This week in my infectious disease/ sociology course the focus was on the sociology of vaccine hesitancy. Students loved the assigned articles by @jenniferreich.bsky.social. Thanks so much for your work.

Excited to be in Pittsburgh for @iaphs.bsky.social conference!

Missing the @ipums.bsky.social booth at #IPC2025 conference this year.

Hope folks can stop by to #IPC2025 session 8 this morning . I am presenting joint work with @jkerwin.bsky.social and Divya Pandey.

So happy to be at #IPC2025

The #PAA2025 Karaoke session is no joke! @jkerwin.bsky.social you would have loved this.

So grateful for the work of @uwcsde.bsky.social affiliate Kyle Crowder (@popassocamerica.bsky.social vice president) in organizing the #PAA2025 conference. I am proud to have served on the organizing committee.

Hi fellow #demography folks. Be sure to follow @uwcsde.bsky.social ! They are new to Bluesky . @sarahquinn.bsky.social @petercatron.bsky.social @zalmquist.bsky.social @readdemography.bsky.social @popassocamerica.bsky.social @iaphs.bsky.social @iussp.bsky.social @berkeleypopcenter.bsky.social

So excited to be at #PAA2025 with all of my @uwcsde.bsky.social colleagues and students. Also excited to reconnect with my former @minnpop.bsky.social and @ipums.bsky.social colleagues.

USAID is an incredible brand and source of soft power. Killing it off would be a disaster for US foreign policy and for millions of the world’s poorest people.

The Census Scientific Advisory Committee, which advises the Census Bureau on research and methodology across various Census programs and activities, has been terminated as of 2/28/25. This is another blow against federal data collection.

An influential program that gave detailed public health information to about half of the world’s nations has folded as a result of the Trump administration’s freeze on foreign aid. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/h...

Surreal read of the day: a paper using USAID-funded and now terminated Demographic & Health Surveys to count the huge number of lives saved by the now frozen US PEPFAR program to fight HIV, co-authored by current US admin’s nominee to lead cuts in health research jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Such a travesty that the Demographic and Health Survey program was terminated this week. I realize the Gates Foundation can't pick up all the pieces, but this one seems like a natural one for them to pick up given that the DHS is the go-to data source for many of their focus areas.

Really enjoyed meeting with @vluck89.bsky.social and learning more about his book. One highlight was learning that some of his research was powered by @ipums.bsky.social !

Help spread the word. The @minnpop.bsky.social is a great place to work. @popassocamerica.bsky.social @iaphs.bsky.social #Demography #PublicHealth #Sociology

I am looking for a guest lecturer for a Data Viz class on the morning of March 6 at the University of Washington. Do you have any suggestions of people to reach out to? #dataviz

The best Christmas present I received as kid was GeoSafari. I loved it so much. I would love to get my kids one but can't find something similar. Did anyone else play with this in the 90s? In addition to being fun, I swear it helped me get the best social studies grade in middle school.

@elenakriegerphd.bsky.social can you help spread the word to your network?

I am so excited about this good news about Haiti from @earthspark.bsky.social. Jason (@jkerwin.bsky.social) and I had the pleasure to visit the first microgrid they built in Haiti and were very impressed. #microgrid

Excited about the 2025 PAA conference. I had the opportunity to read through fantastic sets of extended abstracts and organize two sessions under the Mortality & Morbidity theme. Unfortunately there were many great papers I was not able to accept. #Demography @popassocamerica.bsky.social

Are you a #student who is interested in #Demography and #DataScience & you have no plans for ☀️☀️☀️#summer 2025☀️☀️☀️☀️ yet? Look no more! @mpidr.bsky.social has just the program for you: Population and Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program! Apply until Jan 8, 2025 demogr.mpg.de/go/Incubator...

Two job openings at the assistant level this fall at UW Seattle. Spread the word! Sex/Gender/Sexuality position is at apply.interfolio.com/151038 Health/Health Inequality/Medical Sociology is at apply.interfolio.com/151028 I will be part of the Health Search Committee. @iaphs.bsky.social #sociology

Some personal news: we’re moving to Seattle! We will both be starting new tenured positions at UW Seattle in the fall—I’ll be in Sociology and @jkerwin.bsky.social will be in Econ. I am so excited to join a great group of demographers and sociologists at UW. Thankful for an amazing 10 years at UMN.

Do you have recommendations for a good organizer for a #PAA2025 flash session titled “Small area estimation of morbidity and mortality trends”? Feel free to self nominate. You must not have organized in the past two years. Organizers also need to have an active PAA membership. #Demography

Join us for an exciting IAPHS Online Event: "Bridging The Gap: Communicating Research To Policymakers & Beyond" on May 30, 2024 at 12-1PM EST. Visit iaphs.org/tools-for-su... to learn more. #episky #econsky #scisky

Join us for an exciting @iaphs.bsky.social cial Online Event: "Bridging The Gap: Communicating Research To Policymakers & Beyond" on May 30, 2024 at 12:00PM-1:00PM EST. Visit iaphs.org/tools-for-su... to learn more! **This webinar is open to everyone and free! (plz sign up for the online account)

Have you ever wondered how to get your research into the hands of policymakers, or wished your findings were known by a wider audience? Check out the @iaphs.bsky.social and PRB webinar featuring @datageekb.bsky.social. May 30th at 12pm EST. Be sure to register! #demography

Do people have examples of course syllabi that focus on infectious diseases and social dynamics? I am thinking of developing a related course and wanted to see what was out there. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #demography #epidemiology

#Demography @popassocamerica.bsky.social Has anyone received any updates about the UAPS/UEPA conference?

Happy to share this blog post I wrote with Molly E Brown. #Demography #Sociology

You can participate in a new scientific mass collaboration. The aim of the challenge is to measure current predictability of fertility outcomes in the Netherlands to advance understanding of fertility. Apply by March 24 at preferdatachallenge.nl

Interested in learning how to add environmental context to your population health research? Check out the new IPUMS DHS blog, where we introduce spatial data concepts & R tutorials to help get you started! #GlobalHealth #RStats #tidyverse #quarto #demography #EconSky tech.popdata.org/dhs-research...

Can someone point me to a figure in a journal or website showing age-adjusted COVID-19 cases by year from 2020-2022? Some thing like the first panel in the figure below but instead of cumulative data, I would love to see the figure by year. Thanks.

I had a fantastic time at Penn State this week. I was sorry to miss IAPHS conference but had the opportunity to reconnect with colleagues and meet some new potential collaborators. The ice cream at the creamery was an added bonus.

Is there a demography or population feed?

Think about the chance that you will die within the next decade. Got a probability in mind? Okay—how *sure* are you about it? In a new paper, we show that people express this kind of “ambiguity” or “imprecision”, and that it matters if we want to change their minds. A 🧵 👇 (1/N) #econsky 📈📉

This is the motivation that I needed today.

I have done this on professionally important papers and I am lucky to not have been burned by it. Avoidance is so common and it's particularly bad because so many of us are perfectionists (and naturally anxious about our work)

If you are a fan of IPUMS Global Health data like IPUMS-DHS be sure to check out IPUMS-MICS. The extract system has over 900 variables from 88 countries, drawn from over 200 samples and 1000+ datasets! mics.ipums.org/mics/ Please share widely.

Got an extra slot for a seminar speaker this year? I’m on sabbatical in the fall & not teaching in the spring, so I’d love to come give a talk! I’ve got exciting new work on education, health, labor, and finance in developing countries. Let me know if you want to bring me out!

IPUMS is hiring for a senior data analyst to work on creating more linked US census data. Great opportunity to contribute to the future of large scale life course data for social science research. Join us. Share the word https://www.ipums.org/about/jobs