Time-lapse journalist and consultant.
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Honored to see my essay on the rebirth of Boston's Mystic River in @longnow's annual journal, Pace Layers. I argue that the multi-generational work of restoring a polluted waterway should be celebrated like the medieval enterprise of building a gothic cathedral. @MysticMyRWA
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🚨 ¡Mañana es #WonkComms!
⌚️Jueves 30 de octubre, de 10 a 11:30
💡 Con Yanina Budkin @yaninab (Banco Mundial) y Paul Constance @presentbias (Sociopúblico)
🎙️Modera Sonia Jalfin @soniajalfin (Sociopúblico)
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"Constance believes that the smart progressive response would be to make “reproductive rights” a more inclusive movement—one that defends both the choice not to have kids and the choice to have as many as you want." @madeleinekearns in thefp.com/p/how-did-having-b…
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I recommend this darkly funny report on American pro-natalists by @barclaybram of The Economist. I'm glad my use of the word "abhorrent" made it into the piece, along with my plea to fellow progressives who are reluctant to acknowledge this issue. economist.com/podcasts/2025/…
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Many thanks to CNN's @meenasaurus for making me sound like a sane liberal in this report on NatalCon. Definitely a strange event, but it convinced me that progressives need better ideas for enabling people to form families and have children.
No, they didn't charge $10,000 and have on-the-spot weddings, as some reports suggest.
But NatalCon 2025 had plenty of excitement.
Our report from inside the Elon-adjacent conference focused on boosting the birth rate is up on @CNN -- and it's a fun one: cnn.com/2025/04/10/us/pronat…
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Very pleased that my essay, “The Heresy of Decline,” is included in the inaugural edition of Pace Layers, a new annual print journal from the Long Now Foundation @longnow. Congratulations to its editor, @ahmedkabil. Learn more and order a copy here:
longnow.org/ideas/pace-layer…
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Today in @nytimes @rachelcwiseman and I on why in letting conservative policies and theatrics alienate us from the question of children, we’re only letting the right set our reproductive agendas for us in yet another way.
nytimes.com/2024/06/10/opini…
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Professional news: @FamStudies is launching a new Pronatalism Initiative with me at the helm. The project is initially supported by an Emergent Ventures grant (ht @tylercowen ). We're the first and only explicitly pronatal policy shop.
ifstudies.org/blog/ifs-launc…
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By the early 02030s, a staggering 70 percent of the world’s entire land-based astronomical data gathering capacity is expected to be concentrated in an swath of Chilean desert about the size of Oregon.
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[Fab piece] In Chile, a so-called “emerging economy,” the juxtaposition of first-world astronomy with third-world grievances raises questions about planning, progress, and the distribution of one of humanity’s rarest assets longnow.org/ideas/stumbling-… @presentbias
Very grateful to astronomer Bárbara Rojas-Ayala @cosmicbabs for her perspective on how Chile became the global capital of astronomy while grappling with poverty and political disenchantment. longnow.org/ideas/stumbling-…
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By the early 02030s, 70 percent of the world’s entire land-based astronomical data gathering capacity is expected to be concentrated in an swath of Chilean desert about the size of Oregon.
How did Chile become a global capital for astronomy? @Presentbias takes a closer look.
ALT A map of major telescopes & astronomical sites in Chile. Map by Jacob Sujin Kuppermann
ALT The foundations of the Giant Magellan Telescope.
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What do Oxford University, the International Olympic Committee, and J.P. Morgan have in common? They’ve never been run by a woman (in their combined +1,000 year history!).
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La fecundidad en partes de América Latina está cayendo tres o cuatro veces más rápido que en Estados Unidos. Mi entrevista con @alexandrareport ntn24.com/noticias-especiale… via @NTN24
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I'm honored to be speaking after Luis Rosero-Bixby at this panel on Costa Rica's ultra-low fertility on Thursday. He is one of a handful of Latin American demographers bringing attention to the astonishing speed of this phenomenon in the region.
¿Qué oportunidades, desafíos e implicaciones conlleva la ultrabaja fecundidad a nivel social y económico?
Conozca más en el simposio Tendencias de la Fecundidad en 🇨🇷
▶️29 Feb
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▶️Auditorio CIMAR, Ciudad Investigación @UniversidadCR
▶️Inscripción: bit.ly/3OLN0NC
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Simposio Tendencias de la fecundidad en CR: Desafíos y oportunidades para el futuro compartido, 29 de febrero - 9 a.m. Auditorio de CIMAR, Ciudad de la Investigación, UCR.
Inscripciones bit.ly/3OLN0NC
CCP - @UniversidadCR , @INECCR , @EstadoNacion y @UNFPACostaRica.
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NEW: Brazil's recent census found 203 million people -- 5 million fewer than expected. The culprit? A fertility rate diving much further than anyone expected throughout Latin America. Big consequences for politics and government budgets. More here:
americasquarterly.org/articl…
