Congratulations to @hopeharvey.bsky.social, this year's winner of the ASA Sociology of Population Section's Otis Dudley Duncan Book Award! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Congratulations to Kyle Waldman of Harvard, this year's winner of the ASA Sociology of Population section Student Paper Award! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Congratulations to Kathleen Mullan Harris, this year's winner of the Distinguished Career Award from the ASA Sociology of Population Section!!! Few people have had the impact on population science that Kathie has had. www.cpc.unc.edu/people/fello...

Health Professional Shortage Areas are disproportionately Trump-voting areas (with important exceptions, like Texas border towns). Same old boring, depressing story about choosing the guy who makes your life materially so much worse

Congratulations to @leticiamarteleto.bsky.social, Sneha Kumar, Luiz Gustavo Fernandes Sereno, & Alexandre Gori Maia for winning this year's ASA Sociology of Population section's Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship in Population Award! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

The Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women is withholding $150 million meant to help survivors of domestic violence. Gender-based violence service organizations across the country report radio silence on the status of applications, some submitted over a year ago.

Hi, expert on far-right extremism here, a history of domestic violence and misogyny is one of the strongest predictive variables for violent extremism, especially on the right. We've been raising the alarm on this for DECADES but no one cares.

“Notably, while areas with heavier ICE enforcement saw a drop in employment among immigrants, there was no increase in either employment or wages among U.S. citizens.”

“This raises an uncomfortable question: To what extent do trends in sterilization rates truly reflect what people want, and to what extent do they reflect the choices patients were steered toward by the design of the healthcare system?”

LEGO Karen is getting ready for summer with a visit to the Surf Shop! 🏄‍♀️ 🌊

'Some analysts at conservative think tanks are making.. arguments in favor of the social sciences.. “if you care about giving businesses & policymakers [info] they need to understand the world,” you should care about the Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences' www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

A lot of white people learned about the Tuskegee experiment during the pandemic and believe that is the reason Black people don't trust the medical establishment. This is not true. Black people don't trust the medical establishment because the Tuskegee experiment is not an outlier.

Surprising no one, many of the investors are part of the tech wing of pronatalism. Pronatalism is, and has always been, about eugenics - who should and should not reproduce.

“For more than a year, administration officials have sought to pull every bureaucratic lever possible to cut off immigrants — both documented and undocumented — from jobs, medical care, financial services, tax credits and even from enrolling their children in day care.”

The ASA Family Section is seeking volunteers for the Mentor Match Program! If you would be willing to be connected with a junior family scholar to meet at ASA or virtually, please sign up in the link in the recent Family Section newsletter or send me an email. @asa-family.bsky.social

This is absolutely bonkers, racist crap. It’s unfathomable that this would be an official government website. It’s not funny or clever. It plays the theme song to “The X-Files” and uses font similar to that used in the Alien movies. www.whitehouse.gov/aliens

Hourly wages are up 3% since 2019. Corporate profits are up 50%. Labor’s piece of the economic pie is the smallest it’s been in over 75 years, while corporate profits’ share is the *biggest* it’s been since 1950. This is what a rigged economy looks like.

Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.

My daughter's boyfriend lives in SF, but she'd be happy to fly instead to Kansas City and just meet up with some random guy.

If I'm flying to any of those cities, it's almost certainly for work. If I'm supposed to give a talk or attend a conference in NYC or Boston, I can't just decide to fly to Sioux Falls instead. I imagine I'm not alone in my reasons for traveling to one of these cities.

Thrilled to share our new paper, "What Would Jesus Fund? Christian Nationalism and Americans' Views on Government Spending," just out in Socius! 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Did they forget his MyChart login info

There is a "toxic tendency to frame the global birthrate crisis as a “women’s issue”, rather than a societal one."

BREAKING: New proposed OMB regulation, applying to all federal grants, requiring grant reviews by senior political appointees and re-emphasizes that "peer review remains advisory and does not replace agency discretion". #standupforscience public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10817.pdf

NIH Definition of Foreign components. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

What, exactly, is being grown in this rooftop greenhouse? #legokaren

Why are so many people afraid of childless unmarried women? Maybe it's because w/o the demands of a spouse or children, these women can focus all their substantial energies on a) destroying patriarchy & b) living their best lives. Powerful, independent women are indeed a force to be reckoned with.

Scoop: NSF has been quietly blocking new funds and grants to four top universities: Duke, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Dozens of proposals from PIs at these universities—and their collaborators—have been stuck at the Office of Award Management awaiting finalization for months.

So here's what happened to my lab (and @viralemergence.org). www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The National Science Foundation is terminating and suspending grants again, and at Grant Witness we need you to help to track them! 🧪 We can only identify research being suppressed by under-the-radar suspensions directly from researchers. Please report! grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NSF

Cutting off New York, LA, San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, and other major ports of entry/departure from international flights would be the biggest self-inflicted wound to our economy since closing the Strait of Hormuz. The costs would be ridiculous. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

This is a really thorough, balanced piece on population shifts in the US, what's likely ahead, and how these changes impact economic growth. It makes several important points. 1/

New, from me: The self-proclaimed "Most Transparent Administration in History" wants to compel all federal employees to sign Non Disclosure Agreements. The purpose is to vastly expand the culture of secrecy in government, undermining accountability. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-want...

I'm just a girl, logged into Concur, wishing it could connect the airfare I booked through Concur and tied to a preapproved trip in Concur, with an expense in Concur.

Majors that don’t have a clear, direct path to a career are under intense scrutiny as a waste of time and money…unless they’re offered by one of the new conservative schools, like this one at the University of Florida. wapo.st/4tYfVzS

1/ At 17 weeks pregnant, Emily Waldorf was suddenly faced with a life-threatening situation: Her baby’s foot was dipping out of her cervix. Doctors told her the longer her cervix stayed open, the higher her risk of infection. They knew how to treat her. There was one issue … 🧵

Attack of the Monster Labrador!!! #legokaren

I also really like @philipncohen.com 's articulation of how population decline math is not as straightforward as it seems familyinequality.wordpress.com/2026/01/20/i... #demography

We have *never* before seen consumer sentiment this low.

Yet another way to kill research- To hold back funding announcements that invite scientists to apply for funding. These initiatives were congressionally approved. These include funding opportunities for pediatric brain cancer. 🧪 elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/release-th...

And then we have this www.ibtimes.co.uk/north-caroli...

Great piece by family historian extraordinaire Stephanie Coontz on what's really driving shifts in marriage.

Saez and @gabrielzucman.bsky.social on the CA billionaire tax 250 households (0.001% of the state) holds wealth equal to more than half of California’s entire annual economic output Their wealth grows 15% a year and is taxed at just 0.26% per year www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

On May 23, 2026, Pete Hegseth stood before the graduating class of West Point and told the new Army officers that "The single dumbest phrase in military history is 'Our diversity is our strength.'" West Point's class of 2026 is 40% non-white and 21% female.

LEGO Karen is kicking off summer with a Memorial Day carnival!

New from me: A study published today by JAMA backs up what providers have said for years about abortion bans and other restrictive laws affecting miscarriage patients as well.

www.wake.gov/departments-... I saw this initially on facebook, and many comments are sadly predictable. Important work by the Wake County ROD

NIH funded peeps: This is insane and coming for us.