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Maggie Frye

@maggiefrye.bsky.social
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Associate prof of sociology, university of Michigan. Also interested in Ann Arbor politics and why there are so many cars.

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Maggie Frye @maggiefrye.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
When you just learned about the preschool potluck yesterday, and it’s scheduled to start 15 minutes before you normally pick up your twins… you bring the donuts.
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Maggie Frye @maggiefrye.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Peak #AnnArbor townie: wearing a library summer game shirt, refreshing the election results to see whether the library will get even cooler, smelling a skunk from my open window.
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Maggie Frye @maggiefrye.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Twin toddler bedtime stories: A: “once upon a time, there was a rabbit, and a bunny, and a rabbit, and a bunny.” B: “what did the rabbit, and the bunny, and the rabbit, and the bunny do?”
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Maggie Frye @maggiefrye.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
We hit up 7 different playgrounds across Ann Arbor this weekend.
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Tim McKay @timmckay.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
There was a big #WeAreDEI rally and march at U-M this evening. Started on the Diag, then off to Ruthven where the 4 new resolutions of the faculty senate were posted on the central administration's doors.
#WeAreDEI rally on the University of Michigan Diag, in beautiful evening light.Faculty senate resolutions are attached to the doors of the Ruthven building beneath a #WeAreDEI sign. The logo above the doors says "Truth conquers by itself".
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Maggie Frye @maggiefrye.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Great turnout at the UM #weareDEI march!
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Maggie Frye @maggiefrye.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
“I think I’ve seen this film before, and I didn’t like the ending…”
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Trump Aides Solicit Ideas to Raise Birthrate, From Baby Bonuses to Fertility Planning
Baby bonuses and menstrual cycle classes are among the ideas pitched to Trump aides as they consider plans to try boosting the birthrate.
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Maggie Frye @maggiefrye.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
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Jess Hardie @jesshardie.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
For @truthout.org , @hebagowayed.bsky.social and I wrote about how universities have opened the door to Trump’s authoritarianism by suppressing pro-Palestine voices and how they must commit to the principles of academic freedom and free expression before it is too late.
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As ICE Jails Palestinian Protester, Universities Must Commit to Academic Freedom
Universities may sow their own demise if they continue to aid the suppression of pro-Palestine campus movements.
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Maggie Frye @maggiefrye.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
“People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi, executive director of the African Population and Health Research Center, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
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U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World
Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.
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Maggie Frye @maggiefrye.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Happy to see coverage of the termination if the dhs, but disappointed to see it called “obscure” in the very first sentence. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/h...
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Trump Administration Ends Global Health Research Program
The Demographic and Health Surveys were the only sources of reliable information in many countries on metrics such as mortality, nutrition and education.
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Maggie Frye @maggiefrye.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Heart wrenching decision, the DHS are an incredibly important data source. They have long been the only option available for studying change over time in individual- or family-level outcomes across Africa. My heart aches for everyone whose research, teaching, and other work depends on them.
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Maggie Frye @maggiefrye.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Twins just discovered the toddler sized carts at the grocery store… one went on a joyride through the frozen aisle, while the other knocked over some flowers. Both were still given suckers at checkout, which proves that people are good at heart.
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Maggie Frye @maggiefrye.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Going on my door tomorrow- thanks @sashakillewald.bsky.social!
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Yue Sun @environdemography.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
A little bit about my research: I am studying geographic disparities in health and mortality and their environmental and structural determinants. My previous research focused on state and county levels, but I am now shifting to an individual-level approach for better causal inference & explanation.
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Maggie Frye @maggiefrye.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Thinking today of all the amazing people I’ve met over the past 2 decades who worked for USAID.
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Maggie Frye @maggiefrye.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Michael Burawoy called me a “deviant demographer,” with his characteristic twinkle in his eye. I loved his class, it was the first time I really saw theory as a conversation, as something to build with others (those living and already passed).
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Maggie Frye @maggiefrye.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
This is a great read for this evening
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Peter Bergman @peterbergman.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Just had our data access rescinded for a projected using federal microdata to study and reduce disparate impact in housing markets.
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Maggie Frye @maggiefrye.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Reminded of how much this poem resonated w me circa 2017-18…
Passage from Mary Oliver poem “every morning” about not wanting to read the news but feeling compelled to.
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Maggie Frye @maggiefrye.bsky.social · 10/01/2024
I’m still so bummed about this.
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Maggie Frye @maggiefrye.bsky.social · 05/12/2023
Here is the letter! I don’t know how to add images here I guess.
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Maggie Frye @maggiefrye.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
NIMBY politics come home- my 6 year old’s class wrote letters to the mayor asking him not to tear down a “landmark building” to make way for 17 stories of housing, right near campus. We had a heated discussion about it this morning and she almost missed her bus.
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Maggie Frye @maggiefrye.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
If you had told my first year grad student self in 2007 that post tenure I would still feel nervous and self conscious about sharing a very early drafts of a new paper with a kind and helpful colleague, I wouldn’t have believed it. 🙈🙊🙉
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Maggie Frye @maggiefrye.bsky.social · 15/10/2023
I’m really glad to see ASA responding to the climate emergency w a rotation of virtual/in person meetings and rethinking locations to facilitate less plane travel: t.co/LMfnPXCx35
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Report of the ASA Annual Meeting Redesign Committee: Preparing for an Evolving Future | American Soc...
By Diogo Pinheiro, University of North Georgia, and Juliet Schor, Boston College
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Maggie Frye @maggiefrye.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
I really enjoyed reading this today! Great for methods teaching.
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The Right to Work and American Inequality - Tom VanHeuvelen, 2023
Labor historians describe Right to Work (RTW) as among the most consequential pushbacks against the early twentieth-century ascent of labor unions. Yet research...
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