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This administration's policies on data are so twisted that *People Magazine* is covering it now.

Reminder! First review date is Feb. 28 - just two days from now.

A list of the 19 incoming visiting scholars, including their headshots, names, and institutional affiliations: Gregory Acs, Urban Institute Omer Ali, University of Pittsburgh Tony Cheng, Duke University Bo Cowgill, Columbia University Peter Hepburn, Rutgers University–Newark Jelani Ince, University of Washington Elizabeth Jacobs, University of Connecticut Christine Jang-Trettien, City University of New York Gabriela Kirk-Werner, Syracuse University Lisa Levenstein, University of North Carolina, Greensboro Rachel Meltzer, Cornell University Tali Mendelberg, Princeton University Suzanne Mettler, Cornell University Ryan Parsons, University of Mississippi Samuel Perry, University of Oklahoma Laurel Smith-Doerr, University of Massachusetts Amherst Mary Ellen Stitt, Rutgers University Lauren Valentino, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Caitlin Zaloom, New York University

I am so excited to be part of this incredible group of incoming Russell Sage Foundation @russellsagefdn.bsky.social Visiting Scholars.

Congrats!!!! What a great group. Maybe we can bring you down to Penn to give a talk while you’re nearby.

The Scarcity Loop: How School Choice Reshapes the Rationing of Education Jennifer L. Jennings Blackboard with chalk and eraser

Since so many of us are inside & online, it's auspicious the final book cover just came in.

Happy to share our new paper published in PNAS!

Using epigenetic clocks and egocentric network data, we find each additional "hassler" in your close social network is associated with ~9 months of extra biological age and 1.5% faster pace of aging.

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The Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford | The Segregation Tracking Project Use our visualizations to explore educational opportunity in your school & community.

VERSION 2.0 of the Segregation Tracking Project is here!

New data on racial and economic segregation between neighborhoods and schools over the last 30+ years for every school district, metro area, state, county, congressional district (new!), and more!

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Does NCHAT have anything?

What a tremendous loss. I saw so grateful to get to know Ernest during my time at Notre Dame. Prayers to his family, his memory and his work are a blessing.

Three #SOGIData notes that I think folks who critique surveys likely know but seem to forget

1. Questions & optimal measures may change dependent on audience. If it is national or includes mostly cis het pop of all ages, that is very different than community specific!

image of a report cover, with a US flag in the background, and the text "The Political Disconnect: Working-Class and Low-Income People on What Politics Means to Them and How They Might be Mobilized”

Today I'm releasing probably the most important scholarly thing I've ever worked on - a report based on talking with 144 people about why they don't vote or only vote regularly, and on what needs to be done to build a democracy that can include everyone.
www.swarthmore.edu/u...
please share!

Postdoctoral fellowship in LGBTQ reproductive health disparities in the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute.
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Childhood Adversity Casts a Long Shadow on the Health of LGBTQ+ Youth New data on adverse experiences and gender identity reveal troubling disparities among U.S. high schoolers

Grateful to have my @amjpublichealth.bsky.social study on the prevalence of ACEs among America's LGBTQ+ high school students highlighted by the @prbdata.bsky.social.

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Good to know. Once they’re really up and running in making these available, it’s going to be such an extraordinary, game changing resource. I’m definitely interested for my own research as well.

Btw, Laura, we’ll be reading your work in the course. I’m such a fan!

Grab some cocoa☕ and peruse the PENN POP STUDIES NEWSLETTER!

✏️New pubs by our researchers, including @joeljm.bsky.social & @hthirumurthy.bsky.social
🎉 Congrats Emily Curran, winner of the van de Walle prize!
🎞️ Catch up on past colloquiums with @anacanedog.bsky.social & Margherita Odasso

I thought so too, but they seem not to be publicly available: I think they’re available by request for IRB approved studies, not generally available for teaching purposes.

Sociologists: Are you aware of any publicly available interview transcript data that I could use for teaching qualitative coding in a graduate methods course?

I've found multiple repositories of interview data, but they all (understandably) require students to go through IRB.

Broadband Internet Access and Adolescent Mental Health in the U.S. Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

The rollout of broadband internet led to increases in suicidal ideation, particularly for adolescent girls: www.nber.org/papers/w3461...

Don't forget! Please apply!
📢 ✨ FFCWS Postdoc opportunity I'm leading at Notre Dame!
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In the early 90s this Jewish family kept getting harassed in Montana, so the entire town of Billings put up menorahs in their windows in solidarity

Now Ahmed al Ahmed is part of this tradition too, as he figuratively did the most putting up of a menorah in the window that a human being can ever do

In 1931 in Kiel, Germany, Rachel Posner, the wife of a rabbi, took this picture.

On the back of the photograph she wrote:

“‘Death to Judah,’ so the flag says.

‘Judah lives forever,’ so the light answers.”

The light will continue to answer the darkness. Happy Hanukkah.

I’m hiring a postdoc! Flexible in terms of details, but I’m looking for someone to collaborate with on research about labor market inequality. I’ll review applications as they come in and the posting just went up here:
apply.interfolio.com/178873

#MorningReads More work from Swedish data finds measuring sexual minority status (identity vs. partnership vs. marriage) capture very different populations. #SOGIData #watchgeneralizations

We're continuing our year-end countdown of SI articles you may have missed with number 9️⃣:

📘"Is Love (Skin Color) Blind?: Skin Color and Interdating across Ethnoracial Groups" authored by Emilce Santana.

#Sociology #SocialSciences #SocialResearch

Thank you!!!!

Do you have a good paper you’d recommend? Specifically on the admissions benefit to being a man, all else equal.

I’ve been very curious about this: what data have you seen?

Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.

#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.