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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
@joshuafoust exactly! It's actually even easier than that for the paper I'm reviewing, since the bibliography is in alphabetical order and the "authors" appear whatever alphabet their names start with 😂
@nic oh wow....that's so silly 😩
@zpneal @globalnetworks @evidencepolicy This policy makes a lot more sense to me!
@jonathanhorowi1 yeah!! and now I don't know whether I should recommend certain cites to the authors, in case those papers ARE by the authors! 😂
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

@per Thank you for being a panelist!! Looking forward to it 😄