Congrats, Matt! Looking forward to reading it.

Join our next Brown Bag Seminar on Wednesday, March 18 at 12pm PT.

@dennisfeehan.bsky.social, Associate Professor at UC Berkeley, will present, "What Do We Lose if We Lose the Demographic and Health Surveys? Quantifying Research Impact with Digital Trace Data.”

events.berkeley.edu/popsci/event...

🤖😱 “It’s not delivery; It’s DiGiorno.” 😱🤖

Would hate to lose what is very clearly a useful and effective way to present contrasts.

Really struggling with the tell-tale AI phrasing of “It’s not _____, it’s ______” showing up all over the place (in various iterations) whenever I hear it now - even in content/text produced way before LLMs.

Submit your paper to the ASA Body & Embodiment Section's Graduate Student Paper Award!

- all authors must be grad students when submitting
- if the paper is published, earliest date of publication must be in 2024
- winners must be members of the section

Email me (dlagos@berkeley.edu) by 3/1!

Thank you!!! 🙏

Thank you, Leslie! This is just the motivation I needed to get back to work on one of the qualitative chapters! 😀

Recent trends in parenthood in Swedish same- and different-sex legal unions: emerging gender and socioeconomic differences - Genus Parentalization, or becoming a parent and being legally and socially recognized as such, has long been constrained for sexual minorities. Although many studies have examined the outcomes of children o...

Parenthood among same-sex couples has changed as policy & social contexts have evolved. Swedish data revealed that same-sex parenting increased over time among women, but remained rare among men.

👉 New paper by Mollborn, @martinkolk.bsky.social & Evertsson

🔗 genus.springeropen.com/articles/10....

Kudos to whoever is playing “Pink Pony Club” and “Rainbow Connection” on the UC Berkeley carillon right now. Happy end of Pride!

Doctor, how much does it cost? Moral values and price talk in a stratified consumer medical market

New paper out in Socio-Economic Review on how doctors and patients talk about the price of care in fertility medicine! I find that the way they talk about money is radically different depending on both the clinic's targeted clientele and organizational structure academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...

Wonderful!!!

Demographic Differences in Responses to a Two-Step Gender Identity Measure Article: Demographic Differences in Responses to a Two-Step Gender Identity Measure | Sociological Science | Posted May 6, 2025

Had a blast working on this paper with Christina Pao, @chrisajulian.bsky.social, @drcompton.bsky.social, and Lawrence Stacey, in which we combed through the HPS to identify demographic differences between groups based on gender identity question responses. sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

NEW ARTICLE: Want to use LLMs to extract information at scale in sociology? @eollion.bsky.social @oms279.bsky.social and C. Ton have you covered. Read "From Codebooks to Promptbooks," now in Sociological Methods & Research

doi.org/10.1177/0049...

(Preprint @socarxiv.bsky.social: osf.io/wjvfq_v1)

Mazal tov and Shabbat Shalom!

Congratulations!!!

I am so sorry, Claire.

Congrats!

Welcome and congrats!

"Officials from federal institutions have requested the withdrawal of articles supported by federal funds, citing concerns that they address politically sensitive topics such as transgender health."

ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/epdf/10....

“The Demography of Sweden’s Transgender Population”: @martinkolk.bsky.social @ylvamoberg.bsky.social et al study transitions over 1973-2020, “a period of...legal advances, ↑ social acceptance & more accommodating HC system.” @stockholm-uni.bsky.social @sofi.su.se read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

Opinion | There’s a Name for What Trump Is Doing to Trans People: Denationalizing The message is that we are a threat to the nation. The subtext is that we are not of this nation.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o...

"Keshet and the Hebrew Free Loan Society are partnering to offer interest-free loans of up to $10,000 for individuals and families to support relocation costs to another state because of anti-LGBTQ+ laws, policies, and climate in their current state of residence."

Congrats!

Advice | Cancer, Grief, and Academic Life A new assistant professor shines a light on living and working amid personal loss.

Out today in The Chronicle of Higher Education, my official coming-out as bereaved.

www.chronicle.com/article/canc...

Trump’s shocking purge of public health data, explained All of us will be collateral damage in MAGA’s war on “DEI.”

I thought this was a good, up-to-date explainer.

www.vox.com/future-perfe...

This is beautiful

Congrats!

I am so sorry Megan.

Congrats!