🧪 New Feature in Chemistry42: Typed Excluded Volumes Excluded volumes aren’t new, but typed ones are. Instead of just blocking a region of space, you can now specify exactly what’s not allowed there: no aromatic rings, no H-bond donors, no positively charged groups
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One of the most consequential aging papers this year: an open Nature study integrates >11,000 transcriptomes across 25+ tissues and four mammals, building interpretable clocks for chronological age and expected mortality.
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
An Economist’s Lessons on Happiness: Farewell Dismal Science! by Richard A. E... amazon.com/dp/3030619613/ref… via @amazon
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What a busy day! So many representatives supporting good data collection and research#2021PAAVirtualAdvocacyDay
2021@PopAssocAmerica Virtual Advocacy Day, Monday, March 8! Pop scientists meeting w/ est. 40 congressional offices re. pop research & @NIH, @NSF @uscensusbureau @BLS_gov @NCHStats funding #2021PAAVirtualAdvocacyDay
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A chance to get this right at Census
Trump's Census Plan In Peril As Bureau Expects February Release Of Count Results npr.org/2021/01/04/953387427…
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Isn’t this something!
A friend gave our toddler an 'E is for Economics' book so I decided to make a 'D is for Demography' book. The pdf and code to make the book is here: github.com/MJAlexander/d_is_…
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Good opportunity for people into brains and Biomarker’s
Join us as we work to eliminate Alzheimer's disease - apply now for @USCLONI’s two-year, full salary postdoc position in multiscale and multimodal analysis of biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease. Deadline Jan. 8.
Learn more at loni.usc.edu/training
Preston, Menken, Thornton, and Entwistle - demographic All Stars
Samuel Preston (@Penn), PAA President in 1984 presented "Children and the Elderly: Divergent Paths for America's Dependents." Could this same address be true today? Join us on Dec. 8th and find out: ow.ly/LfLI50CAT8h
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Census issues continue#2020census
The 2020 census: deadlines, politics and what may come next | UW News washington.edu/news/2020/11/…
Three-Nation Research to Examine Relationships Between Social Factors and Epigenetics gero.usc.edu/2020/11/09/soci…
Researchers find evidence of pandemic fatigue; younger and older adults resumed risky social behaviors as COVID-19 progressed gero.usc.edu/2020/11/11/pand…
PAA members take note
EXCLUSIVE: New Delays In Final Stage Of Census Could Foil Trump’s Plan To Rig It talkingpointsmemo.com/news/t… via @TPM
Starting soon
TOMORROW: Join our esteemed panel at 2pm ET for The Mortality Impact of COVID-19 - please register in advance.
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And if you miss it, join us on our Youtube channel! youtube.com/c/PopulationAsso…
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HRS, NiCOLA, TILDA
Researchers at @tilda_tcd, along with international partners, have secured prestigious funding of $4.5m to investigate how social circumstances & adversity impact on health outcomes in later life. More: bit.ly/35dAIXS #researchMATTERS #ageing #TILDA #TrinityResearch
We need to support and enable people to live fulfilling lives when they get this diagnosis!
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Perhaps - one more effect of this President
Our new paper provides additional evidence that the 2016 Presidential election may have been sufficiently stressful to accelerate the timing of birth among Latina mothers.
We find a spike in periviable births (<26 weeks) that coincided with election. 1/
authors.elsevier.com/a/1bx3m…
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A well deserved honor!
It's such an honor to have received the @geronsociety ESPO interdisciplinary paper award for my paper entitled, "¿Dónde Viven Los Latinos? Understanding the Different Types of Neighborhoods Older Latinos Live in and Their Implications for Diabetes." This is for mami & papi.
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