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September 23, 2025
“I’m going to be honest with you — this month’s (Michigan) jobs report is a head-scratcher. Seeing a substantial decline in the labor force can be discouraging news. It can be a little bit of a sign for concern and so it is good to see the unemployment rate falling, but the underlying reason isn’t as positive as we would hope,” said Gabriel Ehrlich, director of the Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics.
Michigan Public Radio Network -
September 23, 2025
“Even when it is recommended and it should be done in every newborn baby, we know it’s not always done. And when it becomes optional, it means that it will be rarely done. And that is going to be the problem,” said Anna Lok, professor of hepatology, underscoring the importance of a universal newborn hepatitis B vaccine to safeguard against a disease that causes more than a million deaths annually from liver cancer and cirrhosis.
CBC News -
September 23, 2025
“Very often when we’re thinking about how life has changed through time and how environments change through time, it’s usually that the climate changes … or this mountain has grown and, therefore, it has a specific effect on life. It’s rarely thought that life itself could actually alter the climate and the landscape,” said Luke Weaver, assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences, whose research suggests the extinction of dinosaurs 66 million years ago likely led to wide-scale changes in landscapes.
Science News -
September 22, 2025
“Michigan is now staring down the barrel of its first extended shutdown ever,” wrote Nicholas Bagley, professor of law. “To function effectively, Michigan government depends on a shared set of expectations about how we do things around here. One of those expectations is that our elected officials keep the lights on, even if that means making tough choices.”
The Detroit News -
September 22, 2025
“While there is no specific recommendation that women see a neurologist before or during pregnancy, these experts play a key role in implementing risk-reduction strategies that improve outcomes for women and their babies,” said Chloe Hill, assistant professor of neurology, who found that nearly half of pregnant women with epilepsy don’t see a neurologist at all in the year leading up to delivery.
U.S. News & World Report -
September 22, 2025
“The chaos and cruelty of a worksite raid is exactly what Trump wants to show: lots of money and militarization poured into small communities to arrest people and remove them, no matter what the cost,” said William Lopez, clinical assistant professor of health behavior and health equity. “They make for incredibly useful photo ops … of officers in their militarized garb and of long lines of immigrants shackled together.”
Mother Jones -
September 19, 2025
“As long as these unequal effects of parenthood on what men and women earn persist, they will continue to act as a brake on women’s progress toward equal pay,” co-wrote Alexandra Killewald, professor of sociology and research professor at the Institute for Social Research, who found that parenthood leads to wage losses for women — but not for men — and those losses are larger when women have more kids.
The Conversation -
September 19, 2025
Hepatitis B can linger in microscopic traces of bodily fluids, meaning that specks of dried blood that end up on nail clippers, towels, tooth brushes, razors or other items can be infectious for a week. “It’s not just the stigmatizing exposures. It can be everyday household exposures with a family member that doesn’t know they have it,” said Debra Langlois, clinical assistant professor of pediatrics.
The New York Times -
September 19, 2025
“There’s a real fear that we could have large outbreaks of incredibly dangerous infectious diseases that are really quite easy to prevent. That’s what public health is there for, so we don’t have babies born with congenital defects from rubella, so that our kids can go to school without some of them getting measles,” said Aubree Gordon, professor of epidemiology.
Science News -
September 18, 2025
“This is mostly a press release masquerading as a lawsuit,” said Don Herzog, professor of law, noting that in his $15 billion lawsuit against The New York Times, Donald Trump would need to prove not just that a claim was false and defamatory, but that its publisher either knew that at the time or acted with “reckless disregard” for the truth.
The Washington Post
