My latest article is now available online at Social Forces. I analyzed original survey data to explore how/why Asian Americans were scapegoated for the COVID-19 pandemic, and what may have shaped Americans' susceptibility to these kinds of outgroup blame narratives.
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Holy heck if you haven't taken a look at this just launched project and resources from the @historians.org _American Historical Review_, it's incredible. Of course I went to the 1665 Mass Bay petition about royal authoritarianism. Excellent!
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The new FY27 budget plans for NSF to dismantle the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) Directorate in FY 2027. Attend this webinar tomorrow (Tuesday, 4/14, 1pm ET) to see how you can help stop and protect the SBE.
I can't imagine how anyone could cope with this much cognitive dissonance...
RCGD Winter 2026 Seminar Series The Company We Keep: The Importance of Social Connection for Mind, Body, and Health Across Contexts and Timescales Tomiko Yoneda April 13 3:30 to 5:00 PM ISR Thompson 1430
Social connection can have varying impacts on individual health and well-being. UC Davis’ Tomiko Yoneda will present findings on high-quality social relationships and their effects on individuals today at the @rcgd-isr.bsky.social seminar!
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🎡 With evidence from the US and Canada, PSC's Peilin David Yang demonstrates that context and population composition matter for comparative studies on socioeconomic health inequality. Talk to David at #PAA2026!
This is a great opportunity to work with @umichstonecid.bsky.social. They produce cutting-edge research on social inequality and are a terrific group of researchers who seek to create a democratic and inclusive environment that communicates its research to a broad audience.
Food policing poor families isn't a win for nutrition--it's a loss for dignity and joy.
As Brea Perry and I find in our research (see reply), low-income parents buy food treats for their kids because they want their kids to feel happy and normal--and they can't afford to do so in bigger ways.
Our new study is in press @ Epidemiology. We find exposure to industrial air toxicants predicts shorter life expectancy (~1-4 yrs) among a national cohort of US adults, and especially for disadvantaged groups. @landscapeslab.bsky.social @um-src.bsky.social @umisr.bsky.social
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The nation’s largest housing and real estate dataset, the Zillow Transaction and Assessment Database (ZTRAX), is now available to researchers via ICPSR at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research. More: https://myumi.ch/D82nG
Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics: Measuring and Theorizing Structural Racism Conference in Ann Arbor, April 10
Registration is open for the @umichstonecid.bsky.social April 10 conference on measuring and theorizing structural racism. Check out the schedule & panelists, and register: structural-racism.isr.umich.edu
We would love to have your support for the new M-Panel at the University of Michigan Survey Research Center. This new panel will be a nationally representative web-only panel with an oversample of the state of Michigan. 🙏 giving.umich.edu/um/w/src-str...
Critically, our models include toxicant levels recorded prior to key 1990 EPA regulations, which led to major reductions in industrial air emissions nationwide. Our study suggests recent efforts to roll back such regulations could have dire consequences for US life expectancy tinyurl.com/4s3ecsxn
Our new study is in press @ Epidemiology. We find exposure to industrial air toxicants predicts shorter life expectancy (~1-4 yrs) among a national cohort of US adults, and especially for disadvantaged groups. @landscapeslab.bsky.social @um-src.bsky.social @umisr.bsky.social
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Hot of the presses research on high-cost alternative credit instruments and the welfare state by Rhodes, Berger, and @umichstonecid.bsky.social associate @davonnorris.bsky.social 👇
“With approximately half a million Americans diagnosed with dementia annually, this translates to nearly 90,000 cases that could potentially be prevented—a truly significant figure.” Kelly Bakulski, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Michigan Public Health
New U-M research reveals older adults with high cumulative lead exposure face nearly triple the Alzheimer's risk. The study suggests reducing population lead levels could prevent thousands of dementia cases annually. myumi.ch/qZeXx
Bots have made their way to Prolific experiments. Our lab has stopped online testing of adults entirely now for this reason - we want to know if what we study is real. Probably data collected 2-3 years ago are ok, but moving forward we just can't know. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Celebrating 80 years of social science in the public interest.
SRC’s founders believed social behavior could be understood in terms of attitudes and motivational behaviors, and links could be formed between an academic culture & the applied research of business and government. youtu.be/giSsP7o4PZg
How has your country's climate changed over the past century? Find out here:
Problem about the loneliness epidemic is, it's everywhere except in representative survey data. Let's look at where the claim comes from. 1/
New blog post about the age-period-cohort identification problem!
In which, for the first time ever, I ask "What's the mechanism?" and also suggest that sometimes you may actually *not* be interested in causal inference.
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"Billionaires like thinkers who see their exploitation of the weak as good and natural. Epstein funneled ~$20m a year to academic men who shared his ideology [and got] to hold forth in formal sessions at Harvard, condemning feeding and caring for the poor as if he were making a scholarly argument."
Incoming APS President @umpamdk.bsky.social describes the role indirect costs play in the university research landscape, as well as the important role of universities in their local economies, and what's at stake if those indirect costs are cut. #AcademicSky
Abstract Front-line workers mediate law on the books and law in action, translating higher-level laws into local policy. One important mediating institution is the police. Whereas most research analyzes how the law empowers police to label certain denizens “criminals” – both within and outside criminal legal contexts – this article demonstrates how policing also affects who is recognized as an innocent crime victim. Synthesizing existing scholarship, I theorize three paths through which police can affect legal recognition of crime victims: criminalization, minimization, and legal estrangement. I then test the extent to which these processes affect victims’ access to public benefits provided under victim compensation law. Drawing on never-before-analyzed administrative data from 18 U.S. states (N = 768,382), I find police account for more than half of all victim benefits denials. These denials are racialized and gendered: Police are significantly more likely to criminalize and be estranged from Black male victims and significantly more likely to minimize the injuries of Black female victims. Additional qualitative data suggest police systematically perceive Black men as not truly innocent and Black survivors of gender-based violence as not truly victims. These findings advance our understanding of the expansive role of police in society as well as the porous boundary between social provision and social control.
Figure 6. Predicted probability of “failure to cooperate” denials.
Proud to share my recently published article in Law & Society Review: "Whose victimization pays? Policing innocent
victimhood in victim compensation law". The article explores how policing affects the recognition of crime victims under victim compensation law. 🔗👇: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Really amazing scholars (thank you @bradytwest.bsky.social and @randridge.bsky.social !) here to provide the fundamental science for free, for everyone @um-psc.bsky.social
@umisr.bsky.social is now accepting applications for the 2026 Junior Professional Researcher Program cohort.
JPRP is a two-year paid gig for recent college grads who are considering a career in social science research.
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🚨Postdoc alert!
@harvardpopcenter.bsky.social is now accepting applications for 2026-2028 Bell Fellowship! Apply by March 3: popcenter.harvard.edu/postdoctoral...
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#NewPublication reveals that metro areas with zoning laws that restrict housing density to low levels have wider race, ethnic, and income disparities in health: bit.ly/4bjoyze
By Kate W. Strully Tse-Chuan Yang Chunxu Fang &Han Liu
@UAlbany @UTSA @asamedsoc.bsky.social
In our December issue, read about the impacts of naturalization on mortality risks among immigrants to the US: bit.ly/40XQao6
By Thoa V. Khuu Jennifer Van Hook & Kendal L. Lowrey
@pop.psu.edu @asamedsoc.bsky.social
#InternationalMigrantsDay
In “Why Do Black Women Have a Higher Obesity Prevalence Than White Women?” Frisco et al. find that living in disadvantaged n'hoods & single-parent HHs as adolescents & having ↓ adult incomes explain much of the difference. @ssripennstate.bsky.social @pop.psu.edu read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...