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Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Overview of the new Canadian historical census data & six original research articles demonstrating what can be done with them are now online in the journal Historical Methods. Not open access but first 50 copies apparently can be dowloaded from: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DQTIH...

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The Canadian Peoples, new Canadian census data 1871–1921

Research using historical Canadian census data has changed repeatedly since the 1960s. This introduction reviews the literature and introduces six articles in this special issue. Each article uses ...

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Emily Bender, who is a leading force behind this “do not anthropomorphize” drive, has helpfully provided us with a list of examples of word changes she’d recommend. Tell me: are the recommended words clearer? More accurate? Do they genuinely provide greater clarity?

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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I'll do a thread on my new paper in September when everyone is back in town.--find me at RC28 or ASA if you want to know it before then! "University expansion, academic fields, and the match between the degree and the job" academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

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University expansion, academic fields, and the match between the degree and the job

Abstract. Academic knowledge—such as biology, psychology, and economics—is found both in university majors and specific occupations. When educational attai

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Alex Navarro @alexnavarro.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

this is why you come to Bluesky. to listen to people in their 40s speak wistfully of online map printouts like ancient sea captains speak of guiding themselves by the moon and stars.

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School of Cities @uoftcities.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

We teamed up with U of T’s Centre for Analytics & AI Engineering to map the discrepancy between the borders you’d draw of your TO neighbourhood and its official borders. What do you call the 'hood you live in and which streets do you think delineates it? Map it now! ow.ly/pJsH50Zf045

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Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher, PhD @mbonsma.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

"The sudden end of safe cycling infrastructure due to construction forced cyclists onto the roadway where they had to contend with a stream of vehicle traffic, with often little to no space between themselves and passing cars." New research from Jessie Ye on cyclist safety in construction zones!

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Bike Lane Closed - Spacing Toronto

As the World Cup rolls into town, Toronto is bracing for a centre-stage summer welcoming thousands of fans, players, and staff arriving to enjoy the festivals, the food, the patios, and to endure the ...

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Fernando Calderón_Figueroa @ferderon.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Saving this clip for future lectures on social infrastructure and walkable cities.

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Jens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Give a nerd a chart or a map and they will waste a day. Teach a nerd how to make charts and maps and they will waste the rest of their life.

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Jason Thorne @jasonthorne.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

A great way to illustrate and compare mode share - “ternary chart” prepared by the University of Toronto School of Cities @uoftcities.bsky.social

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Matthew Kling @matthewkling.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Announcing #RStats package ggcube, now on CRAN -- make 3D #ggplot2 figures using `coord_3d()` matthewkling.github.io/ggcube/

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Sociology papers (journals + SocArXiv) @socpaperbot.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Living with Ghosts: How Physical Traces of the Past Shape Cultural Trauma in Chinatowns American Sociological Review, Volume 91, Issue 2, Page 286-312, April 2026. Cultural trauma refers to how past experiences of harm can fundamentally transform a community’s shared identity, po #sociology link

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Dan Silver @dsilver432.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Sociology's Evolving Discourse A computational analysis of over a century of sociology journal articles open.substack.com/pub/thesilve...

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Sociology's evolving discourse

Me and Codex have entered the chat

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Jens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

This is really quite good. Short and to the point.

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Jeff Allen @jamaps.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

recently mapped knowledge of french and english in montreal -- (bit of a tri-variate viz experiment) higher-res here: jamaps.github.io/maps/montrea... #montreal #maps #languages #geography

Map of Montreal and the surrounding region using a grid of dots to visualize the % of the population that can speak French and English via different colours. Size of dots indicate population density.

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

First, assume a strait-opener

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Thomas van Laake @tvlaake.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Very pleased to see the first article from my PhD thesis published in Planning Theory and Practice. In the piece, I leverage the concurrent adoption of bicycle equity policies in Mexico City and Toronto to compare how intra-urban differences shape efforts to address infrastructural inequalities.

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Yasmin Ibison @yasminibison.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Govt’s Pride in Place targets areas with economic deprivation and weaker social infrastructure. Yet, our analysis reveals 2 challenges. We find 430 doubly disadvantaged neighbourhoods in England (home to approx 3.5 million people) are unfunded, incl many ranked as facing the greatest challenges 1/3

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 07/03/2026

I ran a simple model with new public data then used 1 prompt to make ChatGPT guess what the model would produce. With 10 seconds of "thinking," it was very close. The implications of this are catastrophic. The American Sociological Association should do something about this but it doesn't care to /1

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Fernando Calderón_Figueroa @ferderon.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Fascinating that this counts as an unpopular opinion in North America. Turning right on red should be banned outright.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Unpopular opinion but turning right at a red light should not be legal in San Francisco (or anywhere else). Right on red makes horrors like this all too possible. sfstandard.com/2026/03/03/m...

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‘You’re killing her!’: Witnesses recount horrific Mission Bay crash where 2-year-old died

Bystanders tried to lift an SUV after its driver pinned a mother and child in Mission Bay, say witnesses.

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School of Cities @uoftcities.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

U of T’s Maps and Data Library recently published a blog by Jeff Allen our Data Viz Lead, on a tool he built for viewing historial aerial imagery of Toronto collected from various sources. ow.ly/rqu150YfERX

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 11/02/2026

I just whipped up this little #QuartoPub site last week that demonstrates how I teach p-values/hyp-testing through simulation both with live OJS and with #rstats, and I think it's super neat! It has examples for diff-in-means, diff-in-props, and regression slopes nullworlds.andrewheiss.com #statsky

Simulated null distribution for data with a sample size of 100, difference in group means of 5, and a p-value of 0.142

Simulated null distribution of a slope of 0.8 and p-value of 0.002

Finally, we have to decide if the p-value meets an evidentiary standard or threshold that would provide us with enough evidence that we aren’t in the null world (or, in more statsy terms, enough evidence to reject the null hypothesis).

There are lots of possible thresholds. By convention, most people use a threshold (often shortened to α) of 0.05, or 5%. But that’s not required! You could have a lower standard with an α of 0.1 (10%), or a higher standard with an α of 0.01 (1%).

Statistically significant
The p-value is < 0.001 and our threshold for α is 0.05

In a world where there is no relationship between x and y, the probability of seeing a slope of at least 0.901 is < 0.1%

Since < 0.001 is less than 0.05, we have enough evidence to say that the slope is statistically significant.

Evidentiary standards

When thinking about p-values and thresholds, I like to imagine myself as a judge or a member of a jury. Many legal systems around the world have formal evidentiary thresholds or standards of proof. If prosecutors provide evidence that meets a threshold (i.e. goes beyond a reasonable doubt, or shows evidence on a balance of probabilities), the judge or jury can rule guilty. If there’s not enough evidence to clear the standard or threshold, the judge or jury has to rule not guilty.

With p-values:

If the probability of seeing an effect or difference (or δ) in a null world is less than 5% (or whatever the threshold is), we rule it statistically significant and say that the difference does not fit in that world. We’re pretty confident that it’s not zero.
If the p-value is larger than the threshold, we do not have enough evidence to claim that δ doesn’t come from a world of where there’s no difference. We don’t know if it’s not zero.
Importantly, if the difference is not significant, that does not mean that there is no difference. It just means that we can’t detect one if there is. If a prosecutor doesn’t provide sufficient evidence to clear a standard or threshold, it does not mean that the defendant didn’t do whatever they’re charged with†—it means that the judge or jury can’t detect guilt.

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Monica Alexander @monjalexander.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

The Toronto Population Network @tpn-uoft.bsky.social Seminar Series is happening this semester, with a great line-up, including @lucampesando.bsky.social, Orsola Torrisi, @mdhayward.bsky.social, and @jnobles.bsky.social! Starts next Tuesday. If you're in Toronto please come along!

Poster showing speakers for the TPN seminar series

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Laura K. Nelson @lauraknelson.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

For social scientists interested in LLMs for text classification/coding, the process here is potentially very helpful (even if you don't use the product itself). Their core technique: Contradictory Example Training Their training method: Binocular Labeling More details in the linked post below.

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Kyle Walker @kylewalker.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Announcing spopt-r: spatial optimization for regionalization, facility location, and market analysis in R. My all-time favorite Python package is PySAL's spopt - and until now, it did not have an R equivalent. Get started here: walker-data.com/spopt-r

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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 31/12/2025

Yo what the fuck short form videos are bad Short-Form Videos Degrade Our Capacity to Retain Intentions arxiv.org/pdf/2302.03714 Ht: HowTown

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School of Cities @uoftcities.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

The Cities of Care conference aims to bring together academics, practitioners & decision-makers to deepen interdisciplinary research and foster a richer understanding of water, food and waste systems, thus enhancing pathways between evidence and practice ow.ly/R30V50XGAcf

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NBER @nber.org · 16/12/2025

Studying the long-run effects of a large public expansion of pre-primary education in Argentina, from Samuel Berlinski, Guillermo Cruces, Sebastian Galiani, Paul Gertler, and Fabian Gonzalez www.nber.org/papers/w34552

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Yecid Ortega (he/his/el) @yecidortega.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Today, I launch my Podcast, “Pluriversal Threads,” as a supplement to my book. If you want to know more about the Pluriverse and its relationship with language, communities and our place in the world, I invite you to join me and listen to. open.spotify.com/show/5qeySLi...

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meu periquito é neurodivergente @mahagod.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

You forgot to load the packages 734 times Your most loaded package was tidyverse You got "this package is not available for R version XXXX" 374 times You hit "remind me later" for R updates 7492 times

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Jens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Updated Urban Greenness data out from StatCan is out today, quantifying the "average greenness" on a 250m grid. Data is annual and goes back to 2000 and allows for some comparison (although some caution is advised).

Urban greenness in Metro Vancouver in 2025

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Jugo.pe @jugoperu.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

🏛️ ¿Por qué seguimos obsesionados con resucitar ciudades que ya no existen? Lima necesita futuro, no nostalgia. No te pierdas la reflexión de Natalia Sobrevilla. 🧃Clic aquí: tinyurl.com/3vrbyyk4

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

The right sets the terms of our political discourse in so many ways, one of which is the idea that there isn't enough "debate" and "free speech" on campus. We need to push back on this. The truth is (speaking for myself as a history prof), I don't really emphasize debate much in my classes/

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

The biggest sporting event in the world is happening in our backyard. But most New Yorkers will be priced out of watching it live. Sign our petition calling on FIFA to put game over greed: zohranfornyc.com/gameovergreed

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Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

JOB ALERT FOR #SOCIOLOGIST: Come work with me. We have FOUR Assistant Professor positions in the Sociology Department at the University of Calgary. careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1672106...

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Assistant Professors - Sociology, Faculty of Arts in Calgary, AB, ...

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Fernando Calderón_Figueroa @ferderon.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Amazing first time teaching @utsc-humangeo.bsky.social in the new Sam Ibrahim building @utsc.utoronto.ca Looking forward to this semester!

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Fernando Calderón_Figueroa @ferderon.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

A highlight of this summer: supervising Elise Corbin (UofT) and Abdulmohseen Al Ali (KAUST) during their Summer Undergraduate Data Sciences program at @uoftdsi.bsky.social. They did amazing expanding `piccard`—a Python package we've been developing—and prepared a fantastic presentation and poster!

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Poster of the project "piccard: A graph-based approach to census data analysis". The poster includes an overview, sample workflow, QR codes for further information, next steps, and acknowledgements. More info in the documentation: https://piccard.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

“Given the ongoing genocide in Gaza…we call on Sport Canada and Tennis Canada to forbid Canadian athletes to compete against Israeli athletes at the Davis Cup and all other international events.” - 413 🇨🇦 academics, athletes + sports journalists, inc 3 former UN special rapporteurs + an Olympic 🥈ist

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (FREDERICTON, August 18th, 2025) A group of 413 Canadian and Canadian-based scholars, athletes, sports journalists, and sports officials have signed a public letter calling on Tennis Canada to cancel the Davis Cup tournament with Israel this September in Halifax. Signatories include three United Nations Special Rapporteurs, four-time Olympian distance runner Mohammed Ahmed, two members of the Palestinian women’s soccer team who compete for York University, a former Canadian Olympic beach volleyball coach, sports journalists Shireen Ahmed and Ian Kennedy, public intellectuals and activists Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis and some of Canada’s most distinguished and internationally-recognized scholars. The letter is signed by prominent individuals from 46 different academic institutions in Canada, as well as by Canadians at prominent global institutions. One hundred and six of the signatories are based in Atlantic Canada, where the event is slated to occur. The call to cancel the Davis Cup event comes amidst rising condemnation of Israeli conduct in Gaza and the West Bank, which leading legal scholars, activists and human rights groups have described as a genocide. Given the ongoing genocide in Gaza, the letter says that allowing the competition to go ahead is “unconscionable” and calls on the Canadian government to prevent Canadian athletes from competing against Israeli athletes in all international sporting competitions. Despite Tennis Canada’s claims that the event isn’t political and is just about playing tennis, the letter states in part that Canada should follow the lead of other nations who “refuse to legitimize Israel’s crimes” by withdrawing from international sporting competition. “This includes Jordanian tennis player Abdellah Shelbayh, who recently withdrew from a tennis competition in Greece after being slated to play an Israeli athlete,” the letter says. The letter points to the use of sporting sanctions in South Africa as a meaningful …

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Fernando Calderón_Figueroa @ferderon.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

💯 We need this kind of courage and initiative in Toronto as well. Right on red should be banned outright in any dense urban area. #topoli

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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Our department at the University of Toronto is hiring an assistant professor of sociology of race / ethnicity this fall. I'm not on the hiring committee but am very happy to talk to you about the position if you are interested. You can email, DM, or find me at ASA. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

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Assistant Professor - Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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Thomas Davidson @thomasdavidson.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

I’m delighted to share that the August 2025 special issue of Sociological Methods & Research on Generative AI is out now. Along with my co-editor, Daniel Karell, we put together this issue to build on the conference we organized last year. Here's a thread on each of the ten papers:

A screenshot of the Sociological Methods & Research website showing the special issue title

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/07/2025

my similar boomer opinion is that i think “home economics” or whatever the equivalent is ought to be mandatory for students in middle and high school.

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