Free and subsidized food programs are complex, expensive, and ineffective for older adults. Our experts break down the key limitations of community-based food programs for #olderadults in the final brief from our #SUFoodInsecuritySeries: surface.syr.edu/lerner/283/. @maxwellsu.bsky.social

Who could've predicted this?
@brianralexander.bsky.social

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Wow! How the US labor market has changed -

Large drops in shares of farming & blue collar jobs
Big increases in shares of professional and service jobs
https://conversableeconomist.com/2024/12/12/the-changing-us-labor-market/

You cannot effectively delete what is posted publicly on Bluesky. Data scientists (not affiliated with Bluesky) and commercial companies capture it all live, every comma and em dash.

Anything said in the heat of the moment could follow you to a job interview ten years from now.

Capisce?

In our Sept issue learn how Covid-19 changed the effects of county contexts on mortality: bit.ly/45Y8noc
Policy brief: bit.ly/4nqPLDc
By Jennifer Karas Montez @smonnat.bsky.social Emily E. Wiemers Douglas A. Wolf Xue Zhang
@cprmaxwell.bsky.social @syracuseu.bsky.social @cornelluniversity.bsky.social

If I want snarky and unhelpful commentary, I will make actual human friends...

Congratulations to CPR Director, @smonnat.bsky.social on being elected president of the Rural Sociological Society (RSS)!

RSS promotes knowledge about rural people and places and seeks to enhance the quality of life and environment in rural communities.

www.maxwell.syr.edu/news/article...

Senate committee rejects NIH cuts, boosts budget by $400 million | STAT www.statnews.com/2025/07/31/n...

Shana! 7!!? I limit myself to 3 per year. Only way to not get totally maddened by it.

One reason so many American hospitals are struggling? Investors buy them up, then suck them dry, charging such high rents that services are gutted.
Reveal explores what happened to one Louisiana hospital when Medical Properties Trust came to town. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Unless policymakers regulate the food industry, the 'Make America Healthy Again' movement is just a public relations campaign, says CPC Fellow Lindsey Smith-Taillie.
www.seattletimes.com/opinion/maha...

Penguins always look like they’re yelling “hold on I’m comin” when they waddle... 😅🤣

Daniel Baldwin accidentally walked into my SU Intro to Sociology class in 2018, thinking he was there for a guest lecture for a media class. A student had a seizure in class while he was there.

I played craps with Flava Flav at South Point casino in Vegas.

After 20+ years of running at full speed in academia, I’m stepping into a new phase—less Bear, more Beef. A reflection on ambition, burnout, and what it means to let go of prestige to make room for purpose. Check out my new post on The Food Archive: shorturl.at/uyVsC

Written by the bipartisan co-chairs of the Aspen Institute rural health meeting I attended a couple of weeks ago. It summarizes one of the takeaway messages from our report - cuts to Medicaid will be devastating for rural health care and rural health.

www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...

The Graduate Center community deeply mourns the passing of Prof. Emeritus Richard Alba, a pathbreaking demographer who bucked conventional ideas about how immigrants assimilate into and impact mainstream U.S. culture www.gc.cuny.edu/news/memoria...

RFK Jr. wants to Make America Healthy Again. But he's ignoring the country's leading cause of preventable deaths: smoking.

Durbin to Bhattacharya: "I can't understand it. I disagree w/ this admin on so many things. But this is the one that really gets to me personally. To think this nation would walk away from medical research. For God's sake...cancer, your budget requests a 38% cut to the National Cancer Institute"

That's the best! 🤣🤣

Huh, sort of reminds me of this little piece. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Whoops! Damn data again. We really gotta stop tracking this stuff so people can lie more freely.

"American life expectancy in 1960 was almost ten years shorter than it is today: 69.7 years. And the leading causes of death were, in fact, chronic diseases."

www.npr.org/2025/06/06/n...

I mean...how can he compete with the golden mugs? They always look happy.