CSDE External Affiliates Amy Bailey and Ryan Gabriel, along with Co-authors, have published a new article in Demography examining the relationship between the lynching of African Americans in the southern United States and subsequent county out-migration of the victims’ surviving family members across 5 decades. In the article entitled, “The Migration of Lynch Victims’ Families, 1880–1930”, they use U.S. census records and machine learning methods to identify the place of residence for family members of Black individuals who were killed by lynch mobs between 1882 and 1929 in the U.S. South. Congratulations, Ryan and Amy!

CSDE staff Jessica Godwin and Tiffany Pan, along with Co-authors, recently released new research in Child Abuse & Neglect entitled “Associations Between Childhood Maltreatment and Physiological Dysregulation in Adulthood: Methodological Decisions and Implications”. Using multiple dimension reduction approaches to quantify physiological dysregulation from multiple biomarker outcomes and different measures of exposure to childhood maltreatment, they discover that the significance and magnitude of effects varied by both dimension reduction method and measure of maltreatment. Biomarker data used in this analysis was assayed by former CSDE staff, Eleanor Brindle. Wonderful job!

An Evans School team led by Vance Larsen including CSDE Affiliate Crystal Hall and CSDE Alum Hilary Wething recently authored “Behavioral Consequences of Income and Expense Shocks” in the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics. The paper explores the behavioral consequences of income and expense shocks, finding that one-time income shocks evoked a larger number of coping strategies and were more difficult to manage than one-time expense shocks.

CSDE Affiliate Yuan Hsiao (Communications) and CSDE alum John Leverso (University of Cincinnati in the School of Criminal Justice) recently published “The Corner, the Crew, and the Digital Street: Multiplex Networks of Gang Online-Offline Conflict Dynamics in the Digital Age” in the American Sociological Reviews. The paper takes an abductive approach through integration of Facebook, police records, and maps of gang territory to gain insight on the systematic patterns of conflict, which otherwise might appear to be randomly occurring without such an integrated approach.

CSDE Director Sara Curran, along with co-authors, penned a letter in Science entitled, “Abandoned land: Overestimated potential”. As a response to “Abandoning land transforms biodiversity” (12 May, p. 581), G. N. Daskalova and J. Kamp, they counter that rewilding projects on “abandoned” land are unlikely to succeed without considering landholding status and associated livelihoods. Successfully planning land uses to simultaneously support biodiversity conservation and human livelihoods must start by understanding the social systems and processes that lead to land-use change. Great stuff, Dr. Curran!

CSDE Affiliate Engi Attia co-authored a recent article in CHEST entitled “What Can Big Data Teach Us About Air Pollution and Pneumonia?” that provides confirmatory evidence that higher pollutant concentrations are associated with an increased risk of pneumonia hospitalization. Although the link between air pollution and lower respiratory tract infections is not a novel finding, most prior epidemiologic studies have focused on short-term pollutant exposures in the days or week before disease manifestation. Fewer studies have examined the chronic effects of pollutant exposure, in part because of the lack of cohorts with adequate data and sufficient statistical power to study this risk factor for a relatively rare outcome. Wonderful work, Dr. Attia!

Karen Fredriksen-Goldsen, CSDE Affiliate and UW Professor of Social Work, was recently quoted in Everyday Health on “What It’s Like to Come Out as Trans in Your 50s or Later”, penned by Sarah Prager. Using her research on aging in the LGBTQ+ population, Karen aids in shining light as to why there are large generational differences in how long older and younger adults took to start their transitions despite there being no statistical difference between older and young adults when it came to onset of reported gender dysphoria. You can read more about the findings and their implications in the full story.