This is just the beginning of trying to be able to target ANYONE.
Yes.
That means you.
This upcoming webinar is very exciting! There are many calls for public comment lately, and it may seem like a daunting process. Attend this to learn more about the public comments process for federal data with @dataindex.us
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DATA PRIVACY NEWS: Homeland Security pushes for access to restricted federal database on child support, employment information for millions
www.cnn.com/2026/03/11/p...
Yeah. There are a lot of parts of that sentence that are... interesting.
Social Security data thief "expected to receive a presidential pardon if his actions were deemed to be illegal"
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After campaigning to shrink the size of the government, Trump's administration fired more than 387,000 employees and now needs to hire back to cover significant operational blind spots.
83?
EIGHTY THREE?!?!
We love the new APDU Guiding Principles for Public Data, but especially the top guiding principle: "public data should be public. Public data are of the people, by the people,
and for the people." YES!
@apduorg.bsky.social
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Heads up US demographers. Our main NIH study sections (SSPA/SSPB) are being disbanded. I don’t know what this means. public.csr.nih.gov/StudySection...
YES!
This administration's policies on data are so twisted that *People Magazine* is covering it now.
Join us!
Federal science workforce in 2025:
NSF down over 30%
USGS, NOAA, and NIH down 20%
DOE down 17%
NIST down 15%
NASA down 12%
By comparison, the total federal civilian workforce was down approximately 10% last year.
www.aip.org/fyi/federal-...
The Washington Post's description of the bodycam video of his arrest last year, and the translation of Mr. Shah Alam's comments, is gutting. Remember, he was entirely blind in one eye and could only see three feet in the other, and he spoke virtually no English.
He spent a year in jail for this.
1. The footage shows Homeland Security is lying when he got indoors and was wearing prison booties I doubt are good for the cold.
2. Nurul Amin Shah Alam apologized to police BEFORE he was tasered when he was originally arrested.
wapo.st/3OCwNx8
Job Opportunity!
Behavioral Health System Baltimore is looking for a Data Director
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Almost a decade since I wrote this and it keeps being relevant as a fact-check...
Majority of People Covered by Medicaid and Similar Programs Are Children, Older Adults, or Disabled
www.prb.org/resources/ma...
Rather than accept an absurd US “deal” pushing unfettered access to sensitive health data with no guarantees for Zambia, Zam chose sovereignty & public health dignity for its citizens.
Colonialism is dead & Zambia is ensuring it stays 💀!
Good on Zambia for standing strong for its ppl and future!🇿🇲 ✊
As a demographer, I concur with this assessment.
My plan tonight?
Making tacos with meat and tortillas from the carneceria in my neighborhood.
While listening to a Suzanne Collins audiobook.
Feels more productive than watching TV.
Go submit those comments!
Thank you to everyone who joined us for our Rapid Response Data Briefing on the 2026 Census Test, an essential step toward the 2030 Census.
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A lot of people, including me, were wondering how an IRB could ever approve this study.
The answer is that no IRB did. The person who “signed off” on approval from the only ethics board that reviewed it had resigned three years earlier. His signature was used without his knowledge.
Ruben Ray Martinez was shot through his driver's-side window in South Padre Island, Texas.
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I LOVE that idea.
As noted previously, my entire SOC 101 curriculum would have been illegal.
Accurate.
But illegal.
I don't live/teach in FL anymore, but it breaks my heart that a generation of students will now be brainwashed by the state.
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Very excited that @lauralindberg.bsky.social and I just posted a preprint of a paper that we've been working on for a while, looking at the (lack of) comparability of the most recent NSFG with prior waves of data. Feedback extremely welcome!
osf.io/preprints/so...
