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Laura Royden @lauraroyden.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

No one told me how much of grad school would involve days like today: brain MRI, FL-41 glasses, and desperately hoping something helps my migraines.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

What better way to combat antisemitism than by stripping funds from a university with the highest percentages of Jewish undergraduates of any school in the Ivy League?

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Laura Royden @lauraroyden.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

How is it their fault the NBA has a stupid loophole if you don’t make any of the 3s??? Bring back my kings.

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Laura Royden @lauraroyden.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

This is maybe the fifth most important thing in this video, but it’s so clear none of these “women’s sports” defenders know anything about women’s sports. Banning men from women’s sports practice? Most women’s basketball teams practice against men!!

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Laura Royden @lauraroyden.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

On a broader level, it’s fascinating how criticisms of the US president and leader of the Republican party are often responded to with “yeah but these college kids…” It’s certainly most prominent re Israel/antisemitism, but it happens constantly in the “culture war” debates too.

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Emily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

This legislation would empower a crackdown on civil liberties. It would pit Jews against other minorities. It would attempt to codify an understanding about what it means to be Jewish, further diving Jewish communities. What it would not do is decrease antisemitism.

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Laura Royden @lauraroyden.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Last thing (maybe) for now about this is: people say it's fearmongering to say that this will only increase scrutiny of cis women who play sports. But look at any of the comment sections on a post about Brittney Griner, and you'll see all these weirdos calling her a man. It's already happening!!!

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Laura Royden @lauraroyden.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

It's hard to respond to this because two things are true at the same time: 1. I believe one (1) trans woman has competed in the Olympics as a woman. Absurd to spend this much time fussing about one person. 2. Even if there were thousands of trans women competing, this would still be shameful!

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Tom “T.M.” Wolf @tomtmwolf.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Sage words from @debpearlstein.bsky.social on rejecting nihilism and embracing the fight… www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/o...

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Laura Royden @lauraroyden.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Is everyone besides me getting work done right now or are we all just sort of doomscrolling and staring blankly...?

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Publicly talking about gender violence in such a high profile setting alters women’s lives dramatically, irrevocably, and for the worse. To promise that the sacrifice will matter when you know it will not is to mock that woman’s sacrifice.

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Laura Royden @lauraroyden.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

"I support Jews over Muslims in the Middle East, but I would still like all the Jews to leave my country and go to Israel" is a coherent antisemitic position that leads to Zionism. Not sure why people so many people think they're incompatible.

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Laura Royden @lauraroyden.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Wow good for Muffet, I was beginning to think no one would ever address this.

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Laura Royden @lauraroyden.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Huge day for me and my fellow Nolanheads. A true Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah to us indeed!!

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Laura Royden @lauraroyden.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Feast week, baby!! I went to bed around 1 at the beginning of the second half; Heels were down by 21. I gasped when my wife woke me up this morning to tell me we won. Let's goooooo!

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

One positive effect of watching a lot of basketball is that you get used to phrases like The Bad Boy Mowers Battle 4 Atlantis. It's not good to read stuff like that or know what it means but I sense it will help somewhat when something with a similar vibe and feel replaces Social Security.

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Laura Royden @lauraroyden.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

So proud of my sister for fighting for a fair wage for herself and her coworkers!! Union strong in the Royden family ✊

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Laura Royden @lauraroyden.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Goth update: He was diagnosed with what we thought was a sarcoma in August, and had it removed in September. It was actually a much rarer form of cancer, but the oncologist says he’s likely fine since they got the whole tumor and there are no signs of it having spread! So happy for my sweet guy.

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Laura Royden @lauraroyden.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Spending today learning about the median voter, who I would say is not particularly well informed about policies (essentially no benefits for undocumented immigrants are federal, and Virginia allows abortion until 26 weeks).

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Laura Royden @lauraroyden.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Summary of the past few seasons of #Survivor: “Your Survivor players were so preoccupied with whether or not they could [get someone out], they didn’t stop to think if they should.” Big moves for the sake of big moves aren’t fun or exciting!

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Laura Royden @lauraroyden.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

It pains me to say this about any former Duke player but: Jared McCain is simply a delight on and off the court. ROTY!

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Laura Royden @lauraroyden.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Wait so where are all the WNBA lesbians? Are they not here yet? Need to balance out all the Trump talk with Diana Taurasi talk 😭

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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

In Israel it's being covered that way and I'm going bananas. Is there antisemitism on the left? Yes. Was part of the campaign against Shapiro colored by it? Seems like also a yes. Was it decisive in the decision to go with Walz? Not in the least bit. Also Trump hosted Fuentes and Ye

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

Absolutely wild that GOPers are trying to paint Shapiro's non-selection as an antisemitic snub when they've spent years palling around with literal Nazis and meanwhile the guy Harris selected went out of his way to help the 4 Jewish students at his school & wrote a master's on Holocaust education.

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Dr. Matt Boxer @mboxer.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

And if you had any doubts about why no Republican has won the Jewish vote since Calvin Coolidge, consider that they're trying to make us believe *this* is antisemitism but can't be bothered to do anything about the real deal.

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Dr. Matt Boxer @mboxer.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

3) The Democratic ticket is pledged to defend freedom of religion even for people who aren't Christian-of-a-particularly-noxious-variety; the Republican ticket's Project 2025 is clear about trying to cram that version of Christianity down our throats.

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Dr. Matt Boxer @mboxer.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

2) The Democratic nominee for POTUS is married to a Jew; the Republican nominee thinks Nazis are "very fine people."

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Dr. Matt Boxer @mboxer.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

1) If we're judging by whether or not the selected VP candidate is Jewish: a) The Republican Party has *never* nominated a Jew for VP. b) The Democratic Party nominated a Jew for VP in 2000 (Joe Lieberman), and apparently Josh Shapiro was the runner-up this time around.

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Dr. Matt Boxer @mboxer.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

I keep seeing this ridiculous article about how not picking Josh Shapiro as VP is somehow "antisemitic." It's hard to imagine any reasonable person thinking that way, but clearly not everyone is reasonable, so let's get a few things straight: www.nytimes.com/2024/08/06/u...

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Walz Instead of Shapiro Excites Left, but May Alienate Jewish Voters

Many Jewish organizations backed Harris’s pick for running mate, but beneath that public sentiment is unease over antisemitism on both the left and the right.

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Laura Royden @lauraroyden.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

Proud to be in the ~2% of people with more than a thousand books who organize by color!!

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Joshua Kertzer @jkertzer.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

Fun fact: Golan, the retired general mentioned here has been specifically targeted by Israel’s right wing media machine for saying as IDF no2 that he was seeing processes in Israeli society that reminded him of 1930s Germany.

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Scott Barolo @sbarolo.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

my Likert Scale ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: Lovert ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: Likert ⭐️⭐️⭐️: Whatevert ⭐️⭐️: Dislikert ⭐️: Hatert

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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

I don’t think the international press is doing any justice to the enormity of what happened in Israel today. Forget the question of which side it favors, the coverage doesn’t capture how dramatically things have shifted.

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Laura Royden @lauraroyden.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

Goth had a seizure on Tuesday and I am now overcome with anxiety about his well-being, which I guess maybe is just what being a parent will be like for the rest of my life once we have kids??

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Laura Royden @lauraroyden.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

An update is that now essentially 99% of people following me are academics so this is actually the complete opposite of how I have to use this website. Gonna start posting about clustering my standard errors or whatever.

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Laura Royden @lauraroyden.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

All the COVID vaccine conspiracies are really great because googling if anyone else gets worse migraines for days after their boosters just leads to conspiracy theorists saying all vaccines cause migraines along with every other health thing. Thanks everyone!

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Laura Royden @lauraroyden.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

Turkey sighting on my street for the first time. Disastrous.

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Laura Royden @lauraroyden.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

Pre-Sukkot is a very funny time of year because every Jewish group and/or group chat is just full of people asking for schach. Also I need schach if anyone in Boston has some...

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Laura Royden @lauraroyden.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

I was recently stuck at the airport for 9 hours and had two old fashioneds but instead of tweeting I talked to the guy sitting next to me and learned about how he did ayahuasca to resolve his childhood trauma. Maybe David Brooks should try that!

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Laura Royden @lauraroyden.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

Someone says I should NOT check my email in the morning. Also five minutes after this, he put his big head on my laptop and managed to turn the brightness all the way down 👍

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Laura Royden @lauraroyden.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

Have to start posting on here more because @avishaybsg.bsky.social told me I needed to join Bluesky over Rosh Hashanah as if I weren’t already here 😭

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