The weirdest thing about Mardi Gras this year was the national guard and all the federal leos.

#bananas Literally thats the answer. and, #cucumbers.

It is so hard to get at relationships where folks do not live together with US national data! Thankfully, our American Marriage Survey allows to pick up this up, along with sexual orientation, gender, nonmonogamy and other types of relationships beyond marital! #SOGIData #LATs #CNM

Morning after Mardi Gras day hits different. #mardigrasthoughts

For the second year, BSPS @bspsuk.bsky.social will host a session on queer demography! It focuses on LGBTQIA+ populations, experiences, and demographic processes (e.g. dating, families, health). Questions? Contact @mortenkthomsen.bsky.social or me. Please share! www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...

SocArXiv accepted 3,162 new papers in 2025, an increase of 20% over 2024. As we are now accepting only social science papers, and turning away new papers on technical AI topics, this seems to reflect an increase in (human) social science. Thanks for sharing, social scientists!

Our new research shows that hundreds of federal surveys removed questions about sexual orientation and gender identity since the start of the second Trump administration. Read the full report at: tinyurl.com/SOGIdata

New drop just in time for Mardi Gras day and the Fire Horse NEw Year!! #sogidata with @chrisajulian.bsky.social and @gaylekaufman.bsky.social

For two centuries, the North Side Skull and Bone Gang has signaled the start of Mardi Gras Day, waking the spirits and serving as a reminder to live well before death. #younext

And it begins. #skullandbonegang #themardigras

Out here with the butter rum in the bear cup. #skullandbonegang #itsstarting

Good Mardi Gras Morning!! Dang these folks get up early!! No one tells you how hard it is to party all day. Laissez les bons temps rouler! 👑💜💚💛

Very happy to confirm our article is now OPEN ACCES! 'The reanimation of normative manhood acts in schools: teachers’ accounts of boys’ manosphere-aggravated misogyny', is published in Gender & Education. Pls share widely! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @drstephaniewescott.bsky.social

Happy for this one to be out today! this piece is particularly important to the folks profiled here, an amazing prison LGBTQ+ affirming organization called Be the Change, and I'd love to be able to share any reactions with those folks <3 truthout.org/articles/thi...

If you're in the Wilmington area, my colleague, @erin-michaels.bsky.social and I are having a book event this Friday!

How and why humans have a desire for social closeness, or comparison, could be explained by brain-hormone dynamics. Kent State's Kathleen Casto will present findings from her lab on this matter today at the weekly @rcgd-isr.bsky.social seminar! buff.ly/7KDpNHg

The minds and lives she touched.

Every player who has won an MVP-type trophy at #Unrivaled so far is a mom. May the #WNBA give these women the childcare they deserve so they can continue to pursue their dreams.

How often do people fall passionately in love? The answer may be less than you think. Via @scientific_american #sociology #ValentinesDay

I don’t know about this lane kitten guy. #paradethoughts

Whatever happened to Bartles & Jaymes? #paradethoughts

Ok I’m gonna start day drinking now. See you at #Endymion! #nolalife #itsmardigrasyall #keepyourteethsafe #threedeckersomdeck

Silence is complicity. Democracy requires courage. The concept that "being silent often means acceptance in the face of oppression" is a widely recognized principle in sociology, human rights, and social justice, often summarized by the phrase "SILENCE IS COMPLICITY”

My new band will be called Vicious Compliance.

It was is a good soundtrack. #prettyinpink #greattitle

They took me to Outback, I took them to #prettyinpink

#heartday #myfavorite

I won’t be attending Southerns. I’m not spending any money or time in FL. If FL #sociology peops need support I will support from NOLA!

Happy Hearts Day!!! #streetart #streetheart #streatsofnola

They ready.

this is why sociology and stats are so important. Did they run out of condoms because people won't stop fucking or did they run out of condoms because the olympics are being run like an Italian airport? www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

Today in gut wrenching quotes: “This was the most unpleasant task I’ve ever had to take on in my entire career. What was put on our shoulders was saving our discipline and saving our colleagues' jobs." Dawn Carr, sociologist at Florida State University

Some @wendymanning.bsky.social for your day! "Finances are at least a consideration in most cohabitation decisions, but if it’s the primary reason for a move, experts say you could be setting your relationship up for failure." #sociologyinthenews #familydemography

I love this cover!

Daydreaming that economists might one day discover that economic sociology exists

Florida’s new ‘stop-gap’ sociology textbook has race chapter deleted https://www.newsbeep.com/us-fl/154230/ In the textbook used by many Florida higher education students for the Introduction to Sociology course last semester,…

Interesting. “The number of ‘Gypsy or Traveller’ students taking a degree course at university recorded by officials has risen from 105 in 2019/20 to 2,535 in 2023/24 […]: [an] exponential rise […] largely driven by Roma students, an investigation by the Travellers Times can reveal.”

New publication! Men using sextech elicit stronger disgust ratings than women. Read free (for a limited time) here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/BQNXZ...

Im so pro gender affirming surgeries. FOR ALL! #translivesmatter

Also, taking readings or media suggestions for teaching on this.

This week I learned that no one, diverse ages, I spoke to knew that US health care use to be nonprofit legally (prior to Nixon) & a huge shift really occurred in the 90s when the last of the non profits that were trying to stay low as possible had to move to for profit to remain competitive.

Another day looking for something that might not exist! On that note, if y'all know of any surveys that include poly questions or measures Id love to see them--what they are or how we are ascertaining poly knowledge from surveys.

Now that we are in the last few days of Carnival…

ONLINE FIRST New in TSQ: Isaiah Cohen and Mark Schafer show that different kinds of school-to-family communications prompt different forms of parental engagement in education. Read more at bit.ly/4cliI0Q

I love how every dataset is either 'rich' or 'limited', depending entirely on whether the results work

For the folks in the back, the NUMBER of births is not particularly informative. There’s a reason demographers look at rates, as I explain here.

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