WEBINAR:
Supporting Family Caregivers: New Data, New Resources
Wed May 06, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm ET
More info: ihpi.umich.edu/news-events/...
Registration: umich.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Lance Lochner and Betsy Caucutt @westernu.ca are presenting on #PSIDdata focusing on the Child Development Supplement to tell us about Child Skill Production: Accounting for Parental and Market-Based Time and Goods Investments.
#EconSky @um-src.bsky.social @umisr.bsky.social
New research using #NHATS / #NSOC by Choi and Marti:
doi.org/10.1080/0731...
“Work and volunteering were cross-sectionally associated with lower loneliness at T1, whereas social network site visits were associated with higher loneliness."
Register now for the PSID User Workshop at the 2026 ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods! The PSID logo is at the top against a teal background with the registration deadline on the right. The link to register online is at the bottom.
Last chance! Registration closes TODAY for our Summer Workshop. Join us in Ann Arbor, MI 6/15-19 to explore the core #PSID interview, its special topics & supplemental studies. #AcademicSky
Get the details on this 5-day, in-person workshop & register by EOD today: myumi.ch/QwRd3
“Classroom teachers are no longer just educators; we’re therapists, crisis responders and case managers, all while trying to meet academic benchmarks.” In The Sociological Review magazine, former teacher Iza Munir Hamdani shares her experience of burnout.
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ChatGPT is a website. Claude is a website. I will never respect a website. You cannot convince me to treat LLMs as anything different to any other technology. If a website only gets things right sometimes, it's a bad website. I will not be told otherwise.
www.wheresyoured.at/i-will-never...
Happy to be the top of the Monday morning broadcast from @brnnewsfacts.bsky.social, talking about #caregiving #costs: broadcastretirementnetwork.com
🔉 RCGD's Kristine Ajrouch joins Michigan Medicine's "Minding Memory" podcast on Arab-American families living with dementia. The work integrates Toni Antonucci's framework, "convoys of caregiving," emphasizing how individuals go through the life course surrounded by key others.
myumi.ch/JPMJG
Really interesting findings on post-COVID drug use. It went down during COVID, but surprisingly stayed lower even now. Not what had been predicted.
This worship of efficiency kills creativity. Every transcript I have, every piece of research, I go over again & again, looking for detail, pattern, illuminating anecdote. It’s not efficient. I flail sometimes! But it’s essential. It’s how I learn to tell the story to myself, so I can tell it to you
AI and a newish radiologist said the growth in my breast was benign. It was v small, circumscribed. A 2nd radiologist with decades of experience said, “it looks fine but I still don’t like it. Get a biopsy.” It was triple neg breast cancer. We need more experts. radiologybusiness.com/topics/artif...
ICPSR Summer Program announces an in-person Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) Data User workshop from June 15-19. In-Person only!
🚨 Apply by April 15! 🚨
Learn about the content & structure of the PSID interview, its special topics modules, and supplemental studies, including the Child Development Supplement and the Transition into Adulthood Supplement. For more info: myumi.ch/g3eMP
#SumProg 26
I’m happy to report that a new article written by Daniela V. Negraia, Sophie Lohmann, @ezagheni.bsky.social, and me is now available in Social Indicators Research: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
We use historical time use data to examine growth in solitary leisure in the U.S. since 1965.
Conference announcement for “Measuring and Theorizing Structural Racism,” hosted by the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics, scheduled for Friday, April 10, 2026, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
There’s still time to join our own conference organizers @davonnorris.bsky.social and @jeremylevine.bsky.social for our 1-day conference, Measuring and Theorizing Structural Racism, Friday, 4/10. #Umich #AcademicSky
Check out the schedule & register by Monday, 3/30: structural-racism.isr.umich.edu
We're looking forward to having you @shdoron1.bsky.social ! #academicsky RSVP to save your seat:
myumi.ch/z9djn
It's currently just a running list of resources (under construction) that I've sent to folks locally, but here's a few starter items: sites.google.com/umich.edu/pa...
I love the idea of adding resources into the story!
It was a pleasure to talk with Fernanda Pires at University of Michigan News about recent #NIA funded research on #families, #dementia, and #caregiving.
news.umich.edu/michigan-min...
It was a pleasure to talk with Fernanda Pires at University of Michigan News about recent #NIA funded research on #families, #dementia, and #caregiving.
news.umich.edu/michigan-min...
Empires rise and fall, but some things endure: Nick Cox speaking Stata
create a massive cultural problem, then externalize the responsibility and cost onto friends and relatives
Heads up -- the NHATS webinar was moved one week. See below:
Join us, Tuesday, March 3 at 1:00 for @spattersearch.bsky.social: Caregiving for Older Adults: Expectations and Choice
More information & zoom link: events.umich.edu/event/145276
1430 ISR-Thompson
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Learn to code is dead, long live learn to think
Honored to be presenting the 1st Annual Schoeni TRENDS talk. Register below to join us remotely!
This talk will be virtual so please share with your networks!
We're looking forward to the 1st annual Schoeni TRENDS lecture featuring @marasheftel.bsky.social and Neil Mehta. Register here: micda.isr.umich.edu/programs/the...