LSE and @bspsuk.bsky.social are hosting a workshop on "Being an academic in population studies" on 3 November! It'll be a nice mix of methods training and career advice with great talks by @ericbschneider.bsky.social, Wendy Sigle, José Manuel Aburto, and others! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/being-an-a...

OK, I've decided to switch from acetaminophen to paracetamol.

Good morning to everyone who wasn't raptured!

Formal demographers encouraged to apply. facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

I'm mostly retired now so I'm in charge of cleaning. Magali isn't completely happy with my cleanliness standard so she hired housekeepers to do some things where I'm (evidently) deficient. They came yesterday. I agree I haven't been doing this.

One more week left to apply for a 3-year postdoc in Demography (deadline: Sept 30, 12:00 midday UK time). Join me at the Sociology Department in Oxford to study global fertility change as part of the DIVREP project!👇

A magnitude 4.6 earthquake rattled Berkeley early Monday morning, at least the second quake in the Southside neighborhood in recent weeks.

The new Bayesian Social Sciences section of @isba-bayesian.bsky.social has just been created: bss-isba.github.io. The committee is myself as chair, @robinryder.bsky.social, chair elect from 2027, @nialfriel.bsky.social, program chair, @monjalexander.bsky.social, Treasurer, EJWagenmakers, Secretary.

"Civility of discourse" is ideal but there's often power asymmetry in who gets to decide what's civil; and if people don't use evidence to make decisions, presenting evidence won't get them to change their minds.

Sometimes paying in advance makes sense both in long term economics and long term health.

The killing of an Arizona evangelical by a Utah Mormon means it's time to crack down on the New York Jews who control our media. by J.D. Vance

Grok is being sent to the reeducation camp

That said, I wouldn't be surprised if there's active sexist intent behind return-to-office policies. As I show in Holding It Together, the US has a long history of using women's paid labor as a stopgap--toggling it up or down based on the economy's needs. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130...

🚨It's that exciting time of year!🚨 Our team has got TWO open DPhil (PhD) positions in #datascience + #health here at @oxforddemsci.bsky.social for 2026🎉! See for details: 1️⃣ 👉 crahal.com/HDS_2026.html 2️⃣ 👉 crahal.com/pophealth_2026.html Please share and help us to find our future teammates ❤️!

"I'm not a racist, I just do things that make racists think I am."

Went to look up CDC stats on teen mental health for my kids and society class, and found this notice, instead. It would be ironic if it wasn't just so sad.

Come and check out our next Formal Demography Working Group meeting with @phbocquier.bsky.social ! Sign up on our website to receive the link. If you have an ideia/paper/ work in progress you would like to present please feel free to reach out to us! formaldemography.github.io/working_group/

Health demographers 📣 Calling for submissions to our w. @timriffe1.bsky.social Healthy Life Expectancy methodology collection on @genus.bsky.social! We're seeking innovative approaches to statistical modelling and empirical analysis of health inequalities 📈 📆 Submission deadline: 01/06/26 🔗 Link 👇

An amazing resource

Lectured about the immigration restriction and Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s today, so I'm going to repost this piece on the Great Replacement Theory that drove white supremacists back then and that still drives them today.

I wonder what the course descriptions are going to look like next semester at TAMU.

I also recommend this great piece in the @us.theconversation.com by @wrigleyfield.bsky.social @astokespop.bsky.social & colleagues walking through some of their great work to counter this myth of "overcounting" coming out of previous news cycle. theconversation.com/covid-19-dea...

Well, I guess TAMU wants their faculty and students a certain way. Good to know.

Don’t try to avoid jury duty. We need you now more than ever.

At a talk by a former USAID guy about this and my blood pressure is so high rn www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-spen...

This is an actual exchange from a VP who took an oath to defend the constitution and, as a citizen, is expected to abide by the law. May we one day have accountability for the grotesque lawlessness of this regime.

🔥 Peak conference moment at #BSPS2025 – An absolutely awe-inspiring Early Career Award plenary by Orsola Torrisi on family, reproductive health and global violence. This award is so well deserved for Orsola’s outstanding contributions to the field of demography. @bspsuk.bsky.social @mcgill.ca

📣 Job alert! 📣 2 fully funded PhD positions in sociology/demography in the ERC Starting Grant SeRO, which studies the impact of local violent crime on sexual and reproductive health in Mexico. Please share and apply! PhD post 1: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... PhD post 2: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you. Apply by: 10 Oct www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Florida's top public health official thinks public health is a private choice.

Another job alert! Join us @sociologyoxford.bsky.social as a postdoc on @ewabatyra.bsky.social's ERC project. A great three-year position to work in the area of fertility and reproductive behaviour. www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/event/postdo...

BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)

🚨Open Positions!🚨 Postdoc/Research Scientist Positions Migration | Population Dynamics | Computational Demography Application Deadline: Oct 10, 2025 See job description here: www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61... #Postdoc #Jobs @ezagheni.bsky.social @perrottadaniela.bsky.social @ugobas.bsky.social

Subway sandwiches: not the hero we deserve but the hero we need. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...

For those who don't know, police call is the military term for picking up garbage.

What a brilliant approach. If you're interested in this kind of thing, the workshop (and organizers) sound fantastic.

"...Despite the producer’s promise that this would be a 'respectful dialogue,' the premise of this show—and a growing number of shows like it—is that our rights are up for debate. That it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality is a mistake."

This is fine. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

For anyone that wants a look under the hood of the FPCA paper and model from me and @drphilipskiba.bsky.social the r script and mmp data are available here: drive.google.com/drive/folder... journals.humankinetics.com/view/journal...

MS is one of the states that refused Medicaid expansion. abcnews.go.com/GMA/Wellness...

Today's mail brought the first California anti-redistricting ad. In a small box at the bottom of the last page was "Ad paid for by [...] Charles T. Munger, Jr." He's the son of you know who.

Shorter Trump: "Slavery: good people on both sides."

They'll be using an exam developed by PragerU. No one could possibly see any problem with this. apnews.com/article/okla...

New paper with @drphilipskiba.bsky.social is now out: journals.humankinetics.com/view/journal... We took a new approach to modeling the power duration curve in cyclists using functional principal component analysis.

"The Trump Administration has made no pretense of following the law."

Q for those w experience in politics or diplomacy: Is there *any* other example of a US prez, on US soil, letting a foreign leader control the mic for a very long time, in his own language, w/o consecutive translation, before letting US prez say anything all? I don't know of any. Humiliating.

“Putin would eat you for lunch.” Today, exactly that happened.