Perfect. Thank you, Governor Hochul.

It's pretty gracious of him to show up at all, given that his side lost.

This was a fun experiment. I used 3 athletes from GCOD to ask Claude the Strava questions. I had Claude spin up 3 independent agents each given the simple prompt of here’s the data and here’s the question. lightboxresearch.com/2026/06/05/w...

Berkeley Workshop in Formal Demography starts in about an hour. Conundrum: coffee, nap, or continue to work on the lecture?

No one could have foreseen this.

If your bike was under 6.8kg, rather than disqualification an appropriate penalty would be to raise your bike's minimum mass to, say, 6.9kg for the rest of the race.

Our updated @georgetownccf.bsky.social tracker finds that 16 months into President Trump’s 2nd term, Medicaid is covering 2 million fewer children. This is very bad news b/c the child uninsured rate is likely going up as a result. And this is before HR 1 Medicaid cuts kick in.

The # of kids enrolled in Medicaid is declining much more quickly than during Trump’s 1st term when the child uninsured rate rose For families facing cost pressures, even 1 month of a child going uninsured exposes them to dangerous choices My new blog explains: ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/05/28/t...

After the Dobbs decision, patients experiencing miscarriages in states with abortion bans have fewer choices in the type of care they get, and they are receiving lower-quality care as well. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Wow. Board member at American Prospect gets them to ditch the use of programmatic ads by funding the experiment himself. "I think it’s a good long-term play for the Prospect to take these off and to really focus on reader revenue, and what if I just took the risk away?" www.cjr.org/analysis/dep...

I'm putting together my ballot choices for next week's election. It's always tough. On the one hand, I want people who think like I do. On the other, I want people who are smart, wise, and patient, i.e., not like me at all.

Reviewers in two groups were given identical resumes for Emily Clarke and James Clarke and told they had used AI. Emily's was 2x as likely to raise doubts about competence. "She can't even write a CV herself." But James "just needed a bit of help." fortune.com/2026/05/10/i...

From 2024:

I was skeptical, but here's the Armed Forces own paper about it. taskandpurpose.com/news/arlingt...

No one could have foreseen.

I'm not fond of the term "artificial intelligence," at least to describe what we're seeing now. Right now, a better descriptor might be "simulated intelligence."

The same traits that shape women’s desirability in dating markets—race, education, body type, parenthood—do surprisingly little to predict inappropriate contact from men. The main dividing line is age. A reminder that this behavior is less about attraction than about dominance and opportunity.

Mindel Sheps b #OTD 1913 (d 13 Jan 1973) ASA Fellow 1970. Physician, political healthcare activist, biostatistics professor, advisor to WHO, she made substantial contributions to mathematical demography but is best known for her highly influential NEJM 1958 paper on the asymmetry of relative risk.

According to this author, I did almost everything wrong. I think Jeopardy! is kinda like bike racing: everyone is pretty well-matched so your results depend an awful lot on who shows up at the start line that particular day. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Ugh. Conservative Americans experienced worsening health than liberals during the 2010s. Two possible mechanisms: the less healthy become conservative; but also conservatives are less trustful of medical professionals. Understanding disparities can help everyone. rdcu.be/fiNcS

How @camunicampop.bsky.social researchers are turning static snapshots of Victorian Britain into dynamic life histories. The team are linking over 200 million census records, revealing how people moved, worked and lived in ways never before possible. 🔎 Read on 👉 www.hist.cam.ac.uk/news/tracing...

A must-read from UCLA law prof Dave Marcus, who was actually in the room when it happened. www.dorfonlaw.org/2026/05/mean...

🎉Congratulations to PAA Poster Award Winners! 🎊 Megan Evans and Noli Brazil just won the PAA Poster Award for their research on "Neighborhood Knowledge in the Digital Age: Racial Patterns in AI Housing Recommendations". #PAA2026 @popassocamerica.bsky.social

So the Feds did more to investigate VA workers who went to Alex Pretti memorial than those who killed him.

Heading to PAA? Here’s what to do with your free time in St. Louis 👇 Check it out: https://psc.isr.umich.edu/news/going-to-paa-2026-heres-5-things-to-do-in-st-louis/

Suzanne Bell, @alisongemmill.bsky.social et al.

I just wished someone who's about to travel, "have a good flight!" and then I realized that nowadays that means "I hope it'll be routine, on-time, uneventful, and your bags arrive at the same time you do."

One of the most amusingly petty things Justice Alito does is to put deadlines on administrative stays *only* when he is deeply *unsympathetic* to the applicants. He did it in the 2023 mife case and the 2024 SB4 immigration case; and he did it today. In all other cases, his stays are indefinite:

People complain about rising prices but he's decreased the price by 2000%.

Looks like the Census Bureau is using the ACS questionnaire but subject to a time limit to keep in mind respondent burden and ensure postal operations are not impeded.

Must watch video www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/o...

This SCOTUS rulings so far: • Universities using race criteria to counter historical racism in admissions is unconstitutional, BUT 1/3

“Applications from the United States to Sciences Po’s bachelor’s program surged 52% this academic year, while the number of Sciences Po students applying to study for a year in the United States has plunged by 50%. For the first time ever, America is not the first choice for its undergraduates”

“Estimates of Under-Five Mortality From a Mobile Phone Survey”: This study by Julio Romero-Prieto et al. represents “one of the first attempts to collect survival data via mobile phones and to randomize different survey instruments.” @lshtm.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

Zambia is 98% Christian. Christians will die from Trump's extortion. Notice how MAGA is wholly silent? They never cared about Christians. They never cared about life. They never cared about humanity. They only care about money & power. That's what white supremacist Christian nationalists do. 2/2

8647 is a prime number.

Oh damn. There's gonna be a lot of us in trouble.

Yesterday, #SCOTUS summarily reversed the three-judge district court in the Texas redistricting case "for the reasons set forth" back when it granted emergency relief last December. Besides its novelty, the ruling also puts the lie to the effort to describe grants of emergency relief as "interim":

Sigh. It was nice while it lasted.

Not just red states, and not just faculty.

fuuuuuuck

Holy crap, guys. His approval rating is down 300%.

In general, demographic renewal models are one-sex (almost always female). TFRs, NRRs, mean ages of child-bearing, and intrinsic r's differ between males and females. (There's a related problem with intrinsic growth rates for any subpopulation needs to combine into a whole).

It’s amazing how many bullies become deeply principled pacifists the first time they get punched back.

From the Editorial Board of the Washington Post.

Join us tomorrow (Wednesday, April 22nd) at 12pm PT for our Brown Bag talk, featuring UC Berkeley PhD student, Paige Park, who will be presenting her project, “Deep Learning Approaches to Demographic Forecasting.” Attend in-person (310 Social Sciences Building) or via Zoom.

Lori Chavez-DeRemer out at Labor. In addition to Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem, that's three members of the Cabinet who're out. Hmmm. Three women out, no men.