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

Our public money to support research at our universities is mandated by our Congress. It is not the personal slush fund of the president, to withhold at will or dole out as largesse, rewarding those who please him. Those who seek reform of universities can use laws, not arbitrary extortion.

The first reports of what would eventually be called AIDS and its causative agent identified as HIV were published in the MMWR in 1981 alerting health care and public health systems across the country. A tremendous loss for public health.

❗❗❗ You may have heard that USDA ended a long-running data collection on food insecurity and called it "redundant." Our friends @kcww.bsky.social and Isabel Pastoor at @ipums.bsky.social fact-checked that claim. Read what they found: blog.popdata.org/food-securit...

Incredible. Trump drags the reputation of a highly regarded economist, first Black woman to be a Fed gov, thru the mud claiming she committed mortgage fraud. But the documents his appointee to run Fannie & Freddie got for him & that he said showed fraud don’t actually say that.

Openly telling us that the goal is to completely politicize the Federal Reserve and monetary policy.

Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.

UPDATE: Governor Cook has issued a statement. “President Trump purported to fire me ‘for cause’ when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so. I will not resign. I will continue to carry out my duties to help the American economy as I have been doing since 2022.”

Day two of the Data-Intensive Research Conference is officially underway (thanks @hpostel.bsky.social for kicking us off)! @ipums.bsky.social @umnlifecourse.bsky.social

Wonderful lunch and keynote today at the Data-Intensive Research Conference @umnlifecourse.bsky.social

Off to a great start here at the Data-Intensive Research Conference! @umnlifecourse.bsky.social

Today is going to be an IPUMStastic day 💙 @ipums.bsky.social @umnlifecourse.bsky.social

there is a search going on right now at minnehaha falls for missing 12 year old child victoria alexandria jackson and they need more people helping if anyone can go join, please share this flyer!!!

The 2024 NHIS data are now available through IPUMS NHIS, with updates to nearly 700 existing variables from core and rotating sections, along with new variables on loneliness, long COVID, and GLP medication intake. nhis.ipums.org/nhis/

Packed house for the @ipums.bsky.social workshop on full count data ahead of the Data-Intensive Research Conference!

With government statistics, it's pretty simple. If you liked the February, March, and April numbers, then you have to accept all the next ones, too. They are produced in the exact same way, it's what the computer spits out, based on the inputs provided. You do not get to cherry pick your stats.

As US social scientists we should do all we can to protect the integrity of the federal statistics we rely upon in our teaching and research — on labor, crime, health, demography, education, climate, and pretty much everything else we study.

For six months, I've said that threats to economic data have been more collateral damage than intentional harm. No longer. Firing the head of the BLS is five-alarm intentional harm to the integrity of US economic data and the entire statistical system.

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The IPUMS API now includes support for metadata browsing and data extracts for IPUMS IHGIS, as do ipumspy and ipumsr. Find them at tech.popdata.org/ipumsr and ipumspy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

NEW: The Trump administration said their research did not "enhance health, lengthen life, or reduce illness." Thousands of scientists disagreed. We heard from +150 researchers impacted by the NIH grant terminations on what is being lost in the cuts. 🧵👇 projects.propublica.org/nih-cuts-res...

🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday 📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj

We are so honored to be recognized as the Research, Science & Technology Institution of the Year at the Geospatial World Leadership Awards. We're committed democratizing access to global population data and advancing geospatial research. geospatialworld.net/news/press-r...

I know there is a lot going on right now. If you are an #IPUMS data user and you have 3 minutes in your Friday, please complete this survey. Tell us what we can improve about IPUMS and what is perfect exactly as it is.

Federal statistical agencies depend on the specialized knowledge of senior staff. The current administration has proposed a change that further threatens the expertise and resilience of federal statistical infrastructure. **Respond to the FR and contact your reps TODAY**

Congratulations!

🙏 We need your help 🙏 The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like. We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants: NIH: forms.gle/J2znQ7y7YpeP... NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... w/ @noamross.net

IPUMS microdata access sites are down for scheduled maintenance this morning. This affects IPUMS USA, IPUMS CPS, IPUMS International, IPUMS Global Health, IPUMS Health Surveys, IPUMS Time Use, and IPUMS Higher Ed. Sorry for the inconvenience!

I just saw that a colleague’s grant on birth outcomes in Black families was terminated yesterday with what appears to be the same statement. The terminations are spreading and it’s chilling.

Today’s news about Columbia should be a clear warning to all institutions. No amount of decrying your loyalty will grant you protection from Trump. It only erodes your capability to fight back later. bsky.app/profile/eliz...

And that’s why it’s important that we don’t confuse what’s going on with a loyalty test. A lot of institutions are complying with Trump and Musk’s wishes, hoping it means they’ll gain power. And it just won’t work. They need to fight back and hang on to the power they already have.

Webinar covering interoperability of DHS, MICS, and PMA data from IPUMS Global Health just kicking off (still time to join us live): z.umn.edu/Global-Healt...

"impatience with bipartisanship and for colleagues who don’t understand new media." Not a mention of authoritarianism. I'm impatient with journalists who won't name reality.

The Demographic and Heath Survey program received their USAID termination email last night www.linkedin.com/posts/caren-...

CDC Shutters PRAMS Program on Maternal and Infant Health. Story by @joshtpm.bsky.social talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/cdc-s...

Dear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email ([email protected]) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity.

⏰⚠️🚨I suggest that #econsky contribute to this survey! Mention your papers, policy briefs, anything where U rely on data produced by the US federal Gov't. Surveys, ACS, health data, GIS files, satellite data, agriculture data, environmental data. Whether you got it from Gov't or via others.

Melissa and I wrote about our research being purged... www.minnpost.com/community-vo...

The "Gulf of America" thing is ridiculous, but if the press gives in on this, the administration will just keep pushing - maybe conditioning access on deadnaming people, saying Trump won the 2020 election, you name it. Draw a line in the sand now, while the stakes seem small.

Many in biotech/private sector are boasting about their ways of funding and doing science But they are staffed with PhDs and postdocs we train in our NIH and NSF funded labs in universities With university labs lacking funds to train, the private sector will be profoundly harmed

If you use federal data, please sign this!