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Katie R. Billings

@katierbillings.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of Sociology at Skidmore College studying med soc, mental health, and law & society. UMassAmherst and Dartmouth alum. #firstgen. Views my own. She/they.

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Anna Kirkland @annakirkland.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
👊 @clancyny.bsky.social
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Elaine Hernandez @emhernandez.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
4 in 10 pregnant patients and 1 in 4 people use Medicaid. Shifting access among such a large population will have implications for the health of the entire population (and the HC institutions we rely upon). A major population health topic for demographers to prioritize. #ASA2025
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American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Meet with publishers, companies, and organizations showcasing their products and services in the #ASA2025 Exhibit Hall, 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
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Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study @ffcws.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
#FFdata at #ASA2025: We’re here at our booth (539) in the Exhibit Hall at this year’s ASA meeting today from 9:00am-4:00pm. Stop by and say hello, ask your questions, and grab some swag!
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Chantal Hailey @chantalahailey.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
“Without the impetus to go outside the box, I didn’t realize the box that I was in.” Patricia Hill Collins #asa2025
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Katie R. Billings @katierbillings.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Huge thanks to the @asasocpsych.bsky.social section for the Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award! #ASA2025
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ASA Medical Sociology @asamedsoc.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Happy Sunday 🎉 Here is our session schedule for the day. Use #MedSoc #ASAChicago or #ReimaginingHealth to show us your conference highlights!
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Anna Kirkland @annakirkland.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
My new book and I are both happy to be at #ASA2025 with @ucpress.bsky.social open access!
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
This is where we are, America. One of my old colleagues at the University of Arizona Cancer Center has set up a GoFundMe to help fund breast cancer research in the wake of massive cuts to NIH grants.
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With financial support in limbo, this UA cancer lab started crowdfunding
As federal funding changes hit universities, key research initiatives are scrambling to find cash. The Schroeder Lab at UA is one of them.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Again NOTHING WAS BUNGLED. She’s speaking into existence what they want the law to be, this is the MO from the very beginning. This purposeful, deliberate distortion must be called out. The NYTimes never ceases to play the fiddle for fascism.
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Rachel Cohen Booth @rcobooth.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Washington state lawmakers just voted today for statewide rent control, and the bill heads now to the governor's desk. It's the third state to do so after California and Oregon in 2019 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/u...
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Washington State Lawmakers Vote to Limit Rent Increases
Supporters say an annual cap of 10 percent, including inflation, will protect tenants. Critics worry it will reduce housing supply and discourage investors.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
People want institutions to stand up www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
And we know that some of these interactions with law enforcement were things like domestic violence victims calling the police for help. www.jezebel.com/trump-is-try...
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Trump Is Trying to Deport Hundreds of Students for 'Criminal Records'—Including a Domestic Violence Victim
“I wonder what else is to come. Are they going to be coming after naturalized citizens eventually?” said one student whose visa was revoked for unspecified reasons.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
This is a depraved collective punishment visited on the children of Maine because the president is a petulant narcissist who believes it's ok to hurt kids if the governor refuses to bow.
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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
one interesting aspect about being a sociology professor is you get used to saying "impolite" truths about how things work all the time, out loud, to virtual strangers (students, mostly) when most adults' jobs involve intricate, collaboratively-developed ways of sustaining these polite fictions
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
my daily reminder that “pro-segregation” is better framing (and more accurate) than “anti-DEI” Also, the folks pushing for these changes are ghouls www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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Amid anti-DEI push, National Park Service rewrites history of Underground Railroad
Since Trump took office, the park service, an agency charged with preserving American history, has changed how its website describes key moments from slavery to Jim Crow
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Alexis Dennis @acdennis.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
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Judge Permanently Bars N.I.H. From Limiting Medical Research Funding
The decision came as an initial win for a broad coalition of academic institutions that had argued the policy jeopardized ongoing research, but it set up an almost certain appeal.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
@booker.senate.gov dismantles a Confederate monument.
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500 Women Scientists @500womensci.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Science is political!
Screenshot of a post from @femknemi1y
" I stay out of politics" is such a weird way to spell "my rights as a human being aren't up in the air every 4 years and I have no problem with the fact that yours are"
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Katie R. Billings @katierbillings.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
I was honored to receive the Candace Rogers Award at ESS earlier this month for the best graduate student paper. ESS was my first conference in graduate school so I can’t describe how meaningful it is to receive this honor in my last semester as a graduate student. #ess25
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Sometime very soon we’re going to have to have the conversation about how many so-called progressives also wanted “DEI” to die & what all that mainstream endorsement of the propaganda around what at their essence were integration efforts says about people who believe themselves to be the good guys.
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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Stephanie McMurray’s “Masters of Small Worlds” — a brilliant study of why poor southern whites not only tolerated but embraced slaveholders who treated them with contempt — is important here. If the church and the press convince you that you and the oligarchs are one, you’ll happily shoot your foot.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Trudeau: I want to speak first directly to the American people… your government has chosen to do this to you. Your government has chosen to put American jobs at risk. They have chosen to raise costs for American consumers on everyday essential items…
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
The Department of Ed has a form to snitch on DEI policies in schools. I’d be a shame if we broke it with thousands of responses… enddei.ed.gov
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Department of Education FormLock
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Katie R. Billings @katierbillings.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Tomorrow is the economic blackout. Spend NOTHING. Plan accordingly!
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Katie R. Billings @katierbillings.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Thank you, President Adia Harvey Wingfield! 👏
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Catherine Tan @catherinetan.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
This was a preventable death. These are preventable cases. The people spreading vaccine misinformation are effectively murderers. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
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Unvaccinated Child Dies of Measles in Texas, Officials Say
At least 124 cases of measles have been identified in Texas since late January, mostly among children and teenagers who are either unvaccinated or whose vaccination status is unknown, officials say.
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Chris Bourg @mchris4duke.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Hmmm. Maybe college isn’t making people gay? You don’t say.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Cutting Dolly Parton’s program that helps kids learn how to read <<<<<<< www.14news.com/2025/02/19/t...
A teacher in Warrick County is speaking out after Indiana Governor Mike Braun removed Dolly Parton’s “Imagination Library” from the state’s budget.

Imagination Library is a book-gifting program for children under 5 in hopes of fostering early literacy.

With the pending removal from the state’s budget, the program will have no funding to get books into the hands of families.
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Katie R. Billings @katierbillings.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Proud to be a Mainer today.
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Maine governor tells Trump ‘see you in court’ amid faceoff over trans athletes
Trump threatened to withhold federal education funding if Maine does not comply with his executive order and bar transgender athletes from competing in girls’ sports.
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Julie Patchouly @juliepatchouly.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Please visit your local library and get a card. Even if you don’t use it right now you may in the future. Keep our libraries open.
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David Brady @davebrady72.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Over lifetime, each additional year of union membership reduces the odds of mortality by 1.5%. Effects primarily occur between ages of 41 and 67. Nice work @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The Mortality Implications of a Unionized Career
An emerging literature has documented a wide range of protections and benefits that union membership provides for health and wellbeing. However, this …
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