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Sociology Ph.D. candidate at the University of Wisconsin | Incoming Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto | immigration, race, health & aging | Duolingo giver-upper | she/her
Reviewing a paper and keep seeing citations like "Authors, 2019". I don't really get it. Do some journals ask authors to redact their names when self-citing? I feel like this gives reviewers info they don't need (e.g. the authors have published A LOT on the topic). Thoughts? 🤔
Out today in Nature Human Behaviour: "A systematic review and meta-analysis of the evidence on learning during the COVID-19 pandemic" with @betthaeuser and Anders Bach-Mortensen https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01506-4
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the evidence on learning during the COVID-19 pandemic - Nature Human Behaviour

This meta-analysis of 42 studies finds that learning progress has slowed during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, particularly among children from low socio-economic backgrounds and in poorer countries. Reported learning deficits were larger in maths than in reading.

Nature

Fun fact: Donna from That '70s Show was covered in NLSY79, and Leia from That '90s Show was covered in NLSY79 Child and Young Adult sample.
📺, meet multigenerational longitudinal studies 😎

(this was a fun fact...right? 😂)

Happy Lunar New Year 🐰! I made dumplings and cut window flowers again - hope they'll bring a smile to neighbors walking by!
When I was a teenager in Shanghai / Hong Kong I almost never did any of these things. Now I'm very committed to having them as annual traditions 🤣

I originally published this blog post in 2020 of my favorite immigration books for that year, but I think these hold up very well three years later as some of the best books you can read on immigration.

https://austinkocher.com/blog/2020/8/23/7-books-that-will-help-you-understand-immigration-in-2020

7 Books that Will Help you Understand Immigration -

August 23, 2020 Three in four Americans say that immigration is extremely important or very important in the 2020 election (Gallup poll). In the

Friday Jan 27th I will be on a panel about social media for academics, hosted by the International Migration section of the American Sociological Association. Should be fun!
https://uwmadison.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcrfuqrrzooE9V_zi6h7Oujz50imtFjZDNy
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: ASA IM Event: Social Media for Academics. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

The ASA IM Section is hosting a panel discussion about navigating social media. Heba Gowayed (Boston University), Vanessa Delgado (Stony Brook University), and Per Engzell (University College London) will share their thoughts on a few topics, including: - What do academics use social media for? - Tips for building a profile and making connections? - What's happening with Twitter? - How is Mastodon?

Zoom

Foreign-born Hispanic adults in the US are reporting poor/fair health at higher levels. Why? Because those who answer in Spanish are reporting "Regular" at higher rates than ever before. A pattern not observed in Poor/Mala, or among non-US Born Hispanic adults who answer in English. The pattern is also absent among US born Hispanic adults. It seems we are not speaking the same language when we ask Hispanic adults about their health in the US!

My latest publication quantifies this!
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211335522004107

Hi mastodon!! Who are some scholars of #migration that are relatively active on here? 🙋‍♀️ looking for more people to follow. Thank you!!

French pension reform:

"Don't worry Killian, you can keep playing until you turn 70."