Good to see growing support for abduction or 'inference to the best explanation', recently by Spirling and Stewart in @thejop.bsky.social. This is... www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details: LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au... (This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)

Say you’ve got very good causal IDENTIFICATION. Can you say you have causality, can make a causal general claim, and can say what “THE causal effect” is? NO We explain why in new article at Journal of Causal Inference. www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

Goal-striving stress - a largely ignored stressor of blocked opportunity & dashed aspirations - is implicated in chronic pain among low income white adults, regardless of other health & economic factors myumi.ch/kPjQn @reeddeangelis.bsky.social‬ @acdennis.bsky.social ‪@umisr.bsky.social‬

This critical, appreciative review of Auckland's transforming downtown and transportation by @nerd4cities.bsky.social is worth the watch because he translates it well for Americans. (ritual and jokey disclaimer: as a Wellingtonian kills me to praise Auckland) www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqer...

🚨NEW STUDY🚨 Among Black and White adults, we find that low-SES Whites report the most bodily pain and goal-striving stress (i.e., thwarted aspirations), and are the only ones to report positive links btwn GSS and pain. We unpack research, policy, and clinical implications. tinyurl.com/yu6ev85u

Last hired first fired is still true. In science and elsewhere. www.science.org/content/arti... #DEI #science #womenandminoritiesinscience #disabilityrights #NationalScienceFoundation

Do you know more about religion than the average American? A typical American correctly answers 7 out of 15 questions on this quiz. Let us know if you score higher! www.pewresearch.org/quiz/u-s-rel...

Nearly half of U.S. adults say they believe that parts of nature – such as mountains, rivers or trees – can have their own spirits or spiritual energies.

In our June issue @reeddeangelis.bsky.social explores the effects of racial capitalism on Black–White health inequities during the 2008 financial crisis Full article: bit.ly/44u5Fpm |Brief report: bit.ly/4k5Wf85 @um-src.bsky.social @duke-university.bsky.social @asamedsoc.bsky.social #NewPublication‬

An NIH staffer reacts to today's ruling: "I'm looking forward to the day that we are so slammed with work trying to reinstate everything that we had to terminate illegally — I'll work 24/7 to make that happen if I can."

🦣 A cool new study argues that preserved natural history museum collections could be tapped as a resource for mapping the pollutants of our past. Shane DuBay & ISR's @pdakean.bsky.social and Brian Weeks et al in PNAS: insideclimatenews.org/news/1306202... @umisr.bsky.social @um-src.bsky.social

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social @um-src.bsky.social affiliates Grace Noppert Jessica Faul Kate Duchowny in The Lancet Regional Health

This is a great article made better by inclusion of a scholar named Elizabeth Wrigley-Field.

Breaking news: Staff at the National Institutes of Health have issued a declaration calling on their director to depoliticize the agency and reverse spending cuts.

This. There are some serious headwinds on life expectancy in the U.S.

🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday 📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj

It's the one year book-iversary of Holding It Together, and I think its message is more urgent than ever. Because the book is about how the US came to rely on women as its safety net. But that story is fundamentally a story of what happens when billionaires don't want to pay their fair share. 1/

It’s not too late to apply for a Postdoc position with Team CID. Join us ✨this fall✨ to work with restricted and hard-to-access data related to income and social inequality topics. Applications due June 15! myumi.ch/155qg #nowhiring #academicsky

A new study w/ @acdennis.bsky.social et al. finds that Black adults w/ darker self-rated skin tones report diminished feelings of mattering and show signs of faster biological aging, regardless of interviewer-rated skin tone and various other social-economic factors. tinyurl.com/597nke95

A new study w/ @acdennis.bsky.social et al. finds that Black adults w/ darker self-rated skin tones report diminished feelings of mattering and show signs of faster biological aging, regardless of interviewer-rated skin tone and various other social-economic factors. tinyurl.com/597nke95

Researchers @reeddeangelis.bsky.social‬, @rigbydavid.bsky.social‬, @mhicken.bsky.social‬ et al examined links btwn residential segregation & epigenetic aging among older Black & White Americans. Segregation only partially explains faster aging in Black residents myumi.ch/E879x

My new article will be out in the next issue of Journal of Health and Social Behavior. I'll be sure to post it here when it's out. In the meantime, here's a short thread and open-access link to a policy brief (tinyurl.com/yc7zxj98) 🧵 (1/8)

Should the government 🏛️ fight economic inequality? You probably have a strong take. But why do you believe that? 📌 Spoilers from our new Social Science Research paper with Giacomo Melli: it depends jointly on where you think you stand in society🪜 and how unequal your surroundings actually are!

My new article will be out in the next issue of Journal of Health and Social Behavior. I'll be sure to post it here when it's out. In the meantime, here's a short thread and open-access link to a policy brief (tinyurl.com/yc7zxj98) 🧵 (1/8)

Didn’t see that one coming. Good for SCOTUS. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

I made a YouTube short about a ruelle verte (green alley) in Montreal I came across today: youtube.com/shorts/MT4Gs...

🚨 New article out in Social Science & Medicine! Irma Elo and I take a deeper look at trends in life expectancy for foreign-born and native-born populations in the United States before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

NIH funding opportunities are beginning to show up on grantsgov simpler.grants.gov/search?agenc...

BREAKING: The Supreme Court ruled courts must assess the full context of a police encounter when determining what constitutes excessive force — not just the moments right before the lethal force. Over 1,300 people were killed by police last year. This ruling will help hold the police accountable.

With so many studies of health issues, the findings seem to boil down to “be wealthy”. But the press releases seem to just focus on things associated with being wealthy that get headlines.

We're so excited to share the first projects in a new program supporting wealth inequality research by CID faculty, including work by @davonnorris.bsky.social, @robertmanduca.bsky.social, Noura Insolera, @jeremylevine.bsky.social, & @wcbyrdphd.bsky.social. 🥳 inequality.umich.edu/five-stone-f...

During a tough week, I find it helpful to note that 77% of the country opposes cuts to medical research, 70% oppose the government dictating how private universities operate, and 61% oppose cuts to environmental regulations for oil and gas. Our work is in the majority. #EHWorks

Four scientific societies file amicus brief in APHA vs NIH (ACLU and others) lawsuit. These are some of the organizations involved in the MOSAIC program. asm.org/press-releas...

"The Senate on Thursday approved an effort to overturn an EPA rule tied to the Clean Air Act and designed to limit seven of the most hazardous air pollutants that are emitted by heavy industry."

If you are a social scientist or trainee, please sign and share this open letter calling on the Trump admin to reinstate global health funding and programs. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

NEW: My latest story is about a surprising turn of events. A handful of scientists had NIH grants terminated by the Trump administration earlier this year — and now those grants are getting *reinstated*. Yes, you read that right. www.chronicle.com/article/thes...

NIH DOGE'd..... Scientists fear Trump administration cuts to NIH could impact the health of Americans for generations 60 Minutes @cbsnews.com w/transcript www.cbsnews.com/news/nih-lay...

Sending lots of support to the NSF and NIH program officers who have been serving the science community in so many ways. Thank you 🙏

Fantastic thread on our paper published in @pnas.org! Thanks to @drseanmullen.bsky.social for the amazing explainer! CC: @nelsonroque.bsky.social

And, to be clear, this is the faculty of these universities leading this initiative, not their administrators #AcademicSky

Ok so yeah, this has quickly become the #1 misunderstanding about the canceled grants the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever they aren’t going into universities’ endowments they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research

The latest pub. from Rourke O'Brien, @schechtlm.bsky.social, our own @robertmanduca.bsky.social, & Atheendar Venkataramani suggests that local government spending may reduce mortality, esp. for people with lower incomes. Read more in SSM – Population Health: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Kudos to Harvard for standing up to the federal government. More of this, please.

"The growing number of SUVs reduced the vehicle capacity of freeway lanes in Minnesota’s Twin Cities by 9.5% between 1995 and 2019" (It's not just about the vehicles themselves taking more space--because they need more time to stop and obscure views, they also lead cars to space more widely)

Our ISR starter pack is nearing its full capacity! Follow all & let us know if you need to be added! #PAA2025 go.bsky.app/JcQbemD

Math and computer science researchers have long known that some questions are fundamentally unanswerable. Now physicists are exploring how physical systems put hard limits on what we can predict.

🚨🔔 New Pub 🚨🔔 I’m thrilled that “What Are We Modeling? An Evaluation of Depressive Symptom Trajectory Models from Adolescence to Early Midlife in the Add Health Cohort” is now out in the world! Link to free download: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...