Liana Sayer
@lsayer.bsky.social
Sociologist/demographer @ University of Maryland studying inequalities in time use over the life course and how those relate to relationship quality and stability.
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Why do Black kids in nuclear families struggle to succeed while white kids in these families flourish?
What do these inequalities tell us about the power & limits of the two-parent family?
Check out my new piece in @harpersbazaar.com.web.brid.gy to learn more www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...
What do these inequalities tell us about the power & limits of the two-parent family?
Check out my new piece in @harpersbazaar.com.web.brid.gy to learn more www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...
Why Black Families Fall Through the Safety Net
For most of the last 20 years, policymakers and researchers have stressed the importance of a two-parent home for children’s success. New research complicates conventional wisdom.
www.harpersbazaar.com
October 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Why do Black kids in nuclear families struggle to succeed while white kids in these families flourish?
What do these inequalities tell us about the power & limits of the two-parent family?
Check out my new piece in @harpersbazaar.com.web.brid.gy to learn more www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...
What do these inequalities tell us about the power & limits of the two-parent family?
Check out my new piece in @harpersbazaar.com.web.brid.gy to learn more www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...
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sweet christ on a bird flu biscuit how was he ever confirmed
September 4, 2025 at 10:11 PM
sweet christ on a bird flu biscuit how was he ever confirmed
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"I believe that we must set the example of supporting the party's nominee," Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said of Democrats—such as Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries—who haven't endorsed NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. www.commondreams.org/news/aoc-zoh...
AOC: Schumer, Jeffries Setting a Bad Example by Not Backing Mamdani | Common Dreams
"I believe that we must set the example of supporting the party's
nominee," Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said of Democrats—such as Chuck
Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries—who haven't endorsed NYC mayoral cand...
www.commondreams.org
September 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
"I believe that we must set the example of supporting the party's nominee," Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said of Democrats—such as Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries—who haven't endorsed NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. www.commondreams.org/news/aoc-zoh...
Starts with questionable assumption married women are happier than other women?
Never peer reviewed, data and code never shared, always straight to press release and reports by credulous media friends (coming soon to the Atlantic and Deseret News)
September 2, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Starts with questionable assumption married women are happier than other women?
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Never peer reviewed, data and code never shared, always straight to press release and reports by credulous media friends (coming soon to the Atlantic and Deseret News)
September 2, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Never peer reviewed, data and code never shared, always straight to press release and reports by credulous media friends (coming soon to the Atlantic and Deseret News)
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This style of reporting is atrocious. Governor Cook has not been fired. The President has “purported” to fire her. Governor Cook knows the president has no such power to do so—see her statement for details. We need a better media who does not accept every half baked narrative from the White House
August 28, 2025 at 4:29 PM
This style of reporting is atrocious. Governor Cook has not been fired. The President has “purported” to fire her. Governor Cook knows the president has no such power to do so—see her statement for details. We need a better media who does not accept every half baked narrative from the White House
We're living in a Dual State per Fraenkel's Dual State theory of fascism. Who's written about effective mobilization against Dual States?
She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse.
ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
After six months in ICE custody, Charlotte woman chooses voluntary removal to Honduras
A 20-year-old Honduran woman who has lived in the Charlotte area for more than a decade will soon be removed from the U.S.
www.wunc.org
August 28, 2025 at 12:04 AM
We're living in a Dual State per Fraenkel's Dual State theory of fascism. Who's written about effective mobilization against Dual States?
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I never planned on writing a book. Few demographers do. But 9yrs ago, I unearthed a puzzling finding that upended everything I thought I knew about race and family structure. And I knew I had to share it with the world.
Check out this video to learn more: www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8BxtCBd/
Check out this video to learn more: www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8BxtCBd/
The surprising findings that led Christina J. Cross, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, to write her critical new book, Inherited Inequality: Why Opportunity Gaps Persist Between ...
TikTok video by Harvard University Press
www.tiktok.com
August 27, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I never planned on writing a book. Few demographers do. But 9yrs ago, I unearthed a puzzling finding that upended everything I thought I knew about race and family structure. And I knew I had to share it with the world.
Check out this video to learn more: www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8BxtCBd/
Check out this video to learn more: www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8BxtCBd/
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This
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
August 25, 2025 at 9:44 PM
This
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D.C. has more residents than two U.S. states. They pay more per capita in federal taxes than any other state.
But they don’t get a serious seat at the table to decide how they’re governed.
D.C. statehood now.
But they don’t get a serious seat at the table to decide how they’re governed.
D.C. statehood now.
August 22, 2025 at 7:47 PM
D.C. has more residents than two U.S. states. They pay more per capita in federal taxes than any other state.
But they don’t get a serious seat at the table to decide how they’re governed.
D.C. statehood now.
But they don’t get a serious seat at the table to decide how they’re governed.
D.C. statehood now.
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We are already off to an amazing start! lcc.umn.edu/DIRC
So excited to be kicking off day 1 of our Data-Intensive Research Pre-Conference Workshop! @ipums.bsky.social
August 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
We are already off to an amazing start! lcc.umn.edu/DIRC
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Maybe it's time for the Fed -- which already runs a number of surveys through its regional banks -- to start running its own surveys to monitor unemployment and prices, the two components of its dual mandate.
August 1, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Maybe it's time for the Fed -- which already runs a number of surveys through its regional banks -- to start running its own surveys to monitor unemployment and prices, the two components of its dual mandate.
I'll feature this insightful take on fertility this fall in Social Demography seminar.
Want to know why demographers aren't panicking over low birth rates? @lesja.bsky.social, @shelleydclark.bsky.social, & I have a new piece in @theconversation.com explaining the faulty logic that underlies the low birth rate-induced population panic than fuels the pronatalism movement. 1/n
Fears that falling birth rates in US could lead to population collapse are based on faulty assumptions
While the changes in population structure that accompany low birth rates are real, the impact of these changes has been dramatically overstated.
theconversation.com
July 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I'll feature this insightful take on fertility this fall in Social Demography seminar.
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via @minnpop @ipums.bsky.social Support the ATUS - Submit a Comment to the Federal Register by Monday (July 28)
Support the ATUS - Submit a Comment to the Federal Register by Monday (July 28)
Support the ATUS - Submit a Comment to the Federal Register by Monday (July 28)
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Next Monday (July 28) is the last day to submit a comment to the Federal Register notice proposing an extension to the American Time Use Survey (ATUS)
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July 23, 2025 at 8:11 PM
via @minnpop @ipums.bsky.social Support the ATUS - Submit a Comment to the Federal Register by Monday (July 28)
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I think this article is correct that some of the lawyers feel shame but my suspicion about the balaclavas is that the agents wear them in order to look more intimidating.
July 21, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I think this article is correct that some of the lawyers feel shame but my suspicion about the balaclavas is that the agents wear them in order to look more intimidating.
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We are thrilled to announce that Family Relations, an official journal of NCFR, has released its special issue with the theme "Artificial Intelligence in Everyday Family Life." Discover the impact that these technologies can have on families and relationships. #familyrelations #AI
July 18, 2025 at 7:46 PM
We are thrilled to announce that Family Relations, an official journal of NCFR, has released its special issue with the theme "Artificial Intelligence in Everyday Family Life." Discover the impact that these technologies can have on families and relationships. #familyrelations #AI
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The Supreme Court’s “shadow docket” has cast very different shadows depending on which party holds the White House.
When lower courts blocked Trump admin policies, SCOTUS intervened on an emergency basis to lift those orders in 77% of cases.
For the Biden administration, that number was 0%.
When lower courts blocked Trump admin policies, SCOTUS intervened on an emergency basis to lift those orders in 77% of cases.
For the Biden administration, that number was 0%.
July 9, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The Supreme Court’s “shadow docket” has cast very different shadows depending on which party holds the White House.
When lower courts blocked Trump admin policies, SCOTUS intervened on an emergency basis to lift those orders in 77% of cases.
For the Biden administration, that number was 0%.
When lower courts blocked Trump admin policies, SCOTUS intervened on an emergency basis to lift those orders in 77% of cases.
For the Biden administration, that number was 0%.
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This is an excellent and clear-eyed indictment of how the New York Times and their ilk are collaborating in authoritarianism.
The Secret Police Are Here
While the Professional Moderates Clutch Their Pearls
www.notesfromthecircus.com
July 9, 2025 at 12:38 PM
This is an excellent and clear-eyed indictment of how the New York Times and their ilk are collaborating in authoritarianism.
Agree + we need from Democrats viral outreach about the positive outcomes government services and programs provide to people. Not the "Reagan Lite" offered during/post-Reagan.
How did Reagan get us here?
Essentially, Reagan gave us distrust in government, plus deregulation, plus belief in the benevolence of billionaires, plus trickle-down economics, plus precarity, plus scapegoats fueled by racist and sexist stereotypes.
bsky.app/profile/jess...
Essentially, Reagan gave us distrust in government, plus deregulation, plus belief in the benevolence of billionaires, plus trickle-down economics, plus precarity, plus scapegoats fueled by racist and sexist stereotypes.
bsky.app/profile/jess...
Let's just be clear about this--Reagan was not in any way a good president. And without him, we wouldn't be in this whole mess right now. 🧵1/
July 9, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Agree + we need from Democrats viral outreach about the positive outcomes government services and programs provide to people. Not the "Reagan Lite" offered during/post-Reagan.
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Incredible. I never thought I would see a poster session as protest. 💪
BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
July 8, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Incredible. I never thought I would see a poster session as protest. 💪
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The call for @wfrn.bsky.social papers is open! Join us in lovely Montreal June 17-20. The 2026 theme is Centering Care across the Life Course. Preconferences for Early Career Fellows and Predocs, plus plenty of social activities.
Submit by Oct 1. All the info here: wfrn.org/2026-work-an...
Submit by Oct 1. All the info here: wfrn.org/2026-work-an...
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Work and Family Researchers Network next conference will be June 17-20, 2026 at Concordia University in Montreal Canada. The WFRN will host preconference events on June 17, including ...
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June 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The call for @wfrn.bsky.social papers is open! Join us in lovely Montreal June 17-20. The 2026 theme is Centering Care across the Life Course. Preconferences for Early Career Fellows and Predocs, plus plenty of social activities.
Submit by Oct 1. All the info here: wfrn.org/2026-work-an...
Submit by Oct 1. All the info here: wfrn.org/2026-work-an...
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Submitting a comment in support of public data is simple.
We'll show you how!
We'll show you how!
Did you know that the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) is up for renewal?
APDU, @dataindex.us, and @prbdata.bsky.social are hosting a rapid response briefing to share:
🔵 What's in the survey?
🔵 Why is ATUS important?
🔵 What are the risks?
🔵 What can you do?
Registration info in 🧵
APDU, @dataindex.us, and @prbdata.bsky.social are hosting a rapid response briefing to share:
🔵 What's in the survey?
🔵 Why is ATUS important?
🔵 What are the risks?
🔵 What can you do?
Registration info in 🧵
July 7, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Submitting a comment in support of public data is simple.
We'll show you how!
We'll show you how!
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The ICE budget is now set to be approximately what the NIH budget was. We’re shifting money from solving real problems to solving fictitious problems.
July 3, 2025 at 10:53 PM
The ICE budget is now set to be approximately what the NIH budget was. We’re shifting money from solving real problems to solving fictitious problems.
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I support the continuation of vital events data collection. These data have been published since 1937 and are the sole source of this information at the national level. The data are used by HHS and by other government, business, academic, and other organizations in tracking changes in trends of...
July 4, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I support the continuation of vital events data collection. These data have been published since 1937 and are the sole source of this information at the national level. The data are used by HHS and by other government, business, academic, and other organizations in tracking changes in trends of...