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1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59
EJ Antoni has never worked in statistics collection. He is 5 years out of his PhD. He's only ever written one economics paper. His explicit, only qualifications are that he works in ultra-conservative think tanks & believes Trump's conspiracies about the BLS. Grim stuff.
3/ complacency, which will reduce motivation to vaccinate.
Btw, there were 770,000 US flu hospitalizations last year (3/4 of a million!), & 56,000 of those were of kids. Flu can also cause post-viral syndrome & other health complications (eg, actor Harry Anderson died of post-flu stroke in 2018.)
Psych 🧵: To shift behavior, you start by shifting perceptions.
From Paul Offit: last year, 250 kids died of flu in the US (80% of whom were unvaxxed), which represents the most annual pediatric flu deaths since the 2009 swine flu. (In an avg. year,...
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I get to be the proud alum who explains to everybody in the group chat how the governor pushed people onto the board and those new members began working with DOJ to threaten the president so he would resign so they could do a coup and replace him with someone that would destroy the university
I will have so much to say later, but a HUGE thank you to so many people. I am incredibly grateful that my hard work paid off, and it is so satisfying to see that a pro-housing campaign can get these results. I am so excited to serve our community in this way!!! 🥳🥳🥳
“Not Just Measles”: Whooping Cough Cases Are Soaring as Vaccine Rates Decline www.propublica.org/article/whoo...
What is stagflation?
A period of where economic growth slows to the point the unemployment rate rises, usually amidst a shock - tariffs count - and inflation also rises. It is unusual & requires different policies from the Fed than most are accustomed to.
Well this seems like a fantastic plan.
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First they came for the 🐧🐧🐧, and I did not speak out.
The richest man in the world spent more money than most of us will see in our lifetimes to lose a state Supreme Court race by 10 points.
And the fact his $25 million was a drop in the bucket compared to what he's spent on other elections is exactly why we must overturn Citizens United.
This is, unfortunately, correct. We’ve mostly grown up in a world where medical care just kept getting better, from obesity drugs to injections against macular degeneration to cancer treatment to prosthetics to epi-pens.The Trump administration has decided to end that world.
Everyone who works for PRAMS (the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System) at CDC was terminated today. That appears to be the end of a critical program which monitored infant and maternal health nationwide across pregnancy, childbirth & postpartum. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/prams...
Can't wait to combine this with the Poisson pseudo-maximum likelihood high-dimension fixed effects. I would call it PLRDPPMLHDFE.
AI is so great it can help your students turn a 2 sentence email into lengthy Victorian Era prose.
No, academic economics is not, and never has been, discriminating against men.
"Huge gender penalties in promotion to both associate and full not explained by productivity continue in economics departments."
The phone number for Warner’s DC office if you’d like to let him know your opinion this morning:
202-224-2023
He is up for re-election in 2026.
As a measure of how quickly standards are declining here, Trump was impeached for secretly pausing transfer of weapons to his Ukraine in his first term.
I don't even know what to say. So much vital, lifesaving research has come from this data.
The Federal Reserve is not as independent from the executive branch as we’d like to think. The NY Fed just cancelled this Thursday’s @aeacswep.bsky.social reception at #EEA2025 and withdrew from our summer fellowship program. Both support women and underrepresented groups in economics. #EconSky
On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down.
For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now
Meanwhile...
There is really only one thing standing between your community and outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases, and that thing is childhood vaccine requirements for school entry. The Texas outbreak clearly shows what happens when exemptions to vaccine requirements are handed out like candy.
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Why is my paper
Still with R2
#AcademicValentine
Our two papers on abortion bans and fertility/infant mortality are now out.
In 14 states w/ abortion bans, fertility increased 1.7% and infant mortality increased 6%.
Key takeaway is that these impacts were disproportionately felt among those w/ greatest structural disadvantages.
Links below.
Brain worms for everyone!
Though honestly a brain worm might provide some cognitive relief right now.
Very helpful data aggregation on the financial impacts of the proposed 15% #NIH indirect rate 👇 datawrapper.dwcdn.net/l0ZqA/8/