🇺🇦 Carl Schmertmann
@cschmert.bsky.social
Demographer
Emeritus Professor of Economics
Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida, USA
Emeritus Professor of Economics
Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida, USA
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Though Trump’s pardons can’t extend to state crimes, I think it’s worth pointing out the message being conveyed:
Trump’s allies are alleged to have stolen data from state voting systems in an effort to help him overturn an election he lost.
Now he’s pardoning them for it.
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Trump’s allies are alleged to have stolen data from state voting systems in an effort to help him overturn an election he lost.
Now he’s pardoning them for it.
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News coverage of this has focused on the pardon of those involved in the fake electors plot.
But the pardon also extends to key figures who participated in the unauthorized breach of voting systems in Coffee County, Georgia
My reporting on the breach: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...
But the pardon also extends to key figures who participated in the unauthorized breach of voting systems in Coffee County, Georgia
My reporting on the breach: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...
November 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Though Trump’s pardons can’t extend to state crimes, I think it’s worth pointing out the message being conveyed:
Trump’s allies are alleged to have stolen data from state voting systems in an effort to help him overturn an election he lost.
Now he’s pardoning them for it.
bsky.app/profile/anna...
Trump’s allies are alleged to have stolen data from state voting systems in an effort to help him overturn an election he lost.
Now he’s pardoning them for it.
bsky.app/profile/anna...
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Such a good article. Read it.
We should always be very wary of the meme-ification of science.
We should always be very wary of the meme-ification of science.
If I see one more stupid Rosalind Franklin take I'm going to lose my mind. Thank god for @matthewcobb.bsky.social and @nccomfort.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
www.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Such a good article. Read it.
We should always be very wary of the meme-ification of science.
We should always be very wary of the meme-ification of science.
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Add Cornell to the list
November 7, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Add Cornell to the list
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Shame on Cornell.
Breaking News: Cornell University reached an agreement with the Trump administration that would restore hundreds of millions in funding to the university. It's expected to pay a $30 million fine to the government and to invest $30 million in agriculture and farming programs.
Cornell Reaches Deal with Trump Administration to Restore Research Funds
The Ivy League university had warned of layoffs after the Trump administration stripped it of funds this year. The cuts were among the deepest in higher education.
nyti.ms
November 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Shame on Cornell.
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The optics could not be more straightforward.
While Trump’s lawyers file an emergency petition with the Supreme Court tonight to do everything they possibly can to avoid paying SNAP benefits to the needy so they can starve, Trump flies to his country club for another weekend of parties and golf.
November 8, 2025 at 12:42 AM
The optics could not be more straightforward.
Why is it "Breaking News" that someone expects that something might happen a few days from now?
Breaking News: Rep. Elise Stefanik is expected to formally declare her candidacy for New York governor as soon as Friday.
Stefanik to Launch Campaign to Challenge Gov. Hochul in New York
Elise Stefanik, a Republican congresswoman, is a leading ally of President Trump who has gone to great lengths to criticize Ms. Hochul and Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.
nyti.ms
November 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Why is it "Breaking News" that someone expects that something might happen a few days from now?
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This is cool, but let's see who FIFA's pick is.
Congratulations to First Lady Melania Trump for winning Fox Nation's “Patriot of the Year” award
November 7, 2025 at 1:19 PM
This is cool, but let's see who FIFA's pick is.
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Let’s hear more of the dangers of democratic socialism under Mamdani
Trump to the Novo Nordisk CEO: "Maybe you should give us a piece of the company like I've been asking for."
November 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Let’s hear more of the dangers of democratic socialism under Mamdani
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Join us at our next Brown Bag seminar, Wednesday, November 12th, 12pm PST.
Jessica Ho (The Pennsylvania State University) will present, “Routes to High Life Expectancy in High-Income Countries.”
Available in-person (310 Social Sciences Building) and via Zoom.
events.berkeley.edu/popsci/event...
Jessica Ho (The Pennsylvania State University) will present, “Routes to High Life Expectancy in High-Income Countries.”
Available in-person (310 Social Sciences Building) and via Zoom.
events.berkeley.edu/popsci/event...
November 6, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Join us at our next Brown Bag seminar, Wednesday, November 12th, 12pm PST.
Jessica Ho (The Pennsylvania State University) will present, “Routes to High Life Expectancy in High-Income Countries.”
Available in-person (310 Social Sciences Building) and via Zoom.
events.berkeley.edu/popsci/event...
Jessica Ho (The Pennsylvania State University) will present, “Routes to High Life Expectancy in High-Income Countries.”
Available in-person (310 Social Sciences Building) and via Zoom.
events.berkeley.edu/popsci/event...
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Check out this conference if you work on topics related to kinship structure and dynamics (within and beyond the household), caregiving, intergenerational processes, family bereavement, LGBTQ+ & chosen kinship, etc. @iussp.bsky.social Submit by 21 Jan 2026 👇 www.demogr.mpg.de/go/kinship-conference
November 6, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Check out this conference if you work on topics related to kinship structure and dynamics (within and beyond the household), caregiving, intergenerational processes, family bereavement, LGBTQ+ & chosen kinship, etc. @iussp.bsky.social Submit by 21 Jan 2026 👇 www.demogr.mpg.de/go/kinship-conference
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Last week, the Trump admin purged senior leadership at ICE ERO, which leads internal immigration enforcement. Gregory Bovino and the Border Patrol are now increasingly in charge. As former ICE Chief of Staff Jason Houser writes, what we're getting now is theater, not serious law enforcement.
Opinion | The White House's sweeping overhaul of ICE is creating a Frankenstein force
The recent wave of ICE senior official reassignments has a clear motive.
www.msnbc.com
November 1, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Last week, the Trump admin purged senior leadership at ICE ERO, which leads internal immigration enforcement. Gregory Bovino and the Border Patrol are now increasingly in charge. As former ICE Chief of Staff Jason Houser writes, what we're getting now is theater, not serious law enforcement.
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Canada says “elbows up.” I say for America, “cameras out.” Film every last one of these brutal criminals. We will need the evidence for their trials.
November 1, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Canada says “elbows up.” I say for America, “cameras out.” Film every last one of these brutal criminals. We will need the evidence for their trials.
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Out: Voice of America broadcasts the words of Ronald Reagan to puncture the propaganda of foreign authoritarians.
In: A neighboring democracy apologizes to America’s authoritarian president for puncturing his propaganda by broadcasting the words of Ronald Reagan. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/w...
In: A neighboring democracy apologizes to America’s authoritarian president for puncturing his propaganda by broadcasting the words of Ronald Reagan. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/w...
Carney Says He Apologized to Trump Over Ad Reviving Reagan’s Tariff Criticism
www.nytimes.com
November 1, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Out: Voice of America broadcasts the words of Ronald Reagan to puncture the propaganda of foreign authoritarians.
In: A neighboring democracy apologizes to America’s authoritarian president for puncturing his propaganda by broadcasting the words of Ronald Reagan. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/w...
In: A neighboring democracy apologizes to America’s authoritarian president for puncturing his propaganda by broadcasting the words of Ronald Reagan. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/w...
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We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
November 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
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While on a speaking tour in the U.S., Sami Hamdi had his visa revoked and was detained by ICE allegedly because of his pro-Palestine advocacy.
This is yet another troubling example of the Trump administration weaponizing the immigration system to punish speech it disagrees with.
This is yet another troubling example of the Trump administration weaponizing the immigration system to punish speech it disagrees with.
ICE Detains British Media Commentator
Sami Hamdi, who often speaks against Israel, was in the United States on a speaking tour. The Department of Homeland Security said his visa had been revoked.
www.nytimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:56 PM
While on a speaking tour in the U.S., Sami Hamdi had his visa revoked and was detained by ICE allegedly because of his pro-Palestine advocacy.
This is yet another troubling example of the Trump administration weaponizing the immigration system to punish speech it disagrees with.
This is yet another troubling example of the Trump administration weaponizing the immigration system to punish speech it disagrees with.
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Our department is hiring! Consider applying for those who have research areas in medicine, health and/or well-being. Follow the link to apply: careercenter.asanet.org/job/1311234/...
October 28, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Our department is hiring! Consider applying for those who have research areas in medicine, health and/or well-being. Follow the link to apply: careercenter.asanet.org/job/1311234/...
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Between this and the Louvre prosecutor describing the suspects’ statements as “minimalist” while bragging that they had worked on the case over a weekend it’s an absolutely incredible week for Frenchness
A French cyclist survived for three days after a horrendous 130-foot fall into a ravine, kept alive by the bottles of red wine he had in his shopping bag, police said.
Cyclist falls down 130-foot ravine in France, survives 3 days by drinking wine he had in shopping bag
A helicopter airlifted him to hospital, with a rescue doctor calling his survival "a miracle."
cbsn.ws
October 31, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Between this and the Louvre prosecutor describing the suspects’ statements as “minimalist” while bragging that they had worked on the case over a weekend it’s an absolutely incredible week for Frenchness
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Wow. I did not know that Alfred Russell Wallace (co-discoverer of evolution by natural selection) wrote a book in 1904 about the biological potential for life on other planets, and I've just found this extraordinary paragraph setting out the insanity of atmospheric pollution [1/3]. In 1904!
![But the sketch I have here attempted to give of its varied functions shows us that it is really a most complex structure, a wonderful piece of machinery, as[ 259] it were, which in its various component gases, its actions and reactions upon the water and the land, its production of electrical discharges, and its furnishing the elements from which the whole fabric of organic life is composed and perpetually renewed, may be truly considered to be the very source and foundation of life itself. This is seen, not only in the fact of our absolute dependence upon it every minute of our lives, but in the terrible effects produced by even a slight degree of impurity in this vital element. Yet it is among those nations that claim to be the most civilised, those that profess to be guided by a knowledge of the laws of nature, those that most glory in the advance of science, that we find the greatest apathy, the greatest recklessness, in continually rendering impure this all-important necessary of life, to such a degree that the health of the larger portion of their populations is injured and their vitality lowered, by conditions which compel them to breathe more or less foul and impure air for the greater part of their lives. The huge and ever-increasing cities, the vast manufacturing towns belching forth smoke and poisonous gases, with the crowded dwellings, where millions are forced to live under the most terrible insanitary conditions, are the witnesses to this criminal apathy, this incredible recklessness and inhumanity.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2g72wvrmzdfakrjq56d3lddj/bafkreidgfp3g5erh7m3rdhzqvar2th65nqj72arwtpxrzak4yvtepmshba@jpeg)
October 31, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Wow. I did not know that Alfred Russell Wallace (co-discoverer of evolution by natural selection) wrote a book in 1904 about the biological potential for life on other planets, and I've just found this extraordinary paragraph setting out the insanity of atmospheric pollution [1/3]. In 1904!
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“Using a consistent cause-of-death classification from 1890-1949, we show infectious diseases—particularly tuberculosis & respiratory infections—accounted for 60–70% of the 25-year gain in life expectancy at age 1, with mortality reductions among children & young adults driving most improvement”
<em>Population and Development Review</em> | Population Council Journal | Wiley Online Library
Over the past two centuries, European metropolises have transformed from urban graveyards to healthy cocoons. Despite its critical role in the history of longevity, this evolution remains underexplor...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:42 PM
“Using a consistent cause-of-death classification from 1890-1949, we show infectious diseases—particularly tuberculosis & respiratory infections—accounted for 60–70% of the 25-year gain in life expectancy at age 1, with mortality reductions among children & young adults driving most improvement”
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Using his powers to extract tribute from foreign countries, "donors," etc. and then using those extraconstitutional slush funds to bypass the Constitution and the rule of law. Literally the opposite of originalism and a profound threat to the continuation of constitutional democracy in this country.
$550 billion in Japanese funding.
Directed by the President.
Outside Congress’s control.
My new @justsecurity.org piece explains how the agreement bypasses the Appropriations Clause and violates the laws that safeguard Congress’s power of the purse.
www.justsecurity.org/123478/trump...
Directed by the President.
Outside Congress’s control.
My new @justsecurity.org piece explains how the agreement bypasses the Appropriations Clause and violates the laws that safeguard Congress’s power of the purse.
www.justsecurity.org/123478/trump...
Trump’s Japan Deal and the Disappearing Appropriations Clause
The deal circumvents the Appropriations Clause and congressional safeguards, creating a system answerable only to the White House.
www.justsecurity.org
October 31, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Using his powers to extract tribute from foreign countries, "donors," etc. and then using those extraconstitutional slush funds to bypass the Constitution and the rule of law. Literally the opposite of originalism and a profound threat to the continuation of constitutional democracy in this country.
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📢 Vienna Institute of Demography @demographyvienna.bsky.social is seeking a Postdoc Researcher in Population Data and Projections RG 📈 📊
I can't recommend enough working at VID, especially with Anne!
💯 friendly, supportive environment with world-class researchers.🤓
oeawnr.onlyfy.jobs/job/km5kybrq
I can't recommend enough working at VID, especially with Anne!
💯 friendly, supportive environment with world-class researchers.🤓
oeawnr.onlyfy.jobs/job/km5kybrq
Postdoc (m/f/x) – Population Data and Projections
OeAW - Discovering the futureAs a central non-university institution for science and research, the Austrian Academy of Sciences - OeAW has the task of "promoting science in every respect". F...
oeawnr.onlyfy.jobs
October 31, 2025 at 8:12 AM
📢 Vienna Institute of Demography @demographyvienna.bsky.social is seeking a Postdoc Researcher in Population Data and Projections RG 📈 📊
I can't recommend enough working at VID, especially with Anne!
💯 friendly, supportive environment with world-class researchers.🤓
oeawnr.onlyfy.jobs/job/km5kybrq
I can't recommend enough working at VID, especially with Anne!
💯 friendly, supportive environment with world-class researchers.🤓
oeawnr.onlyfy.jobs/job/km5kybrq
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New publication with @susanshort.bsky.social in @lancetrh-americ.bsky.social. We analyzed 2025 revisions to womenshealth[dot]gov under the Trump administration -documenting how credible health content was replaced with ideology: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Rewriting women's health: a content analysis of the Trump administration's revisions to womenshealth.gov
In 2025, the Trump administration instituted rapid changes to the data and information available on US government websites. We conducted a content ana…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:54 PM
New publication with @susanshort.bsky.social in @lancetrh-americ.bsky.social. We analyzed 2025 revisions to womenshealth[dot]gov under the Trump administration -documenting how credible health content was replaced with ideology: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Join us at our next Brown Bag seminar, Wed. Nov. 5, 12pm PST.
Hal Caswell (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute & University of Amsterdam) will present, “Inequality in Demographic Outcomes: Contributions of Multiple Social, Biological, and Environmental Factors.”
events.berkeley.edu/popsci/event...
Hal Caswell (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute & University of Amsterdam) will present, “Inequality in Demographic Outcomes: Contributions of Multiple Social, Biological, and Environmental Factors.”
events.berkeley.edu/popsci/event...
October 30, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Join us at our next Brown Bag seminar, Wed. Nov. 5, 12pm PST.
Hal Caswell (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute & University of Amsterdam) will present, “Inequality in Demographic Outcomes: Contributions of Multiple Social, Biological, and Environmental Factors.”
events.berkeley.edu/popsci/event...
Hal Caswell (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute & University of Amsterdam) will present, “Inequality in Demographic Outcomes: Contributions of Multiple Social, Biological, and Environmental Factors.”
events.berkeley.edu/popsci/event...
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Dear U.S. media and commentators: Referring to the lovely Reagan/tariff ad produced by Doug Ford's Conservative government of Ontario as an ad posted by "The Canadian government" is like referring to Gavin Newsom's administration as "The U.S. government." Please up your info-processing game.
October 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Dear U.S. media and commentators: Referring to the lovely Reagan/tariff ad produced by Doug Ford's Conservative government of Ontario as an ad posted by "The Canadian government" is like referring to Gavin Newsom's administration as "The U.S. government." Please up your info-processing game.
