#Crowdsourcing examples of quality of life surveys or measures for my methods course. Please send suggestions and links.

Finally got to #latteup today... and the skies are looking more Opalite.

In 2023, about 380,000 U.S. children (0.7%) lived with a same-sex couple—21% with male-male couples and 79% with female-female couples (ACS 2023). Most children live in married-couple households regardless of the couple’s sex composition @chrisajulian.bsky.social @wendymanning.bsky.social #SOGIData

But do you think women ruined the workplace?

READ: Gender‐Role Attitudes and Marriage Desires Among Never‐Married Adults in South Korea By Soo‐Yeon Yoon, and PARC Research Associate Hyunjoon Park In Journal of Marriage & Family @jmfncfr.bsky.social https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.13114

Not breaking news: women can be sexist too. A consistent finding of the last, oh, 40 years of experimental sociology is that female subjects -- inc employers and, one suspects, NYT op-ed writers -- are as likely to believe negative stereotypes about and discriminate against women as male subjects.

Rouses should include a seating area for all the folks waiting on their Starbucks pickup.

The number of folks standing in the Starbucks line in meetings on their phone is just wow today.

Evolutionary psychologists have long believed that men prefer physical traits in women which are cues to high potential fertility. A new review concludes: “current evidence base is too weak to support the claim that women’s feminine morphological traits are associated with reproductive potential”

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

“That something exists outside ourselves and our preoccupations, so near, so readily available, is our greatest blessing.” On walking www.themarginalian.org/2022/12/18/i...

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Find out what you can do with a sociology degree? (Answer: You can be just about anything you want to be with a sociology degree!) sociologycoach.com/what-can-you...

"Your HR just rejected 45 women over 40 using AI…out of 47 applicants. You didn’t notice because the algorithm said ‘not qualified.’ And you didn’t bother to double-check. AI doesn’t eliminate bias. It automates it at scale." #bias #psychology #sociology #equality substack.com/home/post/p-...

Parker Lemal-Brown is a sociology graduate who has worked in marketing and entertainment. Read about how he uses sociology in developing scripts for TV production and in his consulting company. #sociology #socialscience

This article has some amazingly deep questions for your self. Is this shift about enhancing my space to reflect who I am today, or am I trying to rewrite something I was never permitted to be? Am I enhancing my life, or escaping it? #DiderotEffect

Studying families is studying sex.

We’re happy to share recent research by @matildahellman.bsky.social : “Revisiting the quality criteria for qualitative research.” 👉 uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/di... Published in Qualitative Research in Psychology. #QualitativeResearch #Sociology #UppsalaUniversity #Research

“Fact-checking alone isn’t enough, because misinformation often succeeds not by presenting alternative facts, but by presenting a more emotionally or visually compelling story.” – Anton Törnberg, Swedish sociologist #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/11/look...

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We’re regularly adding new events and opportunities to the ASA Calendar! Stay up-to-date with upcoming events and deadlines of interest to sociologists. Visit www.asanet.org/calendar.  #ASA #sociology #webinars #professionaldevelopment

NEW: Jury selection begins in the trial of sandwich guy today. The prosecutors are accusing him of "throwing a meat sandwich" at "point-blank range." POINT-BLANK RANGE 💀 www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Contrary to our hypothesis and most unexpectedly, trans and nonbinary individuals are more likely than cis men to say that same-sex marriage is bad for society and the LGBT community. #findings

#MorningReads Using heart rate monitors in an intro socio class, researchers found that students showed mild to moderate stress responses, though patterns varied & didnt always align w/ demographic categories. Authors discuss implications for teaching strategies.

#MorningReads SGM parents were less likely to disclose their identities to providers and more likely to avoid care. Among parents, greater identity concealment & social isolation predicted increased health care avoidance and delays, underscoring how social factors shape access to care. #LGBTHealth

[email protected] went dark on #nationaloatmealday Thinking about using this in my methods course, when we discuss ethics, studying people, priority populations, and ...

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I hope so too.

When folks build ranch houses in a swamp in a bowl... and then are surprised when it floods.

My favorite monster. #halloweenscenes

What is the Social Function of Halloween? www.connorwhiteley.net/post/what-is... #halloween #halloween2025 #HappyHalloween #socialpsychology #sociology #mentalhealth #psychology #psychology_facts #psychologyfacts #psychologyfact #psychologystudent #psychologystudents #podcast #podcasts

I was today years old when I found out some folks put noodles in chili. Who does this? What kind of noodle? I have questions. #justcurious

Kelsy Burke wrote an amazing progressive LGBT friendly analysis of the Christian and Feminist wars on porn. Here is a quickie review of that www.samuelcohn.net/unusual-/kel...

A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." (This PBS story on the scientific brain drain is heartbreaking & ominous for medicine, imo.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO...

#MorningReads Study explores LGB+ right-wing voters in Spain. Finds themes of individualism, lower perceived discrimination, and viewing sexuality as apolitical or secondary—highlighting growing ideological diversity within the LGBTIQ+ community.

They always come for the trans [kids] first.

“Science is never settled” sounds reasonable—but it’s often a rhetorical trick to undermine consensus on issues like vaccines or climate change. Science evolves, but some things are overwhelmingly supported by evidence. My latest for Live Science www.livescience.com/... 1/10

**SECOND #EMCA Starter Pack!** The 1st is full: go.bsky.app/DHMkXcX so the 2nd is linked below. If you're a #ConversationAnalysis #DiscursivePsychology #MCA #Ethnomethodology researcher and want to be added (or removed!), reply below. Repost to keep building our community! go.bsky.app/6p8x2UZ

More covergae of the 2025 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey Policed and censored: professors in the southern US feel under siege www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Public support for same-sex parents has risen sharply: from 46% (2012) to 63% (2022) for same-sex moms, and 43% to 61% for dads. Read our new piece by Jordyn Wald from research by Wendy D. Manning and @kris10gustafson.bsky.social in @jmfncfr.bsky.social: 🔗 bit.ly/3X3G3v2 🔗 (3 min read)

Getting sexts during sexual harassment training is very distracting.

#MorningReads Different-sex married couples had the best housing quality, while over a quarter of cohabiting couples—especially female same-sex—were cost-burdened. Male same-sex married couples faced the lowest housing cost strain, showing diverse housing insecurities across groups. #SOGIData