It is a good day to learn about high-quality and well-documented data that are freely available and suitable for understanding population health!

“‘While synthetic data can give u an incredible snapshot of conventional wisdoms of what sorts of thngs ppl have generally believed over time…it’s incredibly bad at generating anything surprising.’The surprises…are the valuable bits: the new knowledge that drives scholarship or business decisions”🧪

Congratulations to Hero Ashman, University of California, Berkeley, the 2026 Dorothy S. Thomas Award recipient! She won the Thomas Award for her graduate student paper titled “Marriage and the racial division of reproductive labor: Evidence from the Great Migration, 1910-1940" buff.ly/vVNnWpy

Congratulations to ‪@popassocamerica Dorothy S. Thomas Award winner Hero Ashman for her excellent #poweredbyIPUMS research on marriage and the racial division of reproductive labor! We were fortunate to hear about this fabulous work at the 2025 @umnlifecourse and @ipums D-IRC.

Excited to see which of the amazing geographic resources from @ipums.bsky.social my colleague Jonathan Schroeder chooses to highlight today and hoping to find time to check out a few of the other fascinating presentations on today's program!

A gathering of past PAA Presidents in the #PAA2026 booth!

Loving the spatial data nerds who are turning out for a 6:30pm meeting on harmonizing geographic boundaries in US census data over time! #PAA2026

Excited to be settling into a #PAA2026 session hosted by GPAC on how scientists can effectively draft and submit op-eds to advocate for population science and crucial data infrastructure.

Starting soon at #PAA2026 (Thurs, 5/7, starting at 8:30 am). See a full list of our presenters at z.umn.edu/PAA-2026

Attention all #PAA2026 poster winners! Was your work ⚡ #poweredbyIPUMS? Stop by our booth for some specialty swag from us.

We are ready and excited for another day at #PAA2026! 👋 Come and say hi! Our booth is full of helpful information, some swag, and very knowledgeable folks. So - come talk data with us!

Indeed I am! #PAA2026

Congrats to this year's winners 👏

My very smart IPUMS colleagues are going to be hanging out on Zoom and ready to talk data this morning. Register to swing by and pick their brains!

Starting NOW... @ipums.bsky.social Webinar: Linking Children, Adults, and Households in IPUMS MICS. Register and join here: z.umn.edu/MICS-Webinar

Congress is making key funding decisions now—and your voice matters. Urge lawmakers to prioritize robust funding for research and statistics in FY 2027. 📢 Take action: Send a message to your Members of Congress using our template. buff.ly/gYP35XX

Pam Bondi is gone yet RFK Jr. remains.

TOMORROW (Apr 1) is the last day to apply for the @ipums.bsky.social summer data training workshop. This is a perfect chance to jump start a research project that requires linking with historical US census data. You can also request travel support. lcc.umn.edu/DIRC-workshop

There's still time to register for this morning's @i-guide.bsky.social webinar/VCO on using NHGIS data in R👇

Shoutout @ipums.bsky.social for solving every problem in my life

Last day to comment in implementation of #SPD15 in the ACS and PRCS (and internet self-response for PRCS). The revised SPD15 standards have been rigorously vetted -- this is an important step to modernize race/ethnicity measurement in a crucial data product. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Bad news today. The administration finalized a plan to remove civil service protections from about 50,000 federal workers, with no exemption for statistical or scientific agency personnel. This erodes protection of those agencies from political influence. www.govexec.com/workforce/20... #econsky

“We had to deliver them to a detention center,” principal Jason Kuhlman said about the second grader and fifth grader.

Lot of conservative dudes out there telling on themselves by being astounded by a level of ”logistics” that the average mom has to manage every fucking day

MN House Floor Leader ⬇️

The statement from Alex Pretti’s parents is just “tell the government to stop telling smirking, transparent lies about why it killed our son” which feels like a new low for our nation. This president and his toadies have brought us to our knees and must be driven out

The orgs I'd give to: ACLU MN National Lawyers Guild MN Monarca MN They're providing legal assistance for protesters, observers, and immigrants.

Minnesota is standing up together. We can try to protect each other. We can witness and alert you. But this is the federal govt. This is a national issue. We need YOU to stand up with us. Read @naomikritzer.bsky.social. Act with compassion & immense urgency. naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...

The StarTribune live blog is paywall free: - The man shot by federal agents this morning has died - Several witnesses have already been transported to the Whipple building. - ICE attempted to order local police from the scene, but O’Hara refused, sources said. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

For those outside the Twin Cities, the person posting this GoFundMe is a member of Minneapolis city council (and among the many locals doing absolutely heroic resistance to ICE), so it's legit.

The Columbia Heights school district says ICE detained four of its students, including a 5-year-old boy, as "bait" to draw out family members.

One thing I’d like to see is my senators and governor every day on tv at 5pm holding a press conference with video of every documented abuse that ICE is doing. Curate all of the witnessing we’re doing and show it to the press.

The Day Federal Data Went Dark: A Year of Monitoring and Action Register here: tinyurl.com/webinar-data... Co-hosted by dataindex.us and @apduorg.bsky.social

Jesus. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

The 2025 IPUMS Research Awards are currently open for nominations. 🏅 They honor outstanding research that uses IPUMS data to advance understanding of demographic processes. Cash prizes are awarded in several categories! www.ipums.org/impact/ipums...

The CPS 2025 November monthly data are now available on IPUMS CPS 🎉 CPS data collection and processing were among the many U.S. government programs and services interrupted by the October 1-November 12, 2025 U.S. government shutdown. Learn more: blog.popdata.org/2025-u-s-gov...

1/ The BLS has published an FAQ about the November Current Population Survey (CPS data). bls.gov/cps/methods/... (Recall, in his press conference Powell mentioned "technical" issues with some November surveys.)

ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:

Time diary data have boundless potential for research hinging on understanding human behavior, but the data are complex! New pub w/@sarahflood.bsky.social, @juliariveradrew.bsky.social & Liana Sayer "Increasing the Usability of the American Time Use Survey: IPUMS ATUS" www.mdpi.com/2306-5729/10...

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)

Upcoming deadlines for responding to the USDA termination of the CPS Food Security supplement. ➡️TODAY: submit a comment on the importance of these data: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... ➡TOMORROW: sign onto the @popassocamerica.bsky.social letter: form.jotform.com/252865538947...

Rita Hamad, professor of social epidemiology and public policy, explains why losing the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System puts the health of mothers and infants at risk, and how she hopes to help keep its data accessible. “Without data, we can’t fix problems,” says @ritahamad.bsky.social

Americans have gotten more than $21 billion back in their bank accounts after being cheated and scammed by big corporations, thanks to the CFPB. But Trump and his Administration love grifters and scammers. So they're trying to kill the agency holding them accountable.

TAKE ACTION: Have your organization sign on to support the Census Bureau. ➡️ Our colleagues at The Census Project drafted a letter to the leaders of the House and Senate Appropriations Committee with some important (budget and methodology) requests for the FY 2026 Commerce, Justice, Science bill.

Economists! We’re hiring an assistant professor who focuses on domestic labor or public economics. The Humphrey School is wonderful and Minneapolis is the best city ever in my humble opinion. More details here: hr.myu.umn.edu/psc/hrprd/EM...

Just sayin' 😉

A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy. Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

@bradytwest.bsky.social @drjasonbrinkley.bsky.social @asa-scipol.bsky.social @aapor.bsky.social @clairemkbowen.bsky.social @csmarcum.bsky.social @nickhartphd.bsky.social Lots of our #srms colleagues got RIFd last week. I wrote to get them reinstated. #statssky #CDC #defenddata

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