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Karen Benjamin Guzzo
@karenguzzo.bsky.social
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Demographer and Sociologist. Director of the Carolina Population Center. LEGO Karen

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 3h
Shout-out to all the #demographers and #populationscience folks working to get those @popassocamerica.bsky.social submissions in today! You got this!

See you all in Seattle!
popassocamerica.bsky.social Population Association of America @popassocamerica.bsky.social · 13h
Last chance! The deadline to submit to #PAA2027 is TODAY September 20, 2026 (11:59 PM, Pacific Time). Everything you need to know: buff.ly/lAVnyNy

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Population Association of America @popassocamerica.bsky.social · 13h
Last chance! The deadline to submit to #PAA2027 is TODAY September 20, 2026 (11:59 PM, Pacific Time). Everything you need to know: buff.ly/lAVnyNy

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Politico @politico.com · 20h
Trump asked budget chief to draft order bringing health research funding under his control
Trump asked budget chief to draft order bringing health research funding under his control
The move came after the NIH director refused Trump’s request to cut Harvard grants in an Oval Office meeting.
dlvr.it

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 22h
*on GameDay

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 22h
They were chanting “*sshole” this morning when he was interviewed GameDay.

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 1d
When Johns Hopkins (my alma mater) dropped legacy admissions a few years ago, I can tell you that many of college classmates (many of whom identify as liberal/progressive) were very displeased, some to the point where they stopped donating.
jamessmurphy.bsky.social James S. Murphy @jamessmurphy.bsky.social · 2d
Legacy admissions is the real compact that highly rejective colleges have with the Trump Administration. For all their talk of merit and transparency, no one in the White House cares about legacy preferences.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d
make the John Brown season of Reacher you cowards

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 1d
Time to rock out! #legokaren

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Vicki Larson @omgchronicles.bsky.social · 1d
"Menopause isn’t just a health issue, it’s also an economic issue."
www.marieclaire.com/career-advic...
The Menopause Pay Cut No One Warns You About
A new survey commissioned by Melinda French Gates’s Pivotal shows it’s costing women their careers.
www.marieclaire.com

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 1d
This is depressing.
economist.com The Economist @economist.com · 1d
Becoming a “girl dad” changed how male managers perceived women in the workplace. What can be learned from this? We explain
What having a daughter does to a boss
Male managers hire more women after becoming a “girl dad”
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The Economist @economist.com · 1d
Becoming a “girl dad” changed how male managers perceived women in the workplace. What can be learned from this? We explain
What having a daughter does to a boss
Male managers hire more women after becoming a “girl dad”
bit.ly

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 1d
The aging of the Baby Boom cohort is an entirely predictable issue that the US has not remotely prepared for.
Nursing Home Beds Are Disappearing. That’s a Problem. (Gift Article)
As the oldest baby boomers turn 80, researchers worry there won’t be enough room in nursing facilities for a rapidly graying nation.
www.nytimes.com

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 1d
Online sports gambling companies are using AI to target & incentivize problem gamblers.

Every time I see a celeb in a sports gambling commercial, I can’t help but think they are sellouts willing to make $$ promoting something they must know ruins people’s lives.
At DraftKings, AI Targets the Gamblers Likeliest to Lose (Gift Article)
Data science helps determine who receives betting incentives, but the company has resisted using similar technology to protect gamblers at risk of addiction.
www.nytimes.com

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 1d
I spent the morning reading John Levi Martin's absolutely brutal takedown of the Vanderbilt report's assessment of politicization in sociology.

I recommend it and hope it gets as much attention as the initial (crap) Vanderbilt report.

A Reader’s Guide to the Rubin Report osf.io/preprints/so...
OSF
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 1d
UN report finds men lead 6 in 7 countries. The cost of running for office can exceed 100x average per capita income, excluding many women. Up to 8 in 10 women running for office face violence. Women are 6% of CEOs globally & lead <20% of highest courts.
news.un.org/en/story/202...
Gender equality woefully off track, new UN report reveals
At the current rate of progress, gender equality would take 171 years to achieve, a new UN report finds as institutions built to advance gains are being defunded and demobilised.
news.un.org

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 1d
In the off chance an elementary-aged child identified a teacher they had for 30 minutes once a week as transgender & mentioned this to their parents, this would be a great opportunity to display Christian values of acceptance and love.

Or you could be these people.
Wake County parents threaten lawsuit over option to remove kids from transgender teacher’s class
RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — Some Wake County parents are threatening to sue the school district if they don’t respond to a letter demanding that parents be able to pull their children out of an el…
www.cbs17.com

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James S. Murphy @jamessmurphy.bsky.social · 2d
Legacy admissions is the real compact that highly rejective colleges have with the Trump Administration. For all their talk of merit and transparency, no one in the White House cares about legacy preferences.

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 2d
UVA alum Carrington Epperson: “I recommend anyone to take an African American studies course because you will never understand how much you weren’t taught about it before.”
dem8z.bsky.social Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 2d
Hope this post will not seem self-serving, but wanted to share one student’s perspective on the importance of courses on race, ethnicity and gender studies.

as.virginia.edu/news/we-aske...
We Asked Young Alumni, 'What Class Rocked Your World?...
Here’s what four recent UVA graduates shared about the courses that impacted them the most.
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