Sara Conroy, PhD

What stage of grief is “inability to talk about it due to rage followed by a feeling of guilt because the importance of these things needs to be communicated”? Asking for a friend.

One of the big findings in my research is that people invested in disbelieving victims are not swayed by evidence. Just like other issues of misinformation, they cherry pick irrelevant details to allow them to continue to believe whatever they want.

About 2 million kids have lost SNAP since deep cuts were enacted last year. The ripple effects: Kids losing SNAP also lose automatic enrollment for free meals at school. And as more kids lose SNAP, their schools may be forced to drop Community Eligibility.

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AOC: "As AI begins to encroach in our society, their goal is to take your cognition away from you. AI's goal is to take your thoughts away from you, your ability to think away from you, so that you become dependent on a machine ... reading books is active resistance"

If you have an iPhone w/ the current OS, go into Settings, scroll to the bottom to click on Apps, scroll down to M & go into the Messages app, and flick this switch “screen unknown senders”. This dumps 99% political text messages into a folder you can separately check.

Saw this on the PubMed (what we use to look up scientific articles). It's so embarrassing.

Statistical power has been lionized in metascience. First, you care about statistical power only bec your whole scientific vision relies on the results of a hypothesis test. Get over it. Second, power can never make up for poor design, lack of theoretical understanding, or biased samples/measures.

Who should I follow to see critical perspectives on published qualitative research with a focus on flawed methods? Thanks!

Final results are in! 😎

BREAKING: The hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau "will not move forward," the lead researcher says. “The solution is clear here: Take the money and vaccinate as many kids as you can,” @pauloffit.bsky.social told me: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

After watching parents return to work while their babies were in the NICU, Pittsburgh nurses fought to secure the nation's first county-level paid parental leave policy. Nurse Jean Stone said she hopes it becomes an "early example of when things started to change." 19thnews.org/2026/10/paid...

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT! The 2027 Meeting of the Race and Stratification in the Economy Working Group at @nber.org will be held on April 2, 2027! The deadline for submissions is December 10,2026. Please Share!! More details are here: www.asc.ohio-state.edu/logan.155/pd...

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I am hiring! There are probably about ~12 people in the world who meet exactly what I'm looking for, so we're open to considering teaching a 13th person to do what I do provided they already have a strong background in Bayesian statistics (non-negotiable) docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Ohio’s Cincinnati Public Schools is the first district in the nation to own and operate a parking lot where families experiencing homelessness can go to at night and sleep in their cars, and has served more than 300 people since opening this past spring ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/10/14/c...

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No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

New research alert: Proactively guaranteeing tuition and housing tripled enrollment for low-income students eligible for automatic admission to UT Austin from high-poverty schools #rct doi.org/10.3102/0162... @mattgiani.bsky.social @drflorespolicy.bsky.social @joribarash.bsky.social

Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System is one of the most important data products, especially with maternal mortality rates of Black women in the US. Huge shout-out to the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies for initiating this effort! popcenter.harvard.edu/wp-content/u...

I reanalyzed the CDC data behind the LGB “free fall” headline. It rests on a change in bisexual identification among one grade, in one wave, of one survey. Gay or lesbian identification did not change significantly. Calling it a "free fall" is sensational and just gives bad actors talking points.

Catholic Archbishop for the Military Services with pastoral responsibility for US soldiers issues statement saying Catholic military personnel are morally obligated to refuse to participate in a potential livestreamed execution of Nidal Hasan. www.milarch.org/archbishop-b...

If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.

“our ai broke out and hacked some organisations” = "we failed to set up appropriate safeguards, failed to continuously monitor our experiments, and ignored a basic principle of reinforcement learning: if hacking gets rewarded, the system learns to hack"

openai, anthropic, and google are using their most powerful tools to attack public infrastructure

When members of the IRB that reviewed a study are resigning in protest because they recognize the unethical design of the study and the avoidable harm it will cause, maybe it is a sign to no proceed with said study. Great reporting in the guardian. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

This study was unethical when it was announced last year and it remains unethical today. The birth dose of the hepatitis b vaccine prevents perinatal acquisition of the infection. You cannot randomize a group of newborns to not receive it while giving it to others. www.linkedin.com/safety/go/?u...

Can Bluesky do something to make sure public executions don't go in anyone's feed?

The CDC just re-opened a previously shelved study that would withhold the hepatitis B vaccine from children in Guinea-Bissau, despite decades of evidence showing it is safe and effective. This is a violation of human rights, using “science” to harm some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

Honestly, I do think comparisons with the Tuskegee experiment are valid; here, the Danish researchers will knowingly inflict harm on half the babies, & they know that ethicists worldwide have condemned the study yet they have simply dismissed the ethical concerns & want to take RFK Jr’s 💰 & push on

The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence

Downside: The US now has government goon squads, and deploys them to try to intimidate voters into voting the way the president wants. Upside: They don’t have nearly enough goons. Not even close. They’re hoping fear will make up for that big shortfall, but it won’t.

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For over a decade, the National Science Foundation’s SBE has funded my work, leading to discoveries that have improved how we do science, including mechanisms for efficient grant proposal contests that are now used worldwide.

I’m not saying private foundation support for social science and education research is bad. Not at all. I’m just saying that it’s not a substitute for public research funding and it definitely gives foundations more leverage over researchers, disciplines, and institutions.

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

I think scientific trainees need frequent and comprehensive warnings about the threats to confidentiality posed by commercial AI tools

“May I please remind you that it does NOT say RSVP on the Statue of Liberty" - Cher Horowitz

As an expert on sexual violence, I have to add that these ethical violations are a nightmare for interviews on sensitive subjects. I would never recommend ANY survivor goes public with their story at an outlet that would do this to them.

If you live in the Princeton area, they're planning on building a massive data center near us. Register your complaints here: dep.nj.gov/boss/permit-...

And think for a minute about what that means for survivors like Jane Doe who had to leave school because of the hostility she faced for coming forward. She likely lost every source of institutional stability in her life. She had to entirely start over—and absorb every loss that came from that.

Flu shot ✅ Covid shot ✅ Usually theses knock me out for at least 2 days… so far, this year isn’t so bad. 🤞

I wrote a thread earlier today (before even reading this story, actually) about how commonly the “inconsistencies” in a victim’s story are actually procedural distortions made by people in positions of power who are invested in disbelieving her: