The Data Infrastructure Network will mark its fifth year at the Social Science History Association Annual Meeting in Atlanta! We want to highlight your work, ideas, and discoveries! The deadline to submit your abstract is March 15, 2026. Details are here: ssha2026.ssha.org

📢 Call For Papers Hill Kulu, @udemsar.bsky.social and I are pleased to invite submissions to our session “Spatial Proximity of Families and Generations” at the BSPS 2026. We welcome studies that examine intergenerational geographic proximity and its effects on family members. @bspsuk.bsky.social

The 2026 SSHA call for proposals has been extended to March 15th. Read more and submit here: ssha.org/conference/c... Spread the word!

👓Recommended Reading📚Analysing Biases in Genealogies: Liliana P. Calderón-Bernal Diego Alburez & Emilio Zagheni investigated the accuracy of data from ascending genealogies for estimating fertility and mortality rates. www.demogr.mpg.de/go/RRead

Contemporary US pronatalism, of which the Heritage Foundation is the most powerful player, is blatantly sexist and racist and fueled by Christian Nationalism. This isn’t an exaggeration - it’s explicitly spelled out in their plan to “save America by saving the family.”

Problem about the loneliness epidemic is, it's everywhere except in representative survey data. Let's look at where the claim comes from. 1/

Come work with us in Helsinki! A permanent position for a lecturer in social science history, associated with a joint Master's program with the UCL. DL February 27th! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

@kmcdono.bsky.social @danielwilson.bsky.social and I have a new OA article out: eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A... It’s about the fragmented landscape of historical data, and what we can do about it to improve discoverability, sustainability and reuse.

Do you teach demographic history? Are you planning to be at the Social Science History Association conference in wonderful Atlanta in November? Do you want to participate in a teaching roundtable about our admittedly niche, but awesome, subject? If you do, contact me! DM me here, or email!

The datapaper of the POPP databse is out !!! And it's in Historical Life Course Studies POPP. An OCR-Generated Database of the Population Censuses of Paris (1926–1936) hlcs.nl/article/view...

One of the most frustrating things about the current US discourse over low birth rates is its laser focus on "how can we raise birth rates?" In this op-ed for @thehill.com, I explain why that's the wrong question and what we should be asking instead. 1/6 thehill.com/opinion/heal...

This is all due to the incredible resistance of the people of Minnesota. Their resilience - and their determination - helped enforce the Constitution in a way that political elites in Congress and the courts did not or could not. I have never been prouder to be a Minnesotan.

If anything, things are even more dire as 🧊 becomes more secretive in their activities,. Combined with decline in documented violence, people not in MN assume (incorrectly) things are back to normal & pushback against even most common-sense reforms (a bare minimum) unfortunately gaining traction.

Friends, can I ask you to spread the word that we have a THREE-YEAR postdoc in American history at Cambridge up for grabs - ANY field, but applications are due March 1 so don't delay - apply, apply, apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69790/u...

“Strong financial support for mothers from the government can make motherhood more affordable and promote gender equality in economic resources.” Investing in mothers and families - even if it doesn’t raise the birth rates - is worth doing.

I am excited to be hiring two post-doctoral positions at UCLA--please share with your networks. www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.....

Remember to get those abstract submissions in for the 2026 Data-Intensive Research Conference hosted in Minneapolis in July! The deadline is TODAY (February 2nd). lcc.umn.edu/DIRC-proposals

Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept." Astonishing thing for a judge to do.

Glad to share a new paper, “Reproductive responses to revolution and repression in Finland, 1917–1919”, now open access in The History of the Family! doi.org/10.1080/1081... 1/11

Join us for Virtual Office Hours TODAY (1/28) from 10:00am-11:30am CT. You'll have the chance to connect with IPUMS data experts and get your questions answered. Pop in anytime, but registration is required: z.umn.edu/IPUMS-VOH

We did it! We reached the wind chill that is the same in °F and °C!

Now that all right-thinking people are inspired to emulate Minnesota, here's your first step. (h/t @lookitup.baby and @mostlybree.kitrocha.com )

They have quite an operation going. www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...

Older generations spent a lot less time parenting. Millennial dads spend nearly as much time parenting as Boomer moms did. Millennial and Gen X moms way more. via The Economist

The Minnesota Population Center at the University of Minnesota (@minnpop.bsky.social) is hiring a postdoc in Population Health. Happy to chat about the MPC, UMN, and the Twin Cities, which are all awesome in my humble opinion! pop.umn.edu/training/pos...

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Historical Demography at the University of Bradford w Jo Buckberry on the AHRC-funded project "Dead and Buried: Investigating changes in health during the Industrial Revolution using documentary records and human skeletal remains"

#CFA: We are hiring 2 Postdocs and 1 PhD to study how first names convey information about parental values and beliefs in historical Europe (c.1750-1950). Join us in Trondheim! 2 Postdocs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... 1 PhD: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... (deadline for applying: March 15)

Please share - @pewresearch.org wants to hire a data archivist who will be an advocate for data users, helping to ensure that our datasets are easy to discover and reuse by researchers, journalists, and the public. pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CenterExtern...

The Onion can just copy and paste this HHS language

You've probably been following the story about fraud in MN. I wrote about the people who provide services who are being driven into bankruptcy, thanks to the Walz' administration decision to hire Optum AI to screen all payments. It's a disaster.

Naming your home security company after the guy who allowed two hobbits and Gollum to sneak into Mount Doom, one of the most secure places of his realm and destroy his precious piece of jewelry is not quite the flex they think it is.

The when to shovel advice is top tier forecasting

Reading and baking out of the old church cook books is the closest I’ll ever get to doing the technical challenge in GBBO.

Here is the percentage of white males age 30-39 working in professional, technical, and managerial jobs between 1850 and 2024. The current generation has not been squeezed out of such jobs. If there is any lost generation here, I would say it is boomers who were 30-39 in 1990. (@ipums.bsky.social)

We know you are all doing extraordinary work #poweredbyIPUMS - and we want to reward it! The annual research awards competition is now open - submit a nomination today! 🏆 (Did we mention the cash prizes? 💸) www.ipums.org/impact/ipums...

I am thrilled to announce that my first PhD paper, 'Analysing biases in genealogies using demographic microsimulation', co-authored with @demography.bsky.social and @ezagheni.bsky.social, has already been published in the European Journal of Population. rdcu.be/eTImq

Here's a great write-up of my talk the other night. In the U.S., population panic over low birth rates is a smokescreen designed to provide cover for policies that are facially pronatalist but really about reestablishing gender, race, religion, ability, LGBTQ, nativity, etc hierarchies.

“There are Minnesota people who don’t eat at Culver’s because it’s a Wisconsin brand,” according to the announcer of this Gopher-Badger game. These people do not exist, you are making up a guy to tell us about.

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure invites applications for a two-week Summer School on ‘Micro-Census Insights into Historical Households, Mortality and Fertility’, held at University of Cambridge from July 6-17th, 2026. Application deadline February 2 2026.

George Alter & Sam Williamson discuss the 1st pensions for Pennsylvania RR workers at the 50th anniversary SSHA meeting. Men in strenuous occupations often shifted to less demanding jobs as they aged. Late retirees lived longer. Locomotive engineers & conductors were well paid for travelling work.

Participants at the 50th meeting of the Social Science History Association take a moment to remember the great Andrew Beveridge. Steve Ruggles, Margo Anderson and Vernon Burton led the appreciation! www.gc.cuny.edu/news/memoria...

When Canada tried this is was a data disaster for large swaths of the country

I moved to Minnesota in June 2023 during a day when the air smelled like a campfire. When I’ve asked longtime Minnesotans about the increasingly severe smoke during our summers, they all say it was never a problem until a few years ago. And wow, this graph has got the receipts.

One week until the start of the Social Science History Association annual meeting in Chicago, 20-23 November. The Data Infrastructure Network can't wait to see you! @socscihistory.bsky.social ssha2025.ssha.org

The Cdn Network for Economic History & the Indigenous Economics Study Group invite proposals for a conference Aug 21-23 2026 in Yellowknife NWT: “Historical Persistence & Economic Development: Culture, Institutions & Understudied Economies” More info [email protected] or [email protected]

"At Iowa [Writing Workshop], many of my colleagues had attended Ivy Leagues, yet received nothing close to the level of thought and care I did as a student." Minnesotans are so lucky to have this wonderful liberal arts college in our public university system. I hope we see & preserve its value

New @pewresearch.org on how the Census has measured race over time. The social construction of race made apparent.

Hi all, please spread the word and we hope everyone can make good use of this new data drop: cmfdata.org The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts and digitized data from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!

Check out this conference if you work on topics related to kinship structure and dynamics (within and beyond the household), caregiving, intergenerational processes, family bereavement, LGBTQ+ & chosen kinship, etc. @iussp.bsky.social Submit by 21 Jan 2026 👇 www.demogr.mpg.de/go/kinship-conference

www.cmfdata.org Great data drop! @rickhornbeck.bsky.social