On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. But is still led to cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

This is one of my students. Imagine the horror of this. I’m heartbroken. And devastated. And so, so angry. For them, for all of us. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

By the time those page proofs arrive, I never want to look at the dang thing EVER again.

just one of many ways that women handle unpaid and invisible emotional labor in the academy

It struck me this week that I probably have more students cry in my office in a semester than some faculty have over the course of their entire careers. Not crying about my courses (phew) but bc they are having a hard time, bc the moment feels like too much, &/or bc they just want to be heard.

Fantastic new dataset on parental leave policies across european countries and time. It will be a valuable research for social science and policy scholars from now on. Proud to have been part of the multi-national team gathering information to put this together.

WHEW. “Exposure to a field-specific faculty sexual misconduct incident decreases degree completion in that field by 3.4 percent four years after the incident. This decline is driven by incidents occurring after 2015, among which we observe a 7 percent decline in in-field degree completion.”

📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣 "The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct" Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu

Very excited to be co-organizing a session with Kerry Ard on "The Sociology of Climate Change" at next year's American Sociological Association meeting in NYC. Proposals are due Feb 25. Session is co-sponsored by the ASA sections for SKAT + Environmental Soc. Details: www.asanet.org/annual-meeti...

🚨 New paper: “The Bodily Scars of Legal Violence: Local immigration enforcement, state immigrant policy, & health inequality” 🚨 Forthcoming in @sfjournal.bsky.social w @ngraetz.bsky.social @atheendar.bsky.social & Robin Ortiz academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

New evidence on how ICE is affecting student learning https://drive.google.com/file/d/1erU5Oe0vJYdVjuqQi4sfhUGxS0BGjWl8/view?usp=drivesdk

Due 11/24! Welcoming apps from any field that relates to the theme of the Seminar, "The Meanings of Merit: Labor, Categories of Difference, and the Creation of Knowledge." See: pembroke.brown.edu/funding-oppo.... Due 11/24/25. @pajaf.bsky.social @brownanthro.bsky.social

🚨 New paper: “The Bodily Scars of Legal Violence: Local immigration enforcement, state immigrant policy, & health inequality” 🚨 Forthcoming in @sfjournal.bsky.social w @ngraetz.bsky.social @atheendar.bsky.social & Robin Ortiz academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

The Brown Population Studies & Training Center is accepting applications to our Global Fellows Program. The program is for early- & mid-career demographers. We are especially interested in applications from scholars from low & middle-income countries. Share & apply! pstc.brown.edu/programs-and...

Always a fun time to get to respond to a reviewer who, quite literally, hates your paper.

New podcast episode where I talk about what's going on with mortality in the US A wide-ranging discussion of what happened before the pandemic & what's happened since then; racial disparities and how to get our heads around their scope; why things might be going so badly for Millennials & Gen Zers

job TENURE-TRACK ASSISTANT PROFESSOR POSITION IN HEALTH AND THE LIFE COURSE OR WORK AND THE ECONOMY Department of Sociology, Western University csn-rec.ca/job-postings... @westernu.ca #cdnsoci

For-profit healthcare is a driver of social and economic inequality, part 5848584924

The high of putting finishing touches on your #PAA abstract for a newer, exciting project that you are 100% committed to and engaged in, while your older, longstanding, unfinished projects languish in despair.

Very excited to announce that @srhayford.bsky.social, @lesja.bsky.social, and I will be guest-editing a special volume of @prpr-journal.bsky.social on "Contemporary Pronatalism in Demographic Context"! Submissions due March 1, 2026. link.springer.com/collections/...

Looking forward to joining the BU Sociology Seminar Series tomorrow, where I’ll be sharing recent work on the links between state violence & population health, focusing on the case of three strikes laws and their impacts on racialized patterns of birth outcomes in the US.

Quite possibly one of the best presentations on how to conduct research. It is by Peter WG Tennant from the University of Leeds, UK and focusses on modern causal inference methods. More on it here: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

“How can we build, in the United States, a system where aging is not a privilege of the wealthy or the powerful, right, but something that all of us deserve?” the researcher Courtney Boen asks at #TAF25. Watch her conversation with @rossandersen.bsky.social: bit.ly/46nmbaF

Persistent stressors that are difficult to manage, such as concerns about affording rent or relying on Medicaid when it’s under threat, leave people in a heightened state, the researcher Courtney Boen tells @rossandersen.bsky.social—“and that erodes the body’s systems.” bit.ly/46nmbaF #TAF25

Here we go!

I wanna signal boost this - I am looking to recruit a prospective PhD student to join my Stress and Health Equity lab at the University of Delaware in HDFS. My research concerns biopsychosocial mechanisms of health across the life course with an emphasis on stress and coping.

One week from today! 😅

A paper of mine that has been under review (at the same journal) since November 2023 (22 months!) was just accepted and 🥳🥂🥹 But also 😵‍💫😓😒

Important findings on administrative burdens and Medicaid by Rebecca Myerson, Allison Espeseth, and Laura Dague @lauradague.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w34191

🚨 Job! 🚨 Brown Sociology & the Watson School of International & Public Affairs are hiring a TT assistant professor whose research focuses on social policy (broadly conceived). Apply by 9/15: apply.interfolio.com/172655 Happy to chat about life at Brown, etc!

🚨 Job! 🚨 Brown Sociology & the Watson School of International & Public Affairs are hiring a TT assistant professor whose research focuses on social policy (broadly conceived). Apply by 9/15: apply.interfolio.com/172655 Happy to chat about life at Brown, etc!

✍️ In grad school, @courtneyboen.bsky.social and I talked often about the emotions that seemed to undergird racism. Trayvon, Tamir, Mike Brown and too many more changed us. Ten years later, our findings in @sfjournal.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

UC Davis is looking to appoint a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the Sociology of Gender recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07293

A few more weeks to apply for this tenure-track job in sociology at the University of Vienna, focus on quant research methods jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...

🚨 New paper 🚨 In the latter half of the 20th c, states in the US passed massive suites of “tough-on-crime” sentencing policies. In this paper, we investigated how (& why) these policies shaped pop health, esp racialized patterns of birth outcomes in the US. track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=...

Also it works well to my interest in the racial wealth gap itself as simple-math and tracking over time. Even my updates to the slide itself tells a story. In 2023, I estimated the white wealth *gain* since 2019 (ie post pandemic) as almost 4X the **sum total of Black wealth**. Now, it’s over 8x.

My class on the racial wealth gap is always a good excuse to show more people the Fed Reserve’s quarterly wealth estimate from Distributional Financial Accounts. This graph shows their estimate that white wealth increased by 45 trillion since 2019. www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/...

Nice example of political determinants of health.

🚨 New paper 🚨 In the latter half of the 20th c, states in the US passed massive suites of “tough-on-crime” sentencing policies. In this paper, we investigated how (& why) these policies shaped pop health, esp racialized patterns of birth outcomes in the US. track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=...

Population Research and Policy Review (PRPR) is now on Bluesky! The official journal of @sda-demography.bsky.social, PRPR publishes research of interest to demographers, population scientists, and those working in adjacent fields. Learn more at sda-demography.org/PRPR-journal.

This summer I’ve gotten into the routine of dropping kids at camp & working in the public library. Library is always buzzing: caregivers & kids reading & playing; older adults at puzzle tables (!!!) chatting & sipping free coffee (!!!); tutoring sessions; etc etc. Protect libraries at all costs.

ChatGPT shows signs of the same biases that arise in audit studies of human beings. When you give ChatGPT resumes, it's biased in how it evaluates minorities. When you ask ChatGPT to generate resumes for women & minorities, it generates systematically different types of resumes

Oh, so many of these sessions look 🔥🔥🔥 Can’t wait to see so much great work in St. Louis!

Hey, #medsoc "Mentor of the Month" friends, don't miss this exciting presentation from one of our lovely mentors, Dr. Courtney Boen (@courtneyboen.bsky.social)! If you ask me, catching this talk is a great way to start your Monday! 😄 #ASA2025 #ReimaginingHealth

I think about this meme every time I pack for a conference. And try as I might, I always end up leaning into my roots: boring suit guy. #ASA2025

Headed to Chicago for #ASA2025! On Monday, I’ll present “Heterogeneous & Racialized Impacts of State Incarceration Policies on Birth Outcomes in the US” (w Elizabeth Bair, Hedy Lee, & Atheen Venkataramani) in the Policies, Politics, & Population Processes session at 8am (🥴).

It is not “deal-making.” It is extortion built on Christopher Rufo’s idea of “taking down” one or more elite university. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...

Thread of research relying on world-renowned data produced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics Please contribute So much of my own research has used BLS data Growing income inequality in who gets a college education - from NLSY79/97 www.nber.org/system/files...