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?

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 🏰 ✨

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

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! ☺️

🚨 Job alert: The Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto is hiring an Assistant Professor in the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

I'll be at ASA and would be happy to chat with interested candidates. Please share widely! #Socsky

A key explanation is SES. This is easy to miss: US-born Asians have high average income. However, an increased share are now in the bottom of the income distribution.

This is consistent with the known trend that AAs experienced the highest increase in income inequality of any group since 1980.

My new-to-blusky friend Nicole Kreisberg @nicolekreisberg.bsky.social is looking for interviewees for her project on immigrant couples! Her research team is in particular need of more respondents from Latin America and/or on student visas. Please share widely! #Socsky

Jet lagged + woke up early to read election news, so did the unusual thing (for me lol) of taking a morning walk - cherry blossoms are in bloom! Good morning #Toronto 🌸

Made my own #severance elevator this weekend. Quite proud of this one! :3

It appears that the Eastern Sociological Association #ESS meeting is happening at the same hotel as the American Psychopathological Association meeting.

Since other people do it to sociologists all the time, is it offensive to ask "can you read my thoughts" to psychopathologists in the elevator? 👀

Thanks @jean23bean.bsky.social for visiting us at Toronto Sociology this week to speak about suspect citizenship! The room was completely full and we had to even add a couple of chairs to accomodate all the interest in hearing about this important work. Excited to follow this project!!
#Socsky

My snow day craft project: desktop fireplace 😆

Not that I'd like to humor the idea, but in case you are curious, here's what people in 🇨🇦 actually think of becoming the 51st state:
An overwhelming majority (82%) said no, they don't want it. Women & those aged 55+ are especially against it.
#socsky
Dataviz by me, report by Leger: shorturl.at/pS2jx

In what feels like a pretty grim week, I'm going to read @philipncohen.com's new book to learn about public sociology! 📚 Thanks for visiting us in Toronto last week!

also this kicks off my new year challenge of drawing visitors on my office white board :p

I had a great time visiting Penn State PRI yesterday! Presented a paper on immigrants' earnings trajectories and later-life health and got amazing questions from the audience 😊 A special thank-you goes to @appdemography.bsky.social for showing me around!

POLL: I live in Toronto, and I'm going to the store later today to get a ZZ plant. What should I say to the person in the store?
A) I want a Zee Zee plant
B) I want a Zed Zed plant
C) Write "zz plant" on a piece of paper and slide it over in silence

(I guess there's no poll function yet? 🤣)

My Milano ducky says hi!