Yue Sun @environdemography.bsky.social · 06/10/2026No autumn in Hawaii. All trees are still green. 010
Reposted by Yue SunPer Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Need new examples for teaching confounding and reverse causality to my undergrads. Send any published statistical crimes my way please. 7238
Yue Sun @environdemography.bsky.social · 09/09/2026What does everyone think about this year’s PAA sessions? 011
Reposted by Yue SunJess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 24/07/2026"Economists are warning that AI could push companies into a wave of layoffs that ends in self-destruction." Well, that sounds lovely... www.businessinsider.com/economists-s...businessinsider.comAI could trigger a layoff trap that even smart CEOs can't escapeA Wharton research paper says that AI-driven layoffs could reduce consumer demand so much that companies relying on revenue could also collapse. 199223
Reposted by Yue SunElizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 20/07/2026New working paper from Ritikaa Khanna, @rourkeobrien.bsky.social, @astokespop.bsky.social, @atheendar.bsky.social, & me We apply a new lens to the great (non-Covid) debate of US mortality studies: What's up w the 2010s? It emphasizes that US longevity worsened against a background of increasing $$nber.orgThe U.S. Mortality Crisis as a Preston Curve ReversalFounded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an... 31713
Reposted by Yue SunVeena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 10/07/2026we have built an economy that rewards speed over thought, efficiency over craft, and capital accumulation over human flourishing. If we want to confront the devaluation of jobs and professional expertise; or the enormous environmental costs of AI and its data centers,.. 18321
Reposted by Yue SunIan Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comDatacentres are growing target of global climate-related legal cases, report findsLSE analysis highlights litigation linked to energy sources, water consumption and air pollution 078
Reposted by Yue SunTom VanHeuvelen @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social · 10/06/2026A new Annual Review article by @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social and colleagues worth a read. Don't let the formal modeling of luck fool you. This is one of the more interesting, and all around crazier, articles I've read recently. Super cool. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...annualreviews.orgLuck and Predictability in the Life CourseThere is an emerging recognition among sociological theorists that luck may play a substantial role in life course achievement. There is also a nascent empirical literature that finds life outcomes to... 2318
Reposted by Yue SunElizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 06/06/2026I know we’ve all read 100 articles like this, but I do recommend this one, especially for the series of questions at the end about how universities (not individual instructors) could change our practice. I’d love to discuss thosechronicle.comOpinion | My Students Can’t ReadThe generational collapse in literacy is measurable, persistent, and likely to get worse. 1121961
Yue Sun @environdemography.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Concur is a mess. We have to pay extra for changing flights. Hard to reduce travel costs. 010
Reposted by Yue SunIan Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 24/05/2026I'm teaching my sociology of climate change class in the fall. There's always quite a bit of interest from journalism & comms students. So I am going to put in the curriculum some examples of powerful reporting on the climate crisis. This is a running 🧵 of such articles. Feel free to add to it. 1018255
Reposted by Yue SunIan Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 25/05/2026www.propublica.org/article/okla...propublica.orgOil Companies Contaminated a Family Farm. The Courts and Regulators Let the Drillers Walk Away.The oil and gas industry has reaped profits without ensuring there will be money to plug and clean up their wells. In Oklahoma, that work could cost more than $7 billion if it falls to the state. 3164
Reposted by Yue Sunceej @ceej.online · 20/05/2026one of my favorite facts about the US coal industry is that it employs less people than Broadway 7258761529
Reposted by Yue SunAPDU @apduorg.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Just in time for summer... the Census Bureau released new Local Air Conditioning Estimates www.census.gov/data/experim...census.govLocal Air Conditioning Estimates 022
Yue Sun @environdemography.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Good thing is that sociology is not commercialized yet. 030
Yue Sun @environdemography.bsky.social · 11/05/2026@lesja.bsky.social Marge and new friends traveled back with me. Turtle gang 120
Yue Sun @environdemography.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Marge was tired of weather at Boulder and took the same flight with me. Glad to see her making new friends. 020
Yue Sun @environdemography.bsky.social · 07/05/2026@spattersearch.bsky.social PAA Alpaca needs a local guide. 010
Yue Sun @environdemography.bsky.social · 06/05/2026I will stop by and ask whether you are PAA Alpaca 110
Yue Sun @environdemography.bsky.social · 06/05/2026I used to complain 8 inch snow at Syracuse. Now I am getting 9 inch snow at Boulder. Karma. 030
Yue Sun @environdemography.bsky.social · 06/05/2026A broken branch almost hit me. If so, I was dead for PAA. 200
Yue Sun @environdemography.bsky.social · 06/05/2026@lesja.bsky.social That’s nuts. Hope Marge is still alive. 100
Yue Sun @environdemography.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Tomorrow morning. You could present all studies from CUPC if all DEN flights would be cancelled. 010
Yue Sun @environdemography.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Hope Marge is doing well. Also, would you mind presenting my research if I cannot make to PAA? (just joking) 110
Yue Sun @environdemography.bsky.social · 06/05/2026@lesja.bsky.social It is snowing so baaaaaaad. 110
Yue Sun @environdemography.bsky.social · 05/05/2026My favorite conspiracy theory: whether Sarah is PAA Alpaca 020
Reposted by Yue SunSarah Patterson @spattersearch.bsky.social · 20/04/2026WEBINAR: Supporting Family Caregivers: New Data, New Resources Wed May 06, 2026 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm ET More info: ihpi.umich.edu/news-events/... Registration: umich.zoom.us/webinar/regi...umich.zoom.usWelcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Supporting Family Caregivers: New Data, New Resources. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.Join the U-M Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation's National Poll on Healthy Aging and the Michigan Health Endowment Fund for a webinar exploring the experiences, needs, and challenges of Mi... 065
Reposted by Yue SunHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 27/02/2026“This was not a thoughtful, phased development. It was an industrial surge imposed on our residential community.”nbcnews.comElon Musk's makeshift AI power plant generates sound and fury in MississippiThe 27 temporary gas turbines roar like jet engines day and night to power data centers, residents say. 14322
Yue Sun @environdemography.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Thank you for your chocolates. I am one of the takers. I really enjoy that after a long-day work. 110
Yue Sun @environdemography.bsky.social · 07/02/2026That's what sociologists are supposed to do instead of claiming a "new" finding by switching cardiovascular disease mortality to other cause-specific mortality. 000
Yue Sun @environdemography.bsky.social · 03/02/2026I wonder if they are sorting users by service level. For example, if you’re using a free account, they probably don’t spend many resources on deep searches and fake results as alternative. 000
Yue Sun @environdemography.bsky.social · 03/02/2026I used ChatGPT for formatting reference list. All PMID they pulled are fake numbers. 100
Reposted by Yue SunB Jarosz @datageekb.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Revised plans for critical 2026 census test raise some 🚩 🔴 Dropped test site in Colorado 🔴 Dropped language support for online response (English only) 🔴 Asking USPS workers, rather than trained Census Bureau staff, to conduct in-field operations Details in 🧵 3159
Reposted by Yue SunNBER @nber.org · 02/02/2026Documenting trends in joint exposure to environmental stressors for 168 US cities finds persistent, yet narrowing, multi-exposure gaps, from Glenn Sheriff, Danae Hernandez-Cortes, TC Chakraborty, and Theresa DeConcini www.nber.org/papers/w34739 065