The Sociology Childhood and Youth Research Cluster has organized a webinar at the larger @csa-scs.bsky.social Webinar Series!
Date: May 4, 2026
Time: 11:30 am - 1:00 pm ET
Click here register: www.csa-scs.ca/news/explori...
We have a great panel!
🎤Moderators: Laurel Donison and Allison Leanage
What actually happens when you type a message into Claude Code?
Here's a neat interactive demo from ccunpacked.dev
It’s encouraging to see these conversations continue to be important.
Thank you to Drs. Debadatta Chakraborty, Prema Kurien, Neha Gondal, and Maheen Haider for organizing this event.
#Sociology #DiversityInResearch #JobMarket #EarlyCareerResearchers #Policy #DataScience #HigherEducation
Grateful for my PhD supervisor, Dr. James Gillett (Associate Professor), a sociologist by training whose interdisciplinary work spans multiple fields and provided training.
Each mentor shaped how I approach research & collaboration within & across disciplines contributing meaningfully to my career.
My sincere gratitude to Dr. John Fox (Professor Emeritus). He was an incredible mentor, supervisor, and teacher. I’ll especially remember our discussions on methodology—and thoughts on AI-generated responses. His contributions to R and statistical methodology extend well beyond sociology.
I’m grateful to have been mentored by Sociologists throughout my undergraduate and graduate studies shaping this interdisciplinary perspective. Dr. Dorothy Pawluch (Professor Emeritus), for creating the undergraduate interdisciplinary social psychology program providing the theoretical foundation.
I shared my work across disciplines, collaborating with economists, psychologists, geographers, mathematicians, psychiatrists, public health researchers, political scientists, anthropologists & sociologists that led to a series of papers & projects and continue inform my interdisciplinary research.
🪧 Had a great conversation @asanews.bsky.social South Asian Community panel about the evolving job market with Drs. Joya Misra, Tamanna Shah, and Shiv Issar.
Shared my own path across policy, data, and research—and the importance of interdisciplinary work.
#Sociology #InterdisciplinaryResearch
Student loan interest rate capped at 6% in England.
Welcome but not enough. It is higher than the rate of inflation and Bank of England base rate.
Student debt UK, £292bn; England, £267bn.
Must abolish university tuition fees. Most European countries do not charge fees to their citizens.
Shell’s oil traders get earnings boost from Iran war. Share price down today as ceasefire is bad for profits.
Corporations and speculators profit from war whilst people pay higher bills.
Govts must levy windfall taxes.
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Statistics Canada said international visitors spent $6.4 billion last quarter, accounting for 24 per cent of all tourism spending in Canada.
globalnews.ca/news/1174888...
Square dark-blue graphic with CDSA-ACÉH logo at top left and white text reading ‘The Canadian Disability Studies Association is coming back!,’ followed by bullet points ‘How to connect, What to offer, How to grow.’ Curved white arrow points to bottom text that reads ‘Link to 5-min survey: https://tinyurl.com/cdsa2026,’ with abstract orange shapes in the corners.
Visuel carré bleu foncé avec le logo ‹ CDSA-ACÉH › en haut à gauche et un texte blanc indiquant ‹ L’Association canadienne d’études sur le handicap est de retour ! › Plus bas, une liste à puces ‹ Comment brancher, Que proposer et Comment se développer › . Une flèche blanche courbée pointe vers le bas du visuel, où figure le texte ‹ Lien vers le questionnaire de 5 minutes : https://tinyurl.com/cdsa2026, › avec des formes abstraites orange dans les coins.
Hi everyone, our small collective of volunteers has been working hard to revitalize CDSA. As we move forward, we want to make sure past, current, and future members have a chance to share their perspectives about the future of our Canadian Disability Studies Association. Link: tinyurl.com/cdsa2026
Another paper showing that family poverty is more important than psychosocial adversities
Parental socioeconomic resources and adverse childhood experiences as predictors of not in education, employment, or training: a Finnish register-based longitudinal study: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Colleagues in sociology: UMass Amherst is seeking a Visiting Assistant Professor for a 1-year term. Great opportunity to join our department. Worth considering if you're on the academic job market this cycle. #AcademicJobs #sociology
https://apply.interfolio.com/183499
They're creating schools where the guides are former teachers, no longer represented by the strongest union in the country. While making $40,000 - $70,000 per student & siphoning money from public schools. Feeding kids their own curriculum through bots under heavy surveilance
Why was this approved?
Happy Birthday to Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and a massive thank you to her for inventing rock and roll
She was born on March 20th, 1915
My wife, Martha was made an Officer of the Order of Canada today 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
So proud of all she accomplished for childcare in Canada
Please join me for this online seminar in May focused on modern approaches to the analysis of survey data!
statisticalhorizons.com/seminars/ana...
Interesting findings.
#discrimination #gender #motherhood #motherhoodpenalty
The US does not value caregiving, and many think women’s labor force participation is problematic.
You can identify a society’s priorities by what it spends money on. The US’s refusal to invest in childcare infrastructure speaks volumes.
open access: a systematic review of research on informal #caregiver support policies
with @evabei.bsky.social
here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
I ran a simple model with new public data then used 1 prompt to make ChatGPT guess what the model would produce. With 10 seconds of "thinking," it was very close. The implications of this are catastrophic. The American Sociological Association should do something about this but it doesn't care to
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🚀 I encourage those interested to apply! I received the 🎓 Clifford C. Clogg scholarship in 2017—eventually becoming a TA in 2020 & 2021—and had an incredible experience, shaping my career.
Huge thanks to my mentor & now friend, John Fox, for notifying me about this opportunity & guidance! 🙌 #ICPSR
I flinch at the term “kindergarten readiness.” It implies the burden is on the kid to be ready for the school, not on the school to be ready for the kid.
You accept kids as is in a public school.
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CC: @rooseveltinstitute.org @kedseconomist.com
📣 Check out the new publication with my colleague Tahsin Mehdi about AI and automation in the trades!
www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/36-28...
A cooler, less dense area on the sun’s surface will likely disrupt Earth’s magnetic field, forecasters said.
📢New publication release
