Amazing and heartwarming to see a packed crowd of people last week eager to grow the demography community at UofT and Canada more broadly 🫶 Huge thanks to all our guest speakers, the support of @uoftsociology.bsky.social and to my fellow co-leads @leafiaye.bsky.social and @joannapepin.bsky.social

The Toronto Population Network had its very first mini-conference at Hart House last Thursday, and it was such an amazing event!! Thanks everyone for coming & can't wait for what's next 💙 P.S. trying to get the "confidence intervals overlapping" photo pose trending. it clearly has potential, eh?

My baseball pitch: home team announcers do the national broadcast in the postseason. Away team market get their local announcers. National broadcast switches as teams travel. ⚾

Running on Cal is a bad idea #Mariners

I can't stop watching this clip. 🤣

Look what we're up to @uoftsociology.bsky.social!

Sportsnet broadcasters said they expect the #Mariners game to start around 7:30 EDT. How am I going to root for the Ms and the Jays at the same time? 🫤

Another #sociology job uwo.ca/facultyrelat...

Day 1 with progressive lenses: I’ve officially become a bobble-head.

Staying up late to watch this Mariners game was the best decision I have made in a long time.

Big demographic data release date at StatCan, some thoughts as I make my way through it. First up, Total Fertility Rates. TFR in Canada declined further, with some slight variation across provinces. BC is still the province with the lowest TFR.

There’s still time to apply

Please apply! PhD position @sofi.su.se. Stockholm University ERC-funded project, Making Time: Organized Labour and the Politics of Care Leave. MA degree (or near completion) and quant training required. 1 Oct deadline, start Jan 2026. See: su.varbi.com/what:job/job....

In searching the origin of the phrase "deadbeat dad," I discovered Ontario 🇨🇦 has a 'most wanted' page for parents who don't pay child support. www.ontario.ca/page/missing...

I just need to add this file download link to my slide... Many failed attempts and 7 hours later... Almost have this totally new-to-me cloud storage app set-up and then I can add this link...

Money can’t buy love - but it might make us more open to it, according to a new study #UofT 💗 uoft.me/bJy

Feel free to share widely… jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

🚨 Job alert: The Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto is hiring an Assistant Professor in the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... I'll be at ASA and would be happy to chat with interested candidates. Please share widely! #Socsky

In February, Trump imposed a 25% across the board tariff on Canadian goods. Chaos ensued. He backed down. Today he imposed a 35% across the board tariff, instead. And somewhere in Ontario, a moose sighed...

When you cut (international) students you lose teaching jobs. That was always the tradeoff when deciding to solve housing problems by reducing demand (via shrinking the export of educational services) instead of increasing supply.

Happy to share my new publication in @sfjournal.bsky.social!📣 Why is household equality so hard? Unequal scripts mean that equality takes work—often falling to women, even when men say they want it. Paradoxically, for women, doing less still means more work. doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...

🚨 Are young women becoming more left-wing & young men more right-wing? We analyzed 32 European countries (1990–2023). 📊 Some show growing gaps—others don’t. 📊 Gaps tend to be bigger where gender equality is higher. w/ @hudde.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

The trick to academic success is never letting on that your "research agenda" is actually just sunk costs.

Love across the ballot box? It's complicated!💔A 30-yr UK study shows that couples with opposing political views are 38% more likely to break up - & Brexit disagreements proved particularly divisive! @readdemography.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social @aledinal.bsky.social @brunoarpino.bsky.social

Are you an early career scholar in #work-family? Applications are open for @wfrn.bsky.social Early Career Fellowship. Join an amazing cohort of junior scholars in Montreal (June 2026) and beyond. Organized by @yanghu.co.uk & Nicole Denier. App is easy! Happy to answer Qs wfrn.org/early-career...

One obvious economic implication of the latest travel ban is that genuinely international conferences will no longer be held in the U.S.

What do fathers really want for Father's Day? How about a national policy that provides paid leave to all fathers! Check out my newly released Big Ideas Talk courtesy of @wfrn.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iloV...

Anyone have a syllabus on Family Policy (any discipline, but especially sociology, HDFS, psychology, economics, health) they'd be willing to share? #CoursePrep #AcademicSky

Anyone have a syllabus on Family Policy (any discipline, but especially sociology, HDFS, psychology, economics, health) they'd be willing to share? #CoursePrep #AcademicSky

Also holy shit the Mariners Pride Month video is SO good

A deeply disconcerting map

New paper: Wives with more education than husband are *more* likely to take his name than education-equal marriages. As women outpace men in education & increasingly keep their names, name-taking provides symbolic way to compensate for her status superiority www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

⚠️Sociologists and economists take note. This survey needs your support. If you use ATUS data, get your comments in TODAY. (And please share widely) #EconSky

Come work with us!

1/ The US government has ordered the Swedish city of Stockholm to end its diversity, inclusivity and equality (DEI) programmes within 10 days. The city authorities say the demand is "bizarre" and they won't be complying. ⬇️

Off to Lund University next week to present early findings on informal caregiving in Germany from a time use perspective. Looking forward to a great workshop and inspiring colleagues #sociology #demography @lsayer.bsky.social @melissamilkie.bsky.social @joannapepin.bsky.social @mollborn.bsky.social

Election results live updates: Mark Carney’s Liberals projected to form next government www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

Trump was asked about the Canadian election. Said he didn’t want to interfere. Said he had very nice calls with PM Carney. Said he didn’t plan a hike in auto tariffs. Then….Returned to saying U.S. doesn’t need anything from Canada and it should be a state www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

"Women" were on the forbidden word list. The Women's Health Initiative helped us understand Hormone Replacement Therapy. We had this study because NIH had frequently *left women out* of their studies.

Trump’s disdain for all forms of dependence mirrors the myth of co-dependence as pathology: that needing others is a weakness. But to be human is to to rely and be relied upon. Connection is sustenance.

Presented without comment, from the people sitting behind us at the Blue Jays game this weekend: Person A: My first ever Blue Jays game was against the Expos. Person B: What are you, 70 years old? The Expos left in 2004!

You can't report on this garbage without informing readers of the literal identical policy under Hitler. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u...

Worries over low birth rates are nothing new. Everything @lesja.bsky.social, @alisongemmill.bsky.social, & I wrote in this op-ed *SIX* years ago is still true. These worries have coalesced into a well-funded & influential pronatalist movement w/in an admin that is deeply anti-family.

Coffee! Baseball!

The Texas private school voucher vote deserves more attention than it's been getting amidst everything else. The long game here, without exaggeration, is to end public schooling.

I'm kinda obsessed with the Swedish moose camera. www.svtplay.se/den-stora-al...

It is an honour to receive this award with a group of scholars I admire. I'm not sure what I'll be talking about at the ceremony yet, but it's likely I'll go a bit off script and talk about the importance of the DHS and other surveys in measuring demographic outcomes.

What makes a decision fair? A new AJS article by @joannapepin.bsky.social and @wjscarborough.bsky.social shows beliefs about gender, more so than economic explanations, alter perceptions of couples’ decision-making. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Well, this was inevitable. See you never, conference pals!

#Breaking: Canadian academics are being urged to avoid all non-essential travel to the U.S. amid the Trump administration’s crackdown on research and education along with fears of being turned away at the border.