Dr. Kaitlyn M. Sims
Asst. Prof of Public Policy @ University of Denver. SHAPE Lab director. Sweater knitter/oil painter/coffee needer. She/her
Research: DV, crime, health, housing, welfare, Econ
sites.google.com/view/kaitsims
🏳️🌈 BLM, protect trans kids
- Reposted by Dr. Kaitlyn M. SimsProud to share my recently published article in Law & Society Review: "Whose victimization pays? Policing innocent victimhood in victim compensation law". The article explores how policing affects the recognition of crime victims under victim compensation law. 🔗👇: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- time to count how many books i have to remove from my office bookshelf due to epstein file revelations about famed academics
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- Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college Cold War History Creative Writing (Poetry) Women in the Economy Public Opinion and Political Behavior US-Latin American Diplomacy Plus a few quarters of swing dance, Latin dance, and Pilates
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- Reposted by Dr. Kaitlyn M. SimsA new study from Anthropic finds that gains in coding efficiency when relying on AI assistance did did not meet statistical significance; AI use noticeably degraded programmers’ understanding of what they were doing. Incredible.
- Housing is tough for everyone right now, but for survivors of domestic and sexual violence who lose their housing, the challenges can be impossible. In my latest for @us.theconversation.com, I discuss limitations to local shelter availability, and why Section 8 is not a viable long-term solution.
- Reposted by Dr. Kaitlyn M. Simsplease remember that no matter how many “ICE is losing in MN” articles you read today, there is still a very real, urgent, ongoing crisis in Minnesota. people need food and they need rent money. that has not changed.
- nothing hits quite like pepto for breakfast in These Times
- Reposted by Dr. Kaitlyn M. Sims“Foreign exporters absorbed only 4% of last year’s U.S. tariff increases by lowering prices, while American consumers and importers absorbed 96%. “Rather than acting as a tax on foreign producers, the tariffs functioned as a consumption tax on Americans.” www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
- Reposted by Dr. Kaitlyn M. SimsLiterally everyone who even vaguely knew what a tariff was said this when they were introduced! You don’t need a team of economists to analyze the situation — no one who lives in reality was confused by this!
- “Foreign exporters absorbed only 4% of last year’s U.S. tariff increases by lowering prices, while American consumers and importers absorbed 96%. “Rather than acting as a tax on foreign producers, the tariffs functioned as a consumption tax on Americans.” www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
- Reposted by Dr. Kaitlyn M. SimsI went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
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- Because I couldn’t stop myself from getting involved in the Heated Rivalry discourse…. My latest, with my cool grad student, for Ms. Magazine! Off the ice relationships on HBO are great tv, but uhhh why doesn’t the NHL have a DV policy? Asking the league to do better msmagazine.com/2026/01/13/h...
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- two years from the first time i opened this word doc, sitting here on NYE with a complete first draft of my first book is surreal as hell.
- particularly galling in light of bari weiss spiking the 60 mins piece because they didn't have white house officials on record responding
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- TABOR absolutely threatens Colorado's ability to nimbly adapt to changing funding environments (and to innovate with programs like UBI) -- @smotus.bsky.social and I discussed this earlier this year in the Denver Post! www.denverpost.com/2025/02/14/f...
- This autumn's disastrous government shutdown -- and the threat to SNAP coverage for millions of Americans -- have re-spurred conversations about guaranteed income, UBI, and publicly funded cash dividend programs. theconversation.com/a-colorado-g...
- Go hang with my grad school office mate and super cool friend Nicole Karwowski!
- “AI-generated knowledge shouldn’t be treated differently”
- Reposted by Dr. Kaitlyn M. SimsSome closing thoughts for my students this semester on LLMs and learning #rstats datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-12...
- the silliness of - saying that newly minted phds are 25yo - acting like hiring a phd is committing to them for half a century without knowing if they can 'keep up' when there's literally an entire tenure/promotion process
- new life milestone, the google alert for my name was actually something about me, not the *checks notes* Utah ice cream shop owner
- just one of many ways that women handle unpaid and invisible emotional labor in the academy
- Reposted by Dr. Kaitlyn M. Simsthe hater's council just vetoed this actually. "a real hater hates attention seekers by ignoring them" wise words from one hater elder. "hate reading is for homework dorks" said another senior hater on condition of anonymity as this statement was a compound diss targeting other council members
- A full third of econ departments surveyed are on hiring freezes. Not just 0 lines this year--freezes. Woof.
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- Colorado decreased its homicide rate, yet deaths from domestic violence persisted--and deaths of children actually *increased*. My latest for @theconversation.com unpacks why measurably reducing the number of 'collateral victims' of DV is so challenging.
- seems like as good a time as any to remind y'all of the work we did showing that the rollout of GM soy (which tolerates glyphosate application->brought an increase in agrotoxin application) is associated with increased child leukemia mortality www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
- Am I Depressed or Is My Best Friend Just a 10-Hour Time Zone Away? A Memoir
- someone commission me to write an op-ed about how the dystopic healthcare system and gig economy post-global pandemic meant I could doordash a combo covid/flu at-home rapid test to my front door at 7am
- Reposted by Dr. Kaitlyn M. SimsMeta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
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- i desperately need to find whoever is telling students they cannot use the first person when writing essays and ... give them a stern talking to
- so are we calling this new tariff deal the rolex reg or what
- friends, I need book recommendations to load up on my e-reader before I (*sighs dramatically*) sit by a pool for 2.5 days
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- Hanging out with rad researchers talking about incarceration and inequality all day today and tomorrow. Sometimes my job is rad as hell
- Reposted by Dr. Kaitlyn M. SimsFood bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”
- Friends! Do you have a book about public/social policy you're proud of or excited by? I'm designing a book report section in my upcoming undergrad Public Policy for Social Welfare course--feel free to share recommendations (including self-promo!) for me to add to my list of choices. Thanks!
