Because many of our Affiliates will be at PAA 2018 this Friday, there is no CSDE Seminar this week. If you’re headed to the conference as well, make sure you stop by some of our Affiliates’ presentations! You can see a list of CSDE speakers, topics, and times here.

We will resume next Friday on May 4 with a special Earl and Edna Stice Memorial Lecture – join Guy Abel as he discusses how to use a Bayesian probabilistic methodology to harmonize migration data from different sources.

CSDE trainee and fellow Connor Gilroy is organizing a Seattle satellite location of the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science. SICSS-Seattle will be held from Monday, June 18 to Friday, June 22, at the eScience Institute of the University of Washington. Applications are open through May 4, and you can apply here.

SICSS is for both social scientists and data scientists, broadly conceived, and the program is intended for graduate students and others doing computational social science research at the University of Washington and in the broader Seattle and Puget Sound area.

CSDE fellows, students, affiliates, alumni, supporters, and friends: Please join us at the 2018 CSDE PAA Reception on Friday, April 27th from 6-9pm at Denver Dazzle! Enjoy drinks and light fare and connect with fellow demographers in the CSDE community. Add the event to your calendar here.

Last week, All Things Considered examined the new wave of data analysts researching gun violence, citing that many researchers entering the field grew up in an era punctuated by mass shootings. Former CSDE Trainee Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz, a Researcher in the Violence Prevention Research Program at the UC Davis School of Medicine, shared her perspective, noting: “The issue of firearm violence resonates with our generation. The Parkland students, I think, are just the most recent and vocal example of that.”

How does the race and gender combination of mixed-race couples influence the location they make their home? CSDE Fellow Ryan Gabriel explores this question in his recent publication, Gender and the Residential Mobility and Neighborhood Attainment of Black-White Couples. His article, published in this month’s issue of Demography, examines how the racial hierarchy within the United States impacts the mobility of black-white couples. 

Yesterday, CSDE Director Sara Curran, Professor of International Studies at the Henry M. Jackson School, wrote an op-ed for The Seattle Times about the most recent revision to the 2020 Census form, which now asks respondents to report on their U.S. citizenship. Curran posits that the inclusion of this question will have a range of implications — including a systematic undercount of U.S. residents and growing potential for security breaches of Census data — that will jeopardize a complete and fair census.

You can read Curran’s full essay below.