Aliakbar Akbaritabar, Robin Haunschild, Lutz Bornmann: A study of gender and regional differences in scientific mobility and immobility among researchers identified as potentially talented in Journal of Informetrics (2025), DOI: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

P.S. 2: Please don't stop talking about Iran. The conditions of the Iranian people have not changed, even though life goes on elsewhere.

last summer's "Introduction to Computational Social Science," followed by the winter semester's "Computational Approaches to Migration Research." I am now starting to prepare for the next course in the upcoming summer semester, "Introduction to Demographic Methods."

⚠️ Update: With #Iran's internet blackout now past hour 280, the nation of over 90 million remains cut off for another day leaving friends and family unable to check in with loved ones. Meanwhile, traffic on select platforms points to an emergent strategy of whitelisting.

⚠️ Update: It's now 8:00 am in #Iran where the sun is rising after another night of protests met with repression; metrics show the nationwide internet blackout remains in place at 36 hours, severely limiting Iranians' ability to check on the safety of friends and loved ones 📵

A second figure makes the authorship gap unmistakable: scholars affiliated with high-income institutions produce about 90% of research on their own contexts and also dominate research on countries in every other income group. Check the full paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sharing only name initials, as I do not have their consent to share names, but you know who you are! AM, AS, AW, BT, CB, DT, EGD, ER, GZ, HK, HS, JD, JH, JH, JMA, LA, MLP, MR, MA, RCK, SR, VL, VS. Thanks for the advice and tips on training, clothing, gears, etc.

It helps me stay positive, say more yeses, and maintain a “can do” attitude. It helps me achieve more, not less, as it helps me stay sane.

Here I would like to extend my heartfelt gratitude to all those who kept motivating me, among others and in alphabetical order.

“is this cost necessary? Don’t you have more important things to invest in?”

The 2025 lesson for me, after following seven months of structured training, was that yes, being physically active is a necessity. It is not a luxury.

Seeing them run takes away all my excuses and I think to myself, if they can do it, I can as well. Nonetheless, anytime I have to buy a new running gear or invest in registering for a race, a thought, perhaps a residual of having a working-class background, runs through my head ...

They clearly say how frequent, how fast, and how far you should run.

I am grateful to all of those who kept motivating me from afar by their runs, especially members of DemogRunners club who have similar jobs as I do.

--> a distance of above 1,000km in a year. Little did I know what 2025 had planned for me.

I'm delighted to have broken all of my previous records in frequency, distance and speed. Having followed seven months of structured training plans in 2025, I can highly recommend them.