Jenna Nobles

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...

The current administration's systematic dismantling of our research infrastructure—402 documented attacks in just 6 months—represents more than policy disagreement. It's an abandonment of the principle that knowledge should serve the common good and expand opportunity for all communities.

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

We feed you.
They hunt us.

Hague Convention cases are difficult and sad matters. I sympathize with Brito’s inability to enter the United States to visit his child. But the Hague Convention does not permit a court to adjudicate the merits of custody disputes. See England, 234 F.3d at 271; 22 U.S.C. § 9001(b)(4). As difficult as it is to be separated from a child, A.F.’s relationship with Brito in Texas is no different than it was after he moved to Spain: all interactions are virtual. It is not our province to consider his ability to see A.F. She left Venezuela when she was three. Her entire life as she knows it—including the last three years—is in Texas, and she has grown well-settled. The majority opinion today fails to provide sufficient deference to the district court and reshapes Hague Convention jurisprudence by creating a new emphasis on immigration. It relies on inferential leaps based on limited evidence to determine that a child—who lives a stable, happy, and enriching life in Texas—should be uprooted because of various hypothetical possibilities. This does not comport with our case law, nor does it fit within the purposes of the Hague Convention. I respectfully dissent.

A brutal 2–1 decision from the 5th Circuit forcing the removal of a young girl to Venezuela even though she has lived in Texas for years and it is the only home she can remember. The dissent verges on incandescence in its fury and despondency. Incredibly bleak.
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Dr Tiffany Green @tiffanylgreen.bsky.social on person-centered abortion care as a huge hole in health services work:

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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)

Reminder that words matter. You can’t “deport” a US citizen. You might be kidnapping, disappearing, exiling, expelling, illegally removing, etc., but you’re not “deporting” a US citizen.

** 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.

The programme of the upcoming pronatal conference in Texas is remarkably light on demographers, which suggests there’s not going to be much science discussed there. Why don’t you listen to experts in the field talk about the issue instead 👇

| 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)

Deaths from PEPFAR disruption

A tracker estimating deaths caused by the partial PEPFAR funding suspension: pepfar.impactcounter.com. Methodology here: pepfar.impactcounter.com/methodology.

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!

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

As a v basic, minimal first step, I’d like to see faculty & other research staff start organizing the public education that our unis should be doing but aren’t

Let’s bring out the children’s cancer experts, agriculture scientists, etc to talk abt their disrupted work. Defend our enterprise together

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.