Sociologist. Author. Professor. Roosevelt Institute Fellow. Expert on families, schools, kids, privilege, and power. Bylines in NYT, WaPo, MSNBC, Atlantic, etc.
"Other countries have social safety nets. The US has women."
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Jess Calarco
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Another handful of sand in the gears:
Researchers cannot serve on a panel *at all* if anyone from their institution has submitted to that panel. Recusing themselves for the proposal itself is no longer sufficient.
This is needless, but will certainly slow things up even further.
I need to come up with another cuddly creature for my next project, because the fur was incredibly meditative to sew.
In public health, you learn an awful lot about people willing to profit off of harms to children. But my jaw is on the floor. It never occurred to me that the sentence “I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital” would ever be followed by the phrase: “But here’s the thing.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
My 3rd grader's teacher loves sloths, is due with her first baby this summer, and had a lot to manage class-wise this year, so I wanted to make her something super adorable for an end-of-year present. I think I might've just pulled it off 🦥
My 3rd grader's teacher loves sloths, is due with her first baby this summer, and had a lot to manage class-wise this year, so I wanted to make her something super adorable for an end-of-year present. I think I might've just pulled it off 🦥
"[Most stay-at-home moms aren't the tradwives of social media; they're] just exhausted, low-income moms who can’t afford child care. 'The real path to becoming a tradwife,” Jessica Calarco, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told me, 'is typically through economic precarity.'"
Here's a close up version to see the detail in the stitching. I didn't use a pattern--just a reference image, then sketched it on canvas and picked colors and stitches to give it a slothy fur effect.
Agentic ai is joining the war on scams on the side of scams.
Researchers say changes could further burden the understaffed agency
NEW: Regulators have linked Mark McAfee’s raw dairy farm to more than a dozen recalls and outbreaks that left hundreds of people ill.
“I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital,” McAfee said. “But here’s the thing: I’m a pioneer.”
And again! #GiftArticle🎁
Keeping things sad and real: @jessicacalarco.com
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Here's a close up version to see the detail in the stitching. I didn't use a pattern--just a reference image, then sketched it on canvas and picked colors and stitches to give it a slothy fur effect.
With Raw Farm, the largest raw-milk dairy in the country, Mark McAfee has capitalized on a once-fringe product that's been thrust into the mainstream in recent years and backed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
