ECSR Thematic Conference on the Life Course and Social Stratification, 23-24 April, University of Trento. Smaller thematic conferences like these are usually the best place to present and network, imo. Submit by 22 February. sites.google.com/unitn.it/ecs...
Hello Bluesky friends, I have a newly redesigned website at WolfeSociology.com!
Would love feedback but mainly I just wanted to let anyone who's interested know a little bit more about me and my research.
📢 Join us: January’s Mentor of the Month session on:
The current climate for federal funding of medical sociological research 📢
Co-hosted by ASA Medical Sociology section & Mental Health section!
When: Friday January 30, 2026: 3 pm (EST)/12 pm PST
#ASA #MedicalSociology #Funding #Academia
Friends and colleagues,
Please encourage your undergraduate students to apply for our 3rd annual summer REU program centered on the interdisciplinary study of race, power, and the politics of place, all set within the context of the dynamic and vibrant American South.
Women with early unintended births have more unsecured debt at midlife than those without an unintended birth. New work with Mieke Beth Thomeer, @wolfesociology.bsky.social, and Shantay Williams is out in @demresjournal.bsky.social!
🚨 Job! 🚨
Brown Sociology & the Watson School of International & Public Affairs are hiring a TT assistant professor whose research focuses on social policy (broadly conceived).
Apply by 9/15: apply.interfolio.com/172655
Happy to chat about life at Brown, etc!
We're hiring! Please share with your networks!
The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the field of demography of health and aging beginning in August 2026
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
One year researcher position in Madrid with possible extension, pre or postdoc flexible
I uploaded more participant interviews from my first wave of my #PSLF study.
Jessica, Adam, and Nikki W.
Hear their stories along the major themes (e.g. suicidal ideation, Student Loan Pause, Forgiveness).
These stories are timely given recent changes and ED behavior.
padlet.com/dcllier6/bal...
I'm seeing a lot of bad reporting today about these possible changes. Some outlets (not this one) are confusing ACIP and the vaccine compensation program, thinking that RFK can simply fire people and say that autism is now a compensable vaccine injury, for example. It's trickier than that! 🧵 1/x
Tell Congress to Reject President Trump's Proposed FY 2026 Cuts to NIH and NSF and Review Agency Reorganization Proposals www.congressweb.com/POPASSOC/4?f...
A month ago, my R01 grant was one of many terminated in the Trump administration’s purge.
Today, I was proud to sign my name alongside the many NIH employees who wrote the Bethesda declaration, including my amazing PO, Dr. Jenna Norton.
Add your name: www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
Excited to share that I am joining New Books Network as a Host for sociology! Have a great sociology book and want to talk about it on the podcast?? Shoot me an email: mrosino@molloy.edu or pitch your book here newbooksnetwork.com/authors
This is why I think it's so important and powerful for faculty and staff and leaders of colleges and universities to stand up for our work, our values, our students, and ultimately our democracy.
Faculty can do a lot:
1) write a campus letter to your leaders bit.ly/CampusLetters2025
2) (cont.)
Google forms chart - Are you interested in further action? - connect me to others at my institution who have signed this letter 839 (43.5%) - get in touch with me about helping organize further actions - 618 (32.1%) - get in touch with me to let me know about further actions - 1501 (77.9%) - please do not contact me - 245 (12.7%)
Academics (and others!) want to fight back against the attacks on higher education and democracy (and diversity and civil rights and trans people and immigrants and and and...).
Our letter is at bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEd and is designed so that ANYONE can sign.
There are other letters - thread
Friday is the Deadline for Scholarships! #freemoney
There’s a lot going on I know, but I want to encourage SOC of Education scholars to submit their papers to the #ASA2025 conference portal - due 2/26! I’m a session organizer and we need more papers! @soceducation.bsky.social
To download our paper: doi.org/10.1086/729819
If you run into a paywall, then you can find a preprint at SocArXiv: osf.io/preprints/so... (6/6)
Illustration of Potential Results. This a didactic graph that does not represent any statistical analyses. “Low scores” refer to women who are least likely to have a teen birth based on model covariates, whereas “high scores” refer to women who are most likely to have a teen birth. Treatment effects refer to the difference in years of schooling between adolescent mothers and all others.
Our findings confirm that midcentury social changes fundamentally altered the opportunity costs of adolescent motherhood. (5/6)
Strata-specific estimates of the effects of adolescent motherhood on years of schooling with linear trends across propensity score strata.Treatment effects denote the educational costs (in years) of adolescent motherhood. Strata move from women who have a low propensity (Strata 1) for having a teen birth to those with a high propensity (Strata 6).
The educational costs of adolescent childbearing, as well as heterogeneity in those costs, grew the most for women born 1980-84 with a low propensity for having a teen birth. (4/6)
Descriptive Information on NLS Cohorts (N = 15,719), including Sample size in analysis, Year of birth, Year of entry into adolescence, and Percent of adolescent mothers
We extend advances in causal inference to detect group differences in heterogeneity and apply our approach to 4 cohorts of women who entered adolescence before, during, and after major economic, demographic, and cultural changes in the 20th century. (3/6)
This figure displays trends in women's teen births, education, and earnings from 1951 to 2019.
Recent studies find evidence of heterogeneity in the effects of adolescent childbearing on schooling, but they don't say much about when this heterogeneity may have emerged for women. (2/6)
Thank you @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social and @ccfamilies.bsky.social for letting us chat about our recent #AJS!
Our paper studies cohort change in the educational costs of adolescent childbearing for women who lived during distinct periods of U.S. history in terms of gender equality (1/6)
What's the educational costs of teen births?
@wolfesociology.bsky.social & Mieke Beth Thomeer tell us this week @ccfamilies.bsky.social blog hosted by
@thesocietypages.bsky.social
.
Check it out here: thesocietypages.org/ccf/
We are gearing up at the Survey Research Center at ISR at the University of Michigan--to review, rethink, and potentially create new ways to approach survey research at the representative population level. If you have written anything on this or have a favorite paper to share-send it my way. Thx
Sending out decisions on manuscripts this morning.
From the editor's perspective, rejections are super common, and so even if rejections are annoying from the author perspective, remember that most papers are rejected, even good ones.
#sociology
My op-ed in @newsweek.com
"When it comes to improving public health, we cannot keep privileging personal preference. Individual health is inseparable from population health."
www.newsweek.com/rfks-policie...
Release 4 of the 2022 GSS, along with cumulative cross-sectional files, is now available. Includes interviewer characteristics, survey paradata, new calculations of occupational prestige, & new data on HH structure & relationship information.
gss.norc.org
#sociology #sociosky #polisky #econsky 📈📉
One thing Cecilia L. Ridgeway knows? That everyday status really does matter. Check out her new essay for Contexts!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
Thank you so much!!!