Nominate your excellent colleague, collaborator or cohort member (self nominations are welcome too but I couldn't come up with a first person alliteration).

Another highly cited article from JMF's 2020 Decade in Review examined the previous decade of research on immigrant families: tinyurl.com/3axa9829 by Jennifer Van Hook & @jengdemography.bsky.social

#ThrowbackThursday #TBT #FamilyScience #SocialScience #SocialScienceResearch #ImmigrantFamilies

Deep turquoise colored flyer advertising an online webinar. The flyer states: "Family Separation on Our Street Corners. The Young Center's Real-Time Response: Behind the Curtain - A Young Center Webinar Series. March 26th 2026 • 1pm ET." A smaller paragraph below this states: Join the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights for the first webinar in a new three-part series pulling back the curtain on the realities of hostile immigration policies and the rapid response work unfolding across our programs and communities. Sign up today through the registration link". Pictured in the bottom left corner is a woman holding a child on her shoulder. The Young Center white colored logo is placed on the bottom right hand corner.

Join the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights for the first webinar in a new three-part series pulling back the curtain on the realities of hostile immigration policies and the rapid response work unfolding across our programs and communities.

Register Today ➡️ https://bit.ly/4kHuxR2

ICE Out For Good - Vigil in State College, PA · Mobilize Wednesday, January 7th, an American citizen was killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This killing is part of a broader pattern of unchecked violence, impunity...

Join us for a Vigil in State College to honor Renee Nicole Good, and others who have been killed by ICE agents. Saturday from noon to 1pm. Allen St. Gates

www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

UNC cuts all six area studies research centers, effective 2026 As part of the University's plan to make $70 million in budget cuts across the institution, Vice Chancellor for Finance and Operations Nate Knuffman projected that cutting 14 centers and institutes in...

America First, at America’s first public university.

I feel compelled to interrogate the ways in which you are critiquing efforts to elucidate.

Heads up: Job opportunity with great colleagues!!!

Have any NCES data users gotten a disclosure review approved for a paper/report since spring? I've been waiting for 6+ months 😞

Bumping this one up again. Co-funded position by our interdisciplinary Social Science Research Institute at Penn State.

Penn State Geography invites prospective grad students to an upcoming online info session about our graduate degree programs on Thursday, October 23rd from 12:00pm-1:00pm EDT. Register to participate: tinyurl.com/psugeoinfo.
#academicsky #geosky 🛟 #gradschool #gis #research #urban #pennstate #aag

What's the deal with electrolyte drinks — do you need them to stay hydrated? Seems like nobody's drinking plain water these days. Electrolyte packets or colorful sports drinks are everywhere. But do you need them?

It was really fun getting texts and calls from old friends that they heard me on NPR this morning! Really enjoyed talking to NPR's @pien-huang.bsky.social about #water needs and #dehydration - have a listen! @psuanthro.bsky.social @pennstateuniv.bsky.social @pop.psu.edu
www.npr.org/2025/08/04/n...

Full statement is now on our website
apdu.org?p=5813739
#econsky

The Data We Take for Granted As the former U.S. Chief Data Scientist, I know first-hand how valuable and vulnerable our nation’s federal data assets are. Like many things in life, we’ve been taking our data for granted and will m...

"more casual users of federal data continue to analyze the deck chairs on the federal Titanic, unaware of the coming iceberg as federal cuts to staffing, contracting, advisory committees, and funding rip a giant hole in our nation’s heretofore unsinkable data apparatus"
fas.org/publication/...

Don't write off rural areas and small towns. 🔥

🔥🔥 Close to 600 people turning out in solidarity today at Canal Basin Park to say America has #NoKings ❌👑

When DOGE comes for the Census The hits from DOGE are not the only problems for the Census Bureau ahead of 2030.

"There are laws governing the conduct of federal surveys, and this idea that an email from DOGE is going to impact federal data collection, superseding existing federal law, is what concerns me" says APDU Board member Mary Jo Mitchell in an interview w @politico.com
www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Trump Challenges Migrants’ Due Process Rights, Undercutting Bedrock Principle White House officials are eschewing normal legal processes as they rush to ramp up deportations, saying there is no time to afford unauthorized immigrants any rights — and that they don’t deserve them...

"The due process clause of the Fifth Amendment says no person can be ‘deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law.’ It doesn’t say ‘citizen.’”

Because We Need Good Data to Predict the Future — Why Social Science? Where do you live? How old are you? Did you finish college? Are you married? Do you have any children? Have you recently moved? What type of job do you have? These may seem like mundane questions,…

#WhySocialScience? Because We Need Good Data to Predict the Future - New post from @mmather.bsky.social and Beth Jarosz of @prbdata.bsky.social 📈

Now that #AERA2025 has concluded, sharing our AERA Open special topics call for proposals, "Centering Civil Rights Protections in Schools in the US" that I'm co-editing with @maithgopalan.bsky.social. Please share widely & reach out with questions. Due May 15.
www.aera.net/Portals/38/S...

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Neither rain nor snow nor gloom of an April shower could stop it!

Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.

What will you do?

Dramatic Cuts to Ed. Data Programs Will Have Far-Reaching Consequences, Researchers Warn Education research organizations asked Congress to intervene in cuts to ed. data, research staff.

Dramatic Cuts to Ed. Data Programs Will Have Far-Reaching Consequences, Researchers Warn www.edweek.org/policy-polit... via @edweek.bsky.social @evieblad.bsky.social

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Another successful Social Science Advocacy Day in the books!

Thank you to all our wonderful advocates and to our sponsors. The work continues! #WhySocialScience #COSSA2025

AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...

QUOTED: “USAID has been instrumental in funding critical research at Penn State, fostering innovations that have far-reaching impacts.“

Read the OpEd at: www.centredaily.com/opinion/lett...

BREAKING: Census Bureau has just canceled the March kickoff of its Young Children Working Group
and
April meeting of 2030 Census Advisory Committee

Research universities are often the largest employers in their region. They are often the primary health care providers to communities. This funding shift will not only reduce US research leadership, it will put working people out of work and reduce healthcare access.

A group of people standing outside a closed office. One person is holding a sign.

Constituents of PA Senator David McCormick visited his office to share their concerns. He is nowhere to be seen at 9am on a weekday. Where could he be?

Take a look at the line-up for the Brown Bag Lecture Series this Spring.