Love this timeline where we are fact-checking government claims about teenage sperm count… But glad that @alisongemmill.bsky.social & @srhayford.bsky.social answered the call! www.factcheck.org/2026/07/rfk-... #demography #fertility #publichealth

RFK Jr.’s Flawed Claims About Sperm Count and Fertility - FactCheck.org

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has baselessly tied alleged declines in sperm counts among teenagers to a “fertility crisis” or an “explosion in infertility.”

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We have joined the Association of Population Centers, @apduorg.bsky.social, @copafs.bsky.social, and @icpsr.bsky.social for this statement on the Department of Commerce's new order on Disclosure Avoidance for Statistical Products buff.ly/kofjV6m

Statement on Commerce’s Disclosure Avoidance for Statistical Products

populationassociation.org

It's a feature, not a bug....

Nature@nature.com · 3mo ago

The abrupt termination last year of thousands of research grants by the US NIH didn’t affect all groups of scientists equitably. A survey suggests that it disproportionately hit researchers from under-represented groups. go.nature.com/4tffr8c

Nominate your excellent colleague, collaborator or cohort member (self nominations are welcome too but I couldn't come up with a first person alliteration).

Population Association of America@popassocamerica.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Help shape the future of the field! Nominate yourself or a colleague for a PAA leadership role. Our member-driven community thrives on the time, talent, and expertise of volunteers—and now’s your chance to be part of it. Nominations close tomorrow: buff.ly/kWc1s0O

Another highly cited article from JMF's 2020 Decade in Review examined the previous decade of research on immigrant families: tinyurl.com/3axa9829 by Jennifer Van Hook & @jengdemography.bsky.social #ThrowbackThursday #TBT #FamilyScience #SocialScience #SocialScienceResearch #ImmigrantFamilies

Join the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights for the first webinar in a new three-part series pulling back the curtain on the realities of hostile immigration policies and the rapid response work unfolding across our programs and communities. Register Today ➡️ https://bit.ly/4kHuxR2

Join us for a Vigil in State College to honor Renee Nicole Good, and others who have been killed by ICE agents. Saturday from noon to 1pm. Allen St. Gates www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

ICE Out For Good - Vigil in State College, PA · Mobilize

Wednesday, January 7th, an American citizen was killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This killing is part of a broader pattern of unchecked violence, impunity...

mobilize.us

America First, at America’s first public university.

UNC cuts all six area studies research centers, effective 2026

As part of the University's plan to make $70 million in budget cuts across the institution, Vice Chancellor for Finance and Operations Nate Knuffman projected that cutting 14 centers and institutes in...

dailytarheel.com

Heads up: Job opportunity with great colleagues!!!

Have any NCES data users gotten a disclosure review approved for a paper/report since spring? I've been waiting for 6+ months 😞

Bumping this one up again. Co-funded position by our interdisciplinary Social Science Research Institute at Penn State.

Penn State Anthropology@psuanthro.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🚨 Hey! We’re hiring a human reproductive ecologist! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

Penn State Geography invites prospective grad students to an upcoming online info session about our graduate degree programs on Thursday, October 23rd from 12:00pm-1:00pm EDT. Register to participate: tinyurl.com/psugeoinfo. #academicsky #geosky 🛟 #gradschool #gis #research #urban #pennstate #aag

It was really fun getting texts and calls from old friends that they heard me on NPR this morning! Really enjoyed talking to NPR's @pien-huang.bsky.social about #water needs and #dehydration - have a listen! @psuanthro.bsky.social @pennstateuniv.bsky.social @pop.psu.edu www.npr.org/2025/08/04/n...

What's the deal with electrolyte drinks — do you need them to stay hydrated?

Seems like nobody's drinking plain water these days. Electrolyte packets or colorful sports drinks are everywhere. But do you need them?

npr.org

Full statement is now on our website apdu.org?p=5813739 #econsky

APDU@apduorg.bsky.social · last yr.

"The moment many of us in the public data community have feared has come to pass: the President has fired the head of a federal statistical agency because the data are politically inconvenient." Read our newsletter for the full statement

"more casual users of federal data continue to analyze the deck chairs on the federal Titanic, unaware of the coming iceberg as federal cuts to staffing, contracting, advisory committees, and funding rip a giant hole in our nation’s heretofore unsinkable data apparatus" fas.org/publication/...

The Data We Take for Granted

As the former U.S. Chief Data Scientist, I know first-hand how valuable and vulnerable our nation’s federal data assets are. Like many things in life, we’ve been taking our data for granted and will m...

fas.org

Don't write off rural areas and small towns. 🔥

Keystone Indivisible@keystonecc.bsky.social · last yr.

🔥🔥 Close to 600 people turning out in solidarity today at Canal Basin Park to say America has #NoKings ❌👑

🔥🔥 Close to 600 people turning out in solidarity today at Canal Basin Park to say America has #NoKings ❌👑

"There are laws governing the conduct of federal surveys, and this idea that an email from DOGE is going to impact federal data collection, superseding existing federal law, is what concerns me" says APDU Board member Mary Jo Mitchell in an interview w @politico.com www.politico.com/newsletters/...

When DOGE comes for the Census

The hits from DOGE are not the only problems for the Census Bureau ahead of 2030.

politico.com

"The due process clause of the Fifth Amendment says no person can be ‘deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law.’ It doesn’t say ‘citizen.’”

Trump Challenges Migrants’ Due Process Rights, Undercutting Bedrock Principle

White House officials are eschewing normal legal processes as they rush to ramp up deportations, saying there is no time to afford unauthorized immigrants any rights — and that they don’t deserve them...

nytimes.com

#WhySocialScience? Because We Need Good Data to Predict the Future - New post from @mmather.bsky.social and Beth Jarosz of @prbdata.bsky.social 📈

Because We Need Good Data to Predict the Future — Why Social Science?

Where do you live? How old are you? Did you finish college? Are you married? Do you have any children? Have you recently moved? What type of job do you have? These may seem like mundane questions,…

whysocialscience.com

Now that #AERA2025 has concluded, sharing our AERA Open special topics call for proposals, "Centering Civil Rights Protections in Schools in the US" that I'm co-editing with @maithgopalan.bsky.social. Please share widely & reach out with questions. Due May 15. www.aera.net/Portals/38/S...

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Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble. For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity. What will you do?

Dramatic Cuts to Ed. Data Programs Will Have Far-Reaching Consequences, Researchers Warn www.edweek.org/policy-polit... via @edweek.bsky.social @evieblad.bsky.social

Dramatic Cuts to Ed. Data Programs Will Have Far-Reaching Consequences, Researchers Warn

Education research organizations asked Congress to intervene in cuts to ed. data, research staff.

edweek.org

Another successful Social Science Advocacy Day in the books! Thank you to all our wonderful advocates and to our sponsors. The work continues! #WhySocialScience #COSSA2025

AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...

QUOTED: “USAID has been instrumental in funding critical research at Penn State, fostering innovations that have far-reaching impacts.“ Read the OpEd at: www.centredaily.com/opinion/lett...

BREAKING: Census Bureau has just canceled the March kickoff of its Young Children Working Group and April meeting of 2030 Census Advisory Committee

Research universities are often the largest employers in their region. They are often the primary health care providers to communities. This funding shift will not only reduce US research leadership, it will put working people out of work and reduce healthcare access.

Alondra Nelson@alondra.bsky.social · last yr.

Excellent 🧵 on this evening's NIH announcement of a dramatic reduction in indirect rates for research institutions, which amounts to a generational restructuring of the US research and development ecosystem. These cuts are effective immediately, not just for new grants but for existing ones.

Constituents of PA Senator David McCormick visited his office to share their concerns. He is nowhere to be seen at 9am on a weekday. Where could he be?