Reed DeAngelis

“With approximately half a million Americans diagnosed with dementia annually, this translates to nearly 90,000 cases that could potentially be prevented—a truly significant figure.” Kelly Bakulski, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Michigan Public Health

New U-M research reveals older adults with high cumulative lead exposure face nearly triple the Alzheimer's risk. The study suggests reducing population lead levels could prevent thousands of dementia cases annually. myumi.ch/qZeXx

Bots have made their way to Prolific experiments. Our lab has stopped online testing of adults entirely now for this reason - we want to know if what we study is real. Probably data collected 2-3 years ago are ok, but moving forward we just can't know. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

YouTube video by Survey Research Center, University of Michigan We Are SRC

Celebrating 80 years of social science in the public interest.

SRC’s founders believed social behavior could be understood in terms of attitudes and motivational behaviors, and links could be formed between an academic culture & the applied research of business and government. youtu.be/giSsP7o4PZg

How has your country's climate changed over the past century? Find out here:

Problem about the loneliness epidemic is, it's everywhere except in representative survey data. Let's look at where the claim comes from. 1/

One approach to the age-period-cohort problem: Just don’t. Just to cause yourself more problems, you seek for something. But there is no need for you to seek anything. You have plenty, and you have just enough problems. Shunryū Suzuki in a 1971 talk A ...

New blog post about the age-period-cohort identification problem!

In which, for the first time ever, I ask "What's the mechanism?" and also suggest that sometimes you may actually *not* be interested in causal inference.

www.the100.ci/2026/02/13/o...

"Billionaires like thinkers who see their exploitation of the weak as good and natural. Epstein funneled ~$20m a year to academic men who shared his ideology [and got] to hold forth in formal sessions at Harvard, condemning feeding and caring for the poor as if he were making a scholarly argument."

Cutting Indirect Costs for Universities Impacts More Than Research Incoming APS President Pamela Davis-Kean describes the role indirect costs play in the U.S. research landscape and the economies of university communities.

Incoming APS President @umpamdk.bsky.social describes the role indirect costs play in the university research landscape, as well as the important role of universities in their local economies, and what's at stake if those indirect costs are cut. #AcademicSky

Abstract Front-line workers mediate law on the books and law in action, translating higher-level laws into local policy. One important mediating institution is the police. Whereas most research analyzes how the law empowers police to label certain denizens “criminals” – both within and outside criminal legal contexts – this article demonstrates how policing also affects who is recognized as an innocent crime victim. Synthesizing existing scholarship, I theorize three paths through which police can affect legal recognition of crime victims: criminalization, minimization, and legal estrangement. I then test the extent to which these processes affect victims’ access to public benefits provided under victim compensation law. Drawing on never-before-analyzed administrative data from 18 U.S. states (N = 768,382), I find police account for more than half of all victim benefits denials. These denials are racialized and gendered: Police are significantly more likely to criminalize and be estranged from Black male victims and significantly more likely to minimize the injuries of Black female victims. Additional qualitative data suggest police systematically perceive Black men as not truly innocent and Black survivors of gender-based violence as not truly victims. These findings advance our understanding of the expansive role of police in society as well as the porous boundary between social provision and social control.

Figure 6. Predicted probability of “failure to cooperate” denials.

Proud to share my recently published article in Law & Society Review: "Whose victimization pays? Policing innocent
victimhood in victim compensation law". The article explores how policing affects the recognition of crime victims under victim compensation law. 🔗👇: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Really amazing scholars (thank you @bradytwest.bsky.social and @randridge.bsky.social !) here to provide the fundamental science for free, for everyone @um-psc.bsky.social

Junior Professional Researcher Program Overview The Junior Professional Researcher (JPR) Program is a unique opportunity for recent college graduates from backgrounds underrepresented in research to launch a career in the social sciences a...

@umisr.bsky.social is now accepting applications for the 2026 Junior Professional Researcher Program cohort.

JPRP is a two-year paid gig for recent college grads who are considering a career in social science research.

isr.umich.edu/training-opp...

🚨Postdoc alert!

@harvardpopcenter.bsky.social is now accepting applications for 2026-2028 Bell Fellowship! Apply by March 3: popcenter.harvard.edu/postdoctoral...

@popassocamerica.bsky.social @iaphs.bsky.social @societyforepi.bsky.social @ashecon.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social

#NewPublication reveals that metro areas with zoning laws that restrict housing density to low levels have wider race, ethnic, and income disparities in health: bit.ly/4bjoyze

By Kate W. Strully Tse-Chuan Yang Chunxu Fang &Han Liu

@UAlbany @UTSA @asamedsoc.bsky.social

In our December issue, read about the impacts of naturalization on mortality risks among immigrants to the US: bit.ly/40XQao6
By Thoa V. Khuu Jennifer Van Hook & Kendal L. Lowrey
@pop.psu.edu @asamedsoc.bsky.social
#InternationalMigrantsDay

In “Why Do Black Women Have a Higher Obesity Prevalence Than White Women?” Frisco et al. find that living in disadvantaged n'hoods & single-parent HHs as adolescents & having ↓ adult incomes explain much of the difference. @ssripennstate.bsky.social @pop.psu.edu read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

Miniature female and male figurines stand on wooden blocks with gender symbols and a "not equal" sign between them, with stacked coins in the background, symbolizing gender pay inequality.

New U-M research from ISR’s Sasha Killewald finds that women now earn about 85% of men’s hourly wages, up from 65% in the mid 1980s, and about 8% of that narrowing is linked to having fewer children.

Learn more: myumi.ch/kPWeG

The Roy Pierce Scholars Fund The Roy Pierce Scholars Fund provides summer support for graduate students in the University of Michigan Political Science Department to work with a member of CPS faculty. The Pierce Fund honors Roy P...

🚨FELLOWSHIPS AVAILABLE! @umisrcps.bsky.social has seven #ISRNextGeneration awards open to UM graduate students and postdocs advancing research on comparative politics, political opinion & behavior, and more. Explore, share with students, and apply by Feb 9! cps.isr.umich.edu/fellowships/

Infographic titled "Sustainability Cultural Indicators Program (SCIP) 2024" measuring sustainability awareness and behaviors at U-M campuses. It includes circular indicators showing 2021–2024 data for waste prevention awareness and travel behavior (Ann Arbor), and commitment to behavior change (Ann Arbor, Dearborn, Flint), as well as 2012–2024 data for sustainability engagement and commitment. Key findings include high travel behavior scores (students: 8.1) and moderate commitment to carbon neutrality (staff: 7.8 at Dearborn). A color-coded legend shows significant increases or decreases. Logos at the bottom: Graham Sustainability Institute, Planet Blue, ISR.

New U-M survey led by ISR’s Bob Marans and Noah Webster with the Graham Sustainability Institute found that nearly 6,000 students, faculty, and staff across all three campuses report strong engagement with sustainable behaviors and climate awareness.

Read more: myumi.ch/y1Wy8

Free and available from these wonderful folks on Friday in person or online!

Fear of a Black Neighborhood: Anti-Black Racism and the Health of White Americans Abstract. Does anti-Black racism harm White Americans? We advance hypotheses that address this question within the neighborhood context. Hypotheses are tes

This looks really interesting! I have a recent paper that grappled with similar questions: doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...

We dovetail our findings to the 'status threat' hypothesis in the discussion.

🧵/ Perceptions of falling #status have been hypothesized as a driver of worsening #mortality among #White adults in the U.S. over the last few decades.

Testing this #hypothesis is difficult.

But we think we have some #evidence in favor of it.

Beneath the dizzying complexity of the US health care system lie a few stylized facts that ensure that this system will fail to improve population health.

Thanks to @aschwartz.bsky.social, @rachelwerner.bsky.social and team for documenting one of these stylized facts.

Check out this 🧵 on our own @robertmanduca.bsky.social's work with @bhighsmith.bsky.social and Jacob Waggoner. 👇 #AcademicSky #WealthInequality

Race and value in space and time: a critical narrative cartography of the Home Owners' Loan Corporation's Area Descriptions The Home Owners’ Loan Corporation’s (HOLC) Residential Security maps were created in the late 1930s to capture the ostensible investment risk posed by urban neighborhood characteristics. To generat...

Glad to see the last remaining chapter of my dissertation officially out now in *Urban Geography*!

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Easily taxed grains were crucial to the birth of the first states The cultivation of wheat, barley and maize, which are easily stored and taxed, seems to have led to the emergence of large societies, rather than agriculture generally

What led to the emergence of the first states, thousands of years ago?

People often say agriculture, but the first large-scale societies didn't appear until 4000 years after the advent of agriculture. The answer may be growing grain, specifically. 🧪 #history

www.newscientist.com/article/2505...

Meet Pancho, the AI bot fighting food waste at the hotel buffet Spanish hoteliers are turning to technology to avoid fines for tossing out up to 30 per cent of lavish daily spreads

Fighting food waste seems like a good use of machine learning.

New evidence that twin estimates of heritability should be adjusted downward by about half

How bad gatekeepers undermine good science - Synthese Synthese - In this paper, I argue that public trust in science depends not only on the quality of its outputs but also on perceptions of the character and competence of those who control admittance...

Interesting article on how gatekeepers affect the quality and perceived credibility of science

doi.org/10.1007/s112...

new paper by Sean Westwood:

With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research

1/ Concerns about low birth rates & below "replacement" fertility have been in the news a lot lately. But what does "replacement fertility" mean exactly?
(Throwback pic to that time I tried replacement fertility all in one go). jenndowd.substack.com/p/what-is-re... #demography #fertility