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Survey Research Center: Join Our Team!

SRC and @umisr.bsky.social are seeking an Associate Research Scientist to serve as a survey methodologist for the @nhats-nsoc.bsky.social and collaborate on externally funded projects related to aging, disability, dementia, and care myumi.ch/8qDxR

Epigenome-wide association study of nuclear DNA methylation in relation to mitochondrial heteroplasmy - Nature Communications Mitochondrial DNA heteroplasmy associates with context-specific nuclear CpG methylation, supported by a cell model. Heteroplasmy–CpG scores relate to mortality and cardiovascular risk, though directio...

🧪Research by Wei Zhao, Jessica Faul, Jennifer A. Smith et al. suggest a connection between mitochondrial DNA heteroplasmy and nuclear DNA methylation in aging and disease. The direction & mechanisms of the connection are in need of further study. myumi.ch/pVWmD

A comprehensive parent training program for parents of neurodivergent children with pathological demand avoidance: The Paradigm Shift Program® Pilot Study The Paradigm Shift Program, a comprehensive training program for parents of neurodivergent children with pathological demand avoidance (PDA), was feasible and acceptable, and there were significant i...

Noelle Carlozzi et al. find the Paradigm Shift Program, a comprehensive parent training program for parents of neurodivergent children with pathological demand avoidance shows promise. The program improved children's behavior & boosted parents' health-related quality of life myumi.ch/9pAdd

Chitwan Valley Family Study team

The Chitwan Valley Family Study (or CVFS) was launched in 1995 and celebrated its 30th anniversary this year with a series of events in Nepal. Read more about this important study and the November celebration: myumi.ch/n13z2

Estimating under-five mortality using household survey data: Challenges and opportunities Emily Treleaven University of Michigan Dec. 8, 2025 PSC Brown Bag Series 2025 Join us live or on Zoom ISR (Thompson St.) Room 1430 | Mondays at noon

At the next PSC Brown Bag, we'll get to hear from our own @emilytreleaven.bsky.social presenting insights from her recent household survey work that could reduce error in mortality estimates. #Demography @um-src.bsky.social Join us live or on Zoom: psc.isr.umich.edu/events/trele...

SRC Seminar Series Presents: Insights into cognitive aging around the world: evidence from the Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol | Happening @ Michigan

Join us TODAY at 1:00 for Lindsay Kobayashi: Insights into cognitive aging around the world: evidence from the Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol
More information: myumi.ch/dgJy6
1430BD ISR-Thompson
umich.zoom.us/s/926988713
Meeting ID: 926 9887 1329
Passcode: 588465

How to manage missing covariates in randomized controlled trials: a comparison of strategies - BMC Medical Research Methodology Background When analyzing randomized controlled trials (RCTs) data, covariate adjustment is often employed to increase the precision of estimated treatment effects. Missing data in covariates, if not ...

Shiyu Zhang, @yajuansi.bsky.social & John Dziak clarify the assumptions and mechanisms by which different missing data strategies accommodate missingness in covariates and reconcile recommendations that sometimes appear contradictory in the literature myumi.ch/5kGMD

Climate-related disasters threaten the health & wellbeing of human populations. Elizabeth Fussell, Kate Burrows & @narayansastry.bsky.social review key survey design elements from 4 demographic surveys disrupted by large-scale disasters to pinpoint what’s critical in disaster research myumi.ch/8q8Nq

Independents’ confidence tends to land somewhere between that of Democrats and Republicans, “and that is something that hasn’t changed. We’ve seen that now through across three presidential administrations.” Marketplace November 21, 2025 Joanne Hsu, Surveys of Consumers, Survey Research Center

Political partisanship has become so persistent in sentiment surveys that some economists say it’s getting harder to accurately measure moods of consumers. Surveys of Consumers director, Joanne Hsu, says looking at how independents feel is a better gauge of sentiment myumi.ch/Mk87V

The Science of Social Relationships RCGD fall 2025 SEMINAR SERIES ISR Thompson 1430 | Mondays 3:30 to 5 Jess Francis-Levin | 11.24.25 Aging and Connecting in a Virtual World: Considerations for Social VR Design, Adoption, and Engagement among Older Adults

Jess Francis-Levin is using RCGD's new VR Lab for a project on aging and connection among older adults. Join us TODAY at the @rcgd-isr.bsky.social seminar series on the science of social relationships! @um-src.bsky.social @micda-umisr.bsky.social buff.ly/eSVuAL4

Hanyu Sun & Fred Conrad examine the differences in interviewer and respondent paralinguistic behaviors (such as “uh” and “um” or laughter) between video and in-person interviews and whether these difference influence respondents' answers myumi.ch/rAPZ7

Coffee with d3c Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

November's Coffee and Donuts with the SRC Director was hosted by the @d3center.bsky.social. Billie Nahum-Shani and Shiyu Zhang chatted with SRC director @umpamdk.bsky.social about adaptive interventions and the integration of human and mobile delivered approaches myumi.ch/qZxd4

Pain neuroscience education combined with any singular form of physical therapy intervention is not more effective than the single intervention itself: a systematic review Systematic reviews (SRs) of randomized clinical trials (RCTs) on the efficacy and dosing of pain neuroscience education (PNE) suggest a lack of reliable RCTs. We sought to determine if PNE combined...

@erinware.bsky.social et al. conducted a review of randomized clinical trials, finding no reliable evidence that pain neuroscience education plus any one physical therapy method boosts effectiveness vs. the single intervention alone for patients focused on pain & function: myumi.ch/pVJDg

SRC Seminar Series Presents: Insights into cognitive aging around the world: evidence from the Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol | Happening @ Michigan

Join us Tuesday, December 2 at 1:00 for Lindsay Kobayashi: Insights into cognitive aging around the world: evidence from the Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol
More information: myumi.ch/dgJy6
1430BD ISR-Thompson
umich.zoom.us/s/926988713
Meeting ID: 926 9887 1329
Passcode: 588465

Trump's biggest economic mistake yet The White House told America to 'suck it up' on high prices. After Mamdani's win, where affordability was a key issue, Trump is scrambling to reverse.

Joanne Hsu, director of the #SurveysOfConsumers, tells @businessinsider.com that Americans are well aware that #inflation has fallen, but prices haven't come down and consumers know that, too. She says, "People are broadly feeling pretty negative about the economy." myumi.ch/bV3WW

In this scoping review, @pngumich.bsky.social researchers highlight key methodological trends and gaps in the literature on the associations between DNA methylation and internalizing or externalizing traits or behaviors in children and adolescents.

Missing data in microrandomized trials: Challenges and opportunities - Behavior Research Methods The vision of leveraging digital technologies to deliver real-time psychological interventions in everyday settings is realized via just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAI) – an intervention design...

🧪@d3center.bsky.social researchers discuss the sources and impact of missing data in microrandomized trials. They provide a conceptual framework to guide future investigators in anticipating missing data and making informed decisions to manage them myumi.ch/61MWn @leb112358.bsky.social

The Science of Social Relationships RCGD fall 2025 SEMINAR SERIES ISR Thompson 1430 | Mondays 3:30 to 5 Jess Francis-Levin | 11.24.25 Aging and Connecting in a Virtual World: Considerations for Social VR Design, Adoption, and Engagement among Older Adults

Jess Francis-Levin is using RCGD's new VR Lab for a project on aging and connection among older adults. Learn more and join us for the @rcgd-isr.bsky.social seminar series on the science of social relationships! @um-src.bsky.social @micda-umisr.bsky.social buff.ly/eSVuAL4

Meet Zachary Winograd, student at the Michigan Program for Survey and Data Science and research assistant at @d3center.bsky.social at the Survey Research Center (SRC)!

Learn more about the MPSDS and students here: surveydatascience.isr.umich.edu

#masters #research #datascience

Diversity of Caregiving Experiences in the United States: Findings From the National UAS-CLEAR Study Kira Birditt, Presenter Co-authors: Marco Angrisani, Angela Turkelson, Angelica Eagle, Yee To (Crystal) Ng, Joan K. Monin Session: Health and Well-Being Trajectories in Diverse Social Contexts Saturday, Nov. 15, 5:30-7:000pm Hynes - Room 104

Given the rising number of older adults with disability and dementia, unpaid caregivers are increasingly vital in the long-term care of older adults. SRC's Kira Birditt and co-authors use data from UAS-CLEAR to describe the experiences of family and non-family caregivers #GSA2025

Older Adults' Close Friendships and Feelings of Lacking Companionship and Isolation Sarah Patterson, Presenter Co-authors: Yee To (Crystal) Ng, Emily Lerner, Erica Solway, Matthias Kirch, Sydney N. Strunk, Jeffrey T. Kullgren, J. Scott Roberts Session: Loneliness, Gender, and Relationships in Later Life Saturday, Nov. 15, 3:30 - 1:30pm Hynes - Room 103

@spattersearch.bsky.social & co-authors show that lacking close friends or wanting more is tied to higher loneliness for adults 50+. Less weekly contact also predicts loneliness. Women have more friends/contacts than men, but loneliness rates are similar by gender. #GSA2025

The Role of Social Networks in Facilitating Personal Trust Noah Webster, Presenter Co-authors: Kristine Ajrouch, Toni Antonucci Session: Social Convoys Across the Lifespan and Links With Later-Life Well-Being and Societal Trust Saturday, Nov. 15, 12:00 - 1:30pm Hynes - Room 208

Trust drives social cohesion and well-being for older adults, and supports social norms and civic life. SRC & @rcgd-isr.bsky.social’s Noah Webster, Kristine Ajrouch, and Toni Antonucci study how social networks foster societal-wide trust #GSA2025

Friendship and Loneliness in Dementia Caregiving: Daily Experiences of High and Low Burden Caregivers Yee To (Crystal) Ng, Presenter Co-authors: Angela Turkelson, Anna Kratz, Kira S. Birditt Session: Identity and Isolation in Aging: Exploring Purpose, Personality, and Psychosocial Well-Being Saturday, Nov. 15, 10:00 - 11:30am Hynes - Room 305

Caregivers to those with dementia are often an overlooked group. SRC's Yee To (Crystal) Ng, alongside her co-authors, have examined loneliness experienced by these caregivers, and the quality of their social relationships. #GSA2025

Visit SRC and ISR Booths: Monitoring the Future (Booth 222), PSID (Booth 300), National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (Booth 321), National Neighborhood Data Archive (Booth 323), National Health & Aging Trends Study (Booth 404), Health and Retirement Study (Booth 407)

Visit SRC and @umisr.bsky.social booths:
@mtfstudy.bsky.social (MTF) (Booth 222)
@umpsid.bsky.social (PSID) (Booth 300)
@nacda-icpsr.bsky.social (NACDA) (Booth 321)
@umnanda.bsky.social (NaNDA) (Booth 323)
@nhats-nsoc.bsky.social (NHATS) (Booth 404)
Health and Retirement Study (HRS) (Booth 407)

It's very busy last day of #GSA2025! Grab a donut and check out our full schedule of SRC presentations: myumi.ch/e3dVX

Session: Novel Approaches to Understanding Education and Later-Life Cognitive Health Lindsay Kobayashi, Chair Friday, Nov. 14, 4:30 - 6:00pm Hynes - Room 306

SRC's Lindsay Kobayashi will be the chair for the session Novel Approaches to Understanding Education and Later-Life Cognitive Health at #GSA2025

Who is Afraid of Cognitive Decline after Age 50 and Why: Reality or Illusion? Jacqui Smith, Presenter Marina Larkina, Co-author Session: Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias III Friday, Nov. 14, 1:45-3:00 pm Hynes - Exhibit Hall C - Poster Board 17

US adults have become increasingly concerned with staying "mentally sharp". ISR's Jacqui Smith and Marina Larkina used the Health and Retirement Study to examine to examine concerns about cognitive health and if there is a mismatch between actual cognitive performance and subjective status. #GSA2025

Trends in Early and Late Midlife Substance Use through 2024 from the US Monitoring the Future Panel Study Megan E. Patrick, Presenter Co-authors: Yvonne Terry-McElrath, Joy Bohyun Jang Session: Late Breaking Poster Session III Friday, Nov. 14, 1:45-3:00 pm Hynes - Exhibit Hall C - Poster Board 485

Using @mtfstudy.bsky.social, @meganepatrick.bsky.social, Yvonne Terry-McElrath & Joy Jang examine changes over time in cannabis & nicotine use, focusing on trends in early & late midlife, finding substance use is evolving among adults, with implications for health and wellbeing while aging #GSA2025

Young Adult Substance Use as a Predictor of Poor Memory Decades Later in Midlife Yuk Pang, Presenter Co-authors: Yvonne Terry-McElrath, Joy Bohyun Jang, Megan E. Patrick Session: Late Breaking Poster Session III Friday, Nov. 14, 1:45-3:00 pm Hynes - Exhibit Hall C - Poster Board 498

Yuk Pang & coauthors used @mtfstudy.bsky.social to study how heavy substance use in young adulthood affects poor memory later in life. Sustained use may have long-term cognitive impacts, partly via early midlife problematic use. #GSA2025