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Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Oxford University @oxforddemsci.bsky.social · 3d

🎉 Welcome to Bill Morneau!

Former 🇨🇦 Finance Minister, business leader & champion of inclusive policy, Bill joins LCDS & @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social for the coming year — helping connect demography with industry, government & real-world impact.
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LCDS and Nuffield College welcome Bill Morneau as a Visiting Fellow

The Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science (LCDS) and Nuffield College are delighted to welcome Bill Morneau as a Visiting Fellow for the coming academic year. Morneau will be working and meeting w...

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Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Oxford University @oxforddemsci.bsky.social · 3d

Delighted to see our interdisciplinary nest hatch such brilliant work 🪶

This fabulous paper by alumni @hggaddy.bsky.social brings together demography, evolutionary research, and economic history — a true cross-species of ideas!

Hampton Gaddy @hggaddy.bsky.social · 5d

This work has been a long time coming! Thanks to all the brilliant demographers, evolutionary scholars, and economic historians who have given us feedback over the last few years, especially at @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @lseechist.bsky.social @ehbea.bsky.social @bspsuk.bsky.social! 🥳 (14/14)

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Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Oxford University @oxforddemsci.bsky.social · 3d

Fantastic work by our LCDS alumni @polizzan.bsky.social and Annette Baudish - morality methods applied to fertility - now that is clever 💡

Antonino Polizzi @polizzan.bsky.social · 4d

✍️ Just out: Annette Baudisch & I delve into the formal demography of fertility, birth, & reproduction timing. 👶 We use methods from mortality research to summarize when in the parental life course children are born. 📆 1/n
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Fertility, birth, reproduction: Connecting formal demographic frameworks

The conventional framework of fertility research conceptualizes childbirth from the mother’s perspective. From her perspective, birth is an uncertain and potentially recurring event. In contrast, t...

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Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Oxford University @oxforddemsci.bsky.social · 3d

🎓 Join us for a 4 year fully funded PhD in Health Data Science @Oxford

📊 Predicting Health Outcomes
🔗 www.demography.ox.ac.uk/dphil-opport...

🗣️ The Natural Language of Health and Social Care
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Contact @crahal.com for a chat

DPhil Opportunity: Predicting Health Outcomes at the Population Level

Project DescriptionInequalities in health are pervasive and persistent. But what if we could predict adverse health outcomes before they occur, and intervene to prevent them? The possibility of highly...

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Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Oxford University @oxforddemsci.bsky.social · 10d

thinking about your next academic home? 🏡✨

imagine: an office where people actually show up, hang out, and do brilliant research on #Demography in Oxford!

that’s us 👋

#EarlyCareerResearchers #ResearchFellowships See below 👇

📅 deadline: 15 Dec 2025
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Poster describing info in post with picture of Oxford

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Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Oxford University @oxforddemsci.bsky.social · 10d

nonparametric. multiply robust. semiparametrically efficient.
💥the Avengers lineup of causal estimators

Felix Elwert, 8 Oct, 2pm
📍 Butler Room, @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social
Nonparametric Causal Decomposition of Group Differences
w/metrics-and-models.github.io
🔗 demography.ox.ac.uk/news/upcoming-…

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Jenn Dowd @drjenndowd.bsky.social · 24d

"Fundamentally, having a child is making a decision about the future."

Great piece by @karenguzzo.bsky.social #demography #birthrates
www.newsweek.com/low-birth-ra...

Low Birth Rates Are Here To Stay | Opinion

Individuals and families need to be supported by a strong social safety net that includes paid leave and a robust child care infrastructure. There are no quick fixes.

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Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Oxford University @oxforddemsci.bsky.social · 24d

Read the great reflection on the workshop by @dr-appie.bsky.social here: communities.springernature.com/posts/a-love...

A Love Letter to Social Science Genetics

Some people call social science genetics a minefield. Others call it dangerous, even irresponsible. I call it the most promising field in life sciences.

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Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Oxford University @oxforddemsci.bsky.social · 24d

We welcomed the next generation of @essgn.bsky.social social science genomics researchers in Oxford!
✨ Speakers from industry (deCODE, Genomics), data (UKBiobank), experts from Oxford & beyond + an Editor from Nature Human Behaviour!

📸 More here 👉 www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/lcds-ho...

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Essi Lindstedt @essi-lindstedt.bsky.social · 25d

This is an extraordinary piece on Russian pro-natalist policies. Putin will do anything to increase the population except stop sending men to war to be brought home in body bags.

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

Our Director @melindacmills.bsky.social on the 'impotence' of pronatalist policies 📉: “Silver bullets, quick cash & gimmicks won’t change #Fertility.” Read more 👇
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/terror-and-security/what-russians-really-think-about-putins-baby-boom-drive/

#Demography #Policy

Cover of telegraph newspaper article with picture of baby

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Interdisciplinary Institute for Societal Computing @i2sc.net · 25d

We closed our Monday with a thought-provoking keynote by @ridhikashyap.bsky.social (@ox.ac.uk) on “𝐺𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝐼𝑛𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝐷𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑.” Her talk highlighted key challenges and opportunities for research at the intersection of gender, demography, and digital data.

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

Our Director @melindacmills.bsky.social on the 'impotence' of pronatalist policies 📉: “Silver bullets, quick cash & gimmicks won’t change #Fertility.” Read more 👇
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/terror-and-security/what-russians-really-think-about-putins-baby-boom-drive/

#Demography #Policy

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

🎉 Big congrats to @wensu221.bsky.social Su, Postdoc at LCDS, for winning the Charles Price Prize in #Demography! 🏆 His work bridges national & subpopulation #mortality to reveal hidden patterns in health outcomes. A true star demographer in the making! 🌟

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Wen Su wins the Charles Price Prize in Demography

Wen Su, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science recently won the Charles Price Prize in Demography.

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

Just out in Nature Genetics, @melindacmills.bsky.social, @vincentjstraub.bsky.social Straub & team show how the UK’s largest new biomedical dataset Our Future Health (striving for 5M participants!) can set a global benchmark in #genomics and #health
Read: www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/unlocki...

Unlocking the global promise of Our Future Health

Published today in Nature Genetics, researchers from the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science at the University of Oxford outline how Our Future Health — one of the UK’s new flagship health resea...

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

🌍 Can satellites help count people where censuses are missing?
New work by @edithdarin.bsky.social, @ridhikashyap.bsky.social K& Douglas Leasure shows building-footprint maps + smart models can fill census gaps—vital for health, planning & aid.

www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/can-sat...

Can Satellite Maps Accurately Count People Where Censuses Are Missing?

A new study published by our Phd Student Edith Darin, together Ridhi Kashyap and Douglas Leasure from the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science

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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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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · Sep 6

The plenaries this year were excellent. Stuart Gietel-Basten argued passionately that demographers must reclaim the narrative around low fertility and drive the debate in a more productive, less dysfunctional, direction. We have the skills, and this issue *matters* for multiple reasons

Pic of Stuart and his last slide:

We are the ones who can must do this
→ Genuine micro- and macro- challenges which need addressing
→ Confidently drive the conversation on fertility in a constructive, productive way.
→ If we leave them, fringe views may become even more mainstream
→ Demography as mixed-method locus of sociology, social policy, economics, social theory, health, geography, politics etc.
→ Should be the ones to lead on population issues (!)
→ If we don't, who will?

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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · Sep 8

🚨Job Offer🚨PhD Student Position
The @lshtm.bsky.social, in partnership with the @mpidr.bsky.social is opening an 18-month Research Assistant position, with the successful candidate embarking on a PhD program at LSHTM.
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61...
@ezagheni.bsky.social #phd #jobs #demography

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Jenn Dowd @drjenndowd.bsky.social · Sep 9

Persistent minimizing of the COVID death toll hits me especially hard in the #demography feels. To be clear:

➡️ Over one million Americans died of COVID-19.

➡️ Official COVID deaths were likely undercounted, not overcounted.

jenndowd.substack.com/p/how-many-p...

How many people died of COVID?

We likely undercounted, not overcounted COVID deaths

jenndowd.substack.com

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Sander Wagner @sanderwagner.bsky.social · Aug 18

Some of my brilliant colleagues here at @oxforddemsci.bsky.social are now organizing an online metrics and models seminar that has really high quality speakers. It is online and open to everyone so have a look at the program and write yourself in metrics-and-models.github.io

Welcome to the Metrics and Models homepage!

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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

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Short Courses

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

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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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Jasmin Abdel Ghany @jasminabdelghany.bsky.social · Sep 3

Two exciting PhD positions at @oxforddemsci.bsky.social on predicting health outcomes at the population level and natural language of health and social care! Apply to work in a wonderful team.

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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ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations @cpc-cg.bsky.social · Sep 3

As well as housing & childcare costs, Connecting Gens Co-Director @melindacmills.bsky.social of @oxforddemsci.bsky.social said uncertainty over employment, gender inequality & difficulties combining work & family life were behind the rise in people delaying having children- in @financialtimes.com

Birth rate falls to record low in England and Wales

Decline highlights demographic challenges as more people opt to become parents later in life

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Jasmin Abdel Ghany @jasminabdelghany.bsky.social · Sep 3

Join us for a 1-week course on the Demography of Fertility at beautiful @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social, 8-12 Dec! 📮 We'll cover theory, methods foundations, and many current issues at the intersection of fertility & maternal health! 🚼 Book your spot.
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The Demography of Fertility and Reproduction

Date: 8-12th December 2025By: Joshua Wilde, Ursula Gazeley, Jasmin Abdel Ghany, Emma Romell, Jorden JacksonLocation: Nuffield College, University of Oxford

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