📣 Join us for our upcoming June 30th virtual session - Wisconsin Knowledge Boost: What is the State of Child Care in Wisconsin? Registration is now open: uwmadison.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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This virtual session focuses on the current state of child care in Wisconsin including insights into policy and the implications for Wisconsinites. The session will begin with Dr. Alejandra Ros Pilarz,...

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⏰ Parenting in Sync 👪 @arpilarz.bsky.social & A. K. Walther’s new article in #Socius examines factors contributing to the decline in #tagteamparenting, including access to #nonparentalcare and shifting #employment demands Read: doi.org/10.1177/2378...

How I [almost, accidentally] submitted a paper with a fake, AI-generated citation. 🧵 (1/8)

Very excited about forthcoming @sfjournal.bsky.social with Jessie Himmelstern academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a... How has job insecurity changed over the past 1/2ish century?

APPAM attendees: Please join us for an APPAM community gathering, “Research on Women's Employment, Economic Wellbeing, and Health During the Period Surrounding Childbirth,” that Jessica Pac and I are organizing. Saturday, November 15 from 8:30am-9:30am in Hyatt Regency Room 702 - Clearwater.

Social workers (and friends) attending @appam.bsky.social in Seattle: we will meet for our annual happy hour on Friday night from 5-7 at Kells' Bar. Be in touch if you need details and share with your students/new colleagues. Looking forward! @arpilarz.bsky.social @calliefreitag.bsky.social

You've probably heard that US fertility is "below replacement level." But what does that actually mean??? Demographers @lesja.bsky.social & others explain the link between birth rates & population growth in this new @ccfamilies.bsky.social brief. contemporaryfamilies.utah.edu/publications...

Childcare is a public good. The return on investment is high (and VERY well-documented). It benefits children, mothers, families, businesses, and the economy. The lack of a robust childcare infrastructure is a choice the U.S. has made. We could make a different one. www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...

Will America finally treat child care as a public good? Some states are about to find out

In November, New Mexico will become the first state to offer free daycare for children as young as 6 weeks. On the other side of the country, child care is a key issue in New York City's mayoral elect...

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The Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work welcomes you to attend our 2025 PhD of Social Welfare Information Session on October 22nd from 12-1pm CST. This is a great opportunity to gain insights and ask questions about the program. Register here: forms.gle/vENsGdGj6fBW...

Please consider submitting an abstract!

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Call for papers! *The Next 100 Years: Reflections on the Centennial of SSR* To celebrate 100 years of SSR in 2026, the journal will publish a collection of thought-provoking papers exploring the history, current state, and future of social work and social welfare. Abstracts due September 15!

“The Price of Parenthood: Childcare Costs and Fertility”, which is @abigaildow.bsky.social’s excellent JMP is a really interesting look at the link between childcare and birthrates

Excited for this paper to be out! Mothers’ work schedules matter for child and family wellbeing, but we know little about how these have changed over time. We find that while, on average, rates of mothers' nonstandard schedules have been stable over time, trends vary substantially across subgroups.

Demography - the flagship journal of PAA@readdemography.bsky.social · last yr.

“Trends in Mothers’ Work Schedules, 1988-2019”: @arpilarz.bsky.social & Walther find ↑ gaps in “the propensity to work nonstandard schedules by...education, family structure, and race & ethnicity.” @uwsocialwork.bsky.social @irpwisc.bsky.social @cdeuw.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

1/ For ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for public service, we reported on five pregnant women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans. These are their stories 🧵

Head Start, which serves over 800K children and their families all over the country, was hit hard today by the HHS layoffs. <1% of HS’s annual funding is spent on federal staff. nhsa.org/press_releas...

US faculty and anyone who cares about academic freedom: I urge you to check out @wearehighered.bsky.social * read through compelling letters signed by thousands of faculty * learn about upcoming actions in which you can participate * spread the word to encourage others to get involved, too !

We Are Higher Ed@wearehighered.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hello, Bluesky!! We are a collective of academics who are standing up for higher education. Join us: www.wearehighered.org

Seven polling sites in Milwaukee ran out of ballots due to "historic turnout" according to city election director. More ballots are being printed and on way. Very important to remind voters that if they're in line when polls close at 8 CT they get to vote. Do not leave. Please spread the word

Did you know that roughly one-third of children and families receiving Head Start services live in the Big Ten states? @arpilarz.bsky.social contributes to a new brief on the benefits of Head Start and how it serves children and families in Big Ten states. btela.osu.edu/our-work/hea...

AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...

As federal research grants continue to be frozen, and NIH staff is being gutted, please note this study was funded by federal research grants, including from NIH. If they continue with staff cuts, and continue to freeze new awards, this is just one example of what we lose.

Chise@sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 2y ago

THIS IS HUGE! A cancer vaccine developed by Yale University and DFCI shows MAJOR promise. Results of an early-phase trial reveal ALL patients with ADVANCED stage kidney cancer had successful anti-cancer immune responses AND have remained CANCER-FREE approximately THREE years after treatment. 🧪🧵⬇️

My new report, on shorter-run economic benefits of Michigan's state pre-K program, was released today by @upjohninstitute.bsky.social . This links to the Research Highlights page, from which you can access the full report: www.upjohn.org/research-hig...

Michigan’s Great Start Readiness Program yields positive economic return

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Does anyone have any info on when the SIPP online codebook will be back up? Or happen to have a downloadable version of the codebook? This is for the 2014 and later panels, which only had the online interactive codebook.

this is the development that most fills me with dread www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/u...

Tent City Rising at Guantánamo Bay (Gift Article)

These are the first independent images to emerge from the migrant operation that the Trump administration has begun at the Navy base.

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Updates to google doc: a spreadsheet for data at risk (It is a WIP). Info from ICPSR about their efforts. Added headings for accessibility. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Data Rescue Efforts

Data Rescue 2025 Efforts and More Updated 2025-02-06 These suggestions come from various sources, including IASSIST, RDAP, Data Curation Network, BlueSky, LinkedIn, and others. A librarian at a unive...

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COPAFS (copafs.org) has drafted a letter to Senate and House leadership. You can sign on as an individual or institution. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Worried about losing access to US federal data that may go off-line, or already is? You’re not alone—but duplication isn’t the answer. Many ongoing efforts have already archived key datasets and many more are ongoing. Check out these existing resources and, if you can, support their work. 🧵

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Associate Prof @arpilarz.bsky.social quoted: “If you’re eligible for a subsidy and there’s just no child care in your community, or no providers that accept subsidies, that’s going to make it a lot harder for you to actually participate in (Wisconsin) Shares."

Wisconsin child care costs soar, but thousands miss out on state aid

Child care costs more for some families than housing. Despite the strain, 39% fewer children receive state aid than 13 years ago.

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DATA RELEASE WHEN DATA FEELS SCARCE! Check out data.epi.org -a data repository with 78,000+ series on topics like employment, wages, poverty, and inequality. You can get many measures by gender, race and state! I've been working with our @epi.org team to build this and am so proud of the result

Topics - EPI Library

The EPI Data Library offers comprehensive, up-to-date labor data from Economic Policy Institute analysis, covering wages, inequality, and economic trends across demographics.

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The Notice of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs) page of the Population Dynamics Branch of the NICHD is now dead.

🚨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.

I'm just a simple country public administration professor so maybe smarter people than me can explain if these options can't work and if others are better, but there is no strategy that involves waiting for something bigger than right now.

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Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 2y ago

Just spitballing, but things that could happen today: *Court injunction protecting USAID *Dems demand hearings on Musk's role *Someone introduce articles of impeachment *Dem officeholders go to USAID offices with USAID workers *Refuse to conduct any more Senate confirmations until this is resolved