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Kathleen Broussard

@kbroussard.bsky.social
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Sociologist | sexual and reproductive health, fertility, medicine, and policy | proud Texan 🤠 kathleenbroussard.com

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 06/09/2026
And perceived health conditions may deter women especially from trying to have children, which would show up as health conditions leading to fewer births, depending how you slice it. @karenguzzo.bsky.social & @kbroussard.bsky.social:
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Women’s Reproductive Health Conditions and Fertility Goals - Population Research and Policy Review
There is a large body of research examining women’s fertility decision-making. Yet this work rarely considers how women’s experiences with reproductive health conditions may be linked to their fertili...
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Kathleen Broussard @kbroussard.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
“completely correct and a little annoying” … sounds like you are fulfilling your moral duty as an academic 😂
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Sarah Burgard @burgards.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
squeaky wheel resistance for the win... keep yelling!
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
People are making different decisions about parenthood and family than they did in the past, even among religious and conservative populations.
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Utah, Known for Big Families, Leads the U.S. in Dropping Birthrates (Gift Article)
Forget tradwives. When it comes to plummeting fertility rates, Utah is leading the country.
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Vienna Yearbook of Population Research (VYPR) @vypr.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
✔️Research article! @kbroussard.bsky.social underlines that concepts such as “ #fertility gaps” or “ #unmet fertility goals” should be defined carefully, measured consistently, and interpreted in relation to the specific construct they capture. 🔗 austriaca.at/0xc1aa5572%2...
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Kathleen Broussard @kbroussard.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
As fertility decline becomes a growing topic of debate, we must distinguish between changing preferences vs fertility barriers. Claims about fertility shortfalls, including who is most affected, depend heavily on how we define and measure them. Read the paper here: austriaca.at/0xc1aa5572_0...
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Kathleen Broussard @kbroussard.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
In a new article published in Vienna Yearbook of Population Research @vypr.bsky.social, I compare four measurement approaches based on fertility ideals, desires, intentions, and anticipated regret, showing that estimates vary widely (from 3.5% to 22.4%) depending on the indicator used. (2/3)
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Kathleen Broussard @kbroussard.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
What proportion of women end their childbearing years with fewer children than they want? Amid declining birth rates, researchers and policymakers have sought to understand the prevalence of “unrealized fertility,” but this concept is inconsistently defined and measured. (1/3)
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
New work w/ @kbroussard.bsky.social in @prpr-journal.bsky.social! We find that women with reproductive health conditions (like fibroids or endometriosis) are *more* likely to want a child but, conditional on wanting a child, *less* likely to intend to have one. 1/2 rdcu.be/e5BE6
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 05/12/2025
You may have heard that Trump’s extortion of University of California was defeated in court. But do you know who won this historic case? Spoiler: not a single UC administrator participated. It was all faculty members of the UC Faculty Associations and @aaup.org! Cc: @veenadubal.bsky.social
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Behind the Scenes: How UC Faculty Beat Back Trump's Attacks
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
You've probably heard that US fertility is "below replacement level." But what does that actually mean??? Demographers @lesja.bsky.social & others explain the link between birth rates & population growth in this new @ccfamilies.bsky.social brief. contemporaryfamilies.utah.edu/publications...
Picture of a brief published by the Council on Contemporary Families titled "How Do We Know When Fertility is Too Low?"
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Kathleen Broussard @kbroussard.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
(3/3) Socially informed artificial intelligence and/or data science: uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/194...
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Assistant Professor-AI & Data Science
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Kathleen Broussard @kbroussard.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
(2/3) Institutions and Inequalities (broadly defined) uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/194...
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Assistant Professor-Institutions and Inequalities
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Kathleen Broussard @kbroussard.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
TWO new Assistant Professor positions in Sociology at USC! Seeking candidates with expertise in the following: 1) Institutions & Inequalities and 2) Socially Informed AI and/or Data Science (links to job ads below👇). Happy to talk about what it's like to work/live here! #sociology (1/3)
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Kathleen Broussard @kbroussard.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Thank you so much! Excited to listen!
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Kathleen Broussard @kbroussard.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
As a Texan now living in a different southern state, I am always here for your Texas content 🙌
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Kathleen Broussard @kbroussard.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Just listened to Terry Gross' interview with Maurice Sendak while working at a coffee shop this morning and am weeping 😭 freshairarchive.org/segments/pig...
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This Pig Wants To Party: Maurice Sendak's Latest
Bumble-ardy is a deeply imaginative tale about an orphaned pig who longs for a birthday party. Sendak, who is 83, wrote and illustrated the book while caring for his longtime partner, who died of canc...
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Kathleen Broussard @kbroussard.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
I'm on a quest to find great (and I suppose, not so great) examples of interviews to share with my students for a class on interviewing methods. Please share your favorites! #sociology #interviewing
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Kathleen Broussard @kbroussard.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Just discovered this amazing resource for teaching about redlining and racial inequality in the US. Planning to show my students redlining maps and language from their own city in SC this year. dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/red...
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Mapping Inequality
Redlining in New Deal America
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Kathleen Broussard @kbroussard.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
TWO AP positions in Women's and Gender Studies at UofSC! Expertise in global social movements; Latina/o, Asian American, and/or Indigenous activism in the US; or girlhood studies. Happy to talk about what it's like to work/live here! #sociology uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/192...
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Assistant Professor
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Important new @prbdata.bsky.social report on access to birth control across the U.S. Wide variation, unfortunately, showing that where you live matters for contraceptive options. stateofaccess.prb.org
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Home - State of Access : A Contraceptive Policy Scorecard
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Tehran is 380 square miles. It has a population of 10 million people. If you cannot imagine that then imagine evacuating New York population just 8.5 million. Imagine the logistics, the roads— pregnant women? Children? Elderly? This is just an announcement of a mass execution of innocents.
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Kathleen Broussard @kbroussard.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
WAT
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Kathleen Broussard @kbroussard.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Incredible visualization of global migration www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | To Understand Global Migration, You Have to See It First (Gift Article)
These estimates, drawn from the location data of three billion Facebook users, provide a view of human migration in extraordinary detail.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I have lived in authoritarianism before, and participated in a popular movement against it. My political voice was born in it. I was just talking to a friend - this moment is *triggering* because it feels like so few people are reacting on the magnitude of what I know is coming.
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
8/8. So, if you’re feeling down about these attacks, I understand—I feel that way too. But just remember that they’re not attacking because your work doesn’t matter; they’re attacking *precisely* because it does. So, get some rest, connect with your people, and keep doing it.
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
This is a rather telling statement. Nearly a third of women in Louisiana are Black. www.businessinsider.com/gop-senator-...
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Maternal death rate isn't as bad if you don't count Black women, GOP senator says
Louisiana's Bill Cassidy said the state's maternal death rate isn't so high if you "correct our population for race," Politico reported.
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Kathleen Broussard @kbroussard.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Ha, maybe I’ll put them on the phone with my 4 year old, too.
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Kathleen Broussard @kbroussard.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Just called my elected officials in South Carolina.
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Kathleen Broussard @kbroussard.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
A poem for the start of the academic semester: onbeing.org/poetry/what-...
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What You Missed That Day You Were Absent from Fourth Grade | The On Being Project
Mrs. Nelson explained how to stand still and listen to the wind, how to find meaning in pumping gas, how peeling potatoes can be a form of prayer. She took questions on how not to feel lost in the dar...
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Me when I find out all my friends get their recipes from the NYT cooking section
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Kathleen Broussard @kbroussard.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Calling all poetic sociologists and sociological poets! What are your favorite poems about knowledge, science, gender, and/or sexuality? I'll start the list with one of my new favorites, read by Padraig O Tuama: "A word on statistics" #sociology #poetry onbeing.org/poetry/a-wor...
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A Word on Statistics | The On Being Project
Out of every hundred people those who always know better: fifty-two. Unsure of every step: nearly all the rest. Ready to help, as long as it doesn’t take long: forty-nine. Always good, because they ca...
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
UMass/Amherst (left) and Wesleyan University are both warning their international students to be on American soil before noon on Jan 20 -- Inauguration Day.
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Eva Beaujouan @fertdem.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Finally it’s today! The WIC conference on delayed reproduction: challenges and prospects is taking place in Vienna and is also online. Jacky Boivin , Anna Rotkirch and Lucy van de Wiel will be our keynote speakers. Great forthcoming two days!
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Delayed Reproduction: Challenges and Prospects
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Lili Vargha @lilivargha.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The Meaning and Measurement of Unrealized Fertility @kbroussard.bsky.social proposes a conceptual framework that accounts for biological, social, and psychological factors that contribute to unrealized fertility
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Kathleen Broussard @kbroussard.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Day 2!
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Kathleen Broussard @kbroussard.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
conferencing in Vienna 🤩
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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
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Kathleen Broussard @kbroussard.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
She was an excellent physician and South Carolina's only pediatric gynecologist. States with abortion restrictions are hurting their residents, providers, and healthcare system. We must demand change.
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Kathleen Broussard @kbroussard.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
Dr. Tomlin-featured in a video here-provided compassionate care for me when I had a miscarriage a couple of years ago. Local police harassed her after she provided abortion to a 13 year-old rape victim. She (understandably) decided to leave the state. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | Abortion Stories in Post-Roe America
In text messages, videos, voice memos and pictures, we hear from the people at the frontlines of abortion access about how their worlds have changed.
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Kathleen Broussard @kbroussard.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
Anthropologists are so cool. Anais Martin made a comic book about the experiences of gamete donors who were contacted by their offspring (check out more of her work @chairprocreation on IG) crcppa.uqo.ca/en/our-proje...
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Contact Project : The experience of gamete donors contacted by their donor offspring | Chaire de recherche du Canada
The Contact project aims to examine situations in which a gamete donor is directly contacted by a donor offspring, whom they did not previously know. The study will help better understand the conseque...
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Kathleen Broussard @kbroussard.bsky.social · 25/09/2024
Love spotting the incredible work of colleagues in the Harper’s Index! @ansirh.bsky.social
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Kathleen Broussard @kbroussard.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
Exciting opportunity alert! 🚀 The University of South Carolina is seeking an Assistant Professor of Sociology with expertise in Socially Informed AI. #SociologyJobs #Sociology Reach out if you have questions or want to chat! uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/175...
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Kathleen Broussard @kbroussard.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
Thank you @drcompton.bsky.social !!! Sociology starter pack 👇
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Kathleen Broussard @kbroussard.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
This was so good. Also, I’m convinced listening to Ezra and Jia talk about parenting is part of the pronatalist agenda 🙃
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Opinion | On Children, Meaning, Media and Psychedelics
The writer Jia Tolentino on parenting — and living a good life — in the age of smartphones.
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Alison Gemmill @alisongemmill.bsky.social · 27/08/2024
🎉🎉🎉 Suzanne Bell and I finally received our notice of award for our R01 to study the fertility, maternal health, and infant health consequences of Dobbs! Lots of papers in progress, so stay tuned. (Will be on BlueSky more; excited to engage w/ you all.)
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Alison Gemmill @alisongemmill.bsky.social · 27/08/2024
Hi friends who study fertility! Excited to share that I'm part of a team that received NSF funding to create a US Human Fertility Database. We'll be generating state-specific (since 1959) and county-specific (since 1982) period and cohort fertility indicators that will be easy to access.
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Kathleen Broussard @kbroussard.bsky.social · 08/08/2024
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Opinion | Stop Panicking About the Birthrate
We should focus on everyone’s welfare, not obsess about convincing more people to be parents.
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 24/06/2024
Kudos to @alisongemmill.bsky.social & her team for doing important (but heartbreaking) work on the rise in infant mortality in Texas following its 2021 abortion ban. CNN coverage here: www.cnn.com/2024/06/24/h... Study here: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 21/06/2024
In Japan, women who want sterilization must already have children, prove that pregnancy would endanger their health, and get consent of their spouses. Also, the pill and IUDs aren't covered by national health insurance, and women need partner consent for abortions. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/w...
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In Japan, These Women Want to Opt Out of Motherhood More Easily
A lawsuit challenges the onerous requirements for getting sterilized, calling the regulations paternalistic and a violation of women’s constitutional rights.
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