#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

We encourage you to check out all of the posters and presentations using NHATS/NSOC data at #GSA2025! Just click here: nhats.org/sites/defaul...

Maps of the Delta and United cuts loaded so far, as interpreted from the FlightAware cancels reports. Not all frequencies on these routes, and decent chance things continue to shift. But this is what I'm seeing right now. #AvGeek

How Americans are thinking about aging

Call for Papers! Submit your paper for the conference: 'Kinship Structures, Dynamics and Inequalities', taking place on 8 and 9 June 2026 @mpidr.bsky.social in Rostock organized by @demography.bsky.social, @iussp.bsky.social +coll. Deadline: 21 January 2026 www.demogr.mpg.de/go/kinship-conference

A little humor I found laying around in the Sociology Department.

I am very happy to see our paper featured in this press release! I have written a bit of a longer post on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... for the interested reader. The original press release can be found here: www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same. Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

❓ Missing data are like phantoms. How do they affect your data? What can you do about them? Check out our NoStupidQuestions series here: https://myumi.ch/ICPSRNoStupidQuestions #ICPSR #NoStupidQuestions #SocialScience #Data

A decline in remote work flexibility over the last year is widening the gender pay gap and dragging down the labor force participation rate of college-educated mothers. Employers who can offer at least hybrid work arrangements can attract some great talent.

U. Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS) is hiring an Asst/Assoc Professor in Global Environmental Policy! Strong fit for environmental/development economists interested in policy & interdisciplinary work. Review begins Nov 1. Details: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.... #EconSky

🆕📝 Excited to share our new article out today in Socius: “Take a Load Off? Not for Mothers” (with @helenkowalewska.bsky.social & @leahruppanner.bsky.social)! Even when women earn more or have less time, the mental load of running a household still falls on them. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2378...

A new poll finds that — even if they have conditions covered by the ADA — many older adults may not think of themselves as disabled or identify as a person with disability. ihpi.umich.edu/news-events/...

and let's say you are in a good position to get one of those vanishingly scarce jobs. you have to publish 2-3x as much (and often in higher-ranked journals) compared to the faculty in the department to which you are applying sociologicalscience.com/articles-v6-...

You've probably heard that US fertility is "below replacement level." But what does that actually mean??? Demographers @lesja.bsky.social & others explain the link between birth rates & population growth in this new @ccfamilies.bsky.social brief. contemporaryfamilies.utah.edu/publications...

Time spent living together as a child positively predicts the amount of support they give to their parents & single or repartnered mothers are given more support than fathers in similar circumstances. Learn more from the new article by @spattersearch.bsky.social and Paula Fomby: myumi.ch/15rV1

Check out this interview with Shu Xu where she discusses her recent Innovation in Aging article on vision loss and falls that uses @nhats-nsoc.bsky.social data: eyeonvision.blogspot.com/2025/09/visi...

A nice write up of our recent JMF piece about transfers to parents: open.substack.com/pub/stephani...

WE'RE HIRING! The Gender & Women's Studies Dept at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is hiring a TT professor of GENDER AND AGING I'm on the search committee and happy to answer questions Please share widely!

I wish there were more Dr. Mark Helmsings in the world. Curious, kind, and full of light. www.waskoms.com/obituary/Mar...

I am really grateful for the Lepkowski award and the opportunity to collaborate with Effy!

A new study from ISR’s Joelle Abramowitz links high pollen days to increased suicide risk, especially among those with mental health conditions. Findings suggest pollen may trigger deeper vulnerabilities than just allergies. Read more: myumi.ch/QwkND

I'm here for this kind of burn.

Yale Sociology is hiring an associate or full professor in quantitative sociology. Come work with me! Applications open tomorrow. Details available here: apply.interfolio.com/174709

We compared ChatGPT, Bard, and Bing on palliative care terms found ChatGPT most accurate (9/10) and comprehensive (8.5/10). Credibility was low (3/10) across all. Readability was poor (FRE 41.7; grade 14.1). Clinician oversight is needed to avoid misinformation. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40138176/

Learning and Impact Manager job at The Skillman Foundation in Detroit: Learning & Impact Manager www.skillman.org/working-at-s...

#PAA2026 deadline in less than two weeks

Attention IHPI and CHOP members: Want to use Medicare data in your research, but lacking in time and/or funding? Check out this event Friday on the CMS data set available to all IHPI and CHOP members: ihpi.umich.edu/news-events/...

1 year left of my @erc.europa.eu grant on siblings and social mobility! It has been a blast. Below some of the reserach conducted by the outstanding postdocs Jung In, JMF, onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Jesper Birkelund, BJS, onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 1/2 #sociology

Today’s annual ISR Picnic brought together colleagues from across the Institute to celebrate community, connection, and collaboration. We’re especially grateful to those whose work, energy, and curiosity drive ISR’s mission forward every day.

Posting things with a year-date of 2026

Love research and communications? Check out this job. #SciComm

It also includes my article on women's education and marriage/cohabitation in Colombia :) Check it out!

Caring for an older adult with dementia is a family and community affair - read more about our study here:

My forced co-pilot AI “assistant” still changes my name to Trusty.

Happy "go to the store while everyone else in town is at the stadium" to all who celebrate!

My mom, upon reading the introduction to this book last week: "Why did you wait so long to tell me about this book?"

Friends! Inherited Inequality makes its debut Sept 16 🎉 Join me for an open & honest conversation about the power & limits of the two-parent family for improving child outcomes & addressing one of America’s most intractable problems: racial inequality Hope to see you there!

motivational poorly drawn cats

Communications Coordinator position working with @nhats-nsoc.bsky.social and @micda-umisr.bsky.social at @um-src.bsky.social @umisr.bsky.social More info here: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

Love data? Good at #scicomm? Check out this job opportunity!

Communications Coordinator position working with @nhats-nsoc.bsky.social and @micda-umisr.bsky.social at @um-src.bsky.social @umisr.bsky.social More info here: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

I never planned on writing a book. Few demographers do. But 9yrs ago, I unearthed a puzzling finding that upended everything I thought I knew about race and family structure. And I knew I had to share it with the world. Check out this video to learn more: www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8BxtCBd/