Gathering for Good: Holiday Socializing Keeps You Sharp Holiday celebrations often mean that healthy habits go out the door. But one joy of the season—spending time with other people—actually has brain benefits.

Check out this great blog post by Deb Umberson and Karen Fingerman on the importance of socializing

Graduate students! AKD invites you to submit your papers!

The deadline to submit is April 15, 2025 and winners will receive cash prizes (up to $1,000) and travel funds to attend the @asanews.bsky.social annual meeting.

Learn more at the link: alphakappadelta.org/awards/gradu...

Thanks! It helps to have great interdisciplinary collaborators, which makes it much easier!

Just got a co-authored paper accepted in JGPS. This completes what I'm calling the Journals of Gerontology EGOT: a publication in each of the Journals of Gerontology (Social, Biological, Medical, and Psychological Sciences). I'd like to thank all the people who helped me get to where I am today 😁

@drcompton.bsky.social created a few starter packs for Sociology. Here's a link to one of them: go.bsky.app/QqTLQau

go.bsky.app/QqTLQau In case you wanted a link to one of the starter packs of sociologists.

Feeling a bit of fomo from missing #GSA2024 this year, but hope to see everyone at the next conference!

I'd like to be added. I study social relationships and health.

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #1,160,151, Patti Thomas ‪@patti-thomas.bsky.social‬, joined on Sep 21, 2023"

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,160,151!

I made a Sociology Starter Pack. Its just a start, so let me know if you want to be added.
go.bsky.app/QqTLQau

Patricia A. Thomas ‪Associate Professor of Sociology, Purdue University‬ - ‪‪Cited by 3,002‬‬ - ‪health‬ - ‪aging and life course‬ - ‪social relationships‬ - ‪social position‬ - ‪health inequality‬

Excited that I just surpassed 3000 citations! scholar.google.com/citations?us...

Photo overlooking the water, with sunshine and palm trees near GSA convention center.

Enjoyed my time at #GSA2023 this past weekend.

I hope Bluesky will make Twitter be my eX 😉

Trying this place out to avoid X/Twitter. Looking forward to following academic folks mostly.