In “Why Do Black Women Have a Higher Obesity Prevalence Than White Women?” Frisco et al. find that living in disadvantaged n'hoods & single-parent HHs as adolescents & having ↓ adult incomes explain much of the difference. @ssripennstate.bsky.social @pop.psu.edu read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

New publication with my #UCSF colleagues about #cannabis budtenders and their #medical recommendations: doi.org/10.26828/can... @ssripennstate.bsky.social @pennstategeography.bsky.social @pop.psu.edu @ctcre-ucsf.bsky.social 🛟 #geosky #AcademicSky #publichealth

New study from @pop.psu.edu Director, Jenny Van Hook, shows dramatic aging of the undocumented immigrant population. Nearly half of undocumented Asians and more than one in five undocumented Mexicans are aged 50 or older, raising the uncertainty of aging in United States. buff.ly/jJzBdfU

In a new Demography article with @marasheftel.bsky.social we document the aging of the undocumented immigrant population. Half of undocumented Asians and one in five undocumented Mexicans are 50 or older, and now entering older adulthood without a safety net. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

The submission site is now open! Submit your work to #PAA2026 — Deadline is Sunday, October 5. www.populationassociation.org/paa2026/call...

New in Rural Sociology: Caregiver well-being varies across rural, surburban, and urban places. We find: - Rural & surburban caregivers are worse-off than urbanites. - State-level family policy matters little. Caregivers deserve support, & policy should reflect that. doi.org/10.1111/ruso...

New Annual Review of Sociology article on Bereavement from @smithgreenaway.bsky.social, Ashton Verdery, and @carrds723.bsky.social

It was really fun getting texts and calls from old friends that they heard me on NPR this morning! Really enjoyed talking to NPR's @pien-huang.bsky.social about #water needs and #dehydration - have a listen! @psuanthro.bsky.social @pennstateuniv.bsky.social @pop.psu.edu www.npr.org/2025/08/04/n...

New paper, led by former Penn State Rural Sociology graduate student Cara Adrien, on environmental shocks and child fostering: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New research brief from @elenapojman.com and Florence Becot on caregiving in the northeast region of the U.S.

Five days left to submit your abstract(s) for the 2025 SDA Meeting in Lexington, KY (due Friday, July 25)! Check the meeting website for more info about the conference and for the link to submit your paper or poster abstract or to propose a session/panel: sda-demography.org/sys/website/...

In Social Science & Medicine, Cayley Ryan-Claytor finds evidence that U.S. adults (especially young adults with college degrees) use the internet to complement information and services provided by traditional medical providers, rather than to replace them. doi.org/10.1016/j.so... #OA

New pub with my amazing colleague and the grad students in my most recent seminar on the corporate drug trade. #geosky #academicsky 🛟 @ssripennstate.bsky.social @pop.psu.edu @pennstategeography.bsky.social

My new-to-blusky friend Nicole Kreisberg @nicolekreisberg.bsky.social is looking for interviewees for her project on immigrant couples! Her research team is in particular need of more respondents from Latin America and/or on student visas. Please share widely! #Socsky

In @wssjournal.bsky.social, Cleothia Frazier finds perceived neighborhood disadvantage is associated with increased anxiety and externalized anger, suggesting older adults’ perceptions of physical neighborhood stressors can have a deleterious impact on emotional health. doi.org/10.1016/j.ws...

If you or a loved one ever spent time at Oswald Tower at Penn State you may be entitled to a brick.

Our new publication titled “Identifying air quality monitoring deserts in the United States” is out in PNAS. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Just out in Economics Letters our study on Remittances in Guatemala! We use Bayesian Structural Time-Series and Causal Impact to study the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on remittances received in Guatemala. Result: They increased and the impact was still observed in December 2024.

Excited to have @clarklgray.bsky.social as our @pop.psu.edu seminar speaker today, talking about "Measuring Climate Vulnerability using Big Population Data": pop.psu.edu/events/pri-b...

Register now for the PRI Methods Workshop on hard-to-reach populations held May 13. tinyurl.com/2025gradmeth...

According to a new study by @edshareproject.bsky.social researchers High schools have long been recognized for shaping students’ futures. High schools may even contribute to how much a person weighs later in life.

Congratulations to Kelsey Shaulis for winning the poster award with the High School & Beyond (HS&B:80)’s analysis on the Gender Differences in Educational Trajectories and Midlife Health! @popassocamerica.bsky.social @pop.psu.edu

Some of our Demography students presenting at #PAA2025

New research from PRI associate Michelle Frisco and colleagues: doi.org/10.1016/j.so...

📚 New PopDigest! A study led by @mkroberts.bsky.social ( @oxforddemsci.bsky.social ) examines the long-term consequences of housing instability experienced between the ages of 18 and 26 on finances, mental health & stress. 🔗https://tinyurl.com/yvxytvzt

@bpc-bipartisan.bsky.social 's This Week in Immigration Podcast "Estimating the Unauthorized Immigrant Population" features @pop.psu.edu director @vanhookjenny.bsky.social. ➡️

Register now for the PRI Methods Workshop on hard-to-reach populations held May 13. tinyurl.com/2025gradmeth...

Willing to serve as a #PAA2025 poster discussant? Help foster engagement and deliver feedback to the research presented at the poster sessions. Interested in volunteering, sign up here: form.jotform.com/250658911441...

Kinship structures for Left Behind Older Adults in High Outmigration Contexts: Evidence from Puerto Rico pre-proofs are available. (Early Access) Coauthored with: Amílcar Matos Moreno, Diego Alburez, Ivan Williams, Ashton M. Verdery, Mariana Fernández Soto @pop.psu.edu @ssripennstate.bsky.social

Applications are open for the @pop.psu.edu external fellows program. Come be a part of our awesome demographic community! pop.psu.edu/resources/si...

@pop.psu.edu Associate @brianthiede.bsky.social joined Thoai Ngo from Columbia University, on Feb. 17 to kick off the all-new PopTalks convo series. They discussed population health & migration in a changing climate. Full Article ⬇️

Polysubstance use is increasingly involved in #overdose deaths. Learn more about how gender and marital status impact high-risk #polysubstance use in this new @maxwellsu.bsky.social #SULerner #pophealth research brief: surface.syr.edu/lerner/271/

Kira England and Alex Chapman investigate polysubstance use across gender and marital status between 2002-2019, finding use is higher among men and the unmarried. New in Social Science and Medicine: doi.org/10.1016/j.so...

Join us for the next PARC Aging Chat (@pennaging.bsky.social) RURAL HEALTH & AGING MONDAY 3/3 | 12-1 pm | McNeil Room 403 & Virtual (Zoom info on image) Shannon Monnat (@smonnat.bsky.social) at @maxwellsu.bsky.social & Brian Clemens Thiede @brianthiede.bsky.social at @pop.psu.edu bit.ly/43f7giP

@vanhookjenny.bsky.social (SSRI cofund & @pop.psu.edu director) w/ @migrationpolicy.bsky.social released estimates of the size of the U.S. unauthorized immigrant population, finding that between 2019 & 2023, the unauthorized immigrant population grew by 3 million. ⬇️

The #PAA2025 preliminary program is online: submissions.mirasmart.com/PAA2025/Itin... Make sure you are registered before rates increase in March: www.populationassociation.org/paa2025/reg-...

@pop.psu.edu Director, Jennifer Van Hook, wrote a piece in @us.theconversation.com about who are #Immigrants to the US, where do they come from, and where do they live. ➡️

🌊 Proud to share our new paper showing how during a historic 2022 drought in n. Kenya chronic #stress (via nail cortisol) & high levels of #waterinsecurity were assoc. with ⬆️ levels of inflammation. Climate change negatively affects human health & biology. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Excited to have @jessicacalarco.bsky.social at @pop.psu.edu for our annual methodology workshop - this year on qualitative literacy.

New research from Eric Baumer, professor of sociology & criminology & @pop.psu.edu associate & Min Xie of @univofmaryland.bsky.social shows that local immigration enforcement was supposed to make communities safer but found instead that none reduced violent crime. Full Article ➡️

“Make It or Break It? Pregnancy Scares & Romantic Relationship Dissolution”: L. Newmyer & S. Yabiku examine the timing of pregnancy scares & relationship types and find a positive association between a scare & relationship stability. BGSU Sociology @pop.psu.edu read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

🚨 Please help us spread the word to Early Career Scholars! We @pop.psu.edu are happy to welcome our second cohort of External Fellows to Penn State's University Park campus this May for our grant-writing training, networking, and mentoring program. Please see below for more details.

On the way to Penn State @pop.psu.edu (not cancelled!) Climate and Health Workshop Thanks to Brian Thiede and @asherrosinger.bsky.social for the invite. New talk title: “ Climate Change Health Research-Policy Pathways: Emerging Lessons from the LA Fires" pop.psu.edu/events/pri-c...

Early career scholars: Consider @pop.psu.edu's External Scholar program. Prepare a NICHD grant over 4 days of intensive grant-writing training, networking, and mentorship at the start of the first year of the program, May 13-16, 2025. Apply: pop.psu.edu/resources/si...

@pop.psu.edu Director, Jenny Van Hook, & @temple.edu associate professor James D. Bachmeier, have a new book out titled "Texas-Style Exclusion: Mexican Americans and the Legacy of Limited Opportunity." More Info ➡️ https://buff.ly/3E9uCMa

This newly published review by Bhat et al. proposes a conceptual model illustrating the mechanisms by which housing insecurity may be linked to physiological and epigenetic manifestations of health for aging adults. #OpenAccess doi.org/10.3389/fpub... @andyfenelon.bsky.social

Orfeu Buxton, SSRI cofund, will present the 2025 Pattishall Research Lecture, "Sleep Health Across Life Span" on Wed. Feb. 3rd at 3pm in 110 Henderson Building. The lecture is free and open to the public. More Info ➡️

@pop.psu.edu currently accepting applicants for their T32 #PostdoctoralScholars: one NICHD-funded trainee in Social Environments & Population Health & another NIH-funded trainee in Emerging Disparities in Health. Apply Now ➡️ https://buff.ly/3Pxeerm

Léa Pessin (@eui-eu.bsky.social) & @elenapojman.com find that time in childcare and paid work, especially when couples have young kids, stratifies how Black, Hispanic, and white couples respond to work-family demands. doi.org/10.1111/jomf... #openaccess @umpsid.bsky.social

Take a look at the line-up for the Brown Bag Lecture Series this Spring.