Gotta love when the supermarket has a special display of matzah for Rosh Hashanah. Reminds me of the maple syrup served with potato pancakes for Chanukah in college. 🍎

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.

At the 2025 CitymatCH conference presenting on #NurtureNJ efforts to improve maternal health. Love the “runs on coffee” tag!

Incredibly honored to be receiving the 2025 Society of Family Planning annual mentorship award. Huge thanks to the many people who supported this nomination. societyfp.org/community/aw...

Can one of my London friends please go to this and tell me how wonderful it is?! Green with envy www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/44875-s...

Couldn’t find my reading glasses on my desk, but just discovered three pairs in my purse!

I made chicken soup with purple carrots and now the soup is purple! That should be interesting at Rosh Hashana… maybe I can color the matzoh balls also

Working on new projects where unexpected responses so far have been “robots” (project about responses to declining fertility ) and “pickles” (project on post coital contraceptive behaviors). Going to be a fun autumn!

When even the Marriott customer service agent comments - “wow that’s a lot of upcoming travel….”

4 r&rs….what a week!

Check out our new brief @ccfamilies.bsky.social on the limitations of population projections for understanding future fertility patterns. The growing public discourse on declining fertility needs demographers voices and expertise, while recognizing the limits of our methods.

I love that everyone is trying to clear their desk at the end of summer... I received 3 R&Rs in the last few days!

New publication w/ @zoehypatia.bsky.social: 1 in 5 reproductive-age women have a disability—yet face higher contraceptive dissatisfaction and more unmet preferences. It’s time to deliver care that works for everyone. #reprojustice bit.ly/4lifb46

Which demographers and sociologists will be working this news story in marital hypergamy into their Fall courses? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/s...

We are looking for a postdoc to work for the @soc-misc.bsky.social project. The post is based at the University of At Andrews in Scotland and focuses on analysing administrative and census data on #miscarriage. Let me or Katy Keenan know if you have any questions. More info below 👇

Kudos to @lesja.bsky.social & @nickdemark.bsky.social for bringing some much needed demographic expertise to the conversation around pronatalism!

Clinic policies and practices are important determinants of adolescents' receipt of person-centered contraceptive care. With @guttmacher.org colleagues, we share findings from a national survey of publicly funded family planning clinics . www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

An important read. Calls for policies to address pronatalism are based on faulty demographic assumptions (and have strong racial and sexist undertones).

#Nevada’s parental notification law is now in effect. Nevada joins 9 other states requiring parental notification before a minor’s abortion. Young people know what’s best for themselves. They deserve abortion access without barriers. Explore our map: states.guttmacher.org/policies/

Pretty privilege is quite a thing. Woman today who thought her figure and blonde hair meant none of the social rules applied to her. Went so far as to tell a woman who commented on her behavior “You need to get laid”. I’m stuck imagining all the times rules bent for her.

HHS plans to eliminate >7% of its websites, including vaccines.cdc.gov, a website that tracks the CDC's investments "in achieving national immunization goals and sustaining high-vaccination coverage rates to prevent death and disability from vaccine-preventable diseases." bit.ly/4lln6i9

Celebrating 3 yrs at Rutgers School of Public Health. My career pivot and leap of faith has been a good change! I ❤️ supporting SRH/MCH in my home state of NJ. But my greatest pleasure continues to come from my network of collaborators across the country. Our small community is mighty!

Kicked off the holiday weekend with a guest lecture about threats to the federal public health surveillance systems. Impressed by the commitment of students showing up on July 3rd eve!

Concerned about the increasing interest in pronatalism? If not, it’s time!

Sharing Joe Potter's final published research. His memory is a blessing. Meeting Contraceptive Preferences Among Low‐Income Postpartum Texans: A Counterfactual Analysis of Pregnancy Trajectories - Potter - Studies in Family Planning - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Just here giving a shout out to pickled red onions. That is all.

In an attempt to keep up with popular culture, I am watching Love Island. I may never have felt so old. And why be on an island if you never go to the beach?

Reminder of the broad health impact of immigration raids. Change in birth outcomes among infants born to Latina mothers after a major immigration raid url:https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/46/3/839/2936776

When you accidentally color coordinate with your research poster.

I’m at AcademyHealth… how many of our colleagues and their work are not bc of the administration’s attacks on science? #ARM2025

Declining survey response rates were already a problem. Now @npr.org chronicles how "the Trump administration's murky handling of data... has become one of the reasons people cite when declining to share their information for the federal government's ongoing surveys" www.npr.org/2025/06/04/n...

👍Connecticut lawmakers passed House Bill 7213, a proposal to codify into state law a guarantee that minors in Connecticut may receive contraceptive and pregnancy-related care without permission from their parents. ctmirror.org/2025/05/27/c...

So the woman sitting next to me at a wedding tonight explained to me that NIH is only cutting poor quality science grants like the one trying to make mice transgender. We have lost the communication battle

Are you a grad student or postdoc stressing out about job talks? Join me on 6/26/25 at 2 PM CST for a free class. You'll learn how to: ✔️ Avoid the “Big 3” job talk killers ✔️ Use storytelling breath life into your research ✔️ Handle Q&A like a boss Register here and please share: lnkd.in/g5f3YwtX

My mother just called me to say half her bridge group isn’t getting Covid boosters… because they’ve “done their research” and 86 year old bridge players are experts in vaccine research I guess

Our research on barriers and facilitators to growing the midwifery workforce continues with our new paper in Nursing Outlook "Institutional forces that influence the precepting of midwifery students" hashtag#MCHhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0029655425000880

😞 Requiring judicial bypass for a minor to obtain an abortion w/o parental consent == bad 💔 A Florida court blocking even this small bit of access === even worse www.wgcu.org/government-p...

I'm honored to receive the New Jersey Health Foundation "Excellence in Research Award." It's a privilege to work with so many dedicated colleagues to improve public health in my home state.

PAA board member karenguzzo.bsky.social of the uncpopcenter.bsky.social spoke w NPR’s Fresh Air, interpreting contemporary fertility trends and the movement to increase birth rates. "What's behind the 'pronatalist' movement to boost the birth rate?" @npr.org www.npr.org/2025/04/30/n...

I'm proud to share our team's newly released work which categorizes the over 70 legislative actions in New Jersey to improve maternal-infant health and shares the scientific underpinnings for the legislation. Available here: www.rutgers.edu/news/backed-...

ProPublica, the nonprofit investigative journalism organization, won the public service prize, the Pulitzer’s highest honor, for reporting about the deaths of pregnant people in states where strict but murky abortion laws caused doctors to delay care 💔 apple.news/ApufqCkrJTha...

Flying united out of Newark tomorrow / wish me luck!!! Last kid graduating college 👨‍🎓🤞

The rise of pronatalism— and its threats to reproductive autonomy— needs our attention. Follow @lesja.bsky.social on this issue ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

I keep hearing Piper Posey in my mind saying “Vladimir stop” in her “Piper No” tone

Two family members have lost their US manufacturing jobs bc of tariffs. Jobs that made things in the US- but need supplies and buyers.

My children were social security recipients after their father died, until they were 18. And for a few years I also got widow benefits- a financial lifeline when we needed it most.

I heard the midwifery accreditation organization announced their new accreditation criteria, following yesterday’s EO. Diversity is gone. Have other groups complied already also?

Reproductive freedom allows people to take control of their lives and futures. But new research shows that most teen girls in the United States live in states with laws that severely limit access to abortion care.

Saw a new broadway show yesterday- Real Women have Curves. May include the first-ever musical theater song about menopause! #SRH 🎶 ❤️

Why don’t young people use prescription contraception? Our new national MyVoice study asked 14–24-year-olds directly. The top 3 reasons: 🔸 Concern about side effects 🔸 Fear of judgment 🔸 Difficulty accessing care www.jpagonline.org/article/S108...