Peter Catron
@petercatron.bsky.social
Sociology professor at UW. petercatron.org
My billion dollar idea is to grow seedless pumpkins
October 31, 2025 at 10:17 PM
My billion dollar idea is to grow seedless pumpkins
Sad to hear of Stew Tolnay’s passing. He was the first person to invite me to coffee when I started working here and gave incredible feedback on my work. He will be missed.
October 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Sad to hear of Stew Tolnay’s passing. He was the first person to invite me to coffee when I started working here and gave incredible feedback on my work. He will be missed.
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Cool paper. A lot of work!
"immigrants who completed the naturalization process attained significantly higher occupational status than those who initiated but did not complete naturalization"
"immigrants who completed the naturalization process attained significantly higher occupational status than those who initiated but did not complete naturalization"
New working paper. Comments always welcome osf.io/preprints/so...
OSF
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October 2, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Cool paper. A lot of work!
"immigrants who completed the naturalization process attained significantly higher occupational status than those who initiated but did not complete naturalization"
"immigrants who completed the naturalization process attained significantly higher occupational status than those who initiated but did not complete naturalization"
New working paper. Comments always welcome osf.io/preprints/so...
OSF
osf.io
October 2, 2025 at 10:35 PM
New working paper. Comments always welcome osf.io/preprints/so...
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I'm trying to find some sociology papers to bring into my intro statistics course for grad students. Straightforward quant analyses where the data are publicly available. Does anyone have any suggestions?
August 18, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I'm trying to find some sociology papers to bring into my intro statistics course for grad students. Straightforward quant analyses where the data are publicly available. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Ending birthright citizenship would increase the undocumented population by 5.4 million by 2075: www.migrationpolicy.org/news/birthri...
Repealing Birthright Citizenship Would Significantly Increase the Size of the U.S. Unauthorized Population
Repealing birthright citizenship for babies born on U.S. soil to unauthorized immigrants or temporary visa holders would have a contrary result from its stated aim of reducing the unauthorized immigra...
www.migrationpolicy.org
July 4, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Ending birthright citizenship would increase the undocumented population by 5.4 million by 2075: www.migrationpolicy.org/news/birthri...
Picking berries is a blood sport that I enjoy.
June 23, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Picking berries is a blood sport that I enjoy.
My university is removing our landlines from our offices to save costs. The thing is I ripped my landline out of the wall the moment I got here because it rang and I didn’t know how to use it.
May 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
My university is removing our landlines from our offices to save costs. The thing is I ripped my landline out of the wall the moment I got here because it rang and I didn’t know how to use it.
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Shout out to @caitlinpatler.bsky.social for her hard work on this. I’m happy for the small part I played in this, too.
Our research shows that ending birthright citizenship "would cause serious harm…to the entire United States."
It is my honor to join with 95 other social scientists, all of us specialists in US immigration, in signing this new Amicus Curiae brief.
☞ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
It is my honor to join with 95 other social scientists, all of us specialists in US immigration, in signing this new Amicus Curiae brief.
☞ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
April 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Shout out to @caitlinpatler.bsky.social for her hard work on this. I’m happy for the small part I played in this, too.
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Hi fellow #demography folks. Be sure to follow @uwcsde.bsky.social ! They are new to Bluesky .
@sarahquinn.bsky.social @petercatron.bsky.social @zalmquist.bsky.social @readdemography.bsky.social @popassocamerica.bsky.social @iaphs.bsky.social @iussp.bsky.social @berkeleypopcenter.bsky.social
@sarahquinn.bsky.social @petercatron.bsky.social @zalmquist.bsky.social @readdemography.bsky.social @popassocamerica.bsky.social @iaphs.bsky.social @iussp.bsky.social @berkeleypopcenter.bsky.social
April 10, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Hi fellow #demography folks. Be sure to follow @uwcsde.bsky.social ! They are new to Bluesky .
@sarahquinn.bsky.social @petercatron.bsky.social @zalmquist.bsky.social @readdemography.bsky.social @popassocamerica.bsky.social @iaphs.bsky.social @iussp.bsky.social @berkeleypopcenter.bsky.social
@sarahquinn.bsky.social @petercatron.bsky.social @zalmquist.bsky.social @readdemography.bsky.social @popassocamerica.bsky.social @iaphs.bsky.social @iussp.bsky.social @berkeleypopcenter.bsky.social
Has anyone done a FOIA request at the National Archives?
April 10, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Has anyone done a FOIA request at the National Archives?
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For my inaugural post on this app, I'd like to invite anyone attending #PAA2025 to come to my talk! I'm very excited to attend my first PAA @popassocamerica.bsky.social meeting and share this research (and hopefully get good feedback as I refine and revise).
March 30, 2025 at 5:17 PM
For my inaugural post on this app, I'd like to invite anyone attending #PAA2025 to come to my talk! I'm very excited to attend my first PAA @popassocamerica.bsky.social meeting and share this research (and hopefully get good feedback as I refine and revise).
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If you have leads on academic or academic-adjacent jobs that would make sense, I'd greatly appreciate to hear from you.
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March 24, 2025 at 12:43 PM
If you have leads on academic or academic-adjacent jobs that would make sense, I'd greatly appreciate to hear from you.
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We’re excited to receive nominations for papers written by graduate students doing important work on inequality, poverty, and mobility. More info here: www.asanet.org/communities-...
bsky.app/profile/fabi...
bsky.app/profile/fabi...
Please nominate an (or your) article by March 31 for the
2025 ROBERT D. MARE GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER AWARD
(published in 2024)
Send a brief nomination letter and the pdf to Matthew Clair (mclair@stanford.edu)
@mathuclair.bsky.social
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2025 ROBERT D. MARE GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER AWARD
(published in 2024)
Send a brief nomination letter and the pdf to Matthew Clair (mclair@stanford.edu)
@mathuclair.bsky.social
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March 19, 2025 at 4:56 PM
We’re excited to receive nominations for papers written by graduate students doing important work on inequality, poverty, and mobility. More info here: www.asanet.org/communities-...
bsky.app/profile/fabi...
bsky.app/profile/fabi...
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Please nominate an (or your) article by March 31 for the
2025 ROBERT D. MARE GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER AWARD
(published in 2024)
Send a brief nomination letter and the pdf to Matthew Clair (mclair@stanford.edu)
@mathuclair.bsky.social
/4
2025 ROBERT D. MARE GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER AWARD
(published in 2024)
Send a brief nomination letter and the pdf to Matthew Clair (mclair@stanford.edu)
@mathuclair.bsky.social
/4
March 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Please nominate an (or your) article by March 31 for the
2025 ROBERT D. MARE GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER AWARD
(published in 2024)
Send a brief nomination letter and the pdf to Matthew Clair (mclair@stanford.edu)
@mathuclair.bsky.social
/4
2025 ROBERT D. MARE GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER AWARD
(published in 2024)
Send a brief nomination letter and the pdf to Matthew Clair (mclair@stanford.edu)
@mathuclair.bsky.social
/4
Surveillance from a “small army” of private citizens never stops at immigrants. See the American Protective League during WWI.
February 27, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Surveillance from a “small army” of private citizens never stops at immigrants. See the American Protective League during WWI.
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I am thrilled to share that I will be joining the Department of Sociology at Emory University this fall as an Assistant Professor! Excited for a new chapter in Atlanta 🔥🍑
February 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I am thrilled to share that I will be joining the Department of Sociology at Emory University this fall as an Assistant Professor! Excited for a new chapter in Atlanta 🔥🍑
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Nominations due in just under 2 weeks!!! Nominate your amazing students' work, or, if you're a student or very recent grad, nominate yourself!
I'm chairing the ASA Sociology of Population section's Student Paper Award. Nominations are due March 1st (self-nominations are welcome!). Info in the image below.
February 16, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Nominations due in just under 2 weeks!!! Nominate your amazing students' work, or, if you're a student or very recent grad, nominate yourself!
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This is a trick question. A sociological finding doesn't count as a breakthrough until an economist rediscovers it.
Ok sociology, what do you think are genuine breakthroughs that our field has made. Contributions that might convince skeptical but sympathetic *academics* (not the public) of the value of our field? I'll brainstorm some of mine in the thread - I treat sociology very broadly
February 13, 2025 at 1:24 AM
This is a trick question. A sociological finding doesn't count as a breakthrough until an economist rediscovers it.
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Also tonight: Trump fired National Archivist Colleen Shogan. This is a position that can do real, irreversible damage in authoritarian hands.
February 8, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Also tonight: Trump fired National Archivist Colleen Shogan. This is a position that can do real, irreversible damage in authoritarian hands.
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
I’m working on a NIH grant. What are the chances the NIH still exists by the Feb 15 deadline?
January 22, 2025 at 4:06 AM
I’m working on a NIH grant. What are the chances the NIH still exists by the Feb 15 deadline?
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