Spread the word! Tenure Track Assistant Professor position in Sociology of Work and Professions, with the ability to teach sociological theory. 📍Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario 🇨🇦 Applications due March 19. Position begins July 1st. careers.wlu.ca/job/Waterloo...

Canadian figure skater Madeline Schizas gets university assignment extension at Olympics Canadian figure skater and McMaster University student Madeline Schizas was granted an extension on her sociology assignment one day after going viral with her ... #cbc #cbc-canada-news #Canada

Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it

This is worth your time haha youtu.be/7vRX-BQAjeE

Look what’s arrived! I’m very excited to read your new book, @urchinette.bsky.social 🇮🇪📚🎶

Interesting discussion about parenting and generative AI: “Stressed-out parents are turning to ChatGPT for help” #parenting #parents #mentalload www.theglobeandmail.com/podcasts/the... @theglobeandmail.com

Where Are the Men in Boys’ Lives? Jobs working with children are largely done by women, leaving many boys, especially in low-income areas, with few men as role models. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...

I'm delighted to share a new article at Politics & Gender with @kebaisley.bsky.social and Kate Burke Pellizzari examining whether LGBTQ+ candidates face challenges financing their campaigns: doi.org/10.1017/S174....

Happy day 3 of sabbatical, to all who celebrate!! 🎉 Unfortunately, not me, but I’m happy to celebrate vicariously!

#MorningReads & #Thread How is relationship status associated with earnings among LGB people? Women's earnings depend relatively little on changes in relationship status. At the same time, gay men only receive premiums related to having a partner once they marry. #SOGIdata #LGBTDemography

“What science responds well to is stability and predictability and long-term planning.” www.wsj.com/world/europe...

Sleepaway camp’s nostalgia economy: Univ of BC historian Leslie Paris discusses summer camp and changes to childhood over time. www.vox.com/podcasts

Today is your last chance to vote! Polls are open until 9:30 PM. No voter card? No problem! Just bring government-issued ID. Find your polling location at mikemorrice.ca/vote

Bonkers chart from Canadian election polling.

“The Conservative Activist Pushing Trump to Attack U.S. Colleges” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/p...

Highly recommend this interview with Christopher Eisgruber, President of Princeton University, on why academic freedom at our higher ed institutions should concern all Americans. #AcademicSky #MomSky

‘No Way to Please Everyone’ Says Only University Where Students Are Regularly Kidnapped

My federal grants with @wendymanning.bsky.social and Ann Meier were terminated last week. The language from the termination is below. It has been sad as we are being forced to say goodbye to members of our team. We are figuring out next steps. We remain deeply committed to studying all families.

Chilling: Trump administration threatening #research conducted in Canada. Researchers questioned about their projects, e.g. doesn’t ascribe to “gender ideology”, DEI elements, climate justice, etc. www.caut.ca/sites/defaul... More here: www.caut.ca/latest/2025/... @caut.bsky.social #sociology

It's hard to say this, but science (& research more generally) is just being **stopped** in the US right now. This is just one university, losing nearly a billion dollars in project funding pretty much overnight. That's people's jobs & the research that could save lives. www.wsj.com/health/healt...

BREAKING: irony dead.

Had a blast sharing the latest recommendations for mitigating scam participants in online research with Wilfrid Laurier University's Faculty of Social Work! 🤖 This is a fast-moving space but with ongoing vigilance and information sharing, we can safeguard researchers and genuine participants!

Age yourself with a movie you saw in a theatre:

Why is this dimwitted drunk sex pest I hired for a key position making mistakes

Hey man sorry to hear about all your political turmoil. Would it help if I scrolled around on the computer all day and drove myself insane?

A very clear statement of what is happening to science right now. And on the social science side: "This cuts across economics, psychology, sociology. In all these fields, there are whole chunks of the discipline that may just not be possible to carry on anymore."

Musk loses $100 million deal with Ontario. He didn't care. He said "oh, well." search.app/g8bRSXU9KZsW...

ICYMI Sociology: @jessienyc.bsky.social on "The Algorithmic Rise of the 'Alt-Right'" (2028) is free to read, download, and share at journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

It was great speaking with Natalie Stechyson @cbcnews.ca about the changing trends and persisting inequalities in gender divisions of housework. www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7426763

The Canadian government recently announced it is indefinitely pausing new permanent residency sponsorship applications for parents and grandparents. I wrote an op-ed to discuss what this pause means for thousands of immigrant families. theconversation.com/canada-halts... @ubcmigration.bsky.social

Fascinating paper by Claudia Goldin on drivers of low fertility in advanced economies. Countries where economic progress outstrips social progress (in particular, gender equality in household division of labour) see the most rapid falls in fertility.. www.nber.org/papers/w33311

Graduate student Maura Kraemer's recent article uncovers how parental racial socialization operates within schools as racialized organizations. Until February 15th, you can use this link for free access: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kL6A,17Ro...

“Seven in ten (70%) 🇨🇦 parents agree that it is important to keep children as busy as possible with organized activities, with fathers (80%) being significantly more likely than mothers (63%) to say so.” Data from 2018: www.ipsos.com/en-ca/news-p...

Children’s activities and over-scheduling:

I don't think people realize how fucked most Ontario universities are. Successive gov'ts haven't just tanked funding for 20 years, the current gov't has cut and frozen tuition. We're looking at a dozen or more Laurentian-style bankruptcies in the next five or so years if something doesn't give.

Happy new year, and happy first day of sabbatical to all those who celebrate!

Simpler times.

It took me a minute to figure out why so many people are posting about Y2K and then I realized it's because it's been exactly 25 years and I had to sit down

A student somehow accidentally emailed the entire NYU faculty and the reply-all carnage is like a freeway pile-up

So, let's try doing #duvetknowitschristmas here this evening? People are literally Driving Home For Christmas right now, which MIGHT JUST mean that they'll be sleeping somewhere unusual. 1/

Now free to read (for 3 months at least)! And @kimmoments.bsky.social (first author) is on BlueSky too! read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

Headline of the Year contest starts tomorrow. Here are the winners from previous contests:

We're hiring at @Hunter_College - Assistant/Associate in Human Biology - AND - Sociology. Great position for a #medicalsociologist - lmk if you have questions! cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

🚨 In "Parental unemployment and children's well-being at school" Simon Skovgaard Nielsen, @droverbytrade.bsky.social and Felix Weiss, using a dataset on all pupils in public schools, find no evidence of parental unemployment affecting children's school well-being doi.org/10.1177/0001... #sociology

Delighted to share a new publication out today in the Journal of Marriage and Family w/ the brilliant @leahruppanner.bsky.social. In "A typology of US parents’ mental loads: Core and episodic cognitive labor" we assess underlying patterns in the domestic "mental load" among 3,000 US parents. 🧵 1/10