Jennie Brand
@jenniebrand.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology, Professor of Statistics and Data Science, UCLA
www.profjenniebrand.com
www.profjenniebrand.com
Congratulations to my wonderful (prior) student Dr. Nanum Jeon, who defended a fantastic dissertation in Sociology last week and will begin a Postdoctoral position at Princeton in the fall! @nanum-jeon.bsky.social
May 18, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Congratulations to my wonderful (prior) student Dr. Nanum Jeon, who defended a fantastic dissertation in Sociology last week and will begin a Postdoctoral position at Princeton in the fall! @nanum-jeon.bsky.social
Urgent threat to NSF SBE funding. Take action: cossa.org/action-cente...
April 23, 2026 at 3:00 AM
Urgent threat to NSF SBE funding. Take action: cossa.org/action-cente...
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CCPR Faculty Fellow, Professor Brand, and collaborator receive a Russell Sage Foundation grant to evaluate the restructuring of U.S. occupations on workers’ opportunities and career trajectories in an era of technological change. @jenniebrand.bsky.social #UCLA #CCPR
Professor Jennie Brand and collaborator receive Russell Sage Foundation Grant – California Center for Population Research
CCPR Faculty Fellow, Professor Jennie Brand, and UCLA alumna XI Song (Columbia University) received a grant from the Russell Sage Foundation for their project “Occupational Restructuring, Job Displacement, and Worker Mobility.” Their project will evaluate how restructuring U.S. occupations affects workers’ opportunities and career trajectories in an era of technological change. They will construct a database of occupational restructuring to systematically classify and analyze new and declining forms of work by evaluating their short- and long-term employment change; conduct a historical analysis of the impact of occupational restructuring on intergenerational mobility over the second half of the twentieth century; and lastly, they will assess contemporary risk and vulnerability of workers to occupational restructuring with attention to jobs affected by AI.
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April 9, 2026 at 10:25 PM
CCPR Faculty Fellow, Professor Brand, and collaborator receive a Russell Sage Foundation grant to evaluate the restructuring of U.S. occupations on workers’ opportunities and career trajectories in an era of technological change. @jenniebrand.bsky.social #UCLA #CCPR
New paper on causal machine learning with Nanum Jeon @nanum-jeon.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Causal Machine Learning: A Deductive–Inductive Framework for Sociological Research - KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
Causal explanation is central to sociological research, shaping both theoretical development and empirical inquiry. This paper argues that causal machine learning—which integrates deductive identifica...
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February 19, 2026 at 8:26 PM
New paper on causal machine learning with Nanum Jeon @nanum-jeon.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Submit your paper to the RC28 summer meeting in NYC! Thank you NYU organizers @siweicheng.bsky.social and Mike Hout! as.nyu.edu/research-cen...
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January 16, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Submit your paper to the RC28 summer meeting in NYC! Thank you NYU organizers @siweicheng.bsky.social and Mike Hout! as.nyu.edu/research-cen...
ISA RC28 Spring Meeting in Seville May 20-22! Call for papers closes soon.
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The Conference
Addressing Social Inequalities in the Global North and South On behalf of the Organising Committee, it is an honour to welcome you to the RC28 Spring Meeting 2026. This academic meeting is proposed a...
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November 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
ISA RC28 Spring Meeting in Seville May 20-22! Call for papers closes soon.
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🎆 What We Have (Recently) Learned: RC28’s Contributions Over the Last Two Decades
New Working Paper in the APCA Working Paper Series. No. 2508
By Jennie E. Brand, PARC Research Associate Hyunjoon Park, & Michelle Jackson
@jenniebrand.bsky.social @mivich.bsky.social
New Working Paper in the APCA Working Paper Series. No. 2508
By Jennie E. Brand, PARC Research Associate Hyunjoon Park, & Michelle Jackson
@jenniebrand.bsky.social @mivich.bsky.social
What We Have (Recently) Learned: RC28’s Contributions Over the Last Two Decades
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October 14, 2025 at 12:03 PM
🎆 What We Have (Recently) Learned: RC28’s Contributions Over the Last Two Decades
New Working Paper in the APCA Working Paper Series. No. 2508
By Jennie E. Brand, PARC Research Associate Hyunjoon Park, & Michelle Jackson
@jenniebrand.bsky.social @mivich.bsky.social
New Working Paper in the APCA Working Paper Series. No. 2508
By Jennie E. Brand, PARC Research Associate Hyunjoon Park, & Michelle Jackson
@jenniebrand.bsky.social @mivich.bsky.social
Reposted by Jennie Brand
Want to see the economic impact of #NIH grant cuts in your community? Check out @joshuasweitz.bsky.social and colleagues' project here. Tell your friends and neighbors what is happening. scienceimpacts.org
SCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical Research
Developed by an interdisciplinary research team, this website shows how funding cuts reduce economic activity and employment nationwide
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August 23, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Want to see the economic impact of #NIH grant cuts in your community? Check out @joshuasweitz.bsky.social and colleagues' project here. Tell your friends and neighbors what is happening. scienceimpacts.org
Concluding RC28 party at Don Treiman’s beautiful home in the hills above UCLA @isa-rc28.bsky.social
August 10, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Concluding RC28 party at Don Treiman’s beautiful home in the hills above UCLA @isa-rc28.bsky.social
#StandUpForUC to defend UCLA from the federal government's $1B demand and support critical research ucal.us/standupforuc
Stand Up for UC
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August 9, 2025 at 12:45 AM
#StandUpForUC to defend UCLA from the federal government's $1B demand and support critical research ucal.us/standupforuc
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Last day of the UCLA RC28 conference. Plenary presentation given by @mikehoutnyu.bsky.social on intergenerational occupational persistence in the US
August 7, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Last day of the UCLA RC28 conference. Plenary presentation given by @mikehoutnyu.bsky.social on intergenerational occupational persistence in the US
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What we have learned from RC28’s contributions over the last two decades? @jenniebrand Hyunjoon Park and Michelle Jackson showed that scholars affiliated with RC28 have made so many important contributions over the last two decades and collectively shaped the field. Stay tuned for their paper. #CCPR
August 6, 2025 at 6:19 PM
What we have learned from RC28’s contributions over the last two decades? @jenniebrand Hyunjoon Park and Michelle Jackson showed that scholars affiliated with RC28 have made so many important contributions over the last two decades and collectively shaped the field. Stay tuned for their paper. #CCPR
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If you want to read the review paper by @jenniebrand.bsky.social , Hyunjoon Park, and Michelle Jackson about recent trends in social stratification and mobility. Please check out the paper 👇 #ASA #ISA #RSSM
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What we have recently learned paper August 2025.pdf
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August 6, 2025 at 6:50 PM
If you want to read the review paper by @jenniebrand.bsky.social , Hyunjoon Park, and Michelle Jackson about recent trends in social stratification and mobility. Please check out the paper 👇 #ASA #ISA #RSSM
drive.google.com/file/d/1bgkT...
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Reposted by Jennie Brand
Check out the new trends in social stratification research! Which topic has become increasingly popular over the last two decides? Educational inequality! Thanks, Professor Michelle Jackson, for sharing this! #StanfordCenterForPovertyandInequality #ASA #ISA
August 6, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Check out the new trends in social stratification research! Which topic has become increasingly popular over the last two decides? Educational inequality! Thanks, Professor Michelle Jackson, for sharing this! #StanfordCenterForPovertyandInequality #ASA #ISA
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Congrats to @andrewpenner.bsky.social and a host of co-authors on winning the award for significant scholarship from @isa-rc28.bsky.social, presented by RC president @jenniebrand.bsky.social.
August 7, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Congrats to @andrewpenner.bsky.social and a host of co-authors on winning the award for significant scholarship from @isa-rc28.bsky.social, presented by RC president @jenniebrand.bsky.social.
Last call to register for RC28 Los Angeles! Please register by July 15: commerce.cashnet.com/cashnetg/sta...
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July 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Last call to register for RC28 Los Angeles! Please register by July 15: commerce.cashnet.com/cashnetg/sta...
This volume was a very rewarding experience. Many thanks to the editors @fabianpfeffer.bsky.social @xisong.bsky.social @durlauf.bsky.social Felix Elwert, and to my co-authors @ianlundberg.bsky.social @dmolitor.bsky.social
Thank you, Herman. It was fun to put it together and I find the contributions impressive. The last few will be coming online shortly and then the full special issue will be out soon. Complete line-up below, quick summaries here: doi.org/10.1177/0049...
July 3, 2025 at 4:59 AM
This volume was a very rewarding experience. Many thanks to the editors @fabianpfeffer.bsky.social @xisong.bsky.social @durlauf.bsky.social Felix Elwert, and to my co-authors @ianlundberg.bsky.social @dmolitor.bsky.social
A great two weeks at UCLA! Come join us!
Applications are open for the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science SICSS 2025 at UCLA! Apply by May 2!
Free, 2-wk institute in comp social science for grad students, postdocs & early-career faculty.
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@ianlundberg.bsky.social @jenniebrand.bsky.social
Free, 2-wk institute in comp social science for grad students, postdocs & early-career faculty.
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April 26, 2025 at 3:36 AM
A great two weeks at UCLA! Come join us!
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📢Out now! Weihua Li, @jenniebrand.bsky.social, @aaronclauset.bsky.social, and colleagues show that researchers’ early training in diverse environments is strongly correlated with nurturing diverse groups in the established period. www.nature.com/articles/s43... #cssky #NetSci
Gender and racial diversity socialization in science - Nature Computational Science
A computational null model is proposed to study the gender and racial diversity-association effects in academia. Researchers’ early training in diverse environments is strongly correlated with nurturi...
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April 17, 2025 at 3:26 PM
📢Out now! Weihua Li, @jenniebrand.bsky.social, @aaronclauset.bsky.social, and colleagues show that researchers’ early training in diverse environments is strongly correlated with nurturing diverse groups in the established period. www.nature.com/articles/s43... #cssky #NetSci
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Grateful for these demographers who spent the day making a case for population science. See you soon at #PAA2025!
PAA takes on Capitol Hill! These dedicated advocates will be meeting with their congressional delegations today to share important population research and advances. Go team! #PAA2025
April 11, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Grateful for these demographers who spent the day making a case for population science. See you soon at #PAA2025!
Come to L.A. in August!
Goodbye, Milan! Hope to see you all again in our next RC28 conference in Los Angeles on August 4-7, 2025. @jenniebrand.bsky.social
March 29, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Come to L.A. in August!
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The Trump admin’s mass firings not only disrupt the lives of thousands of federal workers but also their spouses, kids & communities, says @jenniebrand.bsky.social. “We can see this impact years down the road.”
Teamed up w/ @rachanadpradhan.bsky.social: kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Teamed up w/ @rachanadpradhan.bsky.social: kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
‘I Am Going Through Hell’: Job Loss, Mental Health, and the Fate of Federal Workers - KFF Health News
Since the Trump administration began firing federal workers, they say they feel overwhelmed, have obtained or considered seeking psychiatric care and medication, and are anxious about paying their bil...
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March 26, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The Trump admin’s mass firings not only disrupt the lives of thousands of federal workers but also their spouses, kids & communities, says @jenniebrand.bsky.social. “We can see this impact years down the road.”
Teamed up w/ @rachanadpradhan.bsky.social: kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Teamed up w/ @rachanadpradhan.bsky.social: kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Reposted by Jennie Brand
“when someone receives an [NIH] award, it is the result of years of preparation by the scientist, plus months of review by teams of leading researchers on the topic. It is not random. It is merit-based and transparent.” [email protected]
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Politicizing Science: The National Institutes for Health
A merit-based and competitive process will be politicized - or eliminated
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March 23, 2025 at 3:43 PM
“when someone receives an [NIH] award, it is the result of years of preparation by the scientist, plus months of review by teams of leading researchers on the topic. It is not random. It is merit-based and transparent.” [email protected]
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/politicizi...
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