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Kerry MacQuarrie @kerrymacqua.bsky.social · 3d

And Musk is bad at both…

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Kerry MacQuarrie @kerrymacqua.bsky.social · 3d

MMWR is so important! I hope all of these RIFs are successfully challenged in court.

Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 3d

RIFed:
Office of Science (OS) - MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)

MMWR is crucial to quickly disseminate info about infectious disease.

Like the famous MMWR in 1981 about an outbreak of pneumocystis pneumonia among gay men in LA. That was the first mention of what is now known as AIDS

June 5, 1981—The First Report of AIDS in the U.S.

By Erika Mills ~ In the June 5, 1981 edition of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), the CDC described a rare lung infection among a group of gay men in Los Angeles. This article, titl…

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Rewire News Group @rewirenewsgroup.com · 4d

“Authoritarianism is as American as slavery, as internment camps, as police brutality, as voter suppression. To fight it, white people have to stop pretending government oppression arrived overnight and start dismantling the systems that have been incubating it all along.”

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion

Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

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Leafia Ye @leafiaye.bsky.social · 4d

We are building a new pop center at UofT and will hold our first mini-conference on Nov 6 - come join us!!

Exhibit 1: amazing speaker line-up - featuring friends around the world to discuss why demography/pop center matters! 🤓

Exhibit 2: the iconic castle where this conference will take place 🏰 ✨

The speaker line-up for the Toronto Population Network's first mini-conference (Ridhi Kashyap, Oxford; Elizabeth Dhuey, UofToronto; Emilio Parrado, UPenn; Katherine Curtis, Wisconsin; Rachel Margolis, Western; Sarah Flood, Minnesota Pop Center; Shelley Clark, McGill)

The conference venue - Hart House, University of Toronto

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Jasmin Abdel Ghany @jasminabdelghany.bsky.social · 4d

While the recent interim funding by the Gates Foundation for the DHS Program buys time for data collection of selected surveys and data availability, many countries don't benefit and the future of new surveys remains uncertain. Read the updated version of our preprint that got 1,000+ views now here:

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 5d

An irony of GOP/MAGA's attacks on university sector is that, structurally, it's as close to a "free market" as you'll find in US.

There are 1000s of universities, mostly operating independently.

Unlike tech sector (or coal, oil/gas, eyeglasses, etc), market concentration is incredibly low.

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 13d

"I had to work 10 times harder than the average man just to get the same level of recognition," Jane Goodall told us in 2020. "But once I had made a name for myself, I let the data speak for me."

Jane Goodall on Fighting Sexism and What Chimpanzees Taught Her

Jane Goodall discusses what keeps her motivated six decades into her career and how she combated sexism.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 14d

The basic infrastructures that allow women to be participants in public life—birth control & abortion access, no fault divorce, childcare access & affordability, civil rights law in employment and public accommodations, the minimal efforts to mitigate sexual and domestic violence—are all crumbling.

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 14d

Today (and every day) is a great day to provide support for those fighting back.

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Kerry MacQuarrie @kerrymacqua.bsky.social · 13d

The NSFGRP is a wonderful program

Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 14d

I am deeply grateful for the work of NSF staff this year to keep research & grants moving in a difficult environment. I view this petition as a means to demonstrate impact & interest in ensuring access to a vital grad research program.

450+ signees and counting:
laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 18d

I repeat that whenever you see a man toss a woman around in front of witnesses and cameras, you can bet he’s had practice in private.

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Kerry MacQuarrie @kerrymacqua.bsky.social · 17d

Wait, the axis goes from 1.6 to 2.1?!

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Kerry MacQuarrie @kerrymacqua.bsky.social · 18d

This meeting could have been an email!!!

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Guttmacher @guttmacher.org · 22d

A new Guttmacher analysis of data from 132 countries shows that higher gender inequality is linked to higher unintended pregnancy rates: gu.tt/46xtSuK

Under a header, “New Analysis”, highlighted in yellow, white text on a violet background says, "Higher gender inequality is linked to higher unintended pregnancy rates."

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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 26d

UNC sociologist Barbara Entwisle told me there’s no guarantee the Independent Census Scientific Advisory Committee's recommendations will reach the Census Bureau: “So this is a bit of a risk. But turn it around. If we don't do this, then what? Then there is no feedback, no advice that’s out there.”

Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · Aug 25

NEW: Members of the Census Bureau's scientific advisory committee that the Trump administration ended plan to meet on their own on Sept. 18 to discuss #2030Census privacy protections at their first public meeting as the newly formed Independent Census Scientific Advisory Committee

Fall 2025 Meeting — Independent Census Scientific Advisory Committee (I-CSAC)

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Kerry MacQuarrie @kerrymacqua.bsky.social · 29d

So it’s all just ok now? Is it? Brushed aside with an apology? And Lawrence Jones? His views are only slightly less noxious.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 29d

Fox News host Brian Kilmeade has apologized for advocating the execution of mentally ill homeless people.

Fox News' Brian Kilmeade apologizes for saying mentally ill homeless people should be executed

Fox News host Brian Kilmeade has apologized for advocating the execution of mentally ill homeless people.

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Kerry MacQuarrie @kerrymacqua.bsky.social · Sep 14

This is fabulous

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · Sep 14

A man in Washington, DC, plays the Imperial March from Star Wars while following patrolling soldiers. One of the soldiers threatens to call the police.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · Sep 14

A man in Washington, DC, plays the Imperial March from Star Wars while following patrolling soldiers. One of the soldiers threatens to call the police.

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Kerry MacQuarrie @kerrymacqua.bsky.social · Sep 14

This demographer parent’s heart is full today.

For a human geography assignment, my son chose to prepare a global map of…under-five mortality.

a man in a black shirt is sitting in front of a microphone with a sign that says things on it

ALT: a man in a black shirt is sitting in front of a microphone with a sign that says things on it

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Kerry MacQuarrie @kerrymacqua.bsky.social · Sep 14

I feel compelled to point out that Lesotho =/= South Africa. Bloomberg should know this.

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · Sep 9

The Heritage Foundation specifically named contraception as a "culprit" for low birth rates. The pronatalist movement is using bad demography to cast low birth rates as inherently problematic and thus justify pronatalist efforts, like reducing access to contraception. 1/

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Sep 9

Told you so.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/s...

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Kerry MacQuarrie @kerrymacqua.bsky.social · Sep 11

👏👏👏

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · Sep 9

Good. This is the way. Also, how sad.

But this is what we get with the corrupt Trump Administration.

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UN General Assembly votes overwhelmingly to move from NYC to Geneva after US bans Palestine reps

154-2 vote against US-Israeli arrogance The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has voted overwhelmingly to move its September session from New York City to Geneva after the US government refuse…

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Defector @defector.com · Sep 9

"The cost of building a company on theft should be the company itself. It should be everything you worked for because really, you didn’t work for it: You stole it." defector.com/if-the-thiev...

If The Thieving AI Company Can Survive The Legal Settlement, Then It Is Not Big Enough | Defector

There is an easy answer to the question “How long does it take to write a book?” but it is not a true one. The easy answer is the duration between when you actually start putting your pen down on the…

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Kerry MacQuarrie @kerrymacqua.bsky.social · Sep 10

Thank you FCPS and Michelle Reid.
www.ffxnow.com/2025/09/10/f...

FCPS asks appeals court to stop Trump administration from cutting off federal funds | FFXnow

Fairfax County Public Schools is appealing the dismissal of its lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education. The school system asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit of Virginia y...

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