Dr. Kaitlyn M. Sims
@kaitsims.bsky.social
Asst. Prof of Public Policy @ University of Denver. SHAPE Lab director. Sweater knitter/oil painter/coffee needer. She/her
Research: DV, crime, health, housing, welfare, Econ
https://sites.google.com/view/kaitsims
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Research: DV, crime, health, housing, welfare, Econ
https://sites.google.com/view/kaitsims
🏳️🌈 BLM, protect trans kids
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Jails are a prominent piece of the US carceral state, yet we often lump them in with prisons and (falsely) assume that they follow similar trends for mass incarceration.
In this piece, we unpack what we lose when we conflate jails and prisons and trace jails' unique role.
Jails are a prominent piece of the US carceral state, yet we often lump them in with prisons and (falsely) assume that they follow similar trends for mass incarceration.
In this piece, we unpack what we lose when we conflate jails and prisons and trace jails' unique role.
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🚨New publication alert!🚨
Jails are a prominent piece of the US carceral state, yet we often lump them in with prisons and (falsely) assume that they follow similar trends for mass incarceration.
In this piece, we unpack what we lose when we conflate jails and prisons and trace jails' unique role.
Jails are a prominent piece of the US carceral state, yet we often lump them in with prisons and (falsely) assume that they follow similar trends for mass incarceration.
In this piece, we unpack what we lose when we conflate jails and prisons and trace jails' unique role.
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February 16, 2026 at 7:27 PM
🚨New publication alert!🚨
Jails are a prominent piece of the US carceral state, yet we often lump them in with prisons and (falsely) assume that they follow similar trends for mass incarceration.
In this piece, we unpack what we lose when we conflate jails and prisons and trace jails' unique role.
Jails are a prominent piece of the US carceral state, yet we often lump them in with prisons and (falsely) assume that they follow similar trends for mass incarceration.
In this piece, we unpack what we lose when we conflate jails and prisons and trace jails' unique role.
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
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February 16, 2026 at 5:42 PM
🚨New publication alert!🚨
Jails are a prominent piece of the US carceral state, yet we often lump them in with prisons and (falsely) assume that they follow similar trends for mass incarceration.
In this piece, we unpack what we lose when we conflate jails and prisons and trace jails' unique role.
Jails are a prominent piece of the US carceral state, yet we often lump them in with prisons and (falsely) assume that they follow similar trends for mass incarceration.
In this piece, we unpack what we lose when we conflate jails and prisons and trace jails' unique role.
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Eliminating gender studies courses helps to ensure that universities and other institutions will continue to protect men who benefit from the abuse of women and girls, either directly or through their connections to those who exploit girls and women for profit.
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Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott
Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Eliminating gender studies courses helps to ensure that universities and other institutions will continue to protect men who benefit from the abuse of women and girls, either directly or through their connections to those who exploit girls and women for profit.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Only 33 of Colorado's 64 counties have emergency shelters for people living in abusive situations. In an interview with Colorado Today on @cprnews.bsky.social, Korbel Prof @kaitsims.bsky.social discusses how this affects DV survivors and the complexities beyond funding. Listen here:
Feb. 12, 2026: No indictment for Dem video, Missy Woods arraigned, strengthening Colorado's response to domestic violence | Colorado Public Radio
Former crime lab scientist Missy Woods pleaded not guilty to more than a hundred felonies Wednesday.
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February 13, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Only 33 of Colorado's 64 counties have emergency shelters for people living in abusive situations. In an interview with Colorado Today on @cprnews.bsky.social, Korbel Prof @kaitsims.bsky.social discusses how this affects DV survivors and the complexities beyond funding. Listen here:
bb's first appearance on a podcast talking about DV shelters and housing affordability for survivors of violence!
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Feb. 12, 2026: No indictment for Dem video, Missy Woods arraigned, strengthening Colorado's response to domestic violence | Colorado Public Radio
Former crime lab scientist Missy Woods pleaded not guilty to more than a hundred felonies Wednesday.
www.cpr.org
February 12, 2026 at 4:56 PM
bb's first appearance on a podcast talking about DV shelters and housing affordability for survivors of violence!
www.cpr.org/podcast-epis...
www.cpr.org/podcast-epis...
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Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
February 11, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
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Increasing autism rates over the last 25 years may just be kids with mild forms getting diagnosed. Rates of moderate to severe impairment due to autism have actually fallen slightly.
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![The autistic community is a large, growing, and heterogeneous population, and there is a need for improved methods to describe their diverse needs. Measures of adaptive functioning collected through public health surveillance may provide valuable information on functioning and support needs at a population level. We aimed to use adaptive behavior and cognitive scores abstracted from health and educational records to describe trends over time in the population prevalence of autism by adaptive level and co-occurrence of intellectual disability (ID). Using data from the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network, years 2000 to 2016, we estimated the prevalence of autism per 1000 8-year-old children by four levels of adaptive challenges (moderate to profound, mild, borderline, or none) and by co-occurrence of ID. The prevalence of autism with mild, borderline, or no significant adaptive challenges increased between 2000 and 2016, from 5.1 per 1000 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 4.6–5.5) to 17.6 (95% CI: 17.1–18.1) while the prevalence of autism with moderate to profound challenges decreased slightly, from 1.5 (95% CI: 1.2–1.7) to 1.2 (95% CI: 1.1–1.4). The prevalence increase was greater for autism without co-occurring ID than for autism with co-occurring ID. The increase in autism prevalence between 2000 and 2016 was confined to autism with milder phenotypes. This trend could indicate improved identification of milder forms of autism over time. It is possible that increased access to therapies that improve intellectual and adaptive functioning of children diagnosed with autism also contributed to the trends.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j76trmiofvaxxpvx2vnb2vwf/bafkreibeoudvh2b4ifuiqq7pmnzwg6y6n3caschubukvo6kzqcfn2kdf5i@jpeg)
February 10, 2026 at 11:26 PM
Increasing autism rates over the last 25 years may just be kids with mild forms getting diagnosed. Rates of moderate to severe impairment due to autism have actually fallen slightly.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Remember last week how Dr. Oz called AI the best solution for rural healthcare shortages?
Well, a new study finds that when patients turn to chatbots for health advice, they end up taking the wrong steps and getting the wrong diagnosis more than half the time.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/w...
Well, a new study finds that when patients turn to chatbots for health advice, they end up taking the wrong steps and getting the wrong diagnosis more than half the time.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/w...
Health Advice From A.I. Chatbots Is Frequently Wrong, Study Shows
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 12:16 AM
Remember last week how Dr. Oz called AI the best solution for rural healthcare shortages?
Well, a new study finds that when patients turn to chatbots for health advice, they end up taking the wrong steps and getting the wrong diagnosis more than half the time.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/w...
Well, a new study finds that when patients turn to chatbots for health advice, they end up taking the wrong steps and getting the wrong diagnosis more than half the time.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/w...
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Proud to share my recently published article in Law & Society Review: "Whose victimization pays? Policing innocent
victimhood in victim compensation law". The article explores how policing affects the recognition of crime victims under victim compensation law. 🔗👇: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
victimhood in victim compensation law". The article explores how policing affects the recognition of crime victims under victim compensation law. 🔗👇: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
February 4, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Proud to share my recently published article in Law & Society Review: "Whose victimization pays? Policing innocent
victimhood in victim compensation law". The article explores how policing affects the recognition of crime victims under victim compensation law. 🔗👇: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
victimhood in victim compensation law". The article explores how policing affects the recognition of crime victims under victim compensation law. 🔗👇: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
time to count how many books i have to remove from my office bookshelf due to epstein file revelations about famed academics
February 5, 2026 at 6:28 PM
time to count how many books i have to remove from my office bookshelf due to epstein file revelations about famed academics
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Domestic violence survivors regularly cite safe & secure housing as one of their most pressing needs. Yet, survivors face a startling lack of options for safe places to turn. Korbel Prof @kaitsims.bsky.social in @us.theconversation.com on the scope & severity of the DV shelter shortage in Colorado:
Only half of Colorado’s counties have emergency shelters for domestic violence survivors. Advocates say limited shelter beds and long waits for housing leave many people with nowhere safe to go. (This is a broader national issue, but this reporting focuses on Colorado.) buff.ly/y4OYgXj
Colorado has emergency domestic violence shelters in only half its counties, leaving survivors without safe housing options
A lack of shelters and affordable housing means survivors of domestic violence have few places to go.
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February 2, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Domestic violence survivors regularly cite safe & secure housing as one of their most pressing needs. Yet, survivors face a startling lack of options for safe places to turn. Korbel Prof @kaitsims.bsky.social in @us.theconversation.com on the scope & severity of the DV shelter shortage in Colorado:
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college
Cold War History
Creative Writing (Poetry)
Women in the Economy
Public Opinion and Political Behavior
US-Latin American Diplomacy
Plus a few quarters of swing dance, Latin dance, and Pilates
Cold War History
Creative Writing (Poetry)
Women in the Economy
Public Opinion and Political Behavior
US-Latin American Diplomacy
Plus a few quarters of swing dance, Latin dance, and Pilates
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college
American Society
Sociology of Childhood
Education Policy
Creative Nonfiction
Logic*
American Society
Sociology of Childhood
Education Policy
Creative Nonfiction
Logic*
January 31, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college
Cold War History
Creative Writing (Poetry)
Women in the Economy
Public Opinion and Political Behavior
US-Latin American Diplomacy
Plus a few quarters of swing dance, Latin dance, and Pilates
Cold War History
Creative Writing (Poetry)
Women in the Economy
Public Opinion and Political Behavior
US-Latin American Diplomacy
Plus a few quarters of swing dance, Latin dance, and Pilates
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Addressing housing affordability...
"A concrete company on the Texas-Mexico border filed for bankruptcy, claiming its business had been disrupted by federal immigration raids on South Texas construction sites that were “resulting in acute labor shortages.”
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"A concrete company on the Texas-Mexico border filed for bankruptcy, claiming its business had been disrupted by federal immigration raids on South Texas construction sites that were “resulting in acute labor shortages.”
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ICE raids are sparking labor shortages in South Texas, business leaders say
Many Texas business leaders have expressed fear the ICE raids will leave the state, which has the second highest percentage of migrant workers in the country, without enough labor.
www.houstonchronicle.com
January 31, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Addressing housing affordability...
"A concrete company on the Texas-Mexico border filed for bankruptcy, claiming its business had been disrupted by federal immigration raids on South Texas construction sites that were “resulting in acute labor shortages.”
www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex...
"A concrete company on the Texas-Mexico border filed for bankruptcy, claiming its business had been disrupted by federal immigration raids on South Texas construction sites that were “resulting in acute labor shortages.”
www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex...
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Only half of Colorado’s counties have emergency shelters for domestic violence survivors. Advocates say limited shelter beds and long waits for housing leave many people with nowhere safe to go. (This is a broader national issue, but this reporting focuses on Colorado.)
Colorado has emergency domestic violence shelters in only half its counties, leaving survivors without safe housing options
A lack of shelters and affordable housing means survivors of domestic violence have few places to go.
buff.ly
January 31, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Only half of Colorado’s counties have emergency shelters for domestic violence survivors. Advocates say limited shelter beds and long waits for housing leave many people with nowhere safe to go. (This is a broader national issue, but this reporting focuses on Colorado.)
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A new study from Anthropic finds that gains in coding efficiency when relying on AI assistance did did not meet statistical significance; AI use noticeably degraded programmers’ understanding of what they were doing. Incredible.
The latest from Anthropic: using Anthropic's products makes you worse at your job
How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
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January 30, 2026 at 11:47 PM
A new study from Anthropic finds that gains in coding efficiency when relying on AI assistance did did not meet statistical significance; AI use noticeably degraded programmers’ understanding of what they were doing. Incredible.
Housing is tough for everyone right now, but for survivors of domestic and sexual violence who lose their housing, the challenges can be impossible.
In my latest for @us.theconversation.com, I discuss limitations to local shelter availability, and why Section 8 is not a viable long-term solution.
In my latest for @us.theconversation.com, I discuss limitations to local shelter availability, and why Section 8 is not a viable long-term solution.
Colorado has emergency domestic violence shelters in only half its counties, leaving survivors without safe housing options
A lack of shelters and affordable housing means survivors of domestic violence have few places to go.
theconversation.com
January 29, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Housing is tough for everyone right now, but for survivors of domestic and sexual violence who lose their housing, the challenges can be impossible.
In my latest for @us.theconversation.com, I discuss limitations to local shelter availability, and why Section 8 is not a viable long-term solution.
In my latest for @us.theconversation.com, I discuss limitations to local shelter availability, and why Section 8 is not a viable long-term solution.
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please remember that no matter how many “ICE is losing in MN” articles you read today, there is still a very real, urgent, ongoing crisis in Minnesota.
people need food and they need rent money. that has not changed.
people need food and they need rent money. that has not changed.
January 28, 2026 at 2:55 PM
please remember that no matter how many “ICE is losing in MN” articles you read today, there is still a very real, urgent, ongoing crisis in Minnesota.
people need food and they need rent money. that has not changed.
people need food and they need rent money. that has not changed.
nothing hits quite like pepto for breakfast in These Times
January 27, 2026 at 3:45 PM
nothing hits quite like pepto for breakfast in These Times
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“Foreign exporters absorbed only 4% of last year’s U.S. tariff increases by lowering prices, while American consumers and importers absorbed 96%.
“Rather than acting as a tax on foreign producers, the tariffs functioned as a consumption tax on Americans.”
www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
“Rather than acting as a tax on foreign producers, the tariffs functioned as a consumption tax on Americans.”
www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
Americans Are the Ones Paying for Tariffs, Study Finds
New research contradicts President Trump’s claim that foreigners are footing the bill.
www.wsj.com
January 19, 2026 at 3:29 PM
“Foreign exporters absorbed only 4% of last year’s U.S. tariff increases by lowering prices, while American consumers and importers absorbed 96%.
“Rather than acting as a tax on foreign producers, the tariffs functioned as a consumption tax on Americans.”
www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
“Rather than acting as a tax on foreign producers, the tariffs functioned as a consumption tax on Americans.”
www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
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Literally everyone who even vaguely knew what a tariff was said this when they were introduced! You don’t need a team of economists to analyze the situation — no one who lives in reality was confused by this!
“Foreign exporters absorbed only 4% of last year’s U.S. tariff increases by lowering prices, while American consumers and importers absorbed 96%.
“Rather than acting as a tax on foreign producers, the tariffs functioned as a consumption tax on Americans.”
www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
“Rather than acting as a tax on foreign producers, the tariffs functioned as a consumption tax on Americans.”
www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
Americans Are the Ones Paying for Tariffs, Study Finds
New research contradicts President Trump’s claim that foreigners are footing the bill.
www.wsj.com
January 20, 2026 at 2:07 AM
Literally everyone who even vaguely knew what a tariff was said this when they were introduced! You don’t need a team of economists to analyze the situation — no one who lives in reality was confused by this!
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I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
Opinion | In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War
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January 19, 2026 at 12:56 PM
I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
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Prof @kaitsims.bsky.social and Korbel MPP student Samantha Berkowitz in @msmagazine.com on why the NHL should adopt a formal and specific domestic violence policy when players are accused of sexual or domestic violence.
Because I couldn’t stop myself from getting involved in the Heated Rivalry discourse…. My latest, with my cool grad student, for Ms. Magazine! Off the ice relationships on HBO are great tv, but uhhh why doesn’t the NHL have a DV policy? Asking the league to do better
msmagazine.com/2026/01/13/h...
msmagazine.com/2026/01/13/h...
Hockey’s Cultural Renaissance Can’t Ignore Domestic Violence
While we are on the subject of hockey (cough, Heated Rivalry) ... why doesn’t the NHL have a domestic violence policy?
msmagazine.com
January 14, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Prof @kaitsims.bsky.social and Korbel MPP student Samantha Berkowitz in @msmagazine.com on why the NHL should adopt a formal and specific domestic violence policy when players are accused of sexual or domestic violence.
Because I couldn’t stop myself from getting involved in the Heated Rivalry discourse…. My latest, with my cool grad student, for Ms. Magazine! Off the ice relationships on HBO are great tv, but uhhh why doesn’t the NHL have a DV policy? Asking the league to do better
msmagazine.com/2026/01/13/h...
msmagazine.com/2026/01/13/h...
Hockey’s Cultural Renaissance Can’t Ignore Domestic Violence
While we are on the subject of hockey (cough, Heated Rivalry) ... why doesn’t the NHL have a domestic violence policy?
msmagazine.com
January 13, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Because I couldn’t stop myself from getting involved in the Heated Rivalry discourse…. My latest, with my cool grad student, for Ms. Magazine! Off the ice relationships on HBO are great tv, but uhhh why doesn’t the NHL have a DV policy? Asking the league to do better
msmagazine.com/2026/01/13/h...
msmagazine.com/2026/01/13/h...
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