This worship of efficiency kills creativity. Every transcript I have, every piece of research, I go over again & again, looking for detail, pattern, illuminating anecdote. It’s not efficient. I flail sometimes! But it’s essential. It’s how I learn to tell the story to myself, so I can tell it to you

AI and a newish radiologist said the growth in my breast was benign. It was v small, circumscribed. A 2nd radiologist with decades of experience said, “it looks fine but I still don’t like it. Get a biopsy.” It was triple neg breast cancer. We need more experts. radiologybusiness.com/topics/artif...

🚨 Apply by April 15! 🚨 Learn about the content & structure of the PSID interview, its special topics modules, and supplemental studies, including the Child Development Supplement and the Transition into Adulthood Supplement. For more info: myumi.ch/g3eMP #SumProg 26

I’m happy to report that a new article written by Daniela V. Negraia, Sophie Lohmann, @ezagheni.bsky.social, and me is now available in Social Indicators Research: link.springer.com/article/10.1... We use historical time use data to examine growth in solitary leisure in the U.S. since 1965.

There’s still time to join our own conference organizers @davonnorris.bsky.social and @jeremylevine.bsky.social for our 1-day conference, Measuring and Theorizing Structural Racism, Friday, 4/10. #Umich #AcademicSky Check out the schedule & register by Monday, 3/30: structural-racism.isr.umich.edu

We're looking forward to having you @shdoron1.bsky.social ! #academicsky RSVP to save your seat: myumi.ch/z9djn

It was a pleasure to talk with Fernanda Pires at University of Michigan News about recent #NIA funded research on #families, #dementia, and #caregiving. news.umich.edu/michigan-min...

It was a pleasure to talk with Fernanda Pires at University of Michigan News about recent #NIA funded research on #families, #dementia, and #caregiving. news.umich.edu/michigan-min...

Empires rise and fall, but some things endure: Nick Cox speaking Stata

create a massive cultural problem, then externalize the responsibility and cost onto friends and relatives

Heads up -- the NHATS webinar was moved one week. See below:

The 4th annual NIMLAS plenary meeting is today! Looking forward to updates from our pilot project awardees and a keynote workshop from @jonburton.bsky.social on state-of-the art methods for obtaining consent to additional collection in longitudinal studies of aging. Details: nimlas.isr.umich.edu

Join us, Tuesday, March 3 at 1:00 for @spattersearch.bsky.social: Caregiving for Older Adults: Expectations and Choice More information & zoom link: events.umich.edu/event/145276 1430 ISR-Thompson

Learn to code is dead, long live learn to think

Honored to be presenting the 1st Annual Schoeni TRENDS talk. Register below to join us remotely!

We're looking forward to the 1st annual Schoeni TRENDS lecture featuring @marasheftel.bsky.social and Neil Mehta. Register here: micda.isr.umich.edu/programs/the...

Friends working with Round 13 NHATS data! Be sure to redownload the file to get the most up to date weights

Do you or a family member live in Idaho and rely on an HCBS waiver? Want to talk to a reporter about it? Please email sluterman at 19thnews dot org or DM. #JournoRequest

Americans largely expect families to care for older adults, especially those with #dementia, even as fewer family caregivers are available, according to work by our member @spattersearch.bsky.social of @umisr.bsky.social. Read more about these #caregiving expectations: ihpi.umich.edu/news-events/...

☀️Happy to be back with a new article in @jmfncfr.bsky.social! W/ Saverio Minardi we explore how parental loss during childhood was linked to family formation in adulthood. This was my last contribution to the ERC funded project GENPOP. Check it out Open Access: doi.org/10.1111/jomf...

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

In “A Profile of Great-Grandparenthood in the U.S.,” R. Margolis & A. Verdery find that rates of great-grandparenthood for older cohorts are stable bc of ↑ life expectancy & postponed fertility, but rates for younger cohorts are lower. @westernu.ca @pop.psu.edu read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

Pitch us! RNG is the only national U.S. newsroom exclusively dedicated to expert reporting on reproductive and sexual health, rights, and justice. For our first 2026 call-out, we especially seek timely, incisive story ideas from journalists covering disability justice, science, and parenthood.

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#Aging scholars and others interested in all things aging #research: Be sure to follow Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging @micda-umisr.bsky.social for new studies from our affiliates. Also follow @nhats-nsoc.bsky.social for new studies using #NHATS and #NSOC data.

#Aging scholars and others interested in all things aging #research: Be sure to follow Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging @micda-umisr.bsky.social for new studies from our affiliates. Also follow @nhats-nsoc.bsky.social for new studies using #NHATS and #NSOC data.

The program provides mentorship to early career scholars interested in behavioral & social aspects of aging related to MiCDA’s themes. Fellows receive funding for a pilot project, are mentored by a MiCDA affiliate, & attend workshops in manuscript development, grant preparation & science comms.

New research using #NHATS / #NSOC by Xu, Clare, and Sun: doi.org/10.1001/jama... “Nearly half of #older adults with severe #vision loss or blindness #fell in the prior year compared with 28% of those without such impairments.”

Ready to work with #NHATS data? Here's how you can get started!

Expectations for Families to Care for Older Adults in the United States: Rapid Scoping Review 2011–2023 Open Access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... This scoping review was a labor of love and I get into the main results over at LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/posts/sarah-...

Here's a secret: "Generations" only exist in families -- not in populations. Some people become grandparents at age 30, and some become grandparents at age 100. Example: Many children born in the Baby Boom had parents who were also born in Baby Boom, but they weren't in the same generation.

It's funny that I have to use the old authentication app to sign up for the new authentication app.

Family books published in 2024 and 2025 sought for the ASA Family Section William J. Goode Book Award. www.asanet.org/communities-...

This bit is so important:

Now on my substack, Gender Gap: 5 notable gaps discussed in 2025. 1. leaving the U.S. 2. marriage aspirations 3. social media use 4. loneliness 5. college plans I picked these bc they signal how men/women structure their social lives and are imagining their futures. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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

🚨 #Hiring! 3yr #postdoc w/survey methodology experience to join the ERC-project SINGLE for its next stage of designing & launching a comparative multidisciplinary singlehood #survey in EU. Research area is open! Application deadline: 12-Jan-2026 (12PM CET). Barcelona-based. 👉🏻 shorturl.at/CmY0F

January 2026 me is absolutely going to hate December 2025 me. Happy "circle back next year" season!

What a year it has been for our community of 800+ health services researchers at @umich.edu! Despite the turmoil, we have much to celebrate. See highlights in our new Annual Review: ihpi.umich.edu/ihpi-2025-ye...

What started out at the Minerva-funded workshop on „Social Networks and Health Inequalities in Ageing Societies“, has now resulted in a published paper: „When Parents Grieve: Adult Child Support and Depressive Symptoms Among Men and Women After Widowhood“ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

1/ A nice summary of the current trends in cohort fertility and how period measures may be overstating recent drops. #demography #birthrates #fertility

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social @um-src.bsky.social affiliate @spattersearch.bsky.social in American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease & Other Dementias Traditional and Non-traditional Caregivers Define "Family" and Caregiving Obligations myumi.ch/y1x18