Megan Stevenson

Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference

goddamn is there anything Wikipedia editors can’t do www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/n...

I was born in 1972. The replacement rate he's panicked about has been below 2.1% for almost every year of my life.

If you're really worried about the population falling, giving immigrants a path to citizenship is an obvious and easy solution.

Unless there's ... something about them you don't like?

Ok but degree of niceness should not be a citation criteria. Agree with the rest though.

Fact Check: No, There Is Not A New Survey Showing Trans Identity Is Decreasing The claim, which originates from far-right professor Eric Kaufmann, appears to have made a glaring error: the survey actually shows more people have come out, not fewer.

1. Many of you have seen a graph purporting to show trans identification has decreased in recent years.

Matt Walsh and Elon Musk celebrated it as a victory over "transgenderism."

Turns out, the entire graph is based on an egregious math and statistics error.

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Worth a read

I think up until a couple of years ago, it was very hard to get conservative faculty hired, even more so if they held conservative social beliefs.

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.

Attacks on the federal workforce are also attacks on Black workers, who are overrepresented in the public sector.

Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.

Professor’s Research Shows Many Criminal Justice Reforms Don’t Work Most interventions and reforms in criminal justice have little enduring impact, argues University of Virginia School of Law professor Megan T. Stevenson in a new article that reviews 50 years of data.

#SREE2025 had a really thought-provoking keynote Thursday evening by UVA Law professor @meganstevenson.bsky.social, on why so many RCTs fail to find effects (or fail to replicate when they do show initial effects).

This is basically what she said at SREE:
www.law.virginia.edu/news/202403/...

Honored to be giving the Hedges Lecture at SREE tomorrow 😊

Topic: “What RCTs Teach us about the Structure of the Social World”

I asked him how he can think people are simply either male or female, given how common intersex people are (almost 2% of the population). To his credit, he said it was a good question and something he'd have to think about.

I’m at an Airbnb and the host is conservative Christian. We talked about trans people a bit and his view was as you would expect. I told him about intersex people and showed him a pic of Alicia Roth Wiegel. Mind BLOWN.

YouTube video by Learn Your Land Why Are Tick Populations Exploding?

This is worth a listen: fascinating explanation of why tick populations have been exploding

youtu.be/8Pfy6XBp0QY?...

This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.

Holy shit! That's a serious break! I'm so sorry.

FYI Wispr Flow is a great voice dictation app with
next to no learning curve.

Reviewing residential segregation Trevon Logan and John Parman discuss the meaning of segregation and how it has shaped US history.

Very excited to see my podcast with John Parman about our review of the racial segregation literature is out! Listen to “Reviewing Residential Segregation” here: www.aeaweb.org/research/rac... via @aeajournals.bsky.social

Next level bad

It’s already available! It’s an over-the-counter drug

This is cool. Large, high-quality RCT shows that an over-the-counter antihistamine nasal spray protects against catching Covid.

I dunno but my 10yr old is very enthusiastic

Looking for research funding? Arnold Ventures has several open RFPs. This includes a standing RFP for causal research related to US crime/the CJ system/ppl w criminal records.

First step is a 3-page LOI. We aim to get you a funding decision within 3 months of that first step.

I don't know who needs to hear this but slavery was bad.

I just looked up the pre-registration and it says they will upload a list of primary outcomes before data collection. There’s nothing there yet but maybe it simply wasn’t made public? @maxkasy.bsky.social can you point us in the right direction?

Ah got it

Seems like that would make UBI more important, not less

Anyone know why this German UBI experiment seems to be have big impacts, while the US ones are mostly zip ?

At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery | Quanta Magazine After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ended up disproving a 40-year-old conjecture.

What a fantastic accomplishment -- and what a fantastic story! www.quantamagazine.org/at-17-hannah...

A description of researcher initiative that is both accurate (imo) + unflattering

This is so important and long overdue.

Moving piece of journalism with gorgeous photographs

The images of children starved to death in Gaza should be the lead of every news program.