Such a good article. Read it. We should always be very wary of the meme-ification of science.

Add Cornell to the list

Shame on Cornell.

The optics could not be more straightforward.

Why is it "Breaking News" that someone expects that something might happen a few days from now?

This is cool, but let's see who FIFA's pick is.

Let’s hear more of the dangers of democratic socialism under Mamdani

Join us at our next Brown Bag seminar, Wednesday, November 12th, 12pm PST. Jessica Ho (The Pennsylvania State University) will present, “Routes to High Life Expectancy in High-Income Countries.” Available in-person (310 Social Sciences Building) and via Zoom. events.berkeley.edu/popsci/event...

Check out this conference if you work on topics related to kinship structure and dynamics (within and beyond the household), caregiving, intergenerational processes, family bereavement, LGBTQ+ & chosen kinship, etc. @iussp.bsky.social Submit by 21 Jan 2026 👇 www.demogr.mpg.de/go/kinship-conference

Last week, the Trump admin purged senior leadership at ICE ERO, which leads internal immigration enforcement. Gregory Bovino and the Border Patrol are now increasingly in charge. As former ICE Chief of Staff Jason Houser writes, what we're getting now is theater, not serious law enforcement.

Canada says “elbows up.” I say for America, “cameras out.” Film every last one of these brutal criminals. We will need the evidence for their trials.

Out: Voice of America broadcasts the words of Ronald Reagan to puncture the propaganda of foreign authoritarians. In: A neighboring democracy apologizes to America’s authoritarian president for puncturing his propaganda by broadcasting the words of Ronald Reagan. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/w...

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

While on a speaking tour in the U.S., Sami Hamdi had his visa revoked and was detained by ICE allegedly because of his pro-Palestine advocacy. This is yet another troubling example of the Trump administration weaponizing the immigration system to punish speech it disagrees with.

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Between this and the Louvre prosecutor describing the suspects’ statements as “minimalist” while bragging that they had worked on the case over a weekend it’s an absolutely incredible week for Frenchness

Wow. I did not know that Alfred Russell Wallace (co-discoverer of evolution by natural selection) wrote a book in 1904 about the biological potential for life on other planets, and I've just found this extraordinary paragraph setting out the insanity of atmospheric pollution [1/3]. In 1904!

“Using a consistent cause-of-death classification from 1890-1949, we show infectious diseases—particularly tuberculosis & respiratory infections—accounted for 60–70% of the 25-year gain in life expectancy at age 1, with mortality reductions among children & young adults driving most improvement”

Using his powers to extract tribute from foreign countries, "donors," etc. and then using those extraconstitutional slush funds to bypass the Constitution and the rule of law. Literally the opposite of originalism and a profound threat to the continuation of constitutional democracy in this country.

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New publication with @susanshort.bsky.social in @lancetrh-americ.bsky.social. We analyzed 2025 revisions to womenshealth[dot]gov under the Trump administration -documenting how credible health content was replaced with ideology: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Join us at our next Brown Bag seminar, Wed. Nov. 5, 12pm PST. Hal Caswell (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute & University of Amsterdam) will present, “Inequality in Demographic Outcomes: Contributions of Multiple Social, Biological, and Environmental Factors.” events.berkeley.edu/popsci/event...

Dear U.S. media and commentators: Referring to the lovely Reagan/tariff ad produced by Doug Ford's Conservative government of Ontario as an ad posted by "The Canadian government" is like referring to Gavin Newsom's administration as "The U.S. government." Please up your info-processing game.

I'd need to know more about whether the minister shot in the face with a chemical agent from point-blank range before weighing in on it. Maybe it was good that it happened.

Think about this for a minute

🚨 The Senate votes 52-48 to overturn President Trump's 50 percent tariffs on Brazil. 5 GOP Senators break ranks to vote against Trump: Collins ME, McConnell KY, Murkowski AK, Paul KY, and Tillis NC.

War erupted in Rio de Janeiro between security forces and cartels. At least 60 people were killed in just an hour, including civilians, according to The Guardian. Over 2,500 officers have been deployed, while gangs controlling much of the drug trade declared a citywide lockdown. Streets are blocked.

The raid is already being called the most lethal police action in the history of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

I love this landcover map of the Amazon Basin (2024 data).We can clearly see crop lands creeping in. Source: buff.ly/aUsyu21

🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style. Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.

17th Conference of Young Demographers, 4–6 February 2026, Prague, Czech Republic Deadline for submissions: 27 October 2025 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

BREAKING: CAIR Calls on ICE to Release Sami Hamdi, British Journalist Abducted Over Criticism of Israel’s Genocide tinyurl.com/sxc38ts6

Another in a long list of impeachable offenses. Foreigners and citizens all deserve the right to free speech -- even speech that the government doesn't like. A President who misuses executive power to disrespect this fundamental principal should be removed from office.

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From a crewmember on yesterday's Teal 74 mission into now-Category 5 Hurricane #Melissa. As clear of an eye as you will see in the Atlantic basin.

Tim Walz: "People are gonna be lined up out here to get food, and we're talking about a damn ballroom. Don't lose the plot."

. GOOD MORNING AMERICA . . . 💠 😔 💠 (Carton by @deadder.bsky.social)

Reminder that Scott Bessent's soybean farm is an astronomical conflict of interest and he has pledged to fully divest those holdings by Dec 15

Thousands show up in Tallahassee for #NoKings So proud of my beloved and fearless partner Claudia for her work tonmake this possible

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

It has to be said - again and out loud - that it’s Republicans in Congress who’ve unshackled him.

1000+ at #nokings protest in Tallahassee, Florida. Hamas, antifa, and hate-America presence was extremely well hidden.

Watergate every day

Impeach. Convict. Remove.

Today at Detroit Metro Airport.

Join us at our next Brown Bag seminar, Wed. Oct. 22, 12pm PST. Felix Elwert (University of Wisconsin-Madison) presents, “A New Nonparametric Causal Decomposition of Group Disparities.” This talk will be available in-person or via Zoom. See details in flyer. events.berkeley.edu/popsci/event...

BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

Great line from @thetnholler.bsky.social