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Dr. Aria Halliday
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My editor made me do it. (She/they)

https://linktr.ee/drariahalliday
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😬 read a bit about me and my new book—Black Girls and How We Fail Them!

Thanks Eden and @19thnews.org for the feature ☺️
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going back in time to let college mondo, who is booty dancing at the club, about this moment to his absolute disbelief
November 27, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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They're trying to break the pipeline for future social science research.

"There are no current DDRIG grants available for any discipline in the Directorate for Social Behavioral and Economic Sciences, as it appears that the NSF has archived—which means cancelled—the DDRIG grants in every SBE field"
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
November 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Residents of the Loop, Chicago’s downtown area, live on average until they are 87. In the West Garfield Park neighborhood, the average is 67. (via @wbez.org)
There’s a 20-year life expectancy gap in Chicago. Many of these deaths are preventable.
West Garfield Park residents are expected to live on average until 67 years old, compared to Loop residents living to age 87. This is widest death gap in Chicago and the biggest gap of any big U.S. city, the most recent data shows.
n.pr
November 26, 2025 at 11:11 PM
The image makes me also wonder about the race/gender dynamics of this policing. As is true of the pregnancy rate, they are not concerned about ALL of us—they are talking to young white women. The demographic they need not defect from their racial project.
Self deputizing and policing over Aesthetics is like the fascism playbook.
Literally going to be packed like sardines for hours, I do not care what people wear as long their giblets are covered and they keep their legs on their side.

And honestly what success are we going for on a packed plane?
November 26, 2025 at 11:21 PM
This argument applies to fields that do interviewing or ethnography as method. I remember years ago asking people how they went through coding copious interviews and even then it was using technology to map patterns.

I always did it “by hand” but I also never interviewed more than like 40 people.
I am heavily invested in handwriting & historical documents. Historians need to weigh carefully whether time spent transcribing documents is “wasted,” or whether it actually helps thought processes & skills. This is not to say these tools should not be used.

Just consider the cost of “time saved.”
New issue of my newsletter: "The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition" — One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved, and it's a good use of AI newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...
November 25, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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A third infant has died in Kentucky, KYDPH adds:

“These are Kentucky’s first pertussis deaths since 2018. None of the infants nor their mothers received the recommended pertussis vaccinations during pregnancy or early infancy.”

s3.amazonaws.com/nursing-netw...
November 25, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I…have feelings about this. But not for on here
“Seventy years ago, Mamie Till said, ‘Let them see.’ And today, with the preservation of the barn by the Emmett Till Interpretive Center, the world will see,” Shonda Rhimes said in a statement that the Emmett Till Interpretive Center given to the Mississippi Free Press on Nov. 24.

buff.ly/oZzF9on
Barn Where White Men Murdered Emmett Till to Be Preserved as a ‘Reverent, Sacred Site’
The barn in Drew, Miss., where two white men murdered 14-year-old Emmett Till in 1955 will be preserved as a “sacred site.”
www.mississippifreepress.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.

It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.

It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.

Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Don’t get me started on how they ruined google scholar
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Fingerprinting appointments are part of the green card process, too, by the way.

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
November 25, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Yes.
"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
November 25, 2025 at 1:35 PM
…we die. This is what they want
November 25, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Zohran Mamdani just keeps making winning moves. Alondra on your technology committee is pretty much as good as it gets. Hot Damn.
Honored to serve on Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Transition Committee on Technology. For too long, too many New Yorkers have been left behind. NYC deserves governance that centers affordability, equity, and the public good-looking forward to the work ahead. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announces transition committees
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani​ announced Monday the creation of 17 transition advisory committees made up of more than 400 people.
www.cbsnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Judge dismisses cases against James Comey and Letitia James after finding that prosecutor was illegally appointed.
November 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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During open enrollment for Obamacare, ads from telemarketers are crowding out official health exchanges. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
Americans Googling Obamacare Are Finding 'Junk Insurance' Instead
During open enrollment, ads from telemarketers are crowding out official health exchanges.
www.bloomberg.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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NOW
Sunday from 5-7p Eastern on Inhailer.com I’ll spin some indie tunes and chat about some subjects of great musical disagreement among indie fans to give you something to debate at the Thanksgiving table that’s not politics! It’s the indie version of “is a hot dog a sandwich”
Inhailer Radio | Cincinnati | Independent Radio | Indie Music
Inhailer Radio is Cincinnati independent radio. Founded in 2017 to fill the void left by beloved radio station WNKU.
Inhailer.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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You all MUST READ this piece by Kaitlyn Greenidge about the power of art to “exist outside of a tech lord’s algorithm.”

www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...
The Artist Who Reminds Us that Another Way Is Possible
The late artist Abigail McGrath cultivated a creative life for herself filled with freedom, joy, and a commitment to beauty. In an age of authoritarianism and algorithms, it’s a kind of life worth pro...
www.harpersbazaar.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
fortune.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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No, DOGE did not *fail.*
November 23, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Bullying and sexual harassment are both, fundamentally, about power: a way of making the bully/abuser feel big by making the victim feel small.
One of the giants of social psychology was a serial sexual harasser.

This new report reveals how Miles Hewstone touched, bullied, and sexual harassed numerous women during his 18 years at the University of Oxford. It's amazing how often bullying and sexual harassment go together in academia.
November 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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11 years ago today, 12 year old Tamir Rice was gunned down by police officers on Cleveland’s west side.

The officer shot him within seconds of arriving at the park he was playing in.

Tamir’s life mattered. It still does. My thoughts are with his family today.
November 22, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Opt out now and opt out thoroughly: www.howtogeek.com/gmail-might-...
Gmail might be harvesting your emails to train AI—here's how to opt out
This is pretty bad.
www.howtogeek.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:21 PM
*whispers* wait til you get a new stove
Peak adulting is getting excited about a new vacuum cleaner.
November 22, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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And if you reeeeally want to go in, watch her keynote at the 3rd Annual Civics of Technology annual meeting—a virtual convening I also highly recommend: www.civicsoftechnology.org/2024conference *scroll down for link
2024 Conference — Civics of Technology
www.civicsoftechnology.org
November 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM