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Andrea Tilstra @andreatilstra.bsky.social · 25d

Cheesing really big for a good cause: We 💛 the Yellow Submarine and are so happy that they’ve launched their new bakery. Meeting Prue was definitely a fun bonus ☺️.

Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Oxford University @oxforddemsci.bsky.social · 25d

Our star bakers @andreatilstra.bsky.social & @sanderwagner.bsky.social Wagner met Dame Prue Leith at the grand opening of Life Changing Bakes in Oxford! 🍰✨ A bakery giving people with learning disabilities & autism work experience—& every crumb of profit goes to charity: www.yellowsubmarine.org.uk

Dame Prue Leith, Andrea Tilstra and Sander Wagner posing for photo

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Pat Hastings @ophastings.bsky.social · Sep 9

We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Criminology (in our Sociology department)! Tenure track. 2/2 teaching load. Great colleagues. Fantastic location.

jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Assistant Professor of Sociology with an expertise in Criminology, tenure track, nine-month position beginning August 16, 2026. Competitive salary for an entry-level position. The Department offers un...

jobs.colostate.edu

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Tobias Rüttenauer @ruettenauer.bsky.social · Sep 4

Excited and grateful to launch my ERC project #SOCIO-CLIMP 🌍🌤️

The project explores how #ClimateChange and #EnvironmentalHazards unequally affect different socio-demographic groups 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 across Europe — combining spatial climate data with demographic detail to uncover patterns of #ClimateInjustice.

European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · Sep 4

📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!

Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!

➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh

#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope

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Andrea Tilstra @andreatilstra.bsky.social · Sep 1

True!! Although I just got caught in a monsoon post-lunch hahah. Balance, I suppose?

Andrea Tilstra @andreatilstra.bsky.social · Sep 1

Looking to do a PhD in demography, health, data science? Oxford Demography (LCDS) is recruiting to fill TWO positions! See Charlie's posts below for specifics.

Come join us in the beautiful (albeit a bit rainy) Oxford!! 👩‍🏫📊🌦️

Charlie Rahal @crahal.com · Sep 1

🚨It's that exciting time of year!🚨

Our team has got TWO open DPhil (PhD) positions in #datascience + #health here at @oxforddemsci.bsky.social for 2026🎉! See for details:

1️⃣ 👉 crahal.com/HDS_2026.html
2️⃣ 👉 crahal.com/pophealth_2026.html

Please share and help us to find our future teammates ❤️!

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Andrea Tilstra @andreatilstra.bsky.social · Aug 28

⚠️ICYMI: Oxford Demography (LCDS) is offering three short courses throughout this academic year.

A great chance to visit Oxford & learn from our amazing team! 🤓🏛️

Details [course titles, dates, fees] available here:
www.demography.ox.ac.uk/short-courses

@oxforddemsci.bsky.social

Short Courses

We are preparing to launch a series of Short Courses. Please find details below, and click the relevant links for further information!

www.demography.ox.ac.uk

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Andrea Tilstra @andreatilstra.bsky.social · Aug 22

+ 1 to what Jess said.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Aug 21

Or maybe you could teach your kids to treat all people as deserving of respect and dignity. And maybe you could talk to your kids about homelessness, the unaffordability of housing and healthcare, the stigma around mental illness, and why it's not okay to call people crazy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 21

JD Vance on homelessness: "I don't know why we accepted that it was reasonable to have crazy people yelling at our kids. You should not have to cross the street in downtown Atlanta to avoid a crazy person yelling at your family. Those are your streets."

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Andrea Tilstra @andreatilstra.bsky.social · Aug 22

Outside of academia, I volunteer @ The Gatehouse (UK) supporting homeless & vulnerable communities. I LOVE this place: the guests, the volunteers, the purpose. On 12 Oct, I’ll run the Oxford Half to fundraise for them & the important resources they provide. They deserve all the support we can give💙

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Christiaan Monden @cmonden.bsky.social · Aug 21

Another job alert! Join us @sociologyoxford.bsky.social as a postdoc on @ewabatyra.bsky.social's ERC project. A great three-year position to work in the area of fertility and reproductive behaviour. www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/event/postdo...

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · Aug 20

ATTN: Robert Wood Johnson has money to support “canceled” research on racial-indigenous health equity

www.rwjf.org/en/grants/ac...

Rapid Response: Reinvesting in Racial and Indigenous Health Equity Research

The purpose of this call for proposals is to meet the current moment by supporting timely, actionable health equity research that has been interrupted by shifts in federal funding.

www.rwjf.org

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Alba Lanau @albalanau.bsky.social · Aug 18

Soon to open offer for a *funded* PhD to study child poverty dynamics at @demosocupf.bsky.social @upf.edu If you have an interest in quantitative methods, social policy and child poverty this may be for you! Feel free to reach out for enquiries

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B Jarosz @datageekb.bsky.social · Aug 13

By law, statistical agencies are independent.
By law, statistical agencies are independent.
By law, statistical agencies are independent.
By law, statistical agencies are independent.
By law, statistical agencies are independent.
By law, statistical agencies are independent.

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Colin Angus @victimofmaths.bsky.social · Jun 23

Some exciting Monday afternoon reading here - Jonas Schöley and I have a new study in @addictionjournal.bsky.social using UK data on alcohol duty revenue to examine trends in alcohol sales and how these have changed since the start of the pandemic.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A bar chart showing a time series of 'excess' alcohol duty revenue from Jan 2020 to Jan 2025 - a comparison of actual revenue each month to estimated revenue if the pre-2020 trend had continued. This shows falls in alcohol duty revenue during the lockdowns in spring 2020 and winter 2020/21, but corresponding increases in summer 2020 and spring/summer 2021. Since the start of 2022 duty revenue has been consistently below the pre-pandemic trend, except for a one-month blip in August 2023 when alcohol duties were reformed.

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Nicole Kapelle @nicolekapelle.bsky.social · Jun 25

🚨PhD in Quantitative Sociology @tcdsociology.bsky.social
Join me for a project on “The Economics of Late-Life Divorce”
📌 €25,000/year + fees
📌 Strong quant skills & soc background needed
📌 Deadline: July 21, 2025

👉 www.tcd.ie/sociology/ab...

#PhD #Sociology #Demography #QuantMethods #AcademicJobs

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · Jun 16

“Historically, no one lived past age 35”

"I’ve heard *so* many versions of this claim, including recently from a menopause doctor (implying menopause is not “natural” because noone lived long enough to go through it). Every time someone states this “fact,” a demographer loses a piece of their soul"

There Were Still Old People When Life Expectancy Was 35.

A demography myth that won't die

jenndowd.substack.com

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Jun 10

Not true.

I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵

Corey Wiley on Twitter writes: "You don’t get it.
Foundational immigration law is morally just and has been established over millennia. Disrespecting these rules and ideals is very offensive to folks who highly value civilized society"

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Cosmo Strozza @cosmostrozza.bsky.social · Jun 11

Coherent forecasting model for health and mortality that works with both prevalence AND incidence methodologies for healthy life expectancy 👀

Co-authored with @mpbergeron.bsky.social #ViolettaSimonacci #JimOeppen

Demography - the flagship journal of PAA @readdemography.bsky.social · Jun 10

In “Modeling & Forecasting Healthy Life Expectancy,” M.P. Bergeron Boucher @cosmostrozza.bsky.social et al. “forecast health & mortality simultaneously in a coherent & simple manner, while accounting for changes in prevalence & transition probabilities over time.”
read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · Jun 11

Why is mortality progress stalling in the US and the UK?
@drjenndowd.bsky.social is giving a keynote overview at Nordic Demographic Symposium 🇩🇰 @demografi.dk

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · Jun 9

One of the greatest tragedies of the gutting of the federal government is the loss of dedicated scientists who chose to work in public service for the benefit of the American people.

This letter is both incredibly brave and a testament to their integrity.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...

N.I.H. Workers Denounce Trump’s ‘Harmful’ Health Policies

www.nytimes.com

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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · Jun 6

Marital separation, BMI decline, and the myth of the revenge body
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
@socarxiv.bsky.social‬ preprint by Associate Member @nicolekapelle.bsky.social‬ and Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow @andreatilstra.bsky.social‬

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Nicole Kapelle @nicolekapelle.bsky.social · Jun 5

Right on time for #WorldEnvironmentDay🌍:
Does having a child make parents care more about the planet?

Together with @guzoch.bsky.social, I found: not always—and not in the same way for everyone.

📄 New study in Population and Environment:
doi.org/10.1007/s111...
#ClimateChange #Parenting #Sociology

From parenthood to planet care? The evolution of environmental and climate concerns during family formation - Population and Environment

We examine the effect of childbirth on parents’ environmental and climate concerns, focusing on potentially dynamic changes in concerns within a time span of 2 years before and up to 10 years after bi...

doi.org

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Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Oxford University @oxforddemsci.bsky.social · May 20

1/ A huge congrats to Dr. Antonino Polizzi @polizzan.bsky.social, who passed his DPhil viva for his thesis “The Causes and the Consequences of Growing Life Expectancy Shortfalls” on Friday, examined by Prof. @ridhikashyap.bsky.social & Dr. Iñaki Permanyer. @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social #demography

Student in front of tower at Nuffield College

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Andrea Tilstra @andreatilstra.bsky.social · May 16

Join me in congratulating Dr. Polizzi!!! So so so proud of Antonino, who successfully defended his thesis today. ❤️ @polizzan.bsky.social

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Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Oxford University @oxforddemsci.bsky.social · May 6

Join us 15 May for seminar by Iñaki Permanyer, CED @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social
Multimorbidity & mortality in random sample of 20% of Catalan population using Electronic Health Records….
Over 10 years!
Across socioeconomic groups!
@leverhulme.ac.uk @oxpop.bsky.social

Date 15 May 2pm, Butler Room, Nuffield College

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Andrea Tilstra @andreatilstra.bsky.social · Apr 29

Nothing like talking mortality while rationing out cookies on your uphill trek to Barcelona! 10/10 would repeat. But maybe with sportier outfit choices. Overall, a great first visit to CED!!!

Jenn Dowd @drjenndowd.bsky.social · Apr 29

Demographers making the most of the Spanish #blackout at CED in Barcelona… shout out to my colleagues who hiked 4 hours back to hotel (I got a scarce seat in car due to poor footwear choices).

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