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.

Made my own #severance elevator this weekend. Quite proud of this one! :3

Call for papers is out for this year's Transitions in Youth (TiY) conference, to be held in wonderful Aarhus, Denmark. Theme: Inequalities in youth transitions and educational expansion Read full call here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/tdp49... #sociology

My recent paper provides a particular lens on the upcoming local elections in Wisconsin. Candidates for county office must contend with the increasing polarization between their rural and urban constituents.

Hey look everyone Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility @asa-ipm.bsky.social is now on here! There are a lot of people who are generally IPM-ish on Bluesky, I put them in this starter pack so there's definitely an audience here. bsky.app/starter-pack...

Breaking my social media hiatus to say: At least 6 jobs I applied for (a mix of postdocs & TTAPs) were rescinded—3 of which I was a finalist for.

It appears that the Eastern Sociological Association #ESS meeting is happening at the same hotel as the American Psychopathological Association meeting. Since other people do it to sociologists all the time, is it offensive to ask "can you read my thoughts" to psychopathologists in the elevator? 👀

If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 30, the number is 100%.

🚨I'm advertising for a PhD position (4 yrs) in quant. Sociology/Social Demography (life course, social ineq.) @tcdsociology.bsky.social! 📅 Deadline: April 21, 2025 📄 More info: www.tcd.ie/sociology/va... 🔄 Please share! #Sociology #Demography #AcademicChatter #PhDOpportunity #TrinityCollegeDublin

Thanks @jean23bean.bsky.social for visiting us at Toronto Sociology this week to speak about suspect citizenship! The room was completely full and we had to even add a couple of chairs to accomodate all the interest in hearing about this important work. Excited to follow this project!! #Socsky

How does the role of undocumented status change as children get older? In a new study, I found national-level evidence that undocumented children did just as well as peers in high school, but had signficantly reduced chances of college graduation and lower earnings as they got older.

oh cool I’ve been meaning to learn anxiety

Let's say that one wanted to go from 0 to computational social science. With the end goal being to write a real research paper using this approach. What are the texts and resources that you would suggest to achieve this goal?

This is a gut punch. For two years in grad school I was funded by a fellowship via UW-RDRC, which provided an amazing commmunity. It supported me through the most important days of dissertation writing and taught me so much about aging research. I can't believe they just cut the whole consortium.

I really liked this idea of using a histogram as a legend in a choropleth map (since land isn't unemployed; people are), so I made a little guide to doing it with #rstats, {ggplot2}, and {patchwork} www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/02...

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...

How does the role of undocumented status change as children get older? In a new study, I found national-level evidence that undocumented children did just as well as peers in high school, but had signficantly reduced chances of college graduation and lower earnings as they got older.

My snow day craft project: desktop fireplace 😆