Michael Topping

🌟CDHA at GSA 2025🌟

Several of our affiliates, including Yue Qin, Meiyi Li, & Gina Lee, are presenting today at the Gerontological Society of America’s Annual Scientific Meeting in Boston, MA.

Presentations run until the 15th, and we are proud to celebrate them each day!

🌟CDE at GSA 2025🌟

We're excited to share that several of our CDE affiliates, including @michaeltopping.bsky.social, Meiyi Li, & Yue Qin are presenting at the Gerontological Society of America’s Annual Scientific Meeting today and tomorrow in Boston, MA!

Learn ➡️ www.gsa2025.org

Just got to review for my **favorite** journal - JHSB! Hope the authors of the paper appreciate my comments on their work! 🤗

Today is my (hopefully) last first day of school! So many emotions right now but this is the mood I settled on this day: 😬😅

Thanks, Thelonious!

Passed my dissertation proposal defense! 🎉 Just need to work hard this year to finish everything 😅

First job application is complete! And so it begins 😅 (wish me luck!) 🤗

Literally as #ASA2025 comes to a close the #PAA2026 call for papers comes online! Back to the grind 🤓

In my favorite city for #ASA2025 😍😍 looking forward to (re)connecting with people!

Academia is basically a collection of people who got lucky early on and mistook it for genius. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Maybe it's the stress of the upcoming job market, but for the first time in a long time I completed almost all of the goals I set out for the month of July! 😅

Assistant Professor - Madison, Wisconsin, United States Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

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The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the field of demography of health and aging beginning in August 2026
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Congrats, Milly! 🥳

Right?!

These #sociology journal placements are quite interesting this year (according to google scholars metrics, at least).

The summer is going by way too fast. How is #ASA2025 right around the corner? 😅

Just peer-reviewed a paper! Always happy to give back to people and move things forward 🤗

Congrats! 🎉

"Take advantage of our special rate of $3,200 (if your paper is accepted after peer review)". There is so much wrong with this spam email

A writing trick I have developed lately is to write one font size smaller than normal. That way when I am finished and already think I wrote a lot, it looks even grander and makes me feel so accomplished! 🤣

I woke up today to 7 unread emails and thought - wow a lot must have happened last night. Turns out I forgot to renew my ASA subscription and it was all the listserv notifications 😅😱😭

Using the Mid-Atlantic as the basis for comparison, researchers found that dementia rates were 25% higher in the Southeast. The Northwest and Rocky Mountains were both 23% higher, and the South was 18% higher. The Southwest, which includes California, was 13% higher; while the Northeast, which includes New York, was 7% higher.

How High Is Your #Dementia Risk? It Might Depend on Where You Live ucsf.edu/news/2025/06... by
@ucsfgeriatrics.bsky.social

#Alzheimers #demography #epidemiology #publichealth

I got a paper accepted to #GSA2025 in Boston this November! Excited to visit a city that has long eluded me! 😍

Yay! Congrats, Leafia! Super interesting stuff 🥳

As I read even more papers this is still my #1 dream/request in academia (or at least sociology/demography)

Today is one of those days where emailing people will easily take up 80% of my time, which simultaneously feels productive and unproductive at the same time 🤣😅

I would appreciate if I could have *one* Friday where I don’t get bad news (today it’s a journal rejection) 😫

Today makes another year around the sun - and an important demographic transition - I’m now in a different age category (which age category I’ll leave you to guess) 🤣🤗🥳

Topical cluster map of terms used in recently cancelled NIH grants. No surprises there I guess. Data by grant-watch.us and NYT for the flagged terms. Source code available here github.com/jschoeley/gr....

My mood (and other grad students!) as the summer begins 🧐