Patrick Habecker
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sociology, fiction, history, research methods, substance use research, and other random things
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Corey S. Powell
about 16 hours ago
This is what the band of the Milky Way would look like at night if your eyes could see radio waves. A hidden beauty. It's a new image created by the Murchison Widefield Array, which scanned the sky in 20 radio "colors" over frequencies from 72 to 231 megahertz. đź§Şđź”
www.icrar.org/gleam-x-gala...
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Absolutely shameful that, 1) folks are using AI for peer-review and that, 2) apparently enough of them are that they had to add a check box for reviewers about not using AI for this.
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Xander Lenc
7 days ago
NYC is going to have the world's biggest media-manufactured crime panic in history the second Mamdani is elected. They aren't even going to wait until he is inaugurated. Whether or not you like the guy, you need to start preparing now for the fire hose of disinformation that is about to activate.
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The Marshall Project
10 days ago
Being stripped of parental rights while in prison, even for minor crimes, is “the family separation crisis that no one knows about,” an advocate says.
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How Incarcerated Parents Are Losing Their Children Forever
Being stripped of parental rights while in prison, even for minor crimes, is “the family separation crisis that no one knows about,” one advocate said.
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/12/03/how-incarcerated-parents-are-losing-their-children-forever?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=tmp-bluesky
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Good read on parallel powers.
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17 days ago
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Sadly didn't get to all 8 of these before the winner (Rakesfall) was selected. It was a great reading list though and I really enjoyed the range of styles.
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Euan Thomson
26 days ago
Judge: “The troubling thing about this prosecution is that everyone knew what was happening… It seems like these two [gestures to defendants Nyx and Kalicum] are being hung out to dry. As soon as politicians started complaining, all of a sudden VPD—which before was fine—suddenly is not fine.”
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The Marshall Project
27 days ago
The experiences of children with parents on death row are often forgotten when it comes to capital punishment. No organization tracks information on this particular group. Of the past 10 people who have faced execution in Missouri, at least six had children.
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Their Dads Faced Execution in Missouri. Their Grief Lives on.
One woman copes with her father’s impending execution in Missouri, while two others share their experiences of losing a parent to capital punishment.
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2025/10/14/missouri-children-of-executed?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=tmp-bluesky
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Kevin C Klatt, PhD, RD
27 days ago
MMWR stole the show in the first round of headlines about CDC cuts but in the chaos, many missed that the NHANES mobile team remains RIF'd. This is the backbone of this key survey that contains some of the only representative anthropometric, biochemical, clinical and dietary data on the country.
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Courtney Milan
27 days ago
Just FYI, here are my personal beliefs on the use of large scale violence. 1. Violence tends to be self-replicating, and so should be avoided as much as possible. All violence has the potential to entrench itself.
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Great MacArthur award pick.
www.npr.org/2025/10/08/n...
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Scientist on front lines of overdose crisis receives MacArthur 'genius' award
Nabarun Dasgupta was recognized with a MacArthur "genius" award for work studying the deadly overdose crisis. He's also a front-line organizer, helping people survive.
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/08/nx-s1-5564684/macarthur-overdose-scientist-dasgupta
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This books was absolutely fantastic. Tripping on Utopia by Benjamin Breen. Loved all the suggested next reads at the end too.
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Quite useful
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Jeremy Berg
about 1 month ago
Here is NIDA They were relatively effective in maintaining R01 numbers with little or no multi-year funding, but substantially increased UG1, UG3, and U24 cooperative agreements. 11/n
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Matthew Guariglia
about 1 month ago
I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. đź§µ
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Andrew Green
about 2 months ago
An HIV outbreak in Maine points to a series of poor policy decisions, including ending needle-exchange programs and clearing a homeless encampment. As those policies go national, there is a risk the disease will spread, too:
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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An HIV Outbreak in Maine Shows the Risk of Trump’s Crackdown on Homelessness and Drug Use - KFF Health News
Public health experts and advocates say the outbreak has been fueled by a confluence of local factors, including the sweeping of a homeless encampment and shuttering of a sterile-syringe program. But ...
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/hiv-outbreak-bangor-maine-syringe-services-programs-trump-homelessness/
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Great piece on underreporting of overdose deaths in Nebraska.
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about 2 months ago
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Erik Loomis
2 months ago
This Day in Labor History: September 10, 1897. Luzerne County sheriff deputies slaughtered 19 unarmed immigrant coal miners striking outside of Hazleton, Pennsylvania. Let's talk about the Lattimer Massacre, one of the many uses of state violence against striking workers!
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Sanho Tree
2 months ago
“The rejection is at least the eighth time in the last month a grand jury has declined to charge felonies sought by US Attorney Jeannine Pirro’s office.“ Don’t try to shirk jury duty. We need you now more than ever!
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Colin Woodard
2 months ago
Took advantage of the summer lull to run the final, official tallies of the 2024 US prez election -- including Alaska this time -- through the
#AmericanNations
model. Bottom line: despite the astronomical stakes, it was very much like two elections before it.
www.nationhoodlab.org/the-2024-pre...
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The 2024 Presidential Election and the American Nations, updated
An updated regional breakdown of the last US election to include Alaska results and the final results for greater New York City and beyond
https://www.nationhoodlab.org/the-2024-presidential-election-and-the-american-nations-updated/
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Local library had 6/8 of the Le Guin prize nominees for 2025 (they were all excellent), but now I need to figure out where to get the last two.
www.ursulakleguin.com/prize25
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Ursula K. Le Guin — 2025 Prize for Fiction
https://www.ursulakleguin.com/prize25
3 months ago
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John Pfaff
3 months ago
It’s wild, absolutely wild, how for EVERY. SINGLE. CITY. Trump wants to militarize I can post data showing how crime is plummeting in all of them without any federal invasion… … and the press KEEPS stenographing the naked bad-faith claims about “fighting crime!” in the headlines. Infuriating.
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Jess Calarco
3 months ago
The argument here is that, unlike Right-leaning institutions, Left-leaning institutions have put professional identity and status ahead of values and ideology, and thus failed to socialize and cultivate the next generation of Left-wing political leaders. I see a lot of truth in this, but I'd add...
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Jennifer Doleac
3 months ago
I spent last week in Sydney, giving a keynote on how to reduce recidivism (that should be online soon!) and then talking with a variety of researchers, practitioners, and lawmakers about what works to improve public safety. I learned a ton and am grateful to everyone who spent time chatting with me!
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Angie Rasmussen
3 months ago
We just published an excellent commentary in Vaccine by
@gavinyamey.bsky.social
& Chris Beyrer breaking down how the current regime is laying waste to US vaccination programs & what we can do about it: âś…Congress must withdraw support for RFK Jr âś…Speak up...loudly âś…Study anti-vax movements âś…VOTE
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troy farah
3 months ago
Recent paper basically says intramuscular naloxone is far superior to intranasal (Narcan) by reducing withdrawal symptoms with a lower dose that works faster. Sample size was small but it's in line with previous results.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A comparison of intramuscular (Zimhi) and intranasal naloxone (Narcan) in reversal of fentanyl-induced apnea: a randomized, crossover, open-label trial - Nature Communications
Opioid-induced respiratory depression can be treated with intranasal (IN) or intramuscular (IM) naloxone. Here the authors report a randomized, crossover, open-label trial showing that lower number of...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-59932-7
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H I Sutton
3 months ago
Ok, for each retweet I’ll provide one insight, fact, or opinion on unconventional naval warfare, like submarines, explosive boats, special forces or crazy ideas 0/n 🧵
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
3 months ago
Very good essay "Encountering a cop on the street might mean you are encountering a criminal and encountering an armed, masked man might mean you are encountering a cop. The line is blurry. This blurriness between real and fake is the defining characteristic of the moment."
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Ryan Marino, MD
3 months ago
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Scott Delaney
3 months ago
By most measures (suicide, depression, anxiety), U.S. mental health is deteriorating. Bad time to demolish our mental health infrastructure. In a new preprint,
@albeccia.bsky.social
et al survey the damage from recent mental health grant cuts at NIH & SAMHSA. Check it out:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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American Association for Public Opinion Research
3 months ago
AAPOR Statement on the Removal of BLS Commissioner McEntarfer
aapor.org/statements/a...
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AAPOR Statement on the Removal of BLS Commissioner McEntarfer - AAPOR
On behalf of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR), we write to express deep concern regarding the removal of the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Erika McE...
https://aapor.org/statements/aapor-action/
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Jennifer Doleac
3 months ago
PhD students working on topics related to crime & the criminal justice system in the US: Join us for a research workshop this October! We're bringing y'all together so that you can meet each other, and (selfishly) so the Arnold Ventures CJ team can meet you. Sign up by August 11!
bit.ly/3GUT0De
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Favorite one of these I've seen so far
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Ariel Edwards-Levy
3 months ago
Time for a quick round of "Why Do These Polls Look Different" Latest Fox has Rs and Ds essentially tied on inflation/economy; WSJ gives Rs a big lead. Think there's a fairly simple explanation that itself highlights a major dynamic.
www.foxnews.com/politics/fox...
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Don Moynihan
4 months ago
Vought: "We're going through the same programmatic review on the NIH that we did on Education funding" You mean - the Department you are illegally closing? That is what you are doing with NIH?
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Ryan Marino, MD
4 months ago
Let's talk about the risk of secondhand fentanyl smoke...a thread 🧵 First, let’s set this straight. It’s not really "smoking" because if you combust fentanyl you get noxious chemicals without opioid effect. So it's really vaporization (pyrolysis) at low temperatures (direct flame would destroy it).
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Grits for Breakfast
4 months ago
There's been a spike in law enforcement shootings resulting in death and the biggest source of increased death is rural people getting killed by county sheriffs.
@jesspish.bsky.social
www.wsj.com/us-news/poli...
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The Rapid Rise of Killings by Police in Rural America
A 17-year-old shot and killed by a sheriff’s deputy on a New Mexico highway last summer was one in a growing number of cases.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/police-killings-rise-rural-sheriffs-1663159a?st=j8j31E&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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Afternoon read. Individual and srea-level incarceration and mortality. Open access led by Utsha Khatri. In US from 2008-2019, a 10% increase in county jail rates is associated with 4.6 additional all-cause deaths per 100k people.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Individual- and Area-Level Incarceration and Mortality
This cohort study examines the associations between both individual- and area-level incarceration rates with all-cause and overdose mortality in the US.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2834846
5 months ago
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Morning read today - Designing better drug regulation: lessons from policy design methods. Open access and new, led by Paul Kelaita. Great read.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00914509251348608
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Degs The Demon
5 months ago
I did not realize that the AT Proto dev community has already created alternatives to every platform I use for my community. I'm going to create this thread to explain what each one does and what it replaces. Why should you care? No ads. No corporate owner. Open source. Free, no strings attached.
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Conrad Hackett
5 months ago
Surprising findings can generate a lot of attention; counterevidence may not.
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Christy Quirk
5 months ago
I've been using Chat GPT on real data sets that I have already analyzed to teach myself how to be a modern pollster. I have created toplines, Xtabs and visualizations, sort of the bread and butter of my work. HOLY SHIT. The mistakes it has made are so shocking that I want to shoot it into the sun
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John Pfaff
5 months ago
First, those cities MAGA wants you to think are on fire? Seeing murder hit historic lows; NYC heading for lowest *ever recorded.* Second, the decline has happened as the number of cops has FALLEN. Third, Jeff joins
@johnkroman.bsky.social
and others in pointing to SOCIAL investment as a driver
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Audrey Kearney
5 months ago
NEW poll from
@kff.org
shows that most of the public are worried about the impacts of federal funding cuts to Medicaid on their families and communities, including 54% who are worried that these cuts would impact their family's ability to get/pay for care. More here:
www.kff.org/medicaid/pol...
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KFF Health Tracking Poll: The Public's Views of Funding Reductions to Medicaid | KFF
As Congress works to pass the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," which includes significant changes to Medicaid and the ACA, the latest KFF Health Tracking Poll examines the views of groups that could be m...
https://www.kff.org/medicaid/poll-finding/kff-health-tracking-poll-the-publics-views-of-funding-reductions-to-medicaid/
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Bex, if you can keep it
5 months ago
I'm begging people without experience to have even an ounce of imagination. You don't have a phone or computer or even a physical address. How long does it take you to lose track of the date? What time is it, what day? How do you get to your PO's office? How do you keep track of important documents?
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Good thread on medical examiners, coroners, and data
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5 months ago
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Flaming Hydra
5 months ago
TODAY: Introducing BRAND NEW HYDRA, photographer
@todseelie.bsky.social
, with a photo essay on crashing the Venice Biennale with a bunch of art punks on rafts made of junk
flaminghydra.com/p/f071b948-c...
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Art Bateau
It’s a long story that started with a dream and some junk rafts. Four years after setting off on a journey that started on the Mississippi River in Minneapolis and took us as far as the Hudson River...
https://flaminghydra.com/p/f071b948-c640-403d-986d-3607b7fdf29b/
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Elaine Hyshka
6 months ago
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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The changing role of substances: trends, characteristics of individuals and prior healthcare utilization among individuals with accidental substance-related toxicity deaths in Ontario Canada
Objective To investigate trends and the circumstances surrounding fatal substance-related toxicities directly attributed to alcohol, stimulants, benzodiazepines or opioids and combinations of substanc...
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0324732
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