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Sociology professor at UW. petercatron.org

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Immensely grateful to share an amicus brief on birthright citizenship, submitted to SCOTUS last week.

We present esta of the impacted child population (4.8 mil children in next 20 yrs alone!) + financial contributions through 2074 under status quo ($7.7 trillion!).
Link: lnkd.in/gGXngCDY
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04.03.2026 02:35 πŸ‘ 31 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Protecting all children. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

27.02.2026 01:03 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Protecting all children. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

27.02.2026 01:03 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it.

Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

19.02.2026 16:47 πŸ‘ 2751 πŸ” 1567 πŸ’¬ 171 πŸ“Œ 403
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New Post-Doc Opportunity:

Princeton OPR is hiring postdocs in population studies.

PhD in demography or related fields (sociology, economics, epi, etc.) welcome.

Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/181246

Review begins 3/1/16. Please share!

18.02.2026 15:37 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This is such an important book to understand how the early months of refugee resettlement in the US unfold in practice.

Congratulations, @molly-fee.bsky.social!

staging.ucpress.edu/books/believ...

#refugee

06.02.2026 20:23 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I still call it sears tower

31.01.2026 21:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a man in a suit and tie is smoking a cigarette and saying `` we will not go quietly into the night '' . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is smoking a cigarette and saying `` we will not go quietly into the night '' .
20.12.2025 02:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I hate how much of my time is spent disabling AI in all my software.

12.12.2025 01:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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I’m hiring a postdoc! Flexible in terms of details, but I’m looking for someone to collaborate with on research about labor market inequality. I’ll review applications as they come in and the posting just went up here:
apply.interfolio.com/178873

09.12.2025 19:36 πŸ‘ 36 πŸ” 28 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 4

Sad to hear of Stew Tolnay’s passing. He was the first person to invite me to coffee when I started working here and gave incredible feedback on my work. He will be missed.

25.10.2025 13:59 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Cool paper. A lot of work!
"immigrants who completed the naturalization process attained significantly higher occupational status than those who initiated but did not complete naturalization"

02.10.2025 22:45 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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New working paper. Comments always welcome osf.io/preprints/so...

02.10.2025 22:35 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

I'm trying to find some sociology papers to bring into my intro statistics course for grad students. Straightforward quant analyses where the data are publicly available. Does anyone have any suggestions?

18.08.2025 14:41 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

What game is this and how are you keeping score?

14.07.2025 19:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Repealing Birthright Citizenship Would Significantly Increase the Size of the U.S. Unauthorized Population Repealing birthright citizenship for babies born on U.S. soil to unauthorized immigrants or temporary visa holders would have a contrary result from its stated aim of reducing the unauthorized immigra...

Ending birthright citizenship would increase the undocumented population by 5.4 million by 2075: www.migrationpolicy.org/news/birthri...

04.07.2025 01:25 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Picking berries is a blood sport that I enjoy.

23.06.2025 02:50 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Congrats, Nathan!!!

16.06.2025 14:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I plan to start all my future papers by saying where I gave talks on it before publication.

10.06.2025 05:01 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My university is removing our landlines from our offices to save costs. The thing is I ripped my landline out of the wall the moment I got here because it rang and I didn’t know how to use it.

19.05.2025 15:14 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

But then what would I use when I use thanks sarcastically for the comments I think are wrong.

05.05.2025 01:21 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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'Better options exist' Faculty began circulating an open letter on Friday to be sent to leadership including the Board of Regents, President Ana Mari Cauce, provost Tricia Serio, and dean of the College
26.04.2025 00:41 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Shout out to @caitlinpatler.bsky.social for her hard work on this. I’m happy for the small part I played in this, too.

15.04.2025 16:23 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hi fellow #demography folks. Be sure to follow @uwcsde.bsky.social ! They are new to Bluesky .
@sarahquinn.bsky.social @petercatron.bsky.social @zalmquist.bsky.social @readdemography.bsky.social @popassocamerica.bsky.social @iaphs.bsky.social @iussp.bsky.social @berkeleypopcenter.bsky.social

10.04.2025 22:03 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Has anyone done a FOIA request at the National Archives?

10.04.2025 02:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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For my inaugural post on this app, I'd like to invite anyone attending #PAA2025 to come to my talk! I'm very excited to attend my first PAA @popassocamerica.bsky.social meeting and share this research (and hopefully get good feedback as I refine and revise).

30.03.2025 17:16 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

If you have leads on academic or academic-adjacent jobs that would make sense, I'd greatly appreciate to hear from you.

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24.03.2025 12:43 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We’re excited to receive nominations for papers written by graduate students doing important work on inequality, poverty, and mobility. More info here: www.asanet.org/communities-...

bsky.app/profile/fabi...

19.03.2025 16:56 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Please nominate an (or your) article by March 31 for the

2025 ROBERT D. MARE GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER AWARD
(published in 2024)

Send a brief nomination letter and the pdf to Matthew Clair (mclair@stanford.edu)

@mathuclair.bsky.social

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19.03.2025 14:28 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Surveillance from a β€œsmall army” of private citizens never stops at immigrants. See the American Protective League during WWI.

27.02.2025 01:40 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0