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Molly A. Martin @socmolly.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Happy to announce a policy briefing about our research relying on a natural experiment - Increases in community income led to reductions in low birth weight & improvements in prenatal care use

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Context for what’s happening here. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/02/2025

This is why they're attacking science and education: if you can only win with disinformation, data become a threat.

Tweet from Scott Jennings, saying "um, yes, that's really a problem," with a quoted image saying "The problem with left-leaning media is they're intrinsically more strict with their propaganda to only using verifiable sources so it's really hard to poke holes in their ideology and arguments in comparison to a lot of low quality right-wing content. That makes attacking their points with fact checkers not very effective unless the fact checkers use misinformation tactics as well. In essence, people on the right have to work harder and more creatively to push their agendas as statistics and studies frustratingly aren't usually on our side."

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 06/02/2025

1/ I suspect we are days away from hearing Elon is "using AI" to “streamline” benefits programs. You should know why fully automating decisions about who gets critical assistance is a terrible idea that will have disastrous consequences. A 🧵 based on work I’ve done with the great @awhf.bsky.social

nytimes.com

Musk Allies Discuss Deploying A.I. to Find Budget Savings

A top official at the General Services Administration said artificial intelligence could be used to identify waste and redundancies in federal contracts.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The main beneficiaries of the Department of Education are disabled kids (IDEA) and working-class and poor Americans (Title I, Pell Grants, work assistance), so of course Trump wants to do away with it.

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Elizabeth Pearce @elizabethpearce.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I’m old enough to remember when accessing government computer systems without authorization was a crime

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 01/02/2025

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...

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Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

It feels worth emphasizing that these websites being taken down aren’t some federal worker’s hobby, or an agency’s side project. They exist as matters of policy, some directly mandated in law, some through government contracts. Taking them down is fundamentally illegitimate and autocratic.

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Joel Mittleman @joeljm.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I’ve now posted the National YRBS data, 2015-2023, here. I’ll add the state and district data soon. www.datalumos.org/datalumos/pr...

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CDC National Youth Risk Behavior Survey 2015-2023

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

So if I’m understanding today correctly, the world’s richest person Elon Musk, whom no one elected, is taking over federal payment systems and employee data while the federal employees who investigate and prosecute public corruption are being fired en masse.

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Sarah Damaske @sarahdamaske.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

🚨 Please help us spread the word to Early Career Scholars! We @pop.psu.edu are happy to welcome our second cohort of External Fellows to Penn State's University Park campus this May for our grant-writing training, networking, and mentoring program. Please see below for more details.

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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 28/01/2025

🚨 w/today's news that Trump/MAGA/GOP have shut down Medicaid portals nationally, here's a breakout of total Medicaid & CHIP enrollment in every state by Congressional District. Total enrollment data is as of Oct. 2024. ACA expansion data is as of June 2024. #ALABAMA: 15% of the total population.

Medicaid enrollment in Alabama by Congressional District

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Phil Rocco @philiprocco.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

random sampling of 100 major grant-in-aid programs in no particular order and with no particular selection rule.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/01/2025

If you’re in the US and you’d like to know what projects and vital services federal grants currently fund in your state, you can search here: www.usaspending.gov And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi... They need to hear from you.

usaspending.gov

USAspending.gov

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Those Nerdy Girls @thosenerdygirls.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Looking for a reliable source of practical and science-based health information straight to your inbox? Subscribe to our Substack and help amplify Nerdy voices (now more than ever). thosenerdygirls.substack.com #scicomm #publichealth

thosenerdygirls.substack.com

News from Those Nerdy Girls | Substack

Your trusted messengers for practical and factual health information. Click to read News from Those Nerdy Girls, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Many students hesitate to come to office hours because they don't know what to say. I've started explicitly asking all students to attend at least once and providing sentence starters—it's made a big difference in increasing participation.

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Usha Lee McFarling @usha.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Please repost! We’re trying hard to sort out rumors from truth + would like to hear from anyone affected by the new federal orders + NIH pause. Patients, scientists, health equity researchers: please contact us below. We won’t share anything without your permission. www.statnews.com/2025/01/25/t...

statnews.com

Are you affected by the Trump administration’s pause on health communications, science meetings, and reviews?

Have you been affected by the Trump administration’s pause on communications, science meetings, and reviews? @statnews would like to hear from you.

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Molly A. Martin @socmolly.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I’ve joined the party here on Bluesky after leading a professional development session on students’ online presence. Open to tips & suggestions.

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