Delighted to be in Springfield today speaking with Illinois legislators on behalf of the Governor's Advisory Council on the Education of Children with Disabilities.

Snowed in? As long as you've still got power or cell service, it's a great time to send some emails or make some calls.

They're chipping away at voting rights-- this time, by going after people who procrastinate when voting by mail.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Hey so this seems like something more people should be talking about 🤔 🗳️ www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n...

If you haven't read Estela Diaz and Lauren Rivera's excellent paper on how private schools manage kids with disabilities, you're missing out.

Lauren Rivera@larivera.bsky.social · last yr.

100 percent. And they explicitly exclude children they believe are neurodivergent or have any type of disability. urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

LMM framing is that parents will choose schools for their children. That is absolutely false. Private schools will choose their kids, based on criteria that would mangle your brain. Trust me, I've read hundreds of private school applications. Mind blowing stuff.

Deaths from heart disease down 75%, that’s NIH. Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH. HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH. 99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH. Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.

This is incredibly cool: if you search for a condition that’s affected your family, the site returns stats on how much NIH has done for that disease, *and* a contact form for reaching out to tell your Members of Congress why you want to see them defend NIH. Pass it on!

Guys, I love all of you, but the answer to RFK, Jr. is not that autistic adults hold jobs, pay taxes, and get laid, it's that everyone deserves to live even if they can't work, pay taxes, or get laid.

Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss: Australia 0 Canada 0 Denmark 0 Finland 0 France 0 Germany 0 Iceland 0 Ireland 0 Italy 0 Japan 0 Netherlands 0 Norway 0 Portugal 0 Spain 0 Sweden 0 UK 0 United States 530,000 There’s a lesson there.

How do the most elite US private schools, which serve as Ivy League feeders, select their youngest members? In a new ASR article w/ @estelabdiaz.bsky.social, we show that schools explicitly design their early childhood admissions practices to identify—and exclude—disabled or neurodivergent children🧵

I will never stop trying to get people to care about Medicaid. And if you're on it -- or are close to someone who is (and LOTS of more affluent people do) -- please help. My column for the weekend. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/y...

Medicaid Is a Middle-Class Benefit. Here’s What to Know.

If you have a parent short on savings, a disabled adult child or a minor with special needs, Medicaid may be your backstop. Plenty of people are unaware.

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As Medicaid cuts become a possibility, it's key to understand the scope of the program and its many names. H/t to @jessicacalarco.bsky.social and @larivera.bsky.social for the idea and to Melissa Hafner at @airinforms.bsky.social for further context. finance.yahoo.com/news/medicai...

Medicaid goes by many names. Will Americans realize if it gets cut?

States, which administer federal Medicaid funds, often change the name of the program to get more people to sign up. Studies find this causes confusion about who benefits from the program.

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Many Medicaid recipients do not know they receive it because Medicaid is called different things in different states. The public narrative of Medicaid focuses on a distant other, but 40% of US children and 60% of nursing home residents receive Medicaid. Just SOME of the names by state are below:

It is really hard to watch people willfully tear down an infrastructure that allowed us to double lifespans, drastically reduce poverty, and become one of the richest countries in the world.

Interested in a nudge that can reduce the expression of racial bias in performance evaluations? In the March issue of @nature.com, I cover excellent new work by @tristanbotelho.bsky.social, Sora Jun, Demetrius Humes, and @decelles.bsky.social. Links below: urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

Curious how elite reproduction occurs in a more egalitarian society? Check out new work with fabulous PhD student and lead author Lisa Maria Breistein Sølvberg where we examine elite hiring in Norway.

Thank you to @durlauf.bsky.social and @ucstonecenter.bsky.social for a fabulous and timely opportunity to share my research on the limits of meritocracy.

Steven Durlauf@durlauf.bsky.social · last yr.

1/ Very glad this terrific conversation with @larivera.bsky.social just posted. LR's research provides powerful criticisms of putatively meritocratic decision rules in contexts ranging from elite pre-schools to elite employers.

Hi, I am @motherjones.com' disability reporter. In the following weeks, I am very interested in hearing how tariff nonsense impacts getting your meds and medical equipment. My email to get in touch is jmetraux@motherjones.com. Reposts appreciated.

This issue brief titled "Racial Disparities in Government Contracting" is one of the last things I worked on at the CEA. It is very timely and very much worth reading. bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/cea/written-...

Racial Disparities in Government Contracting | CEA | The White House

Executive Summary This report from the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) uses data from studies of state and local government contracting, documents racial gaps in contracting dollars, an...

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Thank you to @kellogginsight.bsky.social for this great writeup of research with @kateweisshaar.bsky.social and András Tilcsik on COVID impact statements and faculty tenure decisions, published in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/when...

When Our Work Is Disrupted, the Story We Tell Matters

Pandemic-era lab, school, and daycare closures threatened the careers of people in “up or out” professions. Employees benefited from the opportunity to frame these productivity lapses as temporary and...

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"women are less likely to be tenured overall and in every field." This month in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

Sociological Science@sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 2y ago

NEW: Mana Nakagawa, Christine Min Wotipka, Elizabeth Buckner, "Opportunities for Faculty Tenure at Globally Ranked Universities: Cross-National Differences by Gender, Fields, and Tenure Status"

Really cannot be stressed enough that 'meritocracy' was coined in a satirical novel by a sociologist meant to ridicule the concept ('a dystopian society in a future United Kingdom in which merit (defined as IQ + effort) has become the central tenet of society')

Rhys Needham@rhysneedham.bsky.social · 2y ago

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ris....