Alexa: why did the pig cross the road? To say "wee wee wee" all the way home. Ezra (10): Alexa is desperate.

My first first-author publication just came out in JMF! We highlight the unintended impacts policies can have when targeting populations for which they were not designed. In this case, child support arrears and disadvantaged fathers of color.

Feeling lousy about the state of the world? You have every right to feel that way. But let me say something else as clearly as I can: I’ve been at this fight a very long time, and right now I find lots of reasons for hope. Ten, to be exact. Hear me out: 1/12

My son came home with his artwork folder today. This was his favorite piece. 💗 I love being part of a community that supports inclusivity, acceptance, and love. Thanks for such amazing teachers and staff, Northeast ES !

Fascinating read Is LaMDA Sentient? — an Interview by Blake Lemoine link.medium.com/ngghMSnqMqb

Great summary by PAA of the science behind access to abortion. populationassociation.org/blogs/paa-web1…

Exclusive: We watched Gogol Bordello play a secret gig in Ukraine. VICE World News was in attendance as the international punks and their Ukrainian-born frontman Eugene Hütz performed an exclusive set for soldiers at an undisclosed location. trib.al/X2cjZkL

Until she died my grandmother was a crossing guard in Boston (local union president, as she reminded me). She loved the kids. 1 day she collapsed. A kid ran to a corner store to call 4 help while others stayed w her. When EMTs arrived they thought she was bleeding. It was jam.

A month ago, I started a new position as a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Demographic Research in Nicole Hiekel @nhiekel.bsky.social's research group Gender Inequality and Fertility. Absolutely thrilled and excited to get to work #mpidr

Just kicking off the BiB 50th anniversary conference on Frontiers in Policy Relevant Population Research in Wiesbaden

Attending the #50yearsBiB session on arrangements of paid work and care work and fascinated by Lili Vargha's use of group based trajectories modeling to examine mothers' employment trajectories after childbirth. Excited to put this method to use!

Can anyone help me identify this song? We walked into a church in St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna, and a choir was singing it. I would love to name the name of the song. 💜

Nathan Robbins, Ph.D. '23, is a co-author of a paper on the finding that members of marginalized communities were disproportionately impacted by nonpayment and noncompliance license suspensions based on 2017 data. Read more from Cornell Chronicle: news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/0… Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy

This might have been my fault. But all's well that ends well. Thanks, Dave!

I never knew how many English words are borrowed from German. We got nosh from nasch (snack), smarts from schmerz (pain), and pull and over from pullover (sweater).

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Hi, New Song and Video from New Album. Thanks so much to Rebecca Thomas. youtube.com/watch?v=LBZswA…