David F. Warner

Excited to announce that UAB has joined with UMD and UMBC to launch the Southern Population Aging Research Center (SPARC), supported by National Institute on Aging.

Read more at: www.uab.edu/news/researc...

"Just the other day, I was in the audience at Lincoln Center when Justice Amy Coney Barrett said, while promoting a new book, that she doesn't think the United States is in a constitutional crisis," Farias told us. "Today, the Supreme Court, without offering a single line of reasoning, more or less declared that the Fourth Amendment, which protects everyone from unreasonable searches and seizures, nonetheless allows the Trump Administration to arrest and detain anyone who looks Latino, citizen or not, on account of the language that they speak or the kind of jobs they do. The ruling putatively covers the Los Angeles area, but the effect could be national," he continued. "If that's not a constitutional crisis, then what is?"

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph:

link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

A perfect description. 🤢

Trump’s second presidency is ‘most dangerous period’ since second world war, Mitch McConnell says Former Senate leader likens administration’s fixation with tariffs to isolationist policies of the US in the 1930s

Local man— who spent years pouring gasoline on the ground, passing out matches, and getting an arsonist installed as Fire Chief— says that town in real danger of burning down.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

As an aside: Marrazzo was an incredible resource for Alabama and Alabama reporters during the COVID pandemic, when she was at UAB. Smart, knowledgeable and accessible.

Senate Dems are just totally unprepared for this moment. We need new leaders there - and it’s now clear we need new Senators.

Words to live by!

One more time, shout out to the very serious people who suggested that RFK had some really good points about public health. No way to have predicted how things would turn out, except to look at his past record and everything he said about vaccines.

Dr. Demetre, in his resignation from the CDC, said this:

“I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people”.

It is an outrage that RFK Jr. remains as head of HHS.

PAA joined more than 90 scientific, academic, and professional orgs to sign this letter to Director Kratsios at White House OSTP: buff.ly/dosN52k

Planet of the Apes (1968-1973) is one of my all time favorite movie series.

I have often dreamed of teaching Intro to Sociology using the originals. I’m not sure I’d have any enrollment… but the core themes are all there.

U.S. Women’s First Family-Forming Transitions to Cohabitation or Birth: Differences by Racial and Socioeconomic Disadvantage Challenge the Theory of the Second Demographic Transition - Population Rese... Which do U.S. women do first—cohabit, have a birth, or marry? At what age do they experience this first family-forming event? How do these patterns differ by race, socioeconomic background, and their ...

🚨New Publication🚨

In the August Issue of #PRPR, England & Xu present evidence that challenges the applicability of Second Demographic Transition theory to the U.S.—where disadvantage predicts cohabitation and non-marital births.

Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Population Research and Policy Review (PRPR) is now on Bluesky!

The official journal of @sda-demography.bsky.social, PRPR publishes research of interest to demographers, population scientists, and those working in adjacent fields.

Learn more at sda-demography.org/PRPR-journal.

NIH director orders new review of grants in outline of top research priorities Many topics on Bhattacharya’s list are familiar, but order to re-evaluate grants draws concerns

Here is the Science story on the "priorities" memo...

www.science.org/content/arti...

Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.

Motherfucker wrote one sloppy paper in April 2020 and instead of being like oops, shit, my bad, he has kept doubling down until now he's killing most promising medical technology of the past quarter century rather than going to therapy.

DHS program homepage.

The Demographic and Health Surveys Program has been saved! At least in part. According to the announcement, “Several donors and host countries are funding the completion of selected surveys.”

Great news for global health in spite of US government’s war on data.

www.dhsprogram.com/Who-we-are/N...

They go fast when they want to go fast and slow when they want to go to slow and the decision is *always* an ideological one.

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Jay Bhattacharya saying we’re cutting mRNA research because the public has lost faith in them. 🤬🤬🤬

We are excited to announce the #PAA2026 Call for Papers is now available! The submission site opens on Monday, Aug. 18 and the deadline is Sunday, Oct. 5. Meet me in St. Louis! May 6-9, 2026:
www.populationassociation.org/paa2026/call...

Confirmation (bias) that it’s a good thing that I drink 4+ cups of black coffee each day.

I feel attacked. Those paint colors are classics.

Canvas was already a nightmare to set up, and was an integral part of transforming the classroom into a Foucaultian surveillance nightmare

I hope that educators begin to rethink it’s place in curriculum development—if you aren’t required to use it, perhaps consider leaving it in the trash

I see Hobby Lobby was having a sale on wood overlays and gold spray paint.

Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years.

Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.

Yep. This is why I didn’t get too excited when the Senate Appropriations Committee rejected DJT’s proposed NIH budget cuts. The administration has a goal and then will achieve it one way or another. Sigh.