Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from. We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.

My latest @npr.org story: A Trump administration official has signaled a potential rollback of the racial and ethnic categories approved for the #2030Census and other future federal government forms

I’m recruiting a postdoctoral associate at NYU Abu Dhabi. Position is for 3 years with excellent salary, housing and benefits. Please share widely. For more information and application, link ⬇️ apply.interfolio.com/177935

🚨Job🚨Postdoc Position(s) at the Max Planck–University of Helsinki Centre for Social Inequalities in Population Health, a joint initiative of @mpidr.bsky.social & @helsinki.fi with the vision to unearth pivotal social processes that generate health inequalities. www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61...

Call for Papers! Submit your paper for the conference: 'Kinship Structures, Dynamics and Inequalities', taking place on 8 and 9 June 2026 @mpidr.bsky.social in Rostock organized by @demography.bsky.social, @iussp.bsky.social +coll. Deadline: 21 January 2026 www.demogr.mpg.de/go/kinship-conference

36 organizations, ~400 individuals from 45 states and DC signed our letter to Congress opposing USDA's termination of food security data collection. Read (and share) our letter here: bit.ly/CPSFSS

Job Offer: PhD Student Position The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and the @mpidr.bsky.social + @imprs-phds.bsky.social invite applications for a 4-year PhD position. The studentship is not limited to specific topics. Apply until November 17! www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61...

Postdoc at the Minnesota Population Center, @minnpop.bsky.social Applications open now and being evaluated on a rolling basis. Pass on to demographers you know! (This one requires folks to relocate to the Twin Cities, because it involves work in the restricted data center)

We are hiring (again!). We are searching for up to four tenure-track hires. Two of these are open-field/open-rank. Two are endowed at the full professor level -- one with a focus on applied micro and poverty, the other with a focus on demography.

🚨 BREAKING: Trump & RFK Jr. issue their "genius" response to the expiring #ACA tax credits: "LET THEM EAT CATASTROPHIC PLANS!" acasignups.net/25/09/04/let...

Communications Coordinator position working with @nhats-nsoc.bsky.social and @micda-umisr.bsky.social at @um-src.bsky.social @umisr.bsky.social More info here: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

The submission site is now open! Submit your work to #PAA2026 — Deadline is Sunday, October 5. www.populationassociation.org/paa2026/call...

🫂 🥗 Kind kids, healthy teens: A study led by @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social 's Farah Qureshi in the @ajpmonline.bsky.social shows children who show caring, helpful behavior between ages 5-11 are more likely to make healthier eating choices as teenagers: publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/childre...

We are excited to announce the #PAA2026 Call for Papers is now available! The submission site opens on Monday, Aug. 18 and the deadline is Sunday, Oct. 5. Meet me in St. Louis! May 6-9, 2026: www.populationassociation.org/paa2026/call...

The invisible caregivers of our most vulnerable - most of whom are women - are already overburdened. What’s coming as a result of Medicaid changes is going to hurt so many.

The sociology & criminology dept at gonzaga is hiring! We're searching for somebody with a focus on criminology, law, or social control (broadly conceived). We're a liberal arts teaching university. Very collegial department. Spread the word to interested folks. I'm happy to answer questions!

We're hiring! Please share with your networks! The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the field of demography of health and aging beginning in August 2026 jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

NEW: The Census Bureau is asking for states' input on #2030Census redistricting data, according to this Federal Register notice www.federalregister.gov/public-inspe...

A consistent lesson of this devastating time has been that federal agencies you've never heard of do brilliant, crucial work that holds up your life in ways you've never thought about Anyway, I'm here to tell you that the demographers at the National Center for Health Statistics are a treasure

A special thank you from Xiomara (and her mom, @elenahung.bsky.social) for the love + support We're not giving up on this fight — we're not giving up on our kids, or anyone's kids. Please keep helping us fundraise for this urgent work by sharing: secure.actblue.com/donate/littl...

We visited over two dozen House GOP offices today, here's an exchange that illustrates our impact: GOP Staffer: We were wondering if you were coming LL: Oh, you heard we were here? GOP Staffer: _Everyone_ knows you are here.

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

“History shows that when Medicaid budgets are cut, home and community-based services are among the first services cut” - @elenahung.bsky.social @littlelobbyists.com Yesterday marked the 26th Anniversary of the #Olmstead decision… (A thread) 🧵 1/7 www.disabilityscoop.com/2025/06/23/s...

imagine watching a small child struggle to breathe because of a measles infection and then going on your radio show to explain that the “human body was designed to fight measles” with the clear implication that if you die your body just wasn’t good enough.

Vinay Prasad was named as both the FDA’s chief scientific officer and chief medical officer TODAY. He immediately fired Nicole Verdun, who was in charge of cell and gene therapies. “Now, there will definitely be concerns and questions about what this means for the division under Vinay Prasad”.

Upset abt RFK Jr. firing the Vaccine Advisory panel? Here’s what you can do. Public comment for the June 25-27 ACIP meeting opened today & closes 6/20. Let’s flood the public comments. Find talking points & sample comment below. @standupforscience.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/precauti...

Broaden your horizon with one of our Double Degrees! 🌍 Choose Demography & Social Inequality (University of Cologne) or Social Demography (University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona). 🎥 www.youtube.com/shorts/VJkL8... ℹ️ www.rug.nl/frw/educatio... @rug.nl @frw-rug.bsky.social

I am hiring for a new researchers on my @nuffieldfoundation.org young carers project. Closes 4thJune. After someone with strong quant longitudinal skills, passion for communicating research beyond academia & wants to work with people w lived experience/other sectors jobs.sgul.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

May 2025 Demography of Family Caregiving & TRENDS Network Webinar Tues, May 27th 1:00 pm EST Co-sponsored by the Demography of Family Caregiving and TRENDS Networks highlighting family caregiving trends in the US @micda-umisr.bsky.social @rccn-aging.org Register: micda.isr.umich.edu/may-2025-dem...

*JOB OPENING*: Researcher in Reproductive #Demography Dr. Josh Wilde is recruiting a Post-doc to join his ERC-funded SEXRATIO project at @oxforddemsci.bsky.social, focused on links b/t maternal stress & sex-biased conception & fetal loss. Deadline May 9 (noon UK time). www.demography.ox.ac.uk/jobs

Fantastic, helpful, hopeful content to share from "Why Social Science" www.whysocialscience.com thanks to @cossa.bsky.social @popassocamerica.bsky.social @popresearchctrs.bsky.social

Deaths from heart disease down 75%, that’s NIH. Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH. HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH. 99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH. Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.

American. Citizens. Cannot. Be. Deported. I know we all want to be concise, but we simply cannot use the shorthand terms of the fascists when they describe wildly illegal & unconstitutional things. Extrajudicial renditions. Kidnappings. Wildly unconstitutional fascism. All right there as options.

PFRH faculty Alison Gemmill, Suzanne Bell, Linnea Zimmerman, and Dana Sarnak at the @popassocamerica.bsky.social #PAA2025 conference in DC where over the next three days they and many PFRH faculty are presenting on a variety of critical population health topics. Have a great conference!

📣Join us for IAPHS's Town Hall: "No Magic Words: Building Narrative Power" on April 21, Monday, 12:00PM-1:00PM EDT. Visit iaphs.org/tools-for-su... to learn more!!

We are excited to see researchers using #NHATS/#NSOC data at #PAA2025's workshops, posters, and presentations! Will we see you there? We hope you can attend one of these sessions and also stop by our booth to say hello. Wishing everyone a successful conference!

Washington Post: 'NIH scientists have a cancer breakthrough. Layoffs are delaying it.' 'A big step forward in cancer therapy has been slowed by layoffs and new restrictions at the National Institutes of Health, where it was developed.' www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social @um-src.bsky.social affiliate Esther Friedman in Journal of Applied Gerontology Factors Associated With Shifts in Caregiving During COVID-19 myumi.ch/xwp6P

So, the DOGE kids intend to rewrite the social-security administration's COBOL code-base! and they want to do it ... ... in *a few months* I did a huge dive into COBOL a few years ago (www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazi...) ... ... so let me explain why DOGE is *way* over its skis here 1/9

Big news! We have two new #demography vacancies open and three others on the way, stay tuned buff.ly/Bi7dyix 😎 @leverhulme.bsky.social @oxpop.bsky.social @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social @reubencollege.bsky.social @melindacmills.bsky.social

Trump has cut the NIH budget by more than half in defiance of Congressionally mandated appropriations for the agency. No comparison historically, not even the Great Recession. This is clearly not legal and Congress needs to address it.

Pharma and biotech shaken by Peter Marks' ouster from #FDA. “It signals the very infrastructure we rely on to evaluate, approve, & monitor life-saving medicines — & to protect patients from harm — is at risk of collapse.” www.statnews.com/2025/03/29/f...

📣 Across the U.S., cuts to federal funding for health research are projected to cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. How will YOUR area be impacted? Excited to share SCIMaP, a website that our team has created to communicate the impact of funding cuts. #PsychSciSky #MedicalSky scienceimpacts.org

🚨 Attention NIH & NSF grantees! AAAS is hosting a rapid response webinar this Friday, 12-1 pm ET, on responding to federal research grant terminations. NIH and NSF will be case examples. Register here: aaas.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

"It’s not clear how or why Geier, who is not a physician and has an undergraduate degree from the Univ. of Maryland at Baltimore County, was chosen... "He was disciplined by Maryland regulators over a decade ago for practicing medicine without a license... www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Unfortunately, there was another round of FUNDED grants cancelled yesterday. These illegal cuts stop projects that have been in progress for years, interrupt lifesaving research, and destroy the public good of science in the US. If you were impacted, please share you story with us: fedfreeze.org

The crush of new grant cancellations hasn't let up. If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes. Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.

From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH