Evan Roberts

@evanrobertsnz.bsky.social

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Social, demographic, & economic history @UMNews HMED & Population Studies. Coffee, photos, Dylan, urban & transit fan, road & trail runner. Constructive, loving critic of where I live (Minneapolis) and where I'm from (Wellington) @evanrobertsnz most places .. more

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Evan Roberts @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social · 9h

That meow 😻

Evan Roberts @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social · 10h

Love a good causality/casualty mixup

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Andy Greder @andygreder.bsky.social · 14h

Quote: Here's #MNUFC Chief Soccer Officer Khaled El-Ahmad's response Tuesday to a question about the ICE raids across the Twin Cities:

Evan Roberts @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social · 19h

Great demographic history postdocs available with @fjbeltrantapia.bsky.social in Trondheim (a lovely city!)
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Senior researchers in History (291971) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Job title: Senior researchers in History (291971), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Sunday, March 15, 2026

www.jobbnorge.no

Evan Roberts @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social · 1d

While not useful for me this semester, this is a very kind offer

Evan Roberts @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social · 1d

If you're not going to do 3.5 sided shelters, deep shelters like this provide better protection from rain. Obviously you need space to do this, which is more challenging in an urban environment.

Metro @wmata.com · 5d

Metro is installing nearly 200 new bus shelters at Metro-owned locations as part of a multi-year capital project! 🚌 Here’s what you need to know: wmata.com/about/news/N...

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James Feigenbaum @jamesfeigenbaum.bsky.social · 1d

Applications for the Economic History Association Graduate Dissertation Fellowships are due in two days (January 14)

eh.net/graduate-dis...

Graduate Dissertation Fellowships – EH.net

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Evan Roberts @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social · 1d

paging @drdrehistorian.bsky.social

Evan Roberts @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social · 1d

LaCroixoholic?

Evan Roberts @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social · 1d

by that do you mean the 30 would do exactly what the proposed 48 would do at the end of its current route? My guess for why not is that while route extensions are great for one seat rides they can also cause problems with things getting off schedule as routes get long.

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Dené K. Dryden @denekdryden.bsky.social · 1d

"These findings ... underscore the urgent need for action to ensure every family receives the supports and services required for a safe and healthy pregnancy."

Minnesota's latest review of maternal mortality is available. For @postbulletin.bsky.social, I wrote about the report's biggest takeaways:

MDH report finds most of Minnesota's maternal deaths are preventable. Here are the big takeaways

The state's latest maternal mortality report, published Monday, Jan. 12, found that American Indian and Black Minnesotans face higher maternal mortality risk compared to the overall state population.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 1d

If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:

America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.

What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵

Screenshot of a data visualization titled “The Cost of American Exceptionalism,” subtitled “What would change if the U.S. matched the OECD average?” The page explains that each card shows how outcomes would change if the U.S. matched the average of 31 peer democracies. Below, a section labeled “Economy & Inequality” displays eight cards comparing U.S. figures to OECD averages. Highlights include: +$19K per household per year in redistributed income and +$96K in redistributed wealth if the top 1% matched OECD shares; a 71% lower CEO-to-worker pay ratio (from 354× to 101×); 50 million more workers with union coverage; 26 million more people with health insurance; $2.1 trillion saved annually in healthcare spending; $691 less per person per year in prescription drug costs; and intergenerational economic mobility being twice as high. Each card shows the U.S. value alongside the OECD average.

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Mattan S. Ben-Shachar @mattansb.msbstats.info · 1d

Too many significance tests!!

Made this little graphic for my #stats class, showing the various kinds of (N)HST and how interpreting confidence intervals can replace all of them.

Made with #rstats #ggplot (duh)

Evan Roberts @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social · 1d

The Hispanic population in the Twin Cities is the least isolated of any of the top 50 metro areas with Hispanic populations. A plain language explanation of this is that the Hispanic population in the Twin Cities is living in areas with lots of non-Hispanic people
www2.census.gov/ces/wp/2022/...

Evan Roberts @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social · 1d

On the distinctively high levels of segregation in the US, see this classic but now dated article
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Geography of Ethnic Residential Segregation: A Comparative Study of Five Countries

Few studies have undertaken rigorous comparative analyses of levels of ethnic residential segregation across two or more countries. Using data for the latest available censuses (2000–2001) and a ...

www.tandfonline.com

Evan Roberts @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social · 1d

One of the nationally distinctive features of the Twin Cities racial and ethnic geography is the rapidly growing diversity of the suburbs, particularly for recent African migrants
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Client Challenge

link.springer.com

Evan Roberts @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social · 1d

The Twin Cities is an American region, so it's quite segregated by international standards, but by American standards it's below average
belonging.berkeley.edu/most-least-s...

Most to Least Segregated Metro Regions

2025 Update: We have developed a new sortable table with additional measures and data from the 2023 American Community Survey.

belonging.berkeley.edu

Evan Roberts @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social · 1d

The racial and ethnic geography of the Twin Cities is important to why ICE actions are occurring throughout the metro area and beyond. Although the two core cities have a lot of non-white and immigrant populations, most of the non-white population lives in the suburbs.

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Sean Jursnick @seanjurs.bsky.social · 1d

Last week, a reporter asked what’s next for the single-stair movement.

My hope? That it does for building codes what @wesmars.bsky.social and "Killed by a Traffic Engineer" did for transit: establish that US building codes are fundamentally outdated and ready for a complete overhaul.

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Heather Randell @heatherrandell.bsky.social · 1d

The Minnesota Population Center at the University of Minnesota (@minnpop.bsky.social) is hiring a postdoc in Population Health. Happy to chat about the MPC, UMN, and the Twin Cities, which are all awesome in my humble opinion!

pop.umn.edu/training/pos...

APPLY NOW:
Postdoctoral Fellowship Available
Population Health Training Program

JOIN OUR INNOVATIVE PROGRAM!

Fellows in this Population Health Science Training Program work closely with academic mentors in social and health science fields to build skills in interdisciplinary population health research to prepare them for academic careers focused on addressing pressing public health problems. We seek
exceptional candidates in either social science or health science fields who have earned a PhD to join our diverse and accomplished cohort of trainees, and we particularly welcome candidates from backgrounds underrepresented in research.

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Rob Pegoraro @robpegoraro.com · 2d

If you're among the dwindling demographic who get the print edition of the Washington Post, you may have seen one death notice in what's left of the Metro section that ran longer than usual. (I didn't, but my wife did.) It is some remarkable testimony about mental illness and well worth reading.

Carol Sauer Obituary (2026) - Arlington, VA - The Washington Post

View Carol Ann Sauer's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.

www.legacy.com

Evan Roberts @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social · 2d

Just run more 😀

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Clay Copper @claycopper.bsky.social · 2d

I don't know anything about urban planning, but I don't think cars should ever have a green at the same time pedestrians are cleared in a crosswalk.

Evan Roberts @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social · 2d

Indeed. By design, past and present, density decays very quickly within a couple of miles of the city. Seward, which is just a couple of miles from city hall is a suburb once you get south of 22nd

Evan Roberts @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social · 2d

The truth is that Minneapolis is more*sub*urban than some residents care to admit, but also that adjacent cities are more actually urban than they recognize. 38th and Chicago is about as suburban or urban as 50th and France. (These are continuous variables despite there being two words)

Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 2d

We had this discourse already last week On Here, and I learned that apparently in other cities you can have a “suburban” street *within a city.* I am from Minneapolis proper and I disagree, but other regions can do what they need to do I guess.

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 2d

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 3d

We need to talk about what happened in the FA Cup.

Macclesfield FC, in the SIX TIER OF ENGLISH FOOTBALL AND NOT FULL TIME PROFESSIONAL, beat Crystal Palace of the Premier League.

One of the biggest upsets in FA Cup history.

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Paul Brislen @brislen.nz · 4d

I don’t think we should have ceded control quite so quickly and without so much as a fight.

A giant yellow sign on the side of the road announces “YOU ARE ENTERING A FRUIT FLY CONTROLLED AREA” and below that in smaller letters “Make sure you know the rules.”

Evan Roberts @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social · 4d

This is has long struck me as weird. MT do a good job of platforms, but then the approach to them can be terrible

Evan Roberts @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social · 4d

We planted long grass and flowers on the slope, and it helps quite a lot with slowing drainage onto the sidewalk. But there's a lot of grass out there that does nothing

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