Michael Topping
@michaeltopping.bsky.social
Sociology PhD candidate at UW-Madison | Center for Demography and Ecology | Center for Demography of Health and Aging | NIA T32 Trainee
Demography, Aging and the Life Course, Inequality, and much more!
~On the Job Market!
https://www.michael-topping.com
Demography, Aging and the Life Course, Inequality, and much more!
~On the Job Market!
https://www.michael-topping.com
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🌟CDHA at GSA 2025🌟
Several of our affiliates, including Yue Qin, Meiyi Li, & Gina Lee, are presenting today at the Gerontological Society of America’s Annual Scientific Meeting in Boston, MA.
Presentations run until the 15th, and we are proud to celebrate them each day!
Several of our affiliates, including Yue Qin, Meiyi Li, & Gina Lee, are presenting today at the Gerontological Society of America’s Annual Scientific Meeting in Boston, MA.
Presentations run until the 15th, and we are proud to celebrate them each day!
November 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
🌟CDHA at GSA 2025🌟
Several of our affiliates, including Yue Qin, Meiyi Li, & Gina Lee, are presenting today at the Gerontological Society of America’s Annual Scientific Meeting in Boston, MA.
Presentations run until the 15th, and we are proud to celebrate them each day!
Several of our affiliates, including Yue Qin, Meiyi Li, & Gina Lee, are presenting today at the Gerontological Society of America’s Annual Scientific Meeting in Boston, MA.
Presentations run until the 15th, and we are proud to celebrate them each day!
Reposted by Michael Topping
🌟CDE at GSA 2025🌟
We're excited to share that several of our CDE affiliates, including @michaeltopping.bsky.social, Meiyi Li, & Yue Qin are presenting at the Gerontological Society of America’s Annual Scientific Meeting today and tomorrow in Boston, MA!
Learn ➡️ www.gsa2025.org
We're excited to share that several of our CDE affiliates, including @michaeltopping.bsky.social, Meiyi Li, & Yue Qin are presenting at the Gerontological Society of America’s Annual Scientific Meeting today and tomorrow in Boston, MA!
Learn ➡️ www.gsa2025.org
November 12, 2025 at 6:24 PM
🌟CDE at GSA 2025🌟
We're excited to share that several of our CDE affiliates, including @michaeltopping.bsky.social, Meiyi Li, & Yue Qin are presenting at the Gerontological Society of America’s Annual Scientific Meeting today and tomorrow in Boston, MA!
Learn ➡️ www.gsa2025.org
We're excited to share that several of our CDE affiliates, including @michaeltopping.bsky.social, Meiyi Li, & Yue Qin are presenting at the Gerontological Society of America’s Annual Scientific Meeting today and tomorrow in Boston, MA!
Learn ➡️ www.gsa2025.org
Just got to review for my **favorite** journal - JHSB! Hope the authors of the paper appreciate my comments on their work! 🤗
September 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Just got to review for my **favorite** journal - JHSB! Hope the authors of the paper appreciate my comments on their work! 🤗
Today is my (hopefully) last first day of school! So many emotions right now but this is the mood I settled on this day: 😬😅
September 3, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Today is my (hopefully) last first day of school! So many emotions right now but this is the mood I settled on this day: 😬😅
Passed my dissertation proposal defense! 🎉 Just need to work hard this year to finish everything 😅
August 28, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Passed my dissertation proposal defense! 🎉 Just need to work hard this year to finish everything 😅
First job application is complete! And so it begins 😅 (wish me luck!) 🤗
August 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
First job application is complete! And so it begins 😅 (wish me luck!) 🤗
Reposted by Michael Topping
Academia is basically a collection of people who got lucky early on and mistook it for genius. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
August 4, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Academia is basically a collection of people who got lucky early on and mistook it for genius. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Maybe it's the stress of the upcoming job market, but for the first time in a long time I completed almost all of the goals I set out for the month of July! 😅
July 30, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Maybe it's the stress of the upcoming job market, but for the first time in a long time I completed almost all of the goals I set out for the month of July! 😅
Reposted by Michael Topping
We're hiring! Please share with your networks!
The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the field of demography of health and aging beginning in August 2026
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the field of demography of health and aging beginning in August 2026
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor - 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...
jobs.wisc.edu
July 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
We're hiring! Please share with your networks!
The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the field of demography of health and aging beginning in August 2026
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the field of demography of health and aging beginning in August 2026
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
These #sociology journal placements are quite interesting this year (according to google scholars metrics, at least).
July 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
These #sociology journal placements are quite interesting this year (according to google scholars metrics, at least).
Just peer-reviewed a paper! Always happy to give back to people and move things forward 🤗
July 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Just peer-reviewed a paper! Always happy to give back to people and move things forward 🤗
"Take advantage of our special rate of $3,200 (if your paper is accepted after peer review)". There is so much wrong with this spam email
June 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
"Take advantage of our special rate of $3,200 (if your paper is accepted after peer review)". There is so much wrong with this spam email
A writing trick I have developed lately is to write one font size smaller than normal. That way when I am finished and already think I wrote a lot, it looks even grander and makes me feel so accomplished! 🤣
June 30, 2025 at 12:39 AM
A writing trick I have developed lately is to write one font size smaller than normal. That way when I am finished and already think I wrote a lot, it looks even grander and makes me feel so accomplished! 🤣
I woke up today to 7 unread emails and thought - wow a lot must have happened last night. Turns out I forgot to renew my ASA subscription and it was all the listserv notifications 😅😱😭
June 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I woke up today to 7 unread emails and thought - wow a lot must have happened last night. Turns out I forgot to renew my ASA subscription and it was all the listserv notifications 😅😱😭
Reposted by Michael Topping
How High Is Your #Dementia Risk? It Might Depend on Where You Live ucsf.edu/news/2025/06... by
@ucsfgeriatrics.bsky.social
#Alzheimers #demography #epidemiology #publichealth
@ucsfgeriatrics.bsky.social
#Alzheimers #demography #epidemiology #publichealth
June 9, 2025 at 7:56 PM
How High Is Your #Dementia Risk? It Might Depend on Where You Live ucsf.edu/news/2025/06... by
@ucsfgeriatrics.bsky.social
#Alzheimers #demography #epidemiology #publichealth
@ucsfgeriatrics.bsky.social
#Alzheimers #demography #epidemiology #publichealth
As I read even more papers this is still my #1 dream/request in academia (or at least sociology/demography)
My biggest wish in my academic life is that we could all agree on the best way to format a regression table - because some just seem cringey to me 😅
May 27, 2025 at 5:53 PM
As I read even more papers this is still my #1 dream/request in academia (or at least sociology/demography)
Today is one of those days where emailing people will easily take up 80% of my time, which simultaneously feels productive and unproductive at the same time 🤣😅
May 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Today is one of those days where emailing people will easily take up 80% of my time, which simultaneously feels productive and unproductive at the same time 🤣😅
I would appreciate if I could have *one* Friday where I don’t get bad news (today it’s a journal rejection) 😫
May 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I would appreciate if I could have *one* Friday where I don’t get bad news (today it’s a journal rejection) 😫
Today makes another year around the sun - and an important demographic transition - I’m now in a different age category (which age category I’ll leave you to guess) 🤣🤗🥳
May 20, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Today makes another year around the sun - and an important demographic transition - I’m now in a different age category (which age category I’ll leave you to guess) 🤣🤗🥳
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Topical cluster map of terms used in recently cancelled NIH grants. No surprises there I guess. Data by grant-watch.us and NYT for the flagged terms. Source code available here github.com/jschoeley/gr....
May 14, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Topical cluster map of terms used in recently cancelled NIH grants. No surprises there I guess. Data by grant-watch.us and NYT for the flagged terms. Source code available here github.com/jschoeley/gr....
My mood (and other grad students!) as the summer begins 🧐
April 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
My mood (and other grad students!) as the summer begins 🧐