Today, we celebrated the 80th birthday of the @umich.edu Survey Research Center @um-src.bsky.social. We have more than 1,000 people who do rigorous and impactful science in the public interest every day and for 80 years. Happy Birthday, SRC 🎈

"'If you can increase the diversity of the scientific workforce, there’s some evidence that you can increase the trust in scientists,' Druckman explained... [diversity] encompassing not just race and gender but also rurality, religiosity, and class background." cps.isr.umich.edu/news-events/...

Thank you @opiniontoday.bsky.social for sharing this post on polarized (mis)trust in science -- Jamie Druckman's insights helped me understand the forces underlying these trends.

@mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social et al find adults who grew up in rural areas had worse childhood health access, worse health outcomes, lower trust in medicine, and less support for health policies backed by scientific consensus. With Alee Lockman and @klunztrujillo.bsky.social #MPSA2026

People may not know about me that I religiously eat *two* apples a day and proselytize about apples like I am Johnny f. Appleseed. This ranking is a gem (tho my top rank goes to consistent affordable and tarty pink lady) 😍 applerankings.com

"Midlife is a really important life stage to think about improving health, because it is dynamic, it is malleable, there's something that is driving those improvements over time in physical functioning" - Carrie Karvonen-Gutierrez Listen to our latest podcast episode!

#DataScienceEducation #ResearchTraining Scholarship applications the 2026 ICPSR Summer Program are now open! Over $400k in scholarships available! Apply by March 1. For more details: myumi.ch/ICPSRscholarships#DataScienceEducation#ResearchTraining#SumProg26 #ICPSR #QuantitativeMethods #ScholarshipOpportunities #GraduateStudies

RFK: "I’m not scared of a germ — I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats." My kid & I did agar plate experiments at home to visually confirm germs don't thrive on toilet seats. The public health takeaway: Don't be scared of *toilets* -- they are safer for cocaine snorting than your banknotes. 🧪

Open to anyone with a past or current connection to U-M, the Development Economics at Michigan (MDEV) Conference (May 8-9, 2026) has a paper submission deadline of Feb. 13. Submit here! #DevEcon #EconSky docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Turn it up this is all the good loving solidarity vibes our souls so need, thank you for the light, brass friends

"Tahquamenon Falls is a phenomenon, yalls" (Joe Reilly)

The big Democratic wins of the 2025 elections will shift political dynamics and strategies in the coming year. For key takeaways, read our Q&A with UM political scientist Tyler Simko @simko.bsky.social, elections analyst for CBS. cpsblog.isr.umich.edu?p=3516

With a new measure to understand causes of maternal mortality, historical demographer George Alter finds infectious disease & nutrition improvements likely impacted falling maternal mortality more than shifting obstetrical practices. Just out in Population Studies: psc.isr.umich.edu/news/new-ins...

have never clicked a headline so fast www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Thank you @tevahp.bsky.social @umisrcps.bsky.social @umich.edu "The exhibit ends with a photograph of Vice President Vance, visiting the Dachau Concentration Camp Feb. 13, 2025. The next day, at the Munich Security Conference, Vance demanded that Germany’s far-right parties, including the AFD, 1/2

Graduate, faculty, and post-doc researchers -- here is one way to communicate out about the value of the work you do in the public interest. ⬇️

Print edition of article with @epopppp.bsky.social ran in @freep.com today. Michigan shouldn’t let itself be one more trophy on the wall at Mar a Lago www.freep.com/story/opinio...

Adorable. The Boston ducks have protest signs #handsoff

Second Teach In Alert, next Wednesday, March 19th, 7 pm. Please share! We will update the U-M community on what has happened since the first teach in and will cover what is at stake for the international world order. Come with questions and thoughts. Pizza for students starting at 6.30 pm.

Where is Congress? @ccavaille.bsky.social and @robmickey.bsky.social share three reasons Republicans in Congress aren't "pushing back" on executive overreach. From the recent #Umich teach-in: @jmping.bsky.social #PoliSky ➡️ myumi.ch/jZ14V

The controversial executive orders under Trump 2.0 are unique because political wins are their primary objective, and because they appear to be illegal by design, says Kenneth Lowande @umisrcps.bsky.social, an expert on executive power. Will they succeed? ➡️ myumi.ch/nyMm5 #PoliSky

This is honestly the best piece that I’ve seen on what is going on. If we can’t rely on the rule of law to stop this ignorant nonsense, what is left?

Someday, someone will write about how the conflation of university speech with “censorship” was used to mobilize actual government censorship.

Get in dorks, we're going protesting! STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025 WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL Because science is for everyone! Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

💙 Thank you @dananessel.bsky.social!

This event is happening this Wednesday at the #Umich Ann Arbor campus, come and please share!

No one can truly capture what cuts like the ones announced Friday might do to American medical research. But I decided to try, in terms that a general audience might understand. I hope it's useful. open.substack.com/pub/karagavi...

#StandWithUSAID #SaveForeignAid

What can you do about the assault on USAID? Share this far and wide. Do your part! Please do retweet 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Register now for #PAA2025: www.populationassociation.org/paa2025/reg-... If you are presenting in any way, you need to be registered by February 3rd!

One way employers suppress negative info is binding employees to broad nondisclosure clauses. In #MeToo, some states narrowed NDA enforcability. With Jason & @evanstarr.bsky.social, we show evidence that this increased the flow of negative info onto Glassdoor. research.upjohn.org/cgi/viewcont...

🌟 A star scholar to watch! Meet Guiying Angel Zhong, an artist, activist, and @rcgd-isr.bsky.social researcher in the @umisr.bsky.social Junior Professional Researchers program (now open for applications!) #UMich-research #UMich Read their feature profile: rcgd.isr.umich.edu/news-events/...

If you're able to donate, here's a list of items that are needed. There are drop off points in Los Angeles, Pasadena, Huntington Park, Inglewood, Pacoima, Long Beach, Woodland Hills, and Glendale. IG resistcarebloc and frontlinemedics

A great read from @bridgemichigan.bsky.social on isolation felt by older Michiganders features our @spattersearch.bsky.social @um-src.bsky.social and a reminder we can help this by checking in on older friends. #Demography www.bridgemi.com/michigan-hea...

In case you need more demographers in your life. (Who are we kidding? We ALL need more demographers in our lives.)

Cheers to 2025! As we begin the new year, we took a moment to reflect on all that we accomplished in 2024. Check out our most-read news stories from the past year. #NewYear

The best A ever. Going to games as a kid my dad would point to Ricky on first and say “watch he’s going to steal second base.” And every time, he did! The steals were incredible and I was equally impressed it seemed my dad could see the future.

Teachers, parents, and everyone: You should know Frontiers for Young Minds! It's a terrific (free) online journal with cutting-edge science articles, written for different age groups. Scientists write. *Kids* are the reviewers. Available in 5 languages. kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

My kiddo crocheted this cell model and it makes me feel fulfilled in my life’s purpose.

TIL that #umich once had a zoo, and that it housed a wolverine named Intrepidas who was a reluctant football mascot and had a "sweet tooth like that of a small boy." #GoBlue

False equivalence is a threat to democracy.

Can’t wait to use this graph in my #scicomm talk to #umich grad students next week…

I cannot believe (and cannot SPOILER) how great this talk is. You have to just watch it. If you like Black history, the 18th century, art, real-life mysteries, stunning discoveries--take some time this holiday period and watch this. Amazeballs of fire.

Recently launched a free (or paid for certification) online short course series on how Generative AI is likely to influence the workplace called Navigating Disruption: Generative AI in the Workplace. www.coursera.org/specializati...

A reminder to everyone who is thinking "I really should be collecting data right now." or "I wish I had thought about collecting data when this was all happening." The NSF has a grant mechanism for this: Grants for Rapid Response Research (RAPID www.nsf.gov/pubs/policyd...

What happened in the 2024 elections? How do we account for the gap between Harris's votes and Biden's in 2020, and how did race/gender shape results? CPS panel Thursday: Vincent Hutchings, Mara Ostfeld, @jmping.bsky.social and Nicholas Valentino: events.umich.edu/event/128368

You can read my most recent work with @karinkitchens.bsky.social in @thejop.bsky.social here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.... with a short summary here: jop.blogs.uni-hamburg.de/how-contraba...