EVENTS
Assume in-person events have been cancelled and check with the organizer. For the time being I will post only online events of interest to population researchers.

View past talks on our Population Sciences channel. The Brown Bag talks have been organized into playlists: http://bit.ly/2kZvaME.

Wednesday March 18, 12:10-1pm pacific time: Covid-19 pandemic research brainstorming session.  WHERE: Zoom https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/576944528 or phone +16699006833,,576944528#  DESCRIPTION: The Berkeley Population Center (BPC), Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging (CEDA) and the School of Public Health invite you to a 1-hour open brainstorming session on research ideas related to the covid-19 pandemic. E.g., topics could include population-level determinants, prevention, and mitigation of pandemic spread; modeling and estimation of health, social, and economic implications, etc.  There will not be a formal presentation, but rather this will be an open brainstorming discussion moderated by Will Dow and Josh Goldstein.  If you know in advance that you have a specific research area that you would like to discuss during the session, please contact Will Dow at wdow@berkeley.edu.  Also contact him or Leora Lawton llawton@berkeley.edu if you have an idea for a pilot project; NIH and NSF are encouraging covid-19 related proposals, and BPC will be issuing a small pilot grant announcement shortly for topics related to the covid-19 pandemic. For those who cannot attend, we have also created a google doc for ideas: 

EVENTS
Assume in-person events have been cancelled and check with the organizer. For the time being I will post only online events of interest to population researchers.

View past talks on our Population Sciences channel. The Brown Bag talks have been organized into playlists: http://bit.ly/2kZvaME.

Wednesday March 18, 12:10-1pm pacific time: Covid-19 pandemic research brainstorming session.  WHERE: Zoom https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/576944528 or phone +16699006833,,576944528#  DESCRIPTION: The Berkeley Population Center (BPC), Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging (CEDA) and the School of Public Health invite you to a 1-hour open brainstorming session on research ideas related to the covid-19 pandemic. E.g., topics could include population-level determinants, prevention, and mitigation of pandemic spread; modeling and estimation of health, social, and economic implications, etc.  There will not be a formal presentation, but rather this will be an open brainstorming discussion moderated by Will Dow and Josh Goldstein.  If you know in advance that you have a specific research area that you would like to discuss during the session, please contact Will Dow at wdow@berkeley.edu.  Also contact him or Leora Lawton llawton@berkeley.edu if you have an idea for a pilot project; NIH and NSF are encouraging covid-19 related proposals, and BPC will be issuing a small pilot grant announcement shortly for topics related to the covid-19 pandemic. For those who cannot attend, we have also created a google doc for ideas: 

Monday, March 16, Dr. Larry Tabak, Principal Deputy Director of the National Institutes of Health, will be hosting a special teleconference from 1:30-2:30 p.m. ET to discuss NIH’s efforts to ensure research institutions and scientists are accorded the flexibility needed as they confront COVID-19-related research disruptions. No need to RSVP for the call, (call number below).
What:  Teleconference with Dr. Larry Tabak
When:  1:30-2:30 p.m. ET, Monday, March 16, 2020
Call-In: 866-876-6756 (toll-free) or 704-288-1165 (U.S.); Passcode: 737857

FUNDING
Call for Proposals: Small Grants for Research Using Data from CDS and TAS. PSID announces a small grant competition that will fund 8 to 12 grants in the range of $8,000–$12,000 each to conduct research with data from the PSID Child Development Supplement (CDS) and/or the PSID Transition into Adulthood Supplement (TAS). Funded projects will generate papers that will be presented, along with other invited posters and presentations, at the 2021 PSID User Conference, tentatively scheduled for 16–17 September 2021. The goals of this competition are to encourage scholars to use CDS or TAS data to generate scientific and policy-relevant findings and to facilitate future research and collaborations including proposal submissions to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Call for papers: psid.org/CallForProposals; Submissions: psid.org/SmallGrant; Submission deadline: 15 April 2020

Emergency Competitive Revision to Existing NIH Awards (Emergency Supplement – Clinical Trial Optional) PA-20-135.  If the IC of your existing funded award issues an Emergency Notice of Special Interest (NOSI), and if you have a shovel ready relevant project relevant to the emergency (in this case, the COVID-19) then this funding opportunity is a supplement award that can be added onto a related active project such that the supplement will be completed within the project period of the parent award. Both NICHD and NIMH are supporting ICs as well as others you might expect (NIAID). Only applications submitted in response to an Emergency NOSI published by an IC will be allowed to apply to this FOA.  The National Institutes of Health (NIH) hereby notify the applicant community that funds may be available for applications based on a presidentially declared disaster under the Stafford Act, a public health emergency declared by the Secretary, HHS, or other local, regional or national disaster. Applications for Emergency Competitive Revisions will be routed directly to the NIH awarding component listed on the NoA of the most recent parent award. Only applications submitted in response to an Emergency Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) published by an IC will be allowed to apply to this FOA. See https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-20-135.html for more information. [LL: as of now I know of no NOSI’s but will alert our readers as they arise.]

CONFERENCES
The Population Association of America has canceled its 2020 conference.

The American Association of Public Opinion Research has canceled its conference but plans on having virtual conferencing to the extent possible. Visit http://www.aapor.org for more information.

The 2020 North American Data Documentation Initiative Conference (NADDI) scheduled for June 17-19, 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has been canceled. Instead, we will host virtual presentations around the time of the planned dates. The virtual presentations will showcase how metadata standards, including and especially DDI, are making data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR). More information will be distributed in the coming months.

CALLS FOR ABSTRACTS and PAPERS
Prince Mahidol Award Conference 2021. The conference theme is “Making Global Megatrends Work for Global Health in the 21^st Century”. For more information and to submit the abstract, visit website www.pmaconference.mahidol.ac.th. The submission deadline is 31 March 2020 at 4:00 pm Thailand local time (GMT+7). The Prince Mahidol Award was established in 1992 to commemorate the 100th birthday anniversary of Prince Mahidol of Songkla, who is recognized by the Thais as ‘The Father of Modern Medicine and Public Health of Thailand’. Should you have any enquiries, please contact the PMAC Secretariat atpmaconference@mahidol.ac.th.

PSID User Conference 2020 10-11 September 2020 This conference will provide new and experienced researchers with a forum to present preliminary results and to obtain comments and feedback from experienced PSID data users and PSID study staff.  Submissions are welcome on any topic, from researchers in any field, that use data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics or its supplements.  A total of 20 to 25 papers will be accepted for the conference, either for presentation or as posters.  Call for papers: and Submit online: https://psidonline.isr.umich.edu/proposals/registration/default.aspx. Deadline: 1 June 2020.

Special Issue of the Journal of Comparative Family Studies to be published in 2021. The theme of the issue will be ‘Gender and Unpaid Work.’ The issue will focus on gender, housework, and care activities (childcare and eldercare). We welcome a wide range of papers on the topic in any cultural contexts and hope to highlight the importance of gender relations and social expectations in shaping the patterns of the domestic division of unpaid labor. Submission deadline for abstracts: April 30, 2020; full article August 20, 2020.  For more information, visit: https://utpjournals.press/journals/jcfs/cfp. 

ON THE WEB
The Coronavirus Handbook: https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/

D-LAB
All D-Lab workshop instruction, events, and consultation are moving to online delivery through at least March 30. The D-Lab Collaboratory and Convening Room will be closed to the public during this time. We will assess and share decisions at a later date about how and when we will return to in-person delivery. 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.