Philippe Bocquier
@phbocquier.bsky.social
Migration & Health, Urbanisation, Africa, Europe. Event History Analysis, Causality. Others: Paleoanthropology, Paragliding, SBK, Movies, Novels.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6278-0597
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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6278-0597
https://scholar.google.be/citations?user=THd_fY0AAAAJ&hl=fr&oi=ao
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@jeinhoff.bsky.social estimates working life expectancy & working years lost to retirement, unemployment & inactivity for cohorts aged 55-64 & 65-74 across 21 European countries, finding that WLE has risen & WYL has fallen in most nations. @mpidr.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
February 17, 2026 at 8:17 PM
@jeinhoff.bsky.social estimates working life expectancy & working years lost to retirement, unemployment & inactivity for cohorts aged 55-64 & 65-74 across 21 European countries, finding that WLE has risen & WYL has fallen in most nations. @mpidr.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
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"You can’t have 'great replacement' without the failure of women to fulfill their role as childbearers. White women are at the center of right-wing concerns about demographic change because their reproductive capacity is seen as a key bulwark against the browning of America."
My @liberalcurrents.com essay on the “repeal the 19th” guys from last November
www.liberalcurrents.com/women-should...
www.liberalcurrents.com/women-should...
February 17, 2026 at 6:27 PM
"You can’t have 'great replacement' without the failure of women to fulfill their role as childbearers. White women are at the center of right-wing concerns about demographic change because their reproductive capacity is seen as a key bulwark against the browning of America."
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Join us next week for a new #LunchSeminar!
We'll learn more about the work of our colleague Ilia Klimkin @klimkin.bsky.social on Seasonal Components of Life Expectancy Change in Belgium 🇧🇪
📆 24/02 at 1pm
🖥️Join online: us02web.zoom.us/j/87199604242
We'll learn more about the work of our colleague Ilia Klimkin @klimkin.bsky.social on Seasonal Components of Life Expectancy Change in Belgium 🇧🇪
📆 24/02 at 1pm
🖥️Join online: us02web.zoom.us/j/87199604242
February 17, 2026 at 8:08 AM
Join us next week for a new #LunchSeminar!
We'll learn more about the work of our colleague Ilia Klimkin @klimkin.bsky.social on Seasonal Components of Life Expectancy Change in Belgium 🇧🇪
📆 24/02 at 1pm
🖥️Join online: us02web.zoom.us/j/87199604242
We'll learn more about the work of our colleague Ilia Klimkin @klimkin.bsky.social on Seasonal Components of Life Expectancy Change in Belgium 🇧🇪
📆 24/02 at 1pm
🖥️Join online: us02web.zoom.us/j/87199604242
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Après s’être plaint du mois de janvier, il se rend compte que sa vie est aussi nulle en février https://www.legorafi.fr/2026/02/17/apres-setre-plaint-du-mois-de-janvier-il-se-rend-compte-que-sa-vie-est-aussi-nulle-en-fevrier/
Après s’être plaint du mois de janvier, il se rend compte que sa vie est aussi nulle en février
Toute l'information selon des sources contradictoires.
www.legorafi.fr
February 17, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Après s’être plaint du mois de janvier, il se rend compte que sa vie est aussi nulle en février https://www.legorafi.fr/2026/02/17/apres-setre-plaint-du-mois-de-janvier-il-se-rend-compte-que-sa-vie-est-aussi-nulle-en-fevrier/
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People around the world express pride in their national welfare programs, health care, education and infrastructure. Pride in services like these is especially common in Sweden, South Africa, France, Germany and the Netherlands. 🇿🇦 🇸🇪 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇳🇱
February 17, 2026 at 4:28 PM
People around the world express pride in their national welfare programs, health care, education and infrastructure. Pride in services like these is especially common in Sweden, South Africa, France, Germany and the Netherlands. 🇿🇦 🇸🇪 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇳🇱
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Equal rights are another source of national pride, especially in Sweden (14%) and France (12%). Sweden is the only country where women are somewhat more likely than men to say equality makes them proud of their country. 🇸🇪 🇫🇷
February 17, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Equal rights are another source of national pride, especially in Sweden (14%) and France (12%). Sweden is the only country where women are somewhat more likely than men to say equality makes them proud of their country. 🇸🇪 🇫🇷
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thinking about the conversation I had with Jesse Jackson in 2019:
"The truth of slavery—that Africans subsidized America’s wealth—that truth will not go away. It’s buried right now, but as each generation becomes much more serious, it will be grappled with." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
"The truth of slavery—that Africans subsidized America’s wealth—that truth will not go away. It’s buried right now, but as each generation becomes much more serious, it will be grappled with." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
![Jesse Jackson: Well, first of all, we had been freed without being made equal. There’s historical continuity between blacks being amassed in prison after 246 years of legal slavery. When there was a contest about it [in Dred Scott v. Sandford], the Supreme Court ruled that blacks had no rights. [After emancipation and the Civil War] those who had been slave masters became segregation masters. They took our freedom away from us; they began to lock up blacks by the thousands to do prison labor, farm labor—the whole range. They just put us back in slavery.
We finally, in 1954, broke the backbone—legally—of that system [with the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision], but we were never—there was never repair for damage done. Two hundred and forty-six years of slavery, then legal Jim Crow and [nearly] 5,000 lynchings without a conviction. And even today, discrimination by extension of that system has not completely ended.
So we had been fighting for repair. We fought against the barbarism for our freedom; now we’re fighting for our equality. We are the foundation of American society—not the bottom, the foundation. When the Declaration of Independence came, we had been enslaved for 157 years. We made cotton king. We are due a different kind of recognition.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4vkwol5raj4hnslvsqvmpiqw/bafkreic4dao7rhh7274jfmz3jjnb6s3ak5c2ag75h4jha7mgli3r3fqbey@jpeg)
February 17, 2026 at 12:54 PM
thinking about the conversation I had with Jesse Jackson in 2019:
"The truth of slavery—that Africans subsidized America’s wealth—that truth will not go away. It’s buried right now, but as each generation becomes much more serious, it will be grappled with." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
"The truth of slavery—that Africans subsidized America’s wealth—that truth will not go away. It’s buried right now, but as each generation becomes much more serious, it will be grappled with." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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CAUSAL GRAPHS ➡️ HAPPINESS. 😍 Agree?
& Work in/around Berlin? 🐻
Sign up for the 2026 Applied Causal Graphs Workshop! 🌟
Deadline Feb 28th ⬇️
applied-causal-graphs.de
This 3rd edition is hosted by the great folks at Uni Potsdam 💡
& Work in/around Berlin? 🐻
Sign up for the 2026 Applied Causal Graphs Workshop! 🌟
Deadline Feb 28th ⬇️
applied-causal-graphs.de
This 3rd edition is hosted by the great folks at Uni Potsdam 💡
February 15, 2026 at 7:41 PM
CAUSAL GRAPHS ➡️ HAPPINESS. 😍 Agree?
& Work in/around Berlin? 🐻
Sign up for the 2026 Applied Causal Graphs Workshop! 🌟
Deadline Feb 28th ⬇️
applied-causal-graphs.de
This 3rd edition is hosted by the great folks at Uni Potsdam 💡
& Work in/around Berlin? 🐻
Sign up for the 2026 Applied Causal Graphs Workshop! 🌟
Deadline Feb 28th ⬇️
applied-causal-graphs.de
This 3rd edition is hosted by the great folks at Uni Potsdam 💡
For teaching purposes I have recorded screencasts on Fundamental Cause Theory and on how to test it:
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
February 15, 2026 at 1:44 PM
For teaching purposes I have recorded screencasts on Fundamental Cause Theory and on how to test it:
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Important paper on the recent advances made by social scientists on the causality behind social inequalities in health.
A retrospective on fundamental cause theory: State of the literature, and goals for the future
Sean A P Clouston et al. Annu Rev Sociol. 2021 Jul.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34949900/
Sean A P Clouston et al. Annu Rev Sociol. 2021 Jul.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34949900/
February 14, 2026 at 11:34 PM
Important paper on the recent advances made by social scientists on the causality behind social inequalities in health.
Demographers in the room, what's your take?
After all, age-period-cohort is at the core of our discipline and of the Lexis diagram.
#demography
After all, age-period-cohort is at the core of our discipline and of the Lexis diagram.
#demography
New blog post about the age-period-cohort identification problem!
In which, for the first time ever, I ask "What's the mechanism?" and also suggest that sometimes you may actually *not* be interested in causal inference.
www.the100.ci/2026/02/13/o...
In which, for the first time ever, I ask "What's the mechanism?" and also suggest that sometimes you may actually *not* be interested in causal inference.
www.the100.ci/2026/02/13/o...
One approach to the age-period-cohort problem: Just don’t.
Just to cause yourself more problems, you seek for something. But there is no need for you to seek anything. You have plenty, and you have just enough problems.
Shunryū Suzuki in a 1971 talk
A ...
www.the100.ci
February 13, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Demographers in the room, what's your take?
After all, age-period-cohort is at the core of our discipline and of the Lexis diagram.
#demography
After all, age-period-cohort is at the core of our discipline and of the Lexis diagram.
#demography
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📢CALL FOR PAPERS
Bold, unconventional, theoretically sharp? Submit your abstract to the Demog-Crazy 2026 Award by 1 April 2026 😜.
Quetelet Journal rewards the paper that first amuses... then truly enlightens. Shortlisted authors submit full papers by 1 July 2026. ojs.uclouvain.be/index.php/Qu...
Bold, unconventional, theoretically sharp? Submit your abstract to the Demog-Crazy 2026 Award by 1 April 2026 😜.
Quetelet Journal rewards the paper that first amuses... then truly enlightens. Shortlisted authors submit full papers by 1 July 2026. ojs.uclouvain.be/index.php/Qu...
February 13, 2026 at 3:03 PM
📢CALL FOR PAPERS
Bold, unconventional, theoretically sharp? Submit your abstract to the Demog-Crazy 2026 Award by 1 April 2026 😜.
Quetelet Journal rewards the paper that first amuses... then truly enlightens. Shortlisted authors submit full papers by 1 July 2026. ojs.uclouvain.be/index.php/Qu...
Bold, unconventional, theoretically sharp? Submit your abstract to the Demog-Crazy 2026 Award by 1 April 2026 😜.
Quetelet Journal rewards the paper that first amuses... then truly enlightens. Shortlisted authors submit full papers by 1 July 2026. ojs.uclouvain.be/index.php/Qu...
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New blog post about the age-period-cohort identification problem!
In which, for the first time ever, I ask "What's the mechanism?" and also suggest that sometimes you may actually *not* be interested in causal inference.
www.the100.ci/2026/02/13/o...
In which, for the first time ever, I ask "What's the mechanism?" and also suggest that sometimes you may actually *not* be interested in causal inference.
www.the100.ci/2026/02/13/o...
One approach to the age-period-cohort problem: Just don’t.
Just to cause yourself more problems, you seek for something. But there is no need for you to seek anything. You have plenty, and you have just enough problems.
Shunryū Suzuki in a 1971 talk
A ...
www.the100.ci
February 13, 2026 at 2:33 PM
New blog post about the age-period-cohort identification problem!
In which, for the first time ever, I ask "What's the mechanism?" and also suggest that sometimes you may actually *not* be interested in causal inference.
www.the100.ci/2026/02/13/o...
In which, for the first time ever, I ask "What's the mechanism?" and also suggest that sometimes you may actually *not* be interested in causal inference.
www.the100.ci/2026/02/13/o...
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📆Deadline for paper submissions: May 1
📍November 18-20, in Louvain-la-Neuve 🇧🇪
🔎Read more about the 2026 Quetelet Seminar & the call for papers: www.uclouvain.be/fr/system/fi...
📍November 18-20, in Louvain-la-Neuve 🇧🇪
🔎Read more about the 2026 Quetelet Seminar & the call for papers: www.uclouvain.be/fr/system/fi...
www.uclouvain.be
February 12, 2026 at 9:52 AM
📆Deadline for paper submissions: May 1
📍November 18-20, in Louvain-la-Neuve 🇧🇪
🔎Read more about the 2026 Quetelet Seminar & the call for papers: www.uclouvain.be/fr/system/fi...
📍November 18-20, in Louvain-la-Neuve 🇧🇪
🔎Read more about the 2026 Quetelet Seminar & the call for papers: www.uclouvain.be/fr/system/fi...
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4️⃣Last but not least, Marina Vergeles (@vergeles.bsky.social) will present a poster on lifespan inequality among migrants and natives in 🇧🇪, 🇳🇴, 🇸🇪, 🏴 & 🏴.
We wish them stimulating discussions and great feedback!
We wish them stimulating discussions and great feedback!
February 3, 2026 at 7:57 AM
4️⃣Last but not least, Marina Vergeles (@vergeles.bsky.social) will present a poster on lifespan inequality among migrants and natives in 🇧🇪, 🇳🇴, 🇸🇪, 🏴 & 🏴.
We wish them stimulating discussions and great feedback!
We wish them stimulating discussions and great feedback!
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📢CALL FOR PAPERS #QueteletSeminar 2026: historical, comparative, spatial analyses, advanced methodologies, interdisciplinarity, conceptual frameworks, policy responses... on inequalities in & through #health across past, present, & future societies.
⏬More details
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February 12, 2026 at 9:52 AM
📢CALL FOR PAPERS #QueteletSeminar 2026: historical, comparative, spatial analyses, advanced methodologies, interdisciplinarity, conceptual frameworks, policy responses... on inequalities in & through #health across past, present, & future societies.
⏬More details
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The datapaper of the POPP databse is out !!! And it's in Historical Life Course Studies
POPP. An OCR-Generated Database of the Population Censuses of Paris (1926–1936)
hlcs.nl/article/view...
POPP. An OCR-Generated Database of the Population Censuses of Paris (1926–1936)
hlcs.nl/article/view...
February 12, 2026 at 3:13 PM
The datapaper of the POPP databse is out !!! And it's in Historical Life Course Studies
POPP. An OCR-Generated Database of the Population Censuses of Paris (1926–1936)
hlcs.nl/article/view...
POPP. An OCR-Generated Database of the Population Censuses of Paris (1926–1936)
hlcs.nl/article/view...
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Call for applications: European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD) 2026-2027
To be held at @mpidr.bsky.social and @sghwarsaweu.bsky.social
Application deadline: 27 March 2026 at 12 PM (noon)
Program start: 1 September 2026
Scholarships are available
Details: eaps.nl/edsd/how-to-...
To be held at @mpidr.bsky.social and @sghwarsaweu.bsky.social
Application deadline: 27 March 2026 at 12 PM (noon)
Program start: 1 September 2026
Scholarships are available
Details: eaps.nl/edsd/how-to-...
February 11, 2026 at 10:58 AM
Call for applications: European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD) 2026-2027
To be held at @mpidr.bsky.social and @sghwarsaweu.bsky.social
Application deadline: 27 March 2026 at 12 PM (noon)
Program start: 1 September 2026
Scholarships are available
Details: eaps.nl/edsd/how-to-...
To be held at @mpidr.bsky.social and @sghwarsaweu.bsky.social
Application deadline: 27 March 2026 at 12 PM (noon)
Program start: 1 September 2026
Scholarships are available
Details: eaps.nl/edsd/how-to-...
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📢 Join us at the first meeting of the new EAPS Working Group on Migrant Health in Bologna!
#EPC2026
Details below ⬇️
#EPC2026
Details below ⬇️
📢📢 Launching the @eaps.bsky.social Working Group on Migrant Health!
📌 Our first meeting will be a pre-EPC event in Bologna on June 3rd, 9:00–12:00.
✉️ Write to [email protected]
to become a member, join our mailing list, and/or register for the event!
More info 👉 shorturl.at/mBsJJ
📌 Our first meeting will be a pre-EPC event in Bologna on June 3rd, 9:00–12:00.
✉️ Write to [email protected]
to become a member, join our mailing list, and/or register for the event!
More info 👉 shorturl.at/mBsJJ
February 11, 2026 at 9:48 AM
📢 Join us at the first meeting of the new EAPS Working Group on Migrant Health in Bologna!
#EPC2026
Details below ⬇️
#EPC2026
Details below ⬇️
Amazing figures! Will be interesting to see post-Covid figures too.
February 9, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Amazing figures! Will be interesting to see post-Covid figures too.
La politique anti-immigration du gouvernement belge est aussi une politique anti-intégration. L'exemple du Centre Placet à @uclouvain.bsky.social :
www.petitionenligne.be/centreplacet...
www.petitionenligne.be/centreplacet...
February 9, 2026 at 12:54 PM
La politique anti-immigration du gouvernement belge est aussi une politique anti-intégration. L'exemple du Centre Placet à @uclouvain.bsky.social :
www.petitionenligne.be/centreplacet...
www.petitionenligne.be/centreplacet...
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📢Job Offer‼️New Max Planck Research Group on Medical Demography
Marcus Ebeling will lead the team starting on 1 July 2026. The research group will be based at the MPIDR in Rostock. Read an interview with Marcus on his future research here: www.demogr.mpg.de/go/rgmd (including link to job) #postdoc
Marcus Ebeling will lead the team starting on 1 July 2026. The research group will be based at the MPIDR in Rostock. Read an interview with Marcus on his future research here: www.demogr.mpg.de/go/rgmd (including link to job) #postdoc
February 9, 2026 at 8:30 AM
📢Job Offer‼️New Max Planck Research Group on Medical Demography
Marcus Ebeling will lead the team starting on 1 July 2026. The research group will be based at the MPIDR in Rostock. Read an interview with Marcus on his future research here: www.demogr.mpg.de/go/rgmd (including link to job) #postdoc
Marcus Ebeling will lead the team starting on 1 July 2026. The research group will be based at the MPIDR in Rostock. Read an interview with Marcus on his future research here: www.demogr.mpg.de/go/rgmd (including link to job) #postdoc
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I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
Bluesky Map
Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.
bluesky-map.theo.io
February 8, 2026 at 10:59 PM
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
Reposted by Philippe Bocquier
[1/10] Trois chercheurs analysent l’Afrique sub-saharienne comme principal moteur de la croissance démographique mondiale. À partir des données ONU, ils montrent comment jeunesse, fécondité et gains sanitaires structurent les dynamiques régionales.
#geography #demography #population #Africa
#geography #demography #population #Africa
L’Afrique sub-saharienne, moteur de la croissance démographique mon...
Une population importante très inégalement distribuée sur le continent Au 1er janvier 2023, la population d’Afrique sub-saharienne compte 1,2 milliard d’habitants très inégalement répartis entre le...
journals.openedition.org
February 8, 2026 at 7:44 AM
[1/10] Trois chercheurs analysent l’Afrique sub-saharienne comme principal moteur de la croissance démographique mondiale. À partir des données ONU, ils montrent comment jeunesse, fécondité et gains sanitaires structurent les dynamiques régionales.
#geography #demography #population #Africa
#geography #demography #population #Africa