So excited to see this fantastic cohort take on US mortality trends in @pnas.org, with some amazing Lexis diagrams that I may print out and frame for my wall. Great work from @leahrabrams.bsky.social @octaviobramajo.bsky.social @alysonvanraalte.bsky.social 👏👏
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #demography
36 organizations, ~400 individuals from 45 states and DC signed our letter to Congress opposing USDA's termination of food security data collection. Read (and share) our letter here: bit.ly/CPSFSS
Real bad. I have a whole class on this, btw.
About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/06/27/a...
The world has entered a new era of rainfall supercharged by climate change, rendering existing response plans inadequate. A Post investigation reveals why so few people evacuated in the state hit hardest by Hurricane Helene, last year’s deadliest disaster.
Depends on your state and then your district. Could mean fewer support staff (already an unequal resource), bigger classes, cutting electives and consolidating or removing programming, no “manager” for discrimination claims. If you are in a rural district or a school with a lot of poor kids
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My piece for @thenation.com on the bravery of NIH employees who are standing up to those that would destroy the institution, including the NIH director himself. www.thenation.com/article/acti...
Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
“Since it was too late to apply elsewhere for his undergraduate years, “I can only brace myself,” said Mr. Li, who plans to study applied mathematics. But, “in the future, if I can avoid going to the United States to study, I will. They make people too scared.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...
Y Choi, @rsmargo.bsky.social & A Holm explore “The Effects of Extended Parental Benefits on Parents’ Employment & Earnings in Canada” & find that fathers’ use “had positive impacts" on mothers’ & fathers’ earnings in the longer run—stronger than previously known. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
Fellow owls - if you haven't heard, it's a great time to support universities. If you give to the 24-hour challenge today, please consider a gift to the School of Social Sciences and our Access & Opportunity fund for students.
www.givecampus.com/schools/Rice...
Everything going on in higher ed/science right now is a lot. And I am simultaneously sorry and glad to be in administration at the moment. Sorry because this is hard and going to get harder but glad because I can help try to mitigate the damage and protect what we do.
Truly one of the greats. He gave us the words and the permission to study inequality in a way that has shifted so many careers and in turn impacted so many lives.
Christopher Jencks, a Shaper of Views on Economic Inequality, Dies at 88 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/b...
I spent today gardening and making snacks for the Super Bowl. The attacks on science, higher ed, and so much else are just too much and sometimes you need to tap out and engage with other things. Be kind to yourselves and then re-engage. Don’t give up.
@ipums.bsky.social undefeated
▶️ @irpwisc.bsky.social shares last week's panel on what the social safety net may look like under the second Trump administration, with insights from @pamherd.bsky.social @um-psc.bsky.social, incl. her work on administrative burdens that prevent federal aid from reaching eligible recipients.
This. I’ve often seen people called out for not speaking about something on social media while aware that they were offering important behind-the-scenes support that a public statement would jeopardize.
Folks need to be more careful about what they think they know. There are multiple lanes.
Pic from my freshman owl today #HoustonSnow #SnowOwls
The {scico} #RStats 📦 is new to me! scico features “39 different palettes, all of which are perceptually uniform and colourblind safe. An overview can be had with the scico_palette_show() function”. By @thomasp85.com
github.com/thomasp85/sc...
Account suspended - thanks everyone
Hi friends - someone is impersonating me - could you please block and report this person?
rachelkimbro.bsky.social
If you're interested in animating gridded data into discrete bins using webgl feel free to reuse our library: github.com/eurostat/reg...
The example shows a population grid of Europe being rolled out, and then groups the cells according to their populations.
#stats #webgl #cartography
Agreed
It still needs to read Stata's manual several times to format datetime but still got it wrong.
As Massey et al show, border militarization was a major contributor to the rise in the undocumented population.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
New in @readdemography.bsky.social: @bradytwest.bsky.social et al suggest web surveys, with proper design and weighting, can produce nationally representative population estimates similar to those generated face-to-face. This potential opens opportunities for advancing population science.
Two stages of writing:
1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no
Huge congratulations to my Florida State Univ Population Center colleagues Mike McFarland and Matt Hauer (@drdemography.bsky.social) on this important and very newsworthy (!!) paper on the impact of leaded gasoline on US public health. #demography
acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
