Weekly News - February 10, 2020 - Population Sciences

EVENTS
[All events are subject to change.]

Wednesday, February12, 12:00 to 1:15 pm: Demography Brown Bag. Dan Black, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago, “Local Variation in the Intergenerational Transmission of Income.” Demography Department Seminar Room, 2232 Piedmont Avenue. Cookies and beverages served.
View past talks on our Population Sciences channel. The Brown Bag talks have been organized into playlists: http://bit.ly/2kZvaME.

Monday-Friday, February 10-14. Love Data Week is a nationwide campaign designed to raise awareness about data management, security, sharing, and preservation. Students, researchers, librarians, and data specialists are invited to attend these events to gain hands-on experience, learn about resources, and engage in discussions around data needs throughout the research process. At UC Berkeley, the event is celebrated in partnership with the Library, Research IT, Information Security Office, D-Lab, and the California Digital Library (CDL). For more information on events, see https://guides.lib.berkeley.edu/ldw2020.

EVENTS
[All events are subject to change.]

Tuesday, February 11, 2020 • 4:00pm–5:00pm Overregulating Community College Students through Racist Financial Aid Policies and Practices. With Dr. Devon Lomes Graves, Success Center at the Foundation for California Community Colleges. Social Science Matrix, 8^th floor. More information here.

Wednesday, February 12, 12:10-1:15 p.m. “The social psychology of socioeconomic mobility” Mesmin Destin, Associate Professor, Northwestern University. 1104 Berkeley Way West.

Monday February 10 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. “Families and child welfare in Latin America: Partners, grandparents, and intergenerational households” Sarah Reynolds, SPH. 116 Haviland Hall.

SAVE THE DATE

Wednesday-Thursday February 26-27, 9am-1pm. “Pathways to scientific teaching” (A certificate-awarding course on learner-centered teaching). PTOP (Postdoc Teaching Opportunities Program) invite you to participate in an exciting professional development/pedagogy course titled “Pathways to Scientific Teaching”. The course involves two parts: two half-day pedagogy seminars (lunch provided), and an optional two-hour peer-feedback session. Participants who attend both seminars and peer-feedback session will earn a Certificate in Learner-centered teaching from the VSPA office (great for your CV!) The course will introduce scientific teaching, which integrates the research model into learner-centered teaching approaches. Participants will gain hands-on experience in developing course materials. Diane Ebert-May, a University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Plant Biology at Michigan State University, will teach the course. Registration Info: Registration is limited to 40 attendees. Please register via: https://tinyurl.com/ua5d5rk.

Monday, March 2, 4-5 PM. The 2020 Martin Meyerson Berkeley Faculty Research Lectures. David Card, Class of 1950 Professor of Economics, “Are We Under-investing in Education?” In the Chevron Auditorium at International House, 2299 Piedmont Ave.

March 19, 2020, 12pm, Matrix On Point: Taxation and the 1%. With Emmanuel Saez, and Danny Yagan. 820 Barrows Hall.

Thursday, February 20, 2020 • 7:00pm–9:00pm “The Legacy of School Integration and Educational Outcomes” Rucker Johnson. JCC East Bay, Berkeley Branch, 1414 Walnut Street, Berkeley, CA 94709. (Register by clicking on the above link.)

OFF CAMPUS EVENTS
NIMHD 10th Anniversary Scientific Symposium: Innovations to Promote Health Equity. This symposium will provide an opportunity to discuss research ideas about how innovations in reducing health disparities among racial/ethnic minorities, persons of disadvantaged socioeconomic status, sexual and gender minorities, and underserved rural residents can improve the future of minority health and ensure an equal opportunity to live long, healthy, and productive lives for all populations. March 3, 2020, 9am– 4:30pm ET on the NIH Main Campus and streaming. Register to attend the symposium in person here. Also available on NIH Videocast and archived for those unable to attend in person.

FUNDING
NSF 2026 Idea Machine. NSF has identified 33 topic areas to prioritize for research exploration. These areas are all amenable to social and behavioral sciences. In order to kickstart progress, they are funding:
*Conferences that bring together those interested in shaping any or a group of these top 33 broad ideas into actionable research themes, or new long-term research programs.
*EAGER projects to extend, develop and test concepts from among the top 33 ideas that are ripe for early stage, transformative research.
Opportunities for participation by undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, K-12 students, industry representatives, and others are encouraged. NSF welcomes proposals that include efforts to broaden participation of underrepresented groups (women, minorities, and persons with disabilities) in the development of the research agendas. Reflecting the Idea Machine concept, NSF seeks proposals on topics that cross disciplinary boundaries. For more information, visit: https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2020/nsf20041/nsf20041.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click.

CONFERENCES
2020 NCFR Annual Conference, Nov. 11–14, 2020, St. Louis, Missouri | You’re invited to submit a proposal to the 2020 Annual Conference of the National Council on Family Relations — the premier conference for family-related research, teaching, and practice. The online proposal submission system is open! See the full call for proposals and submit your proposals by March 2, 2020.

Aging in a Digital World Conference on April 1-2, 2020 at Betty Irene Moore Hall, 2570 48th St., Room 1000, sponsored by Join UC Davis Health, CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, and the Transatlantic Telehealth Research Network. The two-day conference brings together international thought leaders in aging, technology, and health care policy research, with the common goal of identifying gaps in these areas that delay the adoption of innovations to support aging in a digital world. Keynote speaker Eleni Kounalakis, Lieutenant Governor of California, will discuss California’s commitment to care for an aging population. To learn more and register, please visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/aging-in-a-digital-world-tickets-86869034621.

Urban Displacement Project Symposium: Predicting neighborhood change using big data and machine learning, August 10-11, 2020, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia. Abstracts due March 2. This symposium will convene international urban researchers with deep interests in data science and neighborhood change. The first symposium in this series was held at UC Berkeley on January 9-10, 2020, and this second event will be held at the University of Sydney on August 10-11, 2020, with each two-day program consisting of a mix of keynote speakers, seminars, panels, and workshops with data science researchers and government. For more information, visit: https://bids.berkeley.edu/events/predicting-neighborhood-change-using-big-data-and-machine-learning-part-2.

Pacific Conference for Development Economics, Mar 14th: (Berkeley, CA) CEGA is excited to host the 13th annual Pacific Conference for Development Economics (PacDev) at UC Berkeley. The event brings together researchers and practitioners to present and discuss work that enhances our understanding of economic development, advances theoretical and empirical methods, and improves development interventions and policy. Register by February 14th to secure a discounted rate.

WORKSHOPS
Bay Area Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (BAY-SICSS): to be held at UC Berkeley June 15-26th and co-sponsored by Stanford and Berkeley. BAY-SICSS is a partner location for the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science, held at Duke University in 2020. The Summer Institutes will involve lectures, group problem sets, and participant-led research projects. There will also be outside speakers who conduct computational social science research in a variety of settings, such as academia, industry, and government. Topics covered include text as data, website scraping, digital field experiments, non-probability sampling, mass collaboration, and ethics. There will be ample opportunities for participants to discuss their ideas and research with the organizers, other participants, and visiting speakers. Our site is unique among sites in its emphasis on social science and community partnership. Our speakers, programming, and participants reflect this commitment. In the second half of the institute, teams of participants will participate projects with Bay Area nonprofits: Participating non-profit organizations will contribute a research question, challenge, or dataset. A team of BAY-SICSS participants, working alongside a representative from the organization, will then co-design a computational project with the possibility of continuing the project after the institute. If you are a graduate student, postdoc, or pre-tenure faculty, we encourage you to apply. We are looking for participants with a broad range of expertise, backgrounds in the social sciences, and interests. More broadly, we hope the institute helps build an ecosystem of computational social science for civic good in the Bay Area. So, we are especially interested in participants in the Bay Area and people interested in collaboration beyond the duration the institute. There is no cost to attending, and housing on Berkeley’s campus is available free of charge. To learn more, please visit our website at https://compsocialscience.github.io/summer-institute/2020/bay_area/. You can apply at this link: https://stanforduniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bIN3mvByFkf2fgF. If you have questions, don’t hesitate to email baysicss2020@gmail.com.

Social Networks and Health workshop from May 11 – 15, 2020. The program from last year is here: https://dnac.ssri.duke.edu/social-networks-health-scholars-training-program-2019.php and general registration will go live in March. We are writing now to invite applications for Fellowships to the workshop. Fellows will participate in the week-long training course, but also be matched with a mentor to work on an ongoing research project that the fellow has proposed. All participation costs (including domestic travel and lodging expenses to come to Duke) for SN&H fellows will be covered by the program. There is additional funding fellows can access throughout the year to travel to meetings and otherwise support research meetings with their program mentor. SN&H fellows must commit to presenting the results of their project at next year’s workshop. Due to NIH policy, we can only consider applications from US citizens or permanent residents and can only cover domestic travel costs. SN&H Fellowships will be primarily targeted at pre-doctoral students, post-docs and junior faculty and is open to participants both in the triangle and across the nation. Women, individuals from underrepresented minority groups, and disabled individuals are strongly encouraged to apply. To apply for an SN&H fellowship, we need two things. First, please send an email with your CV and a brief (not more than two pages) description of research project you propose to work on over the year to snhtrain@soc.duke.edu by Feb 22, 2020. Second, fill out the short demographic background survey here: https://duke.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3fOqey37WMGpcod. Feel free to contact me (jmoody77@soc.duke.edu) if you have any questions. The Social Networks and Health workshop will cover topics in social network analysis related to studying health behaviors, including: Data collection; ego network analysis; Diffusion and peer influence; Communities in networks; Respondent-driven sampling; Network visualizations; Statistical Models for networks (ERGM, AMEN, SOAM); Agent-based modeling. The workshop will also contain a substantial lab component, which will give attendees an opportunity to learn how to use the R statistical computing language to analyze networks. Last year’s presentations and labs are available online at https://dnac.ssri.duke.edu/social-networks-health-scholars-training-program-2019.php. We can waive the registration fee for a limited number of participants from universities without means to cover the costs or scholars under-represented in the SN&H field, please contact James Moody at Duke University to inquire.

Introduction to Social Network Analysis seminar taught by John Skvoretz on April 17-18 in Philadelphia. This seminar is designed to be a thorough introduction to social network analysis methods. The course uses network analysis packages for the R environment. Topics covered include: motivating examples, basic SNA vocabulary, data collection and network analysis packages, centrality, structural holes and brokerage, density and connectivity, and network hypotheses and how to evaluate them. Click here for more information or to register. Please email info@statisticalhorizons.com with any questions.

Pardee RAND Graduate School, July 20-24, 2020, seeks to build diversity in public policy through strong engagement of faculty leaders across the United States, and in particular at colleges and universities serving students underrepresented in public policy. Faculty Leader Fellowships are awarded to 12–15 selected faculty to participate in a week-long policy analysis summer program held at the Pardee RAND Graduate School at RAND’s headquarters in Santa Monica, California. For more information, visit HERE.

NIA Summer Workshop, last call: The Butler-Williams (B-W) Scholars program gives early career investigators a unique opportunity to engage with other researchers interested in the field of aging, learn about NIA science, discuss funding opportunities with NIA staff, and sharpen grant writing skills. It is funded through the NIA Office of Special Populations, which works to strengthen the understanding of health disparities in aging research and mentor a diverse next generation of scientists. July 6-10, 2020 on the NIH campus in Bethesda, MD. All associated costs (e.g. travel and lodging) are covered by NIA. Apply by February 14 at https://www.nia.nih.gov/form/bw-scholars-20.

GRADUATE STUDENTS
The Data Incubator’s Spring 2020 Data Science Fellowship application is open. This intensive, 8-week program prepares Masters and PhD students and postdocs in STEM and social science fields for exciting careers as data scientists. We have a limited number of full-tuition scholarships available, so make sure you apply early and put your best foot forward to receive one of these coveted spots. Who Should Apply: Anyone who already possesses a Masters or PhD degree, or is within one year of graduating with a Masters or PhD degree is encouraged to apply. International students are also welcome to apply. You can attend our program in: – New York City, San Francisco Bay area, Washington, D.C. and Online. APPLY NOW. Session Dates: 2020-04-06 – 2020-05-29; Regular Deadline: 2020-02-11. You can learn more about our graduates who have gone one to work at places like The New York Times, LinkedIn, Amazon, Capital One and more on our blog. Learn more about The Data Incubator on CIO, TechCrunch, and Harvard Business Review. And check out our Data Science in 30 Minutes podcast and webseries, where we attempt to talk about a hot data science topic in only 30 minutes.

Mini-Grants for Right Wing Studies: The Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies invites UC Berkeley graduate and undergraduate students to apply for small grants to assist with the development of student research projects on issues related to right-wing movements in the U.S. or other regions of the world. Applications are due on Monday, March 9th, 2020 at 4pm. Application and more details are available here.

WEBINAR
RCMAR webinar, Feb 14th, 9am PST. “Legacy of Syphilis Study and Ethical Considerations for Health Disparities Research with Older Adults: A Bioethics Dialogue “will be presented by Stephen O. Sodeke, PhD, MA, Bioethicist and Professor of Allied Health Sciences and Bioethics at Tuskegee University College of Arts and Sciences, Center for Biomedical Research. For more information and to register please visit here: https://rcmar.org/events/feb14webinar/.

ON THE WEB
America’s rental housing 2020, https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/americas-rental-housing-2020, including interactive charts.

D-LAB
Tom Piazza is giving a workshop on sample weights Feb 27, 11-1 pm. Register here: https://dlab.berkeley.edu/training/weighting-data-2 Be sure to check the D-lab calendar at the website, dlab.berkeley.edu. D-Lab offers training, individual consulting and data services for the UC Berkeley community – faculty to undergrads.

RELATED LISTS
JOBS
All jobs and postdoctoral fellowships are posted as we receive them on the Demography Department Jobs Listserv, http://lists.demog.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/jobs. This list advertises positions of all sorts relevant for social and behavioral scientists with advanced degrees.

MIGRATION MAILING LIST
Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative (BIMI.berkeley.edu) is a research center for the study of immigrants and immigration. BIMI has a mailing list which is where a good deal of immigration and migration announcements are posted, and only some of that material is posted on the PopSciences Weekly News. Sign up for it with this link

SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH MAILING LIST
Tue$day Top Tip$ for SPH Research is a listserv with research funding opportunities and other information pertinent to public health researchers who are not necessarily population researchers. To subscribe, write to Dr. Lauren Goldstein, lhg@berkeley.edu.

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