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Letícia Marteleto
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Professor of Sociology & Demography @UPenn. Stratification, reproductive health & fertility. Mother, wife, immigrant, Latina, 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇮🇹, Runner, 1.60m of opinions all my own.
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PARC Research Associate Letícia Marteleto @leticiamarteleto.bsky.social was elected to the Board of Directors of the PAA @popassocamerica.bsky.social. Her term begins on January 1, 2026.
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September 16, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Congrats to PSC Research Associate @leticiamarteleto.bsky.social , recently elected to the Board of Directors of the PAA @PopAssocAmerica. Her term begins on January 1, 2026.
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Meet Our Newly Elected Leadership
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September 17, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT IS THE LAW OF THE LAND AND A SUPERSTATUTE AND THE PRESIDENT CANNOT UNDO IT.

sincerely,

a constitutional law professor who also teaches employment discrimination
April 24, 2025 at 1:39 AM
That’s how it’s done. Thank you for all your work!!
Latest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School!

Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101.

Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up!
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Columbia Canceled My Course on Race and Media. I'm Going to Teach It Anyway.
This is not a time for media literacy or historical knowledge to be held hostage by institutions bending the knee to authoritarianism.
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April 22, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Inhumane. Also, until are we going to accept that due process continues to be denied to Khalil. A permanent resident.
The Department of Homeland Security denied Mahmoud Khalil permission to attend the birth of his first child, who was delivered at a New York hospital on Monday, according to emails reviewed by The New York Times.
Mahmoud Khalil’s Son Arrives After ICE Refuses to Let Him Attend Birth
Mr. Khalil, a permanent resident detained in Louisiana, had requested a monitored furlough for the birth. His request was denied in less than an hour.
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April 22, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Conclave here we go
List of current cardinals - Wikipedia
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April 21, 2025 at 11:10 AM
The timing couldn’t have been worst. RIP Pope Francis.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Apr 21
The pope was a strong advocate for the poor and the environment and a towering figure on the world stage, addressing not just Catholics but the men and women of our time.
Pope Francis, who reached out to the margins of society, has died at 88
The pope was a strong advocate for the poor and the environment and a towering figure on the world stage, addressing not just Catholics but the men and women of our time.
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April 21, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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@pennaging.bsky.social Research Associate @leticiamarteleto.bsky.social in the spotlight for her research collaboration with Penn undergrads!
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We love working with our @pennsas.bsky.social undergrads. Looking for talented undergrads to join the DZC team with @pennpsc.bsky.social
See announcement below.
@leticiamarteleto.bsky.social invites undergrads to work alongside her - decoding Zika, COVID, and women's reproductive health.

In the PSC & PARC Spotlight series, Dr. Marteleto and Research Assistant Yuting Zhu discuss their collaboration.

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April 18, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Vintage @popassocamerica.bsky.social Does remembering each one of these programs make me that old?!
April 11, 2025 at 1:10 AM
This ⬇️
Published an op-ed for @cnn.com: “Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger.”
A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world.
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Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger | CNN
Dr. Ardem Patapoutian says he watches “with deep sadness as the United States’ remarkable scientific enterprise, which took generations of hard work and national investment to build, faces a concerted...
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April 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
What a joke. Playing with the world economy (and making even those who voted for him loose) as if this was his casino.
Breaking news: Donald Trump raised tariffs on imports from China to 125 percent while simultaneously pausing and lowering taxes on goods from other nations, hours after U.S. bond markets descended into turmoil and raised fears of a broader financial meltdown.
Trump announces pause and lowered tariffs for all countries but China
Stock markets soared. Tumult in bond markets had raised fears that the United States may be in the early stages of financial turmoil.
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April 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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JOB! Please RT.

Swarthmore is hiring for our Social Science Quantitative Lab Associate to support & do teaching quant methods to undergrads. Especially looking for people familiar with sociology and/or political science, and R. Apply by 4/18.

apply.interfolio.com/165892

Happy to answer questions.
April 7, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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"Authoritarian governments around the world know that universities are spaces of independent thought and thus potential threats. From Hungary to Turkey to Russia, breaking their independence is an early step in the consolidation of control."
April 5, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Thank you, Tufts, for showing the way.

“Our international students, faculty, & staff are vital to deliver on the education, teaching, research, and public service mission of Tufts University”
University Declaration for Rümeysa Öztürk
University Declaration for Rümeysa ÖztürkApril 2, 2025Dear Tufts community,Please see below a declaration by Tufts University in support of a motion filed today by Rümeysa Öztürk’s legal team in Öztür...
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April 3, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.
April 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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The last day on which a majority of the Supreme Court’s justices had been appointed by Democratic presidents was May 14, 1969.

One of the things we do in the legal academy is support our claims with facts.
April 2, 2025 at 11:23 AM
We love working with our @pennsas.bsky.social undergrads. Looking for talented undergrads to join the DZC team with @pennpsc.bsky.social
See announcement below.
@leticiamarteleto.bsky.social invites undergrads to work alongside her - decoding Zika, COVID, and women's reproductive health.

In the PSC & PARC Spotlight series, Dr. Marteleto and Research Assistant Yuting Zhu discuss their collaboration.

READ MORE:
www.pop.upenn.edu/people/spotl...
April 1, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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This is insupportable, and I suspect potentially illegal, but it's complicated.

And I'm tired of people using Jews as a justification for supporting Nazis. Want to help us? THEN STOP HELPING THE NAZIS!
#BREAKING: POMONA COLLEGE SAYS IT WILL TURN OVER STUDENT DISCIPLINARY RECORDS TO CONGRESS:

Pomona College said it would comply with a congressional request to hand over all disciplinary records related to pro-Palestine activity on campus.

These schools are fascist collaborators
Pomona College will give protest disciplinary records to Congress
Rep. Tim Walberg sent a letter asking for records related to two divestment protests and other incidents. Pomona said they will "fully cooperate."
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March 29, 2025 at 8:27 PM
The brilliant Professor Tiziana Leone giving her inaugural lecture “From menarche to menopause: how reproductive histories shape women’s health” @tizianaleone.bsky.social
@eecoast.bsky.social gave a lovely introduction that included, ofc, a timeline!
March 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
As they should.
COURTS BLOCK THE ILLEGAL NIH FUNDING CUT
A federal judge in Massachusetts has just blocked Trump administration's move to cut NIH's funding of indirect costs

A hearing is now scheduled for Feb. 21 in case, which was brought by 22 states earlier today

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February 10, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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The Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) has been issued for the 15% IDC Executive Order
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February 10, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care!

EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession
February 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Summary of the NIH news for the day

1. eRACommons is up and running (after an unfortunately timed technical issue)

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February 4, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Caught the worst flu I’ve had in the last decade at least. Even ear ache, not to mention sore throat & other usual suspects. Calling this orange monster. When I say rest up, I should listen to myself b/c this is a marathon. #rest #resist #onlyweek3 #focus
February 4, 2025 at 1:34 AM