the communist witch hunts of the early 1950s did a university agree to put an entire academic department under special oversight because of what its faculty researched or taught.” open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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The shame of Columbia University
In surrendering to Trump, it's opening all universities to Trump's tyranny
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Brittany Charlton @britshmit.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
We've been tracking unlawful NIH grant terminations for 3 weeks. Spread the word👇! Fellow PIs: what can you do upon termination? ✅ Email PO + document questions ✅ Submit FOIA ✅ Advocate to your OCG/OSP for appeal + litigation ✅ Consider outside litigation ✅ Donate to state AGs + legal orgs 1/🧵
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Cancelled NIH grant information submission form
Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NIH grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025. Data from this form will be used to update the Rescinded NIH...
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