Its publication day! My book, Rural and Small-Town America: Context, Composition, and Complexities is out today. We share lessons offered from rural society & confront common myths & misunderstandings about #rural people and places. (1/X) ucpress.edu/book/97805204011…

In our Sept. issue learn how Covid-19 changed the effects of county contexts on mortality: bit.ly/45Y8noc Read the Policy brief: bit.ly/4nqPLDc By @jennkarasmontez @smonnat Emily E. Wiemers Douglas A. Wolf Xue Zhang @MaxwellSU @AgingStudiesSU @SyracuseU @Cornell

Where do people think top STEM researchers are trained?

We've collectively shrugged and decided to accept a slow – and in fact not so slow – march toward mass illiteracy instead of getting serious about banning phones from schools and going after the tech monopolies that get rich addicting children to Magic Dopamine Boxes. Evil shit.

I literally – literally – don't know a single humanities professor, regardless of the kind of institution they teach at, who doesn't think students' reading abilities have fallen off a cliff. It's an emergency and in a sane world there would be Congressional hearings about this.

They're gonna blow up Hootie and the Blowfish, T. I seen it on Signal.

Written by a 1st year PhD student in my #demography class. #HRS And I'm loving our new Lerner Center research brief header!

Full page ad in today’s WSJ taken out by leaders at @VanderbiltU and @WashU: Higher Education is at a Crossroads To university leadership, Board members and alumni: American higher education is at a crossroads. Ideological forces in and outside of campuses have pulled too many universities away from the core purpose, principles and values that made them America's great engines of learning, innovation and discovery, and the envy of the world. It is imperative that universities reaffirm and protect these core principles, strengthen their compact with the American people, and build on their unmatched capacity for teaching and innovation. They must do so not only because universities provide education that is transformative and research that improves everyday life—but also because their work is vital to American prosperity, competitiveness and national security. To this end, the leadership of Vanderbilt University and Washington University in St. Louis recently took action at the board level to affirm our commitment to three indispensable principles that have long guided us: -Excellence in all aspects of our institutions' work, free of political litmus tests, grounded in a commitment to institutional neutrality in words and deeds; -Academic freedom and freedom of expression, to ensure unfettered inquiry, perspectives drawn from a wide range of human experience, and dialogue and debate that are free from censorship and disruption; and -An environment that fosters growth and development, including a commitment to minimizing financial and other barriers that impede students' access to our institutions or that hinder their academic success. 
Learn about the Vanderbilt-WashU Statement of Principles and efforts to restore confidence in America's great universities at HigherEdStatementofPrinciples dot com Bruce Evans Chairman, Board of Trust Vanderbilt University Andrew Bursky Chair, Board of Trustees Washington University in St. Louis Daniel Diermeier Chancellor Vanderbilt University Andrew D. Martin Chancellor Washington University in St. Louis

The @georgetownlaw dean just responded.

I must admit that we got to the “you’re gonna need to buy some chickens” stage of things faster than I bargained for.

Please join us for the next @PennPARC Aging Chat: RURAL HEALTH & AGING Monday, March 3, 2025 | 12-1 pm | McNeil Room 403 & Virtual (Zoom info on image) With speakers: Shannon Monnat (@smonnat) of @MaxwellSU & Brian Clemens Thiede of @agsciences bit.ly/43f7giP

Adult #ADHD is on the rise. Read about which pop subgroups have the highest rates in our latest pub.

This is why I'm worried about #NIH's cuts to universities and medical institutions, and you should be too. facebook.com/share/p/19toori…

Other than being beholden to billionaires, the biggest problem with the Democratic Party establishment is that there are not enough people from working-class backgrounds in the inside track who can say: "Uh, David Hogg? As our young-men whisperer? WTF are we doing here guys?"

Our luggage finally arrived at 1051 pm - 1 hr and 19 mins after landing. Terrible customer service @JetBlue #SYR

.@JetBlue, our flight landed at 932 pm at #SYR (B6 602). As of 1024 pm we are still waiting at baggage claim, and no bags have come out yet. What the heck is going on? This is unacceptable!

Of all the new #Christmas movies on #Netflix this year, 2 were DNFs for me - #ThatChristmas and #AParisChristmasWaltz

Adults have grown less literate over the past decade, new data suggest. One researcher speculates that many are getting much less practice than they used to at reading long and complex texts. Blame TikTok, perhaps econ.st/3Zm7Yas 👇

Political polarization has increased over time, with detrimental impacts on public health. Learn more in this @MaxwellSU #SULerner brief #pophealth #COVID19: surface.syr.edu/lerner/262/

I want to say a bit more about the feelings educated liberals have about less educated voters, and make a different point about it than I made before (that people are cruel & snobbish). I also think educated liberals hold cartoonish views of the less educated, and this costs us.