Our interview this episode is with Fabian Pfeffer, associate professor at the University of Michigan, co-investigator of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, and founding director of the Center for Inequality Dynamics. Fabian talks about the important distinction between income inequality and wealth inequality, the overall state of wealth in the United States today, and the swings between cornflakes and homemade crepes for breakfast.

Last week was the 2021 ICPSR Biennial Meeting, and we hosted our first ever live episode! ICPSR's own Libby Hemphill joins us to talk about extremism and social media, how data can help, and what the future might look like. She answers questions from the Data Brunch crew and from our live audience.

Welcome to season two! In this episode, we talk to Vanessa Otero, founder and CEO of Ad Fontes Media and the creator of the Media Bias Chart. Vanessa tells us how the chart came to be, how it's evolved, and how the team of analysts behind the chart today measure accuracy, bias, and reliability across the dozens of news media outlets they measure. More on the Media Bias Chart on Ad Fontes Media's website: https://adfontesmedia.com/

In our second bonus episode, we are featuring an episode from another podcast at ICPSR, hosted by the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA). Dr. Margaret Gatz joins NACDA's Kathryn Lavender to discuss Dr. Gatz's work on the Study of Dementia in Swedish Twins and the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council Twin Registry (NAS-NRC). You can listen to all of NACDA's episodes on YouTube or find them on the ICPSR website: https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/pages/NACDA/researcher-interviews.html

In this episode, we're featuring an interview with Dr. Joanne Goodell about her newest book, "Preparing STEM Teachers: The UTeach Replication Model.” This interview is part of one of our fellow ICPSR podcasts from the archive Partnership for Expanding Education Research in STEM (PEERS). All of the PEERS episodes are available on YouTube and from the ICPSR website! https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/pages/peersdatahub/discussion-forum.html

It's the final episode of season 1! Debby Carr joins us to talk about her research on stress, and how we all have learned to handle stress better due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Thanks to all of our guests this season, and thank you all for listening!

College and Beyond II measures the impact and importance of a liberal arts education: how it's defined, how it's used, and how, like everything else, it has been changed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Three members of the team, Jennifer Brady, Susan Jekielek, and Kevin Stange, join us to talk about the project, and more.

Ryan McWay joins us to talk about how cruise ships can affect women in developing countries, including raising employment rates and education. Anna also highlights some of the data ICPSR holds about policing, use of force, and body cameras.

Tamara Qawasmeh joins us to talk about a new paper that examines the link between stressful pregnancies and brain development in utero, especially related to sleeping habits in children. Links to the data and resources mentioned in this episode are available in the show notes at https://myumi.ch/ICPSRDataBrunch.

Skylar Hawthorne and David Thomas join us to discuss three specific surveys of the transgender population in the United States, how best to measure "unseen" populations, and the ideal thickness of French toast. Show notes are available at https://myumi.ch/ICPSRDataBrunch.