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Peter Catron @petercatron.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Serious question: what happened at Johns Hopkins that a vaccine requirement is about 1/3 of the job advertisement

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Nathan Hoffmann @nathanihoff.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My paper "Double robust, flexible adjustment methods for causal inference: An overview and an evaluation" is out in Social Science Research. Spoiler: In simulations, double robustness appears less important than flexibility, and OLS does pretty well! 🧵👇 1/7 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Audrey Dorelien @audreydorelien.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Are you interested in presenting in @uwcsde.bsky.social Computational Demography Working Group (CDWG)? CDWG meets weekly to provide an interdisciplinary forum for discussions of digital and computational approaches to demographic research. csde.washington.edu/computationa... #demography

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About The Computational Demography Working Group (CDWG) at the University of Washington meets weekly to provide an interdi

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Peter Catron @petercatron.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I don’t like that my citizenship AJS article has become policy relevant because of the implications. But at least it’s getting recognized www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/b...

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What Ireland and Germany Can Teach Us About Birthright Citizenship

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ASA Int'l Migration @asamigration.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Honorable Mentions: @petercatron.bsky.social, María Vignau Loría, & @sarahefarr.bsky.social . 2024. "Contextual Boundaries: Skin Tone Stratification and Skill Transferability Among Mexicans in the Age of Mass Migration." @readdemography.bsky.social 61(5): 1377-1402.

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Peter Catron @petercatron.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

The Supreme Court hears oral arguments about birthright citizenship this Wednesday. Here we use peer-reviewed research to debunk all of the claims being made by the Trump administration and their amici

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Peter Catron @petercatron.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

In this day and age, why would yet another section of the ASA save us?

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Caitlin Patler @caitlinpatler.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Immensely grateful to share an amicus brief on birthright citizenship, submitted to SCOTUS last week. We present esta of the impacted child population (4.8 mil children in next 20 yrs alone!) + financial contributions through 2074 under status quo ($7.7 trillion!). Link: lnkd.in/gGXngCDY 1/7

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Peter Catron @petercatron.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Protecting all children. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

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Peter Catron @petercatron.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Protecting all children. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

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Zachary Levenson @grundrza.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

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Florencia Torche @ftorche.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

New Post-Doc Opportunity: Princeton OPR is hiring postdocs in population studies. PhD in demography or related fields (sociology, economics, epi, etc.) welcome. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/181246 Review begins 3/1/16. Please share!

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David FitzGerald @fitzgeralducsd.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

This is such an important book to understand how the early months of refugee resettlement in the US unfold in practice. Congratulations, @molly-fee.bsky.social! staging.ucpress.edu/books/believ... #refugee

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Peter Catron @petercatron.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

I hate how much of my time is spent disabling AI in all my software.

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Nathan Wilmers @natewilmers.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

I’m hiring a postdoc! Flexible in terms of details, but I’m looking for someone to collaborate with on research about labor market inequality. I’ll review applications as they come in and the posting just went up here: apply.interfolio.com/178873

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Peter Catron @petercatron.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Sad to hear of Stew Tolnay’s passing. He was the first person to invite me to coffee when I started working here and gave incredible feedback on my work. He will be missed.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 02/10/2025

Cool paper. A lot of work! "immigrants who completed the naturalization process attained significantly higher occupational status than those who initiated but did not complete naturalization"

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Peter Catron @petercatron.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

New working paper. Comments always welcome osf.io/preprints/so...

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Nathan Hoffmann @nathanihoff.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

I'm trying to find some sociology papers to bring into my intro statistics course for grad students. Straightforward quant analyses where the data are publicly available. Does anyone have any suggestions?

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Peter Catron @petercatron.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Picking berries is a blood sport that I enjoy.

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Peter Catron @petercatron.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

My university is removing our landlines from our offices to save costs. The thing is I ripped my landline out of the wall the moment I got here because it rang and I didn’t know how to use it.

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Peter Catron @petercatron.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Shout out to @caitlinpatler.bsky.social for her hard work on this. I’m happy for the small part I played in this, too.

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Peter Catron @petercatron.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Has anyone done a FOIA request at the National Archives?

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Sarah E. Farr @sarahefarr.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

For my inaugural post on this app, I'd like to invite anyone attending #PAA2025 to come to my talk! I'm very excited to attend my first PAA @popassocamerica.bsky.social meeting and share this research (and hopefully get good feedback as I refine and revise).

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S. Michael Gaddis @smgaddis.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

If you have leads on academic or academic-adjacent jobs that would make sense, I'd greatly appreciate to hear from you. 5/5

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Matthew Clair @mathuclair.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

We’re excited to receive nominations for papers written by graduate students doing important work on inequality, poverty, and mobility. More info here: www.asanet.org/communities-... bsky.app/profile/fabi...

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Fabian Pfeffer @fabianpfeffer.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Please nominate an (or your) article by March 31 for the 2025 ROBERT D. MARE GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER AWARD (published in 2024) Send a brief nomination letter and the pdf to Matthew Clair (mclair@stanford.edu) @mathuclair.bsky.social /4

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Peter Catron @petercatron.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Surveillance from a “small army” of private citizens never stops at immigrants. See the American Protective League during WWI.

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Nathan Hoffmann @nathanihoff.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I am thrilled to share that I will be joining the Department of Sociology at Emory University this fall as an Assistant Professor! Excited for a new chapter in Atlanta 🔥🍑

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Nominations due in just under 2 weeks!!! Nominate your amazing students' work, or, if you're a student or very recent grad, nominate yourself!

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Sarah Quinn @sarahquinn.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

This is a trick question. A sociological finding doesn't count as a breakthrough until an economist rediscovers it.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 08/02/2025

Also tonight: Trump fired National Archivist Colleen Shogan. This is a position that can do real, irreversible damage in authoritarian hands.

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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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Peter Catron @petercatron.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I’m working on a NIH grant. What are the chances the NIH still exists by the Feb 15 deadline?

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Matt Nelson @mattanelson.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Have any questions on U.S. Full Count Census Data 1790-1950? Want to learn how to access the restricted versions of the data? Come join me and all the other IPUMS experts for Virtual Office Hours tomorrow!

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Peter Catron @petercatron.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Old, but very relevant: www.migrationpolicy.org/sites/defaul...

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Peter Catron @petercatron.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Me: graduate admissions is one of my favorite committees Also me: oh no. Why did I agree to doing this over break

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Peter Catron @petercatron.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

If, when I get old, I start sending emails to sociologists promising to save the world, please check in on me.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 01/12/2024

49. In 1930, 40% of US households, 12 million, had a radio. Ht: Peter Catron bsky.app/profile/pete...

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Peter Catron @petercatron.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I’m really curious if he’s going to keep up with demand or throw in the towel at a certain number

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Peter Catron @petercatron.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Bumping this up given new followers

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Peter Catron @petercatron.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Is there any chance that the account that posts the google satellite images of every census tract has migrated over here?

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Peter Catron @petercatron.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Pebbles, but the neighbor weirdly calls her Sofia??? even after being corrected

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Peter Catron @petercatron.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I really hope my current research project doesn’t become relevant.

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Peter Catron @petercatron.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

If I deactivate my account at the other site, does that delete all my data? Or do I have to delete everything manually?

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