NYT running unfounded headlines claiming women are bad for the workplace. Economist running unfounded headlines claiming universal childcare is bad for kids. We said Project Gilead was underway. People called us hysterical.

I want to make a joke about the discovery of DNA, but someone will just steal it.

Raise a glass for Rosalind Franklin tonight and honor her memory and scientific contributions

Every month for the last 77 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated Americans' unemployment rate This streak dies tomorrow Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months This blind spot will remain forever

Democrats have flipped 2 seats in the Mississippi senate, and in so doing they've broken the GOP's supermajority in the chamber.

Flying home Friday should be fun... www.npr.org/2025/11/05/n...

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

San Diego Airport... end of an era

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I'm old enough to have seen Fivel in the theatre.

New study finds more generous state safety net policies w/ fewer administrative barriers are linked to better birth outcomes, esp for marginalized groups. Very relevant finding in current policy environment! doi.org/10.1016/j.so... @gabeschwartz.bsky.social @npwf.bsky.social @donmoyn.bsky.social

My research team has published research showing that malnutrition and hunger in childhood are long-term risk factors for dementia decades later in life. Makes me think about the long-term health consequences of withholding SNAP benefits from families.

The party of "destroy regulations" could, I dunno, maybe start with abolishing this nonsense.

If you're wondering how things have been going since the CDC shooting, someone bombed a friend's workplace at Harvard yesterday and, if you were going off the discourse on Bluesky, you would honestly never know it happened www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/u...

The strategy: turn healthcare into The Hunger Games

Regardless of which team you wanted to win (congrats/condolences), this world series was wild.

Traffic fatalities for kids rise on Halloween. Drive carefully. Study of 42 years of Halloweens and 1 ,580,608 traffic crashes reveals relative risk of a pedestrian fatality is 43% higher on Halloween compared with control evenings. A typical Halloween results in 4 additional pedestrian deaths.

I keep seeing people say, oh, trans people must take a hit for the greater good and, first of all, no, you don't get to discard someone else's rights and second, we know from past experience that marginalized communities like theirs are merely the first to be targeted. They'll come for you next.

Can someone do a welfare check on the CA Republican party? This is the ad they're running. I mean... Do you think it's a cry for help?

“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”

Today is day 30 of the government shutdown and day 41 since House Republicans last showed up for work. There is no reason for Speaker Johnson to keep the House out of session. Congress must return to D.C. NOW and get back to work serving our constituents.

Why is it that every disappeared US citizen is not front page news? At the very least we should have a little box with a count of the number of citizens who have been taken away and are not locatable and a link to a story with photos & min-bios, just as we used to do with military casually figures.

Transportation friends:

"According to his running club, the man, who is a U.S. citizen, was returning from a team run when agents pulled him out of his vehicle, tackled him to the ground and kneeled on top of him, allegedly breaking six ribs and causing internal bleeding"

Correcting the record, line by line... and uncovering some new shady stuff in the process.

Highly recommend reading

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Do you wish you had an infographic that would help explain the effect of cuts across the federal government--from USDA to FEMA to USAID? Well, I just learned that The Poster Project has you covered. posterproject.us

Reminder... ending SNAP benefits is a policy *choice*

Congressional Republicans shut down the government and now 42 million Americans risk losing their food assistance in November. I joined my colleagues to demand USDA use available funding and its legal authority to deliver benefits. Congress provided this funding for exactly this reason.

This, folks, is the appropriate time for "thoughts and prayers." When everything has been done that can be done... and it's too early to start recovery work. May everyone get through the night safely.

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"Right now, you can think of it as a numbers factory and the raw materials come in and these indicators come out. The absence of that would be, I fear, one of two things..." Read as @amy-ohara.bsky.social discusses "What happens when no one trusts a country’s economic data" with @pbsnews.org

Just like the em dash, you'll pull ! out of my cold, dead hands.

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Every accusation is him telling on himself.

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MAHA’s out here all smug with their lies about vaccines and sat fats while the same administration cuts nutrition benefits for children. Talk to me about removing food dyes when every kid in the U.S. has enough to eat. We are the richest country in dollars and the poorest in humanity.

Am torn between being heartened that an overwhelming majority acknowledge what's happening... And horror that some subgroups are still like "Yep! This is great!"

Parent (angry): You shouldn't be teaching data visualization in 1st grade! Teacher (confused): Why not? It's important for numeracy. Parent: My kid is too young for something so graphic.

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)

Please repost: We're looking for an excellent writer/editor with strong data journalism skills to join the religion team at @pewresearch.org. pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Center...

A Marine’s father, wearing a “Proud Marine Dad” hat, was detained while visiting Camp Pendleton and later deported. New reporting suggests the dad was a victim of mistaken identity. This is NOT how we should treat military families in the United States of America.

Very excited to announce that @srhayford.bsky.social, @lesja.bsky.social, and I will be guest-editing a special volume of @prpr-journal.bsky.social on "Contemporary Pronatalism in Demographic Context"! Submissions due March 1, 2026. link.springer.com/collections/...

Oh! THIS is why they canceled all of the food insecurity surveys.

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"Governing" is a niche journal that focuses on government. It is impossible to do their job without covering topics that will criticize incumbent officials. The editor was told not to run articles that would set off alarm bells with the Trump administration. So he quit.

Wild story. The US Federal Reserve has long used additional data from payroll-processing company ADP to buttress official jobs numbers. During the shutdown this third party data is extra important for filling the gap. And ADP has stopped sharing the data. www.wsj.com/economy/cent...

You've probably heard that US fertility is "below replacement level." But what does that actually mean??? Demographers @lesja.bsky.social & others explain the link between birth rates & population growth in this new @ccfamilies.bsky.social brief. contemporaryfamilies.utah.edu/publications...