Data from New Immigrant Survey (2003-04) indicate that immigrant children who were once separated from their parents exhibited poorer literacy & higher risk of emotional/behavioral problems than those who migrated with parents. Longer separation amplified disadvantage.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30339267

#NICHDImpact #Immigration #ChildDevelopment #Literacy

@douglasvb Do you mean resources that they can use or research on mental health, imposter syndrome, etc.? For the latter, I often refer students to this (now somewhat dated) study from UC-Berkeley: https://www.science.org/content/article/depression-afflicts-almost-half-stem-graduate-students-uc-berkeley It at least helps to show them that mental health problems are unfortunately common in grad school. (Maybe makes them feel less alone... but doesn't help to actually get them the resources they need. That's very campus and community specific.)

I just can't with the bird site anymore. What has kept me there this long is that several people didn't migrate to Mastodon or they are here and I can't find them. I still go on the bird site and learn new things that are relevant to my research, teaching, and mentoring. What are your tips for optimizing your Mastodon experience? (or should I just get over ever thinking it will be like the bird site?)

@ct_bergstrom Yes! The Channel Islands Fox! And you can see them all over if you go to the Channel Islands!

You might think that lockdown would have led to *fewer* STIs among teens.
Turns out that's not exactly what happened.

Read the latest from @KidsData

https://www.kidsdata.org/blog/?p=10763

#STI #SexEd #Health #PublicHealth #TeenHealth

Inequality and Inequity explained by an old sociologist of #inequality. (Even if you don't see it this way, the sociologists you're reading probably did when they wrote up their research.)
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#sociology @sociology

To Preprint or Not to Preprint: Experience and Attitudes of Researchers Worldwide https://dapp.orvium.io/deposits/6442f782b2b5580ba561406b/view

3506 researchers participated in a survey about preprinting that I conducted together with @RongNi, a visiting PhD student at @cwts.

Let me share some of our initial findings, paying special attention to differences between countries/regions.

First of all, respondents in the US and Europe are much more familiar with preprinting than those in China.

Is Covid "like the flu"?

We asked how many years (pre-2020) it would take for flu & pneumonia cumulative death rates to equal 3 years of Covid

Answer: 17 years

In one state, Hawaii: Covid deaths were like recent (unusually high) flu deaths

Otherwise: nope

#Covid #Covid19 #influenza #pneumonia #pandemic #DeathRates #mortality #PublicHealth #demography #hawaii

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.24.23289045v1

My first Substack-native post is up! It’s about using covariates in difference-in-differences, the ways in which we think we can just sorta do ‘em and it’ll be fine, why it’s really not, and what you can do instead. https://open.substack.com/pub/nickchk/p/controls-in-difference-in-differences?r=kgc69&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

How did I just hear about this #sociology https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/turkey-attack-leaves-mail-carrier-with-broken-hip-i-was-horrified/3012235/

The real blue checks were the friends we made along the way

This year was my first time organizing sessions for the #PAA2023 conference for
@PopAssocAmerica. I was able to organize 4 sessions. It was so great to see them all happen! (I saw 3/4 in person and I heard the 4th one was great.) Makes the effort worth it to see 4 great panels!

This year's #PAA2023 was great! (Except for getting stuck an extra night in NOLA because
@united canceled my flight and did not give me a hotel or an option to get home until 2 days later... I rebooked on @Delta.)

@wrigleyfield My kid has been in daycare since she was 3 months old. She has a hard time siting still in preschool. So, there's time, and even some kids don't adhere to these norms and rituals so easily. :)

I received the official notice today that I will receive #tenure in #geography at UCSB!

Hey #Sociology colleagues or others who have developed and launched their own surveys. Any ideas about reputable survey research firms for hire (in CA)? Also, what is the going rate for an incentive to take a survey? (Is there an hourly metric, for example?)

#FactOfTheDay: In 2021, an estimated 51% of California children ages 3 to 5 were enrolled in preschool or kindergarten, DOWN from pre-pandemic levels of more than 60%.
Learn more: https://www.kidsdata.org/blog/?p=10707

#EarlyChildhood #EarlyEducation #Preschool #Kindergarten #LearningLoss #Data #Trends #COVID19 #Pandemic @edutooters

dplyr 1.1.0 is out now! 🎉

This is a huge release, so we split the announcement into 4 posts to be released throughout the week. #rstats

Today we'll focus on joins, including:
- join_by()
- Inequality and rolling joins
- Two new quality control arguments

https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2023/01/dplyr-1-1-0-joins/

So OpenAI just released a detector of AI-generated text, I assume because of concerns in education / homework.

https://openai.com/blog/new-ai-classifier-for-indicating-ai-written-text/

Maybe this is good?

No, it's very bad.

They claim 26% true positives, 9% false positives. Assume 10% of submitted homework is chatgpt generated, you get the classic counterintuitive outcome of poor predictive power: if a homework is flagged, there's a 3:1 chance it's *human* generated.

This is going to cause a lot of harm. It should be immediately recalled.

Last I checked my Little Journal Review Time Survey had responses for 100+ journals. If some more people fill it out I'll post a new report. Just takes a couple minutes to report on a recent journal review experience (anonymously). Shareable link: https://umdsurvey.umd.edu/jfe/form/SV_daRrxS5JZeMFiOa.
#academia #peerreview
@academicchatter