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Karen Benjamin Guzzo
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Demographer and Sociologist. Director of the Carolina Population Center. LEGO Karen

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 2h
“What appears to be a newly created account appeared to invest $30,000 Friday in Maduro's exit. After Maduro went into custody Saturday morning, that same investor netted $436,759.61.”
Someone made $400K by predicting Maduro's capture. Here's what happened
The winnings come as the rules governing prediction markets are still evolving.
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 8h
“The [Columbus] health fair was organized by Remote Area Medical, a nonprofit founded to take volunteer medics to impoverished parts of South America and Africa. But after seeing how desperate the needs were here in the United States, it reoriented itself and today mostly serves Americans.”
Opinion | Trump’s Cuts Are About to Make Health Care Even Worse
www.nytimes.com

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jenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social · 19h
“One of our goals was to publish this huge database of African genomes. This resource would be avail to thousands of biomedical researchers in the US &globally. Now I don’t have money to pay to host the data or run an analysis.I have 200 terabytes of data that’s just sitting on a server in Quebec.”🧪
“Brenna Henn: In my lab, we're interested in characterizing human diversity, especially from populations that live in Africa or are descendants from Africa. One thing we wanted to address is the huge focus on personalized genetic medicine. The idea is that you get your genome sequenced, and then for heart disease or tuberculosis — pick your favorite disease — we'll be able to give you a score of how likely you'll be to develop these things. Almost all of this work is done in Europeans or their descendants in the United States. When we apply the scores to other populations, they don't work as well. And that is a big problem, because you're developing a clinical tool that only works on half the people who walk into a clinic in the United States.”

Reposted by Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Rebecca Tushnet

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
"At the same time conservatives have overseen a massive transfer of taxpayer dollars from the government to private entities, they’ve also gutted the ability of government agencies to have sufficient staff to investigate those same private entities."
The blame for alleged fraud in Minnesota belongs to conservatives
Privatization and a lack of oversight creates a vicious cycle.
www.publicnotice.co

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Dr. Thrasher wants you to pre-order The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 1d
“Heritage Foundation—laid the groundwork with decades of curated discourse that recast desegregation as anti-white racism.” @victorerikray.bsky.social and Jonathan Feingold in @liberalcurrents.com on the DOJ ending disparate impact liability www.liberalcurrents.com/promoting-a-...
Promoting a New Segregation
The Trump administration wants to make anti-Black racism great again.
www.liberalcurrents.com

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 1d
This is why they want us talking about day care centers and $500 boots.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d
Like, not even GRE scores. SAT scores.
An SAT score isn’t the same thing as being able to write an interesting book or discover something interesting in a lab. But a standardized test score isn’t a bad proxy for student merit in undergraduate admissions, and it isn’t a bad proxy for faculty merit in the hiring process. If the public and policymakers can see that a faculty search had 300 applicants, that the standardized test scores dropped during each round of the selection process, and that the person who got the job had a lower SAT score than 290 other applicants, then they can see that something is wrong. This is a very good idea.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2d
Every one of these deals exceeds the severity of the Clinton Foundation and Hunter Biden controversies by orders of magnitude. And there are already dozens, probably hundreds.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 2d
Director Bhattacharya spending more time on podcasts, this time taking about not renewing grants NIH was forced to restore.

Good reporting from @aniloza.bsky.social

www.statnews.com/2025/12/31/n...

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NIH director says DEI-related grants that were restored under a court order won’t be renewed
NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya told a podcaster that DEI-related grants restored under a court order won't be renewed in 2026
www.statnews.com

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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 3d
This should not be shrugged aside. They have stopped with the fake 22 million illegal immigrants things and are flat out saying we want to deport 10's of millions of citizens and legal residents from "third world countries" Basically they are advocating removing 1/3 of the population on a gov site.
Homeland security post The peace of a nation no longer besieged by the third world. A photo of an old 70's tan car on the beach with palm trees swaying in the wind as the surf comes in. with the text America After 100 million deportations.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 3d
"These attacks are baseless, racist, and despicable. And yet, they’re taking a page out of the same moral panic playbook the GOP has been running for decades to undermine public investment in childcare and achieve its broader (and often misogynistic) policy aims."

open.substack.com/pub/jesscala...
Panic at the Daycare
The 80s are back, and not in a good way
open.substack.com

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Yourqueerprof @drcompton.bsky.social · 3d
LGBTQ+ well-being varies sharply worldwide in a global sample (N=82k). Structural and family homophobia strongly reduced well-being—especially for those facing economic precarity. Reducing homophobic stigma should be a public health priority. #SOGIData #LGBTQHealth
Homophobia, economic precarity and the well-being of sexual and gender diverse people in a 153-country survey - Nature Human Behaviour
A cross-country survey among 82,324 sexual and gender diverse people finds that family rejection, homophobic reactions, and institutional stigma and discrimination are linked with individual well-bein...
www.nature.com

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 3d
This culling wasn’t about efficiency. It’s about making sure we don’t have data that could be unfavorable to the administration and - more importantly - making our gov’t inefficient in ways that justify privatizing key activities to enrich a small group of already rich & powerful tech companies.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 3d
Most of the 13 statistical agencies have lost from 20% to 30% of their staff since fiscal 2024, according to the report.
www.nextgov.com/people/2025/...
Report: Federal statistical system needs help to meet its ‘basic mission’ in the face of upheaval
Statistical agencies have lost scores of staff under the Trump administration, threatening their ability to meet their mission, according to a new report from the American Statistical Association.
www.nextgov.com

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 3d
We talk about mentors a lot - more senior folks who can help provide guidance based on their experience. But we don’t talk nearly enough about what we can learn from younger scholars who think differently, who aren’t entrenched in certain heuristics or traditions.
appuhn.bsky.social Karl Appuhn @appuhn.bsky.social · 3d
Ed Muir told all of his graduate students that our job was to tell him and his generation why they were wrong. A field in which younger scholars aren't doing that is no longer a field. It's just a museum of itself.

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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 3d
I looked how many programs are estimated to be over the new annual loan limits ($20,500 per year for "graduate," $50,000 per year for professional). 4,429 of 17,297 graduate programs and 331 of 1,120 professional programs have per-student averages above the new limits. This is cause for alarm.

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 3d
I am starting a new project on this exact question - daycare & higher-parity quantum/tempo decisions!

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Karl Appuhn @appuhn.bsky.social · 3d
Ed Muir told all of his graduate students that our job was to tell him and his generation why they were wrong. A field in which younger scholars aren't doing that is no longer a field. It's just a museum of itself.

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 3d
EXCLUSIVE: @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & I have spent the last year collecting school+county-level vaccination data from across the US and found that only about 28% of counties now have herd immunity for kindergartners from measles—that leaves about 5.2mn kids unprotected.

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U.S. vaccination rates are plunging. Look up where your school stands.
Take a look to see what the kindergarten measles vaccination rates are in your area.
wapo.st

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Theresa O @theresalouiseo.bsky.social · 3d
A new report from the Congressional Research Service, reporting on NIH happenings— grants, policies— from 2025: “NIH Grants Policy Under the Second Trump Administration”

www.congress.gov/crs-product/...
www.congress.gov

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 3d
“Why forgo all these opportunities to get in front of huge audiences and defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate. Once you concede that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s rights are a good thing, you’ve already lost.”
Debating Away Our Humanity
CBS News wants to know if "feminism failed women." Here's what they're really asking.
jessica.substack.com

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 3d
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jessicacalarco.com Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 3d
And actually--Comet Pizza was a page out of a playbook that started with daycare decades before.

In 1983, a California mom accused her son's childcare provider of subjecting children to Satanic rituals--like flushing them down toilets into secret basements where they were then filmed for porn. 1/🧵
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4d
Trump guys are about to Comet Pizza every third daycare center because they think they are all fronts for Somali money laundering. They're only doing this near cities with progressive mayors. This is straight up Government by LibsOfTikTok.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 3d
And actually--Comet Pizza was a page out of a playbook that started with daycare decades before.

In 1983, a California mom accused her son's childcare provider of subjecting children to Satanic rituals--like flushing them down toilets into secret basements where they were then filmed for porn. 1/🧵
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4d
Trump guys are about to Comet Pizza every third daycare center because they think they are all fronts for Somali money laundering. They're only doing this near cities with progressive mayors. This is straight up Government by LibsOfTikTok.
A map of the Boston area showing daycare centers: Almost 4,000 Daycares in a 20-mile radius around Boston, with 1/4 of that being water.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 3d
This headline really does conservatives' work for them!

Medicaid is not "abortion funding"—it's money for birth control, STI testing, etc without which clinics that (separately) provide abortion will go bankrupt. GOP argues that money is fungible but funding isn't for abortion ffs
HHS Wins Reversal of Order Barring Block on Abortion Funding
A federal appeals court undid a preliminary injunction on Tuesday that barred the Trump administration from pausing Medicaid reimbursements to health centers offering abortion care.
news.bloomberglaw.com

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 3d
The latest attacks on child care serve several evil purposes. They use racism to claim fraud to close places down & use nationalism to decimate the care workforce. Then sexism in families & workplaces means women will end up leaving the labor force to care for children.
littlelistmaker.bsky.social Katie @littlelistmaker.bsky.social · 3d
I spent a year and a half trying to convince child care policy and advocacy people that all of this was going to happen, and that continued capitulation and concessions to bad faith attacks would only embolden what they were willing to do to erode the entire system. I recently gave up.

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Katie @littlelistmaker.bsky.social · 3d
I spent a year and a half trying to convince child care policy and advocacy people that all of this was going to happen, and that continued capitulation and concessions to bad faith attacks would only embolden what they were willing to do to erode the entire system. I recently gave up.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 4d
This is why they want us talking about day care scams.

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 4d
And a conditional acceptance for the companion piece is an excellent way to end the year!

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 4d
The final version of the defense spending bill did not include an expected provision covering IVF for military families, despite proclamations that Trump would be the “IVF President.”
Military families hit with bitter blow after Congress strips fertility treatment funding from defense bill | CNN Politics
Back in 2017, when my husband was still in the Army, we learned he was unexpectedly deploying right as we were going to start trying to get pregnant. Military families get accustomed to this pattern: ...
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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4d
Trump guys are about to Comet Pizza every third daycare center because they think they are all fronts for Somali money laundering. They're only doing this near cities with progressive mayors. This is straight up Government by LibsOfTikTok.
A map of the Boston area showing daycare centers: Almost 4,000 Daycares in a 20-mile radius around Boston, with 1/4 of that being water.