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Leslie Root

@lesja.bsky.social
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reproductive justice for all, solidarity forever. demographer, asst prof of research at CU Boulder, inveterate and not particularly professional poster. на носу очки, а в душе осень

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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 5h
I'm so sad for the Lynx but so happy for the Liberty... the duality of basketball 😔
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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 5h
It's early fall, 2017. You're 4 months pregnant. You can't stop doomscrolling reading about the Weinstein allegations. It's early fall, 2026. You're 4 months pregnant. You can't stop doomscrolling reading about the Cornell allegations.
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Jeremy Hot Wheels @kateneely.bsky.social · 7h
cis women and trans and non-binary people are allowed to be absolutely insane this week and if a cis man says anything we get to unhinged our jaws and bite his head off
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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 7h
This world will break your heart, that's for sure
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Algol @betapersei.bsky.social · 13h
"straight heated rivalry" already exists and its called "love and basketball"
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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 13h
I'm so annoyed that the PTO is ordering Chik-fil-a for a school movie night event and for parent-teacher conferences next week
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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm so surprised how many people are like "...why?" when I say I won't deliver at a Catholic hospital. Real "that one xkcd about geochemists" moment for me
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Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I bought my rhizomatic, antihierarchical, deeply interrelational go-to-work machine from the richest man alive, wait why are you laughing no stop laughing hold on-
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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
just searched all of my old posts for the word "wife" - try it, why don't you, and see what kind of wife thoughts you've been having!!!
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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I feel a little bad that Amanda Hess is the one on the story when we hit tradwife oversaturation
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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They added vocal fry to the Google Maps lady. Critical support.
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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
How are we still talking about coffee at job interviews
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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
On the one hand, bike supremacy. On the other, I need 11-year-olds on e-motos who won't even call out when passing to get off the sidewalk 😭
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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Being a woman in the 21st century is just people going "isn't there someone you forgot to ask?" about your fertility decisions until you die. If it's not Jesus or the 10^8 future people you prevented from being born by getting an IUD, it's your own mother
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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There's a lot going on here, including the fact that apparently the reported difference in healthy years in the abstract does not account for increasing healthy life expectancy. But the coinage is FOR SURE the worst part www.nber.org/papers/w35773
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Compound Delay: The Causes and Consequences of Later Grandmotherhood
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I don't think she can salvage this game but she's doing so good
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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
this is the kind of crap you see when you DRIVE in the morning. when you BIKE in the morning you see 1) a bald eagle just chilling in the grass at the top of the hill on 36, 15 feet away from you and 2) an "I bought this before Elon went CRAZY" bumper sticker on a ca. 2005 Camry 😂
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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
would love if these kinds of profiles weren't written by total marks
The craziest thing is that, in certain ways, she’s a voice of reason. America’s $10 billion fertility industry is suffering a massive PR crisis that makes the embryo mix-ups and baby-selling schemes of yore seem quaint. A few recent headlines: “The Chinese Billionaires Having Dozens of US-Born Babies Via Surrogate,” “The Family Law Loophole That Lets Sex Offenders Parent Kids,” “California Couple Busted for Running Suspected Baby Mill,” “Surrogate Mother Who Refused to Abort Baby Gives Birth Amid Ongoing Legal Dispute.” Polygenic testing companies promise today’s
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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Lathe of Heaven (1971)
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"At least once a month, reporting on fertility, I ask for an academic source and am instead directed to Waters, author of a biblical women’s leadership book that basically says the best thing about the Barbie movie was the patriarchy." Expertise is no match for a loud voice & a big microphone. 😭😭😭
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She’s 28, Loves God and Her Family, and Might Be the Reason You Can’t Have Kids
No IVF. No surrogacy. No polygenic tests. Emma Waters is leading a national fight against fertility tech—with her hot husband’s permission, of course.
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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
mmmm you do not have to hand it to the creepy natalists
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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Oh no Carla Leite 😰
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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The origin and whole point of "please clap" is that it's a little bit pathetic, lol
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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New paper out with @monjalexander.bsky.social and @rohanalexander.bsky.social using Kitagawa decomposition to examine the rate and composition components of the non-Hispanic Black/white racial disparity in US infant mortality, 2003-2024 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Decomposition of Black and White Infant Mortality Rates
This cross-sectional study uses 22 years of mortality data to quantify gestational age distribution and mortality rates in infants born to Black mothers compared with infants born to White mothers.
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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
everything happens so much
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Jeremy Hot Wheels @kateneely.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
[Stanford researcher attempts to tell me about my other brain] jesus christ not now Stanford researcher
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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
OK I can't stop thinking about this image. Shoebill this, cassowary that... Australian pelicans are 100% pure distilled nightmare birds. Insane Dark Muppet energy. Why do their EYES look like that
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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
do you want bindweed? because that's how you get bindweed
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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Belarusian potat
Lukashenka harvesting potatoes
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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"this Tesla identifies as a Prius 🏳️‍🌈 " man shut up
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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
They also generally seem pretty happy that it's morally correct to subjugate women
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Wanderfound @wanderfound.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Thoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 20/09/2026
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An image of a pelican with its gigantic mouth open, commonly associated with the "put baby in pelican mouth" post.
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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
being on a hiring committee has convinced me that there is literally no point in asking about someone's "leadership philosophy"
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rob @ok-but-still.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
fox news declares driving is "gay" amid oil crisis
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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Type of mom who accidentally wears a shirt that says ABORTION to a kid's birthday party
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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I need to change over the laundry instead of arguing with drivers on the local subreddit
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
My work stands at the intersection of what I actually do and whatever you are hiring for
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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
She studied labor history at Macalester. “She wanted her obituary to say that her ‘proudest achievement’ was helping convince NPR to increase its paid parental leave.” Only 38 years old.
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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Aww Gabby and Janelle look so sleepy 😪
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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Gruntled lesbians as far as the eye can see 💜
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
NYU Langone is paying the government $8.5 million in addition to ceasing gender-affirming care for minors. Cowardly loser shit.
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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
good news, everyone (h/t @drjenndowd.bsky.social)
Doomsday: Friday, 13 November, A.D. 2026

At this date human population will approach infinity if it grows as it has grown in the last two millenia (sic). 

Heinz von Foerster, Patricia M. Mora, Lawrence W. Amiot
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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Among my people (weirdos) we say "you have eighty-four teeth"
A tweet that says "in Georgian, we don't say 'you are pregnant' but we say 'you have two souls' and I think it is rather beautiful." Pregnant: orsuli = ori (two) + suli (soul)
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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
childhood hero marcy kaptur: retire bitch
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Businesslady 🌦️🪶🌄 @courtguerra.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
it’s perfect!! the genius lies in the ease with which everyone can achieve both a pregnancy & a new job
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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
it's dumb that you can't get FMLA until you've worked somewhere an entire year
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Казмонавт @kazmonaut.kzstan.com · 17/09/2026
new cat just dropped www.nbcnews.com/science/envi...
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New wild cat species is identified for first time in 100 years, researchers say
A type of tiger cat, the animal is slender, spotted and smaller than a house cat. It lives in the Bolivian cloud forest.
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My important contribution to this is that armadillos are one of the few non-human mammals that can get leprosy, if he found one he no doubt healed it.
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