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Monica Alexander
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Associate professor in statistics and sociology at the University of Toronto. Demographer from Australia.
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isba-bayesian.bsky.social
ISBA Community:

The deadline to propose a contributed talk for the 2026 ISBA World Meeting is next Friday, November 21. Proposals may be submitted using this form: forms.gle/dVTUrdEuVF6g...

See the call below for details 👇
ISBA 2026: Call for Contributed Talks & Posters
The Scientific Committee invites the submission of proposals for Contributed Talks and Posters for the 2026 ISBA World Meeting, to be held in Nagoya, Japan from 28 June to 3 July, 2026. Contributed ta...
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November 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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timriffe1.bsky.social
Over a dozen ways to decompose life expectancy, all in one (we hope) friendly interface. Please have a look at the LEdecomp R package cran.r-project.org/web/packages... See the function LEdecomp() for access to all of them. If we left something out, please shout! #rstats #demography #mortality
LEdecomp: Decompose Life Expectancy by Age (and Cause)
A set of all-cause and cause-specific life expectancy sensitivity and decomposition methods, including Arriaga (1984) &lt;<a href="https://doi.org/10.2307%2F2061029" target="_top">doi:10.2307/2061029<...
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November 12, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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rohanalexander.bsky.social
There are three Toronto Data Workshop online talks coming up 12, 19, and 26 November, noon EST. This first is this Wednesday at noon on Zoom: utoronto.zoom.us/j/4784708970. All welcome.
Wednesday 12 November 2025, noon (EST) Georgia Channing, Hugging Face "AI for Scientific Discovery is a Social Problem" Georgia Channing is the ML for Science Lead at Hugging Face and a DPhil candidate at the University of Oxford. Her academic background is in machine learning, and her research has spanned neural architecture search, protein classification, deepfake audio detection, and hyperspectral imaging. She holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Tennessee and a Masters degree from the University of Oxford. She works now on building tools and methods to advance scientific achievement. Wednesday 19 November 2025, noon (EST) Mellissa Meisels, Yale "Strategic Campaign Attention to Abortion Before and After Dobbs" Mellissa Meisels is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Yale University, where she is also affiliated with the Institution for Social and Policy Studies and Center for the Study of American Politics. Her research centers on the U.S. Congress, money in politics, electoral campaigns, and political organizations. Much of this work investigates the strategic choices of candidates and financial contributors in congressional campaigns, with an emphasis on primary elections. To do so, she employs original data, natural language processing, causal inference tools, experiments, and structural estimation of formal models. Her research is forthcoming and published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, and Political Science Research and Methods. Wednesday 26 November 2025, noon (EST) Christopher Barrie, New York University "Reasoning models and synthetic data generation" Christopher Barrie is an Assistant Professor of Sociology, at New York University as well as Core Faculty at CSMaP and a Research Fellow at the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford.
November 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
monjalexander.bsky.social
Amazing and heartwarming to see a packed crowd of people last week eager to grow the demography community at UofT and Canada more broadly 🫶

Huge thanks to all our guest speakers, the support of @uoftsociology.bsky.social and to my fellow co-leads @leafiaye.bsky.social and @joannapepin.bsky.social
leafiaye.bsky.social Leafia Ye @leafiaye.bsky.social · 15d
The Toronto Population Network had its very first mini-conference at Hart House last Thursday, and it was such an amazing event!! Thanks everyone for coming & can't wait for what's next 💙

P.S. trying to get the "confidence intervals overlapping" photo pose trending. it clearly has potential, eh?
Joanna, Monica, and Leafia standing in front of the Toronto Population Network banner A full room of attendees listening to Ridhi Kashyap (Oxford)'s keynote lecture
November 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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One of the recommendations: @rohanalexander.bsky.social ‘s book
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November 10, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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hope to see your work, especially in the realm of caregiving and/or LGBTQ+ kinship!
mpidr.bsky.social Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 20d
Call for Papers!

Submit your paper for the conference: 'Kinship Structures, Dynamics and Inequalities', taking place on 8 and 9 June 2026 @mpidr.bsky.social in Rostock organized by @demography.bsky.social, @iussp.bsky.social +coll.
Deadline: 21 January 2026
www.demogr.mpg.de/go/kinship-conference
November 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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joannapepin.bsky.social
Look what we're up to @uoftsociology.bsky.social!
leafiaye.bsky.social Leafia Ye @leafiaye.bsky.social · Oct 10
We are building a new pop center at UofT and will hold our first mini-conference on Nov 6 - come join us!!

Exhibit 1: amazing speaker line-up - featuring friends around the world to discuss why demography/pop center matters! 🤓

Exhibit 2: the iconic castle where this conference will take place 🏰 ✨
October 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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leafiaye.bsky.social
We are building a new pop center at UofT and will hold our first mini-conference on Nov 6 - come join us!!

Exhibit 1: amazing speaker line-up - featuring friends around the world to discuss why demography/pop center matters! 🤓

Exhibit 2: the iconic castle where this conference will take place 🏰 ✨
The speaker line-up for the Toronto Population Network's first mini-conference (Ridhi Kashyap, Oxford; Elizabeth Dhuey, UofToronto; Emilio Parrado, UPenn; Katherine Curtis, Wisconsin; Rachel Margolis, Western; Sarah Flood, Minnesota Pop Center; Shelley Clark, McGill) The conference venue - Hart House, University of Toronto
October 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
monjalexander.bsky.social
The Toronto Population Network is holding a conference on 6 November at Hart House at UofT. Keynote from @ridhikashyap.bsky.social! If you're in Toronto come along and help us build the community of demographers and population researchers here! Registration: www.eventbrite.com/e/toronto-po...
October 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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karenguzzo.bsky.social
Very excited to announce that @srhayford.bsky.social, @lesja.bsky.social, and I will be guest-editing a special volume of @prpr-journal.bsky.social on "Contemporary Pronatalism in Demographic Context"! Submissions due March 1, 2026. link.springer.com/collections/...
Contemporary Pronatalism in Demographic Context Participating journal: Population Research and Policy Review Call for Papers Low and declining birth rates across the world have consequences for countries’ population size and structure. Concerns over the potential economic effects of population aging have spurred many countries to engage in efforts to raise birth rates. At the same time, there is growing concern about the social and cultural causes and consequences of low birth rates. Pronatalism – an ideology based on the belief that birth rates are too low, and societies should work to raise them in the interest of economic productivity and cultural preservation – has re-emerged as an increasingly visible and powerful force across different settings. The dynamics of low fertility – such as fertility decline, postponement, and changing patterns of family formation – have been common topics in population science over the last 25 years, but pronatalism has received considerably less attention from the field. This Special Issue will provide an opportunity for population scientists to contribute to the conversations about pronatalism throughout the world. We welcome critical, theoretical, descriptive, and empirical submissions that explicitly focus on some aspect of pronatalism. Further research is needed on the evidentiary base upon which pronatalism rests; the social, political, and cultural inspirations and implications of pronatalism; and the support for, and effects of, pronatalist policies. Evaluation of alternative approaches (besides raising birth rates) for addressing changes in population size and composition is also warranted. Submissions that discuss the causes and consequences of low fertility but do not directly engage with pronatalism fall outside of the scope of this issue.
October 2, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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demographielln.bsky.social
🚨New Tenure Position!
We're looking for a new colleague to join our dynamic team in Belgium.

Innovative quantitative methods | Health & environment | Population dynamics

Read job description here: jobs.uclouvain.be/PersonnelAca...
Application Deadline: Nov 11, 2025
#job #tenure
October 3, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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robinryder.bsky.social
We are hiring!

We are inviting applications for the Chapman Fellowship in Statistics at Imperial College London.

This is a kind of super-postdoc: 3 years contract, excellent working conditions, and candidates are expected to propose an independent research plan.

www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs//search...
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October 1, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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UofT grad students - help advance social policy's media presence! Pitch us an opinion piece on social policy. If approved, you'll earn $500 for the completed piece.

More info: cgsp-cpsm.ca/2025/09/22/c...
Image of smiling young people in professional dress having a conversation in what looks like a lecture hall. Text says "UofT grad students - want to help increase media presence for social policy? Pitch an opinion piece related to social policy. If approved, you'll get $500 for the completed piece." The logos of CGSP and UofT's Sociology Department are at the top of the image.
September 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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robinryder.bsky.social
I'm super excited to announce that ISBA @isba-bayesian.bsky.social has voted to start a new section on Bayesian Social Sciences! It will be a great way to further collaborations with many disciplines in the Social Sciences and Humanities.

bss-isba.github.io
Home - BSS-ISBA
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September 22, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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adrianraftery.bsky.social
The new Bayesian Social Sciences section of @isba-bayesian.bsky.social has just been created: bss-isba.github.io. The committee is myself as chair, @robinryder.bsky.social, chair elect from 2027, @nialfriel.bsky.social, program chair, @monjalexander.bsky.social, Treasurer, EJWagenmakers, Secretary.
Home - BSS-ISBA
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September 22, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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hggaddy.bsky.social
The data is now available for all teams who've already signed up! More sign-ups very welcome! Happy analysing! 💻📊
hggaddy.bsky.social Hampton Gaddy @hggaddy.bsky.social · Aug 27
📢 Interested in excess mortality methods, and want a challenge? I'm organising the "One Epidemic, Many Estimates" (1EME) project! Register *now* as a many analyst team (submissions due 15 March 2026), and then join us at LSE for a workshop on 21-22 May 2026! (1/n)

www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-His...
One Epidemic, Many Estimates (1EME)
One Epidemic, Many Estimates (1EME)
www.lse.ac.uk
September 16, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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A really great presentation from @phbocquier.bsky.social yesterday! The recording is up for those interested: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C_R...
September 12, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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vdilego.bsky.social
Come and check out our next Formal Demography Working Group meeting with @phbocquier.bsky.social ! Sign up on our website to receive the link. If you have an ideia/paper/ work in progress you would like to present please feel free to reach out to us!
formaldemography.github.io/working_group/
September 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM
monjalexander.bsky.social
The next Formal Demography Working Group is Thursday September 11 at 10am ET! @phbocquier.bsky.social will present on identifying small-area diffusion of mortality transitions using non-linear modelling. Sign up details on our website! formaldemography.github.io/working_group/
Welcome
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September 3, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Health demographers 📣
Calling for submissions to our w. @timriffe1.bsky.social
Healthy Life Expectancy methodology collection on @genus.bsky.social! We're seeking innovative approaches to statistical modelling and empirical analysis of health inequalities 📈
📆 Submission deadline: 01/06/26
🔗 Link 👇
Healthy Life Expectancy: New Methods, New Insights
As countries worldwide experience population aging, understanding not just how long people live, but how many of those years are spent in good health, has ...
link.springer.com
September 2, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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mpidr.bsky.social
🚨Open Positions!🚨
Postdoc/Research Scientist Positions
Migration | Population Dynamics | Computational Demography
Application Deadline: Oct 10, 2025
See job description here:
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61...
#Postdoc #Jobs
@ezagheni.bsky.social @perrottadaniela.bsky.social @ugobas.bsky.social
August 28, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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hggaddy.bsky.social
📢 Interested in excess mortality methods, and want a challenge? I'm organising the "One Epidemic, Many Estimates" (1EME) project! Register *now* as a many analyst team (submissions due 15 March 2026), and then join us at LSE for a workshop on 21-22 May 2026! (1/n)

www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-His...
One Epidemic, Many Estimates (1EME)
One Epidemic, Many Estimates (1EME)
www.lse.ac.uk
August 27, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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sociologyoxford.bsky.social
🚨 New Job Alert! 🚨

Join Dr @ewabatyra.bsky.social as a Postdoc Researcher in Demography!

Contribute to a global study on disparities in reproductive behaviour, focusing on childbearing age & fertility levels 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦

Apply now 👉 www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/event/postdo...
We're hiring: Postdoctoral Researcher in Demography, deadline: 30 September 2025
August 20, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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cmonden.bsky.social
Job alert! Join us at @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social as a postdoctoral fellow to work on your own research for three years. #sociology
www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk
August 20, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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socio-steve.bsky.social
GPT-5 regularly asks you why you are not citing its work. GPT-5 always believes your estimator is biased. GPT-5 has more of a comment than a question. Sometimes GPT-5 tells you stories about grad school and expresses regret about getting a PhD. GPT-5's mom wonders when it will start making money.
August 7, 2025 at 8:22 PM