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...

It was so fun to talk about our book "Migration and Displacement in a Changing Climate" with Hannah! You can listen to the conversation here. @universitypress.cambridge.org @rmcleman.bsky.social @kayly.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/migration-an...

Check out our new paper on how pastoralists are coping with resource constraints, conflict, and climate extremes. In collaboration with Borana & Turkana pastoralists we used photo elicitation and interviews to understand their constraints and resources to adapt. ecologyandsociety.org/vol30/iss2/a...

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Right on time for #WorldEnvironmentDay🌍: Does having a child make parents care more about the planet? Together with @guzoch.bsky.social, I found: not always—and not in the same way for everyone. 📄 New study in Population and Environment: doi.org/10.1007/s111... #ClimateChange #Parenting #Sociology

🚨 The end of an era for global health data — and a defining crossroads. In Jan 2025, the DHS Program—the backbone of health & demographic data in 90+ countries—was terminated after US aid cuts of up to 84%. Our researchers & global collaborators reflect on it in a recent pre-print🧵

New paper in Population and Environment by Choquette-Levy et al. examining how farmers’ information sources, social capital, and previous exposure to climate hazards shape climate risk perceptions and livelihood decisions. Available here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New paper in Population and Environment by Choquette-Levy et al. examining how farmers’ information sources, social capital, and previous exposure to climate hazards shape climate risk perceptions and livelihood decisions. Available here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

About 45% of summer cropland and 32% of winter cropland around the world have warmed significantly in the last 50 years, according to a study. Climate change has lowered yields of wheat, maize, and barley by 10%, 4%, and 13%, respectively. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Mismeasured weather & satellite data: Patrick Behrer summarizes new work on the performance of 9 of the most commonly used earth observation datasets. "Depending on which you use, the estimated impact of weather on agricultural outcomes varies, sometimes wildly" blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

‼️Still time to submit your abstract (250 words) to #BSPS in Swansea on 2-4 September by Friday 9 May! 🌱📪

📣Call for Papers‼️Only 2 weeks left! Conference "Climate Change, Environmental Hazards and Population Dynamics" Speakers: J.Ballester, J.Kephart, R.Muttarak, V.Mueller, B.Thiede & D.Balk! 📅Nov 11–12, 2025 🗺️ @mpidr.bsky.social 📰Submission Deadline: May 15, 2025 www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

Our work on Air Quality Monitoring Deserts featured in @pnas.org Bluesky!

Rothrock in the spring is hard to beat.

Users of the Demographic and Health Surveys, please take the United Nations Statistics Division DHS impact survey (form.jotform.com/250913880478...) regarding recent cuts. Replies inform future planning and advocacy. All responses are confidential and presented only in aggregate.

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...

Thrilled to see our new paper "Climate Change, Extreme Weather Events, Food Security, and Nutrition: Evolving Relationships and Critical Challenges" in the Annual Review of Nutrition! Check it out! shorturl.at/qHxNz

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

‪Working paper led by Jorden Jackson (w/ @clarklgray.bsky.social): osf.io/ryfdm_v1. We use linked historical US census data to examine the impacts of weather shocks on socioeconomic attainment in the early 1900s.

Two new papers in POEN on population-environment dynamics in Malawi: (1) @heatherrandell.bsky.social et al. "Environmental change, aquatic conditions, and household food security" (link.springer.com/article/10.1...)

#PAA2025 meeting has been the best I can remember for environmental demography. Great to see @valmuellerasu.bsky.social, @heatherrandell.bsky.social, @brianthiede.bsky.social and many others 😊

Details for the #PAA2025 run below, thanks to @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social for organizing 😊 and if you’re a demog runner come join us on Strava! strava.app.link/oxhaD2a5gSb

📣Call for Papers‼️ Climate Conference "Climate Change, Environmental Hazards and Population Dynamics" 📅Nov 11–12, 2025 🗺️@mpidr.bsky.social 📰Submission Deadline: May 15, 2025 www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even... @iussp.bsky.social @conteristo.bsky.social @ezagheni.bsky.social @ebrusanliturk.bsky.social

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

Better late than never. . .this week's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is @ellenmcc.bsky.social @ellen_mcc who works on topics related to agriculture, labor + nutrition

🌊 Heather Randell, Clark Gray, Monica Grant, Galina Shinkareva, Wondwosen M. Seyoum, and Catherine O’Reilly published “Environmental change, aquatic conditions, and household food security: evidence from Lake Malawi” in Population and Environment. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

In their Washington Post Op-Ed--"In Rural America, More Women Are Saying 'I Don't'" (wapo.st/42SavfP) --Shelley Clark & @ruraldemography.bsky.social draw from the Demo article "Are Rural Areas Holdouts in the Second Demographic Transition?" @westernu.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

A little joy in what's shaping up to be a rough week (month? year(s)?): A new paper in DR! We use interview, GIS, and survey data to look at kinship and child fostering, thinking about spatiality and transitions over time. I'm dreaming of data that would let us do this on a larger scale! #demography

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

🚨🚨🚨Call for Papers! 🚨 Save the Date!🚨🚨🚨 Symposium 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗰 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗩𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘁 📅 July 01–02, 2025 🗺️ @MPIDRnews www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even... @IUSSP #health #population #migration

Updated working paper reviewing research on climate change and gender-based violence, led by Sara Bonilla-Anariba: osf.io/preprints/so...

New paper in Population and Environment by Hofflinger et al. examining the effects of air pollution exposure on academic performance: link.springer.com/article/10.1....

Icy but sunny running in Rothrock

On Feb 17 11:45am ET, join Thoai Ngo of Heilbrunn Department of Population & Family Health at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and @brianthiede.bsky.social of Penn State for a conversation on Population Health and Migration in a Changing Climate, first in its PopTalks series.

New paper (with Brown, Jayasekera, Jensen, and Butler) in @sfjournal.bsky.social on sub-national inequality in the United States: academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

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...

🚨 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.

New paper by Ethan Raker and Robert Bozick in Population and Environment on concerns about the health impacts of air pollution: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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...

Whether and to what extent does climate change impact migration to and within Europe? @sarahnash.bsky.social, Roman Hoffman and I (@iiasa.ac.at) are asking exactly this question in the @ffg.bsky.social -funded CCMIG-EU project. More info here: iiasa.ac.at/projects/ccm...

Fun to start the year with a new publication in Population Studies! I use Demographic & Health Surveys to explore maternal migration's impact on child fostering across African countries, looking at type, timing & motivation for migration. doi.org/10.1080/0032...

New paper in Population and Environment by Aude Bernard et al. on residential mobility after floods, cyclones, and bushfires in Australia: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Increased area income from the Marcellus Shale economic boom improves #birthweight rates according to new research led by Molly Martin, professor of sociology & demography, in Demography Journal. SSRI helped support the study. Full Article ➡️

Penn State has featured my J Marriage Fam @ncfr.bsky.social article showing that parents with more childhood disadvantage gave less money for college for their children! 📰: tinyurl.com/bdy6n2nd 📜: tinyurl.com/4m3pabvf #demography #inequality

15 years of lessons from #Ethiopia’s PSNP, all in one great paper! Hoddinott et al www.wider.unu.edu/sites/defaul...

In a new Population and Development Review article, @vanhookjenny.bsky.social examines change in the unauthorized immigrant population from 2000-2022 by region and country of origin. doi.org/10.1111/padr...

New paper! We study the impact of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) on local conflict (2005–19). District level DiD analysis shows the PSNP reduced civil unrest by nearly half, mainly during the 2014–18 protest wave, with no significant impact on violence. doi.org/10.35188/UNU...