Dr. Kaitlyn M. Sims

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16 Feb

🚨New publication alert!🚨 Jails are a prominent piece of the US carceral state, yet we often lump them in with prisons and (falsely) assume that they follow similar trends for mass incarceration. In this piece, we unpack what we lose when we conflate jails and prisons and trace jails' unique role.

ucpress.eduSeeking Safe Harbor by Kaitlyn Sims - PaperScholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

📣📣📣 My book is officially live for pre-order!!! 📣📣📣 I am so, so, SO thrilled to share that my first book, Seeking Safe Harbor: How Public Policy is Sinking the Future of Domestic Violence Shelters, officially will be in the world on May 18, 2027! www.ucpress.edu/books/seekin...

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Seeking Safe Harbor provides some answers to these questions and many suggestions for policy paths forward so that we can continue to support (and support better) the most vulnerable survivors.

A million thanks to the wonderful folks at @ucpress.bsky.social including my rock star editor and champion, Maura Roessner. And if you pick up a pre-order, let me know so I can thank you personally for supporting this scholarship!

Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs - DU

This book was the culmination of a multi-year, multi-study research agenda trying to understand how emergency DV shelters function under today's policy constraints. In the face of waning public support for nonprofit social services, who will pick up the pieces when some shelters inevitably close?

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@josefkorbelschool.bsky.social

In a recent @theconversation.com article, Korbel Professor @kaitsims.bsky.social speaks to the lack of trust victims have in the institutions that are meant to protect and support them.

theconversation.comHandling of rape allegations at Cornell shows why so many assaults go unreported – victims don’t trust the institutions that are supposed to help themOnly 7% of sexual assault victims reported contacting local police.

Dr. Kaitlyn M. Sims@kaitsims.bsky.social

In my latest for @us.theconversation.com , I break down how the Cornell case shows known institutional failure points and, frankly, why victims of violence don't trust the institutions that are supposed to protect them. theconversation.com/handling-of-...

Like many, I've felt a range of emotions--anger, frustration, disappointment--at the unfolding story about the Cornell 7. But under all of that is a deep well of sadness. Despite the efforts our communities have made, institutional responses to sexual/domestic violence continue to fail survivors.

3 Sept

College is back in session, but data show that September and October are the highest risk months for campus sexual assault. In my latest for @theconversation.com, I break down what we know about assault on campus, why data are so mediocre, and what colleges have tried to do about it.

theconversation.comIn Colorado and elsewhere, sexual assault peaks on campuses at the beginning of the school year – here’s what students should knowFirst-year college women are particularly at risk for being sexually assaulted. Campus intervention programs can help decrease that risk.

3 Sept

Available here: theconversation.com/in-colorado-...

1 Sept

if anyone wants to give me good professional news/a thumbs up i would absolutely take it rn ty

carlsonlab.bioThe only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson LabOver the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la...

17 Aug

This is delicious to me, personally THIS IS WHY WE DON'T USE CHATGPT GUYS

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social

New: An "expert witness" in a $61 million lawsuit over an industrial explosion that killed three people and destroyed 200 homes used ChatGPT to write his report for the court. He prompted ChatGPT to "show how 3M is 0% at fault for the explosion at Watson Grinding" www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...

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Steve King♿️

@stevemking.bsky.social

11 Aug

Taps sign** If you use AI to write...

Colin Carlson@colincarlson.bsky.social

I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...

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Peter van Heusden (he/him) 🗿

@pvanheus.bsky.social

10 Aug

Replying to @colincarlson.bsky.social

Someone made a similar finding with code: blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/09/m...

blog.terrygodier.comMea Culpa - Dark HoursLast week I launched a project called Dark Hours, which was a website utility to give you an idea of what could be seen in the sky that night. A developer who …

31 July

@zotero.org do y’all have influencers because I’m a true shill for you

Hilary Matfess@hilarymatfess.bsky.social

may we all have friends like @kaitsims.bsky.social who make us braver and bolder and sharper in our work (and who convince us after more than a decade to get on the zotero train)

20 May

thank christ i finally figured out how to disable the 'ai mode' on my chrome browser, now i can know a modicum of peace

reddit.comFrom the chrome community on Reddit: Permanently disable Chrome search bar's stupid AI Mode settingExplore this post and more from the chrome community

20 May

for anyone else: reddit.com/r/chrome/com...

open.substack.comAre academics using AI to write "peer review" reports? Yup, I just caught one.Welcome to the newest level of AI-in-academic-publishing hellscape

18 May

AI MODELS ARE NOT OUR PEERS AI MODELS ARE NOT OUR PEERS AI MODELS ARE NOT OUR PEERS AI MODELS ARE NOT OUR PEERS

Bob Patalano@robertpatalano.bsky.social

I know plenty of “academics” that have started using AI for a lot of tasks (some of them can’t even be bothered to write emails now), but this is next level 👇

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Ana Marie Cox

@anamariecox.com

16 May

This is legitimately one of the most horrifying things I have ever seen in all of the LLM bullshit that's out there. (That "joyful" is misspelled seems especially meaningful.)

propublica.orgBabies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at BirthA lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.

14 May

folks of #criminology #sociologyofcrime #penology -- what journals take shorter commentary-style "what you need to know about x data" pieces rather than full length treatments?

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Cabel Sasser

@cabel.panic.com

11 May

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

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Duaa Eldeib

@deldeib.bsky.social

6 May

This was a hard story to report. Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying. www.propublica.org/article/more...

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Miranda Yaver

@mirandayaver.bsky.social

5 May

This is such incredible bullshit. I am alive, thriving, and writing books on health policy/politics thanks to antidepressants. Antidepressants aren't for everyone, but they can be literal lifesavers. Attacking their prescribing & use is stigmatizing and dangerous. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/s...

nytimes.comKennedy Starts a Push to Help Americans Quit Antidepressants

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Olivier Simard-Casanova

@o.simardcasanova.net

29 Apr

When you said “yes” to something that, in retrospect, should have been a “no”, but it's now too late to backtrack and you have to, let's say, make the best out of the learning experience

24 Apr

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

RFK Jr: "A Democratic senator claimed it's mathematically impossible to have a drug drop by 600%. I said, 'Well, if the drug was $100 and it raises to $600, that would be a 600% rise. If it drops from $600 to $100, that's a 600% savings.'" Trump: "Right"

7 Apr

can't focus on anything work related but i sure as hell can call my congressional reps/senators and leave a voicemail

psypost.orgMen who favor the tradwife lifestyle often view the women in it with derisionA new study reveals that young men who support the so-called tradwife movement are driven more by hostile sexism and resentment toward women than by a chivalrous desire to protect and provide for them.

1 Apr

In related news, fork found in kitchen

PsyPost@psypost.bsky.social

Men who favor the tradwife lifestyle often view the women in it with derision

Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs - DU

29 Mar

Beyond proud of my best friend @hilarymatfess.bsky.social and her new book from @stanfordpress.bsky.social. Hil is the kind of scholar I aspire to be, and I strongly recommend this book to anyone teaching IR/violence/security!

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@josefkorbelschool.bsky.social

theconversation.comNew federal student loan limits affect social work graduate students, with impacts for survivors of domestic violence in Colorado and elsewhereThe status change may result in students avoiding degrees in nursing and social work.

Social work degrees are losing "professional" status, cutting federal borrowing capacity nearly in half. In Colorado, where many counties lack a DV shelter, that means fewer trained advocates for survivors. Read more from Korbel Prof @kaitsims.bsky.social & students Leslie Carvalho & Kaelyn Lara:

Dr. Kaitlyn M. Sims@kaitsims.bsky.social

🚨 New publication alert! 🚨 We're all stressed about the parent plus loans and prof. degree classifications. But this may prove even more painful for the social service sector, such as jobs serving survivors of violence. My latest for @theconversation.com theconversation.com/new-federal-...

n.prYep, a mom's COVID shot during pregnancy protects her baby, a large study findsA 3-year study published in Pediatrics examined newborns in Norway. It found a clear benefit for the baby when mom gets a COVID vaccination during pregnancy.

NPR@npr.org

A 3-year study published in Pediatrics examined newborns in Norway. It found a clear benefit for the baby when mom gets a COVID vaccination during pregnancy. n.pr/4uXOx6X

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In jobs where there is such a problem of under-compensation, many staff are 'paid' 'moral wages' (Kolb, 2014)-- the intrinsic satisfaction of knowing your work matters, even if your paycheck doesn't reflect that. But now, we're (Dept. of Ed) telling those grads their degrees aren't 'professional.'

Beyond proud of my senior SHAPE Lab RAs--Leslie Carvalho and Kaelyn Lara--who are co-authors on this piece. Both bring practitioner experience from working in DV/SA service organizations, and both are graduating this spring from our MA in Int'l Studies! Hire them! @josefkorbelschool.bsky.social

The new loan limits cap annual tuition assistance below many universities' annual cost--and designating grad degrees like nursing, social work, and more as 'non-professional' means those caps will be even lower. This stands to hurt the labor force in these high-needs (low-paid) DV service jobs.

absolutely wild to me how, across platforms, across years, across the globe, people still think it's cool to patronize a woman on the internet for making a teensy joke about her own procrastination habits.

Dr. Kaitlyn M. Sims@kaitsims.bsky.social

i have once again put off for two months two tasks that took *checks notes* one hour together to complete i will learn nothing from this

the way this person framed their complaints--telling me I 'wasn't cute' for this joke, accusing me based on solely this of having 'learned helplessness', the 'uwu' of it all--in gendered terms is...really something else

oh no a man i don't know doesn't think i'm cute, how will i go on

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@michaelhobbes.bsky.social

i have once again put off for two months two tasks that took *checks notes* one hour together to complete i will learn nothing from this

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Jess Calarco

@jessicacalarco.com

18 Mar

Thinking today of Dolores Huerta and of all the women who have been forced to choose between suffering in silence and risking the success of the broader missions they have worked to support. medium.com/@dolores_hue...

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Michael Hobbes

16 Mar

Impossible to overestimate the damage this guy caused. His book was based on a laughably false premise and the movement he inspired led immigration crackdowns and forcible sterilization campaigns. Glad the population got one Ehrlich smaller today.

open.spotify.comThe Population Bomb

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14 Mar

This quarter, I taught a brand new elective class: Public Policy for Social Welfare. Going into it, I had a lot of anxiety given the current political climate, defunding and deprioritizing of *public policy for social welfare* etc. But I read my students' final reflections this morning and sobbed.

14 Mar

I am so so grateful for how these 18 undergrads showed up day in and day out with a genuine openness to playing with ideas, grappling with conflict, engaging in ethical murkiness, and becoming comfortable with the best answer being "it depends. Because when it comes to social policy, it depends!

Effie Seiberg is a spooky Cyborg

14 Mar

This class was a gamble for me--something I'd never taken as a student and designed based on what I thought made sense--and it became the highlight of my week. My students are going to be incredible leaders and changemakers, and I'm so proud to have been a small part of that. end/earnest on main

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@effies.bsky.social

12 Mar

"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men." Just saying it right out loud now. newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

newrepublic.comPalantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic PowerThey’re saying the quiet part out loud now.

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Hilary Matfess

@hilarymatfess.bsky.social

11 Mar

god I am reading a book right now where the (female) author is trying to convince the (inferred to be female) audience that she has the keys to women's liberation WHILE ALSO constantly pointing to how her husband doesn't pull his weight with the kids.