There's a reason we drove to another state to hear this talk

One more comment about this. You thought A&M was bad for censoring Plato's Symposium? Well, Texas Tech said "hold my beer" and banned Plato's REPUBLIC from a philosophy class because there's a brief mention of homosexual love in it.

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

i know people are probably tired of seeing this but i have 45 participants with a goal of 280. if you qualify for the survey, please consider taking it! if you do not qualify, it would be very helpful to repost and boost in your networks! (also i am very happy to answer any questions)

Creating a moral panic over low birth rates is how we get here: attacks on contraceptive methods and on public funding of family planning. 1/

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

A federal judge on Monday declared the Trump administration’s move to cut hundreds of grants issued by the National Institutes of Health illegal, accusing the government of discrimination against minorities and L.G.B.T.Q. individuals. nyti.ms/4jSIjOG

Texas legislators just passed a bill that gives politically-appointed regents control over faculty curriculum, hiring, & governance. It does what they accuse academics of doing: privileging ideas, biases, & agendas on political grounds, & silencing those that do not follow their ideology.

New paper out in Socio-Economic Review on how doctors and patients talk about the price of care in fertility medicine! I find that the way they talk about money is radically different depending on both the clinic's targeted clientele and organizational structure academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

Like this op-ed author, I’m all for giving new parents money. But doing so when you’re cutting the programs that help feed, house, educate, and care for children over their lives is beyond insulting. (I disagree that this admin doesn’t know about the real costs, tho. It’s that they don’t care.)

Gov. Tim Walz State Address: "We have university students shoved into unmarked vans and fathers being tossed into Salvadorian gulags without a hint of due process. If you say you love freedom, but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love isn't freedom, it's privilege."

Why don’t young people use prescription contraception? Our new national MyVoice study asked 14–24-year-olds directly. The top 3 reasons: 🔸 Concern about side effects 🔸 Fear of judgment 🔸 Difficulty accessing care www.jpagonline.org/article/S108...

Yesterday, we released new estimates (for 2024) of the number of people obtaining abortions in states without total bans & the number of people traveling across state lines to access care www.guttmacher.org/report/stabi...

Congratulations to @meilers.bsky.social and team for their award-winning poster!! #PAA2025

Excited to share some work in progress using the @nchatstudy.bsky.social data! #PAA2025

Wow. #HandsOff rally in St. Paul, Minnesota is massive!

Just to be clear, this is a faculty member reporting a recent student at his institution to a fascist regime because he disagrees with the student’s political views. Absolutely chilling and vile.

International Women's Day has become a day I approach trepidation--waiting to see Ipsos's annual poll. This year's results don't curb my anxieties. 53% of men globally (47% of US men) agree that efforts toward gender equality have gone so far they're hurting men. And young men agree most of all.🧵1/

ABORTION BANS KILL PEOPLE. States with bans KNOW it—so instead of facing the facts, they just straight up refuse to track the data. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

We are witnessing the wholesale destruction of our public health infrastructure and monitoring systems. This administration is profoundly and deliberately anti-life.

Since 1972, the General Social Survey has been asking, "What do you think is the ideal number of children for family to have?" It was a great question. Unfortunately, it's broken now and needs to be fixed or retired. I'll explain familyinequality.wordpress.com/2025/02/15/i... /1

For 20 years I have used data from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey to educate many thousands of students about trends in teen sexual behavior. Now, because Trump and MAGA are afraid of knowledge and education, access to this information -- vital knowledge -- is denied the public. (From my textbook:

NEW: Yesterday, the Department of Transportation issued a memo that says DOT and DOT-supported programs should "give preference to communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average." www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.go...

When I teach Social Problems, I typically use plane crashes to talk about how the availability heuristic--the human tendency to overestimate the frequency of things we hear a lot about--drives "irrational" fear of extremely low-risk things like flying. But that fear doesn't seem so irrational now.

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Are People Fleeing States With Abortion Bans? Yes, according to our analysis of change-of-address data from the USPS. For more details, see our NBER WP or abstract below: www.nber.org/papers/w33328 #EconSky Joint work w/: @danieldench1.bsky.social + Kelly Lifchez + @econling.bsky.social

Created a new starter pack on SOGI things, queer demography, and folks interested in surveying sex and sex surveys--very loosely some quantitative sexualities. Let me know if you want to be added, its just a starter and I drew from my head of who was currently here:

"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Today @uclarepropolicy.bsky.social launched a database of 272 statements from organizations opposing abortion bans and the criminalization of repro care, demonstrating widespread recognition that abortion and pregnancy should not be subject to criminal laws. bit.ly/WidespreadOppositiontoAbortionBans

Delighted to share a new publication out today in the Journal of Marriage and Family w/ the brilliant @leahruppanner.bsky.social. In "A typology of US parents’ mental loads: Core and episodic cognitive labor" we assess underlying patterns in the domestic "mental load" among 3,000 US parents. 🧵 1/10

Such a telling and important figure illustrating how childcare costs impact inequality!

Day 5 of my Texas Hates Mothers and Children advent calendar: Texas gives $140 million a year to crisis pregnancy centers, which use deception and more to coerce women not to have abortions while providing few if any services. www.jezebel.com/texas-gave-a...

Very important work and a reminder to excercise caution when attributing causality to Dobbs (or any other policy change).

Almost half of Texas counties have nowhere to get prenatal care, let alone deliver a baby. Health care providers, advocates and local leaders are proposing aggressive action to pull the rural maternity care system back from the brink. www.texastribune.org/2024/12/03/t...

Kathleen Toomey fired the ENTIRE Maternal Mortality Review Committee in Georgia after the being unable to pinpoint exactly who leaked the reports of the maternal deaths resulting from the state’s #abortion ban. Speak up and share widely-- we cannot stay quiet. dph.georgia.gov/kathleen-too...

I was a guest on the @insidehighered.com jobs podcast. I talked about the job market, and getting rejected, and we talked so much it ended up as a two-part podcast. So, check it out! E65: How to Promote Yourself and Keep Going in Your Job Search higheredjobs.transistor.fm/episodes/e65...

We are looking for a new Director at ASU’s School of Social & Family Dynamics! This is a great position for an experienced full prof interested in leading a great group of folks. #sociology #demography #familyscience www.agbsearch.com/searches/dir...

Really excited to share that I recorded a podcast! #ASAJournals interviewed me about my recent article "Attitudes and Behavior Feedback Loops for Young Women's Premarital Sex" in #SociusJournal. Check it out! sagesociology.libsyn.com/socius-attit...

This is the same optional-but-financially-incentivized model that brought us abstinence-only education. Because, when policymakers squeeze school budgets tight enough, they can get schools to accept almost anything on the promise of a dime.

In a follow back mood. #science #sociology #highered #culture #theory #genderandsexuality #publichealth #writing #nonfiction #nola #tulane and #cats, of course.

After Election Day, @PlanCPills told me the site, which helps connect ppl to abortion pills by mail, received 82k visits compared to ~400 daily: "We fully anticipate [Project 2025] will be implemented & we advise people to be prepared.”

Going to #ASA2024 #ASA24? I'm presenting Monday @ 4pm in an ASA #Family session titled "Queer Families" on the link between sexual satisfaction and fertility desires during #COVID19 with the National Couples' Health And Time study data! Come check it out or ask me how to use the data!

The fertility rate for teens in Texas rose for the first time in 15 years in 2022, a shift driven by disproportionately high rates among Hispanic teens in the year after a six-week state abortion ban took effect. www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

Congratulations to my friend and colleague on this amazing achievement!!!