Spencer Allen
@spencerallen.bsky.social
PhD Student @umsociology.bsky.social @um-psc.bsky.social | Managing Editor @ Social Science Research | Demography, Population Health, Politics, Internet | Alum @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social | 1st Gen & Alaska
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I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.
September 30, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.
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Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.
Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.
Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.
Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
October 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.
Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.
Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.
Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
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Social Science Research is preparing a special issue focused on a critical but underexplored dimension of AI: its role in widening or narrowing social inequalities. The deadline for abstracts is now Nov 17th. Read more here: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
September 20, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Social Science Research is preparing a special issue focused on a critical but underexplored dimension of AI: its role in widening or narrowing social inequalities. The deadline for abstracts is now Nov 17th. Read more here: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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Free to read! New research in Socius from ASA member Spencer Allen @spencerallen.bsky.social @um-psc.bsky.social shows that, while broadband access has increased in the U.S. since 2013, gaps by race, education, and poverty still persist. @sociusjournal.bsky.social
Trends and Disparities in Broadband Internet Access in the United States, 2013 to 2023 - Spencer Allen, 2025
Since the turn of the century, sociologists and other scholars concerned about digital inequality have most often been concerned about disparities in the qualit...
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August 20, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Free to read! New research in Socius from ASA member Spencer Allen @spencerallen.bsky.social @um-psc.bsky.social shows that, while broadband access has increased in the U.S. since 2013, gaps by race, education, and poverty still persist. @sociusjournal.bsky.social
Excited to share my recent publication in @sociusjournal.bsky.social ! Despite improvements to home broadband, racial/ethnic, educational, and income disparities continue to prevent equitable internet access. We can’t assume that everyone is online, and policy can address cost and access limitations
📶 Who’s still offline in a wired world?
A new #Socius data visualization by @spencerallen.bsky.social (@um-psc.bsky.social) tracks #BroadbandAccess in the U.S. from 2013–2023—showing gaps by #Race, #Education & #Poverty have narrowed, but persist.
Read: doi.org/10.1177/2378...
A new #Socius data visualization by @spencerallen.bsky.social (@um-psc.bsky.social) tracks #BroadbandAccess in the U.S. from 2013–2023—showing gaps by #Race, #Education & #Poverty have narrowed, but persist.
Read: doi.org/10.1177/2378...
August 19, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Excited to share my recent publication in @sociusjournal.bsky.social ! Despite improvements to home broadband, racial/ethnic, educational, and income disparities continue to prevent equitable internet access. We can’t assume that everyone is online, and policy can address cost and access limitations
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@spencerallen.bsky.social: tell me you're a @burgards.bsky.social student without telling me you're a @burgards.bsky.social student.
Shout out to @spencerallen.bsky.social for starting our short week off right! Thanks for sharing with us! #GoBlue 😋
May 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
@spencerallen.bsky.social: tell me you're a @burgards.bsky.social student without telling me you're a @burgards.bsky.social student.
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We are the #BakersAndTheBest sometimes @um-psc.bsky.social because of our amazing trainees like @spencerallen.bsky.social 💛💙🧁
Shout out to @spencerallen.bsky.social for starting our short week off right! Thanks for sharing with us! #GoBlue 😋
May 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM
We are the #BakersAndTheBest sometimes @um-psc.bsky.social because of our amazing trainees like @spencerallen.bsky.social 💛💙🧁
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Shout out to @spencerallen.bsky.social for starting our short week off right! Thanks for sharing with us! #GoBlue 😋
May 27, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Shout out to @spencerallen.bsky.social for starting our short week off right! Thanks for sharing with us! #GoBlue 😋
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My employer, Dartmouth College, is only Ivy not to sign a "defend higher ed" letter. But as our newspaper reports, an uncommonly high number of mild-mannered faculty have signed a letter demanding that our president join the fight. Even the economists. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2025...
Over a third of faculty members sign open letter asking Beilock to “defend the values and ideals of higher education”
Over 370 faculty members have signed the letter as of May 7.
www.thedartmouth.com
May 9, 2025 at 3:41 AM
My employer, Dartmouth College, is only Ivy not to sign a "defend higher ed" letter. But as our newspaper reports, an uncommonly high number of mild-mannered faculty have signed a letter demanding that our president join the fight. Even the economists. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2025...
Very busy morning in Ann Arbor, where I’ve spent the morning baking a copious quantity of Maize & Blue Chocolate Chip Cookies for @umsociology.bsky.social’s grad student recruitment this week!
March 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Very busy morning in Ann Arbor, where I’ve spent the morning baking a copious quantity of Maize & Blue Chocolate Chip Cookies for @umsociology.bsky.social’s grad student recruitment this week!
When the world is falling apart and you have a bottle of pure NH maple syrup that’s about to go bad, you make maple cupcakes! Thanks @sashakillewald.bsky.social for the recipe 🧁🍁
February 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM
When the world is falling apart and you have a bottle of pure NH maple syrup that’s about to go bad, you make maple cupcakes! Thanks @sashakillewald.bsky.social for the recipe 🧁🍁
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My latest @npr.org story: Because of a Trump executive order, the Census Bureau is stopping work on statistics that could help protect the rights of transgender people, Robert Santos confirms to NPR in his first published interview since resigning as the bureau's director
Census Bureau stopped work on data for protecting trans rights, former director says
Because of a Trump executive order, the Census Bureau is stopping work on statistics that could help protect the rights of transgender people, its recently departed director, Robert Santos, tells NPR.
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February 22, 2025 at 12:04 AM
My latest @npr.org story: Because of a Trump executive order, the Census Bureau is stopping work on statistics that could help protect the rights of transgender people, Robert Santos confirms to NPR in his first published interview since resigning as the bureau's director
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not sure what's worse about the DOGE site: unsecured databases, leaking of classified information, or these chart crimes
February 15, 2025 at 1:59 PM
not sure what's worse about the DOGE site: unsecured databases, leaking of classified information, or these chart crimes
Happy Valentine’s Day to all the infectious diseases of the world, may your love spread voraciously as public agencies have a harder time tracking and preventing your existence 😷🤒
BREAKING: StatNews reports that more than 5,000 HHS employees across NIH, CDC and other public health and research agencies will be fired this afternoon. www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/f...
Trump administration to fire thousands at health agencies
The Trump administration is set to eliminate thousands of federal health care jobs Friday, targeting employees across agencies who were hired in the past one to two years.
www.statnews.com
February 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Happy Valentine’s Day to all the infectious diseases of the world, may your love spread voraciously as public agencies have a harder time tracking and preventing your existence 😷🤒
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In my expert opinion, grad school is significantly more palatable with an Alaska-shaped cheese board
January 30, 2025 at 11:36 PM
In my expert opinion, grad school is significantly more palatable with an Alaska-shaped cheese board
I think I chose the most inopportune historical moment to submit an NSF graduate research fellowship proposal on “Political Polarization in Education and Health Outcomes” 🙃😭
I can't decide which would be a worse outcome here. That research is cut off permanently. Or that the administration uses the pause to implement new restrictions on science to the point where the only "research" researchers can do and publish is research supporting administration-approved "facts."
I’m an NSF panel reviewer that was scheduled to meet today. Just got notice that all NSF panels were canceled today. I reviewed some innovative proposals in support of students. Devastating if these scholars don’t get to do this work. For the love of science & students I hope this is just a delay.💔
January 27, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I think I chose the most inopportune historical moment to submit an NSF graduate research fellowship proposal on “Political Polarization in Education and Health Outcomes” 🙃😭
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A new #umichresearch study by @um-psc.bsky.social trainee @spencerallen.bsky.social found that broadband connection was a key factor in reducing mortality and incidence during the early COVID pandemic. From Michigan News: news.umich.edu/digital-life...
Digital lifeline: High-speed internet linked to drop in COVID-19 death rates
The mortality rate from COVID-19 was about 50% lower in U.S. counties with higher internet access in the summer and early fall of 2020.
news.umich.edu
January 16, 2025 at 7:51 PM
A new #umichresearch study by @um-psc.bsky.social trainee @spencerallen.bsky.social found that broadband connection was a key factor in reducing mortality and incidence during the early COVID pandemic. From Michigan News: news.umich.edu/digital-life...
My pub took north of 1,550 days (thanks Excel!) from start to finish to complete. So much has happened in that time…
January 6, 2025 at 1:43 AM
My pub took north of 1,550 days (thanks Excel!) from start to finish to complete. So much has happened in that time…
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🎊 We're proud to share the first publication from @um-psc.bsky.social trainee @spencerallen.bsky.social. The findings in this 🧵, which show how internet access mattered for COVID outcomes, are reported just as net neutrality has been struck down in federal court. @umisr.bsky.social #UMich
I’m very excited to announce that my first paper has just been published in SSM-Population Health! (and it’s open access!) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧵 1/
January 3, 2025 at 11:21 PM
🎊 We're proud to share the first publication from @um-psc.bsky.social trainee @spencerallen.bsky.social. The findings in this 🧵, which show how internet access mattered for COVID outcomes, are reported just as net neutrality has been struck down in federal court. @umisr.bsky.social #UMich
I’m very excited to announce that my first paper has just been published in SSM-Population Health! (and it’s open access!) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧵 1/
January 3, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I’m very excited to announce that my first paper has just been published in SSM-Population Health! (and it’s open access!) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧵 1/
I've been fully on here for all of an hour and I'm already enjoying myself more than other platforms
Dear Bluesky,
Thanks for being so welcoming to so many wonderful new arrivals……and for NOT being welcoming to the bigoted pricks.
Love,
God
Thanks for being so welcoming to so many wonderful new arrivals……and for NOT being welcoming to the bigoted pricks.
Love,
God
December 12, 2024 at 11:45 PM
I've been fully on here for all of an hour and I'm already enjoying myself more than other platforms
I’m very excited to ring in the new year by joining the Social Science Research team as a Managing Editor!
(And, after several months of lurking, hello Blue Sky!)
(And, after several months of lurking, hello Blue Sky!)
🎉 @um-psc.bsky.social trainee @spencerallen.bsky.social has been named managing editor of @elsevierconnect.bsky.social Social Science Research, starting Jan. 1, 2025! #Umich @umsociology.bsky.social This and other news from @umichstonecid.bsky.social: mailchi.mp/umich/cid-de...
December 12, 2024 at 10:36 PM
I’m very excited to ring in the new year by joining the Social Science Research team as a Managing Editor!
(And, after several months of lurking, hello Blue Sky!)
(And, after several months of lurking, hello Blue Sky!)