Julia Lynch
@jlynch13.bsky.social
Health/social policy, poli sci, inequality, methods, Europe. Teaching & learning, dogs, mezzo-alto, ME/CFS. Getting Better is open access! https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/getting-better
This is outrageous. 20k bail each? There was no property damage. And it’s a cool bug.
I stand with these bears.
I stand with these bears.
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM
This is outrageous. 20k bail each? There was no property damage. And it’s a cool bug.
I stand with these bears.
I stand with these bears.
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Our neighbors are hungry. We saw that enhanced child tax credits could reduce food insecurity, & now we know that food insecurity rose when it was allowed to lapse. And SNAP has always been "supplemental"- that's the S in SNAP.
The status quo was already one where hunger was a persistent reality.
The status quo was already one where hunger was a persistent reality.
I still think that the pain of "gov't shutdowns" should be shared by those responsible for negotiating.
I also think that true democracies would not allow core state functions to grind to a halt over budget reconciliations because core functions should be funded from a separate pot.
I also think that true democracies would not allow core state functions to grind to a halt over budget reconciliations because core functions should be funded from a separate pot.
November 10, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Our neighbors are hungry. We saw that enhanced child tax credits could reduce food insecurity, & now we know that food insecurity rose when it was allowed to lapse. And SNAP has always been "supplemental"- that's the S in SNAP.
The status quo was already one where hunger was a persistent reality.
The status quo was already one where hunger was a persistent reality.
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It’s appalling that the President of the United States and all of his advisors together know less about how SNAP works than my students do. Or else they are just lying. And I’m not sure which is worse.
Trump on SNAP: It really puts the country in jeopardy. People who are able bodied who can do their job—they leave their job because they figure they can pick this up because it’s easier—that’s not the purpose of it
November 11, 2025 at 1:02 AM
It’s appalling that the President of the United States and all of his advisors together know less about how SNAP works than my students do. Or else they are just lying. And I’m not sure which is worse.
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There’s a lot of polisci research showing that Democratic & Republican leaders both misjudge their voters to be more conservative than reality. And that was true already a decade ago.
This is not what they actually say. This is what they used to say, in the long ago before times when Shaheen learned to do politics. There is no kumbaya median voter anymore. The question you get knocking doors is not "why can't you all just work together?" it's "why didn't / will you fight harder?
Shaheen: "When I talk to my constituents in New Hampshire, you know what they say to me? They say, 'Why can't you all just work together to address the problems that are facing this country?'"
November 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
There’s a lot of polisci research showing that Democratic & Republican leaders both misjudge their voters to be more conservative than reality. And that was true already a decade ago.
This. Don’t get me wrong, the whole thing stinks to high heaven. But you can’t attribute the cave only to those who voted yes on the CR.
Assume all the yes and no votes from Dem senators are strategic and not sincere votes. The party caucus made a decision. No way to know how many were in favor. Then the caucus decided who would vote yes and no based on what would protect each of them politically the most. That’s how this works.
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 AM
This. Don’t get me wrong, the whole thing stinks to high heaven. But you can’t attribute the cave only to those who voted yes on the CR.
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“A bipartisan Senate deal has been reached to fund the government through January 30 and to set a vote on an Affordable Care Act bill in December, in a major sign the government shutdown is poised to end, according to a source…
The deal includes a reversal of Trump’s firings of federal employees”
The deal includes a reversal of Trump’s firings of federal employees”
Senate reaches deal to extend government funding in major sign shutdown is poised to end | CNN Politics
A bipartisan Senate deal has been reached to fund the government through January 30 and to set a vote on an Affordable Care Act bill in December, in a major sign the government shutdown is poised to e...
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November 10, 2025 at 12:09 AM
“A bipartisan Senate deal has been reached to fund the government through January 30 and to set a vote on an Affordable Care Act bill in December, in a major sign the government shutdown is poised to end, according to a source…
The deal includes a reversal of Trump’s firings of federal employees”
The deal includes a reversal of Trump’s firings of federal employees”
You will hear the screams of health policy scholars in 3… 2… 1… aaaaaaaaaaaggggghhhhhh
"A development that appeared to break the logjam: Republicans proposed that healthcare funding be provided directly to households rather than used to pay for a 1-year extension of ACA subsidies. That involves sending federal money into FSAs instead of insurance companies" www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Republicans Pitch Alternative to ACA Extension to End Government Shutdown
A proposal by GOP senators to send money directly to consumers’ health accounts rather than to insurance companies showed signs of breaking a stalemate on negotiations.
www.wsj.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 AM
You will hear the screams of health policy scholars in 3… 2… 1… aaaaaaaaaaaggggghhhhhh
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I'm the spouse of an air traffic controller and I could not be more livid at the news that Dems might cave. I called and left voicemails for my Dem senators. If my family can hold the fucking line, so can they.
November 9, 2025 at 11:32 PM
I'm the spouse of an air traffic controller and I could not be more livid at the news that Dems might cave. I called and left voicemails for my Dem senators. If my family can hold the fucking line, so can they.
This.
it’s a memo, tell them to fuck off
NEW: The Trump admin told states it must immediately "undo" the work to provide full food stamp benefits, or face penalties. The feds sent this in a late-night memo, only adding to the chaos and confusion around SNAP. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...
November 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
This.
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In another era, ICE raids would be described as persecution of Catholics.
November 9, 2025 at 2:04 AM
In another era, ICE raids would be described as persecution of Catholics.
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David Drake was an Enslaved Man in South Carolina who Made Thousands of Ceramic Pots. Now, a Boston Museum Has Returned Two of Them to His Descendants www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a... "Artworks by enslaved Black Americans are often absent from repatriation conversations in the United States"
An Enslaved Man Made Thousands of Ceramic Pots. Now, a Boston Museum Has Returned Two of Them to His Descendants
Many of David Drake's large vessels featured his signature and inscriptions, even though he created them during a time when literacy among enslaved laborers was illegal
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November 9, 2025 at 1:04 PM
David Drake was an Enslaved Man in South Carolina who Made Thousands of Ceramic Pots. Now, a Boston Museum Has Returned Two of Them to His Descendants www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a... "Artworks by enslaved Black Americans are often absent from repatriation conversations in the United States"
This is massive thread and I don’t agree with all of it, but it’s worth reading. Ellis makes some good points about what seems like a real succession crisis brewing on the right.
I've noticed that there isn't much talk here about the current internecine war that is unfolding on the right, spearheaded in large part by Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, and Candace Owens after the assassination of Charlie Kirk. I know this shit is insane and feels bad. But this is a mistake (1/)
November 9, 2025 at 1:54 PM
This is massive thread and I don’t agree with all of it, but it’s worth reading. Ellis makes some good points about what seems like a real succession crisis brewing on the right.
Worth reading
“tech and inspiration to do good have melded to make this story possible; in this era of AI bubbles and crypto corruption, we need to be reminded that these tools are also ours.”
“tech and inspiration to do good have melded to make this story possible; in this era of AI bubbles and crypto corruption, we need to be reminded that these tools are also ours.”
Why the Mamdani campaign must be the future of politics
This is something we do, or it is done to us.
www.thefarce.org
November 9, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Worth reading
“tech and inspiration to do good have melded to make this story possible; in this era of AI bubbles and crypto corruption, we need to be reminded that these tools are also ours.”
“tech and inspiration to do good have melded to make this story possible; in this era of AI bubbles and crypto corruption, we need to be reminded that these tools are also ours.”
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
Good catch by @judah-grunstein.bsky.social
Gellner's comparison of multi-stranded language in pre-scientific communities to single-stranded language in scientific societies helps explain the "post-truth" phenomenon of Trumpism.
As a pre-scientific mode of enforcing community, it highlights how deeply hostility to modernity runs in MAGA.
As a pre-scientific mode of enforcing community, it highlights how deeply hostility to modernity runs in MAGA.
!["Socially recognized noise patterns [language] receive approbation either because they are "true (1)" (that is referentially valid, correctly linked to nature), or because they are "true (2)" (that is true/loyal, conforming to normative conceptual expectations). ... One of them is referential: its claims stand or fall in accordance with objective states of affairs. ... The other, despite the great variety of functions it can perform, serves above all the affirmation of commitment to shared concepts by the users of the language, They are, at the same time, members of the same community. Loyalty to concepts makes possible loyalty to the community."
-- Ernest Gellner, "Plough, Sword and Book"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bnwgpceahml6a7nemat4ouac/bafkreicyoummxrpla7dvfzbk7m4avj4qfyckwpfenuvd5lvm6xsvxjdf3a@jpeg)
November 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Good catch by @judah-grunstein.bsky.social
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“changes in statistical significance are often not themselves statistically significant. … even large changes in significance levels can correspond to small, nonsignificant changes in the underlying quantities.”
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
#Statistics
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#Statistics
The Difference Between “Significant” and “Not Significant” is not Itself Statistically Significant
It is common to summarize statistical comparisons by declarations of statistical significance or nonsignificance. Here we discuss one problem with such declarations, namely that changes in statisti...
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November 9, 2025 at 12:39 PM
“changes in statistical significance are often not themselves statistically significant. … even large changes in significance levels can correspond to small, nonsignificant changes in the underlying quantities.”
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
#Statistics
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
#Statistics
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ALERT: Baby Formula
13 cases of infant botulism reported from Aug through Nov 2025 coming in 10 states thus far. Please see web content for specifics on lot numbers and more.
Special shoutout to our friends and colleagues at CDC and FDA who got this out quickly all while not being paid.
13 cases of infant botulism reported from Aug through Nov 2025 coming in 10 states thus far. Please see web content for specifics on lot numbers and more.
Special shoutout to our friends and colleagues at CDC and FDA who got this out quickly all while not being paid.
Infant Botulism Outbreak Linked to Infant Formula, November 2025
Details on an outbreak of infant botulism linked to infant formula, November 2025.
www.cdc.gov
November 8, 2025 at 10:38 PM
ALERT: Baby Formula
13 cases of infant botulism reported from Aug through Nov 2025 coming in 10 states thus far. Please see web content for specifics on lot numbers and more.
Special shoutout to our friends and colleagues at CDC and FDA who got this out quickly all while not being paid.
13 cases of infant botulism reported from Aug through Nov 2025 coming in 10 states thus far. Please see web content for specifics on lot numbers and more.
Special shoutout to our friends and colleagues at CDC and FDA who got this out quickly all while not being paid.
So coooooool!
Now this is *very* cool
‘Google Maps’ for Roman roads reveals vast extent of ancient network
archive.ph/UnfvV
#maps #mapping #DH #Rome #archaeology
‘Google Maps’ for Roman roads reveals vast extent of ancient network
archive.ph/UnfvV
#maps #mapping #DH #Rome #archaeology
November 9, 2025 at 1:34 AM
So coooooool!
Yep. My institution also capitulated, so I don’t have a leg to stand on. But this makes me really not want to go to a workshop at Cornell next week.
Cornell, like other capitulators, shamefully justifies this by saying it preserves *our* independence. Even if that were true, it is pure moral cowardice to take the every-institution-for-itself approach when extortionist is rampaging through our academic community.
November 9, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Yep. My institution also capitulated, so I don’t have a leg to stand on. But this makes me really not want to go to a workshop at Cornell next week.
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Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality in the United States by @mirandayaver.bsky.social
Available for pre-order.
This book is on my must-read list and it should be on yours too!
Available for pre-order.
This book is on my must-read list and it should be on yours too!
The American Exceptionalism of Health Insurance Barriers
My forthcoming book Coverage Denied just became available for pre-order, and proofing and now promoting this work has given me an opportunity to reflect on contemporary health policy developments thro...
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September 28, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality in the United States by @mirandayaver.bsky.social
Available for pre-order.
This book is on my must-read list and it should be on yours too!
Available for pre-order.
This book is on my must-read list and it should be on yours too!
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BREAKING: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issues an administrative stay in the SNAP benefits case, for the First Circuit to issue its ruling on the stay request (“with dispatch”).
Her administrative stay ends 48 hours after that ruling is issued (or upon further order).
Her administrative stay ends 48 hours after that ruling is issued (or upon further order).
![ORDER
The applicants are seeking a stay of two orders of the United States
District Court for the District of Rhode Island, case No. 1:25-cv-569. See D.
Ct. Minute Entry (Oct. 31, 2025) and Docket Number 34 (Nov. 6, 2025).
These orders require the applicants to fully fund benefits for the
Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program ("SNAP") for the month of
November, and to distribute that funding by the end of the day on November 7, 2025 (today).
Earlier today, the applicants asked the United States Court of Appeals
for the First Circuit to stay the District Court's orders pending appeal, and to
issue an administrative stay to facilitate its consideration of that stay motion.
At 6:08 p.m., the First Circuit denied the applicants' request for an
administrative stay, but stated that it "intend[s] to issue a decision on [the
stay pending appeal] motion as quickly as possible." Rhode Island State
Council of Churches v. Rollins, No. 25-2089 (CA1 Nov. 7, 2025).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreibyydayzagrotqzm753km6mib7xxccml3zlxpnonrwd2i6ootfla4@jpeg)
November 8, 2025 at 2:26 AM
BREAKING: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issues an administrative stay in the SNAP benefits case, for the First Circuit to issue its ruling on the stay request (“with dispatch”).
Her administrative stay ends 48 hours after that ruling is issued (or upon further order).
Her administrative stay ends 48 hours after that ruling is issued (or upon further order).
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Who did this? 💀
November 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Who did this? 💀
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My essay for The Teaching Professor, "How Faculty Fool Themselves about Teaching and Learning" now freely available at ResearchGate
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(PDF) How Faculty Fool Themselves about Teaching and Learning
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November 7, 2025 at 11:57 PM
My essay for The Teaching Professor, "How Faculty Fool Themselves about Teaching and Learning" now freely available at ResearchGate
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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