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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 6d

Cool paper. A lot of work!
"immigrants who completed the naturalization process attained significantly higher occupational status than those who initiated but did not complete naturalization"

Peter Catron @petercatron.bsky.social · 6d

New working paper. Comments always welcome osf.io/preprints/so...

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Peter Catron @petercatron.bsky.social · 6d

New working paper. Comments always welcome osf.io/preprints/so...

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Nathan Hoffmann @nathanihoff.bsky.social · Aug 18

I'm trying to find some sociology papers to bring into my intro statistics course for grad students. Straightforward quant analyses where the data are publicly available. Does anyone have any suggestions?

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Peter Catron @petercatron.bsky.social · Jul 14

What game is this and how are you keeping score?

Peter Catron @petercatron.bsky.social · Jul 4

Ending birthright citizenship would increase the undocumented population by 5.4 million by 2075: www.migrationpolicy.org/news/birthri...

Repealing Birthright Citizenship Would Significantly Increase the Size of the U.S. Unauthorized Population

Repealing birthright citizenship for babies born on U.S. soil to unauthorized immigrants or temporary visa holders would have a contrary result from its stated aim of reducing the unauthorized immigra...

www.migrationpolicy.org

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Peter Catron @petercatron.bsky.social · Jun 23

Picking berries is a blood sport that I enjoy.

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Peter Catron @petercatron.bsky.social · Jun 16

Congrats, Nathan!!!

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Peter Catron @petercatron.bsky.social · Jun 10

I plan to start all my future papers by saying where I gave talks on it before publication.

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Peter Catron @petercatron.bsky.social · May 19

My university is removing our landlines from our offices to save costs. The thing is I ripped my landline out of the wall the moment I got here because it rang and I didn’t know how to use it.

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Peter Catron @petercatron.bsky.social · May 5

But then what would I use when I use thanks sarcastically for the comments I think are wrong.

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Sarah Quinn @sarahquinn.bsky.social · Apr 26

'Better options exist'

Faculty began circulating an open letter on Friday to be sent to leadership including the Board of Regents, President Ana Mari Cauce, provost Tricia Serio, and dean of the College

www.dailyuw.com

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Peter Catron @petercatron.bsky.social · Apr 15

Shout out to @caitlinpatler.bsky.social for her hard work on this. I’m happy for the small part I played in this, too.

Michael Clemens @mclem.org · Apr 15

Our research shows that ending birthright citizenship "would cause serious harm…to the entire United States."

It is my honor to join with 95 other social scientists, all of us specialists in US immigration, in signing this new Amicus Curiae brief.

☞ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Audrey Dorelien @audreydorelien.bsky.social · Apr 10

Hi fellow #demography folks. Be sure to follow @uwcsde.bsky.social ! They are new to Bluesky .
@sarahquinn.bsky.social @petercatron.bsky.social @zalmquist.bsky.social @readdemography.bsky.social @popassocamerica.bsky.social @iaphs.bsky.social @iussp.bsky.social @berkeleypopcenter.bsky.social

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Peter Catron @petercatron.bsky.social · Apr 10

Has anyone done a FOIA request at the National Archives?

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Sarah E. Farr @sarahefarr.bsky.social · Mar 30

For my inaugural post on this app, I'd like to invite anyone attending #PAA2025 to come to my talk! I'm very excited to attend my first PAA @popassocamerica.bsky.social meeting and share this research (and hopefully get good feedback as I refine and revise).

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S. Michael Gaddis @smgaddis.bsky.social · Mar 24

If you have leads on academic or academic-adjacent jobs that would make sense, I'd greatly appreciate to hear from you.

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Matthew Clair @mathuclair.bsky.social · Mar 19

We’re excited to receive nominations for papers written by graduate students doing important work on inequality, poverty, and mobility. More info here: www.asanet.org/communities-...

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Fabian Pfeffer @fabianpfeffer.bsky.social · Mar 19

Please nominate an (or your) article by March 31 for the

2025 ROBERT D. MARE GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER AWARD
(published in 2024)

Send a brief nomination letter and the pdf to Matthew Clair ([email protected])

@mathuclair.bsky.social

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Fabian Pfeffer @fabianpfeffer.bsky.social · Mar 19

Please nominate an (or your) article by March 31 for the

2025 ROBERT D. MARE GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER AWARD
(published in 2024)

Send a brief nomination letter and the pdf to Matthew Clair ([email protected])

@mathuclair.bsky.social

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Peter Catron @petercatron.bsky.social · Feb 27

Surveillance from a “small army” of private citizens never stops at immigrants. See the American Protective League during WWI.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Feb 26

Five alarm fire.

www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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Nathan Hoffmann @nathanihoff.bsky.social · Feb 20

I am thrilled to share that I will be joining the Department of Sociology at Emory University this fall as an Assistant Professor! Excited for a new chapter in Atlanta 🔥🍑

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · Feb 16

Nominations due in just under 2 weeks!!! Nominate your amazing students' work, or, if you're a student or very recent grad, nominate yourself!

Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · Jan 21

I'm chairing the ASA Sociology of Population section's Student Paper Award. Nominations are due March 1st (self-nominations are welcome!). Info in the image below.

The Sociology of Population section is accepting nominations for the best student paper in the sociology of population. This award consists of a certificate and $500 award. The paper must use a sociological perspective to address an issue of relevance to contemporary demography, broadly construed; purely technical papers are not eligible. The paper can be published or unpublished and should be article-length (approximately 40 pages including tables and figures). Papers can be sole-authored or have multiple student authors. All authors must be currently enrolled in graduate school or have completed their Ph.D. degrees on or after January 1, 2024. No faculty co-authors are allowed.

Please send a letter of nomination with author name(s), title, date of publication, and a brief statement explaining the significance of the work and its contribution to the sociology of population. Self-nominations are welcome. Nominations and a copy of the article must be emailed to all committee members by March 1, 2025. Membership in the Sociology of Population Section of the ASA is not a requirement for the award but is encouraged.

2025 Student Paper Award Committee:

Chair: Karen Benjamin Guzzo, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, karen.guzzo@unc.edu
Zoya Gubernskaya, University at Albany, zgubernskaya@albany.edu
Ohjae Gowen, Singapore Management University, ohjaegowen@smu.edu.sg
Sophia Chae, University of Montreal, sophia.chae@umontreal.ca
Won-tak Joo, University of Florida, wjoo@ufl.edu

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Sarah Quinn @sarahquinn.bsky.social · Feb 13

This is a trick question. A sociological finding doesn't count as a breakthrough until an economist rediscovers it.

Laura K. Nelson @lauraknelson.bsky.social · Feb 12

Ok sociology, what do you think are genuine breakthroughs that our field has made. Contributions that might convince skeptical but sympathetic *academics* (not the public) of the value of our field? I'll brainstorm some of mine in the thread - I treat sociology very broadly

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · Feb 12

BREAKING: NIH admits funding freeze is illegal, will resume issuing grants

An internal memo issued February 12 was obtained by Popular Information.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · Feb 8

Also tonight: Trump fired National Archivist Colleen Shogan. This is a position that can do real, irreversible damage in authoritarian hands.

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Peter Catron @petercatron.bsky.social · Feb 5

It’s time for victory gardens to make a comeback

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