The @popassocamerica.bsky.social deadline is coming up on Sunday 📆 I welcome submissions to Session 708: Older Workers, Longer Working Lives, and Health. I look forward to reading your work in this area!

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 2026! ➡️ Applications are due December 15, 2025 ⬅️ Learn More: demog.pop.upenn.edu/prospective-...

This is some of the very best writing on grief I've ever read (and re-read and re-read)

Postdoctoral Teaching and Research Fellow Early Childhood Education Institute (ECEI), University of Oklahoma #econ_ra apply.interfolio.com/171415

Communications Coordinator position working with @nhats-nsoc.bsky.social and @micda-umisr.bsky.social at @um-src.bsky.social @umisr.bsky.social More info here: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

Ooooh I wasn’t sad, I just needed the heatwave to end so I could open the windows

A recent study shows even the wealthiest Americans have higher mortality than the poorest Europeans. Researcher Atheendar Venkataramani weighs in, in an article for @nbcnews.com: READ MORE:

1/5 - The US workforce is aging, and older service sector workers already face tough conditions. Does new workplace tech help or hurt them? Our new paper explores the impact! @dschneider.bsky.social‬ ‪@kristenharknett.bsky.social‬ @leahrabrams.bsky.social‬ shift.hks.harvard.edu/new-technolo...

do you have any idea how furious you have to make career civil servants to get them to put their names to a letter

Boston is the first major Northeastern city to launch a pilot program offering free sunscreen dispensers in public parks. 💛

As the U.S. slashes spending on science and restricts immigration, China and Europe are offering researchers money and stability.

💡New productivity hack! 💡 Travel to Finland where no one from the U.S. emails you before about 4pm local time, at which point you still have ~6 hours until sunset.

All NIH and NSF grants for my entire team--and for all of Harvard, I guess?--have been terminated. As provocative as that sounds, the practical effect is probably not much. Everything was already frozen. 🤷‍♂️ On the upside, it makes tracking terminated grants easier. No more guesswork at Harvard!

Great talk by Alessandro Feraldi showing how gender and educational gaps in Healthy Working Life Expectancy change depending on the operationalization of health and work — important for interpreting existing evidence and designing future research in this area #REVES2025

We’re kicking of day 2 at #REVES2025 with a session on stagnation in life expectancy @reves-network.bsky.social @octaviobramajo.bsky.social @astokespop.bsky.social

I’m excited to be in Finland for the first time to be attending REVES for the first time! REVES = Réseau Espérance de Vie en Santé = Network on Health Expectancy @reves-network.bsky.social #REVES2025

Today it starts! First REVES Conference in Finland (REVES=international network on healthy life expectancy and more). We are expecting around 80 researchers from 17 countries to join the 3-day conference. Welcome, enjoy the ride! @reves-network.bsky.social #REVES2025

Check out these two exciting opportunities to work with @kerenladin.bsky.social in the REACH lab (Research on Ethics, Aging, and Community Health) at Tufts 1. Senior Research Coordinator - jobs.tufts.edu/jobs/21562?l... 2. Postdoctoral Fellow - details below

Sunsets this year will remain after 7:30PM until August. Have a nice day.

Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.

"Closing tabs" one of my main tasks completed for the day

Just a reminder that there is no existing substitute for NIH in terms of biomedical research funding--anywhere in the world. These losses will be felt worldwide. And given spending as of the end of March, we're looking at an effective 60% cut to NIH funding.

So some good news: recruitment has resumed for postbac and postdoc programs at NIH www.training.nih.gov/research-tra...

This country will not recover for a long time from what has happened to our public health and scientific infrastructure over the last few weeks. Decades of experience has been gutted.

Trump has cut the NIH budget by more than half in defiance of Congressionally mandated appropriations for the agency. No comparison historically, not even the Great Recession. This is clearly not legal and Congress needs to address it.

It’s a horrible day to be a Michigan Wolverine www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/e...

"A terrified young student, snatched off the street by a masked police force taken thousands of miles across the country without anyone knowing. It is as flatly authoritarian as anything we have ever seen in this country," says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk's detention.

SEIU MA State Council Denounces Detention of Tufts Graduate Student & SEIU 509 member Rumeysa Ozturk. Read more here: www.seiu509.org/seiu-massachusetts-state-council-denounces-detention-of-tufts-graduate-student-and-seiu-509-member-rumeysa-ozturk/

🎉🎉🎉Congratulations!🏆IUSSP Early Career Award 2025 Europe for Diego Alburez-Gutierrez @demography.bsky.social The award recognizes and honors outstanding contributions to the development of our discipline and the wider field of population studies. @iussp.bsky.social www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

I was just present as a valued colleague received an email that her NIH grant was terminated. I cannot fully convey the agony of the senseless destruction of the U.S. research infrastructure. It accomplishes NOTHING positive. It is a malicious attack on scientists who support the public’s health.

Roses are red Violets are blue

Please share this great opportunity for early-career researchers from our colleagues at the National Research Center on Hispanic Children & Families! Applications are due by 4/18/25. More info here on eligibilty and how to apply: www.hispanicresearchcenter.org/emerging-sch...

New paper alert 🚨 in The Gerontologist! This was a paper with @jeffstokes.bsky.social where I got to extend my line of research in some interesting ways - by studying married dyads and focusing on loneliness doi.org/10.1093/gero...

The People's Union USA, a grassroots group, is calling on Americans to join a national boycott by not shopping for 24 hours on Friday.

My colleague and I wrote a local op-ed about why Michigan lawmakers should fight cuts to Medicaid: www.detroitnews.com/story/opinio...

Since sharing, I've received stunning emails accounting tragic losses from academics who are getting up each day to go to work. Grief is so deeply personal and so profoundly universal. May we all love so well that we risk losses that shatter our worlds. And then, may we find ways to keep living.

Cancer, Grief, and Academic Life: A new assistant professor shines a light on living and working amid personal loss. www.chronicle.com/article/canc...

This is the best thing I've read this morning. Thanks, @leahrabrams.bsky.social for this really great essay. #academicsky

The #PAA2025 preliminary program is online: submissions.mirasmart.com/PAA2025/Itin... Make sure you are registered before rates increase in March: www.populationassociation.org/paa2025/reg-...

I recently asked ChatGPT for book recommendations and got kind of specific about what I was looking for... It made up books that don't exist 🤦

7AM in Boston.

A truly beautiful, heart-wrenching essay, and a challenge to how we treat those facing grief, by the wonderful @leahrabrams.bsky.social. www.chronicle.com/article/canc...

Out today in The Chronicle of Higher Education, my official coming-out as bereaved. www.chronicle.com/article/canc...

IAPHS is accepting award nominations for 7 different awards until March 21. Learn more: iaphs.org/awards/

1/ How should public health think about new GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic? Do pharmaceutical solutions undermine public health prevention efforts? In @milbankfund.bsky.social, Neil Mehta & I consider what new anti-obesity drugs might mean for population health. 🔗 www.milbank.org/quarterly/op...

MMWR returns www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index20...

There's widespread confusion and fear among scientists and doctors on the sprawling National Institutes of Health campus and at institutions dependent on the agency's funding.