Same Journal- now with a cooler look!
With the help of some lovely artists (AKA our editors Susan Stewart and David Warner), we have a new cover for PRPR!

You probably think you can't hate Target more than you already do but ....

Why Fascists Hate Sociology (opinion) The anti-sociology politicians are on to something in grasping the field’s power.

Why do fascists hate sociology? Because it makes transparent everything fascists don't want you to know. A sociological imagination makes us harder to control. Long live the sociological imagination.

Y’all need sociology. Example # 456,149

Meantime, we get accused of being Luddites if we’re not all aboard the AI train.

Troops are being sent to yet another war no one believes in and when they come home, there will be no services for them. This is going to be very bad for everyone.

As the kids say, we’re cooked. 😳

Everybody shut up and revel in the beauty that is this man's bread.

Sourdough batard, fresh from oven, in a light green enameled cast iron pan. Design on loaf is classic leaf pattern.

Sunday is for baking #sourdough.

Think this might be my best looking batard yet.

Geographic Realities of Abortion Access in Texas: Exploring the Heterogeneous Effects of Texas Senate Bill 8 with Mobile Phone Data - Population Research and Policy Review Restrictive abortion policies have generated reductions in abortion access, increased travel distance to abortion clinics as a result of clinic closures, and produced declines in maternal health outco...

This depicts declining numbers of Abortion clinics pre-and post-Texas Senate Bill 8. Look at “Geographic Realities of Abortion Access in Texas: Exploring the Heterogeneous Effects of Texas Senate Bill 8 with Mobile Phone Data” by Jessica Miller & Guangqing Chi.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

UI African American, Gender Studies faculty prepare for program closures University of Iowa faculty in African American Studies and Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies are preparing for closure of their programs following a review of "low-enrollment" degrees and majors ...

The closing of African American Studies and GWSS at Iowa is absolutely heartbreaking. It is such an important time to study these subjects. Words really cannot express how upsetting this decision is. www.thegazette.com/higher-educa...

And this, folks, is an example of why you need to understand this thing called a denominator.

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Population science/demography folks: Looking for a list of journals that either a) don't have OA fees, b) have reasonable OA fees (a few hundred), or c) allow authors to deposit the author's accepted manuscript in PubMed.

Does this exist somewhere? Do we need to start such a list?

Round gingerbread coffee cake set on a glass pedestal. Cake is dark brown with drizzled white icing.

Gingerbread Coffee Cake. #ChristmasBaking

A mix of sugar and gingerbread cookies, decorated in holiday colored royal icing, on a white platter.

Cutout cookies are serious business in my household.

Here’s a sampling of this year’s creations. #Christmas #Gingerbread #SugarCookies

A recent modeling study in JAMA showed that if MMR vaccine rates drop 10% (easy to see happen with this), we’re back to 400,000-500,000 cases a year. Our current outbreak is 2,000. This turns the clock back to 1950 🚨🚨🚨

Same! Next time let’s make sure we’re not on opposite ends of the table.

Small red flower on a red dragon cactus in a terracotta pot.

Discovered this little bloom today.

First time this red dragon cactus has flowered.

Had a great time at #GSA2025. Leaving with new ideas, new collaborators, and new friends.

Looking forward to getting back into my routine (and not needing to dress in layers).

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

American institutions don't crumble. But they can be destroyed.

Excited to announce that UAB has joined with UMD and UMBC to launch the Southern Population Aging Research Center (SPARC), supported by National Institute on Aging.

Read more at: www.uab.edu/news/researc...

"Just the other day, I was in the audience at Lincoln Center when Justice Amy Coney Barrett said, while promoting a new book, that she doesn't think the United States is in a constitutional crisis," Farias told us. "Today, the Supreme Court, without offering a single line of reasoning, more or less declared that the Fourth Amendment, which protects everyone from unreasonable searches and seizures, nonetheless allows the Trump Administration to arrest and detain anyone who looks Latino, citizen or not, on account of the language that they speak or the kind of jobs they do. The ruling putatively covers the Los Angeles area, but the effect could be national," he continued. "If that's not a constitutional crisis, then what is?"

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph:

link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

A perfect description. 🤢

Trump’s second presidency is ‘most dangerous period’ since second world war, Mitch McConnell says Former Senate leader likens administration’s fixation with tariffs to isolationist policies of the US in the 1930s

Local man— who spent years pouring gasoline on the ground, passing out matches, and getting an arsonist installed as Fire Chief— says that town in real danger of burning down.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

As an aside: Marrazzo was an incredible resource for Alabama and Alabama reporters during the COVID pandemic, when she was at UAB. Smart, knowledgeable and accessible.

Senate Dems are just totally unprepared for this moment. We need new leaders there - and it’s now clear we need new Senators.