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David F. Warner @dwarnersoc.bsky.social · Nov 21

Population Research and Policy Review (PRPR), published in affiliation with @sda-demography.bsky.social, is looking to add Associate Editors to our team.

See the call below. Spread the word. #Demography #PopulationStudies #Academsky

Call for Associate Editors

The Editors-in-Chief of Population Research and Policy Review (PRPR) are currently seeking applications for Associate Editors with expertise in the following areas:

• Fertility
• Maternal/Child Health
• Family Demography
• Aging
• Climate/Environmental Demography
• Economic/ Labor Demography

Scholars in the above areas who also have expertise in LMICs, Qualitative Methods, SGM populations are especially encouraged to apply.

Expectations and responsibilities will be adjusted according to Rank and Tenure status.

Interested scholars should send an email indicating their interest and areas of expertise, along with their updated CV, to:

Dr. David F. Warner, Co-Editor-in-Chief of PRPR, University of Alabama at Birmingham (dwarner3 [at] uab [dot] edu) by January 6, 2025

After an initial review, applicants will be contacted for additional information.

Population Research and Policy Review (PRPR) is an interdisciplinary Springer journal published in cooperation with the Southern Demographic Association (SDA). PRPR receives approximately 400 submissions per year and has a 25% acceptance rate. The 2023 Impact Factor was 2.6 and the journal ranks in Q1 of Demography outlets

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 10d

I have lived and worked in and around Chicago for 27 years and I have been assaulted less often than Sen Paul has been in his own back yard.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10d

Rand Paul: "Chicago is a nightmare. It is literally a war zone."

David F. Warner @dwarnersoc.bsky.social · 14d

Excited to announce that UAB has joined with UMD and UMBC to launch the Southern Population Aging Research Center (SPARC), supported by National Institute on Aging.

Read more at: www.uab.edu/news/researc...

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · Sep 8

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph:

link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

"Just the other day, I was in the audience at Lincoln Center when Justice Amy Coney Barrett said, while promoting a new book, that she doesn't think the United States is in a constitutional crisis," Farias told us. "Today, the Supreme Court, without offering a single line of reasoning, more or less declared that the Fourth Amendment, which protects everyone from unreasonable searches and seizures, nonetheless allows the Trump Administration to arrest and detain anyone who looks Latino, citizen or not, on account of the language that they speak or the kind of jobs they do. The ruling putatively covers the Los Angeles area, but the effect could be national," he continued.
"If that's not a constitutional crisis, then what is?"

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David F. Warner @dwarnersoc.bsky.social · Sep 8

A perfect description. 🤢

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Sep 8

It's hard to say whether dignity or democracy had a worse day today.

If today had a taste, it would be the stale vomit-y grossness of Day 2 of a 48-hour stomach flu.

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David F. Warner @dwarnersoc.bsky.social · Sep 4

Local man— who spent years pouring gasoline on the ground, passing out matches, and getting an arsonist installed as Fire Chief— says that town in real danger of burning down.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump’s second presidency is ‘most dangerous period’ since second world war, Mitch McConnell says

Former Senate leader likens administration’s fixation with tariffs to isolationist policies of the US in the 1930s

www.theguardian.com

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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · Sep 4

As an aside: Marrazzo was an incredible resource for Alabama and Alabama reporters during the COVID pandemic, when she was at UAB. Smart, knowledgeable and accessible.

Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · Sep 4

Former infectious-diseases chief Jeanne Marrazzo and international-research chief Kathleen Neuzil allege in a whistleblower complaint they were removed from their posts after objecting to Trump administration efforts to undermine vaccines, flout court orders, withhold research money, NYT reports.

Whistle-Blower Complaints Detail Tension Over Vaccines at N.I.H.

www.nytimes.com

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · Sep 4

Senate Dems are just totally unprepared for this moment. We need new leaders there - and it’s now clear we need new Senators.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · Sep 4

Dems' plan is to help the GOP win the midterms (including State elections) by delaying ACA cuts until just after the midterms, when the ACA will be gutted just the same and the GOP will still control everything and wreak more havoc.

Dems aren't even asking for anything beyond that. What a disgrace.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · Sep 4

There’s a New Budget Showdown. Senate Dems’ Current Plan Is Bullshit talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/there...

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David F. Warner @dwarnersoc.bsky.social · Aug 29

Words to live by!

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Aug 28

One more time, shout out to the very serious people who suggested that RFK had some really good points about public health. No way to have predicted how things would turn out, except to look at his past record and everything he said about vaccines.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Apr 30

Surely with RFK Jr.s nuanced and careful public health messaging, trust in public health is at an all-time high.

headline: There’s a Better Way to Talk About Fluoride, Vaccines and Raw Milk
by emily oster

headline
RFK Jr revealed what is missing in public health messaging
by Emily Oster

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · Aug 28

Dr. Demetre, in his resignation from the CDC, said this:

“I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people”.

It is an outrage that RFK Jr. remains as head of HHS.

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Population Association of America @popassocamerica.bsky.social · Aug 26

PAA joined more than 90 scientific, academic, and professional orgs to sign this letter to Director Kratsios at White House OSTP: buff.ly/dosN52k

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David F. Warner @dwarnersoc.bsky.social · Aug 21

Science and Freedom Alliance - SAFA @safa-science.bsky.social · Aug 21

The Ct of Fed Claims move is just a legal fig leaf the Court holds up as they allow Trump to redirect NIH funding, irrespective of Congress’s directives.

The district and circuit court records are clear. A non-corrupt Court would not have interfered. This is the Court finding a way to back Trump.

Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · Aug 21

TL;DR: 5 justices say Trump doesn't have to immediately restore the funding, but 5 *also* signal that the underlying directives are unlawful.

That sends a fairly strong (if mixed) message that Trump will lose these cases *eventually,* but only once they're brought in the Court of Federal Claims.

David F. Warner @dwarnersoc.bsky.social · Aug 19

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David F. Warner @dwarnersoc.bsky.social · Aug 19

Planet of the Apes (1968-1973) is one of my all time favorite movie series.

I have often dreamed of teaching Intro to Sociology using the originals. I’m not sure I’d have any enrollment… but the core themes are all there.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Aug 19

planet of the apes!

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Population Research and Policy Review (PRPR) @prpr-journal.bsky.social · Aug 19

🚨New Publication🚨

In the August Issue of #PRPR, England & Xu present evidence that challenges the applicability of Second Demographic Transition theory to the U.S.—where disadvantage predicts cohabitation and non-marital births.

Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

U.S. Women’s First Family-Forming Transitions to Cohabitation or Birth: Differences by Racial and Socioeconomic Disadvantage Challenge the Theory of the Second Demographic Transition - Population Rese...

Which do U.S. women do first—cohabit, have a birth, or marry? At what age do they experience this first family-forming event? How do these patterns differ by race, socioeconomic background, and their ...

link.springer.com

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Population Research and Policy Review (PRPR) @prpr-journal.bsky.social · Aug 18

Population Research and Policy Review (PRPR) is now on Bluesky!

The official journal of @sda-demography.bsky.social, PRPR publishes research of interest to demographers, population scientists, and those working in adjacent fields.

Learn more at sda-demography.org/PRPR-journal.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Aug 15

Here is the Science story on the "priorities" memo...

www.science.org/content/arti...

NIH director orders new review of grants in outline of top research priorities

Many topics on Bhattacharya’s list are familiar, but order to re-evaluate grants draws concerns

www.science.org

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · Aug 15

Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · Aug 15

It is insane to me that the government can find money to pay ICE agents increasingly larger sums of money, yet teachers have to buy their own pencils.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Aug 14

Motherfucker wrote one sloppy paper in April 2020 and instead of being like oops, shit, my bad, he has kept doubling down until now he's killing most promising medical technology of the past quarter century rather than going to therapy.

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Heather Randell @heatherrandell.bsky.social · Aug 13

The Demographic and Health Surveys Program has been saved! At least in part. According to the announcement, “Several donors and host countries are funding the completion of selected surveys.”

Great news for global health in spite of US government’s war on data.

www.dhsprogram.com/Who-we-are/N...

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Aug 13

They go fast when they want to go fast and slow when they want to go to slow and the decision is *always* an ideological one.

Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · Aug 12

Supreme Court Fast-Tracks Potential Demolition of Section 2 of Voting Rights Act by Setting Argument October 15 in Louisiana Case, Possibly in Time to Affect 2026 Midterm Elections electionlawblog.org?p=151533

Supreme Court Fast-Tracks Potential Demolition of Section 2 of Voting Rights Act by Setting Argument October 15 in Louisiana Case, Possibly in Time to Affect 2026 Midterm Elections #ELB

We know the Supreme Court dallied a long time in setting the Louisiana case for reargument, only recently adding a doozy of a question in this racial gerrymandering case that could tee up a potential ...

electionlawblog.org

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Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · Aug 13

A black tee shirt with white lettering which reads “generative AI is ruining your brain and the planet”

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · Aug 12

Jay Bhattacharya saying we’re cutting mRNA research because the public has lost faith in them. 🤬🤬🤬

Suspect Guilty GIF

ALT: Suspect Guilty GIF

media.tenor.com

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Population Association of America @popassocamerica.bsky.social · Aug 12

We are excited to announce the #PAA2026 Call for Papers is now available! The submission site opens on Monday, Aug. 18 and the deadline is Sunday, Oct. 5. Meet me in St. Louis! May 6-9, 2026:
www.populationassociation.org/paa2026/call...

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David F. Warner @dwarnersoc.bsky.social · Aug 9

Confirmation (bias) that it’s a good thing that I drink 4+ cups of black coffee each day.