I repeat that whenever you see a man toss a woman around in front of witnesses and cameras, you can bet he’s had practice in private.

A new Guttmacher analysis of data from 132 countries shows that higher gender inequality is linked to higher unintended pregnancy rates: gu.tt/46xtSuK

UNC sociologist Barbara Entwisle told me there’s no guarantee the Independent Census Scientific Advisory Committee's recommendations will reach the Census Bureau: “So this is a bit of a risk. But turn it around. If we don't do this, then what? Then there is no feedback, no advice that’s out there.”

So it’s all just ok now? Is it? Brushed aside with an apology? And Lawrence Jones? His views are only slightly less noxious.

This is fabulous

A man in Washington, DC, plays the Imperial March from Star Wars while following patrolling soldiers. One of the soldiers threatens to call the police.

This demographer parent’s heart is full today. For a human geography assignment, my son chose to prepare a global map of…under-five mortality.

The Heritage Foundation specifically named contraception as a "culprit" for low birth rates. The pronatalist movement is using bad demography to cast low birth rates as inherently problematic and thus justify pronatalist efforts, like reducing access to contraception. 1/

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"The cost of building a company on theft should be the company itself. It should be everything you worked for because really, you didn’t work for it: You stole it." defector.com/if-the-thiev...

Thank you FCPS and Michelle Reid. www.ffxnow.com/2025/09/10/f...

Misinformation isn't random - it's strategic. 🧵 In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians. We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties. with @julianachueri.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1940...

Nepali army orders people in Kathmandu to stay home amid mass unrest gripping capital.

JOB ALERT FOR #SOCIOLOGIST: Come work with me. We have FOUR Assistant Professor positions in the Sociology Department at the University of Calgary. careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1672106...

Alarm bells should be ringing!

This new study shows: in Germany, it has become much harder for children to earn more than their parents, now about as hard as in the US: "parental income has become much more important for educational outcomes of children"

He is a rapist and fully espouses the subjugation of women. This comment is wholly unsurprising. Just disappointing.

Now they’re equal! But to even it out, should be larger for the next several decades.

All the estates of dead authors should seek payment too. Fuck these people

Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.

UC Davis Sociology will be hiring an assistant professor specializing in gender. If that's your area, apply here: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07293

🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time. When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”

This headline says so much. You go, sandwich man!

@nbcnews.com Your coverage of the MN mass shooting press conference has the sign language interpreter cut out of the frame. Please do better and keep them visible for your viewers! Same goes for other outlets.

"Lawlessness cannot come from the government," Judge Faruqui added. "The eyes of the world are on this city right now." www.npr.org/2025/08/26/g...

What are the chances my merge code will run correctly on the first try today?

Soon to open offer for a *funded* PhD to study child poverty dynamics at @demosocupf.bsky.social @upf.edu If you have an interest in quantitative methods, social policy and child poverty this may be for you! Feel free to reach out for enquiries

A federal judge in Washington, D.C. blocked the FTC's probe into Media Matters on Friday, saying the agency's investigative demands were a “straightforward First Amendment violation" for retaliation against protected speech. My latest for @washingtonpost.com: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

This is one way that this administration is manufacturing an immigration crisis!

Speaking as a demographer: No, no, no, no, no, HELL NO! As someone who has read the U.S. constitution: No, no, no, no, no, HELL NO! www.npr.org/2025/08/07/n...

1. This week, the FBI released its comprehensive crime report for 2024, which revealed that both VIOLENT CRIME and PROPERTY CRIME reached their LOWEST LEVELS SINCE THE 1960s This a massive story. But you might not have heard about it, even if you follow the news closely. Here's why.

This is being misreported, and I think it's important to correctly frame it, so that folks don't sound clownish when they're advocating for trans service members. The Air Force is denying *early retirement* to trans service members who have served 15-18 years and are being forced out. (thread)

USCIS declared that the children of immigrants who are “unlawfully present” will “no longer be US citizens at birth.” They'll inherit their parents' status, rendering them detainable & deportable ...this new underclass of noncitizen babies are apparently subject to arrest from the moment of birth."

A rare moment of good news: “The pain, fear and uncertainty she and her family endured over the past five days should never have happened,” Assembly member Paulin wrote. “But tonight we celebrate her freedom and the strength of a community that refused to stay silent.”

This is egregious

Punishing trade agenda in the private sector, chaos, destruction, contraction, and uncertainty in the public sector. It hurts!

I put forth to you that an individual with pre-existing health conditions shouldn’t die of starvation either.

No one wins in a trade war and Trump started these ones.

The bones of small children may have forever remained encased in a defunct septic tank in western Ireland, if not for the work of a persistent local historian. Today, scientists are exhuming the site, which once housed unmarried pregnant women who were often separated from their children.

Some people are putting plans for children on hold or stepping up their contraception choices, citing fears of restricted reproductive health care access.

Soliciting paper submissions for a special issue in Spatial Demography (Springer Nature) on #climate and #health! More info here: link.springer.com/collections/.... 🛟📈📉🧪 #geosky #AcademicSky #gis #spatial #population #popsky #demography #healthequity #climatechange #sustainability #weather #medsky

Yes, though when it comes to US business law, the tail usually wags the dog.

My international colleagues have made it clear that most international researchers will not be coming to the U.S. any time soon. Grateful that @psychscience.bsky.social is in Barcelona in 2026.

The AI companies are so profoundly hostile to creators, so ideologically committed to theft, that they were unwilling to pay for one (1) copy of the works they were stealing to train their AI models.

3 guesses.

I wonder if Susan Collins is concerned.

Social engineering through genetic engineering. It’s eugenics.

ICYMI: The drug company behind a revolutionary new anti-HIV jab has signed a deal to supply the costly injection at a knock-down price, to as many as two million people in poorer countries www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt... @telglobalhealth.bsky.social

Bring me my angry wig!

Important TB modeling work in the wake of USAID defunding. Upshot? Avoidable disease and death. “Our modelling suggested that termination of USAID funding might lead to 1·4 million (95% uncertainty interval 1·1–1·7) excess tuberculosis episodes and 537 700 (451 900–662 300) excess deaths by 2035.”