Life course researchers, presumably.

Xi's new NDC calls for only 7-10% ghg reductions by 2035. This is deeply disappointing, more consistent with 3 degrees C of warming than 2.5, let alone 2 or 1.5. Of course Trump is worse and this is still directionally correct, but this is pathetic for the state that wants to be the climate leader.

Possibly forever.

Look forward to US zoom meetings until January 2029

HHS Secretary RFK Jr. wants to find the causes of #autism by September. Erin McCanlies has spent the past 20yrs studying how parents’ exposure to chemicals at work affects the chance that they will have a child with the condition. RFK Jr. cut her entire lab. My latest video for @propublica.org

Trumpism will eat itself.

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One more week left to apply for a 3-year postdoc in Demography (deadline: Sept 30, 12:00 midday UK time). Join me at the Sociology Department in Oxford to study global fertility change as part of the DIVREP project!👇

It’s really all we should be talking about today.

Post now deleted, more or less confirming it was a DM. Great opsec!

Hell of a photo by my former Chicago Tribune colleague Stacey Wescott from a protest today at an ICE facility in the Chicago suburbs. Read the sign at the bottom. @staceywescott.bsky.social

Data doctoring ongoing!

today in what in the absolute f

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

Not many people know this, but one of the powers that the Framers of the Constitution came THIS close to granting the President was the ability to decide who would host late night television shows. It's only thanks to Ben Franklin's last minute intervention that this was taken out of Article II.

Nothing to add.

First single-author pub out in SSM! It shows a mechanism underlying the intergenerational transmission of health inequality: high-SES families buffer genetic propensity for obesity & overweight, while low-SES environments trigger it 🌍🧬⚖️ OA: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/5

Og Nostradamus skrev: Den dagen @aliesbati.bsky.social retwitrer Carl Bildt, vet du at verden er i skikkelig trøbbel

So right-wing oligarchs now control X, Facebook, TikTok, WaPo, Fox News, CBS...and others not controlled by them are capitulating. Do I have that right?

Just submitted a journal review _hours_ after receiving the invite! Please congratulate.

Seems like quite a moment. This morning, the UK was powered entirely by low-carbon energy, it seems. Yes it's windy and sunny. But it's still a milestone.

Ah, but he was civil. And white. So it's all fine :D :D: D

Feel like I’m going insane with the revisionist history that Charlie Kirk fostered open debate. He chilled speech and his targeting of professors for wrongthink led to threats, harassment, and being forced out of their jobs. His legacy is chilling speech right now, about him

Elon Musk dials into a Tommy Robinson rally to say “whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you, you either fight back or you die” Musk, who doesn’t live here & and never has, is trying to make people who do fear for their lives. It’s an open attempt to create a culture of fear.

Involuntary euthanasia??

FOX news hosts suggesting to kill homeless people.

1. Azerbaijan hasn't been at war with Albania. Trump confuses Albania with Armenia. But he wants credit, a Nobel Prize, for ending a war in which he can't identify the parties. 2. The Fox hosts are too ignorant or too sycophantic to correct him. 3. Imagine if Biden had said this.

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An amazing resource

Seconded!

Receipts, courtesy of @moiradonegan.bsky.social, on the Trump's plans to decriminalize domestic violence to bring down crime stats. Some of you may recall that Putin did exactly the same thing in 2017: www.theguardian.com/world/2017/f... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Russia will push NATO further and further. Next time there will be more drones and maybe they will hit a field somewhere. Then they will hit an old factory building. Then it will become normalized etc. This is what decades of appeasement has led to.

It's not coming as a massive air assault against Warsaw and Berlin followed by thousands of tanks. Instead it's creeping upon Europe in small steps. Each step small enough to fall under the threshold for a military respons. Slowly, slowly we are crawling towards an all out war in Europe.

"Social science genetics encompasses the longest causal chain in science: from DNA to human culture."

Fra en dag til en annen

Hey, remember the time when the No. 2 official at the Justice Department, who once was Trump‘s personal attorney, visited a convicted sex criminal, and then that convicted sex criminal was transferred to a cushy prison?

Student, to professor: "I'm not entirely sure this is legal to be teaching, because according to our president there's only two genders... and I don't want to promote something that is against our president's laws as well as against my religious beliefs" www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...

Happy election day, Norway :) We are hyper-focused on the wealth tax and equality domestically, but not so much focused on the inherent inequality of profiting from selling a planet-heating product that worsens human life and society mostly elsewhere on the planet :)

Bit depressing how much current politics is defined by two ten year old tweets. Matches well with the peak of Twitters cultural/political significance

The ‘it’s not fascism’ thesis has been subdued by blunt force trauma

A Revived Focus on an Unproven Link Between Tylenol and Autism www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/h...

In case you missed it @saidhassan.bsky.social just pulled off an ESR/ECSR grand slam, winning best article, dissertation, *and* reviewer. @europeansocreview.bsky.social #ECSR2025

A new research project about sexual and reproductive outcomes of violent crime in Mexico is recruiting two PhD students. The project is lead by Signe Svallfors who has received the five year starting grant from European Research Council. www.su.se/department-o... @signesvallfors.bsky.social

«Akkurat nå gir jeg det amerikanske demokratiet 50/50 sjanse til å overleve Donald Trump», sier Carl Henrik Knutsen. Han er professor i statsvitenskap ved Universitetet i Oslo og en av Norges fremste demokratiforskere. www.aftenposten.no/shared/verde...

Weimar "illustrates the dangerous logic of abdication: the belief that, faced with a rising threat to democracy, surrender is strategy, cooperating with an autocrat is survival, and sparing oneself or one’s party from immediate punishment is worth opening the door to long-term authoritarian rule"