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Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy

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Medicaid at 60 special issue from JHPPL is out, ungated. All-star lineup includes: @povertyscholar.bsky.social @pamherd.bsky.social @laurawherryr.bsky.social @joefigs.bsky.social @charleywillison.bsky.social @ericpatashnik.bsky.social & more read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/issue/...

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Inbox: Medicaid at 60 issue of @jhppl.bsky.social just dropped. How timely. 😭 But seriously, read the amazing scholarship in this issue for in-depth understanding of the program's past, present, & future. @oberlanderunc.bsky.social @ericpatashnik.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/issue/...

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The effects of the House’s proposed “Medicaid cuts to pay for tax cuts” in one graph: a 3.9% boost in income for the top 1% of households and a 7.4% reduction in income for the bottom fifth of households. In two words: class warfare. www.epi.org/blog/the-hou...

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In case anyone needs a break from reality (me, by 9 a.m. every day), my coauthor Anna Berg and I have a new, open access essay out in Perspectives! buff.ly/4gN6cFR. We describe the marginalization of qual methods in the study of American political behavior and make a case for their revival.

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🚨 Big Announcement! The COMM team is hosting a must-attend webinar on March 20, 2025, at 1:00 PM CT: "The Racial Reckoning is Still Happening - A Webinar for Journalists Covering Health Care." 🔗 Register now: shorturl.at/nXqrz

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"stimulating political science treatise"! -Forward

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New article out at PSRM today! Boys, girls, and children: gender and question-wording in the measurement of authoritarianism (co-authored with my former undergrad Carrie Swartz). www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Accommodations designed for people with #disabilities often benefit everyone. Examples include captioning, visual instructions, and remote work options, according to a professor of disability studies: https://buff.ly/3CVmteh Lauren Shallish, Rutgers - Newark #ADA #DEI #workplace #universaldesign

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"White parents who see themselves as egalitarian must recognize that the stakes are now higher than ever. If you want to raise children who reject racism rather than passively absorbing it, right now, today, talk with your child about race and racism." www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...

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Building on work from our @commhsp.bsky.social team, @neillewisjr.bsky.social and I describe the shifting attention in racial equity issues and the rise of counter-messaging in media attention since 2020 (see Neil’s excellent 🧵 and link below for the summary). I want to highlight one other trend… 1/

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Building on work from our @commhsp.bsky.social team, @neillewisjr.bsky.social and I describe the shifting attention in racial equity issues and the rise of counter-messaging in media attention since 2020 (see Neil’s excellent 🧵 and link below for the summary). I want to highlight one other trend… 1/

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We are very excited to disseminate this CfP for a Special Issue titled, "Hidden, Yet Pervasive: Social Inequality in Journalism (Research)." Guest editors are Andreas Riedl, Thomas Hanitzsch, Thomas R. Schmidt & Nik Usher. Pls share! @aejmc.bsky.social #commsky journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/PD...

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SCOOP: The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, arguably the nation's most powerful scientific organization, is bending to political pressure and removing terms like "health equity" from pending reports. Members are not happy. Story by me: www.statnews.com/2025/02/20/n...

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we're in so much trouble

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Dear American National Election Studies (ANES) User Community, we are pleased to announce the preliminary release of pre-election data for the ANES 2024 Time Series Study. The data and documentation can be downloaded from the study page at: electionstudies.org/data-center/...

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“If we really want to increase government efficiency, we need to invest in government efficiency R&D.” - @ssrc.org president Anna Harvey on why investment in research is essential. goodscience.substack.com/p/achieving-...

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The staff reductions are likely to impact Medicare and Medicaid benefits despite claims by the administration that they would not do so, former CMS administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure said. #healthpolicy insights.citeline.com/pink-sheet/a...

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I was today years old when my 'home' academic association had to issue a statement that the 'evolving situation' in🇺🇸 is monitored ahead of a conference. Letters for travel will not include paper titles. Because many of us research important topics. In the bigger picture, small, for academics huge😢

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The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

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Pre-K — higher ed educators 📣 What are your thoughts about the potential dismantling of the Department of Education? Share w/ PBS @NewsHour Classroom's Educator Voice blog ✍️ by Fri., 2/21 here: bit.ly/40Q0vRw #DOE #EduSky #elachat #engchat #mschat #HigherEd #PreK #apush #apgov

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Thinking about this body of research in light of what's happening in Washington. Job loss has substantial effects not only on the individuals, but also on the families and communities surrounding them. These political games will ruin so many people's lives. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

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Social media platforms TikTok and X ('For you') show evidence of substantial far-right bias in Germany ahead of Sunday's elections. Study published by Global Witness and w/ important points about lack of transparency and data access in the article. #DSA #CommSky #AfD techcrunch.com/2025/02/19/s...

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Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

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“The power to make change is not lost. It’s local.” - @maribel-wadsworth.bsky.social @knightfdn.bsky.social with a shout out to #MaconGA’s power in building community in #DowntownMacon, first!

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Just published on APSR First View: "Out-Competing Rivals: Armed Group Governance and Civilian Attitudes in Colombia" by Erica DeBruin, Gabriella Levy, Livia Schubiger and Michael Weintraub. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Just re-upping this @makenakelly.bsky.social story from yesterday bc... jeez oh man you guys should read this www.wired.com/story/doge-e...

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And this is even*before Musk and his operatives get their hands on it.

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Great initiative that we need more of right now! ⬇️

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Since federal health information is getting harder to come by, I thought I'd share this new resource. Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine launched an online Avian Flu Resource Center--a one-stop clearinghouse for trustworthy information on bird flu. www.vet.cornell.edu/highly-patho...

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These are the kinds of stories about the human costs of the Trump-Musk coup that desperately need telling right now. Local news outlets and independent journalists can do a lot of important work here, for their own communities but also for the national effort to push back against this insanity.

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For fellow faculty members struggling with the enormity of what's happening in your area right now, one thing that has helped me is to think about how I would teach the issue in an intro class. How I would I break this down? Start with basic facts, explore what's happening & then implications.

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Curious about targeting strategies in the 2025 German elections? 🗳️ favstats.github.io/de25/targeti... Updated daily, my dashboard tracks how much € German parties spend on targeted ads. For example 1M on “lookalike” audiences to reach people similar to a pre-defined audience (often supporters). 📊

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I'm hearing now that every technologist CFPB hired to investigate Big Tech was fired this evening. That's somewhere between 70-100 people. wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/

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Dropping the Adams case is so obviously corrupt and unethical that a former Scalia clerk resigned on principle. This is not a partisan issue; it's a question of whether DOJ will be weaponized by this administration on behalf of its allies and against its opponents. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...

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Danielle Sassoon is precisely the kind of conservative we need in this country right now. I hope she is an example for others to follow.

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The American National Election Study is an NSF funded publicly available, incredibly rich dataset that tracks American public opinion, vote choice and evaluations of government that has been in the field since 1948. It is an incredible resource for teaching and research and must be protected.

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Professor who teaches African American studies here. If your school eliminates or bans it, I will personally host free zoom sessions, provide resources, or answer questions for students, parents/guardians, or teachers who are interested in learning or discussing African American studies.

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True story: when my older boys were little, they both got whooping cough even though they were vaccinated. It was bad. We asked the pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. They would’ve died, he said. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Here is the pre-RFK vaccination schedule for your kids. Please download it before he is confirmed and changes/deletes it. Give it to your pediatrician and say this is the schedule you want your kids on. Making this my pinned post.

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"Most Americans, even those who voted for Trump to serve a second term, do not want this. The question is whether the silent majority in favor of a more inclusive society will stand up and say so." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/o...

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🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

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