Kathleen Broussard

Home - State of Access : A Contraceptive Policy Scorecard

Important new @prbdata.bsky.social report on access to birth control across the U.S. Wide variation, unfortunately, showing that where you live matters for contraceptive options. stateofaccess.prb.org

Tehran is 380 square miles. It has a population of 10 million people.

If you cannot imagine that then imagine evacuating New York population just 8.5 million. Imagine the logistics, the roads— pregnant women? Children? Elderly?

This is just an announcement of a mass execution of innocents.

WAT

Opinion | To Understand Global Migration, You Have to See It First (Gift Article) These estimates, drawn from the location data of three billion Facebook users, provide a view of human migration in extraordinary detail.

Incredible visualization of global migration www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I have lived in authoritarianism before, and participated in a popular movement against it. My political voice was born in it. I was just talking to a friend - this moment is *triggering* because it feels like so few people are reacting on the magnitude of what I know is coming.

8/8. So, if you’re feeling down about these attacks, I understand—I feel that way too. But just remember that they’re not attacking because your work doesn’t matter; they’re attacking *precisely* because it does. So, get some rest, connect with your people, and keep doing it.

Maternal death rate isn't as bad if you don't count Black women, GOP senator says Louisiana's Bill Cassidy said the state's maternal death rate isn't so high if you "correct our population for race," Politico reported.

This is a rather telling statement. Nearly a third of women in Louisiana are Black. www.businessinsider.com/gop-senator-...

Ha, maybe I’ll put them on the phone with my 4 year old, too.

Just called my elected officials in South Carolina.

What You Missed That Day You Were Absent from Fourth Grade | The On Being Project Mrs. Nelson explained how to stand still and listen to the wind, how to find meaning in pumping gas, how peeling potatoes can be a form of prayer. She took questions on how not to feel lost in the dar...

A poem for the start of the academic semester: onbeing.org/poetry/what-...

Has anybody conducted an interview study of how academics are thinking about/grappling with AI? I feel like there is so much there to unpack.

Me when I find out all my friends get their recipes from the NYT cooking section

A Word on Statistics | The On Being Project Out of every hundred people those who always know better: fifty-two. Unsure of every step: nearly all the rest. Ready to help, as long as it doesn’t take long: forty-nine. Always good, because they ca...

Calling all poetic sociologists and sociological poets! What are your favorite poems about knowledge, science, gender, and/or sexuality? I'll start the list with one of my new favorites, read by Padraig O Tuama: "A word on statistics" #sociology #poetry onbeing.org/poetry/a-wor...

UMass/Amherst (left) and Wesleyan University are both warning their international students to be on American soil before noon on Jan 20 -- Inauguration Day.

Finally it’s today!

The WIC conference on delayed reproduction: challenges and prospects
is taking place in Vienna and is also online.

Jacky Boivin , Anna Rotkirch and Lucy van de Wiel will be our keynote speakers.

Great forthcoming two days!

The Meaning and Measurement of Unrealized Fertility @kbroussard.bsky.social proposes a conceptual framework that accounts for biological, social, and
psychological factors that contribute to unrealized fertility

Day 2!

conferencing in Vienna 🤩

She was an excellent physician and South Carolina's only pediatric gynecologist. States with abortion restrictions are hurting their residents, providers, and healthcare system. We must demand change.

Opinion | Abortion Stories in Post-Roe America In text messages, videos, voice memos and pictures, we hear from the people at the frontlines of abortion access about how their worlds have changed.

Dr. Tomlin-featured in a video here-provided compassionate care for me when I had a miscarriage a couple of years ago. Local police harassed her after she provided abortion to a 13 year-old rape victim. She (understandably) decided to leave the state. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Contact Project : The experience of gamete donors contacted by their donor offspring | Chaire de recherche du Canada The Contact project aims to examine situations in which a gamete donor is directly contacted by a donor offspring, whom they did not previously know. The study will help better understand the conseque...

Anthropologists are so cool. Anais Martin made a comic book about the experiences of gamete donors who were contacted by their offspring (check out more of her work @chairprocreation on IG) crcppa.uqo.ca/en/our-proje...

Love spotting the incredible work of colleagues in the Harper’s Index!
@ansirh.bsky.social

Exciting opportunity alert! 🚀 The University of South Carolina is seeking an Assistant Professor of Sociology with expertise in Socially Informed AI.
#SociologyJobs #Sociology Reach out if you have questions or want to chat!

uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/175...

Thank you @drcompton.bsky.social !!! Sociology starter pack 👇

Opinion | On Children, Meaning, Media and Psychedelics The writer Jia Tolentino on parenting — and living a good life — in the age of smartphones.

This was so good. Also, I’m convinced listening to Ezra and Jia talk about parenting is part of the pronatalist agenda 🙃

🎉🎉🎉 Suzanne Bell and I finally received our notice of award for our R01 to study the fertility, maternal health, and infant health consequences of Dobbs!

Lots of papers in progress, so stay tuned.

(Will be on BlueSky more; excited to engage w/ you all.)

Hi friends who study fertility! Excited to share that I'm part of a team that received NSF funding to create a US Human Fertility Database.

We'll be generating state-specific (since 1959) and county-specific (since 1982) period and cohort fertility indicators that will be easy to access.

Opinion | Stop Panicking About the Birthrate We should focus on everyone’s welfare, not obsess about convincing more people to be parents.

www.nytimes.com/2024/08/07/o...

Kudos to @alisongemmill.bsky.social & her team for doing important (but heartbreaking) work on the rise in infant mortality in Texas following its 2021 abortion ban. CNN coverage here: www.cnn.com/2024/06/24/h...
Study here: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...