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Spencer Allen

@spencerallen.bsky.social
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PhD Candidate @umsociology.bsky.social @um-psc.bsky.social | Demography, Population Health, Politics, Internet | Alum @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social | 1st Gen & Alaska

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Tim Gill @timgill924.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
If I could, I would get a Covid shot every day I wake up in the morning. That’s how much I trust Dr. Fauci.
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Spencer Allen @spencerallen.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Loved repping @umichstonecid.bsky.social this weekend during early voting for Michigan’s August 4th primary! #a2votes #MichiganVotes
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Spencer Allen @spencerallen.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I just wrapped up 18 months as a managing editor @ssreditorial.bsky.social! This was a great opportunity to learn how academic journals work and make meaningful contributions to the discipline. Thanks to the entire team for being fantastic colleagues.
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 01/10/2025
I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social
I'm an epidemiologist. Sewage systems are sexy.

Dosco Jones @doscojones.bsky.social
I'm an engineer. Sewage systems are sexy.
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NPR @npr.org · 01/10/2025
Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere. Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself. Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
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Social Science Research @ssreditorial.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Social Science Research is preparing a special issue focused on a critical but underexplored dimension of AI: its role in widening or narrowing social inequalities. The deadline for abstracts is now Nov 17th. Read more here: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Free to read! New research in Socius from ASA member Spencer Allen @spencerallen.bsky.social @um-psc.bsky.social shows that, while broadband access has increased in the U.S. since 2013, gaps by race, education, and poverty still persist. @sociusjournal.bsky.social‬
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Trends and Disparities in Broadband Internet Access in the United States, 2013 to 2023 - Spencer Allen, 2025
Since the turn of the century, sociologists and other scholars concerned about digital inequality have most often been concerned about disparities in the qualit...
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Spencer Allen @spencerallen.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Excited to share my recent publication in @sociusjournal.bsky.social ! Despite improvements to home broadband, racial/ethnic, educational, and income disparities continue to prevent equitable internet access. We can’t assume that everyone is online, and policy can address cost and access limitations
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Sasha Killewald @sashakillewald.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
@spencerallen.bsky.social: tell me you're a @burgards.bsky.social student without telling me you're a @burgards.bsky.social student.
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Sarah Burgard @burgards.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
We are the #BakersAndTheBest sometimes @um-psc.bsky.social because of our amazing trainees like @spencerallen.bsky.social 💛💙🧁
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Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics @umichstonecid.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Shout out to @spencerallen.bsky.social for starting our short week off right! Thanks for sharing with us! #GoBlue 😋
A picture of a Michigan block M cookie cake with blue and yellow icing flowers on top.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
My employer, Dartmouth College, is only Ivy not to sign a "defend higher ed" letter. But as our newspaper reports, an uncommonly high number of mild-mannered faculty have signed a letter demanding that our president join the fight. Even the economists. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2025...
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Over a third of faculty members sign open letter asking Beilock to “defend the values and ideals of higher education”
Over 370 faculty members have signed the letter as of May 7.
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Spencer Allen @spencerallen.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Very busy morning in Ann Arbor, where I’ve spent the morning baking a copious quantity of Maize & Blue Chocolate Chip Cookies for @umsociology.bsky.social’s grad student recruitment this week!
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Spencer Allen @spencerallen.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
When the world is falling apart and you have a bottle of pure NH maple syrup that’s about to go bad, you make maple cupcakes! Thanks @sashakillewald.bsky.social for the recipe 🧁🍁
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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
My latest @npr.org story: Because of a Trump executive order, the Census Bureau is stopping work on statistics that could help protect the rights of transgender people, Robert Santos confirms to NPR in his first published interview since resigning as the bureau's director
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Census Bureau stopped work on data for protecting trans rights, former director says
Because of a Trump executive order, the Census Bureau is stopping work on statistics that could help protect the rights of transgender people, its recently departed director, Robert Santos, tells NPR.
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 15/02/2025
not sure what's worse about the DOGE site: unsecured databases, leaking of classified information, or these chart crimes
Bar charts of employee tenure, salary, and age from the DOGE website. The y axis is unlabeled, and horizontal lines providing some sense of scale are unevenly spaced
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Spencer Allen @spencerallen.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Happy Valentine’s Day to all the infectious diseases of the world, may your love spread voraciously as public agencies have a harder time tracking and preventing your existence 😷🤒
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Jeremy Faust, MD @jeremyfaust.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
It’s giving Reviewer 2. www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...
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Donald Trump to review CDC scientific papers before publication: Report
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is halting all publication of scientific papers in order to comply with Donald Trump's executive order on gender.
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Spencer Allen @spencerallen.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
In my expert opinion, grad school is significantly more palatable with an Alaska-shaped cheese board
Crackers, cheeses, and fruits arranged in a ceramic dish shaped like Alaska.
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Spencer Allen @spencerallen.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
I think I chose the most inopportune historical moment to submit an NSF graduate research fellowship proposal on “Political Polarization in Education and Health Outcomes” 🙃😭
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UM Population Studies Center @um-psc.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
A new #umichresearch study by @um-psc.bsky.social trainee @spencerallen.bsky.social found that broadband connection was a key factor in reducing mortality and incidence during the early COVID pandemic. From Michigan News: news.umich.edu/digital-life...
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Digital lifeline: High-speed internet linked to drop in COVID-19 death rates
The mortality rate from COVID-19 was about 50% lower in U.S. counties with higher internet access in the summer and early fall of 2020.
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Spencer Allen @spencerallen.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
My pub took north of 1,550 days (thanks Excel!) from start to finish to complete. So much has happened in that time…
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UM Population Studies Center @um-psc.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
🎊 We're proud to share the first publication from @um-psc.bsky.social trainee @spencerallen.bsky.social. The findings in this 🧵, which show how internet access mattered for COVID outcomes, are reported just as net neutrality has been struck down in federal court. @umisr.bsky.social #UMich
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Spencer Allen @spencerallen.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
I’m very excited to announce that my first paper has just been published in SSM-Population Health! (and it’s open access!) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧵 1/
Journal article heading for the paper: Allen, Spencer. 2025. “Broadband internet access as a social determinant of health in the early COVID-19 pandemic in U.S. counties.” SSM-Population Health 101747.
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Spencer Allen @spencerallen.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
I've been fully on here for all of an hour and I'm already enjoying myself more than other platforms
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Spencer Allen @spencerallen.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
I’m very excited to ring in the new year by joining the Social Science Research team as a Managing Editor! (And, after several months of lurking, hello Blue Sky!)
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