We are hiring a tenure track (!) senior researcher in political economy! This is obviously a great job (permanent without teaching obligation) and I hope you all apply. However, I would like to take a moment to share just how significant this is in the German academic context ⬇️

Here is a graph with dollar amounts of funding committed. The curves look very similar to those based on the number of awards.

The saddest piece I've ever read about the Trump administration's deliberate destruction of US health research The gutting of NIH has been as bad as the gutting of CDC "In 2024, NIH published 756 funding announcements In 2025, it published 120 In 2026, as of March 15, it has published 14" 1/n

Another way to use Kitagawa decomposition in demography:-) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Today, in honour of WEB DuBois's birthday in 1868, the @publicdomainrev.bsky.social features the hand-drawn infographics DuBois made with his students to depict the conditions of African-American life in 1900. Arts-based pedagogy all those years ago! buff.ly/3kdWqRD

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Come work w me! Molloy U Sociology is hiring a tenure track full time assistant professor who specializes in health and gender and/or migration. I’ll share the ad when it’s out! #sociology #job #academicjob

Friends, can I ask you to spread the word that we have a THREE-YEAR postdoc in American history at Cambridge up for grabs - ANY field, but applications are due March 1 so don't delay - apply, apply, apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69790/u...

Here, I write about the public health threat posed by ICE. Renee Good, Alex Pretti, & the dozens of others killed by ICE in recent months make this clear. But ICE also kills more slowly & covertly, by inducing chronic stress, fear, & threat. Abolish ICE. www.providencejournal.com/story/opinio...

Here, I write about the public health threat posed by ICE. Renee Good, Alex Pretti, & the dozens of others killed by ICE in recent months make this clear. But ICE also kills more slowly & covertly, by inducing chronic stress, fear, & threat. Abolish ICE. www.providencejournal.com/story/opinio...

In the first of what's likely to be many collaborations with @hebagowayed.bsky.social (and my @us.theguardian.com debut) we argue that abolishing ICE would be a good start.

Please share: Pew Research Center will provide $3,000 each for 19 new papers using our recent global datasets. We encourage reuse of our Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures data! https://www.pewresearch.org/2026/01/16/seeking-research-using-recent-pew-templeton-global-religious-futures-datasets/

We are hiring a post-doc to study the impact of AI agents on complex social systems in Duke's Society-Centered AI Initiative and/or the Polarization Lab! Apply here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/314...

I have a draft op-ed on ICE’s threat to public health. Anyone have suggestions or ideas for the best outlets to target? Would love suggestions!

I have a draft op-ed on ICE’s threat to public health. Anyone have suggestions or ideas for the best outlets to target? Would love suggestions!

foster care has been on the decline nationally over the past ten years. that's a good thing! but there's a group that routinely argue that this is putting kids in danger. @kelleyfong.bsky.social; @bobapel.bsky.social and I checked the evidence (it's null 1/n) jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Of course it does. And still, this evidence from *observers* is so incredibly powerful, and so, so unbelievably devastating and infuriating.

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...

Working with sociologists @courtneyboen.bsky.social and @rourkeobrien.bsky.social has been a game-changer for me. I feel like someday I might be able to really understand social science in a broad sense.

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 😵‍💫😓😒

1/ #Policies shape our #health. But why? We usually think it has to do with how policies change material resources (e.g., access to food, health care, etc) and opportunities. In @nejm.org, we argue that policies can also affect health by shaping social #narratives. www.nejm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

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!