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Dr. Kaitlyn M. Sims

@kaitsims.bsky.social
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Asst. Prof of Public Policy @ University of Denver. SHAPE Lab director. Sweater knitter/oil painter/coffee needer. She/her Research: DV, crime, health, housing, welfare, Econ sites.google.com/view/kaitsims 🏳️‍🌈 BLM, protect trans kids

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Dr. Kaitlyn M. Sims @kaitsims.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
College is back in session, but data show that September and October are the highest risk months for campus sexual assault. In my latest for @theconversation.com, I break down what we know about assault on campus, why data are so mediocre, and what colleges have tried to do about it.
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Dr. Kaitlyn M. Sims @kaitsims.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
if anyone wants to give me good professional news/a thumbs up i would absolutely take it rn ty
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Dr. Kaitlyn M. Sims @kaitsims.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This is delicious to me, personally THIS IS WHY WE DON'T USE CHATGPT GUYS
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Steve King♿️ @stevemking.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Taps sign** If you use AI to write...
You're not a writer
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Peter van Heusden (he/him) 🗿 @pvanheus.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Someone made a similar finding with code: blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/09/m...
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Mea Culpa - Dark Hours
Last week I launched a project called Dark Hours, which was a website utility to give you an idea of what could be seen in the sky that night. A developer who …
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Dr. Kaitlyn M. Sims @kaitsims.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
@zotero.org do y’all have influencers because I’m a true shill for you
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Dr. Kaitlyn M. Sims @kaitsims.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
thank christ i finally figured out how to disable the 'ai mode' on my chrome browser, now i can know a modicum of peace
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Dr. Kaitlyn M. Sims @kaitsims.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
AI MODELS ARE NOT OUR PEERS AI MODELS ARE NOT OUR PEERS AI MODELS ARE NOT OUR PEERS AI MODELS ARE NOT OUR PEERS
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 16/05/2026
This is legitimately one of the most horrifying things I have ever seen in all of the LLM bullshit that's out there. (That "joyful" is misspelled seems especially meaningful.)
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Dr. Kaitlyn M. Sims @kaitsims.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
folks of #criminology #sociologyofcrime #penology -- what journals take shorter commentary-style "what you need to know about x data" pieces rather than full length treatments?
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 11/05/2026
this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.
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Duaa Eldeib @deldeib.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
This was a hard story to report. Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying. www.propublica.org/article/more...
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Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
This is such incredible bullshit. I am alive, thriving, and writing books on health policy/politics thanks to antidepressants. Antidepressants aren't for everyone, but they can be literal lifesavers. Attacking their prescribing & use is stigmatizing and dangerous. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/s...
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Kennedy Starts a Push to Help Americans Quit Antidepressants
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Catherine 🌌 @catieslaughts.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 29/04/2026
When you said “yes” to something that, in retrospect, should have been a “no”, but it's now too late to backtrack and you have to, let's say, make the best out of the learning experience
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Dr. Kaitlyn M. Sims @kaitsims.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
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a man in a suit and tie is smiling in an office .
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Dr. Kaitlyn M. Sims @kaitsims.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
can't focus on anything work related but i sure as hell can call my congressional reps/senators and leave a voicemail
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Dr. Kaitlyn M. Sims @kaitsims.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
In related news, fork found in kitchen
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Dr. Kaitlyn M. Sims @kaitsims.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Beyond proud of my best friend @hilarymatfess.bsky.social and her new book from @stanfordpress.bsky.social. Hil is the kind of scholar I aspire to be, and I strongly recommend this book to anyone teaching IR/violence/security!
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Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs - DU @josefkorbelschool.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Social work degrees are losing "professional" status, cutting federal borrowing capacity nearly in half. In Colorado, where many counties lack a DV shelter, that means fewer trained advocates for survivors. Read more from Korbel Prof @kaitsims.bsky.social & students Leslie Carvalho & Kaelyn Lara:
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Dr. Kaitlyn M. Sims @kaitsims.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
🚨 New publication alert! 🚨 We're all stressed about the parent plus loans and prof. degree classifications. But this may prove even more painful for the social service sector, such as jobs serving survivors of violence. My latest for @theconversation.com theconversation.com/new-federal-...
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New federal student loan limits affect social work graduate students, with impacts for survivors of domestic violence in Colorado and elsewhere
The status change may result in students avoiding degrees in nursing and social work.
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Gross. There was 10% more domestic violence after home team losses "in states where mobile betting is legalized, in locations where higher bets were placed, around paydays, and for teams who were on a winning streak"
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Sports Betting Legalization Amplifies Emotional Cues & Intimate Partner Violence
This study explores the relationship between legalized sports gambling, unexpected emotional cues, and reported intimate partner violence (IPV). Using crime dat
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Dr. Kaitlyn M. Sims @kaitsims.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
absolutely wild to me how, across platforms, across years, across the globe, people still think it's cool to patronize a woman on the internet for making a teensy joke about her own procrastination habits.
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Dr. Kaitlyn M. Sims @kaitsims.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
oh no a man i don't know doesn't think i'm cute, how will i go on
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Dr. Kaitlyn M. Sims @kaitsims.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
i have once again put off for two months two tasks that took *checks notes* one hour together to complete i will learn nothing from this
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 18/03/2026
Thinking today of Dolores Huerta and of all the women who have been forced to choose between suffering in silence and risking the success of the broader missions they have worked to support. medium.com/@dolores_hue...
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Impossible to overestimate the damage this guy caused. His book was based on a laughably false premise and the movement he inspired led immigration crackdowns and forcible sterilization campaigns. Glad the population got one Ehrlich smaller today.
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The Population Bomb
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Dr. Kaitlyn M. Sims @kaitsims.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
This quarter, I taught a brand new elective class: Public Policy for Social Welfare. Going into it, I had a lot of anxiety given the current political climate, defunding and deprioritizing of *public policy for social welfare* etc. But I read my students' final reflections this morning and sobbed.
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Effie Seiberg @effies.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men." Just saying it right out loud now. newrepublic.com/post/207693/...
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Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power
They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.
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Hilary Matfess @hilarymatfess.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
god I am reading a book right now where the (female) author is trying to convince the (inferred to be female) audience that she has the keys to women's liberation WHILE ALSO constantly pointing to how her husband doesn't pull his weight with the kids.
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a woman is sitting in front of a microphone with the words girl , what on her face .
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Back in the day I was working a food booth at a musical festival and a guy dropped a five dollar bill in the tip jar and I thanked him profusely because I knew exactly how many McDoubles that represented and precisely how many more cents I needed for an additional McDouble
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Dr. Kaitlyn M. Sims @kaitsims.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
now is the time to choose to be -- and what it means to be -- human
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.
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‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI
As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large
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University of Michigan Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy @fordschool.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Can justice exist after trauma? A new study co-authored by @jeremylevine.bsky.social reveals that bureaucratic hurdles and racial disparities limit access to victim compensation for adult survivors of sexual assault. Read the full study: myumi.ch/Mkjm8
Headshot of Jeremy Levine.
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 03/03/2026
I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed. Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.
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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Claudine Gay was punished and lost her job for incomplete citations in her PhD dissertation.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 27/02/2026
When academia's stars mistreat people, they're "punished" with relief from teaching, mentoring, and service responsibilities. This frees them to spend more time on the more valued work of research. And dumps less valued responsibilities onto colleagues, making it harder for them to become stars.
In a statement to The Crimson, Summers wrote that the decision to leave was “difficult” and that he remained “grateful to the thousands of students and colleagues I have been privileged to teach and work with since coming to Harvard as a graduate student 50 years ago.”

“Free of formal responsibility, as President Emeritus and a retired professor, I look forward in time to engaging in research, analysis, and commentary on a range of global economic issues,” he added.
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Keith @minguseyes.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
"The men implicated in the Epstein files reinforces that I spend half my life explaining to men that their simplified, optimistic view of other men doesn’t line up with the experience of women and girls trying to dodge sexual harassment, assault and abuse attempts." - Leslie Morgan Steiner
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 24/02/2026
Shame on anyone who told women they were silly to worry that, post-Dobbs, birth control would be next.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
A lot of people, including me, were wondering how an IRB could ever approve this study. The answer is that no IRB did. The person who “signed off” on approval from the only ethics board that reviewed it had resigned three years earlier. His signature was used without his knowledge.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
This should make your blood boil. But coming from a small country town, it is not at all surprising.
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Institute for Humane Studies @theihs.org · 20/02/2026
Safe housing is foundational to security and opportunity. In Colorado, emergency domestic violence shelters exist in only half of the counties. IHS scholar @kaitsims.bsky.social examined the impact of housing shortages and policy constraints. Read More: theconversation.com/colorado-has...
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Colorado has emergency domestic violence shelters in only half its counties, leaving survivors without safe housing options
A lack of shelters and affordable housing means survivors of domestic violence have few places to go.
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Jeremy Levine @jeremylevine.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Justice after trauma? Race, red tape keep sexual assault victims from compensation
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Justice after trauma? Race, red tape keep sexual assault victims from compensation
Bureaucratic hurdles and racial disparities restrict access to victim compensation for adult survivors of sexual assault, deepen justice system inequities and compound trauma.
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Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs - DU @josefkorbelschool.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Despite high interest in mass incarceration, little research examines how it scales across 3,000 U.S. city and county jails. New from Korbel Prof @kaitsims.bsky.social in journals.sagepub.com shows how jails differ from prisons and why we should study the first step in the carceral cycle: jailing.
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Erin Eife @erineife.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Excited about this new pub! The first of many out of the Jail Justice Initiative :)
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Lincoln Bohn @lincolnbohn.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
#crimsky #polisky
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Dr. Kaitlyn M. Sims @kaitsims.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
🚨New publication alert!🚨 Jails are a prominent piece of the US carceral state, yet we often lump them in with prisons and (falsely) assume that they follow similar trends for mass incarceration. In this piece, we unpack what we lose when we conflate jails and prisons and trace jails' unique role.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 13/02/2026
Eliminating gender studies courses helps to ensure that universities and other institutions will continue to protect men who benefit from the abuse of women and girls, either directly or through their connections to those who exploit girls and women for profit. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott
Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why
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Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs - DU @josefkorbelschool.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Only 33 of Colorado's 64 counties have emergency shelters for people living in abusive situations. In an interview with Colorado Today on @cprnews.bsky.social, Korbel Prof @kaitsims.bsky.social discusses how this affects DV survivors and the complexities beyond funding. Listen here:
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Feb. 12, 2026: No indictment for Dem video, Missy Woods arraigned, strengthening Colorado's response to domestic violence | Colorado Public Radio
Former crime lab scientist Missy Woods pleaded not guilty to more than a hundred felonies Wednesday.
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