Does anyone know of data sources with PUMA-level data to merge with the ACS? I'm looking for general features like cost of living, political affiliation, crime rate, etc. — pretty open at this point.

I've been extensively using Vincent Arel-Bundock {modelsummary} R package for both teaching and research and it is a delight. But I'm here to recommend this presentation of {marginaleffects}, a beautiful approach to interpreting model estimates: youtube.com/watch?v=ANDC_k…

Listening to David Harvey's lectures on Capital is part of what got me into sociology in the first place!

The Economist just published a deeply-researched story about car bloat, and it's very, very damning: "For every life that the heaviest 1% of SUVs and trucks save, there are more than a dozen lives lost in other vehicles." Well worth your time: economist.com/interactive/un…

Our Inequality Data Science Research Lab summer party, which fell on the hottest day of the year! Ian Lundberg Nanum Jeon Nathan Hoffmann Kristin Liao Shiva Rouhani

Two days of intense writing workshop in preparation for a special issue on “same-sex marriage and migration” came to an end! Intellectually exciting conversations and a lot of fun!

Happening today: I’ll be presenting new work with Nathan Hoffmann on geographic distribution of immigrants in same-sex couples. OPR posts records on their website afterward.

I am thrilled to share that I will be joining Emory Sociology as an Assistant Professor this fall! Excited for a new chapter in Atlanta 🔥🍑

Very pleased to have Nathan Hoffmann joining us in the fall! #soctwitter #sociology #emory #emorysoc

We streamlined six new DID-like estimators and created this tutorial for implementation in R. yiqingxu.org/packages/fect/… Hope you no longer need to spend months figuring out what these estimators are and how to use them. w/ Ziyi Liu

My latest article with Nathan Hoffmann forthcoming at Public Opinion Quarterly | How Sexuality Affects Evaluations of Immigrant Deservingness and Cultural Similarity: A Conjoint Survey Experiment osf.io/preprints/soca… via Center for Open Science

Come see me present new work with Kristopher Velasco from our project on queer migrants at #PAA2025!

This fall I'm teaching an intro stats class for graduate students in sociology, and I'm looking for a textbook. The course covers probability, sampling, and basic data analysis, barely touching on regression. Does anyone have a textbook they like? I'd love one with R examples.

New study: The relative wage premium for going to college has halved for low-income Americans since 1960. What is to blame? Rising selectivity? Tuition hikes? State disinvestment? We decompose changes in the premium since 1900 to find out. 🧵#EconTwitter nber.org/papers/w33797

When I first tried GPT3 I remember thinking writing as a skill was basically over. Now I think the opposite is true. LLMs still can’t write, everybody else’s abilities are atrophying, and being able to clearly express yourself in prose seems like it will only get more valuable

Cool paper from MIT Media Lab now showing clear proof of cognitive debt when using AI to write essays. Prior work from Vishakh Padmakumar , Max Kreminski had shown how AI assisted writing leads to homogenization. Over reliance on AI for cognitive tasks clearly has its share of harms.

PhDone! I was honored to have Professor Andres Villarreal hooding me yesterday.

wacky that ‘ai writing detection is impossible’ has seeped into the popular consciousness all while theres strong proof that Pangram Labs can detect it i have no financial affiliation w them, they are just 1 of 2 subs that i am actively grateful for (other one being midjourney)