ECSR Thematic Conference on the Life Course and Social Stratification, 23-24 April, University of Trento. Smaller thematic conferences like these are usually the best place to present and network, imo. Submit by 22 February. sites.google.com/unitn.it/ecs...

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Call for Abstracts for the ECSR Thematic Conference Life Course and Social Stratification 23-24 April 2026, University of Trento, Italy The Life Course approach has gained powerful traction across th...

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Hello Bluesky friends, I have a newly redesigned website at WolfeSociology.com! Would love feedback but mainly I just wanted to let anyone who's interested know a little bit more about me and my research.

📢 Join us: January’s Mentor of the Month session on: The current climate for federal funding of medical sociological research 📢 Co-hosted by ASA Medical Sociology section & Mental Health section! When: Friday January 30, 2026: 3 pm (EST)/12 pm PST #ASA #MedicalSociology #Funding #Academia

Friends and colleagues, Please encourage your undergraduate students to apply for our 3rd annual summer REU program centered on the interdisciplinary study of race, power, and the politics of place, all set within the context of the dynamic and vibrant American South.

Women with early unintended births have more unsecured debt at midlife than those without an unintended birth. New work with Mieke Beth Thomeer, @wolfesociology.bsky.social, and Shantay Williams is out in @demresjournal.bsky.social!

Demographic Research@demresjournal.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Long arm consequences of unintended childbearing in the US? Women with early unintended births report more unsecured debt at midlife. New research using the NLSY79. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol... @cliffordross.bsky.social

🚨 Job! 🚨 Brown Sociology & the Watson School of International & Public Affairs are hiring a TT assistant professor whose research focuses on social policy (broadly conceived). Apply by 9/15: apply.interfolio.com/172655 Happy to chat about life at Brown, etc!

We're hiring! Please share with your networks! The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the field of demography of health and aging beginning in August 2026 jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor - 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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One year researcher position in Madrid with possible extension, pre or postdoc flexible

Mariña Fernández Reino@mfreino.bsky.social · last yr.

📢 *Call for Applications* / 📢 *Convocatoria abierta* Join our project on Prejudice & Discrimination at the Spanish National Research Council (Madrid 🇪🇸) Open to junior scholars at different stages (postdocs, predocs, or MSc grads considering a PhD) 🔗 ⬇️ www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zrur0...

I uploaded more participant interviews from my first wave of my #PSLF study. Jessica, Adam, and Nikki W. Hear their stories along the major themes (e.g. suicidal ideation, Student Loan Pause, Forgiveness). These stories are timely given recent changes and ED behavior. padlet.com/dcllier6/bal...

Balancing Acts - Narratives from Student Loan Borrowers in Public Service Loan Forgiveness and Income Driven Repayment

Share your ideas and comment on others!

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I'm seeing a lot of bad reporting today about these possible changes. Some outlets (not this one) are confusing ACIP and the vaccine compensation program, thinking that RFK can simply fire people and say that autism is now a compensable vaccine injury, for example. It's trickier than that! 🧵 1/x

RFK Jr. says he has a team working on changes to the vaccine injury compensation program

RFK Jr. wants to change federal programs that helps people injured by vaccines, though he may need Congress to do so.

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Tell Congress to Reject President Trump's Proposed FY 2026 Cuts to NIH and NSF and Review Agency Reorganization Proposals www.congressweb.com/POPASSOC/4?f...

Tell Congress to Reject President Trump's Proposed FY 2026 Cuts to NIH and NSF and Review Agency Reorganization Proposals

Dear PAA member, As reported by the PAA Office of Government Affairs, (https://www.populationassociation.org/blogs/paa-web2/2025/06/18/fiscal-year-2026-deliberations-begin-raising-the-s) on May 30, ...

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A month ago, my R01 grant was one of many terminated in the Trump administration’s purge. Today, I was proud to sign my name alongside the many NIH employees who wrote the Bethesda declaration, including my amazing PO, Dr. Jenna Norton. Add your name: www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...

Excited to share that I am joining New Books Network as a Host for sociology! Have a great sociology book and want to talk about it on the podcast?? Shoot me an email: mrosino@molloy.edu or pitch your book here newbooksnetwork.com/authors

This is why I think it's so important and powerful for faculty and staff and leaders of colleges and universities to stand up for our work, our values, our students, and ultimately our democracy. Faculty can do a lot: 1) write a campus letter to your leaders bit.ly/CampusLetters2025 2) (cont.)

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · last yr.

US higher ed is: *an incredible tool of soft power *which generates billions, subsidizing US students *attracts the brightest people in the world to come here, and allows the US to retain the best of them For Rubio & Trump, these are problems to be fixed. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-attack...

Academics (and others!) want to fight back against the attacks on higher education and democracy (and diversity and civil rights and trans people and immigrants and and and...). Our letter is at bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEd and is designed so that ANYONE can sign. There are other letters - thread

Friday is the Deadline for Scholarships! #freemoney

ICPSR Summer Program@icpsrsummer.bsky.social · 2y ago

Scholarship applications the 2025 ICPSR Summer Program close Friday! $150k in scholarships available! Apply by February 28. For more details: https://buff.ly/4gWtmJX #SumProg25 #ICPSR #QuantitativeMethods #ScholarshipOpportunities #GraduateStudies #Edusky #Academicsky

There’s a lot going on I know, but I want to encourage SOC of Education scholars to submit their papers to the #ASA2025 conference portal - due 2/26! I’m a session organizer and we need more papers! @soceducation.bsky.social

Thank you @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social and @ccfamilies.bsky.social for letting us chat about our recent #AJS! Our paper studies cohort change in the educational costs of adolescent childbearing for women who lived during distinct periods of U.S. history in terms of gender equality (1/6)

Alicia M Walker🌊🏳️‍🌈@aliciamwalker1.bsky.social · 2y ago

What's the educational costs of teen births? @wolfesociology.bsky.social & Mieke Beth Thomeer tell us this week @ccfamilies.bsky.social blog hosted by @thesocietypages.bsky.social . Check it out here: thesocietypages.org/ccf/

What's the educational costs of teen births? @wolfesociology.bsky.social & Mieke Beth Thomeer tell us this week @ccfamilies.bsky.social blog hosted by @thesocietypages.bsky.social . Check it out here: thesocietypages.org/ccf/

We are gearing up at the Survey Research Center at ISR at the University of Michigan--to review, rethink, and potentially create new ways to approach survey research at the representative population level. If you have written anything on this or have a favorite paper to share-send it my way. Thx

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ALT: a man wearing a beanie and a black jacket is smiling and saying `` yeah , science '' .

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Sending out decisions on manuscripts this morning. From the editor's perspective, rejections are super common, and so even if rejections are annoying from the author perspective, remember that most papers are rejected, even good ones. #sociology

My op-ed in @newsweek.com "When it comes to improving public health, we cannot keep privileging personal preference. Individual health is inseparable from population health." www.newsweek.com/rfks-policie...

RFK's Policies Sound Populist, But Indulge Elite Fantasies | Opinion

President-elect Donald Trump is stacking the Department of Health and Human Services with people who are poised to favor the health fantasies of the rich.

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Release 4 of the 2022 GSS, along with cumulative cross-sectional files, is now available. Includes interviewer characteristics, survey paradata, new calculations of occupational prestige, & new data on HH structure & relationship information. gss.norc.org #sociology #sociosky #polisky #econsky 📈📉

One thing Cecilia L. Ridgeway knows? That everyday status really does matter. Check out her new essay for Contexts! journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

🚨ATTENTION🚨 Applications are now open for our 2025 summer research experience for undergraduate (REU) program at the University of Mississippi, “Interdisciplinary Study of Race, Power, and the Politics of Place.” olemiss.edu/departments/...

As red states begin attacking sociology, be sure to remind your Republican friends/family that Reagan was a sociology major. Not my favorite fun fact but 🤷‍♂️ www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/u...

ASA is pleased to announce the 2025 candidates for ASA officers and members of Council, Committee on Committees, Nominating Committee, & Publications Committee. Ballots will be sent on 4/16 to all members whose membership remains active 4/1-6/1.

Elections | American Sociological Association

2025 ASA Election

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I've started an extremely baby starter pack for medical sociology. Please help me expand it! go.bsky.app/KrqLzcR

The search committee has started reviewing applications, but there is still time to get yours in (or to alert someone who qualifies)! We are searching for a tenure-track assistant professor in criminology www.uah.edu/hr/careers/f...

Faculty | Employment Opportunities | Human Resources | UAH | The University of Alabama in Huntsville

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I made a Starter Pack! But I got tired after 70 names. Intended to be inclusive of the #work-family adjacent and interdisciplinary Reply if you'd like to be added and please RT @wfrn.bsky.social @cwfjournal.bsky.social go.bsky.app/63Jq944 #Sociology #Demography #hdfs #PoliSky #academicsky