Our new #dataviz is online Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World. We show that surveys conducted remotely by mobile phone since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic have often generated (much) noisier data on age than recent household surveys and censuses journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23…

🚨 New paper out in PNASNews 🚨 “COVID-19 precautionary behaviors and vaccine acceptance among older individuals: The role of close kin” w/Valeria Bordone & Giorgio Di Gessa Based on SHARE_MEA Corona Survey data pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… A 🧵:

We Penn State PRI (@pop.psu.edu🦋) are excited to welcome our new Visting Scholars 2023-2025 cohort! Many congratulations to Ariel Azar @StephCanizales Pat Hastings Dr. Patricia Homan @LucieKalousova & Kasim Ortiz! Jenny "2+2=4" Van Hook and I and all of our PRI community are so excited to welcome you!

Please join us today for the weekly DUPRI seminar, featuring, Sarah Burgard, Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan, presenting, "Remembrance of things past? Measuring life course exposures as determinants of health". Details here: dupri.duke.edu/news-events/ev…

When it comes to the #overdose crisis, both supply & demand have been driven by bad federal and state policy choices, nefarious corporate behaviors, & a neoliberal policy regime that prioritizes maximizing profit over protecting population health. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

Very excited to see my exceptional postdoc, Mara Getz Sheftel (she/her), has a new article leveraging an innovative binational study design to answer some core unanswered questions in the migration literature about return migration, income, migrant decision-making, & wealth stratification.

So wonderful to close out our Penn State PRI (@pop.psu.edu🦋) Brown Bag series with a fascinating talk from Carmen Gutierrez about the gendered and racial differences in community surveillance and the implications for Latina women’s health.

📢New Pub Alert! 📢 Happy to share that a new paper on older immigrant health across Europe with Rachel Margolis and Ashton Verdery is out in Population Research & Policy Review. Check it out! rdcu.be/daeks Springer Nature Penn State PRI (@pop.psu.edu🦋) @WesternuSOC

I am so lucky to have Liying Luo as a colleague, and I am so glad to get to celebrate her tenure and promotion!

What an experience! This course gave me tools I never thought I could use to model kinship within my research area. Thanks to MPIDR for the opportunity, and thanks to AppDemography and Ashton Verdery for the support. Pd: also, made a bunch of new friends and coauthors. 👍🏼🫶🏼

Congratulations to Twitterfree Lauren Newmyer on her successful dissertation defense in Penn State Sociology & Criminology today! Glad we get to see her around town for a few more weeks before she heads to BGSUSociology.

We're recruiting! Help us learn more about how spouses shape each other’s health over time. Visit liberalarts.utexas.edu/health-relatio… for more info

UNC Sociology is pleased to invite applications for an open area, tenure-track, assistant professor position. Review of applications starts Oct 30. ASA Job Bank ID 19661. For more info: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/267386

Come work with me on my ERC grant this Fall! Write me if you have any questions.

Did the U.S. undercount COVID-19 deaths? Our new study in PNASNews finds that: 1. There were approximately 163,000 excess deaths from natural causes other than COVID-19 between Mar 2020 and Aug 2022 2. Many were unrecognized COVID-19 deaths Thread. bu.edu/sph/news/artic…

Of all things in my career, my greatest pride is in the numerous accomplishments of my students and postdocs (some not pictured, though hopefully will be in a future year).

🆕Paper MPIDR: Diego Alburez Enrique Acosta Emilio Zagheni & Nathalie E. Williams studied the extent & duration of bereavement among those left behind in armed conflict and predict how long & intensely this grief is likely to last. University of Washington Sociology CED Barcelona demogr.mpg.de/go/conflictber…