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Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan
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Professor, Ohio State University, researches coparenting, father-child relations, parental gatekeeping.
Content and activity reflect my own views as a private citizen and not those of my employer.

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Council on Contemporary Families @ccfamilies.bsky.social · 11d
You’ve heard of gatekeeping—but what about gate closing? How does it shape households’ division of labor?

🎧 Find out on this week’s Equal-ish podcast episode featuring @ccfamilies.bsky.social Board Member @sjss.bsky.social!

🔗 linktr.ee/equalish

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 11d
Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

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Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan @sjss.bsky.social · 18d
Beverly and Liv are best buds!

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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 19d
Can we inoculate ourselves against misinformation?
In episode 4 of The We Society podcast, @profsanderlinden.bsky.social joins Will Hutton to discuss how people can become influenced by misinformation and how we can gain resistance to false persuasion.
🎙️ media.leverhulme.ac.uk/podcast/sand...

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Council on Contemporary Families @ccfamilies.bsky.social · 20d
‼️New @ccfamilies.bsky.social Brief Report ‼️

How Do We Know When Fertility Is Too Low?

Falling birth rates have fueled worries about “below replacement” fertility. But the link between today’s fertility rate and long-term population decline isn’t so simple.

Check it out here:

🔗 bit.ly/4hjOHyS
How Do We Know When Fertility Is Too Low? - Contemporary Families - The University of Utah
Falling birth rates in the U.S. have raised concerns that the current total fertility rate (TFR) has fallen "below replacement" level. In reality, the relationship between current fertility rates and ...
bit.ly

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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 23d
Massive turnout at the #NoKings protest in Pasadena. Calm, peaceful, multigenerational crowd. Patriotic signs and American flags everywhere. I’m still waiting for my check from Soros.
Protester holding a sign that says “Resisting tyrants is patriotic.” Picture of crowd at NoKings protest Person in chicken suit holding up No Kings sign Person at protest holding up We Love America sign

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · Oct 5
Creatives aren't anti-technology. They are anti-THEFT! Especially when the people stealing from them have millions and they don't even know how they are going to make rent if they can't get another gig.

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · Oct 2
In a new paper, we find that sycophantic #AI chatbots make people more extreme--operating like an echo chamber

Yet, people prefer sycophantic chatbots and see them as less biased

Only open-minded people prefer disagreeable chatbots: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Led by @steverathje.bsky.social

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.bsky.social · Oct 1
Terrific sleuthing and deep background research by @alex23.bsky.social into the horrors of "research" on autism conducted by none other than the person RFK Jr put in charge of ... you guessed it, the (non-existent) link between autism and vaccines:
From Willowbrook to the Geiers: Families Speak Out
“Once, I went down to the Geiers’ basement to use the bathroom. I saw several ladies packaging drug bottles into boxes. And in the bathroom I saw what appeared to be equipment from a chemistry lab.”
www.etpnews.com

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Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan @sjss.bsky.social · Sep 25
This is amazing!!!

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Council on Contemporary Families @ccfamilies.bsky.social · Sep 25
📢 Check out our third @thesocietypages.bsky.social post from this month!

3Q With William D. Lopez on Raiding the Heartland: An American Story of Deportation and Resistance

🔗 thesocietypages.org/ccf/2025/09/...
3Q with William D. Lopez on Raiding the Heartland: An American Story of Deportation and Resistance - Council on Contemporary Families
The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota
thesocietypages.org

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Rachel Kleinfeld @rachelkleinfeld.bsky.social · Sep 24
People like me, who have spent a lifetime building credibility, face a real problem when most Americans no longer trust institutions. We need to face the new terms of trust for our expertise to matter. Renée DiResta@noUpside & I wrote this to explain why & how: carnegieendowment.org/research/202...
For Expertise to Matter, Nonpartisan Institutions Need New Communications Strategies
To avoid irrelevance when they are needed most, experts and nonpartisan analysts must rethink not just their channels of communication but also their theory of influence.
carnegieendowment.org

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Norbert Schwarz @nschwarz.bsky.social · Sep 24
#psychscisky
brendannyhan.bsky.social Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · Sep 23
Depolarization is not "a scalable solution for reducing societal-level conflict.... achieving lasting depolarization will likely require....moving beyond individual-level treatments to address the elite behaviors and structural incentives that fuel partisan conflict" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Council on Contemporary Families @ccfamilies.bsky.social · Sep 23
📢 Our second September blog post features @ccfamilies.bsky.social co-chairs @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social and @ariellekuperberg.bsky.social discussing their book:

BDSM Without the Sex: What Kink Practitioners Can Teach Us About Building Community?

🔗 thesocietypages.org/ccf/2025/09/...

Check it out!
BDSM Without the Sex: What Kink Practitioners Can Teach Us About Building Community? - Council on Contemporary Families
The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota
thesocietypages.org

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Ian / Sìne @vonaether.bsky.social · Sep 23
People are making Rapture jokes like there's no tomorrow

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Council on Contemporary Families @ccfamilies.bsky.social · Sep 22
📢 September Notice!

Have you visited the @ccfamilies.bsky.social blog hosted by @thesocietypages.bsky.social this month? Make sure to check it out!

First up:
3Q with Andréa Becker Get it Out: On The Politics of Hysterectomy

🔗 thesocietypages.org/ccf/2025/09/...

@andreabeckerphd.bsky.social
3Q with Andréa Becker Get it Out: On The Politics of Hysterectomy - Council on Contemporary Families
The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota
thesocietypages.org

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · Sep 11
New paper out with @boryslaw.bsky.social 🥳 In which we sketch out how to rethink measurement invariance causally for applied researchers. And provide a causal definition of measurement invariance!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Rethinking measurement invariance causally Highlights: It is preferable to work with a causal definition of measurement invariance A violation of measurement invariance is a potentially substantively interesting observation Standard tests for measurement invariance rely on strong assumptions Group differences can be thought of as descriptive results Conceptual graph illustration the central points of the manuscript. A group variable is potentiall connected to a construct of interest which affects items. Measurement invariance is violated if the group variable directly affects the items, for example by modifying the loadings from the construct to the items, or by directly affecting an item To make this less abstract, consider a scenario where students take an exam, R, meant to capture some ability, T, and then are admitted to a program, V, depending on their exam results: R → V. This is sufficient to result in a violation of the statistical definition of measurement invariance. Exam results and admission are not independent given ability because exam results have a direct effect on admission. Even if we know somebody’s ability (e.g., we know it’s very high), learning about their admission status (e.g., they were not admitted) can tell us something about their exam result (e.g., it may have been worse than expected). According to the causal definition, this in itself does not constitute measurement bias, which seems a sensible conclusion here. After all, the scenario does not involve any reason to believe that the measurement process varied systematically by admission status. Admission happens after the exams took place, it cannot retroactively influence the measurement process (and, for example, lead to unfair treatment depending on admission status).

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · Sep 10
This is clearly an attack on academic freedom. One of the consequences of this unfortunate episode is that the Texas Board of Regents has decided to launch a comprehensive audit of all courses across the A&M System. This matter is far from over. x.com/tamusystem/s...
Texas A&M System on X: "A statement from The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents: https://t.co/aYHoNDCi0L" / X
A statement from The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents: https://t.co/aYHoNDCi0L
x.com

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Drew Lewis @drew-lewis.com · Sep 10
"This isn't about academic freedom"

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · Sep 10
Update on the Texas A&M professor / cell phone video situation: the professor has been fired by the A&M president
president.tamu.edu/messages/an-...
This afternoon, following full consideration of the facts related to this situation, I directed the Provost to terminate the professor involved, effective immediately. Please understand that these decisions were mine alone and were not made lightly. While I cannot provide all the details at this time, I will share the following facts.

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Joe Ura @joeura.bsky.social · Sep 10
Here's the catalog description the now-fired Texas A&M lecturer allegedly transgressed by giving a lecture about gender in children's literature.

ENGL 360 Literature for Children

Credits 3. 3 Lecture hours. Representative writers, genres, texts and movements.

president.tamu.edu/messages/an-...

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Sep 7
All of this is true. I would add sometimes your paper is stuck because the editor is just a person and it is ok to ask
benpatrickwill.bsky.social Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Sep 6
Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

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Sean Eddy @cryptogenomicon.bsky.social · Aug 21
NIH: After review, we note that you have a large unspent balance on your grant. Please explain immediately.

me: well, uh, yeah, one reason we're not spending on that grant is because NIH terminated it in May along with all the rest of federal funding to Harvard, maybe you don't remember

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · Aug 20
Feeling alarmed over dire long-term population projections that suggest humanity will disappear? Don't be!

Demographers generally aren't worried, and you shouldn't be either. @amandajean.bsky.social explains why in this great @ccfamilies.bsky.social brief.

sites.utexas.edu/contemporary...
Don’t Panic: Population Projection is Not a Crystal Ball August 20th, 2025 Population panic – worries about “depopulation” linked to low birth rates – has become pervasive, with dire predictions in both the short and long term. Yet demographers like us – experts who explicitly study population size, composition, and structure – are generally not highly concerned. Why is this? It’s because we understand the strengths and limitations of population projections. Projections can accurately describe how populations will change if we know future birth, death, and migration rates. But demographers are well aware that they don’t have a crystal ball – we can’t fully anticipate economic shifts, political changes, global events, or how future generations will respond to their changing worlds. That’s why the farther we project from the present, the less accurate those projections are likely to be.

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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · Aug 15
The Surrendering to Trump University Law Journal seeks meritorious, not woke articles. White males preferred from higher-ranked universities. Preference will be given for brilliant articles that advocate depriving someone of happiness or rights regardless of factual or legal obstacles.

#Satire

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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · Aug 15
Oh, SPSS, they could never make me hate you ❤️

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Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · Aug 7
Another paper from the same group: "External review letters are more closely related to letter writer characteristics than candidate productivity."
External review letters in academic promotion and tenure decisions are reflective of reviewer characteristics
We examine validity and bias in external review letters (ERLs) in academic settings. ERLs play a critical role in promotion and tenure (P&T) decisions…
www.sciencedirect.com

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Matt Southward @mattsouthward.bsky.social · Aug 6
Potential grad applicants: I'm hoping to take 1-2 new students this cycle!

There's no need to email me in advance unless you have specific questions that aren't answered on the lab or psych department's website - everyone's applications will be considered equally.

u.osu.edu/mattlab/2025...
Accepting 1-2 new students this cycle! ☝️/✌️
https://u.osu.edu/mattlab/2025/08/06/accepting-1-2-new-students-this-cycle-☝%EF%B8%8F-✌%EF%B8%8F/

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · Jul 28
In a world of Columbia Universities and CBS/Paramounts, be a Southpark.