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Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan

@sjss.bsky.social

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Professor, Ohio State University, researches coparenting, father-child relations, parental gatekeeping. Content and activity reflect my own views as a private citizen and not those of my employer.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 4d

Creatives aren't anti-technology. They are anti-THEFT! Especially when the people stealing from them have millions and they don't even know how they are going to make rent if they can't get another gig.

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 7d

In a new paper, we find that sycophantic #AI chatbots make people more extreme--operating like an echo chamber

Yet, people prefer sycophantic chatbots and see them as less biased

Only open-minded people prefer disagreeable chatbots: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.bsky.social · 9d

Terrific sleuthing and deep background research by @alex23.bsky.social into the horrors of "research" on autism conducted by none other than the person RFK Jr put in charge of ... you guessed it, the (non-existent) link between autism and vaccines:

From Willowbrook to the Geiers: Families Speak Out

“Once, I went down to the Geiers’ basement to use the bathroom. I saw several ladies packaging drug bottles into boxes. And in the bathroom I saw what appeared to be equipment from a chemistry lab.”

www.etpnews.com

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Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan @sjss.bsky.social · 15d

This is amazing!!!

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Council on Contemporary Families @ccfamilies.bsky.social · 15d

📢 Check out our third @thesocietypages.bsky.social post from this month!

3Q With William D. Lopez on Raiding the Heartland: An American Story of Deportation and Resistance

🔗 thesocietypages.org/ccf/2025/09/...

3Q with William D. Lopez on Raiding the Heartland: An American Story of Deportation and Resistance - Council on Contemporary Families

The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota

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Rachel Kleinfeld @rachelkleinfeld.bsky.social · 15d

People like me, who have spent a lifetime building credibility, face a real problem when most Americans no longer trust institutions. We need to face the new terms of trust for our expertise to matter. Renée DiResta@noUpside & I wrote this to explain why & how: carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

For Expertise to Matter, Nonpartisan Institutions Need New Communications Strategies

To avoid irrelevance when they are needed most, experts and nonpartisan analysts must rethink not just their channels of communication but also their theory of influence.

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Norbert Schwarz @nschwarz.bsky.social · 15d

#psychscisky

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 16d

Depolarization is not "a scalable solution for reducing societal-level conflict.... achieving lasting depolarization will likely require....moving beyond individual-level treatments to address the elite behaviors and structural incentives that fuel partisan conflict" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Council on Contemporary Families @ccfamilies.bsky.social · 16d

📢 Our second September blog post features @ccfamilies.bsky.social co-chairs @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social and @ariellekuperberg.bsky.social discussing their book:

BDSM Without the Sex: What Kink Practitioners Can Teach Us About Building Community?

🔗 thesocietypages.org/ccf/2025/09/...

Check it out!

BDSM Without the Sex: What Kink Practitioners Can Teach Us About Building Community? - Council on Contemporary Families

The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota

thesocietypages.org

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Ian / Sìne @vonaether.bsky.social · 17d

People are making Rapture jokes like there's no tomorrow

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Council on Contemporary Families @ccfamilies.bsky.social · 17d

📢 September Notice!

Have you visited the @ccfamilies.bsky.social blog hosted by @thesocietypages.bsky.social this month? Make sure to check it out!

First up:
3Q with Andréa Becker Get it Out: On The Politics of Hysterectomy

🔗 thesocietypages.org/ccf/2025/09/...

@andreabeckerphd.bsky.social

3Q with Andréa Becker Get it Out: On The Politics of Hysterectomy - Council on Contemporary Families

The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota

thesocietypages.org

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 29d

New paper out with @boryslaw.bsky.social 🥳 In which we sketch out how to rethink measurement invariance causally for applied researchers. And provide a causal definition of measurement invariance!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Rethinking measurement invariance causally

Highlights:
It is preferable to work with a causal definition of measurement invariance
A violation of measurement invariance is a potentially substantively interesting observation
Standard tests for measurement invariance rely on strong assumptions
Group differences can be thought of as descriptive results

Conceptual graph illustration the central points of the manuscript. A group variable is potentiall connected to a construct of interest which affects items. Measurement invariance is violated if the group variable directly affects the items, for example by modifying the loadings from the construct to the items, or by directly affecting an item

To make this less abstract, consider a scenario where students take an exam, R, meant to capture some ability, T, and then are admitted to a program, V, depending on their exam results: R → V. This is sufficient to result in a violation of the statistical definition of measurement invariance. Exam results and admission are not independent given ability because exam results have a direct effect on admission. Even if we know somebody’s ability (e.g., we know it’s very high), learning about their admission status (e.g., they were not admitted) can tell us something about their exam result (e.g., it may have been worse than expected). According to the causal definition, this in itself does not constitute measurement bias, which seems a sensible conclusion here. After all, the scenario does not involve any reason to believe that the measurement process varied systematically by admission status. Admission happens after the exams took place, it cannot retroactively influence the measurement process (and, for example, lead to unfair treatment depending on admission status).

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · Sep 10

This is clearly an attack on academic freedom. One of the consequences of this unfortunate episode is that the Texas Board of Regents has decided to launch a comprehensive audit of all courses across the A&M System. This matter is far from over. x.com/tamusystem/s...

Texas A&M System on X: "A statement from The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents: https://t.co/aYHoNDCi0L" / X

A statement from The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents: https://t.co/aYHoNDCi0L

x.com

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Drew Lewis @drew-lewis.com · Sep 10

"This isn't about academic freedom"

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · Sep 10

Update on the Texas A&M professor / cell phone video situation: the professor has been fired by the A&M president
president.tamu.edu/messages/an-...

This afternoon, following full consideration of the facts related to this situation, I directed the Provost to terminate the professor involved, effective immediately. Please understand that these decisions were mine alone and were not
made lightly. While I cannot provide all the details at this time, I will share the following facts.

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Joe Ura @joeura.bsky.social · Sep 10

Here's the catalog description the now-fired Texas A&M lecturer allegedly transgressed by giving a lecture about gender in children's literature.

ENGL 360 Literature for Children

Credits 3. 3 Lecture hours. Representative writers, genres, texts and movements.

president.tamu.edu/messages/an-...

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Sep 7

All of this is true. I would add sometimes your paper is stuck because the editor is just a person and it is ok to ask

Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Sep 6

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

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Sean Eddy @cryptogenomicon.bsky.social · Aug 21

NIH: After review, we note that you have a large unspent balance on your grant. Please explain immediately.

me: well, uh, yeah, one reason we're not spending on that grant is because NIH terminated it in May along with all the rest of federal funding to Harvard, maybe you don't remember

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · Aug 20

Feeling alarmed over dire long-term population projections that suggest humanity will disappear? Don't be!

Demographers generally aren't worried, and you shouldn't be either. @amandajean.bsky.social explains why in this great @ccfamilies.bsky.social brief.

sites.utexas.edu/contemporary...

Don’t Panic: Population Projection is Not a Crystal Ball

August 20th, 2025

Population panic – worries about “depopulation” linked to low birth rates – has become pervasive, with dire predictions in both the short and long term. Yet demographers like us – experts who explicitly study population size, composition, and structure – are generally not highly concerned. Why is this? It’s because we understand the strengths and limitations of population projections. Projections can accurately describe how populations will change if we know future birth, death, and migration rates. But demographers are well aware that they don’t have a crystal ball – we can’t fully anticipate economic shifts, political changes, global events, or how future generations will respond to their changing worlds. That’s why the farther we project from the present, the less accurate those projections are likely to be.

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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · Aug 15

The Surrendering to Trump University Law Journal seeks meritorious, not woke articles. White males preferred from higher-ranked universities. Preference will be given for brilliant articles that advocate depriving someone of happiness or rights regardless of factual or legal obstacles.

#Satire

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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · Aug 15

Oh, SPSS, they could never make me hate you ❤️

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Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · Aug 7

Another paper from the same group: "External review letters are more closely related to letter writer characteristics than candidate productivity."

External review letters in academic promotion and tenure decisions are reflective of reviewer characteristics

We examine validity and bias in external review letters (ERLs) in academic settings. ERLs play a critical role in promotion and tenure (P&T) decisions…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Matt Southward @mattsouthward.bsky.social · Aug 6

Potential grad applicants: I'm hoping to take 1-2 new students this cycle!

There's no need to email me in advance unless you have specific questions that aren't answered on the lab or psych department's website - everyone's applications will be considered equally.

u.osu.edu/mattlab/2025...

Accepting 1-2 new students this cycle! ☝️/✌️

https://u.osu.edu/mattlab/2025/08/06/accepting-1-2-new-students-this-cycle-☝%EF%B8%8F-✌%EF%B8%8F/

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · Jul 28

In a world of Columbia Universities and CBS/Paramounts, be a Southpark.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · Jun 14

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

A cartoon titled ‘The Life of a Scientist’.

(The life is depicted as a set of steps, three up then three down with a character on each)

Baby: Such a mysterious world!
Child: I must search for answers
Young adult: Each answer leads me to more questions
Middle age: ... At least I've got lots of questions
Old age: Ok, I guess questions are my thing now
From grave: Such a mysterious world!

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Journal of Marriage and Family @jmfncfr.bsky.social · Jul 17

Check out another highly cited article from JMF's 2020 Decade in Review issue, on the evolution of fathering research: tinyurl.com/2ce4p986 authored by @sjss.bsky.social & Jay Fagan

#ThrowbackThursday #FamilyScience #SocialScience #SocialScienceResearch #FatherhoodResearch

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Yourqueerprof @drcompton.bsky.social · Jul 6

#MorningReads Lesbian and gay parents generally show strong family teamwork—but past coparenting conflict with their own parents can harm current family dynamics, especially when internalized stigma is high. #LGBTQFamilies #ParentingResearch #FamilyDynamics

Coparenting and triadic interactions in lesbian and gay parent families: impact of internalised parenthood-related stigma

This longitudinal study examines how coparenting experiences in the family of origin influence family alliance in lesbian and gay parent families formed via assisted reproduction, and whether inter...

www.tandfonline.com

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Ioana A. Cristea @ioanaacristea.bsky.social · Jul 3

www.vogue.co.uk/article/brea...
Serious scholarship needs to be devoted to the breastfeeding *madness* and its harms. New mothers (and pregnant ppl
) are the categories the healthcare system most enjoys abusing really. Somebody needs to map it all from keeping away pain relief & literally any drug

Breast Is Not Always Best. It’s A Lesson I Learned The Hard Way

Food is a big part of cookbook author Yasmin Khan’s identity, she writes in a personal essay for British Vogue. Which is why she found struggling to breastfeed her baby daughter so traumatic.

www.vogue.co.uk

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · Jun 23

“novels published 1951-81 had the most significant stereotype associations regarding work roles, with large biases toward feminine stereotypes. After World War II, there was societal messaging trying to persuade women to go back to homemaking activities, because men were coming back from the war”

Where the gender bias grows: Coming-of-age novels rife with stereotypes | Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers used computational text analysis to sift through more than 300 American coming-of-age novels published over the last 100 years and identified rigid gender stereotypes in the attrib...

news.cornell.edu

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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · Jun 15

Happy Father’s Day! I have a new post up in Slate about how men’s household contributions may be the key to unlocking higher birth rates. slate.com/technology/2...

I also wrote about it on Substack

open.substack.com/pub/darbysax...

The Birth Rate Is a Real Problem. But We’re Looking at the Solution All Wrong.

It’s not just a job for women.

slate.com

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