Michael Topping

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! 😅

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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
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#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 🧐

Yay! Congrats, Anna! This is great news to hear! 🎉

The UW terrace is back 😍 (and I actually think it looks great even with the weather like this)