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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 10d

"Political violence is the norm for the Black experience in this country. It just is." - Ta-Nehisi Coates

If you think political violence starts and ends with rich, powerful white people, you have NOT been paying attention in the slightest. #blacksky

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 15d

A week ago I published #TheDoubleTax and since then, this first-time author's book has remained a #1 NEW RELEASE and a TOP TEN BESTSELLER in Women & Business.

To God, my family, Chelsea Clinton, my team, and EVERY reader, thank you for everything. Get your copy: annagifty.com! #booksky #blacksky

ANNA GIFTY AND CHELSEA CLINTON PICTURED ON STAGE AT 92ND STREET Y

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 20d

The @nber.org Race and Stratification in the Economy working group is seeking submissions for our upcoming Spring 2026 meeting to be held on March 27, 2026.

The submission deadline is December 11, 2025.

The call for papers is here:

www.asc.ohio-state.edu/logan.155/pd...

www.asc.ohio-state.edu

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 22d

ONE OF THE WORLD'S LEADING ECONOMIC HISTORIANS CALLED #TheDoubleTax "exceptional" and "one of the best popular ways to bring social science to the public".

Can somebody PLEASE frame this entire review by @trevondlogan.bsky.social and hang it on my wall forever? This review has made my entire week.

Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 22d

I read @itsafronomics.bsky.social new book “The Double Tax” this afternoon. It’s engaging and one of the best popular ways to bring social science to the public and policy that I’ve read in a long while. Black women are uniquely disadvantaged in our economy. 😍 she gave Janelle James her flowers!

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Gloria Miele, PhD @gloriamiele.bsky.social · 22d

I bought two!! Can’t wait to share.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 22d

I am a proud library kid. And I can't stress ENOUGH how books have changed my life. Because I read, I wrote, and because I wrote, I became AN AUTHOR. A literal childhood dream. Little Anna could have NEVER imagined this. What a wild ride.

Order now: annagifty.com! #booksky #librarysky #blacksky

when you achieve your childhood dream of becoming an author

Black girl with braids pictured

"Library kids unite"

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 24d

I am going to be a first-time author in TWO DAYS and the book I wrote, #TheDoubleTax, has been called groundbreaking, life changing, entertaining, powerful, essential, hilarious, and inspiring.

If you haven't pre-ordered, it's about that time: annagifty.com.

#blacksky #bluesky #booksky #librarysky

A BLACK GIRL HOLDING HER FIRST TIME AUTHORED BOOK!

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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · Sep 9

"It’s worth asking at what point have you compromised so much that the thing you’re supposed to be defending is gone."

Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · Sep 9

The latest episode of John Oliver’s show is on higher ed and scientific research, so well worth watching if you’re in either space. My favorite moment was when he showed Trump saying he would “make Harvard great…again…probably”

If every university president watched, we would be better off

John Oliver on Trump’s attack on higher education: ‘No capitulation will be enough’

Last Week Tonight host looks into the administration’s attacks on universities’ public funding in the name of ‘fighting antisemitism’

www.theguardian.com

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · Sep 4

I feel like my training in sociology with its emphasis on power, conflict, and dominance left me better equipped to understand American politics in the 21st century than my subsequent training in policy evaluation, optimization and cost benefit analysis.

Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · Sep 4

This is embarrassing. I hope everyone involved in this is embarrassed.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/03/n...

Northwestern trustee and husband gift $20 million to Center for Enlightened Disagreement

A Northwestern University trustee and her husband have donated $20 million to support the school’s Center for Enlightened Disagreement.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Sarah Gollust @sarahgollust.bsky.social · Aug 29

New issue of @jhppl.bsky.social just dropped (Volume 50, Issue 5). Check it out, for a set of wonderful articles on topics that span health care, opioids, paid leave, and mental health, a great representation of the diversity in JHPPL. Thread here:

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David Anderson @dmaanderson.bsky.social · Aug 31

I am chairing the search for two (2) Tenure Track positions at the Department of Health Services, Policy and Management at
@uscarnoldschool.bsky.social

We are looking to move relatively fast so please get your applications in quickly

#HealthPolicy
#AcademicSky

uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/194...

Assistant/Associate Professor (2 Vacancies)

uscjobs.sc.edu

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Courtney Boen @courtneyboen.bsky.social · Sep 1

🚨 Job! 🚨

Brown Sociology & the Watson School of International & Public Affairs are hiring a TT assistant professor whose research focuses on social policy (broadly conceived).

Apply by 9/15: apply.interfolio.com/172655

Happy to chat about life at Brown, etc!

Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio

apply.interfolio.com

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · Sep 1

It's official. The books that I wrote arrived. I am an author y'all. I AM AN AUTHOR. A childhood dream I never thought could happen is happening!!!!!! 🥹

In 15 days, #TheDoubleTax is coming to a doorstep, bookstore, and library near you. Please pre-order by 9/16: annagifty.com!

#booksky #blacksky

ANNA THE AUTHOR WITH THE BOOKS SHE WROTE AND SOME COLORFUL FLOWERS

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💀 Crypt Jones 💀 @cjones47.bsky.social · Aug 29

Sounds like both CVS and Walgreens updated their policies for 16 states sometime in the last 24 hours.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...

CVS Holds Off on Offering Covid Vaccines in 16 States

www.nytimes.com

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · Aug 28

CDC website has been updated…

(Deb Houry, the CDC's chief medical officer, resigned yesterday, meaning that the agency's top two leadership posts are now vacant)

Immediate Office of the Director
CDC Director
Vacant
Deputy Director for Program and Science/Chief
Medical Officer
Vacant

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Koraly @drkoraly.bsky.social · Aug 22

My lab has an open post-doc position!

We will begin reviewing applications as they come in.

The post-doc will work with a vibrant research team at Penn State in the Department of Psychology and the Child Study Center.

psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

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Postdoctoral Research Scholar, The Cognition, Affect, and Temperament Lab, College of the Liberal Arts, Department of Psychology-2

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com

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Hannah Recht @hannahrecht.bsky.social · Aug 18

ICYMI I built a Census tracker + Bluesky bot that posts when they add 👀 or remove 👀 datasets

Census API Tracker @censusapitracker.bsky.social · Aug 11

Hello, Bluesky! This account automatically posts updates when the Census Bureau APIs add or remove datasets.

See the full tracker at www.hrecht.com/census-api-d...

Tracking Census Dataset Changes

See when the U.S. Census Bureau adds or removes datasets.

www.hrecht.com

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · Aug 10

I missed this news before (but suspect we'll see more announcements like this in the coming months):

"The department also hopes to resume admissions for the fall 2027 class. However, no new applications will be accepted this cycle."

www.michigandaily.com/news/news-br...

UMich cancels doctoral epidemiology program admissions for 2026

The University of Michigan School of Public Health will not admit a 2025-2026 admissions cycle cohort to its PhD in Epidemiologic Sciences program.

www.michigandaily.com

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Claudia Stellar, PhD @claudiastellar.bsky.social · Aug 6

ICE is cosplaying as construction workers so they can kidnap day laborers in Danbury, CT.

IG Video: @ immigrationcoalition

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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · Aug 6

Courageous move by the Daily. Bravo.

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · Aug 6

Stanford's student paper sues Noem and Rubio, saying their policies cause non-citizen students to avoid expressing themselves freely in the Daily's pages due to fear of detention and deportation

h/t @joshgerstein.bsky.social

www.thefire.org/sites/defaul...

he Stanford Daily covers news related to Stanford University, publishing short- and
long-form articles along with editorials. Since the October 7, 2023, attack, The Stanford Daily has
included coverage of student opinions and campus protests related to the conflict in Gaza. Since
March 2025, fearing Secretary Rubio will revoke their visas under the Revocation Provision or
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render them deportable under the Deportation Provision, many of the paper’s noncitizen writers who
are lawfully present in the United States have self-censored by declining to cover pro-Palestinian
student protests at Stanford, refraining from covering topics related to the conflict in Gaza, and
seeking removal of their previous articles about it

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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · Jul 29

it’s almost like you all work for the same employer/s!!!

Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · Jul 29

We must see that our lives, our struggles and successes, are bound up in each other. What does collective action look like if you stop being optimistic your discipline's market will improve and instead think about academia as a whole?

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Rita Hamad @ritahamad.bsky.social · Jul 21

Health Affairs is planning a theme issue on the intersections of #climate, #health, and #equity. Read more and submit your abstract here by August 11:
www.healthaffairs.org/request-for-...

@apha.org @iaphs.bsky.social @societyforepi.bsky.social

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · Jul 21

🚨🚨🚨 The Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley is looking for a postdoc on US voting/election policy. Part of a partnership with the Brennan Center running the Voting Laws Roundup. (I have a feeling this work is gonna be important...)

Apply here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04879

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Eric Patashnik @ericpatashnik.bsky.social · Jul 5

The partial repeal of the ACA through the Big Beautiful Bill is a stunning development. Here are some @jhppl.bsky.social articles that offer insights into what just happened--and what might come next. @haroldpollack.bsky.social @sarahgollust.bsky.social 1/N

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