Randi Saunders
@randisaunders.bsky.social
PhD Sociology Grad at UT Austin studying stress, relationships, and health. Survey & data enthusiast. SFF aficionado, home cook, dog parent, disability inclusion advocate. On the job market. All views my own
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If you work at or attend a university this is extremely important!!
DHS has admitted in court it doesn’t have authority to terminate student non-immigrant status, even when it changes or terminates their SEVIS status, contrary to the info provided by unis to affected students.
This admission, a tactic to evade a lawsuit, is grounds for schools to defend students.
This admission, a tactic to evade a lawsuit, is grounds for schools to defend students.
April 21, 2025 at 12:39 PM
If you work at or attend a university this is extremely important!!
This is EXACTLY what the first amendment is supposed to protect against.
As long as they can doxx people and their family members, threatening safety and well-being, the government is violating those #FirstAmendment rights
As long as they can doxx people and their family members, threatening safety and well-being, the government is violating those #FirstAmendment rights
Top of @nytimes.com app and website right now. Trump critics muzzle themselves because they are afraid of retaliation, including physical threats to their families. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...
March 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
This is EXACTLY what the first amendment is supposed to protect against.
As long as they can doxx people and their family members, threatening safety and well-being, the government is violating those #FirstAmendment rights
As long as they can doxx people and their family members, threatening safety and well-being, the government is violating those #FirstAmendment rights
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Why do some children still get sick with a disease after being vaccinated?
Short answer: Vaccines significantly reduce the likelihood of getting sick, even if they don’t prevent 100% of infections. They can also lessen the severity of illness.
Longer answer: Continue reading ⬇️
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Short answer: Vaccines significantly reduce the likelihood of getting sick, even if they don’t prevent 100% of infections. They can also lessen the severity of illness.
Longer answer: Continue reading ⬇️
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March 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Why do some children still get sick with a disease after being vaccinated?
Short answer: Vaccines significantly reduce the likelihood of getting sick, even if they don’t prevent 100% of infections. They can also lessen the severity of illness.
Longer answer: Continue reading ⬇️
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Short answer: Vaccines significantly reduce the likelihood of getting sick, even if they don’t prevent 100% of infections. They can also lessen the severity of illness.
Longer answer: Continue reading ⬇️
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Part of the problem is that American culture treats wealth as a proxy for brilliance. Which makes it easy to tip into oligarchy on seemingly "meritocratic" grounds. 1/
I want those in charge to be smarter than I am, so I have some sympathy for the idea of governance by an intellectual elite. But that’s not how systems that concentrate power operationalize, which is why fascism becomes anti-intellectual.
Crave an enlightened leader, end up with an ignorant despot.
Crave an enlightened leader, end up with an ignorant despot.
January 18, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Part of the problem is that American culture treats wealth as a proxy for brilliance. Which makes it easy to tip into oligarchy on seemingly "meritocratic" grounds. 1/
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And then there’s this. Once again, RESEARCH helps us, over time, improve human HEALTH & wellbeing.
Basic and applied research, alike.
Science wins. When we fund it. 🧪🩺🛟
bsky.app/profile/dkth...
Basic and applied research, alike.
Science wins. When we fund it. 🧪🩺🛟
bsky.app/profile/dkth...
People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random.
Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea
Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea
Breaking News: The FDA approved use of the weight loss drug Zepbound for a common form of sleep apnea. It is the first drug authorized to treat the disorder.
December 21, 2024 at 5:31 PM
And then there’s this. Once again, RESEARCH helps us, over time, improve human HEALTH & wellbeing.
Basic and applied research, alike.
Science wins. When we fund it. 🧪🩺🛟
bsky.app/profile/dkth...
Basic and applied research, alike.
Science wins. When we fund it. 🧪🩺🛟
bsky.app/profile/dkth...
I think there is some conflation between "mutual abuse" and "mutual violence". There are cases where both parties use physical violence--hitting, hair-pulling, throwing things, etc. I'm not endorsing that, though it's worth acknowledging that cases of "violent" self-defense get lumped in there.
Thinking mutual abuse exists shows a fundamental misunderstanding of what abuse even is, in the first place. There can't be abuse without a power imbalance, and you can't change victim and perpetrator like a seesaw. The roles are fixed. The powerless cannot abuse the powerful.
November 18, 2024 at 11:02 PM
I think there is some conflation between "mutual abuse" and "mutual violence". There are cases where both parties use physical violence--hitting, hair-pulling, throwing things, etc. I'm not endorsing that, though it's worth acknowledging that cases of "violent" self-defense get lumped in there.
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A federal judge has temporarily blocked a Louisiana law that would require every public school classroom in the state to display the Ten Commandments, calling the law “unconstitutional in all applications.”
Judge blocks Louisiana from requiring schools to display Ten Commandments
A federal judge said the law was unconstitutional, but the state attorney general quickly promised to appeal the decision.
wapo.st
November 12, 2024 at 6:02 PM
A federal judge has temporarily blocked a Louisiana law that would require every public school classroom in the state to display the Ten Commandments, calling the law “unconstitutional in all applications.”
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November 11, 2024 at 6:44 PM
I think it's important to contextualize these things, rather than pretend like affordable housing has been solved. Rents in Austin had risen by so much that housing is still a huge challenge. 2 years ago, my apartment building wanted to raise my rent by 20%, and that was a common increase
March 23, 2024 at 2:58 PM
I think it's important to contextualize these things, rather than pretend like affordable housing has been solved. Rents in Austin had risen by so much that housing is still a huge challenge. 2 years ago, my apartment building wanted to raise my rent by 20%, and that was a common increase
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Today, a young American woman between the ages of 25 and 34 face higher mortality rates than at any other point in more than 50 years. And had the mortality rate remained flat between 2000 and 2021, nearly 40,000 young women would not have died.
~Sara Srygley of PRB
www.prb.org/articles/tod...
~Sara Srygley of PRB
www.prb.org/articles/tod...
November 27, 2023 at 10:32 PM
Today, a young American woman between the ages of 25 and 34 face higher mortality rates than at any other point in more than 50 years. And had the mortality rate remained flat between 2000 and 2021, nearly 40,000 young women would not have died.
~Sara Srygley of PRB
www.prb.org/articles/tod...
~Sara Srygley of PRB
www.prb.org/articles/tod...
Being on the job market means that questions of moving, and moving again, finding and losing community, have been on my mind a lot. So many people say you can't worry about location, but not worrying about location is a privilege, and that can be a problem slate.com/human-intere...
One of the Hardest Things About Being a Professor Is Only Getting Harder
The tenured prof who stays in the same town for decades is becoming a rarer and rarer bird.
slate.com
October 30, 2023 at 7:09 PM
Being on the job market means that questions of moving, and moving again, finding and losing community, have been on my mind a lot. So many people say you can't worry about location, but not worrying about location is a privilege, and that can be a problem slate.com/human-intere...
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Here I am, once again, pleading with the federal government to reform our approach to disaster recovery.
New from me today in The New York Times "America's Disaster Recovery System Is a Disaster":
www.nytimes.com/2023/10/28/o...
New from me today in The New York Times "America's Disaster Recovery System Is a Disaster":
www.nytimes.com/2023/10/28/o...
Opinion | America’s Disaster Recovery System Is a Disaster
The help Americans receive after disasters isn’t just inadequate, it’s complicated to navigate and painfully slow to arrive.
www.nytimes.com
October 28, 2023 at 1:52 PM
Here I am, once again, pleading with the federal government to reform our approach to disaster recovery.
New from me today in The New York Times "America's Disaster Recovery System Is a Disaster":
www.nytimes.com/2023/10/28/o...
New from me today in The New York Times "America's Disaster Recovery System Is a Disaster":
www.nytimes.com/2023/10/28/o...