Me with Duy Trinh & Jiaxin Shi, gracious hosts at HKUST!
Me with a slide of my talk on the US Second Generation Boom
A panoramic view of the ocean from HKUST
I had a really fun visit to the Division of Social Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology! Always good to be back in HK and will never get tired of this ocean view 🥰 Thanks @jiaxinshi.bsky.social for hosting me!!
Week 11: From Education to the Labor Market 24 hours before you write, spend one day noticing how people on campus talk about internships, jobs, or recruiting, or reflect on the information you receive from the university or firms about career options. Write down one specific interaction you observed (who said what, where, what happened – i.e. provide concrete detail). Now, apply Rivera – use at least one concept (options include, but aren’t limited to, “fit,” cultural matching, polish). What is being rewarded, and how, if at all, does this relate to Khan’s concept of ease?
A new experiment, suggested by a student: I fed my reading response prompt for @larivera.bsky.social's Pedigree to ChatGPT & Claude. I then sent the responses to students and encouraged them to outperform it.
First, the prompt
Utrecht University is hiring an Assistant Professor in Statistics and Social Data Science - great opportunity for scholars working at the intersection of advanced statistical methods and computational social science research. #AcademicJobs #ComputationalSocialScience
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Thanks Zhenchao for visiting us and for sharing your fascinating research on intermarriages!! It was eye-opening, despite what my face suggests 👀
In radio in Ireland, the “accent ceiling” persists. On volunteer-run community radio, there’s room for people with all kinds of accents – but it’s rare to move beyond that. read more here www.dublininquirer.com/in-radio-in-...
As #scotus hears arguments on #birthrightcitizenship today, I put together a video explaining my research with Jenny Van Hook @readdemography.bsky.social. That work is now featured in the @nytimes.com tinyurl.com/3r4cum44
We must be special in some way!!! 😌
Important work documenting the scale of the impact of ending birthright citizenship:
"we project 41 “unauthorized” births per 1,000 unauthorized Asians, compared with 17 “unauthorized” births per 1,000 among Latinos."
I'd put Degrassi somewhere in between Toronto and the Quaint Suburbs. It's not too far from the location of Kim's Convenience though (Moss Park)
Also feels like Scott Pilgrim should be in there somewhere but maybe it overlaps with nirvanna the band the show.
This was fun! 😆
Didn't. I'm in fifth 🥲
oh? Toronto over Seattle now? 😏
📣One more #tenuretrack Assistant Professor job going at TCD Sociology!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQY837/a...
Closing date: April 20
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@isa-rc28.bsky.social
@eaps.bsky.social
Excited to be on this panel in two weeks!
COME WORK WITH ME! Our job ad is now up! Molloy University is hiring an assistant professor (TT) in Sociology - preferences toward specialties in health, gender, immigration. Small private college with teaching focus and commuting distance to NYC! #academicjobs workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...
Congrats Keitaro!!
My latest paper out in AJS! I argue that Americans' immigration attitudes are shaped not just by cultural or economic considerations, but by perceptions of political (mis)alignment. That is, there is a logic of conditional inclusiveness that informs immigration attitudes. A thread below 🧵
Call for Nominations: The 2026 Paul Farmer Lectureship and Award for Global Health Equity @mcgill.ca @mcgillspgh.bsky.social
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Canada just released its 2025 Q4 migration numbers this afternoon. This means the tally is final - Canada had negative net migration in 2025: 133,642 more people left than arrived.
This is the *first time* Canada's had negative net migration since as far back as records go. 🧵
😂
should've said *first year*, not first time, to be precise
It'll be interesting to see what comes next. Canada has rolled out a lot of new policies this year, including a new promise to prioritize medical workers and educational workers. It'll def. take quite a while for trend to change, though, since the current admin. seems very cautious with immigration
A lot of the policy changes last year were, of course, the government trying to "correct the course" on the surge in immigration between 2020-23. Immigration had became a very unpopular issue, with a big increase in % of Canadians saying immigration is too high:
The decline is driven by non-permanent residents leaving, which is not surprising as Canada has raised its bar for permanent residency to a really high level for skill-based immigration in the last year. For example, doctors on work permits were not getting permanent residency:
Canada just released its 2025 Q4 migration numbers this afternoon. This means the tally is final - Canada had negative net migration in 2025: 133,642 more people left than arrived.
This is the *first time* Canada's had negative net migration since as far back as records go. 🧵
"They logged 870 attempts at humour, which they identified through signals such as the speaker pausing for a laugh."
see?
here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared
Love seeing good demography research covered in @people.com! Well done @leahrabrams.bsky.social, this is a professional goal I would still like to unlock :).
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Found it interesting that as we scroll down in poll, the sample size gets smaller (people stop voting because they lose patience; makes sense) but the % Nays also increases by a lot (starting with #18 it's all dominated by Nays)? So patience w/ survey is correlated with more negative opinions?
