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About to kick off our briefing on US Birth Rate Trends: Patterns, Drivers, and Implications for American Families - come watch the livestream on our YouTube channel! www.youtube.com/populationas...

Beyond the Headlines: What’s Really Happening with Global Fertility www.prb.org/resources/ba... @prbdata.bsky.social

Le travail domestique compté dans le temps de travail global : ça, c’est grâce au féminisme.

So next time I pick up my $10 Rx from the pharmacy, the pharmacist is going to give me $70?

I had the pleasure to preview this work at @popassocamerica.bsky.social earlier this year. So glad to see it published!

It’s out! Our commentary on the future of global data on gender and sexual diversity. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos. I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.

A paper I reviewed and thoroughly enjoyed got a decision of “minor revision”. Congratulations to the authors, whomever they may be! I look forward to seeing the final in print soon.

Exactly

A schoolgirl who was abducted with 24 others from a dormitory in northwestern Nigeria has escaped and is safe, as hunters joined security forces in the search for the missing students. n.pr/3JWLn0w

The HPV vaccine has been a miracle. We need to go full steam ahead—not backtrack—with rollout.

Being at ICFP last week was a roller coaster of emotions--simultaneously heartwarming and heartbreaking. I had the chance to present new research with Julia Fleuret on informed choice for contraceptive use among women with disabilities. Take a look here. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

While at ICFP last week, I presented new work with @jeffedm.bsky.social on links between contraceptive use and decision-making and better mental health outcomes in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Mozambique. Take a look! www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Interesting analysis! PS. This type of work will not be possible 5 years from now unless we save the DHS now.

Spread the word. This may be even more important this year than usual.

There are many reasons to love local reporting and news service. This headline is but one. www.ffxnow.com/2025/11/04/m...

Are you at ICFP 2025? Join me today as I present on Women with Disabilities, Contraceptive Use, and Informed Choice in Nine Countries at a session on SRHR for persons with disabilities at 10:20!

Wait until my son learns his cousins are, in fact, MY cousins’ kids. I’ll lose his vote for sure.

An update. This should have been a part of the plan from the get-go. www.arlnow.com/2025/10/27/m...

Some pluses and minuses to this approach. Hopeful!

"The Wish programme can empower women and give them a rare chance to make a decision about their body and life, he says. “That’s not something exotic. It’s not a luxury. It’s a necessity … if they make this cut, they are cutting a necessity.”" www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

I admit it. It’s possible, maybe, that I got a little too excited about introducing reference management software to my 10th grader today…

A man fleeing ICE agents ran out onto a busy highway and was struck and killed in Virginia, authorities say.

Don’t let this go unnoticed.

You know, America, this could be done with a few tweaks to tax law too. Less disruptively.

Aw shit! So disappointed to learn of this.

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This administration’s willful and wholesale destruction of our data infrastructure is astounding.

Spread this call far and wide!

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

MMWR is so important! I hope all of these RIFs are successfully challenged in court.

“Authoritarianism is as American as slavery, as internment camps, as police brutality, as voter suppression. To fight it, white people have to stop pretending government oppression arrived overnight and start dismantling the systems that have been incubating it all along.”

We are building a new pop center at UofT and will hold our first mini-conference on Nov 6 - come join us!! Exhibit 1: amazing speaker line-up - featuring friends around the world to discuss why demography/pop center matters! 🤓 Exhibit 2: the iconic castle where this conference will take place 🏰 ✨

While the recent interim funding by the Gates Foundation for the DHS Program buys time for data collection of selected surveys and data availability, many countries don't benefit and the future of new surveys remains uncertain. Read the updated version of our preprint that got 1,000+ views now here:

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

An irony of GOP/MAGA's attacks on university sector is that, structurally, it's as close to a "free market" as you'll find in US. There are 1000s of universities, mostly operating independently. Unlike tech sector (or coal, oil/gas, eyeglasses, etc), market concentration is incredibly low. 1/4

"I had to work 10 times harder than the average man just to get the same level of recognition," Jane Goodall told us in 2020. "But once I had made a name for myself, I let the data speak for me."

The basic infrastructures that allow women to be participants in public life—birth control & abortion access, no fault divorce, childcare access & affordability, civil rights law in employment and public accommodations, the minimal efforts to mitigate sexual and domestic violence—are all crumbling.

Today (and every day) is a great day to provide support for those fighting back.

The NSFGRP is a wonderful program

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/