I remember one magical moment at a demography conference where the speaker actually *meant* to say "morality" on his PowerPoint slide.

Cover of the business of racism: labor and environment in Brazil's racial Capitalism by Ian Carrillo

The Introduction of my book is currently free to read.

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“a pretty powerful rejoinder to those who have insisted that the Court’s internal debates in these [shadow docket] cases are rigorous and deeply substantive.”

More than anything else this reveals just how impulsive the major questions doctrine revamp is. It all ultimately stemmed from Roberts's personal antipathy to a regulation, and everything since has been a dishonest attempt to dress it up so that he doesn't look like he's just shooting from the hip.

You have *multiple* nemeses?? Conferences must be fun 🤔.

This is more broadly generalizable: If you don't do the research yourself, you have no idea if AI is making stuff up. And if you do the research yourself, then AI isn't saving you much labor, if any.

90+ fully funded Fulbright opportunities for US students & scholars to pursue research, teaching, and academic collaboration in Brazil. Often with no Portuguese required. Many awards also offer flexible grant lengths and formats.

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For the First Time in the U.S., Renewables Generate More Power Than Natural Gas

Try as they might, renewables are gaining momentum.

"Last month, fossil fuels generated less electricity than in any March going back at least 25 years, while renewables generated more."

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Yeah, except you could Photoshop Trump IN 🤮

Contrast that with her ex-husband Jeff Bezos, who currently has $226 billion in wealth. If he gave away 99% of his wealth tomorrow, he would still have $2.2 billion to live on. In 2020, he started the Bezos Earth Fund, but so far the fund has only given out $2.4 billion.

"We've ended DEI - but we need you to give $10 million to pay for conservative professors."

<em>Population and Development Review</em> | Population Council Journal | Wiley Online Library There are striking disparities in life expectancy across sociodemographic groups in the United States, shaped by structural forces such as racism, class inequality, and policy environments. To what e...

New in PDR! Happy to see this one out.

Structured Inequality, Uncertain Lifespans: Demographic Perspectives on Predicting Individual-Level Longevity

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There's a fun expression in Portuguese for getting out of your lane and into someone else's: "quer ensinar o padre a rezar a missa" = "he wants to teach the priest how to say Mass".

#Vance has taken it literally *and* upped the ante from
priest -> Pope.

Parallelodogma

How Economics Discovered Women by Shelly Lundberg - Hardcover Scholarship 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 (!) How Economics Discovered Women is now available for pre-order from the University of California Press. The book is a survey and critique of how the economics of gender has developed since the mid-1970s. www.ucpress.edu/books/how-ec...

Read the whole thing and then just curl up in a corner and cry, I guess

Bayesian cohort-component forecasts deliver more accurate age-specific population projections for small regions, outperforming standard methods across 13 heterogeneous Bavarian districts. #forecasting

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For decades, men from Milwaukee voided even the appearance of cannibalism. Jeffery Dahmer is taking a different approach.

Rep. Eric Swalwell announces resignation from Congress after accusations of sexual assault The news comes a day after the Democratic lawmaker ended his California gubernatorial campaign.

Good riddance to Eric Swalwell. We read the San Francisco Chronicle reporting in disgust at his clearly abusive behavior, and additional reporting from CNN paints a picture of a damning pattern.

We’re deeply concerned by the similar allegations against Tony Gonzales.

A tweet quoting JD Vance saying he finds it ironic to be accused of foreign influence after campaigning for Viktor Orbán, with a Fox News screenshot of Vance speaking at an event in Hungary. Below it is a smaller embedded tweet noting Vance stumping for Orbán at a political rally.

You're a foreign official campaigning in a foreign election for one preferred side, JD. Think about it. Take all the time you need.

👍 I'm going to the FSU Circus this weekend. I also went when I was in elementary school, in the 1960s!

Exclusive: Four women describe sexual misconduct by Rep. Eric Swalwell, including a former staffer who says he raped her | CNN A former staffer of Rep. Eric Swalwell, a leading Democratic candidate for California governor, says that the congressman raped her when she was heavily intoxicated, an allegation Swalwell strongly denies.

Four women

“One member of Swalwell’s staff said they quit immediately after receiving CNN’s detailed list of questions about the allegations.”

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Important context on new US fertility numbers… from demographers, not podcast bros :)
#demography

It's easy to criticize, but the Trial by Jury system is proving to be an important defense against tyranny.

[V3cam] Kīlauea volcano, Hawaii (south Halemaʻumaʻu crater) YouTube video by USGS

Real-time video from a Hawaiian volcano. Nature is impressive!
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What? Are we Germany now?