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Baby Goose Abandoned by Its Parents Learns to Be a Tall Bird After Finding an 'Unexpected Family' with 3 Cranes A baby Canada goose abandoned as an egg found an 'unexpected family' with a pair of Sandhill cranes, and their colt, in Madison, Wis., in the spring of 2025. Madison-based photographer Alan Ginsberg h...

look at this freakin guy

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Wildfires in Washington, 2024 Wildfires and their smoke have big impacts on health. This is a summary of how fires affected Washington residents in 2024.

Wildfire smoke is dangerous for our health. It is carried by the wind, impacting people hundreds, or even thousands, of miles away. Inhaling the tiny particles in smoke can worsen many existing health issues, especially lung conditions. storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/afd8...

🎬 Exciting Feature on Disability & Education Research 🎬

Thrilled to share my recent contribution to the Sage Learning Series, where I discuss findings from our (Rubab Arim) paper, "Through a Diverse Needs Lens." #InclusiveEducation #DisabilityResearch

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HE is the only one who can succeed anna wintour as vogue’s editor-in-chief

Anna Wintour steps down as editor-in-chief of American Vogue ‘Queen of fashion’ has amplified the place of fashion in culture beyond all recognition The departure of Anna Wintour as editor-in-chief of American Vogue leaves a bigger absence in the fashion world than would be left by the departure of any designer, or any supermodel. For more than three decades, Wintour has held the official title of editor-in-chief of American Vogue – and an unofficial, but widely acknowledged, title of queen of fashion. At any catwalk show, the best seat in the house is automatically Anna’s. Like Beyonce and Madonna, Anna has no need of a last name; everyone refers to her simply as “Anna”, although few are bold enough to address her directly. She has been a constant, regal presence, crowned by the signature glossy bob and ever-present sunglasses. Continue reading...

Anna Wintour steps down as editor-in-chief of American Vogue

Our new study finds among non-users whose parents looked for child care (CC): 34% cited shortage of spaces or waitlists as reasons for not using CC, 54% affordability, 43% subsidies as types of difficulties finding (CC). Link: www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/36-28...

#ChildCare #DisabilityInclusion

Game 5 🏀 Watch now on ABC: nba.smart.link/tiekf6unp?ga...

🎙️Honoured to be a panelist for “Exploring Your Options: A Workshop on Alt-Ac & Non-Academic Careers” at this year’s @csa-scs.bsky.social conference, exploring how sociological insights go beyond academia. Thanks to the @csa-students.bsky.social Student Concerns Subcommittee for the inspiring space!

FamilySearch Catalog marks Full-Text search collections The FamilySearch.org Catalog You might or might not have noticed sone new icons in the FamilySearch.org Catalog. Here is a closer screensh...

#AncestryHour #GenHour James Tanner shows the new symbol used by FamilySearch to indicate when a record is available in full-text search collections. I'm going to keep an eye out for it! #Genealogy #FamilyHistory genealogysstar.blogspot.com/2025/06/fami...

More than 75% of Canadians hopeful on unity, economy in 2024: StatCan - National | Globalnews.ca More than three-quarters of Canadians said they were feeling hopeful about unity in the country, with a similar number expressing hope for economic opportunities.

A majority of Canadians were feeling hopeful about unity and economic opportunities in the country last year, new data from Statistics Canada shows this week.

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A Canadian friend sent me this chart created by their Statistics Canada.
2019 was the last "normal" year.
Then Covid under Trump hit in '20.
Under Biden, Canadians came back increasing yearly.
Under Trump again, hate & bullying against Canadians has replaced Covid and visits falling exponentially.

ICPSR Summer Program Workshop Announcement: Online! Social Science Data and Model Visualization 101 using R, June 2-6

🚨Reminder🚨
Understand effective data visualization, gain hands-on experience with ggplot2 and tidyverse tools, and learn to incorporate visualizations into reproducible workflows using R Markdown in this online workshop. For more info: myumi.ch/g1VPq

#SumProg25 #ICPSR

Mapping the Language of Social Isolation and Loneliness Among Racialized… | Blessing Ugochi Ojembe-Echeme Ph.D, MSW, RSW New Publication Alert
Proud to share my latest work examining how racialized older adults (ROAs) in Canada experience and express social isolation and loneliness. Using critical discourse analysis and...

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Immigrants’ housing use evolves significantly over time in Canada. In the… | Feng Hou Immigrants’ housing use evolves significantly over time in Canada. In the early years after admission, immigrants tend to have lower housing occupancy rates than Canadian-born individuals. However, as...

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Economic and Social Reports Job quality in industries dependent on United… | Marc Frenette, Ph.D. Let’s talk about tariffs and Canadian jobs… Trade tensions between Canada and the US have raised concerns about workers in industries dependent on US demand for Canadian exports (IDUSCEX). While it i...

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Rapports économiques et sociaux L’unité au Canada : mesures expérimentales… | Samuel MacIsaac Unity and social connections are vital for any society. Yet measuring how people feel about others—especially those with different perspectives and outside their immediate social entourage—remains cha...

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Kroger uses 'income predictor' to shape pricing, investigation finds Investigation finds Kroger uses customer data to estimate income and target discounts—sometimes inaccurately. Shoppers with lower predicted income

NEW: @consumerreports.org reveals that Kroger is using sophisticated data analytics to profile customers by estimated income and education levels — and using those predictions to decide who gets access to premium discounts.

Perinatal Survey | NAIT NAIT Perinatal Survey launched March 2025 to ask about experiences of neurodivergent people in Scotland during pregnancy, birth and the post-natal period.

We are looking for #autistic & #ADHD people in Scotland🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 to fill in a survey about experiences (in the last 10 years) of pregnancy, birth and the 1st year of being a parent.
The survey is here👇
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@nctcharity.bsky.social @semascot.bsky.social @scottishautism.bsky.social

F.D.A. Poised to Restrict Access to Covid Vaccines

The FDA will permit Covid vaccines only for adults over 65 and those with certain medical conditions in the fall, according to new regulatory standards.

🎇It's #PubDay for THE HANDBOOK OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY (6e)!🎇

This is the latest edition of the most venerated institution in social psychology, dating back to 1954. Fifty definitive chapters, over 8,000 manuscript pages. (The TOC appears below.)

And: IT'S 100% OPEN-ACCESS: www.the-HSP.com.🧵

Oscar Larrainzar, the recipient of the first-ever bladder transplant, is smiling and looking to his left while sitting in a hospital bed. A headline reads: "Surgeons Perform First Human Bladder Transplant." Photo by Kyle Grillot for The New York Times.

Surgeons in Southern California have performed the first human bladder transplant, introducing a new, potentially life-changing procedure for people with debilitating bladder conditions. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/h...

We often talk about IFNa and IFNb interchangeably as type I IFNs but it's becoming more and more clear that they're not at all interchangeable, and that they may even have opposing functions. IFNb seems to be surprisingly toleragenic in certain contexts. @lozanzi.bsky.social

Three charts on Nintendo expenses:

Nintendo plans to increase advertising spend 62% YoY in Apr 2025 - Mar 2026, aligning with the Switch 2 launch (orange bar).

Highest ad spend in company history, but remains just 7.4% of revenue like last year.

Figure showing the shares of women aged 45-50 in the US in 2024 with 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4 or more children.

I want to talk population panic & understanding demography.

New estimates from @ncfmr-bgsu.bsky.social on completed fertility in the US show that, among women 45-50 in 2024, about 15% were childless. Two-thirds of women had 2 or more children. 1/ doi.org/10.25035/ncf...

Advert for the next causal inference interest group seminar with Michelle Kelly-Irving

DON'T MISS: "Moving through the fog: considering #causality in health inequalities research"

The next Alan Turing Institute Causal Inference Interest Group seminar with @mkellyirving.bsky.social on 12th May 2025 at 3pm BST!

Register at: turing-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#CIIG #EpiSky #CausalSky

The Group Processes ASA pre-conference will be held on August 8th (not the 7th as previously announced), and the submission deadline is now May 14th. Send a 500 word abstract to the organizers at groupprocesses.chicago2025@gmail.com.

"My experience has been that patients who are assessed go on to receive an ADHD diagnosis without exception, which leads me to question the rigour of the process."

@helensalisbury.bsky.social discusses the problem with outsourced diagnosis of ADHD
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Here’s where we are with the measles outbreak. We’re only 1/3 of the way into this year.

If you have any publications, awards, or other good news to share with the section, let me know at zjillani@uga.edu. The June newsletter is around the corner.