📢 New opportunity! Meta and COS have opened an RFP for a pilot program using Instagram data to study social media’s impact on youth well-being. Check out the details and see if it fits your research: cos.io/meta

Duke is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor of sociology this fall as well as a professor of the practice-- I'd love to see some great young computational social scientists apply! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28065 & academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28071

WTI's Postdoc Fellowships application is now open! Calling early-career researchers focused on advancing our understanding of cognition through computational theory, analysis + data modeling. Our fellowships offer: ✅ Competitive salary 🚀 Structured mentorship 💡 Professional

Having a well-cited mentor, they find, sets a junior researcher up for success, whereas lacking one can lead to a career spent on its periphery This is based on an analysis of 245,500 mentor-mentee pairs worldwide who published ~10 million papers. science.org/content/articl…

Excited for the first week of the semester! The number of students signing up for my demography class is reaching 120! This is a big deal as the average class size at Yale tends to be small. So thrilled to see this much love for demography among the younger generation!!!!

The sociology department at Yale is running three joint searches this fall: Sociology/African American Studies: apply.interfolio.com/151852 Sociology/Council on African Studies: apply.interfolio.com/150528 Sociology/Jackson School of Global Affairs: apply.interfolio.com/151641

Two new searches announced Sanford School of Public Policy: Senior climate Duke University, Sanford School of Public Policy (academicjobsonline.org) Junior criminal justic policy Duke University, Sanford School of Public Policy (academicjobsonline.org) Applications due 09/15!

Me with the Handsome DAN and Heidi Wu Tsai Institute | Yale University reception!

As Milly Yang Emma Zang and I find, families with young kids relied heavily on older siblings as caregivers during closures. And prior research has shown that sibling care and household chores overwhelmingly fall to (especially eldest) daughters. 2/ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01…

Seems like a good time to repost this piece I wrote with @AdoraSv in 2022. Drawing on history and sociology of reproduction, we argue that attempts to ban abortion don't stop it. It just makes it far more dangerous. DM for copy if you can't access. sfchronicle.com/opinion/openfo…

“Revisiting the Occupational Health Impact of RTW Laws”: Using a generalized synthetic control method, Emma Zang Qinyou Hu & Z. Wang find that “the causal impact of RTW laws on population health may be minimal.” Yale Sociology Yale ISPS Rice Economics The Chinese University of Hong Kong - CUHK ow.ly/RsBa50TlW29

Emma Zang, Yining Milly Yang, and James Z Lee are the first to examine the role of parents’ industrial sectors in predicting children’s fields of study and the temporal patterns of this association. Read their article now below. doi.org/10.1177/003803…