Today, we celebrated the 80th birthday of the @umich.edu Survey Research Center @um-src.bsky.social. We have more than 1,000 people who do rigorous and impactful science in the public interest every day and for 80 years. Happy Birthday, SRC 🎈

States of Distrust: Science and Politics in America James Druckman presented the Center for Political Studies 2026 Miller-Converse Lecture At the University of Michigan’s most distinguished lecture series on American electoral politics, political scien...

"'If you can increase the diversity of the scientific workforce, there’s some evidence that you can increase the trust in scientists,' Druckman explained... [diversity] encompassing not just race and gender but also rurality, religiosity, and class background."

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Thanks for calling this out @karagavin.bsky.social ❤️ - this was a terrific and very relevant, even actionable talk for science communicators.

Thank you @opiniontoday.bsky.social for sharing this post on polarized (mis)trust in science -- Jamie Druckman's insights helped me understand the forces underlying these trends.

Hard Row to Hoe: The Long-term Influence of Rural Childhood Socialization and Health Outcomes In Event: The Politics of Rural Resources in the U.S. Michael Shepherd, Chair Sat, April 25, 11:40 to 1:10 CDT Michael Shepherd University of Michigan Center for Political Studies Alee Lockman Kristin Kay Lunz Trujillo

@mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social et al find adults who grew up in rural areas had worse childhood health access, worse health outcomes, lower trust in medicine, and less support for health policies backed by scientific consensus. With Alee Lockman and @klunztrujillo.bsky.social #MPSA2026

People may not know about me that I religiously eat *two* apples a day and proselytize about apples like I am Johnny f. Appleseed. This ranking is a gem (tho my top rank goes to consistent affordable and tarty pink lady) 😍 applerankings.com

"Midlife is a really important life stage to think about improving health, because it is dynamic, it is malleable, there's something that is driving those improvements over time in physical functioning" - Carrie Karvonen-Gutierrez

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Bright announcement for ICPSR Summer Program scholarships with a March 1 application deadline and over $400K available.

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Scholarship applications the 2026 ICPSR Summer Program are now open! Over $400k in scholarships available! Apply by March 1. For more details: myumi.ch/ICPSRscholarships

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RFK: "I’m not scared of a germ — I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats." My kid & I did agar plate experiments at home to visually confirm germs don't thrive on toilet seats. The public health takeaway: Don't be scared of *toilets* -- they are safer for cocaine snorting than your banknotes. 🧪

MDEV Conference (Development Economics at Michigan) May 8-9, 2026 in Ann Arbor

Open to anyone with a past or current connection to U-M, the Development Economics at Michigan (MDEV) Conference (May 8-9, 2026) has a paper submission deadline of Feb. 13. Submit here! #DevEcon #EconSky docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Turn it up this is all the good loving solidarity vibes our souls so need, thank you for the light, brass friends

"Tahquamenon Falls is a phenomenon, yalls" (Joe Reilly)

Unexpected Margins: Analysis of the 2025 Elections Expert Q&A with takeaways and predictions drawn from the 2025 elections with CBS elections analyst and University of Michigan political scientist Tyler Simko

The big Democratic wins of the 2025 elections will shift political dynamics and strategies in the coming year. For key takeaways, read our Q&A with UM political scientist Tyler Simko @simko.bsky.social, elections analyst for CBS.

cpsblog.isr.umich.edu?p=3516

New Insights on Historic Causes of Maternal Deaths In historical populations, female death rates usually exceeded male death rates during the reproductive ages. The most obvious cause of this difference is deaths resulting from childbirth. Parish regi...

With a new measure to understand causes of maternal mortality, historical demographer George Alter finds infectious disease & nutrition improvements likely impacted falling maternal mortality more than shifting obstetrical practices. Just out in Population Studies: psc.isr.umich.edu/news/new-ins...

Nature headline "I invented a life-saving frog sauna." Photo of said frogs in said sauna

have never clicked a headline so fast www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Data that taxpayers have paid for and rely on is disappearing – here’s how it’s happening and what you can do about it Detailed data that US government agencies collect and make available has underpinned research about people, medicine, science, crime, jobs, housing, climate and the economy.

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Thank you @tevahp.bsky.social @umisrcps.bsky.social @umich.edu
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A Clockwork that is Really Really Orange, Like Probably Twice as Orange as Any Other Orange. This movie is going to be huge.

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Graduate, faculty, and post-doc researchers -- here is one way to communicate out about the value of the work you do in the public interest. ⬇️

Snakes on a Plan

I think you might be a fan of dad jokes, so here's this gem for your continued mental health benefit...?

It's surprising when people don't know what brutalist architecture is, when there are so many concrete examples! 🥁

University of Michigan caved to Donald Trump on DEI programs | Opinion Trump's attacks on DEI at University of Michigan is part of a larger deployment of misinformation and government threats to weaken universities.

Print edition of article with @epopppp.bsky.social ran in @freep.com today. Michigan shouldn’t let itself be one more trophy on the wall at Mar a Lago

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Bronze statues of a duck and her ducklings. They each have a little white sign

Adorable. The Boston ducks have protest signs #handsoff

Second Teach In Alert, next Wednesday, March 19th, 7 pm. Please share!

We will update the U-M community on what has happened since the first teach in and will cover what is at stake for the international world order.

Come with questions and thoughts. Pizza for students starting at 6.30 pm.

#StandUpForScience

Three Reasons Why Congress Isn’t Checking Executive Overreach President Donald Trump seeks to expand executive power at the expense of congressional authority, but Congress has remained virtually silent.

Where is Congress? @ccavaille.bsky.social and @robmickey.bsky.social share three reasons Republicans in Congress aren't "pushing back" on executive overreach. From the recent #Umich teach-in: @jmping.bsky.social #PoliSky ➡️
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What is unique about executive orders under the second Trump administration? And will they succeed? - Center for Political Studies (CPS) Blog The EOs under the Trump administration are "unprecedented because they are illegal power grabs by design."

The controversial executive orders under Trump 2.0 are unique because political wins are their primary objective, and because they appear to be illegal by design, says Kenneth Lowande @umisrcps.bsky.social, an expert on executive power. Will they succeed? ➡️ myumi.ch/nyMm5 #PoliSky

This is honestly the best piece that I’ve seen on what is going on. If we can’t rely on the rule of law to stop this ignorant nonsense, what is left?

Someday, someone will write about how the conflation of university speech with “censorship” was used to mobilize actual government censorship.