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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

Looking forward to participating in this Congressional Briefing on U.S. birth rates with @econmsk.bsky.social & @prbdata.bsky.social's Jennifer Sciubba next week, sponsored by @popassocamerica.bsky.social. If you're in the DC area, join us! RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps: /1

Every person I know who is roughly my age is dealing with something like this right now www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social umichsph.bsky.social affiliate Lindsay Kobayashi Do self-reported and objective hearing measures similarly relate to general and domain-­specific cognition? Observational cohort study of older adults in England

I don't want AI generated art, I want AI emptied dishwasher

Things I loved about #GSA2025: - seeing my friends - talking about NHATS/NSOC - hearing about lots of interesting and important new work - eating an excessive amount of clam chowder

@spattersearch.bsky.social & co-authors show that lacking close friends or wanting more is tied to higher loneliness for adults 50+. Less weekly contact also predicts loneliness. Women have more friends/contacts than men, but loneliness rates are similar by gender. #GSA2025

#GSA Friday, November 14th 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM ET Session Title: Social Networks in Dementia 2 -Relationship Types and Care Received: Differences by Dementia Status MiCDA Affiliate: @spattersearch.bsky.social Location: Hynes - Room 202

Working caregivers rose from 8M to 9.6M (2011-2023). What is the impact on work for these caregivers? @spattersearch.bsky.social finds 'presenteeism' (being at work but not fully engaged) and work productivity loss are increasing over time #GSA2025

@geronsociety.bsky.social 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting starts on Wednesday. SRC is well represented: myumi.ch/e3dVX

Looking for your favorite MiCDA researcher? Check out their upcoming presentations Tuesday, November 11 - Saturday, November 15 at #GSA2025 in Boston, Massachusetts micda.isr.umich.edu/wp-content/u...

#GSA2025: NHATS/NSOC Exhibit Hall Hours Be sure to visit us at Booth 404 just inside the entrance to the exhibit hall. We'll be at the booth during the Welcome Reception on Wednesday (5:30 - 7:30 p.m.), as well as daily from 11:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.

Jerald Bachman passed away on October 31, 2025. Bachman was one of the founding investigators of the @mtfstudy.bsky.social. Founded in 1975, Monitoring the Future is an ongoing study of the behaviors, attitudes, and values of Americans from adolescence through adulthood myumi.ch/E8pg6