The NY Times with an article about funding cuts just at the NIH. US biomedical research is conducted at universities with a lot of funding coming from the government. The Trump admin is cutting the funds, destroying a system that has led to major breakthroughs. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"? Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...

In Nordic welfare states, not all family policies promote equality. A new AJS article by Evertsson, Moberg & van der Vleuten compares earnings penalties in same- and different-sex couples across countries, showing how policy design shapes work–care divisions www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Dear academic economists! Two weeks left to apply to a position as full professor at the Econ Dept @stockholm-uni.bsky.social. in Sweden, academic - and personal - freedoms are deeply respected. And the microdata is awesome! Deadline March 31! #econsky su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

I created an IZA @iza.org Network Fellows/Affiliates starterpack, starting from those I am following, and who are following me. I surely missed a lot. Please reply below this tweet and tag yourself and your fellow Fellows! #econsky #laboreconomics #econ go.bsky.app/5NP4VCb

Women in #econ starter pack. #econsky #laboreconomics

“What will be lost is research that will help LGBTQ+ people live healthier lives, said McKay, director and co-founder of the LGBTQ+ Policy Lab at Vanderbilt” https://rollcall.com/2025/03/07/after-trumps-inauguration-a-dramatic-halt-to-lgbtq-research/

Seeing the new inflow from the other place I made a small starter pack of some people working on gender &/OR sexuality, biased towards Sociology. Let me know if you or anyone else should be on it!

East African leaders and Saudi royals are among those profiting off a lucrative, deadly trade in domestic workers, who become ground down by unpaid wages, beatings, starvation, and sexual assault. Some are broke. Others are in coffins.

🚨New publication alert🚨 We provide the first demographic description of all people with a gender dysphoria diagnosis in Sweden: doi.org/10.1215/0070... with @martinkolk.bsky.social, @jlucastilley.bsky.social (@sofi.su.se), Emma von Essen, and Ian Burn published in @readdemography.bsky.social 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Please read this piece on the authoritarian practice of denationalization. The de facto erasure of trans people in the US. The product of a dehumanization of queer people that we also see in Europe. If you don’t speak up against “gender criticals” these are the politics you align yourself with.

“The Demography of Sweden’s Transgender Population”: @martinkolk.bsky.social @ylvamoberg.bsky.social et al study transitions over 1973-2020, “a period of...legal advances, ↑ social acceptance & more accommodating HC system.” @stockholm-uni.bsky.social @sofi.su.se read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”

www.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/en/summer-sc... 16-20 June 2025 at the Paris School of Economics, invited prof. Raquel Fernandez (NYU) & Anne Boring (Rotterdam univ & Sciences-Po)

We've stated a LGBTQ+ Economists Starter pack! Please message if you'd like to be added! I nether know all the out economists, nor know who is on bluesky. go.bsky.app/QEvhc3r

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Attending #ASSA2025? I would love to chat about e.g. LGBT research, child penalties, parental leave policy, or Nordic register data. 👩‍👩‍👦📊 Stop me in the corridor or reach out here! ✉️ (pictures of Iceland and Greenland from the plane)