Nominate your excellent colleague, collaborator or cohort member (self nominations are welcome too but I couldn't come up with a first person alliteration).

Another highly cited article from JMF's 2020 Decade in Review examined the previous decade of research on immigrant families: tinyurl.com/3axa9829 by Jennifer Van Hook & @jengdemography.bsky.social #ThrowbackThursday #TBT #FamilyScience #SocialScience #SocialScienceResearch #ImmigrantFamilies

Join the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights for the first webinar in a new three-part series pulling back the curtain on the realities of hostile immigration policies and the rapid response work unfolding across our programs and communities. Register Today ➡️ https://bit.ly/4kHuxR2

Join us for a Vigil in State College to honor Renee Nicole Good, and others who have been killed by ICE agents. Saturday from noon to 1pm. Allen St. Gates www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

America First, at America’s first public university.

Heads up: Job opportunity with great colleagues!!!

Have any NCES data users gotten a disclosure review approved for a paper/report since spring? I've been waiting for 6+ months 😞

Bumping this one up again. Co-funded position by our interdisciplinary Social Science Research Institute at Penn State.

Penn State Geography invites prospective grad students to an upcoming online info session about our graduate degree programs on Thursday, October 23rd from 12:00pm-1:00pm EDT. Register to participate: tinyurl.com/psugeoinfo. #academicsky #geosky 🛟 #gradschool #gis #research #urban #pennstate #aag

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...

Full statement is now on our website apdu.org?p=5813739 #econsky

"more casual users of federal data continue to analyze the deck chairs on the federal Titanic, unaware of the coming iceberg as federal cuts to staffing, contracting, advisory committees, and funding rip a giant hole in our nation’s heretofore unsinkable data apparatus" fas.org/publication/...

Don't write off rural areas and small towns. 🔥

🔥🔥 Close to 600 people turning out in solidarity today at Canal Basin Park to say America has #NoKings ❌👑

"There are laws governing the conduct of federal surveys, and this idea that an email from DOGE is going to impact federal data collection, superseding existing federal law, is what concerns me" says APDU Board member Mary Jo Mitchell in an interview w @politico.com www.politico.com/newsletters/...

"The due process clause of the Fifth Amendment says no person can be ‘deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law.’ It doesn’t say ‘citizen.’”

#WhySocialScience? Because We Need Good Data to Predict the Future - New post from @mmather.bsky.social and Beth Jarosz of @prbdata.bsky.social 📈

Now that #AERA2025 has concluded, sharing our AERA Open special topics call for proposals, "Centering Civil Rights Protections in Schools in the US" that I'm co-editing with @maithgopalan.bsky.social. Please share widely & reach out with questions. Due May 15. www.aera.net/Portals/38/S...

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Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble. For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity. What will you do?

Dramatic Cuts to Ed. Data Programs Will Have Far-Reaching Consequences, Researchers Warn www.edweek.org/policy-polit... via @edweek.bsky.social @evieblad.bsky.social

Another successful Social Science Advocacy Day in the books! Thank you to all our wonderful advocates and to our sponsors. The work continues! #WhySocialScience #COSSA2025

AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...

QUOTED: “USAID has been instrumental in funding critical research at Penn State, fostering innovations that have far-reaching impacts.“ Read the OpEd at: www.centredaily.com/opinion/lett...

BREAKING: Census Bureau has just canceled the March kickoff of its Young Children Working Group and April meeting of 2030 Census Advisory Committee

Research universities are often the largest employers in their region. They are often the primary health care providers to communities. This funding shift will not only reduce US research leadership, it will put working people out of work and reduce healthcare access.

Constituents of PA Senator David McCormick visited his office to share their concerns. He is nowhere to be seen at 9am on a weekday. Where could he be?

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

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...