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Trish Homan

@pahoman.bsky.social
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Associate Prof. Population Health, Medical Sociology, Structural Sexism, Structural Racism, Demography, Aging & the Life course

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
THE OFFICIAL @standupforscience.net GUIDE FOR TALKING TO ANYONE ABOUT THE OMB RULE PROPOSAL!! www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a...
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How To Talk to Anyone About OMB-2026-0034 — Your Site Title
Written By: Colette Delawalla, PhD, CEO
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GenderSci Lab @genderscilab.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Our article on investment feminism and women's health is out now in Signs! doi.org/10.1086/738995 You can check out the explainer blog post here: www.genderscilab.org/blog/investm...
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Investment Feminism and Women’s Health | Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society: Vol 51, No 3
Abstract In this article, we introduce the term “investment feminism” to characterize the phenomenon in which financial actors position investment as a powerful lever for advancing gender equity. As a...
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Trish Homan @pahoman.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Another fantastic video from GenderSci Lab... this time about sex disparities in adverse drug events. Great resource for teaching!
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
This week's cover @thelancet.com
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Zachary Levenson @grundrza.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:
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Williams Institute @williamsinstitute.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Our new research shows that hundreds of federal surveys removed questions about sexual orientation and gender identity since the start of the second Trump administration. Read the full report at: tinyurl.com/SOGIdata
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
New Postdoctoral Research Associate positions at @Princeton's Office of Population Research!
postdoctoral associate at Princeton ad
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GenderSci Lab @genderscilab.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
As the 2026 Winter Olympics kick off with projected record-setting representation of women athletes, the GenderSci Lab is excited to share a new video we’ve created explaining how gendered social factors contribute to a higher risk of injury for women athletes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmLv...
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Gender Inequities in Sports and ACL Injury Risk
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Andrea Leverentz @amlevere.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
“the state-approved version doesn’t include chapters on media and technology, global inequality, race and ethnicity, social stratification, or gender, sex and sexuality.” State. Approved. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
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Florida Introduces “Sanitized” Sociology Textbook
The volume was created after a state review found that existing course materials violated a law prohibiting general education courses from teaching about systemic inequality. So far, at least two univ...
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GenderSci Lab @genderscilab.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
As explained in our short video, we found that these algorithms risk perpetuating “crude ontologies of sex and gender that undermine both scientific validity and health justice” (p. 1). www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TqL...
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Algorithmic futures for women’s health?
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Trish Homan @pahoman.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Check out this new research by GSL!!! It comes with a short video and blog-- great resource for teaching!
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
There's no better way to observe MLK Day than to go on the news and insist that the civil rights protesters objecting to police brutality are actually "paid agitators"
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
“NIH is in crisis, grants are being terminated, labs are closing….but they found $1.6 million for an unsolicited proposal to study whether we should delay a vaccine we’ve been safely giving for 40 years, in a country where infants are at high risk of infection” www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
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CDC awards $1.6 million for hepatitis B vaccine study, likely to controversial Danish researchers
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
For a more realistic take on discrimination in the workplace, might I suggest my once again relevant articles.
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Why So Many Organizations Stay White
Understanding how race is historically and structurally built into the workplace
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Trish Homan @pahoman.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
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'Brain scars': The hidden forms of sexism that harm women's health
Subtle sexism that pervades everyday life often gets shrugged off. But research shows it can still have lasting psychological effects – including "thinning" parts of the brain.
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anthrofuentes.bsky.social @anthrofuentes.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
"Three maxims for countering sex essentialism in scientific research" --excellent work, and important insight, from the always amazing @genderscilab.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Three maxims for countering sex essentialism in scientific research - Biology of Sex Differences
To explain observed disparities in health outcomes between men and women, sex essentialist approaches assign causal primacy to sex-related biology. In this essay, we present three case studies to illu...
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GenderSci Lab @genderscilab.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Hot off the press! See our new paper: “Three maxims for countering sex essentialism in scientific research” in the journal Biology of Sex Differences. We show how sex essentialism distorts research & propose 3 ways to avoid making these mistakes. (1/12) rdcu.be/eNcRM
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Three maxims for countering sex essentialism in scientific research
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19/11/2025
NEW: ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions. Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.
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“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
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Carolina Population Center @uncpopcenter.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Congrats to CPC Fellow and Assistant Professor of Sociology Lauren Valentino, who was selected for a Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar Fellowship for the 2026-27 academic year!
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Trish Homan @pahoman.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Great article in the conversation by David Baker et al. on how US crackdown on academic freedom undermines global collaboration and scientific productivity: theconversation.com/research-bre...
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Research breakthroughs often come through collaborations − attacks on academic freedom threaten this vital work
Academic freedom grew strongly after World War II, with greater university funding, protections and autonomy, yet global data now shows a decline.
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Susan Short @susanshort.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Does women’s health need protecting? The administration thinks so. But what does this mean? Evidence-based assessment of first 30 days of changes to womenshealth[dot]gov with @pahoman.bsky.social in @lancetrh-americ.bsky.social
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Trish Homan @pahoman.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
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Commentary: Florida’s education commissioner just fired free thought
Anastasios Kamoutsas’ removal of a sociology professor from a statewide committee is only the latest government attempt to limit the scope of education.
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Emily Dore @emilydore.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Our new study shows that living in states with higher levels of structural sexism was associated with worse cardiovascular disease outcomes for both men and women, especially for diabetes and stroke. @pahoman.bsky.social @deborascience.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Image shows a screenshot of the first page of the article, State-Level Structural Sexism and Cardiovascular Disease Outcomes in the United States, published in Social Science & Medicine
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Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com · 31/10/2025
Turns out Trump's "Defending Women" executive order is not, in fact, about defending women's health. It has led to the removal of of a lot of crucial information about women's health. This just out in a peer reviewed article by Patricia Homan and Susan Short. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Rewriting women's health: a content analysis of the Trump administration's revisions to womenshealth.gov
In 2025, the Trump administration instituted rapid changes to the data and information available on US government websites. We conducted a content ana…
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Trish Homan @pahoman.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
New publication with @susanshort.bsky.social in @lancetrh-americ.bsky.social. We analyzed 2025 revisions to womenshealth[dot]gov under the Trump administration -documenting how credible health content was replaced with ideology: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Rewriting women's health: a content analysis of the Trump administration's revisions to womenshealth.gov
In 2025, the Trump administration instituted rapid changes to the data and information available on US government websites. We conducted a content ana…
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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
setting aside Florida's Board of Governors corrosively nefarious intentions behind this move, as someone who typically finishes drafting my syllabi on <the author blushes in shame> the eve of the first day of class, this will haunt my nightmares forever
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Megan Molteni @mmolteni.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
As trust in the federal government's stewardship of US public health infrastructure plummets, NEJM and CIDRAP are launching a rival publication to the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Story by @aniloza.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/10/21/c...
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NEJM and public health group are launching rival to CDC’s MMWR publication
Two institutions are coming together to create an alternative to the CDC’s vaunted Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
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Trish Homan @pahoman.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
"The science of gender, the history of racism and other legitimate fields of inquiry are being treated as 'thought crimes,' as if Orwell’s satire were state policy. People are losing their jobs for doing their jobs."
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Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
"The message is clear: Texas A&M does not permit teaching LGBT topics. Politicians, not professors, decide what is taught in Texas classrooms. Anyone who crosses this line may be fired on flimsy pretext" www.chronicle.com/article/why-...
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Why I Withdrew From My Dream Job
At Texas A&M, politicians, not professors, decide what is taught in classrooms.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
“American science, the gold-standard and world-leading science and innovation enterprise, is being destroyed….Congress has a rare moment of leverage to check Trump’s executive overreach and it must stand up and do so.” - @markhisted.org, NIH neuroscientist www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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This US government shutdown is different: what it means for science
President Trump’s budget office lays out guidelines for mass lay-offs across the federal government.
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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What if NIH had been 40% smaller?
Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research
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Trish Homan @pahoman.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Important new article in NEJM: www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Structural and Scientific Racism, Science, and Health — Evidence versus Ideology | NEJM
The U.S. government has terminated grants funding work it considers to address “DEI,” conflating health equity research with efforts to change the composition and climate of the scientific workforce.
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Trish Homan @pahoman.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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Early dropoff in girls' school sports linked to new gender confirmation forms
Province's new requirements are already having impacts on girls' sports in junior high
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Dr. Rabbithole @drrabbithole.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Gender is a scientifically valid construct. Essentially Texas A&M is forcing their instructors to lie about or omit factual scientific information because it is politically inconvenient for them.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
I encourage people to watch this video. The selected footage shows the professor doing nothing even slightly out of line, whereas the student misinterprets the law and hopes to impose her religious beliefs on the material. Administrators caving to this is terrifying.
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Rene Almeling @ralmeling.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
***Call for Papers*** Gametic Politics: Eggs, Sperm, and Gender/Sex in the 21st Century A workshop for early-career researchers organized by Rene Almeling and Sarah Richardson. April 16-17, 2026 Yale University New Haven, CT Details and application form: www.renealmeling.com/gametic-poli...
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Gametic Politics Workshop
Call for papers for social science and humanities scholars studying eggs, sperm, and gender/sex in the 21st century
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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 29/08/2025
Sociology quick-take! "Defining Discrimination Changes Policy Preferences" covers new @amjsoc.bsky.social research by @sociologylauren.bsky.social & @evangelinewarren.com on Americans' racism, sexism, & classism evaluation criteria & how they change opinions on redress contexts.org/articles/def...
A screenshot of the social science website contexts.org shows a photo  of a person highlighting the word "racism" in pink in a dictionary and includes the title of the article, "Defining Discrimination Changes Policy Preferences." The byline reads, "By Parker Muzzerall."
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Republicans say they don’t believe in structural racism or structural inequality but they sure know how to create and enforce it. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
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US Supreme Court lets Trump cut diversity-related NIH grants
The U.S. Supreme Court let President Donald Trump's administration on Thursday proceed with sweeping cuts to National Institutes of Health grants for research related to racial minorities or LGBT people, part of his crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and transgender identity.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Here is the Priorities document (long thread) 1/n
Dear Colleagues:
I am sending this memo to clarify our priorities and ensure efforts to fulfill our mission are aligned across the agency. I want to start by expressing my gratitude for your advice and input thus far, and I look forward to our continued collaboration. I have had the opportunity now to visit labs and meet with teams across the agency, and I am constantly impressed. It is a privilege to work with such a dedicated and talented staff.
I recognize that several new initiatives and policies have been implemented in a short period of time, and there has been some confusion due to inaccurate media reports and rumors. Therefore, I have outlined select agency priorities at the end of this note to ensure you have a clearer picture of our rationale and objectives. I do not mean this memo to be an exhaustive list of all agency priorities, but rather a select list of topics that require our particular attention and focus while continuing the other important work you are all doing. This memo will help to ensure NIH supports only high-quality projects selected based on the merit of the science and that are aligned with our mission to generate data that can improve the health of all of the American people. I ask each of you to use this guidance when reviewing your intramural and extramural research portfolios and making decisions about your future programs.
In recent weeks, it has come to my attention that some at NIH and in the scientific community believe that there are “banned words” or some level of censorship of science ongoing or planned. This is simply untrue. I have advocated for academic freedom throughout my career, with a particular public focus in the last five years. My position has not changed; scientists must be allowed to pursue their ideas free of censorship or control by others. They must be able to express their scientific opinions and challenge scientific dogma.
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Trish Homan @pahoman.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
New short paper out today in the American Journal of Transplantation coauthored with Annika Gompers and Jessica Harding. "Naming Sexism to Improve Kidney Transplant Equity" authors.elsevier.com/c/1lPWB5hx-W...
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 07/07/2025
The United States has recorded its highest annual measles cases in 33 years. The milestone marks a public health reversal in defeating a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable disease as the anti-vaccine movement gains strength.
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U.S. measles cases reach 33-year record high as outbreaks spread
Johns Hopkins University data reflects the public health reversal in defeating the vaccine-preventable disease since measles was officially eliminated from the U.S. in 2000.
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Journalists often ask for my thoughts on the contemporary US pronatalist movement. My assessment is based on my expertise and training as a social demographer, and my own research on childbearing behaviors at the individual and aggregate levels. Strap in, b/c I've got a lot to say. 1/
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Fenit Nirappil @fenitn.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
NIH cuts have life and death consequences. How a cancer patient became collateral damage to Trump’s purge of the federal workforce, @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social reports wapo.st/44ntbo4
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His custom cancer therapy is in an NIH freezer. He may not get it in time.
The purge of probationary federal workers included skilled lab personnel who would have finalized a customized cell immunotherapy for cancer patients.
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Tom Hollenstein @tomhollenstein.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
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Queen’s University is a globally engaged, research-intensive institution dedicated to attracting and supporting exceptional PhD students who will significantly advance our research mission.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Our Annual Review of Sociology article on conceptualizing and measuring structural racism is now available. Get it while studying racism is still legal. @tyson-brown.bsky.social @pahoman.bsky.social (also, lots of great articles are in this volume). www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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Advancing the Scientific Study of Structural Racism: Concepts, Measures, and Methods | Annual Reviews
This review provides 10 actionable recommendations for advancing the scientific study of structural racism through theoretically grounded and empirically robust measures and methods. By offering conce...
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Corey Moss-Pech @cmpech.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Thanks for the shout out @asanews.bsky.social ! As college graduation season rolls around, check out my new book on college majors and entry-level jobs!
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Trish Homan @pahoman.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
I've had an incredible sabbatical year as a visiting scholar @genderscilab.bsky.social! Consider donating if you want to support the important work the lab is doing in these challenging times.
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The trope that universities are "dependent" on the federal government fundamentally misunderstands how vital this partnership has been for the US. The private sector can't replace it. If we kill it, we're all worse off. From @donmoyn.bsky.social and me: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/are-univer...
Moreover, these funds serve the public interest. Universities do things private companies with research capacities cannot: train research talent, conduct basic research with uncertain payoffs, and distribute knowledge as a public good. And the rewards have been enormous. Everything from the internet to pharmaceutical and health care innovations evolved from such investments. We are richer and healthier for the investment.
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