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While working on these studies, this was the finding that I couldn't stop thinking about. Reproductive justice folks warned us about this.

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

If you are one of the #CDC #HHS #FDA #NIH employees who have learned today that your employment is being abruptly ended, we want to hear from you. @altcdc.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/f...

submitted 14 days ago • 6 comments

Our two papers on abortion bans and fertility/infant mortality are now out. In 14 states w/ abortion bans, fertility increased 1.7% and infant mortality increased 6%. Key takeaway is that these impacts were disproportionately felt among those w/ greatest structural disadvantages. Links below.

submitted 15 days ago • 9 comments

in case it's helpful to anyone, here are the email drafts I just sent to my mom and sister (both non-scientists) to have them contact their reps: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

This is a de facto massive budget cut to research universities. We are talking Great Recession size impacts.

submitted 21 days ago • 97 comments

Every email: "I hope you are managing during these uncertain times."

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

The CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey has monitored the wellbeing of America’s high school students since 1991. Since 2015, it’s been a vital source of data on LGBQ youth. In 2023, it provided the first ever nationally representative sample of transgender teens. As of this morning, it’s gone.

submitted 28 days ago • 35 comments

The CDC has begun purging data. Example: The youth risk behavior survey...

submitted 28 days ago • 7 comments

A colleague asked whether I thought the government would continue the public release of its data products. The data from CDC health monitoring surveys, decades of data on mortality, crime data, climate data of a variety of types that go back for years, etc. 1/

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

Anyone else working now to download as many public use cdc data files as possible? 🫠

submitted 28 days ago • 8 comments

According to this article, they have ordered CDC/NCHS to stop releasing data. Make sure you've downloaded what you need, #EpiSky. Some of the executive orders affect variables in these datasets.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Now IUSSP is also on Bluesky! More excellent demography accounts to follow 😊 bsky.app/profile/iuss... #demography #PopulationStudies #AcademicChatter

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

📢 Exciting Opportunity! Vienna Institute of Demography Wittgenstein Centre & OEAW is seeking a PhD Student to join the Population Data and Projections Research Group. 📊📉 📍Vienna, Austria 📅 Deadline: January 31st, 2025 🔗https://www.oeaw.ac.at/fileadmin/subsites/Jobs/VID/VID181DOC124.pdf

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

New NSFG survey data available 🎉👍 Response rate 23% 👎🥺😢 User Guide warns caution in making comparisons over time, which limits the value of this data. 💔

submitted 79 days ago • 3 comments

PFRH's @alisongemmill.bsky.social guests on the latest episode of Vox Media's Explain It to Me podcast, providing scientific context to help answer the question: Is Cuffing Season real? Snuggle up and listen now: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

I had so much fun participating in this podcast about cuffing season. I got to talk about one of my favorite subjects-- seasonality of reproductive outcomes (around the 15 min mark)! The episode also features some great data about spikes in user activity on dating apps. #demography

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

A new CDC report came out showing how little people are able to access contraception in the US. I talked to @cnn.com about what that looks like locally and how we stayed open to help make it better. www.cnn.com/2024/12/11/h...

submitted 79 days ago • 4 comments

The coolest postdoc I know is now accepting applications: 🧪🔬THE WITTIG POSTDOC IN FEMINIST BIOLOGY🧪🔬 Our interdisciplinary program @ UW Madison seeks to train the next generation of feminist scientists/scholars of science Please share widely and read more here: crgw.gws.wisc.edu/scholarships...

submitted 88 days ago • 2 comments

I know everyone is talking about Matt Gaetz but please don't miss this: Georgia fired every single person on its maternal mortality review committee. Why? They didn't like that reporters found out that the state's ban killed two women www.propublica.org/article/geor...

submitted 99 days ago • 157 comments

This is how they cover up what abortion bans do — fire anyone who helps tell the stories of harm. Everyone who is or can be pregnant will pay the price. www.propublica.org/article/geor...

submitted 99 days ago • 54 comments

I'm so glad that we are rebuilding #AcademicTwitter and #ScienceTwitter! They were extremely important communities, and their decline was a genuine loss. I am grateful and hopeful that Bluesky is giving us the chance to rebuild these remarkable human networks. #AcademicSky #ScienceSky

submitted 100 days ago • 2 comments

We're hiring at the associate level in the field of population research at UW-Madison. The call takes a broad view of what constitutes population research, and is agnostic as to research methods. Apply here! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/associate-professor-of-sociology-madison-wisconsin-united-states

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

Linda Greenhouse: "So now we find ourselves in a new natalist moment when the top lawyers of three states feel free to call openly on the federal courts for help in making women have more babies." www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/o...

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

Starter Packs feels a bit like making a mixtape to this 80s kid... I ran into the max number pretty fast so apologies to anyone I missed and I'll have to make a Volume II!: go.bsky.app/2ZUFQtv

submitted 102 days ago • 24 comments

We know that socio-historical experiences shape lifetime lifecourse exposures. What is less clear are the consequences for later-life health outcomes. Here is an example of how major migration patterns played a role in shaping dementia risk for US Blacks and Whites. tinyurl.com/4j93fvck

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: Private schools across the South that were established for white children during desegregation are now benefiting from tens of millions in taxpayer dollars flowing from rapidly expanding voucher-style programs, a @propublica analysis found. www.propublica.org/article/segr...

submitted 102 days ago • 190 comments

Check your carrots. The CDC warns of a bad E. coli outbreak across at least 18 states with one death identified so far.

submitted 103 days ago • 61 comments

For PhD students close to finishing, you may be wondering about postdocs. @ermayeda.bsky.social wrote this nice essay a few years ago. Still very relevant. #EpiSky #AcademicSky www.linkedin.com/pulse/postdo...

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment

Someone had to do it! I created a starter pack for #Alzheimer’s #dementia #ADRD researchers on Bluesky. Please let me know who I left out! Hoping more and more of us will join Bluesky go.bsky.app/22DpUEy

submitted 105 days ago • 73 comments