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Delighted to see my research highlighted in the IT today: Fathers with hands-on approach to parenting makes for happier mothers via The Irish Times irishtimes.com/life-and-style…

Ways I have (slowly) learned to trick myself into writing when I really don't feel like it: 1) start with "diary entry" where I talk about what I want to write--within a paragraph or two, it usually turns into actual writing, and it helps work through problems in the argument. 1/

Me in the NY Times: “Kids bring an intensity of demands that makes people feel time poor,” she said, and she has described the time pressure that mothers, in particular, feel as “a chronic stress that slowly deteriorates their health.” nyti.ms/33oAWYS

"These books offer models of parenting that require, well, less parenting." Thought-provoking article by Joe Pinsker. As an added bonus, my two cents are also included: theatlantic.com/family/archive…

Happy to announce I won a Trinity College Dublin Provost's Project Award to fund a PhD student for 4 years in TCD Sociology to study the links between #childpoverty and #childwellbeing in rich countries using data from "Growing Up" cohort studies. Will advertise in early 2020!

16-year-olds Cormac Harris and Alan O'Sullivan, from Coláiste Choilm in Ballincollig, took the top prize at the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition for a project about the prevalence of gender stereotyping in 5 to 7 year olds | Read more: bit.ly/2FEffKd

Fully funded #PhDVacancy in TCD Sociology Trinity Research in Childhood Centre (TRiCC) to work with me a new project "Child well-being in rich countries: role of parenting, poverty and policy" APPLY: tinyurl.com/u9v5eun EU/Non-EU fees plus 20k/year.

Job opportunity TCD Sociology & RCSI using GrowingUpinIreland cohort data to see how early life shapes health behaviours and mental health in adolescence and early adulthood. TeenPath project looking for 2 Research Fellows. tcd.ie/sociology/vaca…

Ireland is a bad place for young women to find a boyfriend. 🙎‍♀️ Ireland has the 2nd LOWEST ratio of men to women aged 20-34. This is largely due to the mass emigration of young men in the early 2010s. 👨‍🏭👨‍🔧🌍🛫🛬🌏🐨 #ValentinesDay roryofarrell.com/2017/04/06/ire…

I’ve just learned that a person has been admitted to ICU of an acute hospital with complications arising from #COVIDー19. They are IN THEIR 20s and have NO underlying health condition. #Coronavirusireland If you were thinking about going out tonight, perhaps think again.

Temple Bar publicans have announced a complete shutdown of all bars and nightclubs with immediate effect.

Excellent resource for people in Ireland and elsewhere

My paper with Nancy Luke on lowest-low fertility in South Korea is finally out Social Forces South Korea is recording one of the most sustained lowest-low fertility rates in human history. Our findings have important implications for policy formulation. academic.oup.com/sf/advance-art…

Significant milestone today. First day with no reported #CoVid19 deaths since March 21st. This is a day of hope. We will prevail.

Demography 101 🔥 WHAT IS LIFE EXPECTANCY ? 🔥 and (even more important) ❌ what it isn't ❌ Join in for the most topical demography primer 🧵 THREAD 1/x

What happened to learning when primary schools first closed to curb the pandemic a year ago? We answer this question in a paper with @ArunFrey Mark Verhagen that is now out in PNASNews. Join me for a thread! 🧵 1/12 doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…

Three years ago a wonderful couple contacted me, bewildered by ‘the system’. Their struggle for justice was only beginning. Finally I can tell Zoe’s story 👇🏼 The story of ‘Zoe’, the youngest sex-abuse case ever heard in Irish courts via The Irish Times irishtimes.com/the-story-of-z…

😊Many thanks to you, Sarah, and the rest of the committee for supporting and encouraging me on this long and winding journey! Phew!

That feeling when a reviewer suggests that you could really strengthen the contribution of your paper if only you used a different type of data and a different method to answer a completely different research question 🤨😩

We have a wonderful mini-break for two to Nuremberg to give away. To be in with a chance to win flights, accommodation & so much more, all you need to do is: FOLLOW & RT Click here for more info: dublinairport.com/latest-news/20… WINNER ANNOUNCED FRIDAY, 11.11.22 #TasteOfNUE