iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This. The most important thing I learned at PAA this year was @samsellers.bsky.social concept of demographic federalism. When the baby boom cohort is dying, births are slowing, and migration is completely fucked, the characteristics of a place are going to matter a LOT for its population patterns

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value plus discounted @akhilrao.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

existence of fixed effects implies existence of broken effects

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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🎶🎵 The dream of the 90s is dying everywhere 🎶🎵

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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This also came in "bike" and I had it.

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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One time I estimated how many days of lost work and school were caused by sexual assault and stalking and the numbers were staggering.

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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My rural neighbors are genuinely struggling to make ends meet in ways I have never seen. Seems bad the American political system is exquisitely designed to exonerate the powerful.

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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Reading about the new MacArthur Fellows each year is always a wonderful feeling and this year is no exception!! 👏👏👏

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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The impacts of Hyde have been documented again and again and again and knowing this doesn't change anything because women's suffering doesn't matter.

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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Pretending everything is a toy version of gender is a great justification for ignoring everything else (class, race, you name it)

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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Since I started noticing in the late 90s, I‘ve seen lists like this in bathrooms in libraries, bars, and restaurants. I even found a list with three dudes’ names in different handwritings in a copy of Brigitte Jones’ Diary.

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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The consequences of abortion bans are no longer shocking in part because their very existence reenforces the biopolitical right to maim women through mandatory pregnancy.

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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

FWIW, I would say it's way more depressing to pretend we're not seeing a resurgence of race science.

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Gave my first public lecture on the return of eugenics and race science this week at the British Science Festival. Reassuring to see how much interest, and concern, there was in the room

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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Domestic population policy in the Onion.

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Butt Praxis @buttpraxis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I will vote, make calls, knock doors, take up arms for whoever destroys the online gambling industry

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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

These people have zero idea what cost even means

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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Wild to see two simultaneous meltdowns about how the sandwich generation is failing our parents from the people who think empathy is toxic. They really think relationships are solely structural, don’t they?

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Os Keyes @okeyes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The result: national govts, think tanks and universities refocusing AI evaluations to focus on highly speculative problems where there is no empirical evidence that they're possible - but lots of ideological reason to take them seriously, whatever the costs of the very REAL issues we then ignore .

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 25/09/2026

Great pronatalist poster from France circa 1930s, showing outcome of a century of "normal fertility" versus "insufficient fertility." At least 3 children per household are needed "for a country to thrive" from Andrew Gelman's visit here: www.carnavalet.paris.fr/expositions/..., on his blog today.

Two population pyramids, with French text. Google translate:

AFTER A CENTURY OF

AFTER A CENTURY OF

NORMAL FERTILITY

INSUFFICIENT FERTILITY

POPULATION DISTRIBUTION AMONG
DIFFERENT AGE GROUPS
At least, on average, 3 children per household are needed

JOIN THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR INCREASING THE

for a country to thrive

FRENCH POPULATION 217, Rue du Faubourg Saint Honoré, PARIS

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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The wind doesn’t care which way it blows.

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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’d be pretty shocked if the federal government actually had data that could establish this.

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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Click through to the abstract for a stellar example of why you should always do at least the littlest bit of reflection before you post.

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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Actually just a fight against you getting to choose when you have babies - same as anti-abortion and anti-contraception agitation.

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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Calling this a "fight against fertility tech" is like saying abortion opponents are in a "fight against reproductive health" - it's right in a way but it obscures the actual objective.

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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is going to be such an incredibly useful contribution to actually understanding WTF is happening.

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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The last section of this paper is titled "Population Servo" and advocates for the development of a "peoplo-stat". What I'm saying is that trusting engineers with demography is stupid and dangerous!

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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

good news, everyone (h/t @drjenndowd.bsky.social)

Doomsday: Friday, 13 November, A.D. 2026

At this date human population will approach infinity if it grows as it has grown in the last two millenia (sic).

Heinz von Foerster, Patricia M. Mora, Lawrence W. Amiot

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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The uprising against Flock is a finger in the eye of every jaded tech bro (gender inclusive) who told me, "Privacy isn't a feature." You're wrong!

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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Demographers recognize the “infection makes us stronger” as one of heterogeneity’s ruses. But in this case, the fact that infection doesn’t make individuals stronger is strategic. The focus is on making a eugenically “fitter” population over time and they think deaths can help them get it.

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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My 95 year old grandma cried when she heard people weren't vaccinating their kids against polio.

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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“71.5% of adults reported experiencing fatigue at least some days in the past 3 months (54.9% some days, 10.7% most days, and 5.9% every day)” 71.5% sounds bad also only 17% most or all days seems low compared to everyone I know.

cdc.gov

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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It’s so sad to see UT undermined like this. The fights for these institutional strengths were hard and long and costly.

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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"feminist disutility monster" isn't as good as "feminist killjoy" but it's pretty funny

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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Guys, my best Effective Altruism story is about their disturbing emphasis on the future over the present. I explained that they had made the future into a utility monster and the guy I was talking to said, "Well you're a disutility monster."

en.wikipedia.org

Utility monster - Wikipedia

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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I sometimes use the shorthand "doing retrenchment" or "not doing retrenchment" and it helps at times like these.

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

@prbdata.bsky.social's 2026 World Population Data Sheet is here! It's interactive and lovely and full of all sorts of wonderful demographic data!

wpds.prb.org

World Population Data Explorer (2026 Data)

Explore population and health indicators for 200+ countries and territories.

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Heini Väisänen @heinivaisanen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I am very much looking forward to the next FemQuant seminar by Signe Svallfors on exposure to violent crime and pregnancy outcomes. More information and the sign up link below 👇

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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Most of all she would be so disappointed that I wear black.

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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

As we see so many colleagues cower and comply it's getting harder and harder to maintain faith that the academy really shares a commitment to the pursuit of human knowledge. The researchers who filed this lawsuit feed that faith. ❤️✊

aclu.org

Researchers Challenge NIH Screening of Grants for Disfavored Viewpoints | American Civil Liberties Union

Class action lawsuit seeks to stop censorship and termination of federally funded scientific research

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026

Reading proofs from book & remembering what I wrote in 2015: "I am very concerned about the future of AI. Not because of the risk of rogue machines taking over. But because of the homogeneous, one-dimensional group of men who are currently involved in advancing the technology.”

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Michelle S. Phelps @michellesphelps.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Do you know a student thinking about a PhD in Soc? @umnsociology.bsky.social is running a how to apply workshop in October and encourage all to join! More info at: cla.umn.edu/sociology/gr...

Event flyer for event on Oct. 21, 1-2:30pm featuring professors Mike Esposito and Michelle Phelps. Learn more about the Ph.D program at the University of Minnesota.

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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A lot of data centers are on the sites of former mills, right? Seems the contrast a small town's worth of jobs vs virtually no jobs would be a bigger part of discussions of data center hate. People remember when there were jobs there! Now it's just noisy and takes up all the electricity for nothing!

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Robert Chung @rchung.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Here's my 1-month alert: applications to join us in the Demography Department at UC Berkeley are due in 1 month. This is a great department in a great place with collegial people doing cool things. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05488

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

Assistant Professor - Open Field - Demography

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'm sorry but you're probably going to have to read about this stuff.

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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Prop up the bros to try to get them to like you more. 👍

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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

All the "AI consciousness" and "rocks have consciousness" and "NPCs in video games have fractional consciousness" etc. is part of their overarching argument for AI rights because they literally think "AIs" are going to be/are better and more important than us.

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danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

"Data Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census" comes out in one month! Please pre-order the book if you can (or ask your library for a copy). You can choose French or English, audio, e-book, or hardcover.

Book title for danah boyd's book: "Data Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census"

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