Really struggling with the tell-tale AI phrasing of “It’s not _____, it’s ______” showing up all over the place (in various iterations) whenever I hear it now - even in content/text produced way before LLMs.

Kudos to whoever is playing “Pink Pony Club” and “Rainbow Connection” on the UC Berkeley carillon right now. Happy end of Pride!

New paper out in Socio-Economic Review on how doctors and patients talk about the price of care in fertility medicine! I find that the way they talk about money is radically different depending on both the clinic's targeted clientele and organizational structure academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...

Doctor, how much does it cost? Moral values and price talk in a stratified consumer medical market

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Had a blast working on this paper with Christina Pao, @chrisajulian.bsky.social, @drcompton.bsky.social, and Lawrence Stacey, in which we combed through the HPS to identify demographic differences between groups based on gender identity question responses. sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

Demographic Differences in Responses to a Two-Step Gender Identity Measure

Article: Demographic Differences in Responses to a Two-Step Gender Identity Measure | Sociological Science | Posted May 6, 2025

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NEW ARTICLE: Want to use LLMs to extract information at scale in sociology? @eollion.bsky.social @oms279.bsky.social and C. Ton have you covered. Read "From Codebooks to Promptbooks," now in Sociological Methods & Research doi.org/10.1177/0049... (Preprint @socarxiv.bsky.social: osf.io/wjvfq_v1)

"Officials from federal institutions have requested the withdrawal of articles supported by federal funds, citing concerns that they address politically sensitive topics such as transgender health." ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/epdf/10....

“The Demography of Sweden’s Transgender Population”: @martinkolk.bsky.social @ylvamoberg.bsky.social et al study transitions over 1973-2020, “a period of...legal advances, ↑ social acceptance & more accommodating HC system.” @stockholm-uni.bsky.social @sofi.su.se read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

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Opinion | There’s a Name for What Trump Is Doing to Trans People: Denationalizing

The message is that we are a threat to the nation. The subtext is that we are not of this nation.

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"Keshet and the Hebrew Free Loan Society are partnering to offer interest-free loans of up to $10,000 for individuals and families to support relocation costs to another state because of anti-LGBTQ+ laws, policies, and climate in their current state of residence."

Out today in The Chronicle of Higher Education, my official coming-out as bereaved. www.chronicle.com/article/canc...

Advice | Cancer, Grief, and Academic Life

A new assistant professor shines a light on living and working amid personal loss.

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"Tax data opens new opportunities for studying partnership histories, income and family dynamics of people across gender and sexual minority status. Using Canadian tax data, we find that ... (1/2) www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

I am happy to share that our #LGBTQ paper reviewing the socioeconomic and health impact of same-sex marriage legalization is now in print in JPAM! 🎉 @appam.bsky.social Huge thanks to my amazing coauthors @lbadgett.bsky.social Kitt Carpenter Maxine Lee Check it out here: doi.org/10.1002/pam....

A review of the effects of legal access to same‐sex marriage

On June 26, 2015, the United States Supreme Court extended nationwide legal access to same-sex marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges, following a series of court cases and legislative activities at the st...

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What defines the transgender population? We recently had a paper come out in SSM in which we explore this in Danish population data. We find that certain groups of transgender individuals, but not all, are disadvantaged in education, labour market outcomes, and health. Keen to hear your thoughts!

Transgender lives at the population level: Evidence from Danish administrative data

This paper provides the first rigorous account of the diverse characteristics of transgender individuals at the population level, using data from Dani…

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“Toward a New Approach to Creating Population-Representative Data for Demographic Research”: This web/mail data collection approach from @bradytwest.bsky.social et al. produces comparable estimates to the NSFG at less cost & in less time. Inst. for Social Research read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

"We provide evidence that the multiracial boom was largely a statistical illusion resulting from methodological changes that confounded ancestry with identity and mistakenly equated national origin with race." This month in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

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NEW: Paul Starr, Christina Pao, "The Multiracial Complication: The 2020 Census and the Fictitious Multiracial Boom."

My new article with Caitlyn Collins and Shamus Khan on constructing cases, generating claims, and generalizing conceptually in qualitative research is out in the @AnnualReviews. A big thank you to the qualitative scholars who inspired and informed our work! www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Our JSS article is out! And now I get to focus on {marginaleffects} 1.0.0. Stay tuned. www.jstatsoft.org/article/view...

Which is to say, just a little soft power is enough to chill knowledge production. journals.plos.org/plosmedicine...

The Chilling Effect: How Do Researchers React to Controversy?

Drawing on interview and survey data, Joanna Kempner's study finds that political controversies shape what many scientists choose not to study.

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Research note posted: “New Evidence From Census 2020 on the Residential Segregation of Same-Sex Households.” Amy Spring & @aminghaziani.bsky.social present data suggesting that "trends toward segregation by sexual orientation are declining in consistent ways.” read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

Holy crap this is an astounding piece of historical research Will post ungated link later today unless someone beats me to it www.nber.org/system/files...

Interested in theory-driven topic modeling? Check out our paper on using seeded LDA to analyze how the framing of immigration has evolved over 75 years.

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Want to avoid the tea leaves part when running topic models? The semi-supervised seeded (or constrained) topic model allows infusion of sociological knowledge when discovering meaning structures. Topics then are readily interpretable. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

In case you are also teaching students who should have better statistical foundations - for 'knowing wtf I'm doing' rather than 'deriving my new estimator' purposes - but who realistically are not going to take a course in that, a reminder that @mattblackwell.bsky.social's online booklet is great.

Pleased and grateful to have received two honorable mentions this year from the ASA section on the Sociology of Population and the ASA section on Race, Gender, Class, for my AJS paper on the Transgender Tipping Point! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

Has There Been a Transgender Tipping Point? Gender Identification Differences in U.S. Cohorts Born between 1935 and 20011 | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 128, No 1

Using a probability-based sample from 39 U.S. states from a general health survey, the author evaluates popular claims of a “transgender tipping point” by estimating probabilities of identifying as tr...

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Excited to be speaking at Princeton’s Queer Demography Summit next month! Grateful to Kris Velasco for organizing. Event will be hybrid, sign up at the link below: t.co/hpV9ndMSsu

Happy stone fruit season! 🍑🍒