“So next time someone tells you Canada’s fires can be solved by raking the forests, you can point out that the thing filling their sky with smoke is a lightning-struck, drought-primed boreal forest doing what a warming climate is making it do more and more often.”

Canada's boreal wildfires aren't just bad forest management

Higher fire season temperatures are strongly correlated with increased area burned

theclimatebrink.com

This is hardly a new policy; Canada's had an "active" parent sponsorship program but it's been closed to new applications for the last six years. This just makes it even more official. Yes, that's right: 🇨🇦's had 2,300,000 new immigrants since Nov 2020, and accepted *zero* parent sponsorship apps.

Canada pauses applications for parent, grandparent immigration sponsorship program | CBC News

The federal government will not accept any new applications this year from people who want to sponsor their parents and grandparents to come to Canada as permanent residents. Immigration, Refugees and...

cbc.ca

Nice reminder from Richard Feynman of some of the benefits of teaching.

Is there really a fertility "crisis"? Beyond Birth Rates: Advancing a Pro-Alignment Approach to Low Fertility in North America A conference on August 20th, 2026. This event is hybrid and can be attended in person at McGill University (Montreal) or online. www.mcgill.ca/popcentre/ev... 1/

UW-Madison Sociology is hiring! We're inviting applications for an assistant professor position in the fields of demography, soc of population, and health, to begin August 2027. Come join @uwsoc.bsky.social and the great @cdeuw.bsky.social! Apply here: jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor of Sociology - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

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The 250th 'birthday' of the US has folks wondering what the future may look like. For demographers, it's helpful to look at the accuracy of past population projections. In 1970, the Census projected the US pop in 2020 would be between 299 and 440 million. The actual pop in 2020 was 331 million. 1/

Great plain language summary of new research from CGSP affiliate @leafiaye.bsky.social Being “half-included” in American society takes a toll on immigrant health, study finds | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

“The election on Sunday is a product of Switzerland’s form of direct democracy, which allows groups that can gather 100,000 signatures to send major policy questions to voters with relative ease, in a way that echoes states like California. Polls suggest a tight contest that could go either way.”

Should Switzerland Cap Its Population at 10 Million? Voters Will Decide.

nytimes.com

There's a common notion that acculturation harms immigrant health, but acculturation is multidimensional (e.g., linguistic, residential, social). My new work shows it's the *mismatch* between dimensions - not acculturation itself - that explains immigrants' health decline: doi.org/10.1177/0022...

Is Acculturation the Culprit? Acculturative Discordance and Immigrants’ Later-Life Health - Leafia Zi Ye, 2026

Immigrants have similar or higher disability levels than the U.S.-born in later life, which is puzzling given they have a health advantage upon arrival. A popul...

doi.org

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:

“…We demonstrate that mobile device data can detect miscarriage and replicate patterns of miscarriage risk found in high-quality Norwegian administrative data and in US clinical cohorts.” -Jenna Nobles, Lindsay Cannon, Sungsik Hwang, Shannon Malloy, Katie Noddin & Allen J. Wilcox

Mobile device data for the study of miscarriage and its causes - npj Women's Health

npj Women's Health - Mobile device data for the study of miscarriage and its causes

nature.com

Bad news for capricorns: they earn less than other zodiac signs Good news for capricorns: it's not due to their zodiac sign

Another blockbuster from @pewresearch.org, on whether silicon samples can accurately simulate human survey respondent answers. They can’t.

The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.

But this year's was hands down the most flip-resistant badge ever, which I loved!!

Fumiya Uchikoshi@ufsoc.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I’ve been attending PAA since 2018. Looking at the badges over the last five years, I’ve sensed that budget cuts are happening everywhere!

More housing won’t automatically mean fairer housing. In my latest piece, I argue that without addressing anti-Black racism, Canada’s housing agenda risks scaling inequality—not solving it. metropolitics.org/Build-Canada...

“Build Canada Homes” Will Fail Without Confronting Anti-Black Racism – Metropolitics

Canada's new housing agency risks repeating the same injustices that produced today's uneven housing crisis unless it embeds anti-racist frameworks in its development plans. When the federal…

metropolitics.org

I usually only support blue birds 🇨🇦, but it was fun cheering for some red birds this afternoon to kick start PAA in St. Louis!! 😄

Pierre Bourdieu once argued that the question of whether something is art isn't answered by the artist's intention or even the object itself. Instead, the quality of being "art" is conferred by a community — curators, dealers, auction houses, audiences, etc. 🧵

I had a really fun visit to the Division of Social Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology! Always good to be back in HK and will never get tired of this ocean view 🥰 Thanks @jiaxinshi.bsky.social for hosting me!!

A new experiment, suggested by a student: I fed my reading response prompt for @larivera.bsky.social's Pedigree to ChatGPT & Claude. I then sent the responses to students and encouraged them to outperform it. First, the prompt

Thanks Zhenchao for visiting us and for sharing your fascinating research on intermarriages!! It was eye-opening, despite what my face suggests 👀

Toronto Population Network@tpn-uoft.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Yesterday we had the chance to host Zhenchao Qian and hear about his fascinating research on interethnic and interracial marriage among Asian Americans. Thank you Professor Qian for an engaging talk as part of our POP Speaker Series! Join us April 21 for our next installment!

In radio in Ireland, the “accent ceiling” persists. On volunteer-run community radio, there’s room for people with all kinds of accents – but it’s rare to move beyond that. read more here www.dublininquirer.com/in-radio-in-...

In radio in Ireland, the “accent ceiling” persists

On volunteer-run community radio, there’s room for people with all kinds of accents – but it’s rare to move beyond that.

dublininquirer.com

As #scotus hears arguments on #birthrightcitizenship today, I put together a video explaining my research with Jenny Van Hook @readdemography.bsky.social. That work is now featured in the @nytimes.com tinyurl.com/3r4cum44

Important work documenting the scale of the impact of ending birthright citizenship: "we project 41 “unauthorized” births per 1,000 unauthorized Asians, compared with 17 “unauthorized” births per 1,000 among Latinos."

U.S. Migration Metrics@usmigrationmetrics.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Research by Jenny Van Hook and @nicolekreisberg.bsky.social on the Ending of Birthright Citizenship and its Disparate Impacts is now published in @readdemography.bsky.social , click the link to read more. Follow @usmigrationmetrics.bsky.social for more. url: read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

I'd put Degrassi somewhere in between Toronto and the Quaint Suburbs. It's not too far from the location of Kim's Convenience though (Moss Park) Also feels like Scott Pilgrim should be in there somewhere but maybe it overlaps with nirvanna the band the show.

ℳatt@matttomic.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The atmosphere layers of central Ontario in pop culture

This was fun! 😆

Angela Carollo@angelacar.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Alright, beat me! I am currently at the fourth place 😏

📣One more #tenuretrack Assistant Professor job going at TCD Sociology! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQY837/a... Closing date: April 20 @tcdsociology.bsky.social @isa-rc28.bsky.social @eaps.bsky.social

Assistant Professor in Sociology at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin

Apply for the Assistant Professor in Sociology role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

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Excited to be on this panel in two weeks!

Phil Triadafilopoulos@philtriadafilos.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Please join us for our next Harney lecture, Who Thrives in Canada? Health, Prosperity, and Inequality Across Communities, Tuesday April 7, 5-7pm. We have an all-star panel but only a few seats left, so please register soon! For details and registration, see: munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/who-th...

COME WORK WITH ME! Our job ad is now up! Molloy University is hiring an assistant professor (TT) in Sociology - preferences toward specialties in health, gender, immigration. Small private college with teaching focus and commuting distance to NYC! #academicjobs workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...