OMG OMG OMG. I handed in my upcoming book on the census - "Data Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census." Now, the fine folks at the University of Chicago Press will begin the march towards production (September 2026). OMG OMG OMG.

Well, that's terrible news. If the Bureau can only contact households twice (translates, in most cases, to 1 mailer + 1 knock at the door), the undercount will be horrendous. There's a reason there is broad, bipartisan opposition to this language in the $ bill--including from the business community.

🚨 The Cornell Population Center is recruiting our next CPC Rhodes Postdoctoral Fellow (start: Aug 2026). We welcome outstanding early-career scholars in all disciplines engaging population research. Apply + share widely: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30347

Join us Monday for the first colloquium of the fall semester! MON | 9/8 | 12PM | PSC Commons (McNeil 403) Matt Hall ( @fertmortmig.bsky.social ) presents Deportations and Latino Segregation: The Residential Impacts of Interior Immigration Enforcement LEARN MORE: bit.ly/3VrxTvM

🚨 Job alert: The Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto is hiring an Assistant Professor in the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... I'll be at ASA and would be happy to chat with interested candidates. Please share widely! #Socsky

The Graduate Center community deeply mourns the passing of Prof. Emeritus Richard Alba, a pathbreaking demographer who bucked conventional ideas about how immigrants assimilate into and impact mainstream U.S. culture www.gc.cuny.edu/news/memoria...

Sad that this has to be my first post here, but the gutting of the FSRDC program is disastrous for demographic research.