Study participants needed for MA thesis project on gay, bisexual, or queer Latinx men from Houston or San Antonio!

This story is absolutely WILD. Must-read of the day.

Measurement strategies for sexual identity in U.S. pop data are evolving but still fall short in capturing the complexity of multiple and diverse identities. #DataInclusion #SOGIData @chrisajulian.bsky.social @wendymanning.bsky.social @clairekampdush.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Demographers studying queer families: Please consider submitting to the session I am chairing on the topic! #demographyofsexuality #LGBTQfamilies

Papers, posters, exhibits, books, connection, community, demography -- #PAA2026 will have it all! You don't want to miss this. Make sure to submit your work by Sunday, Oct. 5. buff.ly/HoZlR1U

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/...

Demographers studying queer families: Please consider submitting to the session I am chairing on the topic! #demographyofsexuality #LGBTQfamilies

Had the BEST time presenting our work “Sex and the Survey” at @bspsuk.bsky.social, on behalf of fab co-authors @heinivaisanen.bsky.social & Linh Nguyen We analyse surveys in France, Ghana, Senegal, and UK to answer the question ‘what if everything we knew about #SRHR was what we read in surveys?’

Demographers studying queer families: Please consider submitting to the session I am chairing on the topic! #demographyofsexuality #LGBTQfamilies

@chrisajulian.bsky.social et al, in “Half of the Picture: Measuring the Sexual Identity Composition of Couples,” employ @nchatstudy.bsky.social dyadic data to provide national estimates of the sexual identity composition of couples using both partners’ identities. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

Want to know why demographers aren't panicking over low birth rates? @lesja.bsky.social, @shelleydclark.bsky.social, & I have a new piece in @theconversation.com explaining the faulty logic that underlies the low birth rate-induced population panic than fuels the pronatalism movement. 1/n

Includes infographics that clearly illustrate how the Trump admin is actively working to worsen America’s health and healthcare, which was already embarrassingly shitty. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Today marks the 10th anniversary of Obergefell v. Hodges. Explore our Fast Facts on same-sex couples and dive into our latest Family Profiles highlighting same-sex families: www.bgsu.edu/ncfmr/resour....

My new edited book with Zelma Oyarvide Tuthill is now out - the Second International Handbook on the Demography of Sexuality. Thank you to all chapter authors for your wonderful contributions to the #demographyofsexuality!

I began this study planning to compare the experiences of asexual men, asexual women, and nonbinary asexuals. But some people didn't fit any gender category. They were resistant to defining themselves through gender. You can read the full article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Really interesting article exploring how some people are more detached from the idea of gender

"personal economic pessimism and concerns about having a good relationship in the future are associated with greater importance of avoiding a pregnancy in the short term" (controlling for economic and relationship status, etc) @karenguzzo.bsky.social, Belykh, @wendymanning.bsky.social , & Roza

Grateful that NBC News did a feature story of our latest article in JGSS (@geronsociety.bsky.social)!

#Freshout As queer demography advances, SOGIESC data face both innovation and erasure, especially amid political threats. We trace the history, challenges & call for scholars to protect and shape this work. #SOGIData #soci Queer Data for Sociologists of Sexualities: via Pao, Budnick & Valesco

#FreshOut The Household Pulse Survey’s two-step gender measure offers rare insight into noncisgender populations (n=668K+). Findings show socioeconomics gaps compared to cisgender peers & key diffs w/in noncis groups. #Demo #soci #SOGIData #reallyjustgi

President Trump and right-wing politicians in Europe have railed against trans rights. Britain’s Supreme Court has now added its voice to the discussion, ruling on Wednesday that the legal definition of a woman under the country’s equality legislation is based on biological sex.

In this article the korean professor says this. So well said. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Marriage equality has had profound impacts on LGBTQ + Americans’ lives, and even the threat of its potential loss is having serious disruptions on their individual, relational, and family well-being. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

WE ARE HIRING!! Senior Research Fellow Demographic Science (Associate/Full Professor) @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @reubencollege.bsky.social See: lnkd.in/e_Gw84JN #demography in Oxford: www.demography.ox.ac.uk Our recent celebration: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIu4... DM or reach out *PLEASE RE-POST*

The field of gender and sexual minority (LGBTQ) health is being erased. Hundreds of ongoing NIH grants being immediately terminated. Deb Umberson and my decade long longitudinal study on marriage and health joined the termination list last night.

“The Demography of Sweden’s Transgender Population”: @martinkolk.bsky.social @ylvamoberg.bsky.social et al study transitions over 1973-2020, “a period of...legal advances, ↑ social acceptance & more accommodating HC system.” @stockholm-uni.bsky.social @sofi.su.se read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

The ASA, American Federation of Teachers @AFT, and AFT-Maryland, facilitated by @DemocracyForward, have filed a complaint today in federal court in Maryland challenging the “Dear Colleague Letter” published by the Department of Education Office for Civil Rights.

Our two papers on abortion bans and fertility/infant mortality are now out. In 14 states w/ abortion bans, fertility increased 1.7% and infant mortality increased 6%. Key takeaway is that these impacts were disproportionately felt among those w/ greatest structural disadvantages. Links below.

A very clear statement of what is happening to science right now. And on the social science side: "This cuts across economics, psychology, sociology. In all these fields, there are whole chunks of the discipline that may just not be possible to carry on anymore."

New today: Death rates for Americans aged 25-44 have been rising since 2010. Their mortality is now 70% higher than it would be had pre-2011 mortality declines continued. w Rafeya Raquib, Katie Berry, Keeley Morris, & @astokespop.bsky.social 1/ jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

This is the best compilation I’ve read so far and you should read it especially if you feel like no one is doing anything.

PAA and the Association of Population Centers express alarm about recent events in which federal agencies have been purging scientific and statistical data from publicly available portals and websites. Read our full statement: www.populationassociation.org/blogs/paa-we...

Why it matters that CDC is pulling data from public view: gift article www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

As we see whole pages on Gender and Sexual minorities come down from census, CDC, etc., WE NEED TO PAY ATTENTION TO CHANGES WITHIN OUR NATIONAL SURVEYS. The US gov was ALREADY not very good at surveying LGBTQ+ populations. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Pleased to see this published in open-access Socius! Inspired by work in psychology on sexual fluidity, Andy and I propose "situational fluidity" to explain the process by which people flexibly adjust the use of multiple labels. @asanews.bsky.social #sociology journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Hey PhD students with demography/population health training! The Minnesota Population Center @minnpop.bsky.social is hiring multiple postdoc positions for next year. Apply to come work in the coolest pop center around (not that I'm biased or anything)! pop.umn.edu/training/pos...

Great to know our findings from 2015 are still current and applicable. #replication #sociology #oldiebutgoodie w/ @amandabaumle.bsky.social

@elarmstr.bsky.social's scholarship has identified the recent rise of “situationships,” a relationship status in a zone between casual and committed. This work gets to complexities in relationships that are often invisible in survey research. #Demography #Sociology academic.oup.com/socpro/advan...

@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social is accepting applications for Fall 2025 for the PhD program in Demography AND the Graduate Group in Sociology & Demography. Seeking a diverse and strong cohort; applications DUE 12/17/2024. Learn more about the program: www.demog.berkeley.edu/graduate-pro...

The good news is there's a great new paper for intro lectures on social construction of race categories in admin data. The bad news is the race variable in 2020 Census & post 2019 ACS is deeply flawed and will create messy discontinuities in trend analyses. sociologicalscience.com/articles-v11...

Distinguishing between sexual and romantic orientations is common in asexual communities... yet there's no research specifically about the split attraction model. Until now! I just published a study in Social Currents about split attraction. You can read it here:

Broadly Conceived (not yet on BlueSky) is hosting Lisa Campo-Engelstein and me to talk about our forthcoming edited volume "Seminal: On Sperm, Health, and Politics" on Fri Dec 12 at 2pm EST. Register for an online link to join the conversation here: broadlyconceived.wordpress.com/2024/11/27/s...

We re-visit the gender gap in re-partnering by looking at LGB adults as well and make a case for gender-as-relational as a component of a demographic behavior (partnering a second time). If paywalled - it's available as pre-print. Good luck w/syllabus prep! academic.oup.com/sf/article-a...

New article out in Law and Society Review with Steve Boutcher, Lee Badgett, and Don Tomaskovic-Devey. We examine how the EEOC played a role in expanding civil rights protection when it began accepting and processing sexual orientation and gender identity charges. doi.org/10.1017/lsr....

Pls share! The U of Minnesota Sociology dept is running a "how to apply" zoom workshop for potential Ph.D. applicants next Friday. We're especially interested in helping 1st gen + other under-rep students navigate the process. Email us (drasi001 AT umn.edu) to get connected!

Thanks to Duke for this write up about our recent paper! Led by my former postdoc Analia Albuja and my PhD student Mercedes Muñoz read about our newest data testing kids and adults on how they categorize Biracial Black/White faces! #psychscisky today.duke.edu/2023/10/how-...

Oxford Sociology is recruiting THREE (yes 3!) Postdoc Researchers. Work with Prof Man Yee Kan on her GENTIME project, looking at gender inequalities in time use across East Asian and Western countries. Apply before 31 Oct 2023 t.co/tN9VZPHPsP #sociology #demography