Peter Catron
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Sociology professor at UW. petercatron.org
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Protecting all children.
www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
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The Supreme Court hears oral arguments about birthright citizenship this Wednesday. Here we use peer-reviewed research to debunk all of the claims being made by the Trump administration and their amici
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The Supreme Court hears oral arguments about birthright citizenship this Wednesday. Here we use peer-reviewed research to debunk all of the claims being made by the Trump administration and their amici
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In this day and age, why would yet another section of the ASA save us?
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Caitlin Patler
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Immensely grateful to share an amicus brief on birthright citizenship, submitted to SCOTUS last week. We present esta of the impacted child population (4.8 mil children in next 20 yrs alone!) + financial contributions through 2074 under status quo ($7.7 trillion!). Link:
lnkd.in/gGXngCDY
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Protecting all children.
www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
about 1 month ago
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Protecting all children.
www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
about 1 month ago
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Zachary Levenson
about 1 month ago
Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:
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Florencia Torche
about 1 month ago
New Post-Doc Opportunity: Princeton OPR is hiring postdocs in population studies. PhD in demography or related fields (sociology, economics, epi, etc.) welcome. Apply here:
apply.interfolio.com/181246
Review begins 3/1/16. Please share!
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David FitzGerald
about 2 months ago
This is such an important book to understand how the early months of refugee resettlement in the US unfold in practice. Congratulations,
@molly-fee.bsky.social
!
staging.ucpress.edu/books/believ...
#refugee
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I hate how much of my time is spent disabling AI in all my software.
4 months ago
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Nathan Wilmers
4 months ago
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
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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.
5 months ago
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Philip N Cohen
6 months ago
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"
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New working paper. Comments always welcome
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6 months ago
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Nathan Hoffmann
8 months ago
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?
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Ending birthright citizenship would increase the undocumented population by 5.4 million by 2075:
www.migrationpolicy.org/news/birthri...
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Repealing Birthright Citizenship Would Significantly Increase the Size of the U.S. Unauthorized Population
Repealing birthright citizenship for babies born on U.S. soil to unauthorized immigrants or temporary visa holders would have a contrary result from its stated aim of reducing the unauthorized immigra...
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/news/birthright-citizenship-repeal-projections?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=5b60a266-7ca4-45d9-b225-e42ffaa40da2
9 months ago
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Picking berries is a blood sport that I enjoy.
9 months ago
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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.
11 months ago
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Sarah Quinn
11 months ago
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'Better options exist'
Faculty began circulating an open letter on Friday to be sent to leadership including the Board of Regents, President Ana Mari Cauce, provost Tricia Serio, and dean of the College
https://www.dailyuw.com/news/better-options-exist/article_937517d9-af17-43db-9e36-9d43ac6459b9.html
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Shout out to
@caitlinpatler.bsky.social
for her hard work on this. I’m happy for the small part I played in this, too.
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12 months ago
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Audrey Dorelien
12 months ago
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
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Has anyone done a FOIA request at the National Archives?
12 months ago
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Sarah E. Farr
about 1 year ago
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).
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S. Michael Gaddis
about 1 year ago
If you have leads on academic or academic-adjacent jobs that would make sense, I'd greatly appreciate to hear from you. 5/5
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Matthew Clair
about 1 year ago
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...
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Fabian Pfeffer
about 1 year ago
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]
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@mathuclair.bsky.social
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Surveillance from a “small army” of private citizens never stops at immigrants. See the American Protective League during WWI.
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about 1 year ago
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Nathan Hoffmann
about 1 year ago
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 🔥🍑
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo
about 1 year ago
Nominations due in just under 2 weeks!!! Nominate your amazing students' work, or, if you're a student or very recent grad, nominate yourself!
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Sarah Quinn
about 1 year ago
This is a trick question. A sociological finding doesn't count as a breakthrough until an economist rediscovers it.
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Kevin Elliott
about 1 year ago
TRUMP FOLDS
popular.info/p/breaking-n...
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BREAKING: NIH admits funding freeze is illegal, will resume issuing grants
An internal memo issued February 12 was obtained by Popular Information.
https://popular.info/p/breaking-nih-admits-funding-freeze
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Philip N Cohen
about 1 year ago
Also tonight: Trump fired National Archivist Colleen Shogan. This is a position that can do real, irreversible damage in authoritarian hands.
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Darby Saxbe
about 1 year ago
🚨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.
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I’m working on a NIH grant. What are the chances the NIH still exists by the Feb 15 deadline?
about 1 year ago
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Matt Nelson
about 1 year ago
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!
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Old, but very relevant:
www.migrationpolicy.org/sites/defaul...
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https://www.migrationpolicy.org/sites/default/files/publications/BirthrightInsight-2010.pdf
about 1 year ago
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Me: graduate admissions is one of my favorite committees Also me: oh no. Why did I agree to doing this over break
over 1 year ago
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If, when I get old, I start sending emails to sociologists promising to save the world, please check in on me.
over 1 year ago
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Philip N Cohen
over 1 year ago
49. In 1930, 40% of US households, 12 million, had a radio. Ht: Peter Catron
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I’m really curious if he’s going to keep up with demand or throw in the towel at a certain number
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over 1 year ago
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Bumping this up given new followers
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over 1 year ago
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Is there any chance that the account that posts the google satellite images of every census tract has migrated over here?
over 1 year ago
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Pebbles, but the neighbor weirdly calls her Sofia??? even after being corrected
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over 1 year ago
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I really hope my current research project doesn’t become relevant.
over 1 year ago
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If I deactivate my account at the other site, does that delete all my data? Or do I have to delete everything manually?
over 1 year ago
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Demography - the flagship journal of PAA
over 1 year ago
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...
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Volume 61 Issue 5 | Demography | Duke University Press
https://read.dukeupress.edu/demography/issue/61/5
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Berkeley Population Sciences
over 1 year ago
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...
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Demography Brown Bag Seminar: “Contextual Boundaries: Skin Tone Stratification and Skill Transferability Among Mexicans in the Age of Mass Migrat...
Join us for the Fall 2024 Demography Brown Bag Series, with guest Peter Catron from University of Washington. Peter Catron is Associate Professor o...
https://events.berkeley.edu/popsci/event/254629-demography-brown-bag-seminar-contextual-boundaries-sk
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Demography - the flagship journal of PAA
over 1 year ago
“Contextual Boundaries: Skin Tone Stratification...”:
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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.
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How many R&Rs should one get before they pull it from the journal
over 1 year ago
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Damon Mayrl
over 1 year ago
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!
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