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Jennifer Mosley

@jenmosley.bsky.social
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Faculty @UChicagoCrown Ranting about inequality, social policy, & cycling Research: safety net, governance, philanthropy, nonprofits, & social change Editor @socservreview.bsky.social crownschool.uchicago.edu/directory/…

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 10/02/2026
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 15/11/2025
One reason why elite schools (Columbia, Brown, Cornell) caving to Trump’s illegal impoundment and extortion is so galling — a betrayal, really — is that they would have won had they fought. By giving up, they guaranteed every other school will have to fight harder.
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Judge bars Trump from immediately cutting funding to the University of California | CNN Politics
The Trump administration cannot immediately cut federal funding to the University of California or issue fines against the school system over claims it allows antisemitism or other forms of discrimina...
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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
New reading! Nicole P. Marwell and Jennifer E. Mosley discussed their book Mismeasuring Impact: How Randomized Controlled Trials Threaten the Nonprofit Sector on HistPhil #ReadUP
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Resisting the Hierarchy of Evidence: Philanthropic Foundations and the Rise of RCTs
Editors’ Note: Nicole P. Marwell and Jennifer E. Mosley discuss their new book, Mismeasuring Impact: How Randomized Controlled Trials Threaten the Nonprofit Sector (Stanford University Press,…
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.
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Benjamin Soskis @bensoskis.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
New HistPhil post: Nicole Marwell and Jennifer Mosley chronicle the rise of the randomized controlled trial to the top of the hierarchy of program evaluation, while also highlighting the significant ambivalence nonprofit & foundation staff have to that ascension. histphil.org/2025/10/10/r...
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Resisting the Hierarchy of Evidence: Philanthropic Foundations and the Rise of RCTs
Editors’ Note: Nicole P. Marwell and Jennifer E. Mosley discuss their new book, Mismeasuring Impact: How Randomized Controlled Trials Threaten the Nonprofit Sector (Stanford University Press,…
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 10/09/2025
This is also a case of systems setting people up to fail. Public university systems often standardize course numbers/names/descriptions, to simplify transfer credits. But the approved descriptions end up being incredibly generic, because otherwise campuses/faculty fight about what to include. 1/
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Jennifer Mosley @jenmosley.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Come join the conversation!
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
happy labor day
john mulaney: the creepiest days are when you don't hear from the horse at all.
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Michael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
This is the first example I've seen of a university trying to mobilize constituents to stand up against Trump threats. There's been a lot of "wHaT eLsE CaN AdMiNiStRaToRs Do?" in The Discourse when this is exactly the thing they haven't been doing. Good for UCLA for trying. Others should follow.
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Jennifer Mosley @jenmosley.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
I will die on this hill
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Social Service Review @socservreview.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Call for papers! *The Next 100 Years: Reflections on the Centennial of SSR* To celebrate 100 years of SSR in 2026, the journal will publish a collection of thought-provoking papers exploring the history, current state, and future of social work and social welfare. Abstracts due September 15!
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants. "This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
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Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
This was such a satisfying project, and one in which I realized for the first time how much my whole life had been spent in a manscape, in places where almost everything was named after men.
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The people responsible for this should be fired directly into the sun www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
it's been years upon years of labored "campus culture" op-eds from salaried writers hectoring students about free speech, and now the state is kidnapping students for their speech in broad daylight
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Alexis @alexisg.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Stephen Miller, Trump’s surrogate in the chat, says, bizarrely, that Europe will be made to compensate America for the strike at some later date, reflecting the Trumpian vision of all politics as an extortion racket to extract money, favors, or – perhaps more to the point – shows of deference. Everyone defers to Miller immediately. It is a group of very stupid people, trying to create post-hoc justifications for something their boss told them to do, not thinking too hard about what they’re actually doing – which is killing people.

There is a risk, in talking about the Trump administration’s decision to plan a military strike over a Signal group chat in which they accidentally included a prominent journalist, of making it seem like the only problem with the administration’s actions was in their breach of confidentiality and decorum.
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Jennifer Mosley @jenmosley.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
This is going to be a great event, particularly for early career folks. Everyone is welcome!
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I’ve seen a lot of assumptions in the media that Trump (and Musk) are targeting institutions with loyalty tests. But that’s not quite right. They’re using dominance tests. And the difference between these two things matter. 🧵
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Jennifer Mosley @jenmosley.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Thank god for term limits, and please let this sleaze-ball disappear forever. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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Gavin Newsom breaks with Democrats on trans athletes in sports
The Democratic California governor made the stunning remarks in his debut podcast with conservative guest Charlie Kirk.
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Jennifer Mosley @jenmosley.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
This is so grim.
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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I wrote a short blog post about the tragedy currently unfolding in the evaluation industry. Trump is destroying vital research capacity and decades of instructional knowledge for pocket change. 1/x rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/the-irr...
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The Irreparable Damage Being Done to Federal Policy Research and Evaluation - Roosevelt Institute
Though their goals obviously differed, Republican and Democratic administrations have for decades relied on the work of social scientists both within and outside the government to conduct research on ...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Most people are not political scientists using formal definitions. So I am curious when is the moment that people tell themselves "oh, I live under an authoritarian government now." Because what else is this? www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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Trump says federal funding will stop for colleges, schools allowing 'illegal' protests
President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that all federal funding will stop for colleges and schools that allow "illegal" protests and that agitators will be imprisoned or sent back to the country they came from.
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
It is really hard to watch people willfully tear down an infrastructure that allowed us to double lifespans, drastically reduce poverty, and become one of the richest countries in the world.
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Jennifer Mosley @jenmosley.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
This is a great article and highlights many things I admire about Austin: she is generous in spirit, has a true commitment to the collective, and is really fucking smart. www.theguardian.com/sport/commen...
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Trump singled me out for ruining women’s sport. This is my response to him | Austin Killips
The president talks about trans athletes ‘invading’ women’s sports, while doing nothing at all to elevate, fund or support women athletes
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Jess Gartner @jessgartner.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Remember that “move fast and break things” is the motto of a sector of businesses with a 90% failure rate. The US Government cannot afford a 90% failure rate.
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
1/ I am seeing a lot of comments on the slashing of NIH support along the lines of “universities should just spend their huge endowments.” I’m the last person to cheer on the institutional stratification rising endowments have contributed to. But let me explain why this is not a solution.
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
There are already impacts on all of us since Trump closed USAID. This soy research lab is just one of many bad consequences for America.
Screenshot of a post from a professor at the University of Illinois who has to shutdown his soy research lab and fire 30 researchers because Trump eliminated USAID.
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 03/02/2025
New from me in @newrepublic.com: “Primary Every Democrat.” If the current crop cannot demonstrate they care more about democracy than enjoying three-day weekends, we should flood the zone and challenge them all.
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Primary Every Democrat
It’s exhausting to watch poll-tested, donor-beholden congressional Democrats continue to be too old, too cloistered, and too bumbling to do anything as the government burns.
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?
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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
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End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/02/2025
they are stealing data from the american people and depriving us of the transparency that we are entitled to by law. none of this is legal and not a single federal employee has any reason to comply.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/01/2025
Every family and child deserves to feel safe and secure in the place they call home. Every resident of Illinois should know their rights. I intend to protect those rights and ensure our state laws are followed.
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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
I have always loved public libraries, but having young children has exponentially increased my gratitude and sense of indebtedness to them. Our local library is such a huge part of our lives. The books, the programming, the very intentionally curated kids’ section. It’s all such a gift.
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
“Advocates” say? Or the data SHOWS? If it’s the data, just say that. Like, physicists don’t SAY the earth is round. Physicists just share the data SHOWING the earth is round. Enough of this “one side says” stuff if one side has the actual data.
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Social Service Review @socservreview.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
🚨Introducing SSR Special Collections! What is a special collection? It is a curated selection of articles, chosen by a guest editor(s), that showcase work published in SSR on a specific topic. All articles chosen are free to read for 6 months! www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/ssr...
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Social Service Review: Special collections
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
barred from interstate fucking travel. anyone with a uterus is a second class citizen in potentia
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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 04/12/2024
Chase Strangio is a hero exposing themselves to RW violence by making forceful pro-trans arguments before the Supreme Court. The Pullman Porters organized a cadre of bodyguards to protect Thurgood Marshall when he was dismantling segregation law. I hope someone does the same for Chase.
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Jennifer Mosley @jenmosley.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
I’m so skeptical I wrote a whole book about it! Evidence is often not nearly as solid as promised and the “hierarchy of evidence” (with RCTs at the top) limits our understanding of important levers for change. www.sup.org/books/mismea...
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Mismeasuring Impact | Stanford University Press
The hidden dangers of randomized controlled trials The need to demonstrate the effectiveness of nonprofit social programs has led to a rapid rise in the use of randomized controlled trials (RCTs), f...
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the irreducible @anguilline.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Reedie: that's a demitasse
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Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I WISH 29% of Americans were bisexual
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Ilene Tatroe (she/they) @murphgrrl.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
And here's why you should just give money. 1. The food bank knows what they need and can buy it. 2. Money can be used any time; if they don't need it right now, they can use it when donations are low. 3. Food banks tend to have deals with suppliers, which translates to more goods for their money.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
More and more mainstream Jewish groups are demanding that the US stop sending weapons to Israel:
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Rabbis Call on U.S. to Stop Transfer of Offensive Weapons to Israel | T'ruah
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
There’s a reason so many academics are dismissive of the Trump/Musk/Vivek types and it’s that we’re all very aware of the Overconfident Bro Who Hasn’t Done the Reading But Still Wants to Lead the Discussion
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