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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 6d

"I had to work 10 times harder than the average man just to get the same level of recognition," Jane Goodall told us in 2020. "But once I had made a name for myself, I let the data speak for me."

Jane Goodall on Fighting Sexism and What Chimpanzees Taught Her

Jane Goodall discusses what keeps her motivated six decades into her career and how she combated sexism.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 8d

The basic infrastructures that allow women to be participants in public life—birth control & abortion access, no fault divorce, childcare access & affordability, civil rights law in employment and public accommodations, the minimal efforts to mitigate sexual and domestic violence—are all crumbling.

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 7d

Today (and every day) is a great day to provide support for those fighting back.

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Kerry MacQuarrie @kerrymacqua.bsky.social · 7d

The NSFGRP is a wonderful program

Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 8d

I am deeply grateful for the work of NSF staff this year to keep research & grants moving in a difficult environment. I view this petition as a means to demonstrate impact & interest in ensuring access to a vital grad research program.

450+ signees and counting:
laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 12d

I repeat that whenever you see a man toss a woman around in front of witnesses and cameras, you can bet he’s had practice in private.

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Kerry MacQuarrie @kerrymacqua.bsky.social · 11d

Wait, the axis goes from 1.6 to 2.1?!

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Kerry MacQuarrie @kerrymacqua.bsky.social · 11d

This meeting could have been an email!!!

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Guttmacher @guttmacher.org · 16d

A new Guttmacher analysis of data from 132 countries shows that higher gender inequality is linked to higher unintended pregnancy rates: gu.tt/46xtSuK

Under a header, “New Analysis”, highlighted in yellow, white text on a violet background says, "Higher gender inequality is linked to higher unintended pregnancy rates."

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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 20d

UNC sociologist Barbara Entwisle told me there’s no guarantee the Independent Census Scientific Advisory Committee's recommendations will reach the Census Bureau: “So this is a bit of a risk. But turn it around. If we don't do this, then what? Then there is no feedback, no advice that’s out there.”

Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · Aug 25

NEW: Members of the Census Bureau's scientific advisory committee that the Trump administration ended plan to meet on their own on Sept. 18 to discuss #2030Census privacy protections at their first public meeting as the newly formed Independent Census Scientific Advisory Committee

Fall 2025 Meeting — Independent Census Scientific Advisory Committee (I-CSAC)

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Kerry MacQuarrie @kerrymacqua.bsky.social · 23d

So it’s all just ok now? Is it? Brushed aside with an apology? And Lawrence Jones? His views are only slightly less noxious.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 23d

Fox News host Brian Kilmeade has apologized for advocating the execution of mentally ill homeless people.

Fox News' Brian Kilmeade apologizes for saying mentally ill homeless people should be executed

Fox News host Brian Kilmeade has apologized for advocating the execution of mentally ill homeless people.

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Kerry MacQuarrie @kerrymacqua.bsky.social · 23d

This is fabulous

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 24d

A man in Washington, DC, plays the Imperial March from Star Wars while following patrolling soldiers. One of the soldiers threatens to call the police.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 24d

A man in Washington, DC, plays the Imperial March from Star Wars while following patrolling soldiers. One of the soldiers threatens to call the police.

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Kerry MacQuarrie @kerrymacqua.bsky.social · 23d

This demographer parent’s heart is full today.

For a human geography assignment, my son chose to prepare a global map of…under-five mortality.

a man in a black shirt is sitting in front of a microphone with a sign that says things on it

ALT: a man in a black shirt is sitting in front of a microphone with a sign that says things on it

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Kerry MacQuarrie @kerrymacqua.bsky.social · 24d

I feel compelled to point out that Lesotho =/= South Africa. Bloomberg should know this.

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 29d

The Heritage Foundation specifically named contraception as a "culprit" for low birth rates. The pronatalist movement is using bad demography to cast low birth rates as inherently problematic and thus justify pronatalist efforts, like reducing access to contraception. 1/

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 29d

Told you so.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/s...

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Kerry MacQuarrie @kerrymacqua.bsky.social · 27d

👏👏👏

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 28d

Good. This is the way. Also, how sad.

But this is what we get with the corrupt Trump Administration.

skwawkbox.org/2025/09/07/u...

UN General Assembly votes overwhelmingly to move from NYC to Geneva after US bans Palestine reps

154-2 vote against US-Israeli arrogance The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has voted overwhelmingly to move its September session from New York City to Geneva after the US government refuse…

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Defector @defector.com · 28d

"The cost of building a company on theft should be the company itself. It should be everything you worked for because really, you didn’t work for it: You stole it." defector.com/if-the-thiev...

If The Thieving AI Company Can Survive The Legal Settlement, Then It Is Not Big Enough | Defector

There is an easy answer to the question “How long does it take to write a book?” but it is not a true one. The easy answer is the duration between when you actually start putting your pen down on the…

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Kerry MacQuarrie @kerrymacqua.bsky.social · 27d

Thank you FCPS and Michelle Reid.
www.ffxnow.com/2025/09/10/f...

FCPS asks appeals court to stop Trump administration from cutting off federal funds | FFXnow

Fairfax County Public Schools is appealing the dismissal of its lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education. The school system asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit of Virginia y...

www.ffxnow.com

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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · Jan 14

Misinformation isn't random - it's strategic. 🧵

In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians.

We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties.

with @julianachueri.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/1940...

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 28d

Nepali army orders people in Kathmandu to stay home amid mass unrest gripping capital.

Military shuts down streets in bid to quell Nepal unrest

Nepali army orders people in Kathmandu to stay home amid mass unrest gripping capital.

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Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 28d

JOB ALERT FOR #SOCIOLOGIST: Come work with me. We have FOUR Assistant Professor positions in the Sociology Department at the University of Calgary.

careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1672106...

Assistant Professors - Sociology, Faculty of Arts in Calgary, AB, ...

careers.ucalgary.ca

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Kerry MacQuarrie @kerrymacqua.bsky.social · 28d

Alarm bells should be ringing!

Ben Bellows @benbellows.bsky.social · 28d

FLAS funding allowed me to spend most of 2007 in Uganda working with a local university’s public health department on a healthcare financing study. That became my PhD focus, which led after grad school to a position in Nairobi with Population Council to scale the research in 5 countries.

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · Jul 11

Yes, we’re literally about to zero out funding for every Title VI area studies center at every university in the country, along with FLAS fellowship funding. A generation of human capital that feeds into our diplomatic & intelligence corps that will simply not exist. National security madness.

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Kerry MacQuarrie @kerrymacqua.bsky.social · 29d

I hope you absolutely thrive.

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Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon.bsky.social · Sep 8

This new study shows: in Germany, it has become much harder for children to earn more than their parents, now about as hard as in the US: "parental income has become much more important for educational outcomes of children"

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Kerry MacQuarrie @kerrymacqua.bsky.social · 29d

He is a rapist and fully espouses the subjugation of women. This comment is wholly unsurprising. Just disappointing.

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 29d

"A man shoves his ex-wife down the stairs and buries her on his golf course, they say this is a crime..."

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · Sep 8

Trump: "Things that take place in the home they call crime....If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this is a crime."