Join us for our next talk in the ISR Insight Speaker Series on Wed., Nov 3 @ 1pm ET with Libby Hemphill (Libby Hemphill): "Detecting white supremacist speech on social media." myumi.ch/51d1d ICPSR School of Information

We've had to postpone more than 200 scheduled surgeries since December. Dr. David Miller, president of U-M Health, urges you, if you haven't yet, to proceed with your first COVID-19 vaccination or your booster dose + keep wearing a mask when you're indoors, and social distancing.

We're looking for a communications specialist to join the U-M ISR communications team. This person will research and write original content to promote ISR research activities. Happy to answer questions about this job! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/210…

Know any great writers who are interested in social science? Please share! This is a great opportunity to join an outstanding team and do meaningful work.

Love seeing U-M ISR featured here. ISR feels so different from other places I’ve been—the entrepreneurial spirit and scientific risk-taking is incredible to experience. A colleague said it best: ISR is for dreamers. michigandaily.com/research/umich…

Big news in social science research - the Research Data Ecosystem modernizes data collection and creates new archives for accessing and analyzing different types of data.

“This is not the end. This is just a change.” nytimes.com/2022/02/13/opi…

Really looking forward to this talk tomorrow at noon Eastern. Join us via Zoom to hear Erin Cech discuss the trouble with passion at work.

I love riding my bike to doctor appointments. It’s amazing to me that they don’t have bike racks anywhere near the entrance to Mott/Van Voigtlander.

The trick to answering SRC’s weekly quiz is knowing where to find the answers on their website 🤫. Not to give away the answer, but it will be interesting to see follow-up to this study with data after 2015.

Walking around downtown A2 & the Farmer’s Market, I’ve seen a lot of ballot initiatives looking for signatures. Luckily ⁦@WeThePeople_MI⁩ have a handy guide for which ones are legit

IT IS NOT RETURNING A RIGHT TO PEOPLE AND THEIR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES WHEN THOSE STATES HAVE BEEN SO THOROUGHLY GERRYMANDERED THAT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR MAJORITY RULE TO EXIST

This is a great opportunity to join an outstanding communications team!

TIL that it costs ~$1M per mile to repair and replace a road. Ann Arbor has over 300 miles of road way. Whereas a mile of protected bikeway averages ~$300K. For every mile of road, we can build 3 miles of protected bikeways. #a2council

ONE OF THE DEFINITIONS OF 'LITERALLY' IS "IN EFFECT, VIRTUALLY—USED IN AN EXAGGERATED WAY TO EMPHASIZE A STATEMENT OR DESCRIPTION." SOME PEOPLE GET MAD IF YOU USE IT THIS WAY BECAUSE IT ISN'T THE WORD'S PRIMARY MEANING, BUT THIS SENSE OF 'LITERALLY' HAS BEEN USED FOR 250 YEARS SO

A new study by Sarah Burgard of UM Population Studies Center & Huiyun Kim of University of Minnesota finds that people who experienced housing instability during the 2007-09 recession were considerably more likely to experience anxiety attacks and other symptoms of mental illness. isr.umich.edu/news-events/ne…

Skin color is more than skin deep. Hear how one’s self-assessment of skin color shapes racial identity and affects everything from health care to income in the latest from ISR's Insights Speaker Series: myumi.ch/y98jP

Check this out -- major cities in North America replaced by major cities across the Atlantic at the same latitude reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comm…

ISR is pleased to announce a new cohort-based program for recent college graduates who have a passion for social science. This is a full-time, paid opportunity to break into research and gain work experience at a world-class institution. Apply now: myumi.ch/EPkgJ