Susan Short

Excited to share this new Postdoc Opportunity at Brown University for fall of 2026. Please come join us! Information and application here: apply.interfolio.com/181201

Here, I write about the public health threat posed by ICE.

Renee Good, Alex Pretti, & the dozens of others killed by ICE in recent months make this clear. But ICE also kills more slowly & covertly, by inducing chronic stress, fear, & threat.

Abolish ICE.

www.providencejournal.com/story/opinio...

Congressional Briefing on U.S. Fertility Trends

ICYMI: our congressional briefing on U.S. Birth Rate Trends: Patterns, Drivers, and Implications for U.S. Families - summary, slides and recording now online!

Mapping the global digital gender divide: new study reveals stark inequalities in internet and mobile access A research team comprised of current and alumni members of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science (LCDS) has published a major new study in PNAS revealing where and to what extent women remain ...

New study on global digital gender gaps 🧔‍♂️👩📱🌐:

It finds that in low- and middle-income countries

- women are 9% less likely to use the 🌐
- 8% less likely to own a 📱 than men

( ~320 million fewer women 🌐 and ~190 million fewer women with 📱)

www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/mapping...

#NewPublication reveals that more liberal state policy contexts in adolescence are associated with lower dementia risk in older age. To read more: bit.ly/4nVEla1

By Meghan Zacher, Samantha Brady & Susan E. Short

@PSTC_Brown @MIT_AgeLab
@brownsociology.bsky.social @asamedsoc.bsky.social

Does women’s health need protecting? The administration thinks so. But what does this mean? Evidence-based assessment of first 30 days of changes to womenshealth[dot]gov with @pahoman.bsky.social in @lancetrh-americ.bsky.social