Link to the letter?

In my experience, Demography has been pretty reasonable, not fast, but not outlandish slow. My experience at DR was a quick review and fast publication - I can't remember if they sent back out R&Rs.

Except wasn't the entire thing based on an ecological fallacy of blue state, red state? As Andrew Gelman showed, its Connecticut that needs to be explained not Kansas.

I am so excited to be teaching this one day workshop on git and GitHub. Integrating git version control has been incredibly transformative for my own research workflow and I love sharing what I have learned with others. Come join us!

Fair, but I am more honestly concerned with the reproducibility issues which is an area that ASA ought to be able to address given its portfolio of journals.

This will go great with my comic-sans slide theme!

An odd and unfortunate coalition between the activist wing of the organization and professional bureaucrats interested only in organizational $$ that feeds itself in a loop. The $$ funds all of the overextended bloat of the organization. Prof-oriented people leave, and so activist wing dominates.

Meanwhile, we have a recent massive meta-analysis on reproducibility/replication problems across the social sciences in which sociology does not look so great. Where is the ASA on this issue which is actually directly related to our field?

Thank your for your (contradictory) thoughts on this. My concern is that everyone has their own line in the sand, some higher and some lower than yours. Once the organization makes a political statement, people expect statements on anything north of their bar. Its impossible to manage.

In “Blurring the Marriage Market? Contemporary Patterns of Multiracial Marriage,” @aarongullickson.bsky.social & J. Bratter find that “shared Black ancestry is the most predictive of union formation” and shared Indigenous ancestry the least. @uoregon.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

A collaborative editor will be huge! I might be able to convince my colleagues to write papers in Quarto now.

What’s next: Quarto 2 – Quarto We’ve started working on quarto-dev/q2, a full rewrite of Quarto in Rust.

And another Quarto announcement; I've alluded to it before, but we're making it "official".

We've started work on Quarto 2. The blog post has an overview: quarto.org/docs/blog/po...

We'll share more in future blog posts, but here's what you can expect from the Quarto 2 dev effort:

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<em>Acta Paediatrica</em> | Paediatrics Journal | Wiley Online Library Aim To examine the prevalence of severe psychiatric morbidity among gender-referred adolescents, focusing on gender differences and outcomes related to medical gender reassignment. Methods Finnish...

FYI, I believe the "new Finnish study" that everyone has been talking about is not the two year old one in that article, but rather this one:

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Me in the Chronicle on the sociology crisis in Florida (from 2024, still true!):

Always love a paper that comes with an R package!

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One example of how to structure and organize files when publicly sharing data in a repository. 👇

osf.io/59gte/overview

"Tenure-track faculty have not received salary increases in real dollars for the past decade." 😬

And then we wonder why we get headlines like this...
www.chronicle.com/article/when...

I was about to make the same comment. You are a traitor, Joanna!

"Even when results are ultimately reproducible, they require substantial effort: instead of being ‘push-button’ reproducible, analyses often require sifting through authors’ code, reorganizing files, deciphering opaque datasets and fixing coding errors."

Yes, its a necessary step, but the fact that people think of it as work for the submission process drives me crazy. Plan your analysis as open science from the beginning and there is zero extra work involved.

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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Ahh, yes, Scandinavians .. rightly famous for endemic disorder.

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

At Site of Oklahoma City Bombing, Bipartisan Mayors Sign Declaration Against Political Violence “Oklahoma City Declaration” is signed by dozens of mayors at site of deadliest domestic terror attack in U.S. history, reaffirms commitment to American values of pluralism, compromise, truth and civil...

The Oklahoma City Declaration, a defense of a pluralistic society.

Signed by over 40 Republican, Democratic, and Independent mayors. Led by OKC Mayor David Holt, a Republican in a red state.

www.usmayors.org/2025/09/26/a...

Feeling mixed up on this unusual day. Normally, I am all in for #RCTID, but also My Oh My, My City, My Life. Go Mariners!

"Among articles stating that data was available upon request, only 17% shared data upon request." (Or: you keep saying these words. I do not think they mean what you think they mean)

Don't worry about PDX guys, we got this.

What kind of bizarro kaleidoscope of meaning does one have to be looking through to not be able to see a shade of difference on the political spectrum for anyone right of AOC?

The right is better at cancel culture than the left, which should not be surprising. Its an authoritarian tool that is much more their natural environment, which is another way to say I remember the 1980s.