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Regina Baker

@rsbaker.bsky.social
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Georgia girl• UNC-CH associate professor of sociology • alum of Mercer, UGA, & Duke • hopeful for a better tomorrow

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UM Population Studies Center @um-psc.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Registration is open for the @umichstonecid.bsky.social April 10 conference on measuring and theorizing structural racism. Check out the schedule & panelists, and register: structural-racism.isr.umich.edu
Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics: Measuring and Theorizing Structural Racism Conference in Ann Arbor, April 10
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Regina Baker @rsbaker.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
@docthoughts.bsky.social thanks for tagging me! 😊
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Regina Baker @rsbaker.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Ooh, didn't know about that one. Will have to get it! Do you think it would be good for a grad course? Undergrad?
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
You've probably heard that US fertility is "below replacement level." But what does that actually mean??? Demographers @lesja.bsky.social & others explain the link between birth rates & population growth in this new @ccfamilies.bsky.social brief. contemporaryfamilies.utah.edu/publications...
Picture of a brief published by the Council on Contemporary Families titled "How Do We Know When Fertility is Too Low?"
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Council on Contemporary Families @ccfamilies.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
‼️New @ccfamilies.bsky.social Brief Report ‼️ How Do We Know When Fertility Is Too Low? Falling birth rates have fueled worries about “below replacement” fertility. But the link between today’s fertility rate and long-term population decline isn’t so simple. Check it out here: 🔗 bit.ly/4hjOHyS
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How Do We Know When Fertility Is Too Low? - Contemporary Families - The University of Utah
Falling birth rates in the U.S. have raised concerns that the current total fertility rate (TFR) has fallen "below replacement" level. In reality, the relationship between current fertility rates and ...
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
I'm immensely proud of the work done by the faculty, staff, and students of @uncpopcenter.bsky.social. Learn more about the excellent population science work being done at the Carolina Population Center - and the amazing people behind it - in our new report.
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CPC Annual Report | Carolina Population Center
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Regina Baker @rsbaker.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
😂
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Regina Baker @rsbaker.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Yes! So nice when they connect the dots!! 😊
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 11/10/2025
They know they won't be in power forever. So, they're breaking as much as they can right now, in the hope that whoever follows them won't be able to put it all back together.
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Regina Baker @rsbaker.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
👇🏿💯
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Emma Zang @dremmazang.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
🚨 We’re hiring! Yale Sociology is searching for a Senior Quantitative Sociologist to join our department. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/174709
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Regina Baker @rsbaker.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Indeed, UNC-CH Sociology is hiring again! Check it out and please share. :)
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Regina Baker @rsbaker.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Aren't these happy Lego potted plants the cutest? (Yay for more office plants that I can't kill! 😆) #lego #plants #officeswag #selfcare
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Regina Baker @rsbaker.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
🖤 yes! And thank you for mentioning my work! 😄
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Regina Baker @rsbaker.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Excited to get my copy of Inherited Inequality, such an important new book by the brilliant Dr. Christina Cross @christinajcross.bsky.social! I look forward to reading it and teaching it! 😊 #Sociology #Policy #Families #Inequality
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Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
JOB ALERT FOR #SOCIOLOGIST: Come work with me. We have FOUR Assistant Professor positions in the Sociology Department at the University of Calgary. careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1672106...
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Assistant Professors - Sociology, Faculty of Arts in Calgary, AB, ...
Assistant Professors - Sociology, Faculty of Arts in Calgary, AB, ...
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Regina Baker @rsbaker.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
"A lot of people have TOO much to say on topics they DON'T know enough about." - a wise student in my first year seminar course 💯💯💯
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Regina Baker @rsbaker.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Congrats, Shay! Looks great!(And it was a pleasure seeing you at ASA! 😊)
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 05/06/2025
In the face of attacks on research, education, and humanity, we're stronger together than we are on our own. So, I'm deeply grateful to get to be part of the ASA leadership team, to serve alongside Dr. Young, and to help members build solidarity and champion the essential work of sociology.
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Regina Baker @rsbaker.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Congrats, Jess!! ASA VP-elect AND the one-year anniversary of Holding Together -- what an exciting week for you!!! ☺️🎉
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Nature ran a piece finding that 25 million people could die as a result of ending USAID. This puts Trump and Musk in the category of the most brutal leaders of the 20th century in terms of unnecessary lives lost. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Nature graph documenting estimated lives lost from USAID. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01191-z
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Kate Weisshaar @kateweisshaar.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
This is shameful. The UNC Board of Trustees fails to vote on all tenure cases in Arts & Sciences, holding faculty in limbo without any explanation or timeline. This affects both assistant profs up for tenure and new tenured hires. www.chronicle.com/article/at-c...
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At Chapel Hill, Only Health-Sciences Professors Have Been Getting Tenure
The UNC Chapel Hill board hasn’t tenured a single professor in fields outside the health sciences since January. The inaction has prompted confusion and alarm among faculty.
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Regina Baker @rsbaker.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
💯 This! ⬇️
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Regina Baker @rsbaker.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Please add me as well! :)
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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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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...
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'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects
A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …
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Naima Cochrane @stillnaima.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
I've really enjoyed never having to think about measles in my ENTIRE 49 years of life. I guess it was a good run
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Regina Baker @rsbaker.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
YES to all of this!! Such a great thread. Thank you @hebagowayed.bsky.social for keeping it real!🖤
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
The plans the WH is considering are not those seen in other high-income countries that aim to facilitate work & childrearing. They are not investing in childcare infrastructure or paid parental leave programs. They want to return to a time when women were dependent on men. Pronatalism is sexist.
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Shooting memorial cancelled because of a shooting is so very American.
FSU active shooting cancels campus event that honored Tallahassee hot yoga shooting victim
4:10 p.m. – An event at Florida State University designed to promote safety on campus and among FSU students was canceled − due to an active shooting at FSU on the day of.
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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
the pronatalist movement and the anti-women's-rights movement are one, and they go hand in hand with pro-poverty and anti-ed policy that hurts children. have kids, even though they and you will suffer. effective control over women AND the children
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Regina Baker @rsbaker.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Thank you for sharing these! This will be helpful for my class next week focusing on education policies and programs that impact povety.
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Regina Baker @rsbaker.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
It's so great to see some GREAT news these days! Huge congrats Heba @hebagowayed.bsky.social on your well-deserved Carnegie Fellowship!!! Your book project is such an IMPORTANT and timely one, and I am so glad I got to hear more about it during your recent visit. 😊 Congrats, again! 👏🏾🥂🥳
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
this is the way
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Regina Baker @rsbaker.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
2/2 More on the proposed bill here: abc11.com/post/house-b... But, it is the hurricane funds requested by NC that have been deemed "unwarranted"?!? Make it make sense, y'all.
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New Bill proposes funding for potential presidential library honoring Donald Trump at UNC Pembroke
The legislation would set aside money to build a presidential library in honor of Donald Trump at the University of North Carolina Pembroke.
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Regina Baker @rsbaker.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
1/2 - So, let me get this straight...the Trump admin has denied NC's FEMA aid request for Hurricane Helene, yet the recently proposed NC House Bill 812 would allocate $10 million to UNC-P "to construct a Presidential Library in honor of President Donald John Trump"!? www.newsweek.com/trump-denies...
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Trump denies FEMA aid extension in state he won three times
In the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, President Donald Trump voiced sharp criticism of FEMA's response in North Carolina.
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Regina Baker @rsbaker.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
"There's literally no one in the govt who knows how to calculate the guidelines & bc we're all locked out of our computers, we can't teach anyone how to calculate them." #poverty #policy #sociology
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Regina Baker @rsbaker.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
"Trump's firings included the entire office that sets federal poverty guidelines which determine whether tens of millions of Americans are eligible for health programs such as Medicaid, food assistance, child care, and other services, former staff said." www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tru...
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Trump HHS eliminates office that sets poverty levels tied to benefits for at least 80 million people
Recent cuts eliminated a small, specialized workforce that sets the poverty standards determining who is eligible for Medicaid as well as assistance with food, home heating, child care, and more.
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Regina Baker @rsbaker.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
💯 😂 This about sums it up. I wish the weather would make up its darn mind! I need some consistency.
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Author Myron J. Clifton @deardean22.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Trying to close Department of Education and folk are rightly outraged… but… something is off putting about the outrage
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
NIH is likely cutting up to 25% of its workforce this week. NIH staff have substantial expertise, typically PhDs. And they really *believe* in the work. NIH's will not be able to meet its mission w/these cuts. The scientific threat is not just direct funding cuts www.statnews.com/2025/03/14/n...
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At NIH, ‘everyone is on edge’ as they brace for deep cuts and more centralized control
As the NIH braces for cuts of up to 5,000 of its 20,000 positions, “people are scrambling and freaking out,” a researcher said.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
DESPITE. COURT. RULING. This is a pattern.
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Regina Baker @rsbaker.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Thank you, @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social for all you do! ❤️
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Regina Baker @rsbaker.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
In these times when we are witnessing the gutting of DOE/public education, whitewashing/erasure of history, attacks on critical thinking & free speech, & the removal of important safety nets, among other atrocities, libraries are a valuable resource needed *especially* now! 2/2
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Regina Baker @rsbaker.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Libraries provide such important resources beyond books! They are where some go for reliable internet to do school work, apply for jobs, & connect w/ others. They provide helpful & enjoyable programming for all ages & quiet space to read, LEARN, & think. Libraries preserve history & thus,TRUTH. 1/2
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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
President Trump's executive order to eliminate the Institute of Museum & Library Services would have disastrous effects for communities nationwide. We call on all Americans who value reading & learning to reach out to their elected leaders. Read ALA's full response: www.ala.org/news/2025/03...
ALA response to White House assault on IMLS
To dismiss the mission of an agency that advances opportunity and learning is to dismiss the aspirations and everyday needs of millions of Americans. And those who will feel that loss most keenly live in rural communities. 
As seedbeds of literacy and innovation, our nation’s 125,000 public, school, academic and special libraries deserve more, not less support. Libraries translate 0.003% of the federal budget into programs and services used by more than 1.2 billion people every year. Show Up for Our Libraries, ALA American Library Association, #ForOurLibraries
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Alicia M Walker🌊🏳️‍🌈 @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Parents of only children! 🧑‍👧 If you don’t expect to have more, I want to hear your story! 100% confidential. #OneChildStudy #ParentingResearch #OnlyChild #Sociology
One Child Study
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