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David F. Warner

@dwarnersoc.bsky.social
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Father, Husband, Scholar • GenX • Cornell & PennState Alum • History, Politics, Sociology, Demography, Population Health • Baking, Gardening, DIY, SciFi Movies • Yankee in the Deep South • Perpetually Tired • Cynic • Opinions My Own

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The NIH just released a proposal that will apparently hide peer reviewers’ impact scores and percentiles from the research team, their institution, and NIH program officers. All the better to obscure how funding decisions will be made primarily via political review, I’m guessing.
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NOT-OD-26-088: Request for Information (RFI) on Proposed Changes to Reporting Outcomes from NIH Peer Review
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Request for Information (RFI) on Proposed Changes to Reporting Outcomes from NIH Peer Review NOT-OD-26-088. NIH
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David F. Warner @dwarnersoc.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Flight yesterday was canceled due to ATC restrictions and had to stay another night in NYC. Hoping for good travel karma today. #ASA2026
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Colin Jost: Can I Leave Saturday Night Live?
ALT: Colin Jost: Can I Leave Saturday Night Live?
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David F. Warner @dwarnersoc.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Headed to #ASA2026. Looking forward to seeing colleagues old and new. Say “hi” when you see me wandering the halls between sessions.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The man beat his daughter and injured his granddaughter but he's fine with it apparently. www.notus.org/ohio/bernie-...
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Sen. Bernie Moreno Doesn't 'Know' if Embattled Rep. Max Miller Should Stay on Ballot
The senator’s daughter accused Miller of domestic violence. Miller denies the allegations, but they’re making his reelection race tighter.
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Well, this article is incredibly depressing for cooking enthusiasts. The short version: private equity has, over the last couple of decades, quietly bought up most of the classic brands you’ve heard of and then traded on their names while drastically cutting quality and closing American factories
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Very important piece by Cerin Lindgrensavage and @davidasuper.bsky.social. This behavior by the administration is not only illegal, it is anti-constitutional. thehill.com/opinion/cong...
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Congress rejected some of Trump’s proposed budget cuts. OMB is making them anyway.
President Trump and the Office of Management and Budget are accused of violating the separation of powers by attempting to unilaterally withhold funds that Congress specifically appropriated.
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David F. Warner @dwarnersoc.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I just submitted my formal comment on the disastrous proposal to transform essentially all U.S. federal grantmaking--affecting every sector of American science, technology, education, & health--into an overtly partisan political process. Full text here: weatherwest.com/wp-c...
Screenshot of page 1 of my letter (see link in post for full text).Screenshot of page 2 of my letter (see link in post for full text).Screenshot of page 3 of my letter (see link in post for full text).Screenshot of page 4 of my letter (see link in post for full text).
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
A 5-4 ruling on a plain reading of the text of the 14th Amendment. That's not what I would call a vindication.
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David F. Warner @dwarnersoc.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
“Our system is grounded on checks and balances — the entire system — and right now we have a Congress, with a Republican majority, that isn’t really standing up to do its duties. We have a Supreme Court that’s pretty much in line with the executive.”
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
NIH grants have been under political scrutiny since early 2025. But what does the screening process actually look like? What is being flagged? I spent a month digging into leaked docs and emails. We've published the 235-word list that are being flagged by an internal AI tool. And so much more. 🧵
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Inside the new political screening that’s stalling NIH grants
Mandatory reviews by top health officials and checks for 235 disfavoured terms have left hundreds of vetted grant applications in administrative limbo.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
"Hiring of college grads is down across the board. But certain majors are able to access opportunities in a wider array of industries, new LinkedIn data shows." ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH 69% VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS 68% www.forbes.com/sites/courtn...
The Most Versatile Majors Chart, TOPPED BY ENGLISH and VISUAL&PERFORMING ARTS
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Horrifying. Their 4yo kids taken away from them for a couple of days—interviewed without other adults present by people they didn’t know. This was all based on a bizarre accusation that could’ve been easily dismissed w/o involving the children. This is not how these processes are supposed to work.
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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Skip the stupid nyt panic-mongering about phones and babies and read something smart by @lesja.bsky.social instead.
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Non-natalism – Spectre Journal A case for being against pronatalism
Leslie Root shows how misguided it is for the left to accept pro-natalist positions. Worry about declining birth rates is based on a misinterpretation of the Total Fertility Rate, and minor social pol...
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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Of course they start state-mandated pregnancy surveillance among medical cannabis users. Pitch perfect strategy on their part.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 03/06/2026
1. How common is LLM use in scientific publishing, and how does it vary across field, publisher, journal prestige, author demographics etc.? @kylesiler.bsky.social has new paper in PNAS that addresses this question on a massive scale: 7.3 million papers from Elsevier, PLOS, MDPI, and Frontiers.
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The diffusion of large language models in published academic articles | PNAS
Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly changing academic research, raising questions of who is adopting these tools and under what conditions. Th...
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Jamie "Clanker H8r" Dyer @jamiedcville.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
"The thing about semi-authoritarian states that many Americans don’t grasp, even though they’ve been living in one for nine years. Life goes on, collapsing in pieces instead of dramatic sweeps, acclimatizing you to horrors and destroying your expectations until survival becomes an aspiration."
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David F. Warner @dwarnersoc.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 30/05/2026
I need folks to understand that this proposed OMB rule change isn't just about science, or research. This is about asserting control. I see quotes that "at least it still allows indirect at expected amounts". First - this presumes you're getting grants which 👀 UNTIL WHEN YOU FOOLS. OVERTON WINDOW.
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Quick takes: 1. Share this widely. 2. Not sharing scores REDUCES transparency. 3. Whatever the merits of a plan (on paper), it is imperative to recognize who is making the decisions. This is not a good-faith negotiation w/good-faith actors. We need more transparency & expert input, not less.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
I’ve said it before and will say it a few more times. When Trump 2.0 came for accreditation I knew we had crossed into a different era of white reclamation. Precise, focused, stealth. Anyway, you probably don’t want these reforms.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
40 percent of Mississippi residents are Black and overwhelmingly prefer Democratic candidates and there are *checks notes* zero districts that represent their interests. But sure, the VRA isn’t needed.
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Southern Demographic Association @sda-demography.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Thanks to @popassocamerica.bsky.social for a successful #PAA2026! Looking for a #demography conference in Fall 2026? Submit your work to the Southern Demographic Association conference! We'll meet October 7-9 in Austin, TX! Abstract submission portal opens next week.
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
It's almost like it was all part of an a-factual ideological project!
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David F. Warner @dwarnersoc.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Expected but still outrageous. Clearly Purcell is no longer in effect. The only principle this SCOTUS appears to follow is chaos.
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Jeremy Faust, MD @jeremyfaust.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
They buried the lede. *One of the Americans en route home has tested positive for the Andes Hantavirus* Fortunately, the receiving facility is equipped to handle this. But whoever wrote that someone tested “mildly positive” is an idiot. They are PCR positive. They have it.
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Courtney Boen @courtneyboen.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
What a pill to swallow after presenting in the “Public Policy & Population Health” session yesterday at #paa2026. One of the biggest challenges of doing work in this area has always been that institutions rarely provide researchers with evidence of their harms. Now they won’t fund it, either.
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David F. Warner @dwarnersoc.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
In STL for #PAA2026. Demographer friends say “hi” when you see me wandering around, most likely looking for another cup of coffee.
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a man in a suit and tie is standing in a room holding his jacket
Alt: a man in a suit and tie is standing in a room holding his jacket, looking lost
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
This is appalling and alarming, and the Supreme Court is not only largely to blame, but all but blessed it last night.
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 01/05/2026
Justice Thurgood Marshall, dissenting in Mobile v. Alabama, which gave us the 1982 amendments to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that the Supreme Court just nullified in Louisiana v. Callais. Every word applies to the current majority: tile.loc.gov/storage-serv...
A screenshot of a dissenting opinion, which reads, in part:

"It is time to realize that manipulating doctrines and drawing
improper distinctions under the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amendments, as well as under Congress' remedial legislation
enforcing those Amendments, make this Court an accessory
to the perpetuation of racial discrimination."
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
New, from me: This should be a clarifying moment about the relationship the Supreme Court's opposition to representative democracy in America. Lets look at some graphs that make this point. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/power-demo...
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Power, democracy, and clarity
What does the end of the Voting Rights Act mean?
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Population Research and Policy Review (PRPR) @prpr-journal.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
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!
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
You probably think you can't hate Target more than you already do but ....
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Lisa Wade @lisawade.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
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.
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Why Fascists Hate Sociology (opinion)
The anti-sociology politicians are on to something in grasping the field’s power.
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David F. Warner @dwarnersoc.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Y’all need sociology. Example # 456,149
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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Meantime, we get accused of being Luddites if we’re not all aboard the AI train.
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ApocalypticaNow @apocalypticanow.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
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.
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David F. Warner @dwarnersoc.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
As the kids say, we’re cooked. 😳
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Ready Salted @readysalted.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Everybody shut up and revel in the beauty that is this man's bread.
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David F. Warner @dwarnersoc.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Sunday is for baking #sourdough. Think this might be my best looking batard yet.
Sourdough batard, fresh from oven, in a light green enameled cast iron pan. Design on loaf is classic leaf pattern.
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Population Research and Policy Review (PRPR) @prpr-journal.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
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...
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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...
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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
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...
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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 ...
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David F. Warner @dwarnersoc.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
And this, folks, is an example of why you need to understand this thing called a denominator.
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
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?
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a cartoon character with a sign that says south park behind him
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David F. Warner @dwarnersoc.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Gingerbread Coffee Cake. #ChristmasBaking
Round gingerbread coffee cake set on a glass pedestal. Cake is dark brown with drizzled white icing.
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David F. Warner @dwarnersoc.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Cutout cookies are serious business in my household. Here’s a sampling of this year’s creations. #Christmas #Gingerbread #SugarCookies
A mix of sugar and gingerbread cookies, decorated in holiday colored royal icing, on a white platter.
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
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 🚨🚨🚨
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David F. Warner @dwarnersoc.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Discovered this little bloom today. First time this red dragon cactus has flowered.
Small red flower on a red dragon cactus in a terracotta pot.
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David F. Warner @dwarnersoc.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
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).
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David F. Warner @dwarnersoc.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Charlie Brown trusted Lucy to hold the football. She pulls it away at the last second. Again. Because Charlie Brown never learns.
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