Leafia Ye
@leafiaye.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto 🍁 | PhD from UW-Madison 🦡 | Immigrant integration, aging, and health
www.leafiaye.com
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Leafia Ye
@leafiaye.bsky.social
· Oct 10
We are building a new pop center at UofT and will hold our first mini-conference on Nov 6 - come join us!!
Exhibit 1: amazing speaker line-up - featuring friends around the world to discuss why demography/pop center matters! 🤓
Exhibit 2: the iconic castle where this conference will take place 🏰 ✨
Exhibit 1: amazing speaker line-up - featuring friends around the world to discuss why demography/pop center matters! 🤓
Exhibit 2: the iconic castle where this conference will take place 🏰 ✨
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Uh…
new paper by Sean Westwood:
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
November 19, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Uh…
The Toronto Population Network had its very first mini-conference at Hart House last Thursday, and it was such an amazing event!! Thanks everyone for coming & can't wait for what's next 💙
P.S. trying to get the "confidence intervals overlapping" photo pose trending. it clearly has potential, eh?
P.S. trying to get the "confidence intervals overlapping" photo pose trending. it clearly has potential, eh?
November 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The Toronto Population Network had its very first mini-conference at Hart House last Thursday, and it was such an amazing event!! Thanks everyone for coming & can't wait for what's next 💙
P.S. trying to get the "confidence intervals overlapping" photo pose trending. it clearly has potential, eh?
P.S. trying to get the "confidence intervals overlapping" photo pose trending. it clearly has potential, eh?
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the worse the shared draft the better the friend
October 30, 2025 at 8:14 AM
the worse the shared draft the better the friend
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Sweden, the place with the best historical data, finds that a larger percentage of births in the late 1800s (12%) were by mothers over age 40 than today (5%). I extremely did not know this
www.scb.se/hitta-statis...
www.scb.se/hitta-statis...
October 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Sweden, the place with the best historical data, finds that a larger percentage of births in the late 1800s (12%) were by mothers over age 40 than today (5%). I extremely did not know this
www.scb.se/hitta-statis...
www.scb.se/hitta-statis...
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In “Goodbye Norway,” @afconstant.bsky.social Astri Syse & Marianne Tönnessen study 1st-generation working-age immigrants & show how returnees & onward migrants differ by their education & earnings. @pennpsc.bsky.social @cesifo.org o.org @nibrresearch.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
October 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
In “Goodbye Norway,” @afconstant.bsky.social Astri Syse & Marianne Tönnessen study 1st-generation working-age immigrants & show how returnees & onward migrants differ by their education & earnings. @pennpsc.bsky.social @cesifo.org o.org @nibrresearch.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
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We are building a new pop center at UofT and will hold our first mini-conference on Nov 6 - come join us!!
Exhibit 1: amazing speaker line-up - featuring friends around the world to discuss why demography/pop center matters! 🤓
Exhibit 2: the iconic castle where this conference will take place 🏰 ✨
Exhibit 1: amazing speaker line-up - featuring friends around the world to discuss why demography/pop center matters! 🤓
Exhibit 2: the iconic castle where this conference will take place 🏰 ✨
October 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
We are building a new pop center at UofT and will hold our first mini-conference on Nov 6 - come join us!!
Exhibit 1: amazing speaker line-up - featuring friends around the world to discuss why demography/pop center matters! 🤓
Exhibit 2: the iconic castle where this conference will take place 🏰 ✨
Exhibit 1: amazing speaker line-up - featuring friends around the world to discuss why demography/pop center matters! 🤓
Exhibit 2: the iconic castle where this conference will take place 🏰 ✨
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“Do Immigrants Experience Morbidity & Disability Disadvantages at Older Ages?” In comparing HRS & NHIS data, Hui Zheng & Wei-hsin Yu demonstrate “how sensitive our evidence on immigrants’ aging & health is to the data source & the specific immigrant sample.” read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
October 13, 2025 at 6:25 PM
“Do Immigrants Experience Morbidity & Disability Disadvantages at Older Ages?” In comparing HRS & NHIS data, Hui Zheng & Wei-hsin Yu demonstrate “how sensitive our evidence on immigrants’ aging & health is to the data source & the specific immigrant sample.” read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
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Hey @paaalpaca.bsky.social - we hear Toronto is lovely in November!
October 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Hey @paaalpaca.bsky.social - we hear Toronto is lovely in November!
We are building a new pop center at UofT and will hold our first mini-conference on Nov 6 - come join us!!
Exhibit 1: amazing speaker line-up - featuring friends around the world to discuss why demography/pop center matters! 🤓
Exhibit 2: the iconic castle where this conference will take place 🏰 ✨
Exhibit 1: amazing speaker line-up - featuring friends around the world to discuss why demography/pop center matters! 🤓
Exhibit 2: the iconic castle where this conference will take place 🏰 ✨
October 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
We are building a new pop center at UofT and will hold our first mini-conference on Nov 6 - come join us!!
Exhibit 1: amazing speaker line-up - featuring friends around the world to discuss why demography/pop center matters! 🤓
Exhibit 2: the iconic castle where this conference will take place 🏰 ✨
Exhibit 1: amazing speaker line-up - featuring friends around the world to discuss why demography/pop center matters! 🤓
Exhibit 2: the iconic castle where this conference will take place 🏰 ✨
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The Toronto Population Network is holding a conference on 6 November at Hart House at UofT. Keynote from @ridhikashyap.bsky.social! If you're in Toronto come along and help us build the community of demographers and population researchers here! Registration: www.eventbrite.com/e/toronto-po...
October 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The Toronto Population Network is holding a conference on 6 November at Hart House at UofT. Keynote from @ridhikashyap.bsky.social! If you're in Toronto come along and help us build the community of demographers and population researchers here! Registration: www.eventbrite.com/e/toronto-po...
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UofT grad students - help advance social policy's media presence! Pitch us an opinion piece on social policy. If approved, you'll earn $500 for the completed piece.
More info: cgsp-cpsm.ca/2025/09/22/c...
More info: cgsp-cpsm.ca/2025/09/22/c...
September 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
UofT grad students - help advance social policy's media presence! Pitch us an opinion piece on social policy. If approved, you'll earn $500 for the completed piece.
More info: cgsp-cpsm.ca/2025/09/22/c...
More info: cgsp-cpsm.ca/2025/09/22/c...
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1/ So you’re thinking about applying for an academic job in the UK but don’t know how? This thread will walk you through the essentials.
September 22, 2025 at 1:06 PM
1/ So you’re thinking about applying for an academic job in the UK but don’t know how? This thread will walk you through the essentials.
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Hey remember last fall, when members of the press credulously reported that Trump would increase high-skilled immigration?
This will end it pretty much entirely.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
This will end it pretty much entirely.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Trump to Add New $100,000 Fee for H-1B Visas in Latest Crackdown
President Donald Trump is expected to sign a proclamation as soon as Friday that would move to extensively overhaul the H-1B visa program, requiring a $100,000 fee for applications in a bid to curb ov...
www.bloomberg.com
September 19, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Hey remember last fall, when members of the press credulously reported that Trump would increase high-skilled immigration?
This will end it pretty much entirely.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
This will end it pretty much entirely.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Great grantwriting advice from @arianeophir.bsky.social!!
Things about writing an #ERC Starting Grant that took me a long to time to understand despite all the webinars and resources I consumed (aka "things I wish someone had screamed at me 2 years ago"): 🧵
September 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Great grantwriting advice from @arianeophir.bsky.social!!
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📢 Interested in excess mortality methods, and want a challenge? I'm organising the "One Epidemic, Many Estimates" (1EME) project! Register *now* as a many analyst team (submissions due 15 March 2026), and then join us at LSE for a workshop on 21-22 May 2026! (1/n)
www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-His...
www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-His...
One Epidemic, Many Estimates (1EME)
One Epidemic, Many Estimates (1EME)
www.lse.ac.uk
August 27, 2025 at 8:54 AM
📢 Interested in excess mortality methods, and want a challenge? I'm organising the "One Epidemic, Many Estimates" (1EME) project! Register *now* as a many analyst team (submissions due 15 March 2026), and then join us at LSE for a workshop on 21-22 May 2026! (1/n)
www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-His...
www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-His...
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📣 Call for Papers is open!
In_equality Conference 2026 | 15–17 April | Konstanz
We invite papers on the political causes & consequences of #inequality
Submit Aug 8–Oct 5 ➡️ inequality-conference.de
@uni-konstanz.de
In_equality Conference 2026 | 15–17 April | Konstanz
We invite papers on the political causes & consequences of #inequality
Submit Aug 8–Oct 5 ➡️ inequality-conference.de
@uni-konstanz.de
August 8, 2025 at 6:52 AM
📣 Call for Papers is open!
In_equality Conference 2026 | 15–17 April | Konstanz
We invite papers on the political causes & consequences of #inequality
Submit Aug 8–Oct 5 ➡️ inequality-conference.de
@uni-konstanz.de
In_equality Conference 2026 | 15–17 April | Konstanz
We invite papers on the political causes & consequences of #inequality
Submit Aug 8–Oct 5 ➡️ inequality-conference.de
@uni-konstanz.de
It was such a treat to visit @mpidr.bsky.social! Many thanks to @loisilvia.bsky.social for hosting me, and to everyone else for generous feedback on my work + lots of fun chats. I'll miss Rostocker the beer, but Rostockers the people even more!
Next stop: Amsterdam 🌷 / more end-of-summer-denial
Next stop: Amsterdam 🌷 / more end-of-summer-denial
August 26, 2025 at 11:05 AM
It was such a treat to visit @mpidr.bsky.social! Many thanks to @loisilvia.bsky.social for hosting me, and to everyone else for generous feedback on my work + lots of fun chats. I'll miss Rostocker the beer, but Rostockers the people even more!
Next stop: Amsterdam 🌷 / more end-of-summer-denial
Next stop: Amsterdam 🌷 / more end-of-summer-denial
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The University of Zurich invites applications for a professorship in the sociology of child and adolescent development. I've been told this is open rank.
UZH: Professorship in the Sociology of Child and Adolescent Development
The University of Zurich invites applications for a professorship in the sociology of child and adolescent development, starting on 1 February 2027. The future holder of the position will be affiliate...
jobs.uzh.ch
August 18, 2025 at 9:37 AM
The University of Zurich invites applications for a professorship in the sociology of child and adolescent development. I've been told this is open rank.
Used all of my energy to write the best paragraph i can possibly write but it's still never gonna be as good as the paragraph that i casually wrote but didn't autosave when word crashed 😭
August 15, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Used all of my energy to write the best paragraph i can possibly write but it's still never gonna be as good as the paragraph that i casually wrote but didn't autosave when word crashed 😭
When you almost couldn't connect to the WiFi because you spelled Lexis diagram wrong 👀
Excited to be visiting @mpidr.bsky.social for the next two weeks in beautiful Rostock! ☺️
Excited to be visiting @mpidr.bsky.social for the next two weeks in beautiful Rostock! ☺️
August 14, 2025 at 7:39 AM
When you almost couldn't connect to the WiFi because you spelled Lexis diagram wrong 👀
Excited to be visiting @mpidr.bsky.social for the next two weeks in beautiful Rostock! ☺️
Excited to be visiting @mpidr.bsky.social for the next two weeks in beautiful Rostock! ☺️
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We are excited to announce the #PAA2026 Call for Papers is now available! The submission site opens on Monday, Aug. 18 and the deadline is Sunday, Oct. 5. Meet me in St. Louis! May 6-9, 2026:
www.populationassociation.org/paa2026/call...
www.populationassociation.org/paa2026/call...
August 12, 2025 at 7:31 PM
We are excited to announce the #PAA2026 Call for Papers is now available! The submission site opens on Monday, Aug. 18 and the deadline is Sunday, Oct. 5. Meet me in St. Louis! May 6-9, 2026:
www.populationassociation.org/paa2026/call...
www.populationassociation.org/paa2026/call...
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🚨NEW STUDY🚨
Among Black and White adults, we find that low-SES Whites report the most bodily pain and goal-striving stress (i.e., thwarted aspirations), and are the only ones to report positive links btwn GSS and pain. We unpack research, policy, and clinical implications.
tinyurl.com/yu6ev85u
Among Black and White adults, we find that low-SES Whites report the most bodily pain and goal-striving stress (i.e., thwarted aspirations), and are the only ones to report positive links btwn GSS and pain. We unpack research, policy, and clinical implications.
tinyurl.com/yu6ev85u
(PDF) Goal-Striving Stress and Bodily Pain among Working-Age Black and White Americans
PDF | This study tests novel research questions regarding Black-White disparities in bodily pain and goal-striving stress (GSS). A largely overlooked... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...
tinyurl.com
July 27, 2025 at 10:01 PM
🚨NEW STUDY🚨
Among Black and White adults, we find that low-SES Whites report the most bodily pain and goal-striving stress (i.e., thwarted aspirations), and are the only ones to report positive links btwn GSS and pain. We unpack research, policy, and clinical implications.
tinyurl.com/yu6ev85u
Among Black and White adults, we find that low-SES Whites report the most bodily pain and goal-striving stress (i.e., thwarted aspirations), and are the only ones to report positive links btwn GSS and pain. We unpack research, policy, and clinical implications.
tinyurl.com/yu6ev85u
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We are hiring at Rotman Strategy in the Fall. Apply here. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
Assistant Professor - Strategic Management
Assistant Professor - Strategic Management
jobs.utoronto.ca
July 21, 2025 at 6:55 PM
We are hiring at Rotman Strategy in the Fall. Apply here. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
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Nice initiative from Western! news.westernu.ca/2025/07/phd-...
July 16, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Nice initiative from Western! news.westernu.ca/2025/07/phd-...
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IN OTHER NEWS: check out our new COIN paper on immigrant--native pay gaps in advanced economies published in @nature.com this afternoon! Specifically, we study the relative contribution of within-job unequal pay vs between-job segregation to earnings disparities across immigrant generations. 1/9
Immigrant–native pay gap driven by lack of access to high-paying jobs - Nature
Data from nine European and North American countries reveal that the disparity in earnings between immigrants and natives is largely a result of segregation of immigrant workers into lower-paying jobs...
www.nature.com
July 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
IN OTHER NEWS: check out our new COIN paper on immigrant--native pay gaps in advanced economies published in @nature.com this afternoon! Specifically, we study the relative contribution of within-job unequal pay vs between-job segregation to earnings disparities across immigrant generations. 1/9