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Robert Chung
@rchung.bsky.social
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Anti-social social scientist with low amusement threshold. When you do theoretical mathematical demography it's good to have a Plan B so I ride a bike.
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Robert Chung @rchung.bsky.social · 2d
It's to help us repel any invasion from those violent leftist Canadians.
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Human Mortality Database @hmdatabase.bsky.social · 3d
✨Subnational #mortality✨ is the focus of Session II, with presentations by Carlo-Giovanni Camarda, Jacob Martin, Michael Mühlichen, and Irma T. Elo.
Chair: @ddukhovnov.bsky.social

#HMDsymposium2025 #Longevity #Mortality #LifeExpectancy #Inequality
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Jonas Schöley @jschoeley.com · 3d
Hot take: "Flattening the curve" successfully lowered overall life expectancy deficits since 2020, but also prolonged the period of excess deaths compared to countries with massive mortality shocks in 2020/2021. That's a public health communication challenge.
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Human Mortality Database @hmdatabase.bsky.social · 3d
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Monica Alexander @monjalexander.bsky.social · 3d
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...
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Hampton Gaddy @hggaddy.bsky.social · 6d
🚨 The Economist has been telling you for years that polygamy causes civil war by locking men out of marriage. A new article with @rebeccasear.bsky.social and @anthrolog.bsky.social explains that the demography of marriage markets doesn't actually work that way. 🧵

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
High rates of polygyny do not lock large proportions of men out of the marriage market | PNAS
There is a widespread belief, in both the scholarly literature and the popular press, that polygyny prevents large numbers of men from marrying by ...
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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 6d
Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop
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Rob Hyndman @robjhyndman.com · 9d
We're looking for a new actuarial professor. careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo... @monashebs.bsky.social @monashuniversity.bsky.social #actuarial
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Robert Chung @rchung.bsky.social · 10d
My goodness, that's pretty close to what pop projection was like when I first started having to do them. I don't miss those days at all.
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Robert Chung @rchung.bsky.social · 11d
Fertility in the US has been "below replacement level" since 2000. How much lower is the US population today than it was in 2000?
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Robert Chung @rchung.bsky.social · 12d
We've been bouncing btw Berkeley and Paris for the last 25 years. The change in Paris in the last 5 years has been remarkable. The street of the nearby elementary school was just converted; a side-effect is my street is busier because of detouring traffic but that's an acceptable compromise.
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Robert Chung @rchung.bsky.social · 13d
I suppose it's good that some Trump supporters draw the line at calling out the National Guard to police cities he doesn't like but it kinda means they didn't think the racism, misogyny, cruelty, corruption, and incompetence were deal breakers so there's that.
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Robert Chung @rchung.bsky.social · 13d
In the US the TFR has been "below replacement" for pretty much every year of the last 25 years. How much lower is the US population today than it was in 2000?
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Robert Chung @rchung.bsky.social · 14d
The next time someone shows a graphic that shows that the TFR has been less than "replacement level" since about 2000, ask them how much lower today's pop is than it was in 2000.
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Robert Chung @rchung.bsky.social · 15d
No one could have foreseen that choosing that kid from Twilight Zone's "It's a Good Life" would have negative consequences.
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Robert Chung @rchung.bsky.social · 16d
Sounds like something I should've learned.
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Hampton Gaddy @hggaddy.bsky.social · 16d
LSE and @bspsuk.bsky.social are hosting a workshop on "Being an academic in population studies" on 3 November! It'll be a nice mix of methods training and career advice with great talks by @ericbschneider.bsky.social, Wendy Sigle, José Manuel Aburto, and others!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/being-an-a...
The LSE and South Coast ESRC Doctoral Training Partnerships, in collaboration with the British Society of Population Studies, would like to invite you to a jointly-organised masterclass entitled: “Being an academic in Population Studies: a masterclass for PhD students on data challenges and career progression” Monday 3 of November 2025, 10am – 4.15 pm (Coffee from 9.30 am, Lunch between 1.15-2.15pm), LSE PhD Academy, LRB 4.02, Lionel Robbins Building (4th Floor), 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD. If you would like to reserve a space, please sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/being-anacademic-in-population-studies-a-masterclass-for-phd-students-tickets-1693083350879? aff=oddtdtcreator For DTP-funded students, we expect that funding for travel expenses and/or accommodation will come from their home DTP (ie. RTSG). For non-DTP-funded students, five bursaries will be available. If you wish to apply for a travel bursary for your travel expenses, please send an email to Adrien Allorant with a provisional budget by the 13th of October.
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Robert Chung @rchung.bsky.social · 18d
OK, I've decided to switch from acetaminophen to paracetamol.
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Robert Chung @rchung.bsky.social · 18d
Good morning to everyone who wasn't raptured!
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Robert Chung @rchung.bsky.social · 18d
Formal demographers encouraged to apply.
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Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Social Sciences (Environmental Behavioral Sciences)
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Robert Chung @rchung.bsky.social · 19d
I'm mostly retired now so I'm in charge of cleaning. Magali isn't completely happy with my cleanliness standard so she hired housekeepers to do some things where I'm (evidently) deficient. They came yesterday. I agree I haven't been doing this.
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Robert Chung @rchung.bsky.social · 20d
Aftershock. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
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Robert Chung @rchung.bsky.social · 20d
What matters more is the last place you attend--though for many, the first place is the last.
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Ewa Batyra @ewabatyra.bsky.social · 20d
One more week left to apply for a 3-year postdoc in Demography (deadline: Sept 30, 12:00 midday UK time). Join me at the Sociology Department in Oxford to study global fertility change as part of the DIVREP project!👇
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Sociology at Oxford @sociologyoxford.bsky.social · Aug 20
🚨 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
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The Berkeley Scanner @berkeleyscanner.com · 20d
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake rattled Berkeley early Monday morning, at least the second quake in the Southside neighborhood in recent weeks.
Magnitude 4.6 earthquake jolts UC Berkeley
There have been just a handful of other quakes in or near Berkeley since Jan. 1, 2023, according to USGS data.
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Adrian Raftery @adrianraftery.bsky.social · 20d
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.
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