Now accepting submissions 🎓 Special Issue on Challenges in Addressing Maternal & Infant Health Disparities—policy, methods, and equity-forward perspectives encouraged. CFP: buff.ly/BNkfGnD #PublicHealth #SpecialIssue #ESI

This is both good news and cool science, a combo that we don't see often enough.

CFP for a special issue on maternal and infant health disparities—welcoming quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods work. 🗓️ Deadline: May 31, 2026 📎 buff.ly/BNkfGnD #HealthEquity #AcademicSky

Did you know there is a scientific journal edited by and made for kids? It is called Frontiers for Young Minds. Consider publishing with them, it is fun! With Job Speelman, we wrote a short piece on neural networks (kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....) that you can use as an example. #AcademicSky

#AcademicSky #PrejudiceResearch Twin study Much right-wing authoritarianism (RWA)-education link (r = -.46) from heritable or shared-variance confounds But 28% is unexplained, so education might play role in reducing RWA (but likely less so than many expect) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Volume 8 of the Health Equity Reader is up on my Substack!! #academicsky #healthequityreader open.substack.com/pub/jessibis...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Working on research related to maternal or infant health inequities? We’re welcoming submissions for a special issue focused on real-world challenges and solutions. 📅 Deadline: May 31, 2026 🔗 buff.ly/BNkfGnD #SpecialIssue #HealthEquity #AcademicSky

📢 Call for Papers! I’m guest editing a special issue on Challenges in Addressing Maternal & Infant Health Disparities. Deadline: May 31, 2026. Submit your work here 👉 buff.ly/BNkfGnD #AcademicSky #PublicHealth #MaternalHealth

This timeline is deeply weird. This is a screengrab from an official federal government website, which includes the note: "Any information on this page promoting gender ideology is extremely inaccurate and disconnected from truth... 1/

Hey all, any suggestions for researchers who are really well-versed in the methodological issues with Wakefield's autism studies? I'm looking for someone to interview for an upcoming article. Re-posts for visibility appreciated! #EpiSky #AcademicSky

Career Advice Reminder | The Update Desk A simple five-minute practice can build community in the college classroom, Niles Mattier writes. https://bit.ly/3NePiXF #EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky

Wanna stronger online presence but don't wanna spend more time on social media? You're not alone. Good news: there's ways for you to be more intentional about your online presence beyond socials 💡 Here's a list for faculty and grad students 🔖 Please share with a friend #AcademicSky #ScienceSky

Meta-analysis shows student ranks based on achievement test scores are relatively stable over time whereas those based on school grades are not. Overall, this suggests placement decisions based on these measures should be reassessed at least every 1-2 years. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

Co-Author Jennifer Caputo is a FSU Sociology alum!!

We are thrilled to have Laura Schechter join us Monday to present her Dakar study investigating the extent to which collusion can explain the under-provision of clean sanitation technologies in developing countries. psc.isr.umich.edu/events/zivin... @uwcsde.bsky.social

Join the Program in Survey and Data Science for Curtiss Cobb (VP of Research, Meta): Balancing Theory with Practice: How to Develop Successful Industry Research Practitioners Wednesday, October 1, 12:00-1:00 EDT Details including abstract & zoom link: myumi.ch/R3yJX 1070 ISR-Thompson

#academicsky #open #skybrarians

I am looking for absolutely stellar examples of specific aims' pages. Does anyone have one that they wouldn't mind sharing? I am talking about, basically the perfect one-pager. TIA. #academicsky #proposalwriting #writing

A paper in Nature reports that people cheat more when they delegate tasks to artificial intelligence, and large language models are more likely than humans to comply with unethical instructions—a risk that can be minimized by introducing prohibitive, task-specific guardrails. 🧪

🎯 One project per stage = a strong scholarly identity. 🌐 Many projects = a wide network and multiple outlets. ⚖️ The balance? That’s the art of career design. My post describes my own experience (and discusses others I've witnessed) www.raulpacheco.org/2025/06/doin... #RPVSky

📚 “Reading more” is on every scholar’s to-do list… but it’s hard to sustain it. I wrote about 4 reasons to commit and 5 practical tips to help you build a reading practice that lasts. My post can be read here 👉 www.raulpacheco.org/2025/04/deve... #RPVSky

You're not alone if you struggle saying everything you want in your paper and keep to the word limit! Here are 7 tips for you to avoid hours of last-minute word cutting: https://annaclemens.com/blog/reduce-word-count-scientific-paper-grant-proposal/ #AcademicSky #phd #Postdoc

Where did political conflicts about race, gender, and education erupt? Maybe not where you expected... Nicely complements this piece by @mirya.bsky.social, @simko.bsky.social, and Rebecca Johnson that explores a similar question using school board meeting videos: edworkingpapers.com/ai24-1102

🚨from Jammer (@AcrossTheMersey) on Twitter: "The US became an example of how not to handle a pandemic. Prioritizing profits over people led to devastating outcomes, particularly for working class and high risk professions..." Full 🧵: threadreaderapp.com/thread/19603...

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

Here's GREAT news for educators! You know all the hard work you put in to design outside of class activities to help your students learn? Well, when they do those things, in the order you intended, they actually learn more! Check it out: dx.doi.org/10.1037/edu0... #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

This is such a great idea. Excess mortality estimates are so crucial... and *so* tricky. We have very little expert consensus about how they should be done. Changing that is a really smart, consequential research frontier to focus effort on.

1/7🧵Ignoring race, gender & income doesn’t deliver fairness—it deepens inequity. 🚫 Policies that erase demographic data in admissions don’t level the field. They hide barriers and advantage those already holding resources. Check out the evidence below! #EduSky #SciSci @aaascsew.bsky.social 🧪 🎓

If a president wanted to become effectively a dictator, he’d likely: 1. Purge govt of non loyalists 2. Weaponize law against opponents 3. Use military to police opposition strongholds 4. Threaten media, schools, businesses w penalties to get them to heel 5. Change election rules in his favor.

"But sometimes you have to be like Tom Hanks in the scene near the end of Saving Private Ryan, duty-bound to fire your last six bullets at the approaching Tiger tank, in the hope that it just might explode. Occasionally the editor does step up and sends some rocket-firing P-51s.”

“Dormant cancer cells are like the embers left in an abandoned campfire, and respiratory viruses are like a strong wind that reignites the flames” Very accessible explainer of what some might consider a good reason to keep investing in vaccines for flu and Covid 🤦🏻‍♀️

For those working on a Specific Aims page, check out this article describing the recipe for a successful aims page: the four key components, what should be in each section, and best practices for tone, layout, and formatting. #academicsky #grantwriting pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Published the 6th Vol of the Monthly Health Equity Research Reader earlier this week. Basically rounds up recent interdisciplinary scholarship on health equity. jessibishoproyse.substack.com/p/tmherr-vol...

The most feedback I had from my recent presentation (zenodo.org/records/1564...) was around prompt injection and what that looks like with automated/"AI" peer review. Here's another example - asia.nikkei.com/business/tec... #scholcomms #skybrarians #academicsky #peerreview

You may feel like entering the Best Personal Academic Websites Contest isn't for you because your website isn't good enough. Academics, is this you? #AcademicSky #ScienceSky A thread 🧵

Came across a brilliant article about the problems with how health equity has often been conceptualized (that white communities don't realize that they benefit from attempts to improve health equity). onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

This year, for some bizarre reason, I’m only writing letters of Promotion-To-Full rather than Tenure-And-Promotion-to-Associate, but I agree with Professor Feeney here. I developed a folder of materials I found on how to write tenure and promotion letters which I will find and share on here.

Thrilled to share that a chapter I worked on with a gradschool friend was published earlier this year in "Betrayal U: The Politics of Belonging in Higher Education". It was edited by Martinez and @mjcasper.bsky.social was published by U of Arizona Press.https://buff.ly/NTH1tIt

Perhaps of interest to #medlibs ? #skybrarians #academicsky

I am in the process of assembling my materials for promotion. And I feel mostly good about it. Except for the fact that I have been fighting for my life trying to get data into a table for the last hour. And that raises some real questions.

#AcademicSky #edusky #edleadershipchat #blueskyeducationpeeps #teachinglearningbsky #learninganddevelopment Since I’m on a team theme….

Agree 100% with this. Have long thought that a funded "center for replication studies and research quality" could have a broad base of support doing important work. In a similar role to the author of the article, I find myself somewhat more agile and able to respond to emerging research.

Whose idea was it for journals to send a followup "thank you for declining this invitation to review email"? I just wanna talk. #academicsky

#feminism #Blacksky #theresistance 💪🏽 #philsky #academicsky #edusky

I working on a special issue for the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health on the Challenges in Addressing Maternal and Infant Health Disparities (deadline: May 31, 2026). Find the CFP here: buff.ly/BNkfGnD #academicsky #specialissue

Taking a brief break from vacation to beg #A2Council to reject the memo one or more City Councilmembers has written instructing the Planning Commissioners to yet again restrict development over the next 25 years in favor of "respecting neighborhood context." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/mor...

blog.popdata.org/ipums-mlp-li... IPUMS MLP: Revolutionizing Linked Data – Use It for Good

Around 25% of U.S. infants lack detectable Bifidobacterium, regardless of birth or feeding method. This deficit could have implications for immune health and the trajectory of noncommunicable diseases, according to a study published in Communications Biology. go.nature.com/4lgA1ls 🧪