Contexts Magazine is closing out 2025 by celebrating outgoing co-editors @aminghaziani.bsky.social and @sethabrutyn.bsky.social, along with senior managing editor @lettapage.bsky.social! Editor-elect David Grazian will take the helm in 2026, with @elenavanstee.bsky.social as managing editor.

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

1/5 Is there a gender wealth gap in Canada? In my latest paper with Mamadou Diallo and @dianapenaruiz.bsky.social, we provide some answers. We also compare gender wealth gaps across provinces and over time to assess whether Québec’s adoption of a family policy reduced these gaps. rdcu.be/eOvwS 🧵

From work-family conflict to privacy loss, rapid digitalisation has unleashed heightened forebodings about digital technologies' ramifications. Who's concerned? How do digital literacy & exposure matter? @yueqiansoc.bsky.social & I tried to find out doi.org/10.1080/1369... @sriucl.bsky.social

🔔 New #OpenAccess Research Article in #JCCA Journal of Current Chinese Affairs @giga-hamburg.de @sagepub.com Fan and Qian use mixed methods to investigate the mental health implications of economic risks during China's 2020 COVID-19 outbreak. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

We know you are all doing extraordinary work #poweredbyIPUMS - and we want to reward it! The annual research awards competition is now open - submit a nomination today! 🏆 (Did we mention the cash prizes? 💸) www.ipums.org/impact/ipums...

Xiang Zhou (Harvard Sociology) and I are recruiting two postdoctoral fellows through the An Wang Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard’s Fairbank Center. The theme for 2026–27 is the Social Foundations of State Power in China. Deadline: January 15, 2026. fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/affiliation-...

Journals - this is so important: Please make this a condition for someone to accept a review invitation, not just part of the review submission. Thank you. 😀

How did the #pandemic impact working parents? @yueqiansoc.bsky.social #UBC and Wen Fan @bostoncollege.bsky.social show that balancing work–family demands became more challenging among remote-working parents who were employed in less-teleworkable occupations. doi.org/10.1177/0019...

With 4 datasets, we show that the pandemic exacerbated negative affect the most for remote-working parents in less-teleworkable jobs, esp. during school closures. @ilrreview.bsky.social We constructed an "occupational teleworkability" index using @ipums.bsky.social ATUS. doi.org/10.1177/0019...

RSF call for papers! Special issue in celebration of 25 years of the FFCWS @ffcws.bsky.social! Call open to the full range of datasets and methods in servive to studying contemporary families! www.russellsage.org/publications...

🆕 Research Brief | Dr. Sofia Noori’s research explores how young people use storytelling, music, and creative expression to navigate these challenges, heal from trauma, and rebuild a sense of belonging within Canadian classrooms and society. 🔗 Read the brief: migration.ubc.ca/publications...

Research from ASA members Yu Xie and Junming Huang @princeton.edu illustrates how China is attracting scholars, especially in STEM fields, in the wake of the administration’s funding cuts and immigration restrictions in this @washingtonpost.com article.

📣 One week left to register for our next hybrid #SpeakerSeries event!

Over the moon to announce OVERINVESTED, my new book baby due January 20, 2026, with a starred Publishers Weekly review. “Overinvested: The Emotional Economy of Modern Parenting” press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

FSU is hiring 2 APs in spatial data science! Open to any social science discipline, including sociology. This makes at least 5 faculty jobs at FSU this year open to Soc PhDs. Consider applying if you do spatial research! (ad says Geography, but it's open field) jobs.omni.fsu.edu/psc/sprdhr_e...

Global Social Scientists 🌍! Just 15 Days till Abstracts are Due for the Summer 2026 Conference on Globalizing Political Economy at UBC 📆! Travel Support Available! Details Here: tinyurl.com/2nv8st73. #globalization #sociology #politicalscience #economics #geography #politicaleconomy #globalstudies

Reach a larger audience! Get practical guidance on communicating sociological research to nonacademic audiences at this ASA webinar w/ Douglas Hartmann (University of Minnesota) & Jill Yavorsky (UNC-Charlotte). Oct 23, 4-5 pm Eastern. Free for ASA members. Register here: https://bit.ly/3L1ApH1

Congratulations to Dr. Gaoheng Zhang for publishing two new monographs this October, each exploring cultural exchanges between Italy and China—from food to fashion. We invite you to attend his upcoming book talks. fhis.ubc.ca/news/gaoheng...

Publication day is finally here 🎊 Many thanks to my team for helping bring INHERITED INEQUALITY to life & many thanks to you all for making it #1! Please be sure to leave a review—it REALLY makes a difference.

Having children is a commitment to the future. And too many people don’t feel secure enough about their lives now or in the future to make that commitment and have the children they’d like. And until we address that issue, birth rates are unlikely to increase. My op-ed in @newsweek.com.

TWO new Assistant Professor positions in Sociology at USC! Seeking candidates with expertise in the following: 1) Institutions & Inequalities and 2) Socially Informed AI and/or Data Science (links to job ads below👇). Happy to talk about what it's like to work/live here! #sociology (1/3)

Asia-Pacific Work-Family Researchers - We Want to Hear From You! Planning to attend WFRN.bsky.social conference in Montreal next year? We're organising an APAC networking session and need your input! 📋 Quick 2-minute survey: lnkd.in/gaf48z87

Bryn Mawr College is hiring an Assistant Professor in Sociology with a specialization in social movements! The applications are due on September 19th. It is a fantastic place to be a scholar and educator—please spread the word! I'm happy to answer questions to the best of my ability!

Colleagues, please help spread the word and submit an abstract! The Global Political Economy Network is a super welcoming and dynamic scholarly community with great breadth and depth. And visiting Vancouver in the summer is not too shabby either. Travel support is available!

JOB ALERT FOR #SOCIOLOGIST: Come work with me. We have FOUR Assistant Professor positions in the Sociology Department at the University of Calgary. careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1672106...

If you use Stata and you want to make nice coefficient plots, this article by @uptonorwell.bsky.social is really fantastic! medium.com/the-stata-ga...

What makes a desirable spouse in China? Our @jmfncfr.bsky.social paper (w/ Jia Yu, @yueqiansoc.bsky.social, Yang Zhou & Yu Xie) draws on a national survey experiment to net out and examine mate preferences among unmarried Chinese & their roles in shaping assortative mating doi.org/10.1111/jomf...

Sociology friends, FSU is hiring in our Demography area! I'm not on the committee, of course, but if you see me at ASA or want to discuss the job, our department, or higher ed in Florida, I'm happy to chat. t.co/midMVA8fCv

💘 Do apps make dating more efficient? New in @josoperrel.bsky.social August issue, Manlin Cai, @yueqiansoc.bsky.social & I draw on a temporal lens and in-depth interviews to explore the "efficiency paradox" in how immigrants experience time & efficiency in online dating. doi.org/10.1177/0265...

The CMS 2024-25 Annual Report is here! Discover this year’s milestones, from our first Graduate Certificate cohort and the launch of the Migration Insights Series, to events uniting scholars, practitioners, and community voices. 🔗 Read the full annual report: migration.ubc.ca/wp-content/u...

“Whose Parents Matter? Intergenerational Transmission of Earnings Arrangements in Different-Sex Couples: A Research Note” was published in the July 25 issue of @readdemography.bsky.social. 🧵 (1/3) #academicsky #PSIDdata

The Journal of Family Issues (JFI) is seeking a new Editor. This is a great chance to revitalize JFI and help it expand its reach. Please share widely! #familysociology #sociology #familydemography journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/PD...

We're Hiring! CMS is seeking a Senior Manager to lead and coordinate a dynamic portfolio of research, administrative, and programmatic activities advancing migration-related scholarship, education, and engagement. 📍 UBC Vancouver Campus 🕒 Full-time 🔗 Apply by August 7, 2025: tinyurl.com/35abkv85

Our Demography paper is out! We find that husband's parents matter for the intergenerational transmission of earnings arrangements. Efforts to reinvigorate the stalled gen­der rev­olution and pro­mote women’s rel­ative earn­ings require a recognition that men’s fam­ilies play a cru­cial role

🚨 Job alert: The Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto is hiring an Assistant Professor in the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... I'll be at ASA and would be happy to chat with interested candidates. Please share widely! #Socsky

📖 In a new research brief, Bridging Divides researcher @yueqiansoc.bsky.social explores how immigrants find love in Canada, how online dating compares to traditional dating methods and which immigrant groups face disparity within the online dating space 🔗 bit.ly/love-immigrants-yue

Work and families research network conference abstract submission are now open to October! Don't forget to submit your abstract! wfrn.org/2026-work-an

Wowza this issue is phenomenal. Three comments. 1. Protect the dolls. 2. Check out the special section on defending DEI - curated to include some of my favorite scholars on the topic (journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....) 3. Their Spotify playlist includes Fugazi. FUGAZI. So yea. Amazing issue.

Another new paper on fertility intentions! Using @nchatstudy.bsky.social data, we consider whether cohabiting & married people's short-term fertility intentions are subjective perceptions of well-being. The answer? Yes! 1/ link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

❤️ @migration.ubc.ca for featuring my research! My project on immigrants' relationship formation is driven by my belief that calling Canada home isn’t just about work, but also about love & connection. Supporting immigrants in building meaningful relationships fosters well-being, belonging & thriving

Manlin Cai, @yanghu.co.uk & I have a new article @josoperrel.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/0265... Online dating is assumed to be efficient (i.e. time-saving). Is it? We show an efficiency paradox: the efficiency promise runs counter to users' lived realities and amplifies perceptions of inefficiency

** Researchers using US Natality Data: Code to read & label restricted-access CDC natality data into Stata/R now includes 2019–2023 (in addition to 2010–18): florenciatorche.github.io/ReadNatality... Please share—no need for us all to write the same code! Thanks to @RussellSageFdn for funding

Breaking News! WFRN.bsky.social to relocate the 2026 conference to Montréal. June 17-20 at Concordia University. Why did the Executive Board and scholars make this decision?: wfrn.org/news/an-impo...

This resonates with what @yanghu.co.uk and I have argued in our JMF theory paper: “The increasing use of and reliance on digital technologies open family life to not only intimate surveillance but also capitalist control by private enterprises” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Have you ever wondered about the household division of gendered labor of the upper-middle-class, rich, v. super-rich? Check out our latest by @dacuetovilla.bsky.social on research by Jill Yavorsky, Lisa Keister, @yueqiansoc.bsky.social, & Sarah Thébaud in @sfjournal.bsky.social. 🔗 bit.ly/4gYMUgT 🔗

Pleased to be interviewed for this Globe and Mail article about female breadwinners. Even more thrilled when I saw @joannapepin.bsky.social was also quoted!! www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

FANTASTIC ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?) You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have www.datalumos.org/datalumos/

The core work of IPUMS includes preserving, harmonizing and disseminating the world’s population data. You can support our work through a donation at z.umn.edu/help-power-i....

Incredibly moving Justin Trudeau remarks: "We have fought and died alongside you....During your darkest hours...we were always there. Standing with you, grieving with you, the American people....Canadians are a little perplexed as to why our closest friends and neighbors are choosing to target us."