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18th NIH Matilda White Riley Distinguished Lecture: The Life Course, Aging, and Health Disparities: Preliminary Insights from Wave VI of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health Date: August 28, 2025, 3:00–4:00 p.m. ET Location: Virtual Presenter: Robert Hummer, Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Overview This presentation will focus on the history, theoretical and substantive motivations, empirical contributions, innovations in recent data collection, and preliminary descriptive findings from Wave VI of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health). Add Health is one of the most innovative and widely used nationally representative longitudinal studies of Americans ever undertaken. It provides data for thousands of researchers around the world to more fully understand the multilevel (biological, survey, contextual) life course factors that contribute to health and health disparities among U.S. adolescents and adults. The presentation will describe the origins of Add Health and how it has evolved over 30 years. Significant attention will be given to the recently completed wave (Wave VI) of data collection and the preliminary descriptive insights from this new dataset, which will soon be publicly available. The presentation will conclude with information on how to access Add Health data.

@uncpopcenter.bsky.social's Bob Hummer is giving the 18th NIH Matilda White Riley Distinguished Lecture on August 28th from 3-4pm ET. This honor recognizes Bob's contributions to population science & his stewardship of Add Health. Register for the webinar here: obssr.od.nih.gov/news-and-eve...

Vincent Van Gogh may have lost an ear, but not his car. He’s off the tow truck and we have now exceeded our target of $500! Stay tuned for the final count

Frida Kahlo is off the truck!

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Georgia O'Keeffe gets her car back! Awesome!

As the threats of tit-for-tat arms race redistricting continue (TX, IL, CA, etc.), it's worth looking at a case in #ncpol that attempts to look at redistricting not as a partisan issue, but rather as a free & fair elections issue.

a #redistricting #elections 🧵 (1/8)

What a fun way to raise money to cover towing costs for visiting artists.

California police misconduct records now available in public database A database of 1.5 million pages of records from 12,000 California officer-misconduct and use-of-force cases is now available online.

“The public can now search internal affairs documents and other police-misconduct records from nearly 700 California law enforcement agencies through a database created by UC Berkeley and Stanford University.”

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Worried about the move from libraries owning books to just renting temporary access to eBooks? @MariaBustillos.com & the Brick House team have launched BRIET, inviting publishers to sell, not license, eBooks to libraries!

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counter: half the town reads the blog blog and it has gained quite a bit of traction.

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ann arbor af is the equivalent!

Registration Recovery Project Aug 4 update:

🗳️~12,000 fewer names appear on the RRP list today than did on the original list
🗳️ 28 people have been added
🗳️ 596 have been dropped from the voter reg list altogether; the remainder were cured

An #ncpol/#electionadministration 🧵

Unbreaking.org tracker tracker (public)

Hi it's Monday who wants a list of 70 projects tracking things related to the demolition of the US government, is it you

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I’m blog blogging from Perennial Cafe. Look for a piece about the 400/405 bus 15 minutes service on Monday!

There are many prisoners who listen to public radio all day long and watch public television, because it’s available in their facilities.

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Registration Recovery Project (RRP) update for July 31
🗳️ 1,154 people cured their registration yesterday
🗳️ 4 people were added to the RRP yesterday
🗳️ 94,073 people remain--9,173 fewer than on July 17

#ncpol #electionadministration

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Bloodied Faces, Sobbing Children: Immigration Officers Smash Car Windows to Speed Up Arrests We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...

NEW visual investigation:

ICE agents are smashing car windows & grabbing the people inside

There's footage of sobbing kids, pregnant women, & bloodied faces

We found ~50 cases but no civilians w/ sig criminal records

Insiders told us this used to be rare

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date with 8-year-old: pool, nba2k, happy gilmore.

I used to call collect and use the very limited time to yell pick me up

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tomorrow i am turning 41 and going to an underground spa in asheville.

Now That They’re Free, Venezuelan Men Want the World to Know What They Endured in CECOT Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration say they endured months of physical and mental abuse inside a Salvadoran prison. Though happy to be home, they say the fact that they were released ...

"Now that they’re home, they’ve begun to talk."