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.

It's almost like it was all part of an a-factual ideological project!

Expected but still outrageous. Clearly Purcell is no longer in effect. The only principle this SCOTUS appears to follow is chaos.

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.

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.

In STL for #PAA2026. Demographer friends say “hi” when you see me wandering around, most likely looking for another cup of coffee.

This is appalling and alarming, and the Supreme Court is not only largely to blame, but all but blessed it last night.

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...

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...

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!

You probably think you can't hate Target more than you already do but ....

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.

Y’all need sociology. Example # 456,149

Meantime, we get accused of being Luddites if we’re not all aboard the AI train.

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.

As the kids say, we’re cooked. 😳

Everybody shut up and revel in the beauty that is this man's bread.

Sunday is for baking #sourdough. Think this might be my best looking batard yet.

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...

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...

And this, folks, is an example of why you need to understand this thing called a denominator.

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?

Gingerbread Coffee Cake. #ChristmasBaking

Cutout cookies are serious business in my household. Here’s a sampling of this year’s creations. #Christmas #Gingerbread #SugarCookies

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 🚨🚨🚨

Discovered this little bloom today. First time this red dragon cactus has flowered.

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).

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

American institutions don't crumble. But they can be destroyed.

Excited to announce that UAB has joined with UMD and UMBC to launch the Southern Population Aging Research Center (SPARC), supported by National Institute on Aging. Read more at: www.uab.edu/news/researc...

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

A perfect description. 🤢

Local man— who spent years pouring gasoline on the ground, passing out matches, and getting an arsonist installed as Fire Chief— says that town in real danger of burning down. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

As an aside: Marrazzo was an incredible resource for Alabama and Alabama reporters during the COVID pandemic, when she was at UAB. Smart, knowledgeable and accessible.

Senate Dems are just totally unprepared for this moment. We need new leaders there - and it’s now clear we need new Senators.

Words to live by!

One more time, shout out to the very serious people who suggested that RFK had some really good points about public health. No way to have predicted how things would turn out, except to look at his past record and everything he said about vaccines.

Dr. Demetre, in his resignation from the CDC, said this: “I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people”. It is an outrage that RFK Jr. remains as head of HHS.

PAA joined more than 90 scientific, academic, and professional orgs to sign this letter to Director Kratsios at White House OSTP: buff.ly/dosN52k

Planet of the Apes (1968-1973) is one of my all time favorite movie series. I have often dreamed of teaching Intro to Sociology using the originals. I’m not sure I’d have any enrollment… but the core themes are all there.

🚨New Publication🚨 In the August Issue of #PRPR, England & Xu present evidence that challenges the applicability of Second Demographic Transition theory to the U.S.—where disadvantage predicts cohabitation and non-marital births. Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Population Research and Policy Review (PRPR) is now on Bluesky! The official journal of @sda-demography.bsky.social, PRPR publishes research of interest to demographers, population scientists, and those working in adjacent fields. Learn more at sda-demography.org/PRPR-journal.

Here is the Science story on the "priorities" memo... www.science.org/content/arti...

Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.

Motherfucker wrote one sloppy paper in April 2020 and instead of being like oops, shit, my bad, he has kept doubling down until now he's killing most promising medical technology of the past quarter century rather than going to therapy.