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Mark Hayward

@mdhayward.bsky.social

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Population health scientist and demographer. Science thrives on honesty, honor,and commitment to others. Cat dad to two girls who are vying for the record of the longest lived cats.

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Mark Hayward @mdhayward.bsky.social · Nov 20

Spaces like NASEM and #IAPHS. I have written external promotion and tenure letters for epidemiology , geoscience, health policy, and neuroscience more often in the past 3 years than my home discipline of sociology. My takeaway is that our identities are increasingly fluid as we advance in our

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Mark Hayward @mdhayward.bsky.social · 1d

Today in my mortality grad seminar, we focused on what transpired in the US & comparisons with high income countries.The students were shocked by how devastating COVID was to US life expectancy compare to Europe. Then we discussed the Great Barringron Declaration. They were stunned.

Mark Hayward @mdhayward.bsky.social · 4d

A brilliant summary. Thanks.

Mark Hayward @mdhayward.bsky.social · 15d

New evidence showing that educational attainment has a dose-response association with dementia risk throughout the entire distribution of education. 🧪
read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

How Does the Risk of Dementia Change With Each Additional Year of Education? | Demography | Duke University Press

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Mark Hayward @mdhayward.bsky.social · 19d

You deserve kudos for being able to watch this train wreck. I'm low on prozac so avoiding the news media coverage of the vaccines. Got my jab yesterday, and my poor pharmacist was crazy busy giving other folks the jab yesterday too. Clearly, at least some Americans are worried as hell.

Mark Hayward @mdhayward.bsky.social · 21d

If you think the far rights’ proposals to raise US birth rates will work, think again. www.newsweek.com/low-birth-ra...

Low Birth Rates Are Here To Stay | Opinion

Individuals and families need to be supported by a strong social safety net that includes paid leave and a robust child care infrastructure. There are no quick fixes.

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Mark Hayward @mdhayward.bsky.social · 27d

I so agree with you. It’s almost palpable.

Mark Hayward @mdhayward.bsky.social · 27d

Finally, a UA pilot on my last flight commented about the significance of today. He lost 2 friends who were pilots of the UA flights that crashed that day. I’m really glad he said something.

Mark Hayward @mdhayward.bsky.social · 27d

I was thinking about 9/11 today as I was traipsing around airports. I was surprised by the lack of government attention and the media. 9/11 was a turning point in our history and had wide consequences, e.g., the War on Terror, the establishment of Homeland Security and wars in the Middle East. 1/2

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Mark Hayward @mdhayward.bsky.social · 29d

#IAPHS I’m at a population health science conference in Pittsburgh. Researchers from many disciplines have gathered to talk about ways of improving health, bringing in “cells to society” perspectives. So wonderful at a time when HHS has declared war on the health sciences. Science will triumph.

Mark Hayward @mdhayward.bsky.social · Sep 7

I’m traveling for biz. Staying at the Westin in Pittsburgh. I’m in the bar and just watched the bartender help out a street person fill their thermos with ice water. I love this place even more. Kindness. It still exists.

Mark Hayward @mdhayward.bsky.social · Sep 6

It’s shocking isn’t it? I suspect that people actually care more about their pets than they do about kids. A sad state of affairs. Especially for people who are pushing higher fertility.

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Mark Hayward @mdhayward.bsky.social · Sep 6

I continue to have a hard time why Evangelicals and Republicans consciously choose to harm people’s health. That makes my head spin too

Mark Hayward @mdhayward.bsky.social · Sep 5

My head spins when I see vaccine resistance—especially for children. Children’s lives in today’s world are at serious risk because of vaccine resistance. How do I know?Because of a real life counterfactual. Yeah, science

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Mark Hayward @mdhayward.bsky.social · Sep 3

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Some days I wonder whether Kennedy will start staffing CDC with witch doctors. Clearly, the germ theory of disease has been demoted within CDC.

Breaking: RFK Jr. seeks to rush 7 new members to CDC vaccine panel.

We have breaking news that I believe we are first to report here in Inside Medicine.

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Mark Hayward @mdhayward.bsky.social · Sep 1

I hear you!

Mark Hayward @mdhayward.bsky.social · Sep 1

When the USSR was collapsing, they stopped publishing life tables because life expectancy was rapidly declining between 1974 and 1986. That’s one of the indicators the CIA used to gauge the level of internal rot in the USSR. Makes me wonder whether the US will continue publishing its life tables.

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Mark Hayward @mdhayward.bsky.social · Aug 29

I’d really prefer not to go to Mexico or Canada for my Covid booster. Just saying.

Mark Hayward @mdhayward.bsky.social · Aug 28

It makes me wonder whether plastic sandwiches attached to DC residents’ backpacks, briefcases, cars, and bicycles might have a similar effect on the occupation of DC by the military and ICE, our own American Gestapo. Protest with a sense of humor.

Mark Hayward @mdhayward.bsky.social · Aug 28

Years ago UT students protested the Texas Lege allowing guns on campus. The students started a passive protest, “Cocks for Glocks.” They attached dildoes to their backpacks, bicycles, whatever. The campus was flooded with sex toys to affirm how stupid our Lege was. 1/

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Mark Hayward @mdhayward.bsky.social · Aug 28

Education is now what defines social class in the United States.

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42% of Americans who get news from Fox News have ≤ a high school degree. No English language news source studied has higher audience share without any college education. https://lnkd.in/eHPpEF6s | Con...

42% of Americans who get news from Fox News have ≤ a high school degree. No English language news source studied has higher audience share without any college education. https://lnkd.in/eHPpEF6s

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Mark Hayward @mdhayward.bsky.social · Aug 24

Definitely!

Mark Hayward @mdhayward.bsky.social · Aug 24

Summer in Austin is now 24 days longer than it was 30 years ago. A longer summer is the case just about everywhere in the US. Maybe that’s why the feds are closing down climate research and disappearing the data.

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Mark Hayward @mdhayward.bsky.social · Aug 23

Perfect description.

Mark Hayward @mdhayward.bsky.social · Aug 23

So true

Mark Hayward @mdhayward.bsky.social · Aug 22

Here’s an example — among so many — of how the GOP kills great institutions — but is incapable of building them.

www.texastribune.org/2025/08/21/u...

UT System nixes faculty senates, approves restrictions on campus protests

The changes are in response to new state laws seeking to limit faculty’s influence and put guardrails on campus demonstrations.

www.texastribune.org

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