Amanda Jean Stevenson
@amandajean.bsky.social
Sociologist and demographer. Never repping coauthors or institutions or anything like that.
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These people are stupid and have never met a baby. Every baby is the best baby, duh.
Degrading.
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Degrading.
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Is there a national organization organizing and supporting faculty at universities cross the US working to resist and fight back against university admin efforts to impose AI into pedagogy and research?
It would be supremely helpful to be part of a shared campaign effort across universities.
It would be supremely helpful to be part of a shared campaign effort across universities.
November 19, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Is there a national organization organizing and supporting faculty at universities cross the US working to resist and fight back against university admin efforts to impose AI into pedagogy and research?
It would be supremely helpful to be part of a shared campaign effort across universities.
It would be supremely helpful to be part of a shared campaign effort across universities.
90% of email jobs are Microsoft so suck it up, buster.
the reason OpenAI is demanding a bailout is not because if they don't get a bailout, they'll crash the economy. they're demanding a bailout because if they aren't profitable before their runway runs out, they become a division of Microsoft.
November 19, 2025 at 5:14 PM
90% of email jobs are Microsoft so suck it up, buster.
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But I thought social scientists could just study LLMs now.
new paper by Sean Westwood:
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
November 18, 2025 at 9:37 PM
But I thought social scientists could just study LLMs now.
These people are stupid and have never met a baby. Every baby is the best baby, duh.
November 17, 2025 at 10:39 PM
These people are stupid and have never met a baby. Every baby is the best baby, duh.
In like 2001 one of my Norwegian cousins found out that no one in the US was even asking for a mandate that all physicians provided abortion care upon request. She was so disgusted she wouldn't even talk for a few minutes.
Opinion | From Opt-Out to Opt-In: A Dangerous Shift for Abortion Training
This proposed change would worsen the maternal health crisis
www.medpagetoday.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:25 PM
In like 2001 one of my Norwegian cousins found out that no one in the US was even asking for a mandate that all physicians provided abortion care upon request. She was so disgusted she wouldn't even talk for a few minutes.
A firehose.
November 17, 2025 at 10:21 PM
A firehose.
Our elites confuse glancing at well-made syllabi with having done the reading.
November 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Our elites confuse glancing at well-made syllabi with having done the reading.
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Some fertility rates are apparent in social life. Crude birth rate is how many people are babies. Completed fertility is how many children women middle-aged women have. Total fertility rate is not. A given TFR can look like many different social patterns. It does not correspond to common perception.
November 17, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Some fertility rates are apparent in social life. Crude birth rate is how many people are babies. Completed fertility is how many children women middle-aged women have. Total fertility rate is not. A given TFR can look like many different social patterns. It does not correspond to common perception.
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A Western about a landsman sounds like a sequel to Blazing Saddles.
November 17, 2025 at 3:32 AM
A Western about a landsman sounds like a sequel to Blazing Saddles.
Charlotte‘s web was literal manipulation. For good! But still, “SOME PIG.”
November 17, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Charlotte‘s web was literal manipulation. For good! But still, “SOME PIG.”
2025 has sadly taught me to trust my meanest, most judgmental thoughts.
November 17, 2025 at 2:37 AM
2025 has sadly taught me to trust my meanest, most judgmental thoughts.
If you’re thinking “maybe we can get some family-friendly policies out of these ghouls’ interest on fertility rates” please give up. Don’t buy the lie.
"They tried to shut me up by deporting me."
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
Dozens Of Women Allege Unwanted Surgeries And Medical Abuse In ICE Custody
More women are coming forward to say they were pressured to have reproductive surgeries they did not want or understand, offering a glimpse into alleged medical abuses at an ICE detention center.
www.npr.org
November 17, 2025 at 2:27 AM
If you’re thinking “maybe we can get some family-friendly policies out of these ghouls’ interest on fertility rates” please give up. Don’t buy the lie.
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Solo Jazz lookin ass chart
November 15, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Solo Jazz lookin ass chart
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“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”
"They tried to shut me up by deporting me."
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
Dozens Of Women Allege Unwanted Surgeries And Medical Abuse In ICE Custody
More women are coming forward to say they were pressured to have reproductive surgeries they did not want or understand, offering a glimpse into alleged medical abuses at an ICE detention center.
www.npr.org
November 15, 2025 at 3:11 AM
“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”
These people are about enforcing a specific form of femininity. These tools *can* be used to empower and even free people. But when they're presented in distorted, dishonest ways they are manipulative disinformation. 1/
"Officials in the Trump administration have also been exploring ways for the federal government to direct funding toward teaching more women of reproductive age to accurately identify their fertile windows, according to three people with knowledge of the discussions."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...
The MAHA-Fueled Rise of Natural Family Planning
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:11 PM
These people are about enforcing a specific form of femininity. These tools *can* be used to empower and even free people. But when they're presented in distorted, dishonest ways they are manipulative disinformation. 1/
“Enough babies” is the number of babies people have or want, never how many *you* want other people to have.
November 14, 2025 at 4:45 AM
“Enough babies” is the number of babies people have or want, never how many *you* want other people to have.
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Kirby that shit.
thesis: they are trying to remove advocacy and ideology
antithesis: academic freedom means we can bring perspectives.
Kirby: they are trying to eliminate barriers to a fascistic agenda of dictating truth by fiat because they are lying fascists.
thesis: they are trying to remove advocacy and ideology
antithesis: academic freedom means we can bring perspectives.
Kirby: they are trying to eliminate barriers to a fascistic agenda of dictating truth by fiat because they are lying fascists.
Very sad to see professors (and journalists) falling for the argument that this policy is a real effort to remove "advocacy" or "ideology" from the classroom, and debating that point. That's like when they said they oppose affirmative action because it's racist. They. Are. Lying.
Texas A&M Tightens Rules on Talking About Race and Gender in Classes
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Kirby that shit.
thesis: they are trying to remove advocacy and ideology
antithesis: academic freedom means we can bring perspectives.
Kirby: they are trying to eliminate barriers to a fascistic agenda of dictating truth by fiat because they are lying fascists.
thesis: they are trying to remove advocacy and ideology
antithesis: academic freedom means we can bring perspectives.
Kirby: they are trying to eliminate barriers to a fascistic agenda of dictating truth by fiat because they are lying fascists.
The whole "it's not pedophilia if the girl is 15" is a strong argument against parents' absolute control over children's lives. We can't be trusting the lives of children to people who think adult men deserve sexual access to adolescents.
November 13, 2025 at 7:16 PM
The whole "it's not pedophilia if the girl is 15" is a strong argument against parents' absolute control over children's lives. We can't be trusting the lives of children to people who think adult men deserve sexual access to adolescents.
Post-nudges, we get the new behaviorism: Welcome to intermittent positive reenforcement of regime-friendly actors and intermittent negative reenforcement against everybody else.
November 13, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Post-nudges, we get the new behaviorism: Welcome to intermittent positive reenforcement of regime-friendly actors and intermittent negative reenforcement against everybody else.
Threatening myself with a good time over here.
The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative | Euractiv
The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software
www.euractiv.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Threatening myself with a good time over here.
Here’s a cool fungus
November 13, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Here’s a cool fungus
They are just copping bullshit at this point. Hippies were saying this shit in the 80s. I didn’t try ibuprofen till I was an adult.
JD Vance calls ibuprofen "useless medication" and implies it's not "necessary, safe and effective."
November 13, 2025 at 3:38 AM
They are just copping bullshit at this point. Hippies were saying this shit in the 80s. I didn’t try ibuprofen till I was an adult.
We already know conclusively that abusing adult women doesn’t violate our norms. We are well on our way to demonstrating just as conclusively that sexually abusing girls doesn’t violate our norms, either.
Social norms are unwritten rules backed by social sanctions. If child sexual abuse isn’t met with strong, collective consequences, we don’t have a social norm against it.
November 13, 2025 at 3:31 AM
We already know conclusively that abusing adult women doesn’t violate our norms. We are well on our way to demonstrating just as conclusively that sexually abusing girls doesn’t violate our norms, either.