I wonder how many people will attend the 2026 PAA. I submitted my abstract this afternoon (one day before the due), and my submission was numbered ~ 1,600. Last year, I submitted my abstract three days before the deadline and was numbered ~ 4,300. For real?

Such an amazing life and legacy. RIP.

New in American Journal of Epidemiology! doi.org/10.1093/aje/...

Today, 33% of all the electricity used in Oregon is attributed to data centers. In Virginia, it’s 37%. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I am a sociologist living with cows

Check out this Interview with @aripeskoe.bsky.social to hear about how ratepayers are covering the costs of the infrastructure needed to support the surge in AI and data centers.

WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you. Apply by: 10 Oct www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Do people have less #Kids because of the #ClimateCrisis? 🌍👶 In our preprint, @katyaoivanova.bsky.social and I find that environmentalists are less likely to have kids in their 20s and 30s... But by their early 40s, the gap closes. Maybe it's rather about #Postponement? 🕰️ 🔗 doi.org/10.31235/osf...

Not to be the bearer of bad news, but in North America the university semester is starting ... This table of different types of classes has been useful for me in explaining to students* the structure of the class that I'm teaching * and to myself ... see next post drive.google.com/file/d/1-hKG...

🚨 OUT NOW! Our new @science.org study led by @kohrathefog.bsky.social is the first to comprehensively quantify the health impacts of and inequities in outdoor air pollution exposure across all stages of the US oil and gas lifecycle: extraction ➡️ transport/storage ➡️ refining/processing ➡️ end-use. 🧵

Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life? Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social) Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...

Good to see growing support for abduction or 'inference to the best explanation', recently by Spirling and Stewart in @thejop.bsky.social. This is... www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

I am a huge fan of "what is this kind of argument and how can you do it right?" papers. I collect them and I've tried to write a couple, and think they can be tremendously useful especially for teaching. A new, useful addition to this set just arrived from @sociologicalsci.bsky.social:

I...did not care for the argument, no. Outside of this case, the journal has been publishing some odd pieces, e.g., link.springer.com/article/10.1...

“Female Advantages in Education & Union Formation”: @danielaurbinaj.bsky.social uses DHS & Colombia census data to assess changes in union entry & assortative mating in a middle-income setting where women are, overall, better educated. @uscsociology.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

When I need it for an RR, ArcMap is retired. RIP ArcMap

I grew up hearing relatives describe feeling brushed off in clinics and spoken to like their concerns were a nuisance. Those stories pushed me toward a PhD in Population Health Sciences and my 1st project on discrimination in healthcare. @journalgim.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📣 Hot off the press 📣 We document tremendous growth in U.S. federal place-based funding, show it has disproportionately gone to areas with more nonprofits & stronger housing markets, and find a pattern of cumulative advantage in funding among high-poverty neighborhoods. doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...

🚨 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

Check out our new paper in Earth’s Future! We mapped 78 flood events in eastern NC from 1996-2020 and found flooding (& repeat flooding) is more common than we previously thought. Paper: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... Data (NC-FLDEX): dataverse.unc.edu/dataset.xhtm...

Using data from the 1984 to 2022 General Social Survey. Adriana M. Reyes & @spattersearch.bsky.social‬ attitudes towards gov't spending on Social Security & retirement remain positive, but adults aged 65+ are less likely to support this spending than younger adults myumi.ch/MkxZ5

New (core demography) paper on US metropolitan and nonmetropolitan mortality out in the Journal of Rural Health. Stay tuned for a thread 🧵summarising the key findings! #Demography

From @sungspark.bsky.social @marasheftel.bsky.social et al: “Racial & Ethnic Disparities in Functional Limitations Among Older Adults” uses HRS data to assess effect of physically demanding work over the life course. @rutgerssph.bsky.social @ccpratucla.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

The IPUMS API now includes support for metadata browsing and data extracts for IPUMS IHGIS, as do ipumspy and ipumsr. Find them at tech.popdata.org/ipumsr and ipumspy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

"The place where we have made maybe the most obvious progress in health since 1960 has been that the conditions of Black Americans were radically improved by the health reforms that came out of the civil rights movement," says @wrigleyfield.bsky.social

In quantitative social science analyses, it’s striking how often there’s uncertainty on whether various correlates of outcomes are CONFOUNDERS or MEDIATORS. In past ~20 years, we finally realized how pervasive & pernicious posttreatment control is. Collective learning on that is good. But…

OPINION: "Black women in the Delta face disproportionate barriers to cervical-cancer prevention and treatment—barriers that are exacerbated by the ongoing closure of rural hospitals across Mississippi," Mala Brooks writes.

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

#dementia #disclosure #SocialNetworks #sociology #demography academic.oup.com/gerontologis...

New study with @jacob-bor.bsky.social @wrigleyfield.bsky.social & colleagues estimates that US saw 705,331 excess deaths in 2023—a number in line w/ rising pre-pandemic trend. Over 1.5 million deaths could’ve been averted in 2022–23 if US mortality matched peer nations. 🧵 (1/5) tinyurl.com/569pr9ty

the Gini coefficient for social ties often exceeds that of income & social ties are concentrated among those with the highest incomes sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

The cost of Grok: "I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside. How come I can't breathe at home and y'all get to breathe at home?"

Check out these two exciting opportunities to work with @kerenladin.bsky.social in the REACH lab (Research on Ethics, Aging, and Community Health) at Tufts 1. Senior Research Coordinator - jobs.tufts.edu/jobs/21562?l... 2. Postdoctoral Fellow - details below

Well deserved recognition for Janet. She is not only distinguished in her research but also deeply supportive for students. As director of the Aging Studies Institute (ASI), she takes care of everyone. I was lucky to have had the opportunity to work at ASI.

Dream job: archive manager

Studying economics and business in college makes students become much more conservative. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Our Annual Review of Sociology article on conceptualizing and measuring structural racism is now available. Get it while studying racism is still legal. @tyson-brown.bsky.social @pahoman.bsky.social (also, lots of great articles are in this volume). www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

My dear health equity peers, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is doubling down on their DEI efforts. 💪🏽 Here’s a grant opportunity tinyurl.com/3pnxhy2d with a rapid response option those whose “health equity research projects have lost federal funding.” ⭐️ Please share ⭐️

Side note: Many early career researchers are afraid someone will steal their ideas if they post a preprint. Time and time again, the idea stealer is in the lab or seminar room. Getting your ideas out of there with your name on them can provide protection.

The cut comes to me now. Looking for a postdoc or admin staff position (or whatever else as long as sponsoring visa) starting this Aug. I am experienced with statistic models, spatial analysis, and causal mediation in Stata, R, ArcGIS. I appreciate any information about potential opportunities.

A couple of days ago I gave a guest lecture on an Introduction to Bayesian Demography. The materials are here if people are interested! Includes a few examples using R and Stan: mjalexander.github.io/bayesian-dem...

There are so many ways one could provide context for this data. For example, in the last five years universities have received 52-55% of their research funding from the federal government. That's the lowest percentage since the 1950s. 1/x ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/high...

People of color were underrepresented in all of the highest-paying jobs in the petrochemical industry, a new study says. Louisiana and Texas had “the most extreme disparities.” grist.org/equity/in-lo...

Undocumented migration isn’t driven by economics alone—weather matters too. New research finds that drought in rain-fed farming areas increases migration, while extreme rainfall makes migrants less likely to return. In @TIMES: time.com/7272152/clim... In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I wrote about @brian-goldstone.bsky.social’s brilliant book for @liberalcurrents.com. You should read this book. www.liberalcurrents.com/working-home...

Are we really #aging in bursts? A study made headlines claiming that rather than aging gradually, humans age in accelerated “bursts”- specifically at age 44 & 60. I know, it *feels* true. But if you are reaching one of these aging milestones, don’t panic. jenndowd.substack.com/p/are-we-rea...

Hot off the press! Using data from the Health & Retirement study, we find that older adults with incarceration histories experience more social vulnerability (e.g., smaller social networks/more social isolation, less community integration, and more loneliness). doi.org/10.1093/gero...

Here's an update on sociology (and some demography) journal editorial polices with regard to sharing preprints before submission and after acceptance. A big improvement from the last edition of this table. With one exception.