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Allison S.F. Leanage - Social Science Researcher
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Sociologist | Social Psychologist 🇨🇦🍁🇱🇰| PhD Health Analysis & Modelling @StatCan 👩🏽‍💻 Examines socioeconomic & health inequalities. Advocate for respect, kindness & positive change. 🌱 Go Blue Jays!!! 💙🐦🧢
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Allison S.F. Leanage - Social Science Researcher @allisonleanage.bsky.social · Jul 23
🎬 Exciting Feature on Disability & Education Research 🎬

Thrilled to share my recent contribution to the Sage Learning Series, where I discuss findings from our (Rubab Arim) paper, "Through a Diverse Needs Lens." #InclusiveEducation #DisabilityResearch

Watch preview: sk.sagepub.com/video/throug...
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 5h
This new map based on @theNYHC data makes it clear: it’s too easy to block affordable housing in wide swaths of the city.

If you agree every neighborhood needs to do its part in solving our citywide housing crisis, vote YES on Props 2-5.
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Keegan Matheson @keeganmatheson.bsky.social · 12h
Trey Yesavage has brought the Dodgers to their knees.

My story from LA on one of the biggest performances in #BlueJays history:

www.mlb.com/bluejays/new...
What a YeSAVAGE! Rookie breaks records in historic World Series start
LOS ANGELES -- Trey Yesavage has brought the Dodgers to their knees. The Blue Jays’ rookie sensation struck out 12 over seven innings in World Series Game 5 on Wednesday at Dodger Stadium, setting the...
www.mlb.com
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Pamela Neumann @pamelaneumann.bsky.social · 2d
We are hiring a sociologist!! For questions about TAMIU or Laredo feel free to reach out to me and please share this ad widely - thanks!! www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...
Assistant or Associate Professor of Sociology - HigherEdJobs
Jobs in higher education. Faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities. Updated daily. Free to job seekers.
www.higheredjobs.com
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ICPSR Summer Program @icpsrsummer.bsky.social · 1d
🎃 Scary Season Continues! 👻

Wait a minute...that's not Data Jeff?!?! His cat, Catalog, and 🥧 chart friend are also getting into the Scary Season spirit. What will Data Jeff's final costume choice be? Check in Friday to find out! 🎃

#ICPSRSummerProgram #ICPSR #DataJeff
Pie graph character with a broom, witch hat, black boots and purple cape stand next to a white ghost character with the text bubble, "Witch data were you searching for?"
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 3d
TORONTO — A viral Reddit thread has prompted over 150 Blue Jays fans to donate to the Seattle Children’s Hospital.

Blue Jays fans show off classic Canadian kindness to opposing teams

www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
Blue Jays fans show off classic Canadian kindness to opposing teams
A viral Reddit thread has prompted over 150 Blue Jays fans to donate to the Seattle Children’s Hospital.
www.ctvnews.ca
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Allison S.F. Leanage - Social Science Researcher @allisonleanage.bsky.social · 4d
Fall nature walks 🍂🍂
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 11d
Happy Diwali 🪔 to all

The world needs more light, compassion and peace
Happy Diwali, the festival of lights in India, depicted with lit lamps
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Danilo Buonsenso @buonsenso.bsky.social · 11d
“We Can’t Do This Alone”: A Doctor’s Plea for Support in Caring for Long COVID and ME/CFS Patients

danilobuonsenso.substack.com/p/we-cant-do...
“We Can’t Do This Alone”: A Doctor’s Plea for Support in Caring for Long COVID and ME/CFS Patients
As a pediatrician and infectious disease specialist, my days are full.
danilobuonsenso.substack.com
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Dr Ben J Searle @drbensearle.bsky.social · 20d
It's #worldmentalhealthday2025 (10.10.25)
A great day to ask about what your organisation is doing to integrate different approaches to supporting employee mental health -- and to push forward on whatever is the next top priority!
#mentalhealth #safety #wellbeing #leadership
Slide text reads: How well is your workplace: Preventing harm to employee mental health? Promoting aspects of work that are beneficial for employee mental health? Providing support to employees with known mental health needs?
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Baris Cayli Messina @bariscaylimessina.com · 27d
Please consider joining our editorial board, the Sociological Review, Britan's first Sociology journal and a leading scholarly place for sociological debates!

The deadline is the 5th of December.

#AcademicSky

thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...
Call for new Editorial Board members for The Sociological Review journal for 2026
thesociologicalreview.org
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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · Sep 26
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

Even psychologists get amazed when non-human animals can do things that are essential to survival (and thus NOT surprising!), like categorizing stimuli.

Our error? Humans truly overestimate our uniqueness in animal kingdom.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/dogs...
These Clever Dogs Know the Difference between ‘Pull’ and ‘Throw’ Toys
These dogs can extend words to new objects based on function the way children do in early language learning
www.scientificamerican.com
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Regina Baker @rsbaker.bsky.social · Sep 27
Indeed, UNC-CH Sociology is hiring again! Check it out and please share. :)
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Allison S.F. Leanage - Social Science Researcher @allisonleanage.bsky.social · Sep 23
The Black populations' employment rate has been lower and their unemployment rate has been higher compared with those of the total racialized and total Canadian populations. www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quo...
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Allison S.F. Leanage - Social Science Researcher @allisonleanage.bsky.social · Sep 23
In August, prices of products manufactured in Canada increased 0.5% month over month & gained 4.0% year over year. At the same time, prices of raw materials purchased by manufacturers operating in Canada declined 0.6% month over month & rose 3.2% year over year.
www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/dai-quo/i...
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Riley Acton @riacton.bsky.social · Sep 21
Very handy tool by @packlesshepherd.bsky.social. Looks like the econ job market is:

⬇️ 42% YOY (260 vs. 369) overall

⬇️ 36.5% YOY (106 vs. 167) for U.S. FT academic jobs

These drops seem similar to what the poli sci market has been showing (right @reuning.bsky.social @annewhitesell.bsky.social?)
jakemgrumbach.bsky.social Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · Sep 20
The 2025 academic econ job market is trending better than the first COVID market year but worse than the rest of 2019-present

www.davidvandijcke.com/joe_tracker/
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · Sep 21
16% of Britons have no savings.

39% have less than £1,000; struggle to survive without income.

Profiteering, low wages, high living costs condemn millions to insecurity.

1% have more wealth than 70% of population.

Can't rebuild without redistribution.
Average Savings by Age in the UK 2025: by Age, Income & Region
It is important to have some savings aside, but are you putting away enough? Check the 2025 average savings by age and income in the UK here.
blog.moneyfarm.com
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Regina Baker @rsbaker.bsky.social · Sep 20
Excited to get my copy of Inherited Inequality, such an important new book by the brilliant Dr. Christina Cross @christinajcross.bsky.social! I look forward to reading it and teaching it! 😊

#Sociology #Policy #Families #Inequality
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · Sep 20
Quarter of UK university physics departments at risk of closing.

Consequence of policies of successive govts, real cut in university income, hard to recruit foreign students.

Science subjects cut as they require heavy investment. Skills shortages will deepen.
Quarter of UK university physics departments at risk of closing, survey finds
Four out of five making staff cuts as physicists say findings are ‘great concern’ for UK’s leadership in important areas
www.theguardian.com
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · Sep 20
Curse of Private Equity.

US mothers billed for maternity services to they didn't receive or didn't want.

Staff cuts, low investment. Unsafe medical practices

Mothers and insurers told different stories. Objecting staff silenced.

UK govt expanding PE role in healthcare.
Overbilling at women's health care group padded private equity profits while costing patients, insider says
The Florida attorney general’s office said it's investigating the company, Florida Woman Care.
www.nbcnews.com
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · Sep 20
London housing officially classed as unaffordable for every income decile.

Average English home costs 7.9 times the average salary; 13.5 times in London.

Bad news for other regions too.

Result of real wage cuts, profiteering, shortages, rentier economy.

Many won't be able to pay rents in old-age
Housing in London now classed as unaffordable at every income level
Someone earning an average income in the capital faces a whopping price-to-income affordability ratio of 13.5.
www.cityam.com
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UM Population Studies Center @um-psc.bsky.social · Sep 16
@sashakillewald.bsky.social in @us.theconversation.com:
"The number of children Americans have affects the gender pay gap only because parenthood decreases women’s wages while increasing men’s wages." @umichstonecid.bsky.social
theconversation.com/us-women-nar...
US women narrowed the pay gap with men by having fewer kids
Two sociologists found that when the pace at which family sizes was shrinking slowed down, starting in the 1990s, progress toward closing the gender pay gap grew sluggish too.
theconversation.com
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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · Sep 16
I admit to being somewhat flummoxed by this finding (ie that good learners = poor monitors of their own learning)

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... #PsychSciSky

I routinely tell students to engage in metacognitive processing relevant to their learning!

#AcademicSky, what do you make of this?
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · Sep 13
Indictment of England's children in residential care, mostly corporate controlled.

Annual spend £3.1bn, paid by local councils, spend per child £318,400, 22% profit, leaves less for frontline service.

Poor value for money. Children not properly cared.

But govts insist on privatisation.
Cost of children's homes doubles but care can be poor
Huge sums spent on children's residential care in England do not represent value for money, says spending watchdog.
www.bbc.co.uk
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UM Population Studies Center @um-psc.bsky.social · Sep 12
A new HRS study finds older adults anticipating transitioning to a nursing home are more likely to report poorer mental health. Efforts to assist older adults and their families need to begin long before the actual relocation into residential care takes place. myumi.ch/61QDX
Findings: Older adults anticipating a high likelihood of moving into a nursing home report poorer mental health-- even more so when they have good friends living nearby. Expectations regarding transitioning into long-term care, social connectedness, and mental health of older adults Annalise Lane, Linh Dang, Weidi Qin, Sarah Burgard & Briana Mezuk
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · Sep 13
If you’re at APSA, go check out the Ralph Bunche Summer Institute poster session starting at 10am today.

Details are below:

Poster Session: Ralph Bunche Summer Institute (RBSI) Scholars
Saturday, September 13
10:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
Vancouver Convention Centre (VCC) - East Exhibit Hall A
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