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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 1d

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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Institute for Social Research (ISR) - University of Michigan @umisr.bsky.social · 7d

A new study from ISR’s Joelle Abramowitz links high pollen days to increased suicide risk, especially among those with mental health conditions. Findings suggest pollen may trigger deeper vulnerabilities than just allergies.

Read more: myumi.ch/QwkND

High pollen count: The last straw effect on suicide risk

ANN ARBOR—Beyond the sneezing and itchy eyes, high pollen seasons are now linked to a significant increase in suicide risk. A new University of Michigan study found a 7.4% jump in deaths, suggesting t...

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Aug 21

Good to see growing support for abduction or 'inference to the best explanation', recently by Spirling and Stewart in @thejop.bsky.social. This is...

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Ruth EJ Booth (she/they) @ruthejbooth.bsky.social · Aug 14

"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details:

LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

(This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

www.theatlantic.com

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David Brady @davebrady72.bsky.social · Feb 22

Say you’ve got very good causal IDENTIFICATION. Can you say you have causality, can make a causal general claim, and can say what “THE causal effect” is?

NO

We explain why in new article at Journal of Causal Inference.

www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

The necessity of construct and external validity for deductive causal inference

The Credibility Revolution advances internally valid research designs intended to identify causal effects from quantitative data. The ensuing emphasis on internal validity, however, has enabled a negl...

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Reed DeAngelis @reeddeangelis.bsky.social · Aug 14

Digging the new single!

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UM SRC @um-src.bsky.social · Aug 13

Goal-striving stress - a largely ignored stressor of blocked opportunity & dashed aspirations - is implicated in chronic pain among low income white adults, regardless of other health & economic factors myumi.ch/kPjQn
@reeddeangelis.bsky.social‬ @acdennis.bsky.social ‪@umisr.bsky.social‬

Goal-Striving Stress and Bodily Pain among Working-Age Black and White Americans - Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities

This study tests novel research questions regarding Black-White disparities in bodily pain and goal-striving stress (GSS). A largely overlooked chronic stressor, GSS measures the psychosocial strains ...

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Evan Roberts @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social · Aug 11

This critical, appreciative review of Auckland's transforming downtown and transportation by @nerd4cities.bsky.social is worth the watch because he translates it well for Americans.
(ritual and jokey disclaimer: as a Wellingtonian kills me to praise Auckland)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqer...

I Went to New Zealand, and I Have Thoughts

YouTube video by Ray Delahanty | CityNerd

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Reed DeAngelis @reeddeangelis.bsky.social · Aug 5

www.congressweb.com/COSSA/50?fra...

Tell Congress TODAY: Reject Trump Administration's FY 2026 Budget Cuts!

In May 2025, the Trump Administration began releasing details of its budget request (https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/information-resources/budget/the-presidents-fy-2026-discretionary-budget-request/) f...

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Reed DeAngelis @reeddeangelis.bsky.social · Jul 27

🚨NEW STUDY🚨

Among Black and White adults, we find that low-SES Whites report the most bodily pain and goal-striving stress (i.e., thwarted aspirations), and are the only ones to report positive links btwn GSS and pain. We unpack research, policy, and clinical implications.

tinyurl.com/yu6ev85u

(PDF) Goal-Striving Stress and Bodily Pain among Working-Age Black and White Americans

PDF | This study tests novel research questions regarding Black-White disparities in bodily pain and goal-striving stress (GSS). A largely overlooked... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...

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Anne Fausto-Sterling @birdlady.bsky.social · Jul 24

Last hired first fired is still true. In science and elsewhere. www.science.org/content/arti...
#DEI #science #womenandminoritiesinscience #disabilityrights #NationalScienceFoundation

NSF’s grant cuts fall heaviest on scientists from underrepresented groups

Projects to broaden participation were cut disproportionately—and were often led by Black scientists, women, and those with disabilities

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · Jul 16

Do you know more about religion than the average American?

A typical American correctly answers 7 out of 15 questions on this quiz. Let us know if you score higher!

www.pewresearch.org/quiz/u-s-rel...

U.S. Religious Knowledge Quiz

How much do you know about religion? And how do you compare with the average American? Here’s your chance to find out.

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Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · Jun 27

Nearly half of U.S. adults say they believe that parts of nature – such as mountains, rivers or trees – can have their own spirits or spiritual energies.

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JHSB @jofhsb.bsky.social · Jun 23

In our June issue @reeddeangelis.bsky.social explores the effects of racial capitalism on Black–White health inequities during the 2008 financial crisis
Full article: bit.ly/44u5Fpm |Brief report: bit.ly/4k5Wf85
@um-src.bsky.social @duke-university.bsky.social @asamedsoc.bsky.social #NewPublication‬

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · Jun 16

An NIH staffer reacts to today's ruling:
"I'm looking forward to the day that we are so slammed with work trying to reinstate everything that we had to terminate illegally — I'll work 24/7 to make that happen if I can."

Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · Jun 16

🚨 BREAKING: Nearly 4 months the NIH cut its first grants, a judge has ruled that the directives and process that led to cuts are arbitrary and capricious.

"The explanations are bereft of reasoning — virtually in their entirety... unsupported by [facts]."

Each of them are VOID and ILLEGAL, he says.

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The Research Center for Group Dynamics @rcgd-isr.bsky.social · Jun 16

🦣 A cool new study argues that preserved natural history museum collections could be tapped as a resource for mapping the pollutants of our past. Shane DuBay & ISR's @pdakean.bsky.social and Brian Weeks et al in PNAS: insideclimatenews.org/news/1306202... @umisr.bsky.social @um-src.bsky.social

Animals—Living and Dead—Can Help Track Humanity’s Toxic Legacy - Inside Climate News

Natural history museum collections can help backfill environmental pollution data, a new study argues.

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MiCDA-UMISR @micda-umisr.bsky.social · Jun 11

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social @um-src.bsky.social affiliates Grace Noppert Jessica Faul Kate Duchowny in The Lancet Regional Health

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · Jun 9

This is a great article made better by inclusion of a scholar named Elizabeth Wrigley-Field.

Derek Beres @derekberes.bsky.social · Jun 9

Whoops! Damn data again. We really gotta stop tracking this stuff so people can lie more freely.

"American life expectancy in 1960 was almost ten years shorter than it is today: 69.7 years. And the leading causes of death were, in fact, chronic diseases."

www.npr.org/2025/06/06/n...

RFK Jr. says Americans were healthier when his uncle was president. Is he right?

American life expectancy in 1960 was almost ten years shorter than it is today. And the leading causes of death were chronic diseases. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. frequently tells a different story.

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Science Magazine @science.org · Jun 9

Breaking news: Staff at the National Institutes of Health have issued a declaration calling on their director to depoliticize the agency and reverse spending cuts.

NIH staff and biomedical community sound alarm about agency politicization, funding slowdown

In test of NIH director’s support of dissent, NIH staff sign Bethesda Declaration urging reversal of grant cuts and freezes

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B Jarosz @datageekb.bsky.social · Jun 7

This.
There are some serious headwinds on life expectancy in the U.S.

Carolina Population Center @uncpopcenter.bsky.social · Jun 6

Without policy changes to boost wages, reduce medical costs, ensure safe housing, and invest in public education, CPC Fellow Kathleen Mullan Harris says U.S. life expectancy may grow worse.
www.yahoo.com/news/growing...

The growing inequality in life expectancy among Americans

The life expectancy among Native Americans in the western United States has dropped below 64 years, close to life expectancies in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Haiti. For many Asian America...

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Jon Freeman @freemanjb.bsky.social · May 21

🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees

Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday

📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful

Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Jun 4

It's the one year book-iversary of Holding It Together, and I think its message is more urgent than ever. Because the book is about how the US came to rely on women as its safety net. But that story is fundamentally a story of what happens when billionaires don't want to pay their fair share. 1/

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Jun 4

Other countries have safety nets. The US has women.

Their labor creates the illusion of a DIY society, making it seem like we don't need a net.

Writing HOLDING IT TOGETHER was a labor of love and fury and I'm so grateful to share it with you all #PubDay

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130...

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Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics @umichstonecid.bsky.social · Jun 2

It’s not too late to apply for a Postdoc position with Team CID. Join us ✨this fall✨ to work with restricted and hard-to-access data related to income and social inequality topics. Applications due June 15! myumi.ch/155qg
#nowhiring #academicsky

Apply now for a postdoctoral research fellow position with the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics. A bull horn is on a blue background with the job title in yellow.

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Reed DeAngelis @reeddeangelis.bsky.social · May 29

A new study w/ @acdennis.bsky.social et al. finds that Black adults w/ darker self-rated skin tones report diminished feelings of mattering and show signs of faster biological aging, regardless of interviewer-rated skin tone and various other social-economic factors.
tinyurl.com/597nke95

(PDF) Colorism and Health Inequities among Black Americans: A Biopsychosocial Perspective

PDF | The mechanisms generating skin-tone based health inequities among ethnic Black Americans remain poorly understood. To address this gap, our study... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...

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Reed DeAngelis @reeddeangelis.bsky.social · May 29

A new study w/ @acdennis.bsky.social et al. finds that Black adults w/ darker self-rated skin tones report diminished feelings of mattering and show signs of faster biological aging, regardless of interviewer-rated skin tone and various other social-economic factors.
tinyurl.com/597nke95

(PDF) Colorism and Health Inequities among Black Americans: A Biopsychosocial Perspective

PDF | The mechanisms generating skin-tone based health inequities among ethnic Black Americans remain poorly understood. To address this gap, our study... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...

tinyurl.com

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