Asking rent data out from StatCan today for Q2 and Q3 2025.

Freshman year: took soc 101, couldn't even figure out what soc was, cried Senior year: graduating with a soc major, still didn't get what soc was, cried Grad school: cried a lot just because Asst prof: What is sociology? What a fascinating question that we'll get to explore together this semester

"What *is* sociology, exactly?" Sir I have no idea.

This is amazing. If you haven't reveled in the glory that is the IPUMS international census archive, you should! Here's something I made from it: "The Rise of One-Person Households" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

A fascinating study with troubling implications. I commend this thread for your reading!

About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in. Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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The Toronto Population Network had its very first mini-conference at Hart House last Thursday, and it was such an amazing event!! Thanks everyone for coming & can't wait for what's next 💙 P.S. trying to get the "confidence intervals overlapping" photo pose trending. it clearly has potential, eh?

the worse the shared draft the better the friend

Sweden, the place with the best historical data, finds that a larger percentage of births in the late 1800s (12%) were by mothers over age 40 than today (5%). I extremely did not know this www.scb.se/hitta-statis...

In “Goodbye Norway,” @afconstant.bsky.social Astri Syse & Marianne Tönnessen study 1st-generation working-age immigrants & show how returnees & onward migrants differ by their education & earnings. @pennpsc.bsky.social @cesifo.org o.org @nibrresearch.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

We are building a new pop center at UofT and will hold our first mini-conference on Nov 6 - come join us!! Exhibit 1: amazing speaker line-up - featuring friends around the world to discuss why demography/pop center matters! 🤓 Exhibit 2: the iconic castle where this conference will take place 🏰 ✨

“Do Immigrants Experience Morbidity & Disability Disadvantages at Older Ages?” In comparing HRS & NHIS data, Hui Zheng & Wei-hsin Yu demonstrate “how sensitive our evidence on immigrants’ aging & health is to the data source & the specific immigrant sample.” read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

Hey @paaalpaca.bsky.social - we hear Toronto is lovely in November!

We are building a new pop center at UofT and will hold our first mini-conference on Nov 6 - come join us!! Exhibit 1: amazing speaker line-up - featuring friends around the world to discuss why demography/pop center matters! 🤓 Exhibit 2: the iconic castle where this conference will take place 🏰 ✨

The Toronto Population Network is holding a conference on 6 November at Hart House at UofT. Keynote from @ridhikashyap.bsky.social! If you're in Toronto come along and help us build the community of demographers and population researchers here! Registration: www.eventbrite.com/e/toronto-po...

UofT grad students - help advance social policy's media presence! Pitch us an opinion piece on social policy. If approved, you'll earn $500 for the completed piece. More info: cgsp-cpsm.ca/2025/09/22/c...

1/ So you’re thinking about applying for an academic job in the UK but don’t know how? This thread will walk you through the essentials.

Hey remember last fall, when members of the press credulously reported that Trump would increase high-skilled immigration? This will end it pretty much entirely. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Great grantwriting advice from @arianeophir.bsky.social!!

📢 Interested in excess mortality methods, and want a challenge? I'm organising the "One Epidemic, Many Estimates" (1EME) project! Register *now* as a many analyst team (submissions due 15 March 2026), and then join us at LSE for a workshop on 21-22 May 2026! (1/n) www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-His...

📣 Call for Papers is open! In_equality Conference 2026 | 15–17 April | Konstanz We invite papers on the political causes & consequences of #inequality Submit Aug 8–Oct 5 ➡️ inequality-conference.de @uni-konstanz.de

It was such a treat to visit @mpidr.bsky.social! Many thanks to @loisilvia.bsky.social for hosting me, and to everyone else for generous feedback on my work + lots of fun chats. I'll miss Rostocker the beer, but Rostockers the people even more! Next stop: Amsterdam 🌷 / more end-of-summer-denial

The University of Zurich invites applications for a professorship in the sociology of child and adolescent development. I've been told this is open rank.

Used all of my energy to write the best paragraph i can possibly write but it's still never gonna be as good as the paragraph that i casually wrote but didn't autosave when word crashed 😭

When you almost couldn't connect to the WiFi because you spelled Lexis diagram wrong 👀 Excited to be visiting @mpidr.bsky.social‬ for the next two weeks in beautiful Rostock! ☺️

We are excited to announce the #PAA2026 Call for Papers is now available! The submission site opens on Monday, Aug. 18 and the deadline is Sunday, Oct. 5. Meet me in St. Louis! May 6-9, 2026: www.populationassociation.org/paa2026/call...

🚨NEW STUDY🚨 Among Black and White adults, we find that low-SES Whites report the most bodily pain and goal-striving stress (i.e., thwarted aspirations), and are the only ones to report positive links btwn GSS and pain. We unpack research, policy, and clinical implications. tinyurl.com/yu6ev85u

We are hiring at Rotman Strategy in the Fall. Apply here. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

Nice initiative from Western! news.westernu.ca/2025/07/phd-...

IN OTHER NEWS: check out our new COIN paper on immigrant--native pay gaps in advanced economies published in @nature.com this afternoon! Specifically, we study the relative contribution of within-job unequal pay vs between-job segregation to earnings disparities across immigrant generations. 1/9

🚨 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

Gallup has new polling on immigration. Topline findings: -Americans hate Trump's immigration policy (35% approve, 62% disapprove) -Share who say immigration is a "good thing" for the country just hit an all-time high (79%) news.gallup.com/poll/692522/...

Journalists often ask for my thoughts on the contemporary US pronatalist movement. My assessment is based on my expertise and training as a social demographer, and my own research on childbearing behaviors at the individual and aggregate levels. Strap in, b/c I've got a lot to say. 1/

I use the word "super" super often, but believe me that no super from me is ever as super as the super in: "this is a super preliminary draft"

So, here it is. Thanks to a new state law that was NEVER DEBATED, Indiana University has committed itself to abolishing majors in African-American/African Diaspora Studies: American Studies; Art History; French; Italian; Religious Studies etc. DOZENS of majors. www.ipm.org/news-section...

*Registering for #ASA2025* ASA: if you have a discount code, please enter it here Me: SAVE10 ASA: no (5OFF also didn't work, btw 🥺)

The Graduate Center community deeply mourns the passing of Prof. Emeritus Richard Alba, a pathbreaking demographer who bucked conventional ideas about how immigrants assimilate into and impact mainstream U.S. culture www.gc.cuny.edu/news/memoria...

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

📣🚨 NEW ARTICLE: Many #immigrants are aging & remain undocumented. What is their experience of illegality as they age–specifically their fear of deportation? New publication @sfjournal.bsky.social! Please read and share widely. 🔗 here: bit.ly/SF25-LCI (summary below) /1

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

New study (w/ Hui Zheng) finds that among US-born older adults, Asian Americans are no longer the healthiest racial group. This is because disability prevalence has declined for *every other racial group* since 2005, but not for Asian Americans. #AAPI

Must read by @jodyav.bsky.social and @profmpastor.bsky.social : www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Hey demographers! We're starting up the formal demography working group again! Next Friday 16 May at 11:30am ET @hggaddy.bsky.social will talk to us about challenges in estimating crisis mortality. Excited! Head to the website to sign up for Zoom details: formaldemography.github.io/working_group/

My new-to-blusky friend Nicole Kreisberg @nicolekreisberg.bsky.social is looking for interviewees for her project on immigrant couples! Her research team is in particular need of more respondents from Latin America and/or on student visas. Please share widely! #Socsky

With CBC now having called all ridings it's time for the land-vs-people-vote animation.

Jet lagged + woke up early to read election news, so did the unusual thing (for me lol) of taking a morning walk - cherry blossoms are in bloom! Good morning #Toronto 🌸

Let this be a warning to you all: nobody steals my charts and gets to be Prime Minister of Canada

🚨🔔 New Pub 🚨🔔 I’m thrilled that “What Are We Modeling? An Evaluation of Depressive Symptom Trajectory Models from Adolescence to Early Midlife in the Add Health Cohort” is now out in the world! Link to free download: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Nobel Prizes by country and year. The dominance of Germany is striking every time. Before 1933, that is. And the utter dominance of America (and the UK) after 1945.