I had a great time chatting with Andrea Weckerle on The Ready Living podcast about my new book, Major Trade-Offs, and the value of college majors. Check it out if you're interested!

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please help us understand what population scientists are experiencing in the #shutdown @popassocamerica.bsky.social

🐘🐘🐘 Thanks to Trent Alexander for this elephant-print PSC twinsies photo! Here's some elephant population data for you: ourworldindata.org/elephant-pop...

Population scientists: PDHP @um-psc.bsky.social offers a biweekly drop-in Zoom call for free mentorship: Hop on to chat about your career, grants, and research with rotating mentors from UM's Population Studies Center. myumi.ch/zXA1n

What makes the Population Studies Center special: Its drive to nourish our community. Come pick up a mini-monstera from @burgards.bsky.social at PSC today. 💙

you won't want to miss this one @um-psc.bsky.social tomorrow - please join if you are able! 🍎🍂

Rod Little has promised to SING at our PSC Coffee Chat **tomorrow.** Hear about his career in biostats, his recent book, "Seminal Ideas and Controversies in Statistics," plus PSC's famous treats. Join us at 10! @um-src.bsky.social
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At the Oct. 7 PSC Coffee chat, would you rather hear biostatician Rod Little sing...

1️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/Rjm83m/1" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a Tom Lehrer cover song about imputation
2️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/Rjm83m/2" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a sea shanty

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Pop culture portrayals of Black families have shaped how Americans view racial inequality for decades. It’s an honor to see my book make its way into the cultural mainstream in this @rollingstone.com feature essay:

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I'm excited to share my new paper with a former student, Tommy Smith. "'This Work Would Not Have Been Possible without...': The Length of Acknowledgments in Sociology Books"

Open Access in @sociusjournal.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1177/2378...

Meet Bill Axinn & @emilytreleaven.bsky.social of SRC and @um-psc.bsky.social Society, Population, and Environment - they hosted our September Coffee & Donuts and chatted with SRC Director @umpamdk.bsky.social about SPE, their research, and what they enjoy doing outside of work youtu.be/xwU4HrUI3sk

An excellent piece, especially for those of you who may not work with survey weights every day.

Rod Little will be our special guest at next week's PSC Coffee Chat-- mark your calendar to hear about "Seminal Ideas and Controversies in Statistics," and join us October 7! @um-src.bsky.social
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Married people get around $1,000 more per month in Social Security income than never-married people! TY for your important research, Deborah Carr @carrds723.bsky.social Leping Wang @lepingwang.bsky.social & Pamela J Smock
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Hey, so I'm doing this thing next week, and it's a pilot for what I'm hoping will be a regular thing, and I'm really excited about it, and I do hope you'll join us.

Signup here: myumi.ch/G2dZ7

#LooktoMichigan for innovation in survey research! A great talk on the future of survey research.

We are thrilled to have Laura Schechter join us Monday to present her Dakar study investigating the extent to which collusion can explain the under-provision of clean sanitation technologies in developing countries. psc.isr.umich.edu/events/zivin... @uwcsde.bsky.social

This will be the first time that I’m talking about this brand new work with @randridge.bsky.social; please join!

For all population scientists: Join us for open office hours on Zoom Wednesday! PDHP offers stellar mentorship: pdhp.isr.umich.edu/resources/

Community is great! 💙
Thanks for coming to the PSC picnic...
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Here's the dirt cake I'm bringing, along with some other secret treats for the @um-psc.bsky.social family!

🎊 Oh, praise and congratulations to @burgards.bsky.social!! the inaugural James S. House Collegiate Professor of Sociology and Population Studies. Read all about it: myumi.ch/n1qNy

😍 @olsonkm.bsky.social: If you use complex survey data, read and use the PRICSSA checklist (Preferred Reporting Items for Complex Sample Survey Analysis) in this Editor's Choice paper by Seidenberg, Moser and our @bradytwest.bsky.social et al. 👏👏

@sashakillewald.bsky.social in @us.theconversation.com:
"The number of children Americans have affects the gender pay gap only because parenthood decreases women’s wages while increasing men’s wages." @umichstonecid.bsky.social
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🌍📚 NEW PAPER | In International Migration Review, APARC's Gi-Wook Shin & @um-psc.bsky.social's Kelsi Caywood show how countries can mitigate brain drain via strategic brain circulation and linkage. Lessons from China and India offer roadmaps for other countries. Read 👉 buff.ly/fuh4F0P