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Rachel Kimbro

@racheltk.bsky.social

Dean, School of Social Sciences, Rice University; Professor of Sociology Child wellbeing, health, climate, & neighborhoods Recent Book: In Too Deep - UC Press

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Jenn Dowd@drjenndowd.bsky.social · 7mo ago

So excited to see this fantastic cohort take on US mortality trends in @pnas.org, with some amazing Lexis diagrams that I may print out and frame for my wall. Great work from @leahrabrams.bsky.social @octaviobramajo.bsky.social @alysonvanraalte.bsky.social 👏👏 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #demography

Insights into US life expectancy stagnation from birth cohort mortality dynamics | PNAS

US life expectancy remained essentially flat in the 2010s. This trend has occurred in the presence of advancing innovations in medical care, especi...

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The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · last yr.

The world has entered a new era of rainfall supercharged by climate change, rendering existing response plans inadequate. A Post investigation reveals why so few people evacuated in the state hit hardest by Hurricane Helene, last year’s deadliest disaster.

A new era of floods has arrived. America isn’t prepared.

A Washington Post investigation reveals why so few people evacuated in the state hit hardest by last year’s deadliest disaster.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · last yr.

Depends on your state and then your district. Could mean fewer support staff (already an unequal resource), bigger classes, cutting electives and consolidating or removing programming, no “manager” for discrimination claims. If you are in a rural district or a school with a lot of poor kids

Hannah Posts@hannahposts.bsky.social · last yr.

I wish I knew what the destruction of the DOE means for me (a public school teacher) and my oldest son (a kid with an IEP starting kindergarten next month). It probably doesn't mean nothing

Peter Gleick@petergleick.bsky.social · last yr.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.
Rachel Kimbro@racheltk.bsky.social · 2y ago

Everything going on in higher ed/science right now is a lot. And I am simultaneously sorry and glad to be in administration at the moment. Sorry because this is hard and going to get harder but glad because I can help try to mitigate the damage and protect what we do.

Elizabeth Linos@elizabethlinos.bsky.social · 2y ago

Truly one of the greats. He gave us the words and the permission to study inequality in a way that has shifted so many careers and in turn impacted so many lives. Christopher Jencks, a Shaper of Views on Economic Inequality, Dies at 88 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/b...

Christopher Jencks, a Shaper of Views on Economic Inequality, Dies at 88

His clear prose, illuminating data and novel arguments helped transform debates around issues like public education and welfare reform.

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Rachel Kimbro@racheltk.bsky.social · 2y ago

I spent today gardening and making snacks for the Super Bowl. The attacks on science, higher ed, and so much else are just too much and sometimes you need to tap out and engage with other things. Be kind to yourselves and then re-engage. Don’t give up.

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UM Population Studies Center@um-psc.bsky.social · 2y ago

▶️ @irpwisc.bsky.social shares last week's panel on what the social safety net may look like under the second Trump administration, with insights from @pamherd.bsky.social @um-psc.bsky.social, incl. her work on administrative burdens that prevent federal aid from reaching eligible recipients.

Rita Hamad@ritahamad.bsky.social · 2y ago

Missed last week's @irpwisc.bsky.social seminar on #poverty policy in the current political climate? Check out the recording online: www.irp.wisc.edu/resource/a-n... with @pamherd.bsky.social @peggybaileydc.bsky.social and others.

Victor Ray@victorerikray.bsky.social · 2y ago

This. I’ve often seen people called out for not speaking about something on social media while aware that they were offering important behind-the-scenes support that a public statement would jeopardize. Folks need to be more careful about what they think they know. There are multiple lanes.

Jose Vilson, PhD@thejosevilson.com · 2y ago

Something I’ve learned over the years: Just because you don’t see it happen on social media doesn’t mean it’s not happening. In fact, some of the best community building I’ve seen *has* to happen offline so strategies can get fine-tuned and aligned. We’ll need to grant more grace in the now.

Sharon Machlis@smachlis.bsky.social · 2y ago

The {scico} #RStats 📦 is new to me! scico features “39 different palettes, all of which are perceptually uniform and colourblind safe. An overview can be had with the scico_palette_show() function”. By @thomasp85.com github.com/thomasp85/sc...

GitHub - thomasp85/scico: Palettes for R based on the Scientific Colour-Maps

Palettes for R based on the Scientific Colour-Maps - thomasp85/scico

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Benjamin Nowak@bjnnowak.bsky.social · 2y ago

Same plot with different color palettes from #RStats {scico} package

Ian Carrillo@iansociologo.bsky.social · 2y ago

As Massey et al show, border militarization was a major contributor to the rise in the undocumented population. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

The abstract from the paper Why Border Enforcement Backfired. In this article the authors undertake a systematic analysis of why border enforcement backfired as a strategy of immigration control in the United States. They argue theoretically that border enforcement emerged as a policy response to a moral panic about the perceived threat of Latino immigration to the United States propounded by self-interested bureaucrats, politicians, and pundits who sought to mobilize political and material resources for their own benefit. The end result was a self-perpetuating cycle of rising enforcement and increased apprehensions that resulted in the militarization of the border in a way that was disconnected from the actual size of the undocumented flow. Using an instrumental variable approach, the authors show how border militarization affected the behavior of unauthorized migrants and border outcomes to transform undocumented Mexican migration from a circular flow of male workers going to three states into an 11 million person population of settled families living in 50 states.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2y ago

The GOP is apparently planning on passing a reconciliation package with as much as $120 BILLION in border-related funding. To put that in context, if you add up ever single Border Patrol budget from 1990 through 2024, adjusted for inflation, it's $121 billion. That's THIRTY-FOUR YEARS of funding.

Incoming GOP leader John Thune is actively seeking ways to make next year's border and defense package deficit-neutral, if not deficit-negative. Why it matters: Despite pushback from House Republicans, Thune is full steam ahead on his two-part reconciliation plan for next year, sources tell us. The border portion of the first reconciliation package — which also includes energy and defense — could be as much as $120 billion, a source familiar told us.
UM Population Studies Center@um-psc.bsky.social · 2y ago

New in @readdemography.bsky.social: @bradytwest.bsky.social et al suggest web surveys, with proper design and weighting, can produce nationally representative population estimates similar to those generated face-to-face. This poten­tial opens oppor­tu­ni­ties for advancing population science.

Demography - the flagship journal of PAA@readdemography.bsky.social · 2y ago

“Toward a New Approach to Creating Population-Representative Data for Demographic Research”: This web/mail data collection approach from @bradytwest.bsky.social et al. produces comparable estimates to the NSFG at less cost & in less time. Inst. for Social Research read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...