Dr. Sarah Williams

The affiliate marketing HHS I’m bumping what I had planned to work on today, a bit of critical reflection on AI, in order to write this up instead while everyone is reacting to the...

Here's the newsletter post I wrote today about the CDC vax page and MAHA as marketing buttondown.com/abbycartus/a...

Cheney invading hell, Mamdani sweeping in NYC. My cynical, cortisol-drenched heart has grown two sizes today.

#hartfordnokings

“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes.”
-Anne Frank, 01/13/1943

1/ For ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for public service, we reported on five pregnant women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans.

These are their stories 🧵

I am an anthropologist and maternal health scholar today because of an NSF REU ethnographic fieldschool focused on 1st gen students.

#withoutNSF

Global North is becoming unsafe for #globalhealth meetings! @madhupai.bsky.social Nhial Deng &I highlight how on top of visa inequity, lack of safety is a concern for GH meetings in the GN. Action should include shifting meetings to the Global South! Share&Advocate!
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

BREAKING: An Alabama court permanently blocked efforts to subject midwife-led care in birth centers to onerous, hospital-like regulations.

This is a victory for Alabama birth centers, midwives, and their patients.

every day I log on and people try their best to get me to lose my faith in humanity. but I am resilient and have a bad memory

ICE has only existed since 2003. It’s younger than most of the people it terrorizes. We can admit it was a mistake and kill it so that our democracy and communities can live.

There’s something sick and broken about USians’ constant recourse to “X group of people aren’t bad/are deserving of rights, they’re TAXPAYERS.” Earning enough money to owe a share to the gov has nothing to do with a human being’s value.

Guys, I love all of you, but the answer to RFK, Jr. is not that autistic adults hold jobs, pay taxes, and get laid, it's that everyone deserves to live even if they can't work, pay taxes, or get laid.

Certainly worth repeating in the times we are in..

More in No, Other People:

New poll:

“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”

• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree

“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”

• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory

I reported on economics full-time in 2020. It taught me there are no incentives to have a baby in the US. Women in the US have to pay for pre-natal, medical and child care, earn less, do most of the parenting and chores, get promoted less, and are now at 27% higher risk of maternal mortality.

BREAKING: The country of Norway just entered a bill to give transgender Americans asylum in the country of Norway…

LGBTQ+ STRONG! 🌈✨

Millennials kept saying we were tired of all the “unprecedented times” so the universe sent us an Extremely Precedented Time.

Masculinity so frail it bankrupts itself and the global economy.

Community rejection of Nazi shit works!

Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time” Current and former flight attendants for GlobalX, the private charter airline at the center of Trump’s immigration crackdown, expressed concern about their inability to treat passengers humanely and…

One flight attendant recalled being told: “‘If a fire occurs in the cabin, if we land on water, don’t check on the immigrants. Just make sure that you and the guards and the people that work for the government get off.’”

By @mckenziefunk.com

The biggest thing we need to do is let people know that the protests are FUN. Yelling fuck the man is fun. You will meet fun people.

We also need to make them more fun. Bring grills like the French. Bring instruments like it’s Mardi Gras. Give people a reason to spend their weekend in the streets.

Chris Murphy has been saying this quite a bit.

This is updated with the latest information I've received. Five pages long with two columns.

I urge faculty members to join the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). We have few organizations that represent us and offer us collective power. #Yale has a new chapter. You can start one if your campus doesn't have one yet. And you can join now too.
www.aaup.org/membership/d...

Democratic House Rep. John Larson goes off in the House Ways and Means Committee discussion about Elon Musk and DOGE.

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Call your Senators who are standing up against this to thank them; call everyone else to tell them that they are aiding the collapse of this country and demand they stop it.

Don’t publish in this propaganda vehicle, and don’t cite anyone who does.

The entire website for the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) is very nearly stripped bare. This is so, so devastating. orwh.od.nih.gov/research/fun...

Please share.

This is the important part! If you submit your application for a gender marker change, you will not receive your passport or your supporting documents back.