Claire Migliore
@cmiglior.bsky.social
Sociology PhD student at UT Austin
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Gabriel Espada: “This disenfranchisement creates a civil death that undermines rehabilitation.”
April 1, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Gabriel Espada: “This disenfranchisement creates a civil death that undermines rehabilitation.”
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The problem is: they've mistaken correlation for causation. They think their parents and grandparents had a good life *because* of manufacturing jobs. When, in reality, their parents and grandparents had a good life *despite* manufacturing jobs, because of unions, high taxes, and social policies.
April 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The problem is: they've mistaken correlation for causation. They think their parents and grandparents had a good life *because* of manufacturing jobs. When, in reality, their parents and grandparents had a good life *despite* manufacturing jobs, because of unions, high taxes, and social policies.
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This shift for all public sector workers is an aspect of Project 2025/DOGE that we aren’t talking about often enough.
I'm sitting in my house drinking coffee, comfortably retired, because I had a union in the Postal Service and got good pay and benefits.
There are people doing essentially the same job for Amazon, with no union, and they are overworked and underpaid and will never retire if Jeff Bezos has his way.
There are people doing essentially the same job for Amazon, with no union, and they are overworked and underpaid and will never retire if Jeff Bezos has his way.
April 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This shift for all public sector workers is an aspect of Project 2025/DOGE that we aren’t talking about often enough.
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"Our government holds military personnel who aren't yet old enough to drink to the highest standards of OPSEC, and it doesn't matter if you're a kid who makes a careless mistake. There are no freebies when it comes to classified information."
charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/a-dipshits...
charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/a-dipshits...
A Dipshit's Excuse for Intelligence
The era of actual DEI hires.
charlotteclymer.substack.com
March 26, 2025 at 12:32 AM
"Our government holds military personnel who aren't yet old enough to drink to the highest standards of OPSEC, and it doesn't matter if you're a kid who makes a careless mistake. There are no freebies when it comes to classified information."
charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/a-dipshits...
charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/a-dipshits...
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new paper: common approaches to modeling racism in policy processes (i.e. foster care entry) try to decompose racism into a 'bias' component and a 'risk' component. this relies on a flawed theory of racism and ignores causal identification problems onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Bias, risk, racism: Reconciling critical and quantitative approaches to understanding racial inequality in child welfare system outcomes
In this essay, I seek to reconcile critical and econometric approaches to diagnosing the causes of deep racial inequalities in child welfare system outcomes. Using a series of causal diagrams and cri...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 28, 2025 at 1:30 PM
new paper: common approaches to modeling racism in policy processes (i.e. foster care entry) try to decompose racism into a 'bias' component and a 'risk' component. this relies on a flawed theory of racism and ignores causal identification problems onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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This is intolerable.
Cancelling ACTIVE grants that salaries already depend on is a cruel tactic that aims, not at saving money, but at terrorizing the university system and beating us into submission.
#academicsky #edusky
Cancelling ACTIVE grants that salaries already depend on is a cruel tactic that aims, not at saving money, but at terrorizing the university system and beating us into submission.
#academicsky #edusky
Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants
Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.
www.nature.com
March 6, 2025 at 12:30 PM
This is intolerable.
Cancelling ACTIVE grants that salaries already depend on is a cruel tactic that aims, not at saving money, but at terrorizing the university system and beating us into submission.
#academicsky #edusky
Cancelling ACTIVE grants that salaries already depend on is a cruel tactic that aims, not at saving money, but at terrorizing the university system and beating us into submission.
#academicsky #edusky
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been thinking about this poem by @clintsmithiii.bsky.social constantly lately
February 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
been thinking about this poem by @clintsmithiii.bsky.social constantly lately
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Here are some facts about "facilities and administrative" (F&A) costs, what we in the business call "indirects" and what Musk is calling "overhead" as he tries to convince Americans with being ok with cutting billions on dollars from medical and public health research at universities & hospitals
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February 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Here are some facts about "facilities and administrative" (F&A) costs, what we in the business call "indirects" and what Musk is calling "overhead" as he tries to convince Americans with being ok with cutting billions on dollars from medical and public health research at universities & hospitals
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I had this conversation w colleagues the other day, who struggled to find the value of academic research in this historical moment. (I get it.)
But look, if our work and writing didn’t matter, they wouldn’t try to stop us from doing it. They simply wouldn’t care.
But they do.
Because it matters.
But look, if our work and writing didn’t matter, they wouldn’t try to stop us from doing it. They simply wouldn’t care.
But they do.
Because it matters.
This is why they're attacking science and education: if you can only win with disinformation, data become a threat.
February 9, 2025 at 12:45 AM
I had this conversation w colleagues the other day, who struggled to find the value of academic research in this historical moment. (I get it.)
But look, if our work and writing didn’t matter, they wouldn’t try to stop us from doing it. They simply wouldn’t care.
But they do.
Because it matters.
But look, if our work and writing didn’t matter, they wouldn’t try to stop us from doing it. They simply wouldn’t care.
But they do.
Because it matters.
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Let's not lose sight of the second-order effects of data breaches.
Would you be willing to answer the Census, ACS or CPS (assuming they continue) if you knew your de-anonymized answers could be accessed by a Nazi-saluting oligarch and a 19-year old tech-bro wannabe whose Insta handle is Bigballs?
Would you be willing to answer the Census, ACS or CPS (assuming they continue) if you knew your de-anonymized answers could be accessed by a Nazi-saluting oligarch and a 19-year old tech-bro wannabe whose Insta handle is Bigballs?
February 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Let's not lose sight of the second-order effects of data breaches.
Would you be willing to answer the Census, ACS or CPS (assuming they continue) if you knew your de-anonymized answers could be accessed by a Nazi-saluting oligarch and a 19-year old tech-bro wannabe whose Insta handle is Bigballs?
Would you be willing to answer the Census, ACS or CPS (assuming they continue) if you knew your de-anonymized answers could be accessed by a Nazi-saluting oligarch and a 19-year old tech-bro wannabe whose Insta handle is Bigballs?
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This is effectively a ban on sociology. Banned words include "inequality" (and "inequalities" just in case), "socioeconomic," "status," "gender," "race and ethnicity," "institutional," "systemic," "biases," "polarization," and even "sense of belonging." Is there any subfield left?!
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:22 PM
This is effectively a ban on sociology. Banned words include "inequality" (and "inequalities" just in case), "socioeconomic," "status," "gender," "race and ethnicity," "institutional," "systemic," "biases," "polarization," and even "sense of belonging." Is there any subfield left?!
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
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Just a quick example of disappearing data at the CDC. The censoring of science and public access is so disturbing. www.cdc.gov/vaccines/adu...
www.cdc.gov
January 31, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Just a quick example of disappearing data at the CDC. The censoring of science and public access is so disturbing. www.cdc.gov/vaccines/adu...
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🚨If you use public data products from the CDC or other US federal agencies 🚨
Download them NOW
[This is how I’m spending my Friday]
Download them NOW
[This is how I’m spending my Friday]
A colleague asked whether I thought the government would continue the public release of its data products. The data from CDC health monitoring surveys, decades of data on mortality, crime data, climate data of a variety of types that go back for years, etc.
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January 31, 2025 at 1:02 PM
🚨If you use public data products from the CDC or other US federal agencies 🚨
Download them NOW
[This is how I’m spending my Friday]
Download them NOW
[This is how I’m spending my Friday]
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Shut down the Senate: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
January 29, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Shut down the Senate: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
1/2 As I try to make sense of an increasingly inequitable, unjust, and harmful world, it can feel hard to find much hope. Yet I am struck by the tenacity and heart that so many of my peers, mentors, and colleagues bring with each new day. It is their work, their words of encouragement, that remind
January 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
1/2 As I try to make sense of an increasingly inequitable, unjust, and harmful world, it can feel hard to find much hope. Yet I am struck by the tenacity and heart that so many of my peers, mentors, and colleagues bring with each new day. It is their work, their words of encouragement, that remind