Sarah Patterson
@spattersearch.bsky.social
Demographer & Sociologist: families, caregiving, dementia, gender, work. ❤s 🍩 & gardening 🌻. She/her. Let us build each other up.
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Working caregivers rose from 8M to 9.6M (2011-2023). What is the impact on work for these caregivers? @spattersearch.bsky.social finds 'presenteeism' (being at work but not fully engaged) and work productivity loss are increasing over time #GSA2025
November 13, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Working caregivers rose from 8M to 9.6M (2011-2023). What is the impact on work for these caregivers? @spattersearch.bsky.social finds 'presenteeism' (being at work but not fully engaged) and work productivity loss are increasing over time #GSA2025
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@geronsociety.bsky.social 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting starts on Wednesday. SRC is well represented: myumi.ch/e3dVX
November 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
@geronsociety.bsky.social 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting starts on Wednesday. SRC is well represented: myumi.ch/e3dVX
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Looking for your favorite MiCDA researcher? Check out their upcoming presentations Tuesday, November 11 - Saturday, November 15 at #GSA2025 in Boston, Massachusetts
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November 10, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Looking for your favorite MiCDA researcher? Check out their upcoming presentations Tuesday, November 11 - Saturday, November 15 at #GSA2025 in Boston, Massachusetts
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#GSA2025: NHATS/NSOC Exhibit Hall Hours
Be sure to visit us at Booth 404 just inside the entrance to the exhibit hall. We'll be at the booth during the Welcome Reception on Wednesday (5:30 - 7:30 p.m.), as well as daily from 11:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
Be sure to visit us at Booth 404 just inside the entrance to the exhibit hall. We'll be at the booth during the Welcome Reception on Wednesday (5:30 - 7:30 p.m.), as well as daily from 11:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
November 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
#GSA2025: NHATS/NSOC Exhibit Hall Hours
Be sure to visit us at Booth 404 just inside the entrance to the exhibit hall. We'll be at the booth during the Welcome Reception on Wednesday (5:30 - 7:30 p.m.), as well as daily from 11:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
Be sure to visit us at Booth 404 just inside the entrance to the exhibit hall. We'll be at the booth during the Welcome Reception on Wednesday (5:30 - 7:30 p.m.), as well as daily from 11:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
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Jerald Bachman passed away on October 31, 2025. Bachman was one of the founding investigators of the @mtfstudy.bsky.social. Founded in 1975, Monitoring the Future is an ongoing study of the behaviors, attitudes, and values of Americans from adolescence through adulthood myumi.ch/E8pg6
November 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Jerald Bachman passed away on October 31, 2025. Bachman was one of the founding investigators of the @mtfstudy.bsky.social. Founded in 1975, Monitoring the Future is an ongoing study of the behaviors, attitudes, and values of Americans from adolescence through adulthood myumi.ch/E8pg6
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We encourage you to check out all of the posters and presentations using NHATS/NSOC data at #GSA2025!
Just click here: nhats.org/sites/defaul...
Just click here: nhats.org/sites/defaul...
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
We encourage you to check out all of the posters and presentations using NHATS/NSOC data at #GSA2025!
Just click here: nhats.org/sites/defaul...
Just click here: nhats.org/sites/defaul...
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Maps of the Delta and United cuts loaded so far, as interpreted from the FlightAware cancels reports.
Not all frequencies on these routes, and decent chance things continue to shift. But this is what I'm seeing right now.
#AvGeek
Not all frequencies on these routes, and decent chance things continue to shift. But this is what I'm seeing right now.
#AvGeek
November 6, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Maps of the Delta and United cuts loaded so far, as interpreted from the FlightAware cancels reports.
Not all frequencies on these routes, and decent chance things continue to shift. But this is what I'm seeing right now.
#AvGeek
Not all frequencies on these routes, and decent chance things continue to shift. But this is what I'm seeing right now.
#AvGeek
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How Americans are thinking about aging
How Americans Are Thinking About Aging
From how well they think they’re aging to how they rate their physical and mental health and financial security, older adults with upper incomes are doing better than those with middle or lower incomes.
www.pewresearch.org
November 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM
How Americans are thinking about aging
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Call for Papers!
Submit your paper for the conference: 'Kinship Structures, Dynamics and Inequalities', taking place on 8 and 9 June 2026 @mpidr.bsky.social in Rostock organized by @demography.bsky.social, @iussp.bsky.social +coll.
Deadline: 21 January 2026
www.demogr.mpg.de/go/kinship-conference
Submit your paper for the conference: 'Kinship Structures, Dynamics and Inequalities', taking place on 8 and 9 June 2026 @mpidr.bsky.social in Rostock organized by @demography.bsky.social, @iussp.bsky.social +coll.
Deadline: 21 January 2026
www.demogr.mpg.de/go/kinship-conference
November 6, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Call for Papers!
Submit your paper for the conference: 'Kinship Structures, Dynamics and Inequalities', taking place on 8 and 9 June 2026 @mpidr.bsky.social in Rostock organized by @demography.bsky.social, @iussp.bsky.social +coll.
Deadline: 21 January 2026
www.demogr.mpg.de/go/kinship-conference
Submit your paper for the conference: 'Kinship Structures, Dynamics and Inequalities', taking place on 8 and 9 June 2026 @mpidr.bsky.social in Rostock organized by @demography.bsky.social, @iussp.bsky.social +coll.
Deadline: 21 January 2026
www.demogr.mpg.de/go/kinship-conference
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A little humor I found laying around in the Sociology Department.
November 4, 2025 at 6:20 PM
A little humor I found laying around in the Sociology Department.
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I am very happy to see our paper featured in this press release! I have written a bit of a longer post on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... for the interested reader. The original press release can be found here: www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...
October 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I am very happy to see our paper featured in this press release! I have written a bit of a longer post on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... for the interested reader. The original press release can be found here: www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...
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When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
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Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
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Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning
Abstract. The effects of using large language models (LLMs) versus traditional web search on depth of learning are explored. A theory is proposed that when
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October 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
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❓ Missing data are like phantoms. How do they affect your data? What can you do about them? Check out our NoStupidQuestions series here: https://myumi.ch/ICPSRNoStupidQuestions
#ICPSR #NoStupidQuestions #SocialScience #Data
#ICPSR #NoStupidQuestions #SocialScience #Data
October 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM
❓ Missing data are like phantoms. How do they affect your data? What can you do about them? Check out our NoStupidQuestions series here: https://myumi.ch/ICPSRNoStupidQuestions
#ICPSR #NoStupidQuestions #SocialScience #Data
#ICPSR #NoStupidQuestions #SocialScience #Data
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A decline in remote work flexibility over the last year is widening the gender pay gap and dragging down the labor force participation rate of college-educated mothers.
Employers who can offer at least hybrid work arrangements can attract some great talent.
Employers who can offer at least hybrid work arrangements can attract some great talent.
Women’s Pay Is Falling Behind. Is the Return to the Office to Blame?
Women have made big workforce gains, but their pay growth isn’t keeping pace with men’s.
www.wsj.com
October 25, 2025 at 10:22 AM
A decline in remote work flexibility over the last year is widening the gender pay gap and dragging down the labor force participation rate of college-educated mothers.
Employers who can offer at least hybrid work arrangements can attract some great talent.
Employers who can offer at least hybrid work arrangements can attract some great talent.
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U. Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS) is hiring an Asst/Assoc Professor in Global Environmental Policy!
Strong fit for environmental/development economists interested in policy & interdisciplinary work. Review begins Nov 1.
Details: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
#EconSky
Strong fit for environmental/development economists interested in policy & interdisciplinary work. Review begins Nov 1.
Details: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
#EconSky
American Economic Association: JOE Listings - August 1, 2025 - January 31, 2026
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October 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
U. Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS) is hiring an Asst/Assoc Professor in Global Environmental Policy!
Strong fit for environmental/development economists interested in policy & interdisciplinary work. Review begins Nov 1.
Details: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
#EconSky
Strong fit for environmental/development economists interested in policy & interdisciplinary work. Review begins Nov 1.
Details: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
#EconSky
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🆕📝 Excited to share our new article out today in Socius: “Take a Load Off? Not for Mothers” (with @helenkowalewska.bsky.social & @leahruppanner.bsky.social)!
Even when women earn more or have less time, the mental load of running a household still falls on them.
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2378...
Even when women earn more or have less time, the mental load of running a household still falls on them.
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2378...
Take a Load Off? Not for Mothers: Gender, Cognitive Labor, and the Limits of Time and Money - Ana Catalano Weeks, Helen Kowalewska, Leah Ruppanner, 2025
Globally, women perform the lion’s share of domestic labor. Research indicates that gender disparities in cognitive labor—the “thinking work” required to antici...
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October 23, 2025 at 10:55 AM
🆕📝 Excited to share our new article out today in Socius: “Take a Load Off? Not for Mothers” (with @helenkowalewska.bsky.social & @leahruppanner.bsky.social)!
Even when women earn more or have less time, the mental load of running a household still falls on them.
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2378...
Even when women earn more or have less time, the mental load of running a household still falls on them.
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2378...
A new poll finds that — even if they have conditions covered by the ADA — many older adults may not think of themselves as disabled or identify as a person with disability.
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Experiences of disability after 50: Poll looks at self-identity and help with health care visits
Even those with multiple health conditions that limit independence may not see themselves as a person with a disability, and may miss out on potential accommodations
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October 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
A new poll finds that — even if they have conditions covered by the ADA — many older adults may not think of themselves as disabled or identify as a person with disability.
ihpi.umich.edu/news-events/...
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and let's say you are in a good position to get one of those vanishingly scarce jobs. you have to publish 2-3x as much (and often in higher-ranked journals) compared to the faculty in the department to which you are applying
sociologicalscience.com/articles-v6-...
sociologicalscience.com/articles-v6-...
October 21, 2025 at 5:51 PM
and let's say you are in a good position to get one of those vanishingly scarce jobs. you have to publish 2-3x as much (and often in higher-ranked journals) compared to the faculty in the department to which you are applying
sociologicalscience.com/articles-v6-...
sociologicalscience.com/articles-v6-...
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You've probably heard that US fertility is "below replacement level." But what does that actually mean???
Demographers @lesja.bsky.social & others explain the link between birth rates & population growth in this new @ccfamilies.bsky.social brief. contemporaryfamilies.utah.edu/publications...
Demographers @lesja.bsky.social & others explain the link between birth rates & population growth in this new @ccfamilies.bsky.social brief. contemporaryfamilies.utah.edu/publications...
October 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
You've probably heard that US fertility is "below replacement level." But what does that actually mean???
Demographers @lesja.bsky.social & others explain the link between birth rates & population growth in this new @ccfamilies.bsky.social brief. contemporaryfamilies.utah.edu/publications...
Demographers @lesja.bsky.social & others explain the link between birth rates & population growth in this new @ccfamilies.bsky.social brief. contemporaryfamilies.utah.edu/publications...
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Time spent living together as a child positively predicts the amount of support they give to their parents & single or repartnered mothers are given more support than fathers in similar circumstances. Learn more from the new article by @spattersearch.bsky.social and Paula Fomby: myumi.ch/15rV1
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October 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Time spent living together as a child positively predicts the amount of support they give to their parents & single or repartnered mothers are given more support than fathers in similar circumstances. Learn more from the new article by @spattersearch.bsky.social and Paula Fomby: myumi.ch/15rV1
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Check out this interview with Shu Xu where she discusses her recent Innovation in Aging article on vision loss and falls that uses @nhats-nsoc.bsky.social data:
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Vision Loss and Falls Leading To Greater Mortality Risk And Female Sex Hormones Affect On RP In Mice
Dr. Shu Xu (University of Michigan Institute For Social Research - Ann Arbor, MI) Dr. Katherine Wert (University of Texas - Southwestern - D...
eyeonvision.blogspot.com
October 17, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Check out this interview with Shu Xu where she discusses her recent Innovation in Aging article on vision loss and falls that uses @nhats-nsoc.bsky.social data:
eyeonvision.blogspot.com/2025/09/visi...
eyeonvision.blogspot.com/2025/09/visi...
A nice write up of our recent JMF piece about transfers to parents: open.substack.com/pub/stephani...
What Weakens the Ties That Bind, and Other Interesting New Research
CPS Investigations Are Good, Actually; Eldercare Isn’t Stopping Europeans from Working; More Evidence That Partnership is a Privilege; The Class Gap in Screentime (Part 2) + more
open.substack.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:10 PM
A nice write up of our recent JMF piece about transfers to parents: open.substack.com/pub/stephani...
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WE'RE HIRING!
The Gender & Women's Studies Dept at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is hiring a TT professor of GENDER AND AGING
I'm on the search committee and happy to answer questions
Please share widely!
The Gender & Women's Studies Dept at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is hiring a TT professor of GENDER AND AGING
I'm on the search committee and happy to answer questions
Please share widely!
Assistant/Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies (RISE - THRIVE) - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...
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October 14, 2025 at 8:10 PM
WE'RE HIRING!
The Gender & Women's Studies Dept at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is hiring a TT professor of GENDER AND AGING
I'm on the search committee and happy to answer questions
Please share widely!
The Gender & Women's Studies Dept at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is hiring a TT professor of GENDER AND AGING
I'm on the search committee and happy to answer questions
Please share widely!
I wish there were more Dr. Mark Helmsings in the world. Curious, kind, and full of light.
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Obituary for Mark Helmsing | Waskom Capitol Hill Chapel
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October 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I wish there were more Dr. Mark Helmsings in the world. Curious, kind, and full of light.
www.waskoms.com/obituary/Mar...
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