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Dr. Kaitlyn M. Sims @kaitsims.bsky.social · 20h

In my latest for @us.theconversation.com , I break down how the Cornell case shows known institutional failure points and, frankly, why victims of violence don't trust the institutions that are supposed to protect them. theconversation.com/handling-of-...

theconversation.com

Handling of rape allegations at Cornell shows why so many assaults go unreported – victims don’t trust the institutions that are supposed to help them

Only 7% of sexual assault victims reported contacting local police.

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Dr. Kaitlyn M. Sims @kaitsims.bsky.social · 20h

Like many, I've felt a range of emotions--anger, frustration, disappointment--at the unfolding story about the Cornell 7. But under all of that is a deep well of sadness. Despite the efforts our communities have made, institutional responses to sexual/domestic violence continue to fail survivors.

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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...

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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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Dr. Kaitlyn M. Sims @kaitsims.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

read the first seven words and was like yep i'm game

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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...

propublica.org

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...

nytimes.com

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 · 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 · 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

Beyond proud of my senior SHAPE Lab RAs--Leslie Carvalho and Kaelyn Lara--who are co-authors on this piece. Both bring practitioner experience from working in DV/SA service organizations, and both are graduating this spring from our MA in Int'l Studies! Hire them! @josefkorbelschool.bsky.social

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Dr. Kaitlyn M. Sims @kaitsims.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

In jobs where there is such a problem of under-compensation, many staff are 'paid' 'moral wages' (Kolb, 2014)-- the intrinsic satisfaction of knowing your work matters, even if your paycheck doesn't reflect that. But now, we're (Dept. of Ed) telling those grads their degrees aren't 'professional.'

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Dr. Kaitlyn M. Sims @kaitsims.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

The new loan limits cap annual tuition assistance below many universities' annual cost--and designating grad degrees like nursing, social work, and more as 'non-professional' means those caps will be even lower. This stands to hurt the labor force in these high-needs (low-paid) DV service jobs.

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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-...

theconversation.com

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"

papers.ssrn.com

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

the amount of house cleaning i've done in the name of putting off something else is...probably a solid substitution

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Dr. Kaitlyn M. Sims @kaitsims.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

the way this person framed their complaints--telling me I 'wasn't cute' for this joke, accusing me based on solely this of having 'learned helplessness', the 'uwu' of it all--in gendered terms is...really something else

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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.

open.spotify.com

The Population Bomb

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Dr. Kaitlyn M. Sims @kaitsims.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

This class was a gamble for me--something I'd never taken as a student and designed based on what I thought made sense--and it became the highlight of my week. My students are going to be incredible leaders and changemakers, and I'm so proud to have been a small part of that. end/earnest on main

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Dr. Kaitlyn M. Sims @kaitsims.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I am so so grateful for how these 18 undergrads showed up day in and day out with a genuine openness to playing with ideas, grappling with conflict, engaging in ethical murkiness, and becoming comfortable with the best answer being "it depends. Because when it comes to social policy, it depends!

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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 is a spooky Cyborg @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/...

newrepublic.com

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.

media.tenor.com

a woman is sitting in front of a microphone with the words girl , what on her face .

ALT: 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.

theguardian.com

‘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

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