🚀 I encourage those interested to apply! I received the 🎓 Clifford C. Clogg scholarship in 2017—eventually becoming a TA in 2020 & 2021—and had an incredible experience, shaping my career. Huge thanks to my mentor & now friend, John Fox, for notifying me about this opportunity & guidance! 🙌 #ICPSR

Walk for peace: Buddhist monks arrive in Washington after 2,300-mile journey reut.rs/4kqhinI

I flinch at the term “kindergarten readiness.” It implies the burden is on the kid to be ready for the school, not on the school to be ready for the kid. You accept kids as is in a public school.

rooseveltinstitute.org/publications... CC: @rooseveltinstitute.org @kedseconomist.com

How Derrick Rose Is Transitioning To A Businessman

📣 Check out the new publication with my colleague Tahsin Mehdi about AI and automation in the trades! www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/36-28...

A cooler, less dense area on the sun’s surface will likely disrupt Earth’s magnetic field, forecasters said.

📢New publication release

Really interesting research showing that while ultra-specialization in a single discipline might lead to better results early in one’s career, multi-discipline training and practice pays off big time in the long run. This applies to a range of professions from scientists to athletes and more

Researchers often look at averages, missing nuances of how health interventions work for some but backfire for others. With visualizations inspired by the "Statistical Physics for Babies" board book, Neil Christy and Amanda Kowalski are advancing health econometrics. arxiv.org/abs/2412.16352

John was the best mentor and am grateful to have as a friend. I’ve learned so much from him and he has guided throughout my career. I’m incredibly grateful to have worked with him. He has done remarkable work.

No evidence that restriction of disability benefits results in more employment dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

"In the long run, the employment probability and employment quality of sanctioned benefit recipients are lower than those for the comparison group of non-sanctioned benefit recipients" Effects of social assistance benefit sanctions on employment quality url: academic.oup.com/ser/article/...

#AcademicSky #PrejudiceResearch scholars will want to check this out journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Mark your calendar for the next, hybrid half-day PDHP Workshop with @d3center.bsky.social experts, covering Adaptive Interventions: Dec. 12! Register at pdhp.isr.umich.edu/workshops/ @leb112358.bsky.social

#AcademicSky Needing @zotero.org help please! Two authors working on separate sections of manuscript. Both using Zotero, but using separate libraries. Can we MERGE the Word files into one file? How? cc @kristofdhontphd.bsky.social

In light of National Adoption Month—which is meant to promote adoption of children in the foster care who have been made orphans by the state—some mini reviews of a foster care-related podcast, TV show, and news: open.substack.com/pub/american...

MI's Reconnect Program provides free community college for residents 25+ without a college degree. @um-ypl.bsky.social and @upjohninstitute.bsky.social unpack who applied for the program, and how added supports could help Michiganders succeed. @bradhershbein.bsky.social ⬇️

Cloudflare AND GitHub outages today, huh? I think if you take down any of Asana, Google Drive, or Slack on top of that, it's probably organizational policy that I just get to quit for the day and play video games.

With a new measure to understand causes of maternal mortality, historical demographer George Alter finds infectious disease & nutrition improvements likely impacted falling maternal mortality more than shifting obstetrical practices. Just out in Population Studies: psc.isr.umich.edu/news/new-ins...

What is the role of state contextual factors in shaping the well-documented relationship between childhood SES and health in later life? @emilydore.bsky.social presents the upcoming @umpsid.bsky.social seminar live and on Zoom. @um-src.bsky.social RSVP: psc.isr.umich.edu/events/psid-...

Jon Overton is looking for volunteers to serve as presiders at ASA 2026 for the Social Psychology and Emotions Section roundtables. If you are interested in volunteering, reach out to Jon at [email protected].

Shari Eli, Nicholas Li & Janki Shah use new complete count data to assess what can & cannot be learned about socio-economic status from the Canadian census 1871-1901. They analyze the non-reporting of earnings despite having an occupation & the characteristics of people at different earning levels.

Game 7 Starters: Ohtani vs Scherzer As if this epic World Series finale needed more fuel. Get your popcorn 🍿 or whatever you need ready. We’re approaching five hours to game time.

2 right of the bat!!!! 🎉🎉🎉 💙🐦🧢💙

This new map based on @theNYHC data makes it clear: it’s too easy to block affordable housing in wide swaths of the city. If you agree every neighborhood needs to do its part in solving our citywide housing crisis, vote YES on Props 2-5.

Trey Yesavage has brought the Dodgers to their knees. My story from LA on one of the biggest performances in #BlueJays history: www.mlb.com/bluejays/new...

We are hiring a sociologist!! For questions about TAMIU or Laredo feel free to reach out to me and please share this ad widely - thanks!! www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...

🎃 Scary Season Continues! 👻 Wait a minute...that's not Data Jeff?!?! His cat, Catalog, and 🥧 chart friend are also getting into the Scary Season spirit. What will Data Jeff's final costume choice be? Check in Friday to find out! 🎃 #ICPSRSummerProgram #ICPSR #DataJeff

TORONTO — A viral Reddit thread has prompted over 150 Blue Jays fans to donate to the Seattle Children’s Hospital. Blue Jays fans show off classic Canadian kindness to opposing teams www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...

Fall nature walks 🍂🍂

Happy Diwali 🪔 to all The world needs more light, compassion and peace

“We Can’t Do This Alone”: A Doctor’s Plea for Support in Caring for Long COVID and ME/CFS Patients danilobuonsenso.substack.com/p/we-cant-do...

It's #worldmentalhealthday2025 (10.10.25) A great day to ask about what your organisation is doing to integrate different approaches to supporting employee mental health -- and to push forward on whatever is the next top priority! #mentalhealth #safety #wellbeing #leadership

Please consider joining our editorial board, the Sociological Review, Britan's first Sociology journal and a leading scholarly place for sociological debates! The deadline is the 5th of December. #AcademicSky thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky Even psychologists get amazed when non-human animals can do things that are essential to survival (and thus NOT surprising!), like categorizing stimuli. Our error? Humans truly overestimate our uniqueness in animal kingdom. www.scientificamerican.com/article/dogs...

Indeed, UNC-CH Sociology is hiring again! Check it out and please share. :)

The Black populations' employment rate has been lower and their unemployment rate has been higher compared with those of the total racialized and total Canadian populations. www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quo...

In August, prices of products manufactured in Canada increased 0.5% month over month & gained 4.0% year over year. At the same time, prices of raw materials purchased by manufacturers operating in Canada declined 0.6% month over month & rose 3.2% year over year. www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/dai-quo/i...

Very handy tool by @packlesshepherd.bsky.social. Looks like the econ job market is: ⬇️ 42% YOY (260 vs. 369) overall ⬇️ 36.5% YOY (106 vs. 167) for U.S. FT academic jobs These drops seem similar to what the poli sci market has been showing (right @reuning.bsky.social @annewhitesell.bsky.social?)

16% of Britons have no savings. 39% have less than £1,000; struggle to survive without income. Profiteering, low wages, high living costs condemn millions to insecurity. 1% have more wealth than 70% of population. Can't rebuild without redistribution.

Excited to get my copy of Inherited Inequality, such an important new book by the brilliant Dr. Christina Cross @christinajcross.bsky.social! I look forward to reading it and teaching it! 😊 #Sociology #Policy #Families #Inequality

Quarter of UK university physics departments at risk of closing. Consequence of policies of successive govts, real cut in university income, hard to recruit foreign students. Science subjects cut as they require heavy investment. Skills shortages will deepen.

London housing officially classed as unaffordable for every income decile. Average English home costs 7.9 times the average salary; 13.5 times in London. Bad news for other regions too. Result of real wage cuts, profiteering, shortages, rentier economy. Many won't be able to pay rents in old-age

@sashakillewald.bsky.social in @us.theconversation.com: "The number of children Americans have affects the gender pay gap only because parenthood decreases women’s wages while increasing men’s wages." @umichstonecid.bsky.social theconversation.com/us-women-nar...

I admit to being somewhat flummoxed by this finding (ie that good learners = poor monitors of their own learning) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... #PsychSciSky I routinely tell students to engage in metacognitive processing relevant to their learning! #AcademicSky, what do you make of this?

Indictment of England's children in residential care, mostly corporate controlled. Annual spend £3.1bn, paid by local councils, spend per child £318,400, 22% profit, leaves less for frontline service. Poor value for money. Children not properly cared. But govts insist on privatisation.

A new HRS study finds older adults anticipating transitioning to a nursing home are more likely to report poorer mental health. Efforts to assist older adults and their families need to begin long before the actual relocation into residential care takes place. myumi.ch/61QDX

If you’re at APSA, go check out the Ralph Bunche Summer Institute poster session starting at 10am today. Details are below: Poster Session: Ralph Bunche Summer Institute (RBSI) Scholars Saturday, September 13 10:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT Vancouver Convention Centre (VCC) - East Exhibit Hall A