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Julia Lynch

@jlynch13.bsky.social

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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

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Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 4h

#medsky #episky #laborsky

Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 4h

Work and Health alert!

I'm putting together a panel for the Council for European Studies mtg in Dublin in June on Work and Health. I've got room for a couple more papers. Please email me ASAP at Penn if you've got something you'd like to present. Papers on any aspect of the relationship welcome.

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 22h

state police continue to push protesters down 25th street. at one point, cops swarmed a group of people and pushed them to the ground.

multiple people arrested.

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Ku Kalekai @kalekai.bsky.social · 22h

Time to breed some frogs

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Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78.bsky.social · 22h

A kind reminder that a strong, collective, grassroots #LongCovid movement would be an existential threat to those who pushed mass infection dynamics. Hence, the attacks on the name itself, the concept, the links between the disease and a pandemic driven by a SARS virus

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Fired but Fighting (National Public Health Coalition) @firedbutfighting.bsky.social · 23h

No one knows what is happening. Now, we are hearing some of the CDC RIF notices might have been in error.
Error = Miscoding

Where are we hearing this? Through media of course! No one is being transparent with CDC staff.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

We continue to track the cuts. Stay tuned.

a picture of a giraffe dancing with the words welcome to the circus

Alt: a picture of a giraffe dancing with the words welcome to the circus

media.tenor.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 23h

www.chicagomag.com/news/chicago...

Chicago Is Organizing for All

Everyday Chicagoans are proving to be the first line of defense against the federal incursion into their city.

www.chicagomag.com

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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 23h

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 1d

like in previous days, a large contingent of state troopers, cook county sheriff’s police, and assorted local cops are guarding the ice detention center and keeping the streets clear for ice.

lots of protesters heckling them. a group is chanting, “they grab them! they grab us!”

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Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 1d

Just pondering whether Trump's ICE and DHS brownshirts know about the Night of Long Knives. Maybe someone should tell them?

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Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 1d

Another example in which a panel design estimating within-person effects seems to miss a big part of the interesting action, which is what’s happening with selection. I’m guilty of using this design. I am becoming more and more skeptical, though.

Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 1d

📚 School subjects and politics

A UK study found that what teens study shapes their future politics: arts & humanities students lean liberal, business & economics lean right. These patterns persist into adulthood.

🔗 doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2025.2521582

#SciComm #Education #Politics 🧪

School subject choices in adolescence affect political party support

The educational cleavage is restructuring electoral competition in many democracies, yet there has been insufficient attention on how variation in educational content affects this. In order to addr...

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 1d

School subject choices in adolescence affect political party support

doi.org

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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 1d

'Capitulation is not in Tucson's nature': City Council opposes Trump compact

Quite a remarkable story of a "university town" sticking up for one of its major employers: tucson.com/news/local/g...

'Capitulation is not in Tucson's nature': City Council opposes Trump compact

The Tucson City Council passed a resolution Wednesday night opposing the Trump administration’s “compact” sent to the University of Arizona last week.

tucson.com

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Caitlin Rivers @cmyeaton.bsky.social · 1d

For the 2nd week in a row, the federal shutdown has blocked disease surveillance reporting. So Team Force of Infection again visited all 50 state websites to track COVID, flu & RSV. caitlinrivers.substack.com/p/outbreak-o...

Outbreak Outlook: Week 2 of DIY Surveillance

State by state disease surveillance of COVID-19, influenza and RSV amid federal public health cuts

caitlinrivers.substack.com

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

ICE agents that are attacking your neighborhood and kidnapping your neighbors are being housed at his family’s hotel chain

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Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 1d

“Amazon is a key hosting provider for DHS, including for Palantir’s Integrated Case Management system with ICE.”

Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 10d

LittleSis have dropped a new report and data visualization about the billionaires and corporations profiting from the deportation industrial complex:

littlesis.org/news/the-bil...

The Billionaire Oligarchs and Corporations Profiting from ICE’s Deportation Machine - Little Sis

A primer on the billionaire barons and corporate profiteers enabling ICE's deportation apparatus

littlesis.org

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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 1d

Guess who just got both the updated COVID vaccine and flu shots today? Your dear Leader Trump. Maybe you should get them too.

Sincerely, An Epidemiologist Who Told You Trump Would Get COVID Booster.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 1d

Psychiatrists/NPs/therapists who could provide off-the-books, no-fee, Zoom-based care for individuals in crisis in ICE-targeted Chicago communities, please email me: [email protected]. Include whether you can prescribe, speak Spanish (or other languages), and available hours per week/month.

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Maria Glymour @mariaglymour.bsky.social · 1d

Undergrad Hackathon for Health Equity on infectious diseases. Oct 18 @buhaririinstitute.bsky.social (Boston). Come learn about epidemiology research & dive into real data with fun mentors and epi-curious colleagues. Info: bit.ly/46Na9ca. Register: bit.ly/3KL6pzd. #EpiSky #DataSciSky #PublicHealth

Hackathon for Health Equity

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Matthias The Ninth💀⚔️ @moonbasetomb.bsky.social · 1d

I know this is happening elsewhere too. In another major city, white neighbors are walking Latino kids to school so their parents won’t get taken. Because that has happened there. At the school, in front of kids.

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Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 1d

We want their money, not their ideas. The exchange is you give us money, we give you prestige. And that’s it. You don’t get to manage how we spend your money, and we don’t get to tell you what to do with your prestige. 2/2

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Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve been saying for many years that University admins have made a big mistake in not being more clear with big donors about the boundaries of their contributions. 1/

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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Senator Dick Durbin @durbin.senate.gov · 2d

We’re outside of the Broadview ICE facility.

It’s clearer than ever before.

What’s happening in Illinois is an unprecedented, unlawful abuse of power.

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Mallory James @secondordersocialresearch.com · 2d

✨ Please consider joining the 𝐄𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐲 & 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩’s upcoming discussion of Shalanda Baker's book 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘗𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳: 𝘈𝘯 𝘈𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘵’𝘴 𝘎𝘶𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘺 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 (2021) online on 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 24𝐭𝐡 at 14:00 CET. ✨

#energysystems #energiewende #energytransition

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Healthy Regions + Policies Lab @healthyregions.bsky.social · 2d

🗺️ Upcoming Workshop: “Intro to Spatial Data in R”

🗓️ Thursday, October 23, 2025
🕤 9:30–11:30 AM CDT
💻 Virtual; Register here: go.illinois.edu/GCCP-OCT23

This workshop is presented as part of the JCOIN Geospatial Consortium & Community of Practice (GCCP).
👉 gccp.healthyregions.org

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Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 2d

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2d

this is correct. and while you would get a nontrivial one off sum from a billionaire tax (not enough for a welfare state, but a lot), the ongoing point of that tax would be prevent billionaires from existing

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 2d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 2d

Straight from the chicken’s mouth. It’s great to know that there are such thoughtful people out there protesting.

An Interview With the Portland Chicken

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”