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Amanda Jean Stevenson

@amandajean.bsky.social

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Sociologist and demographer. Never repping coauthors or institutions or anything like that.

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Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · Sep 6

Look at this beautiful plot from Taylor (1961)

basically incomprehensible plot of many squares in a grid with scattered points and regression lines for the points that appear to be in lines

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B Jarosz @datageekb.bsky.social · 6h

Outbreak
12 Monkeys
Containment
Contagion
Andromeda Strain
...

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Adam Lippert @lippertam.bsky.social · 8h

Every working-age American just gave an average of $94 to Argentina and lost infectious disease surveillance services simultaneously

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 15h

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 1d

Like literally trying to hurt people 💔

Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 1d

So many amazing people who gave us all so much 💔💔💔

Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 1d

I so profoundly hope it’s not *that* that they hate.

Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 1d

I have known a lot of public servants and every single one of them was driven - at least in part - by selfless care for our collective good.

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Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 1d

we don’t deserve what’s coming.

Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 1d

overdetermined that it’s coming for all of us

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 1d

We are going to feel these effects for decades in the best case. It’s just so dark. ❤️💔

Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 1d

Could they just hate scientists??? (But actually I sadly think it’s probably #3. Chilling.)

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Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 2d

🥰✊

Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 3d

I totally agree childbearing and care is always costlier than not - but wouldn’t you rather daycare (and everything else kids need) were free instead of people without kids being specifically taxed? It seems to me that targeting anyone based on their reproduction is dangerous…

Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 3d

Ok, I've got some about those city people just generally being bad neighbors, too, I guess.

Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 3d

All my cancelable takes are about city people moving to beautiful places and getting pissed about dogs.

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Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 3d

Nudge culture (and American tax policy in general) have normalized some way not ok stuff and it's time to start calling it out. Because (((wow)))

Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 3d

It should be *so* embarrassing to try to change other people's reproductive lives. Like embarrassing to an utterly paralyzing degree.

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Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 3d

There are ways to value care work that aren't horrifyingly creepy and selfish. Why is this so hard?

I don't know who that weird William F Buckley-almost named guy is but honey hell what failure led to that.

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Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 3d

like flags flapping in the wind

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Jennifer Hendricks @jenniferhendricks.bsky.social · 3d

Oh, goody, look who gets to be thrown under the bus.

"As the political scientist Adam Przeworski points out, Polish pro-democracy forces won only when they agreed to leave aside their bitter divisions over abortion until after they had succeeded."

Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 3d

"It wanted to signal strength. Instead, it’s revealing its weakness. The administration’s need to break the academy is forcing it to make a desperately risky gamble." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

www.nytimes.com

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Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 4d

Ceding trans people's humanity has been such an epic moral and political failure.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: Supreme Court likely to strike down Colorado's conversion therapy ban.

A lesson in how defining the case often resolves the case.

Today at Law Dork:

Supreme Court likely to strike down Colorado's conversion therapy ban

A lesson in how defining the case often resolves the case.

www.lawdork.com

Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 4d

I'm not sure it's middlebrow intellectualism in my case. Kinda feels more like consumerism. But v similar.

Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 4d

It’s so great! I told several people about it today as an example of why universities are important. Thank you for your work!

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Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 5d

FWIW many of the longest running orgs have largely or essentially stopped advocacy in the past 15 years on the abortion rights side

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Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 5d

but on the other side, too. they're FIGHTING.

Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 5d

for REAL