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Kathleen Broussard

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Sociologist | sexual and reproductive health, fertility, medicine, and policy | proud Texan 🀠

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New work w/ @kbroussard.bsky.social in @prpr-journal.bsky.social! We find that women with reproductive health conditions (like fibroids or endometriosis) are *more* likely to want a child but, conditional on wanting a child, *less* likely to intend to have one. 1/2 rdcu.be/e5BE6

25.02.2026 17:06 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
Behind the Scenes: How UC Faculty Beat Back Trump's Attacks
Behind the Scenes: How UC Faculty Beat Back Trump's Attacks YouTube video by UC Faculty

You may have heard that Trump’s extortion of University of California was defeated in court. But do you know who won this historic case? Spoiler: not a single UC administrator participated. It was all faculty members of the UC Faculty Associations and @aaup.org! Cc: @veenadubal.bsky.social

05.12.2025 07:15 πŸ‘ 676 πŸ” 216 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 16
Picture of a brief published by the Council on Contemporary Families titled "How Do We Know When Fertility is Too Low?"

Picture of a brief published by the Council on Contemporary Families titled "How Do We Know When Fertility is Too Low?"

You've probably heard that US fertility is "below replacement level." But what does that actually mean???

Demographers @lesja.bsky.social & others explain the link between birth rates & population growth in this new @ccfamilies.bsky.social brief. contemporaryfamilies.utah.edu/publications...

21.10.2025 16:47 πŸ‘ 41 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3
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Assistant Professor-AI & Data Science

(3/3) Socially informed artificial intelligence and/or data science: uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/194...

08.09.2025 14:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Assistant Professor-Institutions and Inequalities

(2/3) Institutions and Inequalities (broadly defined)
uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/194...

08.09.2025 14:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

TWO new Assistant Professor positions in Sociology at USC! Seeking candidates with expertise in the following: 1) Institutions & Inequalities and 2) Socially Informed AI and/or Data Science (links to job ads belowπŸ‘‡). Happy to talk about what it's like to work/live here! #sociology (1/3)

08.09.2025 14:39 πŸ‘ 40 πŸ” 41 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 4

Thank you so much! Excited to listen!

21.08.2025 20:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

As a Texan now living in a different southern state, I am always here for your Texas content πŸ™Œ

15.08.2025 18:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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This Pig Wants To Party: Maurice Sendak's Latest Bumble-ardy is a deeply imaginative tale about an orphaned pig who longs for a birthday party. Sendak, who is 83, wrote and illustrated the book while caring for his longtime partner, who died of canc...

Just listened to Terry Gross' interview with Maurice Sendak while working at a coffee shop this morning and am weeping 😭 freshairarchive.org/segments/pig...

15.08.2025 13:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm on a quest to find great (and I suppose, not so great) examples of interviews to share with my students for a class on interviewing methods. Please share your favorites! #sociology #interviewing

15.08.2025 13:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Mapping Inequality Redlining in New Deal America

Just discovered this amazing resource for teaching about redlining and racial inequality in the US. Planning to show my students redlining maps and language from their own city in SC this year. dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/red...

14.08.2025 12:37 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Assistant Professor

TWO AP positions in Women's and Gender Studies at UofSC! Expertise in global social movements; Latina/o, Asian American, and/or Indigenous activism in the US; or girlhood studies. Happy to talk about what it's like to work/live here! #sociology

uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/192...

14.08.2025 12:34 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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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

16.07.2025 18:16 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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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 roadsβ€” pregnant women? Children? Elderly?

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

16.06.2025 23:56 πŸ‘ 262 πŸ” 101 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 6

WAT

07.05.2025 02:52 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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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/...

18.04.2025 02:36 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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.

14.03.2025 15:12 πŸ‘ 3522 πŸ” 798 πŸ’¬ 67 πŸ“Œ 37

8/8. So, if you’re feeling down about these attacks, I understandβ€”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.

08.02.2025 20:42 πŸ‘ 755 πŸ” 164 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 12
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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-...

08.02.2025 20:33 πŸ‘ 3150 πŸ” 1045 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 385

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

07.02.2025 02:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just called my elected officials in South Carolina.

06.02.2025 14:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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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-...

15.01.2025 14:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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.

15.01.2025 14:26 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

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

12.12.2024 06:16 πŸ‘ 41 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

04.12.2024 14:14 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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UMass/Amherst (left) and Wesleyan University are both warning their international students to be on American soil before noon on Jan 20 -- Inauguration Day.

24.11.2024 18:44 πŸ‘ 2425 πŸ” 1200 πŸ’¬ 65 πŸ“Œ 184
Delayed Reproduction: Challenges and Prospects

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!

21.11.2024 07:15 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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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

21.11.2024 14:10 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Day 2!

21.11.2024 08:58 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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conferencing in Vienna 🀩

20.11.2024 10:19 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0