Amanda Jean Stevenson
@amandajean.bsky.social
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Sociologist and demographer. Never repping coauthors or institutions or anything like that.
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These people are stupid and have never met a baby. Every baby is the best baby, duh.
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If you’re serious about ideas it’s pretty safe to just never say yes to a “debate.” Serious people use different words to describe what they’re allegedly aiming for.
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Gavin Schmidt
3 days ago
There was a vogue for climate debates along these same lines a decade or so back. And for evolution/creationism before that. With very few exceptions, these formats are stacked against the mainstream position. I recommend not doing them (and yes, I speak from experience).
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Jessica Pieklo
3 days ago
The Bank of America sponsorship is the pièce de résistance here. I was born before women could have bank accounts in their own names
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I called my local hospital today and I’m working on a letter. I found out when the hospital district board meets and I’ll be there. Parents of trans kids and trans adults can’t fight this alone. The rest of us have to fight for trans kids.
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“Being sick all the time” is the cost of having kids for most people, but when “sick” includes measles and shit, that cost is a lot higher. And then there’s the cost for kids.
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Justin Joque
5 days ago
I have no idea where this is originally from or if my friend made it but they sent it to me once; and I love it
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“Transgender for” is such a wild formation as used by gender denialists. What do they *think* it means?!!
6 days ago
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Alex Ip 葉清霖
6 days ago
Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
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So bleak to have all the dumbest garbage get all the computer and person it can gobble and important shit gets less and less.
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6 days ago
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“Bet you’re stressed and your funding is gone! The insatiable maw still wants to know stuff, and you want tenure/a job/jobs for your trainees/a hope of fundng when “things come back”/to imagine you’re living in 2015. How about some cut-rate slime instead of data? Would that help?”
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Colin Carlson
6 days ago
NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇
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Alex Hanna
8 days ago
Google not only supplies the fake citations via Gemini, their awful products in the form of knowledge infrastructure are so shoddily kept that they can't be fucked to remove fake venues.
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I’m not sure I see Covid as the dividing line I did, but it’s sure been a wake up call for me personally. Sad how much we still need this. ✊
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FemQuant
8 days ago
This week Wednesday! Still time to sign up to join:
femquant.wordpress.com/seminar-seri...
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I'm genuinely shocked people think social media posts from middle-aged flame-outs could ever persuade Nazis, Nazi-friends, or Nazi-normalizers to finally see that cruelty is wrong.
8 days ago
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Their new edition is good, too.
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8 days ago
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I expect all the natural childbirth ladies in the streets
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9 days ago
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Dr. Thrasher wants you to pre-order The Overseer Class
9 days ago
Noticing that Democrats are passing “right to die” laws before passing “right to housing” or “right to healthcare” laws
www.nprillinois.org/government-p...
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Gov. JB Pritzker signs 'right-to-die' legislation for terminally ill people to end their lives in Illinois
The new law, which takes effect next September, opens the door for people 18 or older with a terminal diagnosis to be prescribed a fatal drug.
https://www.nprillinois.org/government-politics/2025-12-12/gov-jb-pritzker-signs-right-to-die-legislation-for-terminally-ill-people-to-end-their-lives-in-illinois
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Ruth Zakarin
9 days ago
Poke holes in the darkness and let the light shine through. Happy Chanukah. May it be a holiday that ushers in more light, more peace, and more justice.
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CBS pressing Sen Cassidy about the “slow walking“ of the administration’s promise to establish the false claim that the drug is “unsafe.” Finding someone willing to do that level of lying is probably hard.
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9 days ago
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Would be cool if “basic competency in artificial intelligence” meant a gloss of relevant statistical theory, cs/math, and cognitive science so that students could at least sort of understand wtf these “tools” are.
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Alex Hanna
9 days ago
As a Purdue alum, this is a shameful move. What I valued about my Purdue CS education was the intentionality given to thinking about process, how to treat programming as a set of idioms to be thoroughly understood and implemented, no matter the programming language. >>
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Zoë Plakias
9 days ago
"Rachel Friedberg, a Brown economics professor, said the mass shooting happened in a review session for the final exam of her Principles of Economics course. She said she learned what happened from a teaching assistant who led the session. Friedberg herself was not present."
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2 dead, 9 wounded in shooting at Brown University; suspect still at large
Brown professor says shooting happened in a study session for her economics class
https://www.oceanstatemedia.org/news-and-culture/active-shooter-reported-at-brown-university
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Carl Quintanilla
10 days ago
“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
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How long till they find an individual right to drive fast in the constitution?
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10 days ago
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌
10 days ago
AS A PROFESSOR, I AM ASKING HOW ARE OUR STUDENTS SUPPOSED TO LEARN IN THESE CONDITIONS? HOW ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO GO TO SCHOOL AND TAKE EXAMS KNOWING SOMEONE MIGHT JUST SHOW UP WITH AN EASY TO ACQUIRE AUTOMATIC WEAPON? HOW??????????
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Cindy-Lou Who is a mermaid in the movie and a human in the book. Per my kid.
10 days ago
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Wow. For when you genuinely don’t want to be a university anymore.
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If liberation was only ever about yourself it's totally not hypocritical to stop caring about stuff once it isn't relevant to you anymore (menopause).
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11 days ago
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo
12 days ago
Happy to share insights on low fertility as part of
@popassocamerica.bsky.social
’s Congressional Briefing yesterday. To learn more, check out the recording and slides.
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Congressional Briefing on U.S. Fertility Trends
https://www.populationassociation.org/blogs/paa-web2/2025/12/11/congressional-briefing-on-us-fertility-trends
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I'm so old that in my adulthood we've gone from "Dick Cheney skis in jeans" being a sick burn to a Boulder company making these:
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Women's Ski Bibs
Like caviar on a hot dog, these Ski Bibs take the humble denim aesthetic and glam it up with a '60s-inspired silhouette that recalls skiing's golden age. So load up the Aston Martin and chill your bes...
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So often: YOU FERTILITY PEOPLE NEED TO STUDY MEN! Me: We do. What exactly do you want to know about men? Them: (Describe their deal) Me: (Shows them the literature that investigates their deal) Them: BUT YOU SHOULD STUDY MEN AND YOU DON'T
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Tobias Wilson-Bates
13 days ago
Just discovered an insane new form of co-intelligence where you briefly share the mind of a great thinker in history and then a portion of their mind travels in yours for the rest of your life. Calling it a "book."
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If somebody you loved was just starting down the mommy radicalization path how would you intervene? Asking for most cis-het women, I imagine. But also me.
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Erin Grievances
13 days ago
Is there any clearer message than banning "pregnant people" and "women" alike?
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Protects but does not bind!
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13 days ago
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Everything new I've ever seen made or made myself was totally dependent on the correct ratio of hubris to insecurity.
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14 days ago
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It was fun to be all homebirth-warm-kombucha-plan-your-year-astrologically-live-in-a-magical-woods, but it wasn’t worth the grifters now drafting off our William-Blake-ass-denialism to con people into hurting kids. I’m so sorry and so sad.
14 days ago
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It's *mean* to moralize about how other people feed their babies.
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15 days ago
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Break something indeed. It's only tricky to elevate care work and caregiving while trying to lighten caregiver's burdens if you assume families in general and women in particular are preordained to do all or nearly all care.
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Leslie Root
15 days ago
I was annoyed by this headline (the other "side" of the pronatalism debate is "fuck pronatalism," and we are right!!) but the piece itself, by the always-thoughtful
@philipncohen.com
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newrepublic.com/article/2040...
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What If Both Sides in the Birth Rate Debate Are Wrong?
The right wants to steer women away from work and toward motherhood. The left wants to provide them with more state support so it’s easier to have children. We should refuse this choice.
https://newrepublic.com/article/204035/birth-rate-pronatalism-debate-both-sides-wrong
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Melody Schreiber
15 days ago
Flu shot acquired! I go by two rules: the best time to get a flu shot is around Halloween (flu before boo) The second-best time is right now
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Seems like we’re kind of hard up for leadership. What if we disqualified everyone who thought things were okiedokie 2000-2007 and 2011-2016?
18 days ago
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One cool thing about social media is that you see stupid stuff and then can sometimes change. I know a guy who stopped thinking about the Roman Empire so much, for example because wtf.
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Does this misogyny make me look like a girl?
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C. E. Aubin
19 days ago
This thread is very worth reading. I would add - the OP's argument that eugenics to produce "desired genetic characteristics" is broadly fine really relies on nobody pausing to ask what a 'desired genetic characteristic' is and why we desire them
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C. E. Aubin
19 days ago
I know this is a dirty word for some people but this is My Job: my friend
@hzeavin.bsky.social
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When I’m doing formal stuff in demography I still sometimes cite papers from Eugenics Quarterly because some of what was called eugenics was *good* science. The position that “eugenics is bad” is not about science - it’s about morality.
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19 days ago
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Saying “females” when they mean women is a red flag because it’s a ((project)).
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Jacqueline Antonovich
19 days ago
Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some booksđź§µ
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