Leslie Root

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depends what period you're looking at, but in addition to big orgs: Shout Your Abortion, We Testify, Patient Forward, news orgs like Rewire and (v new) Autonomy News. Some of the bigger abortion funds have pretty good comms games as well. Could also count ACOG and the Society of Family Planning.

ooooh I feel this is probably a contentious question on the pro-choice side

Neither the fec nor the cun is doing it any favors tbh

sure, the well-known fecund refund

the worst thing about being a demographer besides being a tool of the administrative state is that you start to think words like "fecundable" are normal

I'm definitely procrastinating going in by doing a task at home first

Flat, graphic poster of a Whooping Crane standing in the negative space of many Sandhill Cranes. The poster reads "The Great Midwest Crane Fest - Nov. 15-16, 2025 Baraboo, Wisconsin.

Poster I made for the Great Midwest Crane Fest!

High rates of polygyny do not lock large proportions of men out of the marriage market | PNAS There is a widespread belief, in both the scholarly literature and the popular press, that polygyny prevents large numbers of men from marrying by ...

🚨 The Economist has been telling you for years that polygamy causes civil war by locking men out of marriage. A new article with @rebeccasear.bsky.social and @anthrolog.bsky.social explains that the demography of marriage markets doesn't actually work that way. 🧵

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When Adoption Promises Are Broken Many birth mothers hope to maintain contact with their child. But their agreements with adoptive parents can be fragile.

If you want to understand open adoption, it makes sense to start with birth parents—yet studies of them are few. 2+ yrs ago, I began talking w/ birth mothers to try to understand what living in an open adoption is like for them, and what rights or options they might have if challenges were to arise.

Meeee

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I didn't even do the majority of the work on this proposal, by a wide margin, and it's still lowkey all I can handle

Increasingly clear that I'm not also submitting a PAA abstract tonight, lol

Who else up editing their NIH proposal 😭

closure of Joann's + tariffs + Primary dot com no longer carrying everything in a full rainbow of colors is making it a ROUGH Halloween costume season

might be Leslie "Root but the o's are pumpkin emoji" for the 6th year in a row

i thought up "Leslie Root of All Evil" for a spooky display name, but money actually doesn't seem that spooky

post inspired by this exact situation

no but as an elder millennial i love this

I love Melinda Cooper

I stopped climbing when I learned that I hate climbing real rocks, lol (not a reason to stop at all except CA and CO climbing culture are both very real rocks oriented)

Yeah this and wear sunscreen are most of the wisdom I have to impart

It does seem kind of rude/unfortunate of a DC area gym during a government shutdown... not to take the focus away from you of course

Horrible 😭

Yeah but like... what would that be

Is the implied statement here "AI should not have children"? "AI should be excluded from the social safety net"?

Stop calling everything eugenics 😭 eugenics doesn't mean "someone said something that wasn't very nice"

I'm sure part of it is that it is always bigger when it's in DC, but also I bet a lot of people are not planning to have the travel funding to attend

Wow!! Huge difference!