Katie R. Billings

👊 @clancyny.bsky.social

4 in 10 pregnant patients and 1 in 4 people use Medicaid. Shifting access among such a large population will have implications for the health of the entire population (and the HC institutions we rely upon). A major population health topic for demographers to prioritize. #ASA2025

Meet with publishers, companies, and organizations showcasing their products and services in the #ASA2025 Exhibit Hall, 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

#FFdata at #ASA2025: We’re here at our booth (539) in the Exhibit Hall at this year’s ASA meeting today from 9:00am-4:00pm. Stop by and say hello, ask your questions, and grab some swag!

“Without the impetus to go outside the box, I didn’t realize the box that I was in.” Patricia Hill Collins #asa2025

Huge thanks to the @asasocpsych.bsky.social section for the Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award! #ASA2025

Happy Sunday 🎉 Here is our session schedule for the day. Use #MedSoc #ASAChicago or #ReimaginingHealth to show us your conference highlights!

My new book and I are both happy to be at #ASA2025 with @ucpress.bsky.social open access!

With financial support in limbo, this UA cancer lab started crowdfunding As federal funding changes hit universities, key research initiatives are scrambling to find cash. The Schroeder Lab at UA is one of them.

This is where we are, America. One of my old colleagues at the University of Arizona Cancer Center has set up a GoFundMe to help fund breast cancer research in the wake of massive cuts to NIH grants.

Again NOTHING WAS BUNGLED. She’s speaking into existence what they want the law to be, this is the MO from the very beginning. This purposeful, deliberate distortion must be called out.

The NYTimes never ceases to play the fiddle for fascism.

Washington State Lawmakers Vote to Limit Rent Increases Supporters say an annual cap of 10 percent, including inflation, will protect tenants. Critics worry it will reduce housing supply and discourage investors.

Washington state lawmakers just voted today for statewide rent control, and the bill heads now to the governor's desk. It's the third state to do so after California and Oregon in 2019

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/u...

People want institutions to stand up

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

And we know that some of these interactions with law enforcement were things like domestic violence victims calling the police for help.

www.jezebel.com/trump-is-try...

This is a depraved collective punishment visited on the children of Maine because the president is a petulant narcissist who believes it's ok to hurt kids if the governor refuses to bow.

one interesting aspect about being a sociology professor is
you get used to saying "impolite" truths about how things work all the time, out loud, to virtual strangers (students, mostly)
when most adults' jobs involve intricate, collaboratively-developed ways of sustaining these polite fictions

Amid anti-DEI push, National Park Service rewrites history of Underground Railroad Since Trump took office, the park service, an agency charged with preserving American history, has changed how its website describes key moments from slavery to Jim Crow

my daily reminder that “pro-segregation” is better framing (and more accurate) than “anti-DEI”

Also, the folks pushing for these changes are ghouls

www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Judge Permanently Bars N.I.H. From Limiting Medical Research Funding The decision came as an initial win for a broad coalition of academic institutions that had argued the policy jeopardized ongoing research, but it set up an almost certain appeal.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/u...

@booker.senate.gov dismantles a Confederate monument.

Screenshot of a post from @femknemi1y " I stay out of politics" is such a weird way to spell "my rights as a human being aren't up in the air every 4 years and I have no problem with the fact that yours are"

Science is political!

Thank you so much, Andrew!

I was honored to receive the Candace Rogers Award at ESS earlier this month for the best graduate student paper. ESS was my first conference in graduate school so I can’t describe how meaningful it is to receive this honor in my last semester as a graduate student. #ess25

Sometime very soon we’re going to have to have the conversation about how many so-called progressives also wanted “DEI” to die & what all that mainstream endorsement of the propaganda around what at their essence were integration efforts says about people who believe themselves to be the good guys.

Stephanie McMurray’s “Masters of Small Worlds” — a brilliant study of why poor southern whites not only tolerated but embraced slaveholders who treated them with contempt — is important here. If the church and the press convince you that you and the oligarchs are one, you’ll happily shoot your foot.

Trudeau: I want to speak first directly to the American people… your government has chosen to do this to you. Your government has chosen to put American jobs at risk. They have chosen to raise costs for American consumers on everyday essential items…

The Department of Ed has a form to snitch on DEI policies in schools.

I’d be a shame if we broke it with thousands of responses… enddei.ed.gov

Tomorrow is the economic blackout. Spend NOTHING. Plan accordingly!

Thank you, President Adia Harvey Wingfield! 👏

Unvaccinated Child Dies of Measles in Texas, Officials Say At least 124 cases of measles have been identified in Texas since late January, mostly among children and teenagers who are either unvaccinated or whose vaccination status is unknown, officials say.

This was a preventable death. These are preventable cases. The people spreading vaccine misinformation are effectively murderers.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

Hmmm. Maybe college isn’t making people gay? You don’t say.