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Amanda Jean Stevenson

@amandajean.bsky.social

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Sociologist and demographer. Never repping coauthors or institutions or anything like that.

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Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · Sep 6

Look at this beautiful plot from Taylor (1961)

basically incomprehensible plot of many squares in a grid with scattered points and regression lines for the points that appear to be in lines

Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 11h

Sorry for the frantic nonsense grammar

Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 11h

One weird effect of the “submerged state“ is that people seem to be incapable of conciebing of government employees as mission-drive, effective, and strategic!

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Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 11h

those who remain *care* and will work their asses off to try to continue the vital services once provided by many all/nearly alone.

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Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 11h

The *work* of figuring out how to continue is part of the punishment exacted on those who remain. The tear this is making in safety nets public health science provides isnt binary at all because…

Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 11h

With this HHS RIF, everyone is aggressively “calling” what data sources or government functions are dead, and I’m a bit uncomfortable. Not every team is zeroed out. Many people still doing their jobs. Reporters still need to substantiate claims about e.g. unreliable data. Not sure this is helping

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Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 11h

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Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 11h

I don’t know her but man do I empathize. A weird mix of emotions fear/horror/regret/??? wells in me as people I thought were roughly motivated like reveal reveal thy very much are not.

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B Jarosz @datageekb.bsky.social · 1d

Outbreak
12 Monkeys
Containment
Contagion
Andromeda Strain
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Adam Lippert @lippertam.bsky.social · 1d

Every working-age American just gave an average of $94 to Argentina and lost infectious disease surveillance services simultaneously

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 1d

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 2d

Like literally trying to hurt people 💔

Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 2d

So many amazing people who gave us all so much 💔💔💔

Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 2d

I so profoundly hope it’s not *that* that they hate.

Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 2d

I have known a lot of public servants and every single one of them was driven - at least in part - by selfless care for our collective good.

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Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 2d

we don’t deserve what’s coming.

Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 2d

overdetermined that it’s coming for all of us

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 2d

We are going to feel these effects for decades in the best case. It’s just so dark. ❤️💔

Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 2d

Could they just hate scientists??? (But actually I sadly think it’s probably #3. Chilling.)

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Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 3d

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Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 4d

I totally agree childbearing and care is always costlier than not - but wouldn’t you rather daycare (and everything else kids need) were free instead of people without kids being specifically taxed? It seems to me that targeting anyone based on their reproduction is dangerous…

Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 4d

Ok, I've got some about those city people just generally being bad neighbors, too, I guess.

Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 4d

All my cancelable takes are about city people moving to beautiful places and getting pissed about dogs.

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Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 4d

Nudge culture (and American tax policy in general) have normalized some way not ok stuff and it's time to start calling it out. Because (((wow)))

Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 4d

It should be *so* embarrassing to try to change other people's reproductive lives. Like embarrassing to an utterly paralyzing degree.

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Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 4d

There are ways to value care work that aren't horrifyingly creepy and selfish. Why is this so hard?

I don't know who that weird William F Buckley-almost named guy is but honey hell what failure led to that.

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Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 4d

like flags flapping in the wind

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Jennifer Hendricks @jenniferhendricks.bsky.social · 4d

Oh, goody, look who gets to be thrown under the bus.

"As the political scientist Adam Przeworski points out, Polish pro-democracy forces won only when they agreed to leave aside their bitter divisions over abortion until after they had succeeded."

Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 4d

"It wanted to signal strength. Instead, it’s revealing its weakness. The administration’s need to break the academy is forcing it to make a desperately risky gamble." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

www.nytimes.com

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