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Mark Abraham

@markabraham.bsky.social
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Collecting and sharing data on community-level health and well-being. Personal account: Posts here do not represent the views of my employer. #NHV resident.

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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Since #NHV decommissioned its Route 34 highway, these are a few of the new buildings around it built (green), starting construction soon (yellow, w/ new @yalesph.bsky.social home at center), red (proposed). Millions of square feet = massive new sources of revenue and jobs for the city. #Connecticut
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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
USNews rankings of some women’s colleges plummeted to a historic low point after the news and media website added a new “earnings by major” factor to its college rankings. (The factor is probably not adjusted by gender or hours worked) @usnews.com @wellesley.edu
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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
As recently as the Clinton era, the bottom 80% of U.S. households by income had higher consumer spending than the top 20%
WaPo chart from https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/08/20/ai-is-increasing-inequality-economists-hedge-fund-leaders-warn/
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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Hindu Kush Himalaya glaciers losing ice at double the rate since 2000 www.icimod.org/press-releas...
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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
no new infrastructure www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/u...
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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Also arrived today: appropriately titled preprint book by @resnikoff.bsky.social with strategies for revitalizing cities
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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Hot off the press @princetonupress.bsky.social - “the other housing crisis” brings much needed attention to the issue of housing deterioration
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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Stay Indoors. #Duluth
AirNow map of Duluth
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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Has anyone else noticed a rapid uptick in “little libraries” lately? For many years we’ve had about 8 of them within a 5 minute walk of our house in #NHV, but with neighbors adding new ones, there are now almost 20 within the same area (generally fewer books per library now, perhaps as a result).
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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Failing grades soar as professors see greater AI usage, dwindling math skills in UC Berkeley “[In some cases] we caught them (cheating)… in other cases, it’s students who are leaning a little too hard on LLMs …, and then at exam time just really aren’t ready.” www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...
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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
These are great! Here’s the first page of the CS project request form I wrote on behalf of the canal trail rail to trails association in early 2011, requesting raised crosswalks. Small common sense projects like these can take 15 years but are worth the wait!
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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
$400M+ construction project begins soon to turn the 8 high-level boarding platforms adjacent to New Haven Union Station (the nation’s 2nd most beautiful train station) into something that looks like Paddington Station #nhv #amtrak #metronorth
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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Since mid-Feb it looks like #transit ridership is up about 10% over prior weeks or year over year transitapp.com/apta
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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
It would cost over $500,000,000 to replace this one airplane but there is no existing production line.
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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Ms. Gregory is a first-time candidate with a @columbiauniversity.bsky.social master’s degree in #publichealth
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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
One minute to wipe out monthly food assistance for 6,029 families
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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
“In addition to the huge increase in leukemia, Busby and his colleagues found a 1,260% increase in rates of childhood cancer in Falluja after the US bombing … The peak effect in those at Hiroshima who were most irradiated was less than the effect in all of Falluja.”
Mona Chalabi datablog Iraq war leukemia rates
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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
#Connecticut housing ctdatahaven.org/report/new-c...
Chart showing housing listing rates by state Report cover
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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Raj Chetty came out with a new data-driven ranking of the world’s best universities, with Oxford and Yale at the top time.com/7358185/top-... #econsky
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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Neighborhood revitalization and child outcomes opportunityinsights.org/wp-content/u...
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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
From @themarshallproject.org
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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
New study published today: “Almost half of the monthly-updated CDC databases had unexplained pauses in 2025, mostly affecting vaccination data... Despite remaining publicly accessible, 38 CDC databases updated at least monthly were no longer current without notice” #publichealth
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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
A lot of it in SC, one of the red states here
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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Yale offers free tuition to families with incomes below $200,000 news.yale.edu/2026/01/27/y...
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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Keep it up #Connecticut
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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
DeStefano, In Brescia and Marshall, Eds., 2016
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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Small arms
Chart from Popular Info on ICE spending on small arms
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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
From today's @ctmirror.org: " #Connecticut residents are struggling more with mental health issues and some basic needs than they were in 2018, according to a survey released this month by @datahaven.bsky.social, a nonprofit organization producing data for the state." ctmirror.org/2025/11/20/c...
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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
This is a better chart for rise in renter cost burden since 2019, especially for renters >$45K (many families earning under that amount would not be able to afford to pay more anyhow) -- so the rising concern is higher than an average of all renters might suggest www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/housing...
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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Large increase in renter cost burden www.jchs.harvard.edu/state-nation...
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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
New feature article from TNJ (nation's best student magazine): Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI thenewjournalatyale.com/2025/10/insi...
By the end of the spring semester, Gwen reached a breaking point with AI. “I felt like I didn’t deserve to be a Yale student,” she said. She thought that she was throwing away her education and the scholarship paying to support it. 

She decided to quit using ChatGPT altogether. She didn’t ask AI to help her sentences flow or to strike the right tone. She didn’t even use it to brainstorm. “I think that’s a skill you need to have on your own. That’s the core of being original, anyway.” 

Gwen recalled completing her final assignments without AI, sitting in the middle of a crowded library so that she felt watched. “I struggled. And they weren’t very good.” 

It was only then, she said, that she started to understand just how much learning she had missed out on. ∎
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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Impact of SCOTUS admissions decision: Share of Black students entering Princeton, Cornell, and Wellesley falls to <5% jamessmurphy.com/2025/09/15/t...
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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Austerity and corruption is always the cause.
Graphic of Texas flood radio coverage
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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Graphic by @rwjf.org describing a few of the ways in which recent policy changes will impact families and communities. Keep an eye out for reports from organizations such as @datahaven.bsky.social, which publish reports/maps on how these changes impact individual towns & legislative districts. #nnip
infographic with text on impacts of HR1
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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
On 1934, about a year into Hitler’s appointment, “the cabinet decreed the "Law On The Allegiance of Civil Servants and Soldiers of the Armed Forces", which superseded original oaths and decreed both members of the armed forces and civil servants had to swear an oath of loyalty to Hitler personally”
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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
#NHV is implementing strong road diets with cycletracks along Whitney and State, 16 years after a huge citywide push by residents and city councilmen (now mayor and state rep), making room for 450 new homes www.newhavenindependent.org/article/whit... www.newhavenindependent.org/article/stat...
Photo from NH Independent Map from cityNH Indy reporting on rendering of new buildings
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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Other than Boston, New Haven is the most walkable city in New England www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi... #nhv #urbanplanning #connecticut
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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Food insecurity rates in CT show this as well
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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Changes from last year via @jamessmurphy.bsky.social
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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
ICE recruit excited about “slamming people’s faces into the pavement”
Washington Post article screenshot
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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
New: Connecticut and other Northeast states may consider seceding from federal #publichealth oversight www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/... #vaccines #connecticut
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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
ChatGPT vs Driving to Work vs Hamburger
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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
What happened in 2025?
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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
New study: "In a randomized controlled trial involving nearly 17,000 students, we find that mandatory in-class phone collection led to higher grades --- particularly among lower-performing, first-year, and non-STEM students" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #k12 #education
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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
I'm not an expert on this. What happened in January 2025? #jobsreport
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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Bring back the walkable #urbanism of #Syracuse in 1852
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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
It is almost as large as Manhattan, and uses far more energy (the entirety of NYC peaks at 10GW during the worst heat waves).
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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Purple Air real time air pollution map, US vs Canada #July4th
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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
“No important social welfare program like Medicaid has ever been rolled back to this extent.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Envisioning #Hartford if it had tens of billions of dollars to relocate destructive urban highways and reconnect the waterfront area www.cnu.org/publicsquare... #Connecticut #urbanplanning
diagram from CNU article
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