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We've been focused on the census lately, but that doesn't mean we have forgotten about other critical data. We applaud @ritahamad.bsky.social and colleagues at @harvard.edu for their new report: Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) in Crisis popcenter.harvard.edu/blog/2026/10...

Report cover art with title and an adult holding a newborn.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The American Dream is amazing: within just a few years you can go from being the child of Cuban immigrants to the great-grandson of Spanish settlers.

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Ann Keller @annck.bsky.social · 5h

I wonder how many men who went on to win Nobel prizes were denied tenure. Another way to put this is to ask if women doing path breaking, innovative work have a harder time getting funded or getting published.

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 12h

objectively pro-diarrhea regime

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 10h

Announcing the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, chair Jørgen Watne Frydnes says he hasn't been able to get hold of Navi Pillay. Laughing, he adds: "My message to her would be, 'If you see a Norwegian number calling, please pick up'" www.bbc.com/news/live/ck...

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Nobel Peace Prize live: Navi Pillay wins for 'efforts to promote peace and international law'

Some 287 candidates have been nominated for the prestigious prize, which was won last year by Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado.

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Population Aging Research Center @pennaging.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The Graduate Group in Demography at the University of Pennsylvania is now accepting applications for its PhD program in Demography. We look forward to recruiting a strong and diverse cohort for Fall 2027! Applications are due December 8, 2026. Learn More: demog.pop.upenn.edu/prospective-...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

El-Sayed: "You just heard something out of my opponent. He said he 'thinks the war is going to end.' He's got a direct line to the president who is making sure the war does not end and he's not using it because he's cheerled this war the entire time."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Ossoff says that Mike Collins has "hired half the Third Reich to staff your congressional office"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

El-Sayed: "He called himself the 'champion of big pharma.' I don't work for them. I don't work for big insurance, who has also bought him off, I don't work for big tech, who has bought him off, I don't work for DTE, who has also bought him off, I work for the people."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Q: Many feel you have not addressed the fact your son in law is a white supremacist influencer. What have you said to your family? COLLINS: That's my family OSSOFF: Imagine running for Senate while neo-Nazi propaganda is disseminated to an audience of millions from your home. That's Mike Collins.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22h

a livestreamed execution is just a lynching

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 22h

Anyone remember 25 years ago when the people who sent out videos of themselves executing people were the bad guys? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_...

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Daniel Pearl - Wikipedia

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Forty percent of American Nobel laureates this century in chemistry, medicine and physics have been immigrants, many arriving as students.

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Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 22h

I hope White House & Pentagon reporters will demand an explanation as to how the administration plans to prevent children from accidentally or intentionally witnessing a live execution. In addition to the general barbarism, there are significant dangers to the public from this nonsense.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

America right now is the maddest place on earth. Like watching a David Lynch film.

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“Without physically removing a single person, these rules would bureaucratically disappear millions of people from the national count. They would also strip away an important reference point against which claims of unequal treatment can be measured.”

nytimes.com

Opinion | The Census Counts Everyone. Trump Doesn’t Want That. (Gift Article)

Rewriting the rules for counting the population is yet another way to marginalize minorities.

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I've really noticed it with this. They provide the detailed discussions and statements from her, but then aren't reported the parallel for the men.

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Nick Davis @ntd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

teaching on news norms this week, and once you realize that normal news routines sanitize the coverage you just cant unsee it and it makes you wonder to what extent those norms buoy the status quo.

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Amanda, Est. 1976 @amandaannklein.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I graduated from Cornell in 1999. I went to parties at this very house (after hours!) and was often quite intoxicated (college!). Some of my friends were #JaneDoe. I wasn't #JaneDoe only by sheer luck--not bc I did something different. We need to teach our boys to be better. 💔

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Stephen Vaisey 🇺🇦 @stephenvaisey.com · 07/10/2026

BTW this means no funding for GSS, ANES, or PSID. GSS 2026 is in the field now, but then it looks like that's it. Devastating for social science.

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And I’m using the vulgar language because I think that the media failing to do that leads to a misperception of what actually happened.

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jenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“Ingrid Carlberg, the permanent sec of the Swedish Academy, said…that she had just spoken w/ Carson on the telephone. Carson sounded ‘very taken by surprise,’ Carlberg said. It was a short call, Carlberg said: All the poet would say was she was ‘in Iceland,’ where she was ‘listening to the wind’.”

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Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Mike Lee's transformation over the past decade has been hard to understand.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Good news: in this case the newly elected House can meet at a convenient location of their choosing and vote on whether to expel Johnson as one of its first orders of business

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UM Population Studies Center @um-psc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

@pamherd.bsky.social: "If you make it harder for people to receive benefits, fewer people will receive benefits." The @fordschool.bsky.social features the work of the Better Government Lab to help states address new burdens and barriers on SNAP. myumi.ch/Z8NAQ

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A safety net that keeps its promise

Better Government Lab helps states navigate new SNAP pressures without losing sight of access

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Part (but far from all) of what's horrific here is: a woman weighing the consequences of speaking up about being sexually assaulted, because speaking up imposes burdens and costs (and so does not speaking up).

phoenixnewtimes.com

Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs

Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. A Phoenix New Times exclusive.

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Katherine Eban @katherineeban.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

SCOOP in @rollingstone.com 👇 CDC has set aside new $1.6M for controversial hepatitis B vax clinical trial in Guinea-Bissau, halted earlier amid uproar over medical ethics. CDC director's office resurrected it, taking $$ from global health security funds: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study

“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 06/10/2026

"archaeology, anthropology, and sociology, which typically make hundreds of new grants—distributed zero new awards."

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh look, US National Science Foundation-supported science won the Nobel Prize in physics.

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Dean Yang @deanyang.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Can a savings account reduce heavy drinking? In a randomized trial with 1,500 men in western Kenya, a savings program cut hazardous drinking by 26% and intimate partner violence by 15%. New NBER working paper 🧵

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.

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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’

Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Democratic backsliding via paperwork

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is going to be great. Join us.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The Wisconsin Longitudinal Study has followed the same people since 1957. Only now, sixty years on, can researchers see why some of them lost their memory in old age and others didn't. That is not knowledge you can rush.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pete Hegseth removing tenure protections shows precisely why they are needed. He wants to silence dissent by being able to fire anyone who questions his vision of the military. www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...

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Hegseth halts tenure appointments for civilian faculty at military academies

Military academies will no longer appoint civilian faculty to tenured positions as Hegseth says it can contribute to “academic stagnation.”

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Note that the WSJ article doesn't actually say what the Fox host claims it says (posted below): bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/10/2026

EL-SAYED: Now you've got a situation with the Strait of Hormuz where we can't move oil and gas-- FOX: That's not true. The WSJ put out a piece the other day that said we're almost a level of getting oil out of the Strait that we were at before the war started AES: So why are gas prices so high?

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UM Population Studies Center @um-psc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

PSC alum Shoshana Shapiro: Black and Hispanic populations are shortchanged by the nonprofit safety net; for every nonprofit dollar spent per capita in predominantly white counties, just 38 cents is spent in majority Black communities. @fordschool.bsky.social Policy recs and more: myumi.ch/G7emq

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Study Finds Black and Hispanic Communities Shortchanged by Nonprofit Safety Net

Counties with larger Black and Hispanic populations see significantly less spending for critical nonprofit human services—including food banks, housing assistance, and homelessness shelters—than predo...

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I was raped at a frat party. It’s a shockingly common experience and preventative interventions in college are way too late.

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