“NIH is in crisis, grants are being terminated, labs are closing….but they found $1.6 million for an unsolicited proposal to study whether we should delay a vaccine we’ve been safely giving for 40 years, in a country where infants are at high risk of infection” www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

For a more realistic take on discrimination in the workplace, might I suggest my once again relevant articles.

"Three maxims for countering sex essentialism in scientific research" --excellent work, and important insight, from the always amazing @genderscilab.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Hot off the press! See our new paper: “Three maxims for countering sex essentialism in scientific research” in the journal Biology of Sex Differences. We show how sex essentialism distorts research & propose 3 ways to avoid making these mistakes. (1/12) rdcu.be/eNcRM

NEW: ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions. Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.

Congrats to CPC Fellow and Assistant Professor of Sociology Lauren Valentino, who was selected for a Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar Fellowship for the 2026-27 academic year!

Great article in the conversation by David Baker et al. on how US crackdown on academic freedom undermines global collaboration and scientific productivity: theconversation.com/research-bre...

Does women’s health need protecting? The administration thinks so. But what does this mean? Evidence-based assessment of first 30 days of changes to womenshealth[dot]gov with @pahoman.bsky.social in @lancetrh-americ.bsky.social

Our new study shows that living in states with higher levels of structural sexism was associated with worse cardiovascular disease outcomes for both men and women, especially for diabetes and stroke. @pahoman.bsky.social @deborascience.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Turns out Trump's "Defending Women" executive order is not, in fact, about defending women's health. It has led to the removal of of a lot of crucial information about women's health. This just out in a peer reviewed article by Patricia Homan and Susan Short. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New publication with @susanshort.bsky.social in @lancetrh-americ.bsky.social. We analyzed 2025 revisions to womenshealth[dot]gov under the Trump administration -documenting how credible health content was replaced with ideology: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

setting aside Florida's Board of Governors corrosively nefarious intentions behind this move, as someone who typically finishes drafting my syllabi on <the author blushes in shame> the eve of the first day of class, this will haunt my nightmares forever

As trust in the federal government's stewardship of US public health infrastructure plummets, NEJM and CIDRAP are launching a rival publication to the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Story by @aniloza.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/10/21/c...

"The science of gender, the history of racism and other legitimate fields of inquiry are being treated as 'thought crimes,' as if Orwell’s satire were state policy. People are losing their jobs for doing their jobs."

"The message is clear: Texas A&M does not permit teaching LGBT topics. Politicians, not professors, decide what is taught in Texas classrooms. Anyone who crosses this line may be fired on flimsy pretext" www.chronicle.com/article/why-...

“American science, the gold-standard and world-leading science and innovation enterprise, is being destroyed….Congress has a rare moment of leverage to check Trump’s executive overreach and it must stand up and do so.” - @markhisted.org, NIH neuroscientist www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Important new article in NEJM: www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Gender is a scientifically valid construct. Essentially Texas A&M is forcing their instructors to lie about or omit factual scientific information because it is politically inconvenient for them.

I encourage people to watch this video. The selected footage shows the professor doing nothing even slightly out of line, whereas the student misinterprets the law and hopes to impose her religious beliefs on the material. Administrators caving to this is terrifying.

***Call for Papers*** Gametic Politics: Eggs, Sperm, and Gender/Sex in the 21st Century A workshop for early-career researchers organized by Rene Almeling and Sarah Richardson. April 16-17, 2026 Yale University New Haven, CT Details and application form: www.renealmeling.com/gametic-poli...

Sociology quick-take! "Defining Discrimination Changes Policy Preferences" covers new @amjsoc.bsky.social research by @sociologylauren.bsky.social & @evangelinewarren.com on Americans' racism, sexism, & classism evaluation criteria & how they change opinions on redress contexts.org/articles/def...

Republicans say they don’t believe in structural racism or structural inequality but they sure know how to create and enforce it. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Here is the Priorities document (long thread) 1/n

New short paper out today in the American Journal of Transplantation coauthored with Annika Gompers and Jessica Harding. "Naming Sexism to Improve Kidney Transplant Equity" authors.elsevier.com/c/1lPWB5hx-W...

The United States has recorded its highest annual measles cases in 33 years. The milestone marks a public health reversal in defeating a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable disease as the anti-vaccine movement gains strength.

Journalists often ask for my thoughts on the contemporary US pronatalist movement. My assessment is based on my expertise and training as a social demographer, and my own research on childbearing behaviors at the individual and aggregate levels. Strap in, b/c I've got a lot to say. 1/

NIH cuts have life and death consequences. How a cancer patient became collateral damage to Trump’s purge of the federal workforce, @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social reports wapo.st/44ntbo4

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

Our Annual Review of Sociology article on conceptualizing and measuring structural racism is now available. Get it while studying racism is still legal. @tyson-brown.bsky.social @pahoman.bsky.social (also, lots of great articles are in this volume). www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Thanks for the shout out @asanews.bsky.social ! As college graduation season rolls around, check out my new book on college majors and entry-level jobs!

I've had an incredible sabbatical year as a visiting scholar @genderscilab.bsky.social! Consider donating if you want to support the important work the lab is doing in these challenging times.

The trope that universities are "dependent" on the federal government fundamentally misunderstands how vital this partnership has been for the US. The private sector can't replace it. If we kill it, we're all worse off. From @donmoyn.bsky.social and me: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/are-univer...

🌟Scholars and activists interested in women’s health, femtech, and capitalism.🌟 Our new piece, forthcoming in Signs, introduces the concept of “investment feminism” as a useful way to understand how financialization shapes the conversation around femtech and gender health equity. tinyurl.com/ffcs67h

In their new @JofHSB study, ASA member Patricia Homan @pahoman.bsky.social and Tyson H. Brown @tyson-brown.bsky.social show that exposure to higher levels of structural racism is associated with worse health for Black people—but not their White counterparts. @asamedsoc.bsky.social

It's National Public Health Week, the saddest one in memory. We have lost a generation of scientists and public servants, whose institutional memory and works in progress will be lost to our nation with their abrupt dismissals www.bmj.com/content/389/...

🚨 BREAKING: I'm suing #RFKJr @ #HHS & #JayBhattacharya @ #NIH Canceling medical research grants threatens innovations benefiting ALL Americans, no matter your politics! 🇺🇸 Thanks to my lawyers @aclu.org @aclum.bsky.social @protectdemocracy.org & @cspi.bsky.social Long 🧵 on why I'm suing 👇 1/

Dr. Diana Bianchi, director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, was fired this morning at 10AM EDT. Part of the NIH “reorg” (whatever that means)? Or the start of an NIH leadership bloodbath. Guess we will find out.

Today is #EqualPayDay, a reminder of the gender pay gap. In 2024, women were paid 18% less than men per hour, on average. Black & Hispanic women experience even larger pay gaps. The Trump admin's recent actions will worsen this gap and harm women & workers of color. www.epi.org/blog/gender-...

Today I'm filled with admiration for my university's president, Chris Eisgruber. He's standing up for Columbia and for universities as a home for freedom of ideas, debate, and thought - free of government attack. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

As federal research grants continue to be frozen, and NIH staff is being gutted, please note this study was funded by federal research grants, including from NIH. If they continue with staff cuts, and continue to freeze new awards, this is just one example of what we lose.

Trump's Executive Order defines “female” as someone who produces eggs & “male” as someone who produces sperm. "My intersex body, like the bodies of many intersex people, does not produce either gametes, arguably leaving us in legal limbo." @xoxykz.bsky.social www.washingtonblade.com/2025/02/04/m...

Attn: Early Career Scholars! Apply to this program at PRI!!! It is fantastic! I was part of their first cohort in 2023-2025 and I cannot say enough great things about it. Invaluable training, mentorship, and support for grant writing and research. Plus, I met great people and it was a lot of fun!

I've started to take apart the first EO on Sex and Gender. I'm doing it in easy-to-digest bites. Here's part 1. open.substack.com/pub/sterling... #transrights #feministsky #lgbtSTem #transSTEM #womeninscience