Jenna Nobles

The Toronto Population Network is holding a conference on 6 November at Hart House at UofT. Keynote from @ridhikashyap.bsky.social! If you're in Toronto come along and help us build the community of demographers and population researchers here! Registration: www.eventbrite.com/e/toronto-po...

The Economic Demography Workshop will be on May 6, at the PAAs in St. Louis. See the call for papers 👇

Thanks to co-chairs @hnmansour.bsky.social & @mguldi.bsky.social !

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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It was surprising and super interesting to learn briefly how the US war production board was coordinating clinical trials and data sharing for antibiotic development, when I was doing research for this piece -

Check out our new paper using @nchatstudy.bsky.social dyadic data to measure sexual minority couples. The levels are twice as high when you consider the sexual identity of BOTH members of the couple. @chrisajulian.bsky.social

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What do the looming cuts to Medicaid really mean? Health policy expert Will Dow breaks down the risks—and potential state-level response.

publichealth.berkeley.edu/articles/new...

During the 1st week of June we held our 11th Annual Berkeley Workshop in Formal Demography. We had a terrific workshop & are already looking forward to next year! TY to NIH & to instructors @ayesha-mahmud.bsky.social
@rchung.bsky.social Josh Goldstein @dennisfeehan.bsky.social @jnobles.bsky.social!

Providing evidence on how abortion restrictions post-2022 have impacted women's risk of exposure to intimate partner violence, from Dhaval M. Dave, Christine Durrance, Bilge Erten, Yang Wang, and Barbara L. Wolfe https://www.nber.org/papers/w33916

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*JOB OPENING*

Come join me and the Digital Gender Gaps team @sociologyoxford.bsky.social @oxforddemsci.bsky.social. We study digital gender inequalities and their consequences w/ social media, geospatial, and population data.

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Apply by 9 May, noon (UK)

** Researchers using US Natality Data: Code to read & label restricted-access CDC natality data into Stata/R now includes 2019–2023 (in addition to 2010–18): florenciatorche.github.io/ReadNatality...
Please share—no need for us all to write the same code!
Thanks to @RussellSageFdn for funding

When relational, iterative engagement is key to building informal public health capacity both within government and among non-state actors, today’s policy’s payoff well into the future by building up these relationships.

OTOH, this means today’s cuts will reverberate well into the future.

Congratulations Monica! iussp.org/en/2025-iuss...

Join us for our next Brownbag of the semester on Wed 3/19, w/ Nicholas Mark (@nickdemark.bsky.social), who will present, "Estimating Period Effects on Cohort Measures: An Application to Fertility in the Great Recession and Beyond." 310 Social Sciences & Zoom.

| Interview | Mesurer l’espérance de vie à Gaza

Après un an de conflit, l’espérance de vie dans la bande de Gaza a pratiquement été divisée par deux. Michel Guillot, directeur de recherche à l’Ined, explique la méthode utilisée pour arriver à cette conclusion.

www.ined.fr/fr/tout-savo...

Don’t polarize people against you who aren’t really against you

(The trick, always, is knowing the difference)

We are now accepting applications for our Annual Workshop on Formal Demography, taking place in-person at UC Berkeley on June 2-6, 2025. Deadline to apply is March 10.

See more information on the workshop and how to apply here: populationsciences.berkeley.edu/wp-content/u...

Please share widely!

Our two papers on abortion bans and fertility/infant mortality are now out.

In 14 states w/ abortion bans, fertility increased 1.7% and infant mortality increased 6%.

Key takeaway is that these impacts were disproportionately felt among those w/ greatest structural disadvantages.

Links below.

(My knowledge is WI specific - but cutting UW-Madison’s budget had implications statewide, all the way down to, eg, 4H programs)

Potentially. The university is an economic driver in many less populated states - and the cuts have serious spillover effects. This became clear when WI divested further from UW - the major costs were not to Madison or Milwaukee. The spillover is relevant for reducing social support for this cap…

Thirty years of ‘strange bedmates’: The ICPD and the nexus of population control, feminism, and family planning Widely credited with ending population control and ushering in a new era of reproductive rights, the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Programme of Action also incl...

A paper I've been working on for quite literally 10 years just came out

It's a shitty time, for sure, but this paper is still cool and good, and I still want to you tell you all about it

So gather 'round, folks, and hear the story of the 10 year paper!

1/n

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Elated to share that the dream team @stephcanizales.bsky.social, @drmirianma.bsky.social, Silvia Rodriguez Vega and I are getting ~$1.6 million from UCOP MRPI for our project Reimagining Refuge: California for Just Migrant Futures. Stay tuned for seed grants to CA scholars, artists, and activists!

This is an awesome team. Great opportunity for anyone finishing this AY working on repro health

As somebody who faced a frivolous SLAPP suit for standing up to flawed science (www.theguardian.com/science/2023...), I've been thinking a lot about this.

I've been developing a table of resources along these lines. Suggestions on where/how best to share it are welcome.

I’ll say it again: the anti-HPV vaccines are a miracle 🌟

A beloved family friend is living with metastasized cervical cancer right now. Enough!

This podcast ep with Kemi Doll is a great cervical cancer 101 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...

In my non-work time, I love to cook (though still learning), and we have a 6-month-old golden doodle puppy. All dog tips welcome!

NextGenPop Next Generation of Scholars in Population Research

I am also co-founder with Kelly Musick (at Cornell) of the NextGenPop program focused on bringing young scholars into the field of population research. Applications now open for the summer 2025 undergrad program to be hosted by UCI June 22-July 3 at nextgenpop.org: