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Peter Catron @petercatron.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I know I take a different approach to research than others, but producing 2 papers a week seems extreme in the sense that it’s too much (and that’s the limit?). Were people doing this before AI?

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Peter Catron @petercatron.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I love JLM. The footnotes are the best

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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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Peter Catron @petercatron.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

She sounds like a remarkable person. I’m sorry for your loss.

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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 · 25/05/2026

Yeah, I’ve been working with a grad student developing a process of using computers and human checks to create the new German internment records during WWI. We should probably do a check in to compare methods sometime.

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Peter Catron @petercatron.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

At first glance I only saw the handwriting and thought “that’s easy”. Then I zoomed in. Good luck!

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Peter Catron @petercatron.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I can only speak for the articles that I’m deputy editor on for demography, but decisions are being made in 3 (once in a blue moon 4) months. I just got a decision from IMR in 4-5 months (I can’t remember the exact date I submitted).

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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 · 27/03/2026

You should see Seattle’s light rail plans. It won’t be fully up until like 2075.

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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 · 14/07/2025

What game is this and how are you keeping score?

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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 · 10/06/2025

I plan to start all my future papers by saying where I gave talks on it before publication.

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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 · 05/05/2025

But then what would I use when I use thanks sarcastically for the comments I think are wrong.

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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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