We are honored to have played a part in data preparation for this excellent resource! pdp.unfpa.org#/ @ipums.bsky.social

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Approximately one out of every one hundred human beings lives in Iran!

The U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office. A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies. Read more: https://scim.ag/4boPkq8

📣𝗣𝗿𝗲-𝗘𝗣𝗖 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 🇮🇹 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝘆: 𝗣𝗼𝗽𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 📅June 3rd 🗺️Bologna https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events_6123/calendar_1921/climate_demography_population_dynamics_in_a_changing_climate_15101 Risto Emilio Zagheni European Association for Population Studies

The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted. What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards. Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.

unc has concluded it's investigation into the school of civic life and leadership and it's standing behind jed atkins as dean. beyond that, we didn't learn anything specific about what they found or what they're doing about it www.theassemblync.com/news/educati...

INBOX: data from the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migrations show that in the most recent three months, every single one of the 1,651 refugees accepted into the United States were of (white) South African origin. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

Applications are open for the 2026 Peking University–IIASA Postdoctoral Program (2-year fellowship). Open to postdocs of all nationalities interested in systems analysis and interdisciplinary research. 📅 Apply by 10 April 2026. @pku1898.bsky.social iiasa.ac.at/opportunitie...

USAID’s Emergency Food Security Program spent $4 billion in FY2022 to feed 114 million people in 55 countries. We just blew that much money in four days of this war.

#demography #fertility 📢We updated Short-Term Fertility Fluctuations #STFF data series! ✔️Monthly births for 47 countries and areas ✔️Seasonally & calendar adjusted monthly births & TFRs for 32 countries Interested in short-term fertility trends?😉👇 humanfertility.org/Data/STFF

"Fuqua classrooms are equipped with cameras and microphones. Under the new system, students would check in by scanning NFC tags at their seats. This would be used to ascertain the exact position of speakers. Transcripts are then fed to an in-house AI system that "objectively" grades participation."

If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.

👀 new storm events database site at @noaa.gov , and it's not terrible! Go check out the beta site and break it! www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/storm...

Heads up US demographers. Our main NIH study sections (SSPA/SSPB) are being disbanded. I don’t know what this means. public.csr.nih.gov/StudySection...

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed. Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

What would you think if a hypothetical biology professor at a hypothetical public university in a state starting with an N, who was involved in helping organize a Stand Up for Science Rally this week, and got a visit from their hypothetical Department chair and... 1/2

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UNC-Chapel Hill will “scrap” a policy that would have allowed administrators to secretly record professors, Chancellor Lee Roberts said Friday. The move comes less than three weeks after the controversial rules were enacted. www.theassemblync.com/news/educati...

4/4 @rdbressler.bsky.social, @annapappp.bsky.social, Luis Sarmiento, Jeffrey G. Shrader & Andrew J. Wilson find that #climate vulnerability isn’t just about where you live – it’s about what you do for work. #MortalitySpecialIssue Read the full article here: doi.org/10.3368/jhr....

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Another fun one!: Adrian Tchaikovsky Martha Wells Anne Leckie Ursula Vernon Jeff VanderMeer

Another photo from last night's aurora show.

Eradicating child stunting was a central feature of the modern health transition. A new paper reviews 923 child growth studies in 122 countries 1814-2016 to show massive decline in child stunting in the 20th century even in hi income countries & surprising heterogeneity in the regional trajectories.

"We show that high temperatures in the nine months before birth are negatively associated with male births in sub-Saharan Africa and India. The exposure timing demonstrates that ambient heat can increase prenatal mortality in early pregnancy, particularly among males" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🆕 Do disaster-relief cash transfers trap people in risky areas, or help them adapt? Today on VoxDev, Muhammad Bin Khalid (Harvard) & Martin Mattsson (NUS) discuss how disaster relief enabled climate adaptation in Pakistan: https://ow.ly/XAgU50YiFE7

🚨🔥 NEW: Increasing mortality from wildfire smoke is directly traceable to greenhouse gas emissions. In our new paper in @pnas.org , we show that every megaton of CO2 emitted costs the US more than 10 million dollars in health costs from wildfire smoke. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

📢 #episky #mortality #opendata 📈 #US #HMD series updated through 2024 🔓 Data is freely available at mortality.org Continuing divergence in #lifeexpectancy at birth between the US and other high-income countries in 2024.

New dashboard to visualise CRU-TS country averages (i.e. CRU-CY) for temperature, precipitation, humidity and drought area (using our scPDSI indicator). (It takes a little while to first load, but is quite responsive after that) climate.uea.co/CRU-Timeseri...

New Postdoctoral Research Associate positions at @Princeton's Office of Population Research!

See those two dots with arrows pointing to them? They're giant gas planets orbiting their star, located 307 lightyears away. These are directly imaged exoplanets.

Can cities in developing countries create enough good jobs for climate migrants? @gulyssea.bsky.social and @clementimbert.bsky.social show that, over a decade, drought-induced immigration decreases informality and increases the number of formal firms and jobs in Brazil. buff.ly/d3h4E6p

Steven Ruggles has a new analysis on cohort sizes and labor market competition, showing that when you account for immigration, labor market entrants, and retirements, the next few decades should be good for young workers. Paper not out yet, but here's a talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jw1...

I am hiring a postdoc @ Univ of Iowa. Potential project focuses include flood-risk infrastructure planning, disaster recovery processes and outcomes, insurance program externalities, or uncertainty in climate damage attribution. Please consider applying/sharing! jobs.uiowa.edu/postdoc/view...

And, if you prefer more details, then a graphic with a more complete range of indicators is also available, including Arctic sea ice, ocean heat content, tropospheric temperatures, cherry blossom dates and humidity over land. ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...

There is no evidence that ANY policy, or set of policies, can substantially increase birth rates (and then sustain them) in a low fertility setting. That's the conclusion from an excellent and thorough meta-analyses. 2/6 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

New paper: Can we sustain progress and convergence in an ageing world? We are past peak baby. Richer countries are shrinking and ageing. Knock-on effects in terms of global progress could be considerable. The most powerful tool to mitigate the effects is migration...

Today we’re launching Open Climate Risk, a fully open option for U.S. building-level climate risk data. It’s unique because it allows you to see not only risk scores, starting with wildfire, but also the complete underlying dataset, methods, and codebase. carbonplan.org/research/cli...

One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.

🚨🧑🏼‍🔬I’m hiring a postdoc to start in the fall! Come join our growing group here in Bloomington, Indiana. Please apply if you’re interested in climate impacts, extreme heat and health, climate change attribution and any related topic. indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/32142

Spoke with a PI whose postdoc is trapped abroad because of social media vetting. It appears the postdoc missed disclosing one account and it's unclear if they can come back… ever. This is the country we live in now.

Graduate Students’ NSF Fellowship Applications Are Being “Returned Without Review” 🧪 eos.org/research-and...

Place-based estimates of the impact of climate change on agricultural output depend on farmer adaptation choices at the extensive margin, from Robert Huang and Matthew E. Kahn www.nber.org/papers/w34771

Our paper “Inferring fine-grained migration patterns across the United States” is now out in @natcomms.nature.com! We released a new, highly granular migration dataset. 1/9

High young adult #mortality makes reaching old age less likely in the US than elsewhere. That's true in all states, but in WV and MS more than one-fourth of 20-year-olds are not expected live to retirement age. State analysis inspired by @financialtimes.com and @drjenndowd.bsky.social #demography

Myf fixed at 2025 levels.

Climate 'fingerprints' mark human activity from the top of the atmosphere to the bottom of the ocean theconversation.com/climate-fing...

Documenting trends in joint exposure to environmental stressors for 168 US cities finds persistent, yet narrowing, multi-exposure gaps, from Glenn Sheriff, Danae Hernandez-Cortes, TC Chakraborty, and Theresa DeConcini www.nber.org/papers/w34739

New paper in ERL led by Feng Wang evaluating gridded daily climate products. Interesting results include: 1) how day-shifting affects the records; 2) Pierce vs Livneh precip data (a surprise!); and 3) differences don’t really matter for tree growth modeling. doi.org/10.1088/1748...

Call for Applications! NextGenPop is an undergraduate program in population research, 2-week on-campus summer experience and virtual components hosted by the University of Minnesota, June 7 – 19, 2026. Deadline Feb. 5