Reposted by Katie R. BillingsAnna Kirkland @annakirkland.bsky.social · 10/08/2025👊 @clancyny.bsky.social 143
Reposted by Katie R. BillingsElaine Hernandez @emhernandez.bsky.social · 11/08/20254 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 132
Reposted by Katie R. BillingsAmerican Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Meet with publishers, companies, and organizations showcasing their products and services in the #ASA2025 Exhibit Hall, 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. 051
Reposted by Katie R. BillingsFuture 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! 041
Reposted by Katie R. BillingsChantal 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 0153
Katie R. Billings @katierbillings.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Huge thanks to the @asasocpsych.bsky.social section for the Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award! #ASA2025 031
Reposted by Katie R. BillingsASA Medical Sociology @asamedsoc.bsky.social · 10/08/2025Happy Sunday 🎉 Here is our session schedule for the day. Use #MedSoc #ASAChicago or #ReimaginingHealth to show us your conference highlights! 073
Reposted by Katie R. BillingsAnna Kirkland @annakirkland.bsky.social · 09/08/2025My new book and I are both happy to be at #ASA2025 with @ucpress.bsky.social open access! 17319
Reposted by Katie R. BillingsElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 07/07/2025This 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.azcentral.comWith financial support in limbo, this UA cancer lab started crowdfundingAs federal funding changes hit universities, key research initiatives are scrambling to find cash. The Schroeder Lab at UA is one of them. 24422187
Reposted by Katie R. BillingsHeba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Again 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. 1323168
Reposted by Katie R. BillingsRachel Cohen Booth @rcobooth.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Washington 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...nytimes.comWashington State Lawmakers Vote to Limit Rent IncreasesSupporters say an annual cap of 10 percent, including inflation, will protect tenants. Critics worry it will reduce housing supply and discourage investors. 16010
Reposted by Katie R. BillingsMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 17/04/2025People want institutions to stand up www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... 665378538805
Reposted by Katie R. BillingsNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 15/04/2025And 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...jezebel.comTrump 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. 1144
Reposted by Katie R. BillingsVictor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 12/04/2025This 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. 314552
Reposted by Katie R. BillingsLouise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 05/04/2025one 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 719137
Reposted by Katie R. BillingsVictor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 06/04/2025my 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...washingtonpost.comAmid anti-DEI push, National Park Service rewrites history of Underground RailroadSince 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 524999
Reposted by Katie R. BillingsAlexis Dennis @acdennis.bsky.social · 05/04/2025www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/u...nytimes.comJudge Permanently Bars N.I.H. From Limiting Medical Research FundingThe 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. 041
Reposted by Katie R. BillingsVictor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 02/04/2025@booker.senate.gov dismantles a Confederate monument. 83111901807
Reposted by Katie R. Billings500 Women Scientists @500womensci.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Science is political! 111617
Katie R. Billings @katierbillings.bsky.social · 30/03/2025I 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 030
Reposted by Katie R. BillingsIda Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/03/2025Sometime 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. 941709321
Reposted by Katie R. BillingsBrian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Stephanie 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. 321166254
Reposted by Katie R. BillingsAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Trudeau: 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… 20137534620344
Reposted by Katie R. BillingsJess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 27/02/2025The 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.govenddei.ed.govDepartment of Education FormLock 912104604704
Katie R. Billings @katierbillings.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Tomorrow is the economic blackout. Spend NOTHING. Plan accordingly! 020
Katie R. Billings @katierbillings.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Thank you, President Adia Harvey Wingfield! 👏 030
Reposted by Katie R. BillingsCatherine Tan @catherinetan.bsky.social · 26/02/2025This was a preventable death. These are preventable cases. The people spreading vaccine misinformation are effectively murderers. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...nytimes.comUnvaccinated Child Dies of Measles in Texas, Officials SayAt 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. 073
Reposted by Katie R. BillingsChris Bourg @mchris4duke.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Hmmm. Maybe college isn’t making people gay? You don’t say. 1156
Reposted by Katie R. BillingsPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Cutting Dolly Parton’s program that helps kids learn how to read <<<<<<< www.14news.com/2025/02/19/t... 17038351444
Katie R. Billings @katierbillings.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Proud to be a Mainer today.washingtonpost.comMaine governor tells Trump ‘see you in court’ amid faceoff over trans athletesTrump threatened to withhold federal education funding if Maine does not comply with his executive order and bar transgender athletes from competing in girls’ sports. 020
Reposted by Katie R. BillingsJulie Patchouly @juliepatchouly.bsky.social · 23/12/2024Please 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. 301269327
Reposted by Katie R. BillingsDavid Brady @davebrady72.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Over 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...sciencedirect.comThe Mortality Implications of a Unionized CareerAn emerging literature has documented a wide range of protections and benefits that union membership provides for health and wellbeing. However, this … 9497218