Join us for CSDE’s annual closing reception on Friday, June 6th at 12:30PM; snacks and drinks provided! We’ll present Demographic Methods Certificates and celebrate the end of a successful academic year. Please join us in recognizing all of these accomplishments! Every member of the CSDE community plays an important role in our broader research network and training program.

Date: 06/06/2025

Time: 12:30-1:30 PM

Location: Parrington Hall, Room 320

Despite growing recognition of homelessness as a human rights issue, including its formal recognition by the United Nations in 2021, demographic research on this vulnerable population remains limited. In a new article, CSDE Affiliates Zack W. Almquist (Sociology) and Amy Hagopian (Health Systems and Population Health), along with co-author Paul Hebert (Health Systems and Population Health), argue for greater demographic attention to the enumeration and measurement of people experiencing homelessness in the United States. Published in the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research in a special issue on population inequality matters, the study highlights how core demographic tools and demographic outlets have been underutilized in understanding a crisis affecting millions of people worldwide, and over 770,000 individuals, on any given night, in the United States alone. Read the full study here.

Five years after the murder of George Floyd, CSDE Affiliate Alexes Harris (Sociology) was featured on a KING 5 roundtable about the state of the Black Lives Matter movement and the push for racial equity. Despite public skepticism about policy changes since 2020, Dr. Harris described some meaningful changes that have occurred. “Our ancestors have gone through much worse than this moment, and we stand on their shoulders,” Harris said during the roundtable. “Struggle has made this country better … it gives me optimism for the future.” Watch the full roundtable conversation here.

CSDE Affiliate and eScience Institute Senior Data Science Fellow Tyler McCormick (Sociology) will give a CSSS seminar titled “Robustly Estimating Heterogeneity in Factorial Data Using Rashomon Partitions” on Wednesday, June 4th at 12:30 p.m. in Savery 409. Learn more and register here.

Recent studies have shown that large language models such as GPT-4 outperform humans in some aspects of writing. As a result, it has become increasingly difficult to discern between human and AI-generated writing. In a recent article published in The Conversation, CSDE Affiliate Jevin West (Information School) and co-authors explore the implications of this development based on their recently published research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). In their analysis, the authors highlight the importance of raising awareness of these changes and developing a deeper understanding of AI’s anthropomorphic qualities. Read the article here.

Dewey Data is a research platform that provides access to third-party datasets across a variety of data categories including foot traffic, construction permits, healthcare, workforce, consumer behavior, and transportation.

University of Washington faculty, students, and researchers are eligible for access and must register an individual account. Follow this link to learn about how to register.

The Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (IAPHS) and The Milbank Quarterly recently announced a collaboration aimed at demonstrating the impacts of recent federal actions on population health and health policy. If you would like to share your story and insights on the impact of recent federal actions on your research and trainees, and the implications for population health and health equity policy and outcomes, share your story here.

Join the Center for Aging, Climate, and Health (CACHE) for an upcoming Climate 101 webinar!

On June 5th, Dr. Christian Braneon of the City University of New York (CUNY) Institute for Demographic Research (CIDR) will cover climate variability, the components of climate risk, and insights on developing projections of future climate for interdisciplinary research. Learn more and register here.

The challenges of data access during federal administrative transitions can happen every four years. What follows are some resources that might be useful. We will continue to update this blog post with new information. If you have any links that could be helpful, please send csde@uw.edu your updated and helpful information. We know that what follows may not provide you with the exact data you need, so let us know what you need and what’s missing and we can try to find where it is located.

The research community is facing a period of rapid change and uncertainty in the federal funding landscape. The university is closely monitoring changes and their potential impacts to the UW research enterprise. Information on the Office of Research’s Guidance on Federal Administration Research Policy page is updated frequently. If you are a researcher and interested in receiving updates, please subscribe to PI Federal communications (you’ll need UWNETID). The Provost’s office is also maintaining a site for all Federal Policy Updates.

CSDE is a member of the Association of Population Centers, and through them can offer you or your colleagues the opportunity to have new or forthcoming research that you want to share with policymakers, journalists, educators, or other non-academic audiences. The Population Reference Bureau (PRB), in collaboration with APC, is working to improve the dissemination of population and reproductive health findings. If you have peer-reviewed research on population dynamics, population health, or reproductive health that you would like to share with a broader audience in an easily digestible format, APC and PRB may be able to help.  To learn how, visit their website and take a look at recent research policy briefs.

CSDE is a member of the Association of Population Centers and through them can offer you and your colleagues access to their preprint publishing platform. Research Scientists, Postdoctoral affiliates and faculty are invited to submit to the APCA Working Paper Series which gathers and disseminates original population science research papers. These working papers are authored or coauthored by scholars who are faculty or postdoctoral affiliates of the Association of Population Centers (APC) population centers.

The 14th annual workshop on Research Design for Causal Inference will be held at Northwestern Law School in Chicago, IL from July 28th to August 6th, 2025. In person-registration is limited to 125 participants for each workshop, and there will also be a Zoom option. Learn more and register here.

Applications for the 19th Annual 2025 Graduate Climate Conference (GCC) hosted by MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on November 7-9, 2025, at Woods Hole, MA are now open! The deadline to apply is June 8th, 2025.

The GCC is a student-led, interdisciplinary conference (co-hosted by UW and MIT) that offers graduate students a unique opportunity to share their climate-focused research and connect with peers from a wide range of disciplines. Conference attendance is fully funded.

The journal Prevention Science is inviting letters of intent proposing manuscripts for potential publication in a forthcoming special issue, “Leveraging Partnerships with Governmental Agencies to Advance Prevention Science, Policy, and Practice.” This special issue will bring together original papers from scholars, practitioners, and policymakers in the prevention science field to highlight exemplary partnership models between researchers and governmental agencies that have produced empirical research with impacts on prevention practice and policy decisions. Read the full call for proposals here.

The Center for Aging, Climate, and Health (CACHE) recently announced seed funding for projects integrating social and environmental data to examine the intersections of aging, climate, and health. CACHE anticipates making 2-3 awards of $20,000 and several smaller awards at $7,500. The deadline to apply is June 20, 2025. Learn more and apply here.

The Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center is now accepting applications for its 2026 Faculty Fellowship Program, which supports research related to climate adaptation in Northwest natural and cultural resource management as well as training in the principles and practices of co-producing decision-relevant science. This is a “last-mile” program that funds activities aimed at enhancing the usability of existing research for natural resource managers. 

The Kaiser Permanente Center for Gun Violence Research and Education is pursuing a world free of gun violence, where impacted communities drive the meaningful change needed for a healthy and safe society. Coordinated in collaboration with Health Alliance for Violence Intervention (HAVI), the Center endeavors to transform the gun violence research and education field.

The Center seeks to meet these needs by broadening the field of research to include more researchers and organizations that focus explicitly on healthcare approaches to addressing gun violence and work closely with communities affected by gun violence.

The Bradley Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation that honors the principles and example of its namesakes, Lynde and Harry Bradley, by pursuing a mission to restore, strengthen, and protect the principles and institutions of American exceptionalism. The foundation has a rolling proposal process around grants for its Constitutional Order and Informed Citizens initiatives. Projects should have budgets between $25,000 and $200,000.

We invite early career faculty affiliates to join our new mailing list, csde_earlycareer. Among other things, this is the way to find out info about our quarterly Early Career Affiliate happy hours, and you won’t want to miss those! These will be a great way to meet up with other junior scholars in a fun and casual atmosphere over snacks and drinks. Who counts as early career, you ask? Typically we mean folks who are pre-promotion (i.e. assistant professor or equivalent), but we're not strict! Join the list here (Please note - this is for faculty only - we are strict about that. Sorry, all others!)