If you want to know why Jews are suspicious of you when you're just trying to be a well-meaning antizionist gentile, consider that these two things were written by the same man, Guangtian Ha, a (currently suspended) religion professor at Haverford

Interracial Marriage Trends Over Time @aarongullickson.bsky.social's new #Socius article conducts a systematic examination of #interracialmarriage trends using ACS data from 1960-2023, noting how pre-existing norms are challenged, transformed, and reinterpreted. Read: doi.org/10.1177/2378...

🚨 New article alert! My article about trends in interracial marriage in the United States is now published in Socius. (1/6) tinyurl.com/ycxrdnas

Trends and Heterogeneity in Interracial Marriage in the United States, 1960 to 2023 - Aaron Gullickson, 2026

Although scholars recognize that interracial marriage in the United States has grown exponentially since the 1960s, our understanding of this trend for specific...

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Finally, this has gone a bit under the radar, so I want to highlight it: The social, behavioral and economic sciences directorate (SBE) has simply ceased to deliver grants to many of its subareas. Any topic not specifically OK'd by the Trump administration is receiving zero new awards.

New paper alert! Vital stats only capture individual births, not people’s reproductive career. For that, demographers use surveys that collect full fertility histories. But these fertility histories are less helpful if people don’t fully report all their births or report info inaccurately. 1/

Demography - the flagship journal of PAA@readdemography.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In “Reliability of Repeated Measures of Retrospective Parity,” @karenguzzo.bsky.social et al show that 1 in 5 parents reported a different parity between survey waves, split equally btw “losing” & “finding” a birth. @uncpopcenter.bsky.social @cfdr-bgsu.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

If you use #Typst and want to create beautiful slide shows, using a simple interface, check out my new Mosaic package! The website hosts tons of tutorials and examples. Please let me if you try, find bugs, or have feature requests. I'm very eager to improve Mosaic!

www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/o...

Opinion | A Lot of the Attacks on Higher Ed Are Unfair. Not This One. (Gift Article)

By protecting a star from plagiarism charges, a storied college undermined its values.

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type of guy you meet in grad school

Dexerto@dexerto.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A Norway fan has gone viral for not taking part in their Row celebration after matches and won't do it if they win the World Cup "It’s factually wrong; they didn’t row, they sailed over the Atlantic”

🚨Out today in @nature.com our new paper uses deep learning to map four decades of global human migration. By building the first comprehensive, four-decade dataset of annual flows (1990-2023), we reveal that global migration has nearly tripled since 2000. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I recently had to make a static photo gallery with #QuartoPub and used PhotoSwipe (which is neat!) so I decided to plugin-ize it to make it easier to use elsewhere, so behold, quarto-static-photo-gallery! andrewheiss.github.io/quarto-stati...

90% of my stats advice in a nutshell: - don’t do it - use a simpler model - stratify - it’s about 10%

JSE's Inaugural Issue- Call for Papers 📢jse.scholasticahq.com

Journal of Stratification Economics@jsecon.bsky.social · 4mo ago

JSE, with @ucpress.bsky.social, is pleased to announce its planned inaugural issue scheduled for 2027. We encourage submissions of both original empirical and theoretical work for review and possible publication in the first few issues of the journal. Submit articles: jse.scholasticahq.com.

Ugh. Not good reporting about unrefereed preprints. Sabrina Tavernese at NYT says two studies were "published," one of which was "published in the National Bureau of Economic Research" (not a journal) the other is on SSRN (not identified).

Why Are Birthrates Down? Two New Studies Point to Phones.

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New publication alert! 💥 "Intermarriage and multiethnicity among Spanish Roma: Transgressing problematised interethnic divisions" www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi... #Roma #Gitanos #Spain #Ethnicidentity #Culturalminorities #Diversity #Intermarriage #Mixing #SocialResearch

Intermarriage and multiethnicity among Spanish Roma | 7 | Transgressin

Research on intermarriage and multiethnicity has mostly focused on foreign-born immigrants or non-nationals. Much less attention has been given to national

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My uni is expecting me to read 117 names in 6-8 minutes for commencement. Reasonable? Doable? Ethical? Why am I even here?

I have to update one of the most inflammatory things I said back on the bird site, but for the LLM era: 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 If your agent prefaces every tool call with `cd /the/current/workspace &&`, I will come set your data center on fire 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥

I'm happy to share a new article: "“Population, Power, and Security: Demographic Pressures Shaping U.S.-China Strategic Competition.” 1/3 www.yalejournal.org/publications...

Population, Power, and Security: Demographic Pressures Shaping U.S.-China Strategic Competition — Yale Journal of International Affairs

By Tahina Montoya, Kelly Atkinson, Kelly Piazza, Michael Pollard Introduction U.S.-China relations reflect an enduring strategic rivalry, with both sides viewing the other as a principal challe...

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This proposes a peer review credit system. I like it. But review credits must not only be generated by journals. To break the journal monopoly on peer review, other venues - such as journal-agnostic review, and post-publication review - should also draw from the pool. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Achievement unlocked.

Newish publication alert! Jen Bratter and I look at who multiracial individuals marry. Multiracial individuals defy simple understandings of endogamy and exogamy. For example, if a person identified as White and Black marries a White person, is that endogamy or exogamy? (1/6)

Demography - the flagship journal of PAA@readdemography.bsky.social · 6mo ago

In “Blurring the Marriage Market? Contemporary Patterns of Multiracial Marriage,” @aarongullickson.bsky.social & J. Bratter find that “shared Black ancestry is the most predictive of union formation” and shared Indigenous ancestry the least. @uoregon.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

New collider bias example just dropped

I'm on year 3 of saying I'll make this content into an open access book. 🫠 #rstats #datamanagement cghlewis.github.io/ncme-data-cl...

The only good radar plot is a deleted radar plot. 🧪 #dataviz

Good news everyone 🥳 Our (w @vincentab.bsky.social) primer on models as prediction machines (with the marginaleffects package) is finally officially published!> journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Models as Prediction Machines: How to Convert Confusing Coefficients Into Clear Quantities - Julia M. Rohrer, Vincent Arel-Bundock, 2026

Psychological researchers usually make sense of regression models by interpreting coefficient estimates directly. This works well enough for simple linear model...

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The conservative justices on the Supreme Court arguing that you can separate race and partisanship got me thinking about these maps. starkeycomics.com/2021/06/11/h...

Excited for my talk today at Cornell University on reproducibility in the soc & behavior sciences, results from SCORE w/ a focus on sociology. In case you can't make it, I made a pre-recorded video youtu.be/kMwOwZaYYtE @briannosek.bsky.social @weedenkim.bsky.social #openscience #reproducibility

Investigating reproducibility of social & behavior sciences + implications 4 sociology. Cornell Talk

YouTube video by Nate Breznau

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I am so excited to be teaching this one day workshop on git and GitHub. Integrating git version control has been incredibly transformative for my own research workflow and I love sharing what I have learned with others. Come join us!

Statistical Horizons@stathorizons.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Want a smoother coding and collaboration workflow? Join @aarongullickson.bsky.social for the 1-day seminar “Using Version Control for Data Analysis through GitHub” on April 22. Learn the basics of #git, collaboration, and common troubleshooting steps.

In “Blurring the Marriage Market? Contemporary Patterns of Multiracial Marriage,” @aarongullickson.bsky.social & J. Bratter find that “shared Black ancestry is the most predictive of union formation” and shared Indigenous ancestry the least. @uoregon.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

And another Quarto announcement; I've alluded to it before, but we're making it "official". We've started work on Quarto 2. The blog post has an overview: quarto.org/docs/blog/po... We'll share more in future blog posts, but here's what you can expect from the Quarto 2 dev effort: (1/)

What’s next: Quarto 2 – Quarto

We’ve started working on quarto-dev/q2, a full rewrite of Quarto in Rust.

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Me in the Chronicle on the sociology crisis in Florida (from 2024, still true!):

Opinion | How Sociology Can Save Itself

The recent political attacks in Florida represent a threat to the discipline — but also an opportunity.

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Philip N Cohen@philipncohen.com · 7mo ago

"The professional association of sociology has expanded their mission, so that it’s no longer about understanding society, but rather transforming society. And the problem with that is: That’s a conflict with our general-education statutes here in the state of Florida.”