Carl Schmertmann
@cschmert.bsky.social
Demographer Emeritus Professor of Economics Florida State University Tallahassee, Florida, USA 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇹🇼 🇵🇸 Anti-ICE account 8647
They could always sign up to give comment at a public meeting.
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 18h agoNew York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Just amazing to see it in writing even though we knew all along.
Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · 2d ago"The Trump administration admitted that it terminated nearly 300 federal research grants 'solely because' the projects were connected to states that voted against Donald Trump in 2024 and had two Democratic senators in office, according to court filings." www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week." -Willa Cather (from The Professor's House, 1925)
'Anti-ICE extremist' did nothing illegal. "[Erik] Davis... attended & facilitated meetings about protests & discussed his ‘anti-authoritarian’ ideology.... He is not accused of violent acts, ...specific actions at protests or having encounters with ICE agents." www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The professor facing prison in ‘antifa’ case: ‘They want to scare all who oppose ICE’
Erik Davis is accused by the government of a ‘conspiracy’ to obstruct ICE – experts say it’s part of a pattern to criminalize lawful organizing and ruin activists’ lives
theguardian.com
This is an ingenious template for more theft and corruption: in place of illegal impoundments, just spend the money that Congress appropriates without monitoring how it's used. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...
Trump Administration Plans to Upend Head Start by Deregulating It (Gift Article)
The White House tried but failed to block funding for preschool for poor children. Instead, it will seek to strip away standards on health, literacy — and brushing teeth.
nytimes.com
It’s pretty jarring we’ve just come to expect that the feds will lie to us and publicize false information and that there is virtually no consequence for it.
CNN@cnn.com · 5d agoThe Justice Department is admitting that a $14 million renovation on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, was flawed, and is dropping the criminal case against a former Olympian that accused him of damaging the pool, according to a new court filing. https://cnn.it/3RJJnwj
Changing later-life mortality in US states, 1944-2022. Notice the large state differences in expected years lived after age 50, and the 2020 COVID hit. #demography #mortality
N-IUSSP: Health around the time of first birth matters for future fertility, by Øystein Kravdal, Emily Grundy and Rannveig Kaldager Hart www.niussp.org/fertility-an... #Demography #populationstudies
Health around the time of first birth matters for future fertility - N-IUSSP
Evidence from Norway indicates that chronic health problems are just one of the factors liable to influence individual fertility. Øystein Kravdal, Emily Grundy, and Rannveig K. Hart argue that health ...
niussp.org
This beautiful 1934 map captures Copacabana just as it was emerging into one of the world's great beachfronts. Elegant typography, vibrant colours and a wonderfully optimistic vision of Rio. Vintage cartography at its finest. Source: buff.ly/p1LfPAo
Such a travesty. Iván Chaar López does excellent, innovative work that braids together surveillance studies, carceral studies, STS, and border studies. He has far exceeded the standards for tenure and promotion in any humanities department in the country. Shame on this once-great public institution.
Texas Conference of the AAUP@texasaaup.bsky.social · 2w agoUT Austin doubles down on denial of tenure to leading borderlands tech scholar: “In an emailed statement to Inside Higher Ed, a UT spokesperson said, ‘Tenure is privilege, not a right.’” www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
Pretty sure this is a local graffiti artist's tag, but it *is* kind of calling out for an #rstats package.
@insee.fr released its death data via Eurostat up to 12/7 which also allows a view by age by Region The impact on Paris is truly "beyond"... Look at the 15-44, three events stand out since 2013 - The Terrorist attack of Nov 15 - Wave 1 of covid in Apr 20 - The heat wave of Jun 26 1/
