EVENTS
As in-person events are on hold, be sure to check out virtual talks and webinars.
No Brown Bag this week.

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

Tuesday, May 19 | 12-1 p.m. “The Connection Between Industrial Agriculture and Pandemics” Rob Wallace, evolutionary epidemiologist, Agroecology and Rural Economics Research Corps. Zoom. To learn more and register, visit HERE.

EVENTS
As in-person events are on hold, be sure to check out virtual talks and webinars.
No Brown Bag this week.

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

Tuesday, May 19 | 12-1 p.m. “The Connection Between Industrial Agriculture and Pandemics” Rob Wallace, evolutionary epidemiologist, Agroecology and Rural Economics Research Corps. Zoom. To learn more and register, visit HERE.

OFF CAMPUS
Tuesday, May 19, 2020 11:00 am, PDT. OBSSR Director’s Webinar: “What we are learning from talking to scientists about science communication.” John Besley, Ph.D., Ellis N. Brandt Professor of Public Relations, Michigan State University. Visit here to learn more and register (required).

May 21, 2020 – 12pm EDT (Webinar). Interdisciplinary Association of Population Health. “Balancing health and economic considerations in COVID-19 responses: Dilemmas and opportunities for population health”. Join Drs. Erika Blacksher, Frederick Zimmerman, and Roland Thorpe for a panel discussion on the impacts on both health and economics of the current COVID-19 pandemic. This event will be moderated by Dr. Julie Maslowsky. Registration is now open! Click here to learn more.

Wed, 5/27 | 12:00 PM–1:00 PM ET. RTI Talk: Vaccination. As the race to develop a vaccine for COVID-19 continues around the world, view Americans’ perceptions on what a vaccine would mean and whether they would use it. PRESENTERS: Brian Southwell, PhD, Bridget Kelly, PhD, Molly Lynch, MPH, and the RTI COVID-19 Rapid Response Survey Research Team  MODERATOR: Pia MacDonald, PhD. Register here: https://rtiorg.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UOmQW-SjSuOYJP2Bbzo1WA.

ANNOUNCEMENTS
Xlab announces Julianna Schroeder is new Director. They are also preparing for when the lab can open up again.  See the attached newsletter.

ONLINE EVENTS
Population, Climate Change and Food Security. 18 May 2020 to 25 May 2020 Visit here for more information: https://www.populationenvironmentresearch.org/cyberseminars.

AAPOR Announces a Virtual Conference. Register Now for AAPOR’s 75th Annual Conference. Thursday, June 11 and Friday, June 12, 2020. Virtual Conference. Learn more and register here: https://www.aapor.org/Conference-Events/Annual-Meeting.aspx.

CALL FOR PAPERS
Protecting Older Adults During a Pandemic: Challenges and Opportunities for Societies. Call for Papers for the Journal of Elder Policy, 2021 Special Issue. Editor-in-Chief: Eva Kahana. Distinguished University Professor, Case Western Reserve University. Abstracts of 500 words are due by June 15, 2020. Full papers (8000 -10000 words) due by September 30, 2020. For more info visit HERE.

Sociological Perspectives Call for Paper Proposals: Covid-19 & Society (Deadline: 5/21/2020)

Call for Papers: Annual Migration & Health Report (Deadline: 5/15/2020)

Now Accepting Submissions to New Journal: “Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and the City”

Journal of Comparative Family Studies Special Issue to be published in 2021 (Volume 52 #4). The purpose of this special issue is to explore contemporary family issues in South Korea using the two major national datasets – Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging (KloSA) and Panel Study on Korean Children (PSKC). This special issue also aims to provide a timely opportunity to develop strong evidence-based family policies and practices to strengthen healthy families in South Korea.

WORKSHOPS
Cancelled: PSID User Conference 2020 (September 10-11), The PSID User Conference 2020 scheduled for September 10-11 is cancelled due to the current unfortunate situation with COVID-19. 

ON THE WEB
USC Center for Economic and Social Research’s release of another full wave of longitudinal micro-data from our Covid 19 tracking survey. This survey is focused on the economic, physical, and mental health effects of the pandemic.  We began data collection on March 10, 2020 and have been surveying in two-week waves since. The data are available here: https://uasdata.usc.edu/covid19, subject to a simple registration process and a brief description of your analysis plans.  Topics in this third wave:  Health symptoms, testing, health and healthcare; coronavirus knowledge and expectations; protective social and health behaviors; coronavirus risk perceptions; mental health and substance abuse; discrimination and stigma; economic and food insecurity; social safety net; housing and debt; crime and safety; labor market outcomes; educational effects on children and college students, and the effects of school closures on families.

WEBINAR
Team Collaboration in the Field with Criminal Justice Researchers, June 15, 2020, 12 PM to 1 PM EDT. Register here: https://go.nvivobyqsr.com/collaboration-field. Fieldwork is a fluid process defined by seemingly never-ending negotiation of both the professional and personal expectations of what it takes to be an effective qualitative researcher.  The following webinar is a confessional tale by four dynamic criminal justice researchers with experience navigating collaborative qualitative research projects. These projects involve a range of participants from those who are incarcerated to hidden populations. This panel discussion will cover topics including challenges in recruiting people who use drugs for community public health surveillance projects, accessing & managing key informants and reciprocity, applied methods in criminal justice settings, and interdisciplinary collaborations for participatory research.
Panelists:
Wilson R. Palacios, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Master’s Program Director, School of Criminology and Justice Studies, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Amber Horning, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, School of Criminology and Justice Studies, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Rebecca Stone, PHD, Assistant Professor, Sociology, Suffolk University, Boston
Kimberly R. Kras, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, School of Public Affairs, San Diego State University.

D-LAB
All D-Lab workshop instruction, events, and consultation are moving to online delivery for the rest of the semester. 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.