Ho bisogno di un ferragosto a febbraio 😅😉

Renewed my passport on Sunday only to get it 5 days later??! (Instead of the 4-6 weeks). I’ll take a win when I can get one!

Today is somewhat symbolic! It's my last first day of the semester as a student (I hope!) 😅

I get so triggered as a demographer anytime I see someone make comments about population growth when fertility is low 🤯😤

I can't remember where I saw this, but if life is like a TV show, I very much would like a trailer for the 2026 season, especially after a particularly stressful 2025 with many twists and turns around every corner 😅

Devo staccare la spina 😅

I think this is the day I can claim I became a real demographer 🤗🤣

🌟CDHA at GSA 2025🌟 Several of our affiliates, including Yue Qin, Meiyi Li, & Gina Lee, are presenting today at the Gerontological Society of America’s Annual Scientific Meeting in Boston, MA. Presentations run until the 15th, and we are proud to celebrate them each day!

🌟CDE at GSA 2025🌟 We're excited to share that several of our CDE affiliates, including @michaeltopping.bsky.social, Meiyi Li, & Yue Qin are presenting at the Gerontological Society of America’s Annual Scientific Meeting today and tomorrow in Boston, MA! Learn ➡️ www.gsa2025.org

Just got to review for my **favorite** journal - JHSB! Hope the authors of the paper appreciate my comments on their work! 🤗

Today is my (hopefully) last first day of school! So many emotions right now but this is the mood I settled on this day: 😬😅

Passed my dissertation proposal defense! 🎉 Just need to work hard this year to finish everything 😅

First job application is complete! And so it begins 😅 (wish me luck!) 🤗

Literally as #ASA2025 comes to a close the #PAA2026 call for papers comes online! Back to the grind 🤓

In my favorite city for #ASA2025 😍😍 looking forward to (re)connecting with people!

Academia is basically a collection of people who got lucky early on and mistook it for genius. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Maybe it's the stress of the upcoming job market, but for the first time in a long time I completed almost all of the goals I set out for the month of July! 😅

We're hiring! Please share with your networks! The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the field of demography of health and aging beginning in August 2026 jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

These #sociology journal placements are quite interesting this year (according to google scholars metrics, at least).

The summer is going by way too fast. How is #ASA2025 right around the corner? 😅

Just peer-reviewed a paper! Always happy to give back to people and move things forward 🤗

"Take advantage of our special rate of $3,200 (if your paper is accepted after peer review)". There is so much wrong with this spam email

A writing trick I have developed lately is to write one font size smaller than normal. That way when I am finished and already think I wrote a lot, it looks even grander and makes me feel so accomplished! 🤣

I woke up today to 7 unread emails and thought - wow a lot must have happened last night. Turns out I forgot to renew my ASA subscription and it was all the listserv notifications 😅😱😭

How High Is Your #Dementia Risk? It Might Depend on Where You Live ucsf.edu/news/2025/06... by @ucsfgeriatrics.bsky.social #Alzheimers #demography #epidemiology #publichealth

I got a paper accepted to #GSA2025 in Boston this November! Excited to visit a city that has long eluded me! 😍

As I read even more papers this is still my #1 dream/request in academia (or at least sociology/demography)

Today is one of those days where emailing people will easily take up 80% of my time, which simultaneously feels productive and unproductive at the same time 🤣😅

I would appreciate if I could have *one* Friday where I don’t get bad news (today it’s a journal rejection) 😫

Today makes another year around the sun - and an important demographic transition - I’m now in a different age category (which age category I’ll leave you to guess) 🤣🤗🥳

Topical cluster map of terms used in recently cancelled NIH grants. No surprises there I guess. Data by grant-watch.us and NYT for the flagged terms. Source code available here github.com/jschoeley/gr....

My mood (and other grad students!) as the summer begins 🧐

The UW terrace is back 😍 (and I actually think it looks great even with the weather like this)

I really don’t like how the sun is up around 6AM now 😢

This (among many, many, MANY things) is sad to hear 😢

Now that #PAA2025 has officially passed, its time to plan out the remaining weeks of the spring semester (along with the summer break) to ensure that I don't lose the little momentum I seemed to have gained 😅

About to head out from #PAA2025! I had so much fun (re)connecting with people! Will be great to do it again next year 🥳🥳

Wow I’m up to 99 followers in just a few days. Before I deleted my X account I had about that many. Thanks for all the love #PAA2025!

✨See you tonight!

Get ready for @michaeltopping.bsky.social & Sara Peters’s session at #PAA2025 @popassocamerica.bsky.social on Sunday, April 13th, “Decomposing the Rural Mortality Penalty”

The funny thing about this #PAA2025 is that I have been so overwhelmed to the point that I keep forgetting 1) when my flight is 2) what hotel I am at and 3) any free time I might have 😅 Hopefully that all goes away tomorrow 🤞

Now it is 2! A very nice way to start the week 🤗

Some great news on what has been a very challenging morning - I just got a paper accepted to #ASA2025 in my favorite city! 🥳

Just went through and made my #PAA2025 schedule! Excited to see a lot of interesting work being done and connect with old and new friends later this week! 🤗🥳

Calling for an April Fool’s moratorium this year. Everyday is already filled with headlines too preposterous for daily life. Don’t compound the issues with fake ones, too!

On my way to vote early for next weeks election in Wisconsin! If you haven’t yet, make sure you vote by Tuesday! 🤗🗳️

The longer I am in academia - the more I end up writing for papers! I am both impressed and shocked at the same time in the way my writing has evolved (and I still have a long way to go!)

Today is such a stressful/overwhelming day (to be fair, so were the last few weeks), but all this uncertainty is a lot to keep up with😅

My forever mood as a PhD student 😅

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