Ridhi Kashyap
@ridhikashyap.bsky.social
Demographer. Data enthusiast. Cricket aficionado.
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New study on global digital gender gaps 🧔♂️👩📱🌐:
It finds that in low- and middle-income countries
- women are 9% less likely to use the 🌐
- 8% less likely to own a 📱 than men
( ~320 million fewer women 🌐 and ~190 million fewer women with 📱)
www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/mapping...
It finds that in low- and middle-income countries
- women are 9% less likely to use the 🌐
- 8% less likely to own a 📱 than men
( ~320 million fewer women 🌐 and ~190 million fewer women with 📱)
www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/mapping...
Mapping the global digital gender divide: new study reveals stark inequalities in internet and mobile access
A research team comprised of current and alumni members of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science (LCDS) has published a major new study in PNAS revealing where and to what extent women remain ...
www.demography.ox.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 4:55 PM
New study on global digital gender gaps 🧔♂️👩📱🌐:
It finds that in low- and middle-income countries
- women are 9% less likely to use the 🌐
- 8% less likely to own a 📱 than men
( ~320 million fewer women 🌐 and ~190 million fewer women with 📱)
www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/mapping...
It finds that in low- and middle-income countries
- women are 9% less likely to use the 🌐
- 8% less likely to own a 📱 than men
( ~320 million fewer women 🌐 and ~190 million fewer women with 📱)
www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/mapping...
Proud to see @jasminabdelghany.bsky.social now a Dr. It was a pleasure advising her thesis and seeing her grow as a scholar. Congratulations!
1/ HUGE congratulations to @jasminabdelghany.bsky.social for passing her DPhil viva w/ no corrections with her dissertation "The impact of in-utero exposure to ambient temperature on maternal health, infant health, and population composition." @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social @oxpop.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Proud to see @jasminabdelghany.bsky.social now a Dr. It was a pleasure advising her thesis and seeing her grow as a scholar. Congratulations!
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New @pnas.org paper constructing subnational estimates of internet and mobile adoption by gender, including gender gaps, for 117 low- and middle- income countries from 2015 through 2025.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Mapping subnational gender gaps in internet and mobile adoption using social media data | PNAS
The digital revolution has ushered in many societal and economic benefits. Yet access
to digital technologies such as mobile phones and internet re...
www.pnas.org
October 15, 2025 at 3:05 AM
New @pnas.org paper constructing subnational estimates of internet and mobile adoption by gender, including gender gaps, for 117 low- and middle- income countries from 2015 through 2025.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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🚨 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/...
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 ...
www.pnas.org
October 6, 2025 at 12:45 PM
🚨 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/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Thanks for having me @i2sc.net - I enjoyed the discussion. Hope the rest of your SICSS goes well!
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.
September 16, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Thanks for having me @i2sc.net - I enjoyed the discussion. Hope the rest of your SICSS goes well!
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🌍 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...
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
www.demography.ox.ac.uk
September 16, 2025 at 9:17 AM
🌍 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...
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...
New work from the Digital Gender Gaps team — we show how access to free laptops provided in public schools improved foundational math esp for economically disadvantaged households, w/ more time on time on learning, less private tuition and better language comprehension.
Access to technology and foundational math proficiency among students: empirical evidence from India
doi.org/10.1057/s415...
Paper in @nature.com by Prashant Poddar, @rotondivale.bsky.social and @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellow @ridhikashyap.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1057/s415...
Paper in @nature.com by Prashant Poddar, @rotondivale.bsky.social and @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellow @ridhikashyap.bsky.social
Access to technology and foundational math proficiency among students: empirical evidence from India - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Access to technology and foundational math proficiency among students: empirical evidence from India
doi.org
July 9, 2025 at 1:06 PM
New work from the Digital Gender Gaps team — we show how access to free laptops provided in public schools improved foundational math esp for economically disadvantaged households, w/ more time on time on learning, less private tuition and better language comprehension.
Are you attending the International Population Conference in Brisbane? The IUSSP Panel on Digital and Computational Demography is organising *3* pre-conference workshops on digital gender inequalities, kinship and microsimulation, and migration and digital trace data iussp.org/en/digital-a...
Digital and Computational Demography | International Union for the Scientific Study of Population
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July 2, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Are you attending the International Population Conference in Brisbane? The IUSSP Panel on Digital and Computational Demography is organising *3* pre-conference workshops on digital gender inequalities, kinship and microsimulation, and migration and digital trace data iussp.org/en/digital-a...
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#IPC2025! Workshop by @lpcalderonb.bsky.social @aasli.bsky.social & @ridhikashyap.bsky.social in Brisbane: "Demographic Microsimulation in R Using SOCSIM:Modeling Population & Kinship Dynamics."
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Applicants will be notified by the end of June.
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June 16, 2025 at 7:20 AM
#IPC2025! Workshop by @lpcalderonb.bsky.social @aasli.bsky.social & @ridhikashyap.bsky.social in Brisbane: "Demographic Microsimulation in R Using SOCSIM:Modeling Population & Kinship Dynamics."
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🔥Coming July 2: 'Metrics and Models'!🔥
A new seminar series on advanced modelling w/ impact across health/society.
🌍 Open to *ALL*!
🕑 Weds 2pm UK alternating weeks (online)
🔗 metrics-and-models.github.io
📬 [email protected]
Brilliant speakers. *Please share*!
A new seminar series on advanced modelling w/ impact across health/society.
🌍 Open to *ALL*!
🕑 Weds 2pm UK alternating weeks (online)
🔗 metrics-and-models.github.io
📬 [email protected]
Brilliant speakers. *Please share*!
June 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
🔥Coming July 2: 'Metrics and Models'!🔥
A new seminar series on advanced modelling w/ impact across health/society.
🌍 Open to *ALL*!
🕑 Weds 2pm UK alternating weeks (online)
🔗 metrics-and-models.github.io
📬 [email protected]
Brilliant speakers. *Please share*!
A new seminar series on advanced modelling w/ impact across health/society.
🌍 Open to *ALL*!
🕑 Weds 2pm UK alternating weeks (online)
🔗 metrics-and-models.github.io
📬 [email protected]
Brilliant speakers. *Please share*!
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Hey demographers! We're starting up the formal demography working group again! Next Friday 16 May at 11:30am ET @hggaddy.bsky.social will talk to us about challenges in estimating crisis mortality. Excited! Head to the website to sign up for Zoom details: formaldemography.github.io/working_group/
Welcome
formaldemography.github.io
May 6, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Hey demographers! We're starting up the formal demography working group again! Next Friday 16 May at 11:30am ET @hggaddy.bsky.social will talk to us about challenges in estimating crisis mortality. Excited! Head to the website to sign up for Zoom details: formaldemography.github.io/working_group/
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I’ve loved my time here — highly recommend applying! Just a few days left...
*JOB OPENING*
Come join me and the Digital Gender Gaps team @sociologyoxford.bsky.social @oxforddemsci.bsky.social. We study digital gender inequalities and their consequences w/ social media, geospatial, and population data.
tinyurl.com/postdoc-oxf
Apply by 9 May, noon (UK)
Come join me and the Digital Gender Gaps team @sociologyoxford.bsky.social @oxforddemsci.bsky.social. We study digital gender inequalities and their consequences w/ social media, geospatial, and population data.
tinyurl.com/postdoc-oxf
Apply by 9 May, noon (UK)
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May 6, 2025 at 10:30 AM
I’ve loved my time here — highly recommend applying! Just a few days left...
Deadline approaching: Friday this week at noon UK!
Apply and/or share widely!
Apply and/or share widely!
*JOB OPENING*
Come join me and the Digital Gender Gaps team @sociologyoxford.bsky.social @oxforddemsci.bsky.social. We study digital gender inequalities and their consequences w/ social media, geospatial, and population data.
tinyurl.com/postdoc-oxf
Apply by 9 May, noon (UK)
Come join me and the Digital Gender Gaps team @sociologyoxford.bsky.social @oxforddemsci.bsky.social. We study digital gender inequalities and their consequences w/ social media, geospatial, and population data.
tinyurl.com/postdoc-oxf
Apply by 9 May, noon (UK)
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May 6, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Deadline approaching: Friday this week at noon UK!
Apply and/or share widely!
Apply and/or share widely!
*JOB OPENING*
Come join me and the Digital Gender Gaps team @sociologyoxford.bsky.social @oxforddemsci.bsky.social. We study digital gender inequalities and their consequences w/ social media, geospatial, and population data.
tinyurl.com/postdoc-oxf
Apply by 9 May, noon (UK)
Come join me and the Digital Gender Gaps team @sociologyoxford.bsky.social @oxforddemsci.bsky.social. We study digital gender inequalities and their consequences w/ social media, geospatial, and population data.
tinyurl.com/postdoc-oxf
Apply by 9 May, noon (UK)
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April 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
*JOB OPENING*
Come join me and the Digital Gender Gaps team @sociologyoxford.bsky.social @oxforddemsci.bsky.social. We study digital gender inequalities and their consequences w/ social media, geospatial, and population data.
tinyurl.com/postdoc-oxf
Apply by 9 May, noon (UK)
Come join me and the Digital Gender Gaps team @sociologyoxford.bsky.social @oxforddemsci.bsky.social. We study digital gender inequalities and their consequences w/ social media, geospatial, and population data.
tinyurl.com/postdoc-oxf
Apply by 9 May, noon (UK)
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REPOST #jobs @oxforddemsci.bsky.social
👨💻Senior Research Fellow Associate/Professor
👩💻Senior Researcher Geospatial Health
📲Postdoc Digital Pandemic Preparedness
👶Postdoc Reproductive Demography
🤖 Programmer AI
See: www.demography.ox.ac.uk/jobs
#Demography #Epidemiology #Health #Population
👨💻Senior Research Fellow Associate/Professor
👩💻Senior Researcher Geospatial Health
📲Postdoc Digital Pandemic Preparedness
👶Postdoc Reproductive Demography
🤖 Programmer AI
See: www.demography.ox.ac.uk/jobs
#Demography #Epidemiology #Health #Population
April 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM
REPOST #jobs @oxforddemsci.bsky.social
👨💻Senior Research Fellow Associate/Professor
👩💻Senior Researcher Geospatial Health
📲Postdoc Digital Pandemic Preparedness
👶Postdoc Reproductive Demography
🤖 Programmer AI
See: www.demography.ox.ac.uk/jobs
#Demography #Epidemiology #Health #Population
👨💻Senior Research Fellow Associate/Professor
👩💻Senior Researcher Geospatial Health
📲Postdoc Digital Pandemic Preparedness
👶Postdoc Reproductive Demography
🤖 Programmer AI
See: www.demography.ox.ac.uk/jobs
#Demography #Epidemiology #Health #Population
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March 15, 2020 was a huge turning point for me w/ both @oxforddemsci.bsky.social & the start of my #scicomm adventure w/ @thosenerdygirls.bsky.social.
On the 5th anniversary of that day, I am excited to launch my Substack "Data for Health"-please subscribe!
jenndowd.substack.com/p/reflection...
On the 5th anniversary of that day, I am excited to launch my Substack "Data for Health"-please subscribe!
jenndowd.substack.com/p/reflection...
Reflections on March 2020
Demography, Data, and "Dear Pandemic"
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March 15, 2025 at 6:52 PM
March 15, 2020 was a huge turning point for me w/ both @oxforddemsci.bsky.social & the start of my #scicomm adventure w/ @thosenerdygirls.bsky.social.
On the 5th anniversary of that day, I am excited to launch my Substack "Data for Health"-please subscribe!
jenndowd.substack.com/p/reflection...
On the 5th anniversary of that day, I am excited to launch my Substack "Data for Health"-please subscribe!
jenndowd.substack.com/p/reflection...
The Population and Development turns 50 this year! To mark the occasion, w/ @aasli.bsky.social, we conduct a computational analysis of research themes and author characteristics in PDR and compare with @readdemography.bsky.social and Population Studies. doi.org/10.1111/padr...
<em>Population and Development Review</em> | Population Council Journal | Wiley Online Library
To mark the Population and Development Review's (PDR) 50th anniversary, we analyze its contributions to the landscape of population research. We examine the trajectory of research published in PDR an...
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March 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The Population and Development turns 50 this year! To mark the occasion, w/ @aasli.bsky.social, we conduct a computational analysis of research themes and author characteristics in PDR and compare with @readdemography.bsky.social and Population Studies. doi.org/10.1111/padr...
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How can we #AccelerateAction to improve women's health outcomes? buff.ly/pacAIJZ A new study co-authored by Dr Ursula Gazeley identifies the leading causes of maternal deaths globally and highlights the need to reduce health inequities in LMICs. @leverhulme.bsky.social @oxpop.bsky.social #IWD2025
March 8, 2025 at 2:14 PM
How can we #AccelerateAction to improve women's health outcomes? buff.ly/pacAIJZ A new study co-authored by Dr Ursula Gazeley identifies the leading causes of maternal deaths globally and highlights the need to reduce health inequities in LMICs. @leverhulme.bsky.social @oxpop.bsky.social #IWD2025
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Closing the digital gender gap starts with data 📊
For #InternationalWomensDay, Ridhi & team launched an updated dashboard tracking internet & mobile access by gender at a subnational level.
Explore ➡️ digitalgendergaps.org/dashboard/
For #InternationalWomensDay, Ridhi & team launched an updated dashboard tracking internet & mobile access by gender at a subnational level.
Explore ➡️ digitalgendergaps.org/dashboard/
March 8, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Closing the digital gender gap starts with data 📊
For #InternationalWomensDay, Ridhi & team launched an updated dashboard tracking internet & mobile access by gender at a subnational level.
Explore ➡️ digitalgendergaps.org/dashboard/
For #InternationalWomensDay, Ridhi & team launched an updated dashboard tracking internet & mobile access by gender at a subnational level.
Explore ➡️ digitalgendergaps.org/dashboard/
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On #InternationalWomensDay, @ridhikashyap.bsky.social's Digital Gender Gaps team have launched an updated dashboard to #AccelerateAction by helping to ensure women are equal participants in digital society buff.ly/OSV35V8 @leverhulme.bsky.social @oxpop.bsky.social @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social
March 8, 2025 at 10:54 AM
On #InternationalWomensDay, @ridhikashyap.bsky.social's Digital Gender Gaps team have launched an updated dashboard to #AccelerateAction by helping to ensure women are equal participants in digital society buff.ly/OSV35V8 @leverhulme.bsky.social @oxpop.bsky.social @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social
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Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and launch interdisciplinary research projects? We are so excited to announce there will be *26* Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science this year! Apply to one of them here: sicss.io/locations
February 24, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and launch interdisciplinary research projects? We are so excited to announce there will be *26* Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science this year! Apply to one of them here: sicss.io/locations
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If you are interested in studying good old human activity on pre-Musk Twitter, we are now sharing the complete 375M dataset of our 24h Twitter data collection with researchers. Get in touch!
ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...
Please forward to interested scholars.
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Please forward to interested scholars.
View of Just Another Day on Twitter: A Complete 24 Hours of Twitter Data
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January 18, 2025 at 5:28 AM
If you are interested in studying good old human activity on pre-Musk Twitter, we are now sharing the complete 375M dataset of our 24h Twitter data collection with researchers. Get in touch!
ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...
Please forward to interested scholars.
ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...
Please forward to interested scholars.
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What's the future of mortality in high-income countries?
Making predictions (especially about the future) is hard.
But that doesn't stop us from trying...I'm happy to share this contribution to the PDR 50th anniversary special issue: doi.org/10.1111/padr... (open access) #Demography
Making predictions (especially about the future) is hard.
But that doesn't stop us from trying...I'm happy to share this contribution to the PDR 50th anniversary special issue: doi.org/10.1111/padr... (open access) #Demography
November 13, 2024 at 11:23 AM
What's the future of mortality in high-income countries?
Making predictions (especially about the future) is hard.
But that doesn't stop us from trying...I'm happy to share this contribution to the PDR 50th anniversary special issue: doi.org/10.1111/padr... (open access) #Demography
Making predictions (especially about the future) is hard.
But that doesn't stop us from trying...I'm happy to share this contribution to the PDR 50th anniversary special issue: doi.org/10.1111/padr... (open access) #Demography
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Happy 5th birthday to us! 🥳 In October, we celebrated five years of disrupting and realigning demography with the #demographic community at our inaugural #DemSciSummit https://buff.ly/3Da6Kre
@leverhulme.bsky.social @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @melindacmills.bsky.social
@leverhulme.bsky.social @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @melindacmills.bsky.social
Celebrating five years of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science
On 17 October 2024, the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science hosted the inaugural Demographic Science Summit to celebrate five years of disrupting and realigning demography for the benefit of…
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December 5, 2024 at 12:54 PM
Happy 5th birthday to us! 🥳 In October, we celebrated five years of disrupting and realigning demography with the #demographic community at our inaugural #DemSciSummit https://buff.ly/3Da6Kre
@leverhulme.bsky.social @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @melindacmills.bsky.social
@leverhulme.bsky.social @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @melindacmills.bsky.social
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@caseybreen.bsky.social, in “Longevity Benefits of Homeownership,” finds life expectancy differs btw homeowners & renters, presenting “compelling evidence that owning a home in early adulthood has a causal effect on later-life mortality.” @oxforddemsci.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
December 4, 2024 at 5:50 PM
@caseybreen.bsky.social, in “Longevity Benefits of Homeownership,” finds life expectancy differs btw homeowners & renters, presenting “compelling evidence that owning a home in early adulthood has a causal effect on later-life mortality.” @oxforddemsci.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...