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Screenshot of four different jobs from the NY Mag feature about what people make in NYC: "Home Health Aide $23,000 I've been a home health aide for ten years. My main patient last year was in Brooklyn. I spent most of my time taking care of her. I worked two days a week, and I was being paid for 13 hours of work each day - my agency, Loyal Home Care, budgets eight hours of sleep and three hours for mealtimes into our wages. But I was basically working 24 hours a day. She was active, and I was worried she would fall, so I would watch her all day and night. This is a pretty common experience for health aides. The agency can deny our overtime, but you can't deny a patient. When they say, "Oh, I need a drink of water; I need to use the bathroom," how could you possibly say "no" to them? Bronx Day-Care Worker $31,000 $16,600 from day-care profits $14,400 from trainings and consulting Last year, I lost a lot of kids. I live in the Bronx, and a bunch of families in my neighborhood lost their child-care vouchers. We're talking about people who make as much as I do; most of the moms I work with are home health aides. They can't afford full-time child care. If I have 16 kids, I can pay myself for 40 hours of work. But last year, I didn't, and obviously I'm still doing the same amount of work. I've been running the day care out of my home for more than seven years. It's a profession I entered out of necessity and have stayed in out of passion. I pay for everything - food, cleaning supplies, toys - and we have to meet the same requirements as a large company in terms of paying for liability insurance, which can feel pointless in this industry. I mean, if something happens to one of my children, I lose my license. End of story."

It's all so clear

📢 Join us at the first meeting of the new EAPS Working Group on Migrant Health in Bologna!
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Conservatives want schools to teach this strict life path they say avoids poverty Bills in at least seven GOP-led states would require lessons on the “success sequence.” Critics say it ignores systemic challenges and stigmatizes non-traditional families.

I am begging journalists to talk to family sociologists, demographers, and economists who have studied the success sequence quite a bit. 1/n

This was so great! Fabulous set of speakers

Amazing!! Congrats Lauren 🥳

Me with the poster for my talk

Lots of snow everywhere!

I had a great time presenting my work at the University of Utah this week...on their snowiest day of the year no less!! ☃️

Thanks for hosting me @chiarapackard.bsky.social and to everyone for attending! :)

Thanks for visiting us @lucampesando.bsky.social !! What a great talk!

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Airing my grievances with wellbeing science We have a streetlight problem

if i could make you read ONE (1) single post to improve your understanding of the challenges of social science in general it would be this one from @markfabian.bsky.social about wellbeing science specifically

profmarkfabian.substack.com/p/airing-my-...

Headline: "Scientists discover emperor penguin colony in Antarctica using satellite images"

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

Grants.gov text about PA-26-002 NIH Collaborative International Research Project (Parent PF5 Clinical Trial Optional)

New NIH guidance/mechanism for research with international partners is out. Note that you need to click on "related documents" & download the zip file to see the NOFO text with the details.

www.grants.gov/search-resul...

Current weather in Toronto: about to receive snowfall of great research 🌨️🤓

Poster showing speakers for the TPN seminar series

The Toronto Population Network @tpn-uoft.bsky.social Seminar Series is happening this semester, with a great line-up, including @lucampesando.bsky.social, Orsola Torrisi, @mdhayward.bsky.social, and @jnobles.bsky.social! Starts next Tuesday. If you're in Toronto please come along!

Average agreement with the statement "I often feel very lonely" plotted over time

I started reading up on the whole "loneliness pandemic" narrative because this seems like a literature where the age-period-cohort problem may be relevant (or maybe it isn't?).

Here's data from Australia (HILDA), average agreement with the statement "I often feel very lonely" (SD of ca. 1.8).>

& happy first day of the semester in 🇨🇦 to all who celebrate. 😂

Finished teaching my first class of the semester. Next instructor came in, put down her stuff, we chatted a bit, I left. 30 seconds later she ran out in a panic...

I was wearing BOTH my backpack (black, generic-looking) and hers (black, generic-looking). One on the front, one on the back. 🤦‍♀️

Asking rents in select Canadian metros

Asking rent data out from StatCan today for Q2 and Q3 2025.

Freshman year: took soc 101, couldn't even figure out what soc was, cried

Senior year: graduating with a soc major, still didn't get what soc was, cried

Grad school: cried a lot just because

Asst prof: What is sociology? What a fascinating question that we'll get to explore together this semester

"What *is* sociology, exactly?"

Sir I have no idea.

This is amazing. If you haven't reveled in the glory that is the IPUMS international census archive, you should! Here's something I made from it: "The Rise of One-Person Households" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

A fascinating study with troubling implications. I commend this thread for your reading!

A glorious selfie with the official MAHA lanyard seconds after I made it past Secret Service screening.

About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in.

Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Uh…

So it was significant 😌

@uoftsociology.bsky.social @cgsp-cpsm.bsky.social

Joanna, Monica, and Leafia standing in front of the Toronto Population Network banner

A full room of attendees listening to Ridhi Kashyap (Oxford)'s keynote lecture

The Toronto Population Network had its very first mini-conference at Hart House last Thursday, and it was such an amazing event!! Thanks everyone for coming & can't wait for what's next 💙

P.S. trying to get the "confidence intervals overlapping" photo pose trending. it clearly has potential, eh?

the worse the shared draft the better the friend

Att fà barn efter 40 - en nygammal trend? Fruktsamhetstal för kvinnor 40-44 är och 45-49 ar, 1751-2024 Antal födda barn per 1 000 kvinnor 140 120 100 80 60 40 20 ... 1750 1800 1850 ・・・ 1900 - 40-44 ăr —45-49 ăr — Ảr 1950 2000

Sweden, the place with the best historical data, finds that a larger percentage of births in the late 1800s (12%) were by mothers over age 40 than today (5%). I extremely did not know this

www.scb.se/hitta-statis...

In “Goodbye Norway,” @afconstant.bsky.social Astri Syse & Marianne Tönnessen study 1st-generation working-age immigrants & show how returnees & onward migrants differ by their education & earnings. @pennpsc.bsky.social @cesifo.org o.org @nibrresearch.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

We are building a new pop center at UofT and will hold our first mini-conference on Nov 6 - come join us!!

Exhibit 1: amazing speaker line-up - featuring friends around the world to discuss why demography/pop center matters! 🤓

Exhibit 2: the iconic castle where this conference will take place 🏰 ✨