Registration is open for the @umichstonecid.bsky.social April 10 conference on measuring and theorizing structural racism. Check out the schedule & panelists, and register: structural-racism.isr.umich.edu

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...

‼️New @ccfamilies.bsky.social Brief Report ‼️ How Do We Know When Fertility Is Too Low? Falling birth rates have fueled worries about “below replacement” fertility. But the link between today’s fertility rate and long-term population decline isn’t so simple. Check it out here: 🔗 bit.ly/4hjOHyS

I'm immensely proud of the work done by the faculty, staff, and students of @uncpopcenter.bsky.social. Learn more about the excellent population science work being done at the Carolina Population Center - and the amazing people behind it - in our new report.

CPC Annual Report | Carolina Population Center

cpc.unc.edu

They know they won't be in power forever. So, they're breaking as much as they can right now, in the hope that whoever follows them won't be able to put it all back together.

Lena Sun@lenasun.bsky.social · 12mo ago

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.” Among those RIFd: —leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases; —leadership of global health center —leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

👇🏿💯

Sarah J. Jackson@sjjphd.bsky.social · 12mo ago

I just want to live in a world where kids learn civics and history in school and words mean things.

🚨 We’re hiring! Yale Sociology is searching for a Senior Quantitative Sociologist to join our department. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/174709

Indeed, UNC-CH Sociology is hiring again! Check it out and please share. :)

Neal Caren@haphazardsoc.bsky.social · last yr.

Carolina Sociology is hiring! • Tenure-track in computational sociology or advanced quantitative methods • Open rank in population health. unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307... unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Aren't these happy Lego potted plants the cutest? (Yay for more office plants that I can't kill! 😆) #lego #plants #officeswag #selfcare

Excited to get my copy of Inherited Inequality, such an important new book by the brilliant Dr. Christina Cross @christinajcross.bsky.social! I look forward to reading it and teaching it! 😊 #Sociology #Policy #Families #Inequality

JOB ALERT FOR #SOCIOLOGIST: Come work with me. We have FOUR Assistant Professor positions in the Sociology Department at the University of Calgary. careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1672106...

Assistant Professors - Sociology, Faculty of Arts in Calgary, AB, ...

Assistant Professors - Sociology, Faculty of Arts in Calgary, AB, ...

careers.ucalgary.ca

"A lot of people have TOO much to say on topics they DON'T know enough about." - a wise student in my first year seminar course 💯💯💯

In the face of attacks on research, education, and humanity, we're stronger together than we are on our own. So, I'm deeply grateful to get to be part of the ASA leadership team, to serve alongside Dr. Young, and to help members build solidarity and champion the essential work of sociology.

American Sociological Association@asanews.bsky.social · last yr.

We are pleased to announce that Alford Young, Jr. @umich.edu has been elected the 2026-2027 ASA President, and Jessica Calarco, University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been elected Vice President. Read full election results: https://bit.ly/3mFBhFz.

Nature ran a piece finding that 25 million people could die as a result of ending USAID. This puts Trump and Musk in the category of the most brutal leaders of the 20th century in terms of unnecessary lives lost. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Zack Beauchamp@zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · last yr.

If this is even remotely accurate, Elon Musk and Donald Trump have killed more people in several months than the Iraq war killed in a decade

This is shameful. The UNC Board of Trustees fails to vote on all tenure cases in Arts & Sciences, holding faculty in limbo without any explanation or timeline. This affects both assistant profs up for tenure and new tenured hires. www.chronicle.com/article/at-c...

At Chapel Hill, Only Health-Sciences Professors Have Been Getting Tenure

The UNC Chapel Hill board hasn’t tenured a single professor in fields outside the health sciences since January. The inaction has prompted confusion and alarm among faculty.

chronicle.com

💯 This! ⬇️

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · last yr.

When professors experience racism (sexism, homophobia, transphobia, etc) at work, that’s part of their service load. It takes work to deal with that and still come back and do your job. That’s service to the department. It’s deeply unfair service. But it is service.

Our Annual Review of Sociology article on conceptualizing and measuring structural racism is now available. Get it while studying racism is still legal. @tyson-brown.bsky.social @pahoman.bsky.social (also, lots of great articles are in this volume). www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects

A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …

kfor.com

I've really enjoyed never having to think about measles in my ENTIRE 49 years of life. I guess it was a good run

WIRED@wired.com · last yr.

A new study forecasts more than 850,000 measles cases over the next 25 years if US vaccination rates stay the same. Millions of infections are possible if rates drop. www.wired.com/story/scient...

YES to all of this!! Such a great thread. Thank you @hebagowayed.bsky.social for keeping it real!🖤

Heba Gowayed هبة جويد@hebagowayed.bsky.social · last yr.

"Refugees are the most vetted, no refugee has ever committed an act of terror" "If an immigrant commits a crime, all immigrants should be sanctioned" Both sentences, one "pro immigration" one against use the same logic. If we're ever to get out of this, we must insist all humans are just human. ➕

The plans the WH is considering are not those seen in other high-income countries that aim to facilitate work & childrearing. They are not investing in childcare infrastructure or paid parental leave programs. They want to return to a time when women were dependent on men. Pronatalism is sexist.

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · last yr.

Shutting down Head Start might seem at odds with the administration's pronatalist aims. But they're actually closely aligned. Because moms who can't find/afford childcare often end up leaving the workforce. And once they're home full-time, it often seems reasonable to have more kids.

Shooting memorial cancelled because of a shooting is so very American.

the pronatalist movement and the anti-women's-rights movement are one, and they go hand in hand with pro-poverty and anti-ed policy that hurts children. have kids, even though they and you will suffer. effective control over women AND the children

Aaron Sojourner@aaronsojourner.org · last yr.

Update: Note that Head Start was born out of the Civil Rights Movement, a federal investment in America' promise of equal opportunity & in our children from the most disadvantaged communities & families. bsky.app/profile/emil...

It's so great to see some GREAT news these days! Huge congrats Heba @hebagowayed.bsky.social on your well-deserved Carnegie Fellowship!!! Your book project is such an IMPORTANT and timely one, and I am so glad I got to hear more about it during your recent visit. 😊 Congrats, again! 👏🏾🥂🥳

CUNY Graduate Center@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social · last yr.

Congratulations to Prof. @hebagowayed.bsky.social, who has been awarded an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship to write a book that exposes the human costs of guarding borders against migrants www.gc.cuny.edu/news/graduat...

this is the way

Senator Chris Van Hollen@vanhollen.senate.gov · last yr.

I've been clear: if President Bukele doesn't want to meet here in D.C., then I intend to go to El Salvador this week to check on Kilmar Abrego Garcia's condition and discuss his release. Kilmar was illegally ABDUCTED and deported by the Trump Admin. He must be brought home NOW.

1/2 - So, let me get this straight...the Trump admin has denied NC's FEMA aid request for Hurricane Helene, yet the recently proposed NC House Bill 812 would allocate $10 million to UNC-P "to construct a Presidential Library in honor of President Donald John Trump"!? www.newsweek.com/trump-denies...

Trump denies FEMA aid extension in state he won three times

In the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, President Donald Trump voiced sharp criticism of FEMA's response in North Carolina.

newsweek.com

"Trump's firings included the entire office that sets federal poverty guidelines which determine whether tens of millions of Americans are eligible for health programs such as Medicaid, food assistance, child care, and other services, former staff said." www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tru...

Trump HHS eliminates office that sets poverty levels tied to benefits for at least 80 million people

Recent cuts eliminated a small, specialized workforce that sets the poverty standards determining who is eligible for Medicaid as well as assistance with food, home heating, child care, and more.

cbsnews.com