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We've squeezed the fun out of youth sports. There's a better way. | Opinion

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UM Population Studies Center @um-psc.bsky.social · Aug 22

👀 An op-ed by @um-psc.bsky.social alum @ebeam.bsky.social and Holly Painter with a population perspective on youth sports! @usatoday.com

Emily Beam @ebeam.bsky.social · Aug 21

My partner and I were tired of the hand-wringing about trans kids playing sports when, at the end of the day, it's just. a. game.

So, we wrote an op-ed :) Thanks, @usatoday.com!

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When just 28% of children meet recommended activity guidelines, promoting low-cost, low-stakes, inclusive sports participation can help all kids.

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Berkeley Population Sciences @berkeleypopcenter.bsky.social · Aug 26

The BERKELEY POPULATION SCIENCES BROWNBAG SERIES returns! Our first three talks feature:

Ian Lundberg - UCLA
@nathanlo.bsky.social - Stanford University
@mpbitler.bsky.social‬ - UC Davis

Join us Wednesdays, 12 - 1PM at 310 Social Sciences Building, or via Zoom ID: 985 2901 0198 Passcode: DEMOG_BB

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UW-Madison Sociology @uwsoc.bsky.social · Aug 26

"...Americans may be accustomed to a certain kind of person who tells a certain kind of account of sexual harassment, while people whose experiences of sexual harassment deviate from this model may be less legible to the public as plausible targets." -Chloe Grace Hart

Is There an Idealized Target of Sexual Harassment in the MeToo Era?

Abstract. Evidence suggests that Americans became more sympathetic toward people who experienced sexual harassment as the MeToo movement surged. Yet how co

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Carolina Population Center @uncpopcenter.bsky.social · Aug 27

CPC Director Karen Guzzo and co-authors argue that population projections aren't a 'crystal ball' and become less accurate as researchers project farther from the present.
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Don’t Panic: Population Projection is Not a Crystal Ball

The best way to get those dozens of rates for each year is to rely on current rates and recent trends. This works well when things are changing slowly and in predictable ways, but it means our projections are often limited to forecasting a future that’s a lot like the present.

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Population Studies Center @pennpsc.bsky.social · Aug 28

Are we starting to see multiple remote jobs as the norm? PSC researcher Jerry Jacobs comments in @fortune.com on the shifting trends in work habits.

Workers are making over $1 million by secretly holding down multiple gigs—and they're doing it all within the 40-hour workweek

Holding multiple full-time jobs may sound impossible, but these overemployed remote workers are managing to squeeze in two to three jobs within a regular workweek—no overtime needed.

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Berkeley Population Sciences @berkeleypopcenter.bsky.social · Aug 28

Our first Brown Bag Seminar of the academic year is Wednesday, September 3rd at 12pm PST. Ian Lundberg (UCLA) will present on "Non-Existent Outcomes in Research on Inequality: A Causal Approach."

It's happening in Room 310 in the Social Sciences Building and is also available via Zoom. Join us!

Trump Administration Scraps Research Into Health Disparities

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Carolina Population Center @uncpopcenter.bsky.social · Aug 20

"We don't want their voices silenced." CPC Fellow Jaime Slaughter-Acey seeking donations to complete data collection for study canceled by Trump administration.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/h...

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MAHA Draft Report Brings Relief to Some, Chagrin to Others

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Carolina Population Center @uncpopcenter.bsky.social · Aug 20

Draft report on children's health shows the White House isn't serious about reducing ultraprocessed food in kids' diets, says CPC Fellow Lindsey Smith-Taillie.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/h...

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The Two-Word Phrase Unleashing Chaos at the NIH

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Carolina Population Center @uncpopcenter.bsky.social · Aug 20

CPC Fellow Arianna Planey: Says collecting data on participants' gender has been and remains scientifically justified and doing so improves health research.
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All research is allowed so long as it’s “scientifically justifiable.”

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UW-Madison Sociology @uwsoc.bsky.social · Aug 19

📃 Emily E. Burke (@emilyeburke.bsky.social) published “A Faithful Force: Catholics as Pillars of the Conservative Movement” in Journal of Religion and Society. moses.creighton.edu/JRS/toc/SS26...

Journal of Religion and Society Supplement 26

The Journal of Religion and Society promotes the study of all religious groups and beliefs among the various peoples of the world, past and present. The Journal of Religion and Society is a refereed a...

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UW-Madison Sociology @uwsoc.bsky.social · Aug 19

Research about housing and health by Erin Gaede @eringaede.bsky.social, Tessa Conroy @irpwisc.bsky.social, and Steven Deller @cdhauw.bsky.social made an appearance in The Badger Herald.

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UW report links housing stress to worsening health in Wisconsin

Housing financial stress has been rising among Wisconsin residents, and it is tied to an increase in negative health outcomes, according to a report from the University of Wisconsin-Extension. The re...

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UW-Madison Sociology @uwsoc.bsky.social · Aug 19

"Confederate memorialization is not limited to the United States. After the Civil War, thousands of former Confederates emigrated to Brazil where slavery continued.”
-Katherine Jensen in @ersjournal.com

doi.org/10.1080/0141...

Confederate reckoning and resignifying racism in Brazil: local memory politics and anti-racist movement strategies

Confederate memorialization is not limited to the United States. After the Civil War, thousands of former Confederates emigrated to Brazil where slavery continued. Santa Bárbara d’Oeste and America...

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The New Sociology of Bereavement | Annual Reviews

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Population Studies Center @pennpsc.bsky.social · Aug 19

NEW Population Studies Working Paper!

Andrea Verhulst, Julio E Romero Prieto & Michel Guillot.

Modeling Age Patterns of Under-5 Mortality: A Comprehensive Model Life Table Approach for Low- and Middle-Income Countries

READ THE PAPER:
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Deborah Carr @carrds723.bsky.social · Jul 31

What can sociologists contribute to our understanding of bereavement? Read our new ARS article (free). @smithgreenaway.bsky.social @pop.psu.edu @annualreviews.bsky.social @popassocamerica.bsky.social @asamedsoc.bsky.social @asasmh.bsky.social @buciss.bsky.social www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Bereavement—the loss of a loved one through death—is a common and consequential life course experience. Although bereavement, and the topic of death and dying more broadly, has remained on the margins...

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Carolina Population Center @uncpopcenter.bsky.social · Aug 13

"I'd say it's logistically unfeasible."

Carolina Demography Director Nathan Dollar joins Capital Tonight to talk about President Trump's proposed 'new census.'
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Israel plans to fully occupy Gaza

Plus: The latest from Israel.

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Periodic Assessment of Trajectories of Housing, Homelessness, and Health Study (PATHS) June 2025 Update: Impact of Immigration Raids on Los Angeles’ Unhoused Community

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California Center For Population Research @ccpratucla.bsky.social · Aug 13

New research brief by CCPR’s Randall Kuhn & Jessie Chien: Over 1/3 of unhoused Angelenos were affected by June 2025 ICE raids, protests & curfews—facing displacement, danger & injury. Outdoor sleepers were 2x more likely to experience negative effects.

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The recent wave of immigration enforcement raids sweeping across Los Angeles has severely undermined the safety and well-being of communities of color and other marginalized groups. Among those most v...

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Obstetrician-Gynecologist Perspectives and Counseling Practices on the U.S. Medicaid Waiting Period for Permanent Contraception - PubMed

CPIPR @popresearchctrs.bsky.social · Aug 9

"Created to protect patients from coercive sterilization, the federally mandated 30-day waiting period for patients with Medicaid desiring permanent contraception is a known barrier to permanent contraception"
70% of doctors shared negative feelings about the policy

Physicians in our sample largely do not favor the current Medicaid sterilization waiting period. However, physicians report varying approaches to clinical counseling as well as beliefs regarding…

Social Inequities in Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors at Multiple Levels Persist Among Mothers in Texas - PubMed

CPIPR @popresearchctrs.bsky.social · Aug 8

Analysis of cardiovascular risk factors (pre-pregnancy diabetes, hypertension, obesity, and smoking) for mothers ages 30-45 in TX finds that for all 4 factors, the more rural the county of residence was, the higher the odds of having the risk factor.

The life stage between the ages of 30-45 years for women is critical, given the competing demands of occupational advancement, intimate partner relationships, and childcare responsibilities.…

Identifying air quality monitoring deserts in the United States - PubMed

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CPIPR @popresearchctrs.bsky.social · Aug 7

More than 50 million people (15.3% of the population) live in places that lack air quality monitoring ("monitoring deserts"). Rural counties and counties with higher proportions of historically minoritized groups have higher odds of being a monitoring desert.

Air quality is associated with adverse health outcomes and mortality risk. While most research has focused on the association between air quality estimates and these outcomes, little is known about…

Race and Ethnicity Data in the Electronic Health Records: New Insights Through Comparison with American Community Survey Microdata - PubMed

CPIPR @popresearchctrs.bsky.social · Aug 6

Research examines concordance in racial/ethnic ID between two sources (electronic health records & American Community Survey microdata). Concordance is high for those who identify as non-Hispanic Black, non-Hisp White, & Hispanic but considerably lower for others.

The collection of race and ethnicity information varies across data sources which impacts our ability to conduct high quality research focused on population health, generally, and racial and ethnic…

Neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage and child health: The role of neighborhood mobility networks - PubMed

CPIPR @popresearchctrs.bsky.social · Aug 4

Study finds that mobility-based neighborhood disadvantage (MND) generally predicts child health better than residential neighborhood disadvantage (RND), but associations vary by race and by family income and are contingent on the broader metropolitan context. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39729690/

Despite a large body of work on neighborhood effects on health, past studies are limited in their treatment of neighborhoods as largely static spaces with (dis)advantages based primarily on the averag...

Data Collection and Access, Cognitive Health, Fertility Plans, Aging, and Family Instability Highlighted at the 2025 PAA Conference

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Carolina Population Center @uncpopcenter.bsky.social · Jul 21

Couldn't make #PAA2025 this year? See a recap of the some of the research featured at the conference, including CPC Director Karen Benjamin Guzzo's work examining links between physical and mental health and fertility goals.
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From Insight to Impact

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