Nomadic Academic Experiment: Part 1
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A Tool for Demographers and Social Scientists to Categorize Open-Ended Survey Data: CatLLM
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I had a great time at PAA 2025
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I presented shared work with Professor William Dow and Henry Dow, comparing sociodemographic characteristics of older Hispanic adults in U.S. immigrant populations with those in their countries of origin, using census microdata and the American Community Survey (publication pending).
I presented at the Pacific Sociological Association Conference in San Francisco
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I had the opportunity to present our research on public school background and probability of enrollment in a graduate degree at the 2025 PSA conference.
I presented at the “Ask a Science Envoy” Event!
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I recently presented my research at the Science Envoy “Ask a Science Envoy” event at HopMonk Tavern in Novato—my first time presenting at a brewery and to a non-academic audience. The experience taught me the importance of navigating sensitive topics like partisanship and belief in science, especially when audience members began debating the subject.
Field Data Collection in the Dominican Republic
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I’m super grateful to the Dominican team of The Caribbean American Dementia and Aging Study (CADAS).
Understanding the Three-Group SIR Step by Step
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In our upcoming paper, “Measuring and Modeling the Impact of Partisan Differences in Health Behaviors on COVID-19 Dynamics,” we use a three-group Susceptible-Infected-Recovered model to highlight the importance of incorporating partisan differences into models of disease transmission. In this blog post, I want to fully explain what is happening in the background for readers who may be interested in utlizing it themselves. For those users, we also built an R shiny app (soon to be published as well). The link to the shiny app will be: here.
Field Data Collection in Puerto Rico
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I’m super grateful to the Puerto Rican team of The Caribbean American Dementia and Aging Study (CADAS). We got a lot done and things are moving quickly! Looking forward to visiting again soon.
I presented at the California Association for Institutional Research
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I had the opportunity to present our research on public school background and probability of enrollment in a graduate degree at the 2024 CAIR conference.
Presenting our Research for the Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology at University of Washington, Seattle
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The impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions and protective health behaviors, such as the use of face masks and physical distancing, on COVID-19 dynamics is well-documented, but sub-group heterogeneities in the adoption of these behaviors remains understudied. In this paper, we describe partisan differences in the adoption of protective health behaviors, and model how these differences can impact the dynamics of COVID-19.
I have been selected as a Science Envoy!
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I have been selected as a Science Envoy for Wonderfest: The Bay Area Beacon of Science.
How to Improve Match Quality on String Data Using Large Language Models
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In the world of data analysis, ensuring the accuracy and consistency of datasets is crucial, especially when dealing with entities like school names that may be spelled differently across various sources. This discrepancy can pose significant challenges when trying to match records from different datasets. Traditional methods of data cleaning may fall short in addressing these inconsistencies effectively.
First Post in Honor of My Little Man, Charlie
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This first ever blog post is in honor of my recently passed little man, Charlie the cat, who for 12 years went together with me through thick and thin. He was the best cat anyone could’ve asked for, and no other will ever be able to replace him. I will miss you dearly, Charles, aka “Chester.” I love you always.
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publications
Connecting Fathers: Fathers’ Impact on Adult Children’s Social Networks
Published in The International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2022
This paper is was written while I was an undergraduate and published during my first year of graduate school.
Recommended citation: Soria C, Lawton L. Connecting Fathers: Fathers’ Impact on Adult Children’s Social Networks. The International Journal of Aging and Human Development. 2023;96(1):19-32. doi:10.1177/00914150221106645 hhttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00914150221106645
Assessing the 10/66 Dementia Classification Algorithm for International Comparative Analyses with the U.S.
Published in American Journal of Epidemiology, 2025
Cross-national comparisons of dementia prevalence are essential for identifying unique determinants and cultural-specific risk factors, but methodological differences in dementia classification across countries hinder global comparisons. This study maps the 10/66 algorithm for dementia classification, widely used and validated in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), to the U.S. Aging, Demographics, and Memory Study (ADAMS), the dementia sub-study of the Health and Retirement Study, and assesses its performance in ADAMS.
Recommended citation: Jorge J Llibre Guerra, Jordan Weiss, Jing Li, Chris Soria, Ana Rodriguez-Salgado, Juan de Jesús Llibre Rodriguez, Ivonne Z Jiménez Velázquez, Daisy Acosta, Mao-Mei Liu, William H Dow, Assessing the 10/66 Dementia Classification Algorithm for International Comparative Analyses with the U.S., American Journal of Epidemiology, 2024;, kwae470, https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwae470 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39745806/
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Father Connection & Support in Adulthood (UC Berkeley Social Networks Study)
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Despite rapidly expanding interest in fathers, scholars know little about the impact of fathers on adult health and well-being. How does the positive presence – or lack thereof - of fathers in adult children’s lives affect their social networks? Drawing on attachment theory and social capital theory to examine novel UC Berkeley Social Networks Study (UC Nets) data, I seek to extend understanding of how father attachment and socialization can influence adult social well-being. I find that individuals who name a father in their social network have significantly more social ties. Those with a “close” father have larger social networks than those who name a father who is not “close.” This has consequences for individuals’ broader networks: respondents with a “close” father report more males – but not females – in social activities networks. In contrast, having a “close” mother was associated with more females to confide in, but not males.
Partisan Context and Its Associations on Individual Behavior During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Democrats tended to have lower contacts, increased mask-usage, and a higher probability of vaccination during the COVID-19 pandemic. But, what happens when Democrats live in counties where they are the minority? How does this impact their behavior?
Partisan Context and Its Associations on Individual Behavior During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Democrats tended to have lower contacts, increased mask-usage, and a higher probability of vaccination during the COVID-19 pandemic. But, what happens when Democrats live in counties where they are the minority? How does this impact their behavior?
teaching
Teaching experience 1
Undergraduate course, University 1, Department, 2014
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Teaching experience 2
Workshop, University 1, Department, 2015
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