Gendered administrative burdens academic.oup.com/jpart/articl...

BREAKING: Chris Clemens alleges the UNC-Chapel Hill board often went into closed session illegally, including before they postponed tenure votes, and forced him to resign after he informed faculty about the delays. www.theassemblync.com/education/hi...

Abortion bans making pregnancy more dangerous, shaming women for using tylenol, making the world more dangerous for babies: this is all pronatalist because pronatalism is about recreating mandatory childbearing, not making childbearing easier.

Read Workplace fertility dynamics: how "reproductive capital" shapes lives. on Kudos: www.growkudos.com/publications...

One more week left to apply for a 3-year postdoc in Demography (deadline: Sept 30, 12:00 midday UK time). Join me at the Sociology Department in Oxford to study global fertility change as part of the DIVREP project!👇

Julie Park on College Board ending Landscape & limit contextual info for college admissions: ‘College Board’s decision to ditch Landscape sends an incredibly problematic message: that tools to pursue diversity, even economic diversity, aren’t worth defending due to the fear of litigation.’

This is a story of what happens when you have a weak social safety net, and years of failing to rein in housing costs and medical costs.

The National Academy of Sciences was granted a charter by Congress in 1863 to provide the government with independent, objective advice on science and technology. www.science.org/content/arti...

The diminishment of prominent Black journalists is the latest indication that a period of progress in America has ended and a period of retrenchment is in full bloom. trib.al/tJCP3LX

Happy Sunday! Check out this recent NCHAT publication from @chrisajulian.bsky.social, Hannah Tessler, @wendymanning.bsky.social, Alexandra VanBergen, and @clairekampdush.bsky.social. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

This is no small reason why pronatalism is so important to this administration. If women are busy having and raising kids - and the US further weakens its childcare infrastructure and job protections - then women will be increasingly relegated to domestic support roles.

It’s the big party before the Quarter Quell. May the odds be ever in your favor.

When asked "What do you think is the ideal number of children for a family to have?", Americans continue to believe that having at least two children is ideal. news.gallup.com/poll/694640/...

Step 1: Cut funding for food stamps Step 2: Stop measuring hunger Step 3: There's no evidence cuts to food stamps led to a rise in hunger www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

42. US-based academics on H1B visas effectively banned from returning to the country if they leave to participate in international meetings (Sep. 19, 2025)

I've been reporting in East Africa on the impact of President Trump's USAID cuts, and I find that not only are children dying in large numbers but the pace is accelerating as stockpiles run out and people grow weaker. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

When a cartoon summarizes your last two years of research...

My tiny bit of resistance today is refusing to do some mandatory work training twice. I always get assigned all the trainings twice b/c I've got two distinct roles. Doing the mandatory training once, sure, fine. Doing it twice b/c our systems can't speak to each other? Nope.

Here's one: today.yougov.com/politics/art...

I'm not being hyperbolic. This screenshot was shared on fb. It is from TexAgs, the Nextdoor (derogatory) of A&M.

This is me. I'm mad about deportation, genocide, censorship, all the things. But I'm going all in on fighting pronatalism. I've given interviews to just about any who asks. I've written briefs & op-eds. I'm giving talks to non-academic audiences. I'm doing a congressional briefing next month.

I literally did this (a series of church-based “listening sessions” on abortion) and it wasn’t safe 15 years ago. I can’t imagine how terrifying it would be now. I was naive and fearless and I wish someone had told me not to do it.

Two mothers and Trump’s Head Start rule: Child care shortages meet anti-immigrant politics www.chalkbeat.org/2025/09/15/t...

Oh, so it's the kind of day where I get no work done because I will need to sit and fume quietly after every email I get. Gotcha.

If you liked the excerpt from Man Up that @justsecurity.org ran this week, you will definitely want to listen to @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social & me chopping it all up on this podcast - such a great conversation.

An insightful conversation with @milleridriss.bsky.social, an expert on violent extremism, about the ways that gender-based bigotry fuels hate — and how national security officials need to do something about it. By @jazzmyth.bsky.social @19thnews.org 19thnews.org/2025/09/how-...

The data is quite clear about the patterns of political violence.

Charlie Kirk famously asked college audiences to “change his mind”, but his mind never got changed. An expert on the language strategies used to advance white supremacy says that is definitely not the “right way”, and suggests a different approach.

Keep this in mind as states implement Medicaid work requirements. Some states have capacity and infrastructure to do it in-house, but most don't.

1/ Contrary to recent claims by two political scientists, new work by @adrianraftery.bsky.social & Nick Irons estimates that COVID non-pharmacuetical interventions (NPIs) saved an estimated 860,000 lives in the US *in 2020 alone*. bmcglobalpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

This new study from @nber.org analyzed the imapct of 2013 Texas abortion laws, finding bans cause “significant economic hardship” and widen income inequality, translating into higher rates of “financially motivated crime, such as theft and burglary.” www.nber.org/papers/w34245

@nationalacademies.org providing a intro lecture on climate change and its impacts for EPA. Report here: doi.org/10.17226/29239

This is a step in the right direction. But doing this while letting the administration cut Head Start and groups like Heritage actively work to steer funding away from childcare programs to individual families means we're always two steps forward, one step back. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

📢 #CallForPapers - On Families, Technology and the Economy NYU Abu Dhabi and CEPR invite papers for a workshop that will take place at NYU Abu Dhabi on 15-17 December. Deadline for submission: 1 October More information and submission details: cepr.org/events/famil... #EconSky #EconConf

A program in Flint, MI, gave $1,500 to any/all pregnant people and $500/month for the first year of their infant’s life. Among the benefits, those babies experienced lower rates of prematurity and low birth weight, which resulted in fewer NICU admissions, saving the city of Flint $6.2 million/year.

"Despite the austerity measures, the crushing weight of rising housing costs has forced them to press pause on their plans to have kids." www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/17/c...

Having children is a commitment to the future. And too many people don’t feel secure enough about their lives now or in the future to make that commitment and have the children they’d like. And until we address that issue, birth rates are unlikely to increase. My op-ed in @newsweek.com.

The killing of Charlie Kirk is part of a grim pattern of political violence in America. This is what the data show econ.st/4nqZysO

Investing in children and families - not because it may increase birth rates but because it ACTUALLY MAKES CHILDREN AND FAMILIES BETTER OFF - is solid, evidence-based policy.

Our Director @melindacmills.bsky.social on the 'impotence' of pronatalist policies 📉: “Silver bullets, quick cash & gimmicks won’t change #Fertility.” Read more 👇 www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/terror-and-security/what-russians-really-think-about-putins-baby-boom-drive/ #Demography #Policy

The U.S. gender pay gap is linked to the number of children women have - as the number of children stabilized at 1.8 around 2000, so did women's progress towards pay equality. Great piece by @sashakillewald.bsky.social & Nino Cricco based on their work in @sfjournal.bsky.social.

Celebrating a big birthday today! #legokaren

And, "Oz also said the federal government can 'claw back' funding from states that 'don’t perform' and redistribute it, saying: “This is not punitive. This is a very clever decision by the crafters of the law.'" Not sure how states are supposed to feel confident allocating and spending these funds.

Religiosity & gender attitudes go hand-in-hand. But which influences which? New study by McElroy et al. shows earlier gender views tend to predict religious trajectories more than the reverse (except for young women). Once again: Cultural/political conflicts --> Religion doi.org/10.1177/2378...

We invest 9X less per child-year in care & education in the first 5 years of life than the next 13. This gap in public investment is why K12 is free for parents & early care & education is expensive. www.hamiltonproject.org/publication/...

Increasing funding for HBCUs (at the expense of HSIs) might seem like an unusual - and maybe good - move from this admin, but if you see it as part of efforts to foster separate racial systems, it makes a whole lot more sense.

“The Trump administration has axed nearly two dozen projects addressing health and environmental issues in Southern Black communities, reversing years of work to address pollution, sewage leaks, flooding and more.”