I hate how much of my time is spent disabling AI in all my software.

I’m hiring a postdoc! Flexible in terms of details, but I’m looking for someone to collaborate with on research about labor market inequality. I’ll review applications as they come in and the posting just went up here: apply.interfolio.com/178873

My billion dollar idea is to grow seedless pumpkins

Sad to hear of Stew Tolnay’s passing. He was the first person to invite me to coffee when I started working here and gave incredible feedback on my work. He will be missed.

Cool paper. A lot of work! "immigrants who completed the naturalization process attained significantly higher occupational status than those who initiated but did not complete naturalization"

New working paper. Comments always welcome osf.io/preprints/so...

I'm trying to find some sociology papers to bring into my intro statistics course for grad students. Straightforward quant analyses where the data are publicly available. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Ending birthright citizenship would increase the undocumented population by 5.4 million by 2075: www.migrationpolicy.org/news/birthri...

Picking berries is a blood sport that I enjoy.

My university is removing our landlines from our offices to save costs. The thing is I ripped my landline out of the wall the moment I got here because it rang and I didn’t know how to use it.

Shout out to @caitlinpatler.bsky.social for her hard work on this. I’m happy for the small part I played in this, too.

Hi fellow #demography folks. Be sure to follow @uwcsde.bsky.social ! They are new to Bluesky . @sarahquinn.bsky.social @petercatron.bsky.social @zalmquist.bsky.social @readdemography.bsky.social @popassocamerica.bsky.social @iaphs.bsky.social @iussp.bsky.social @berkeleypopcenter.bsky.social

Has anyone done a FOIA request at the National Archives?

For my inaugural post on this app, I'd like to invite anyone attending #PAA2025 to come to my talk! I'm very excited to attend my first PAA @popassocamerica.bsky.social meeting and share this research (and hopefully get good feedback as I refine and revise).

If you have leads on academic or academic-adjacent jobs that would make sense, I'd greatly appreciate to hear from you. 5/5

We’re excited to receive nominations for papers written by graduate students doing important work on inequality, poverty, and mobility. More info here: www.asanet.org/communities-... bsky.app/profile/fabi...

Please nominate an (or your) article by March 31 for the 2025 ROBERT D. MARE GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER AWARD (published in 2024) Send a brief nomination letter and the pdf to Matthew Clair ([email protected]) @mathuclair.bsky.social /4

Surveillance from a “small army” of private citizens never stops at immigrants. See the American Protective League during WWI.

I am thrilled to share that I will be joining the Department of Sociology at Emory University this fall as an Assistant Professor! Excited for a new chapter in Atlanta 🔥🍑

Nominations due in just under 2 weeks!!! Nominate your amazing students' work, or, if you're a student or very recent grad, nominate yourself!

This is a trick question. A sociological finding doesn't count as a breakthrough until an economist rediscovers it.

TRUMP FOLDS popular.info/p/breaking-n...

Also tonight: Trump fired National Archivist Colleen Shogan. This is a position that can do real, irreversible damage in authoritarian hands.

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

I’m working on a NIH grant. What are the chances the NIH still exists by the Feb 15 deadline?

Have any questions on U.S. Full Count Census Data 1790-1950? Want to learn how to access the restricted versions of the data? Come join me and all the other IPUMS experts for Virtual Office Hours tomorrow!

Old, but very relevant: www.migrationpolicy.org/sites/defaul...

Me: graduate admissions is one of my favorite committees Also me: oh no. Why did I agree to doing this over break

If, when I get old, I start sending emails to sociologists promising to save the world, please check in on me.

49. In 1930, 40% of US households, 12 million, had a radio. Ht: Peter Catron bsky.app/profile/pete...

I’m really curious if he’s going to keep up with demand or throw in the towel at a certain number

Bumping this up given new followers

Is there any chance that the account that posts the google satellite images of every census tract has migrated over here?

Pebbles, but the neighbor weirdly calls her Sofia??? even after being corrected

I really hope my current research project doesn’t become relevant.

If I deactivate my account at the other site, does that delete all my data? Or do I have to delete everything manually?

October is up! It kicks off with six research notes—on educational assortative mating, migrant grit, use of EHR data, etc.—followed by a baker’s dozen of articles—on skin tone stratification, distribution of carceral harm, care gaps, daily diversity flows & more. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/i...

Our next Brownbag is Wed, Oct 9 w/ Peter Catron, Assoc Prof of Soc at Univ. of Washington: “Contextual Boundaries: Skin Tone Stratification and Skill Transferability Among Mexicans in the Age of Mass Migration.” 12pm, 310 Social Sciences Building, w/ zoom option. events.berkeley.edu/popsci/event...

“Contextual Boundaries: Skin Tone Stratification...”: @petercatron.bsky.social Maria Vignau Loria & @sarahefarr.bsky.social, using a novel dataset of border records & linking to the 1940 U.S. census, demonstrate how skin tone shaped Mexicans’ economic attainment. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

How many R&Rs should one get before they pull it from the journal

Come work with me! Colby Sociology is hiring a TT Assistant Professor. Area open, ability to teach race and ethnicity a plus. Applications are due October 1. I'm happy to answer any questions. Please spread the word! apply.interfolio.com/149849

In “Social Mobility Across the Pacific,” Tate Kihara (Keio University) shows how “the premigration socioeconomic status and cultural backgrounds” of Japanese immigrant parents in the continental United States facilitated upward mobility for the second generation. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

University of Washington academic student employees are on strike. Our grad student workers deserve a fair contract. You can support them here: givebutter.com/GdnSVQ

Now that i do editorial service, I really wish people who say that they’ll do a review actually do it. Otherwise please say no. It delays decisions

The problem with academic conferences is that there are so many introverts that it becomes difficult to find chairs in the quiet far away places.

There’s a flight departing for Cleveland right next to my flight to Columbus.

Somehow I’ve convinced myself that PAA is in Cleveland and not Columbus. I really hope I make it to the right city this week.

Leah Boustan discusses our paper in Freakonomics freakonomics.com/podcast/the-...

I had a water pipe burst in the middle of my class last year because it was too old.