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NBER @nber.org · 18h

Characterizing the potential and limits of using satellite imagery and machine learning technology to measure ground conditions, from Proctor, Carleton, Chong, Fransen, Greenhill, Katz, Murayama, Sherman, Tseng, Druckenmiller, and Hsiang https://www.nber.org/papers/w34315

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Berkeley Population Sciences @berkeleypopcenter.bsky.social · 6d

Our Brown Bag talk next week will feature
@drjenndowd.bsky.social presenting, “Temporary Shock or Lasting Scar? Life Expectancy Deficits Since COVID.”

Join us in-person at 310 Social Sciences Building or via Zoom (Meeting ID: 985 2901 0198 Password: DEMOG_BB).

Wednesday, October 8th at 12pm PST.

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Mark Hayward @mdhayward.bsky.social · 15d

New evidence showing that educational attainment has a dose-response association with dementia risk throughout the entire distribution of education. 🧪
read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

How Does the Risk of Dementia Change With Each Additional Year of Education? | Demography | Duke University Press

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Eleanor Power @eapower.bsky.social · 20d

📣 Job alert! *Assistant Prof in Computational Social Science*. We're a friendly department, with sharp students, at a great institution, in a lovely city. We have real strengths in computational social science & are looking for a colleague to build this further. Share and reach out with quesions!

LSE Methodology @lsemethodology.bsky.social · 20d

We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science ❗

📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Apply before 26 October to join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎

we're hiring assistant professor in computational social science, applications close 26/10/2025

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Adrian Raftery @adrianraftery.bsky.social · 26d

Our paper, “Optimal pandemic control strategies …” bmcglobalpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... w @nickirons.bsky.social, just published.Takeaway: U.S. COVID-19 school closures were not cost-effective, but other measures were. medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09...

Optimal pandemic control strategies and cost-effectiveness of COVID-19 non-pharmaceutical interventions in the United States - BMC Global and Public Health

Background Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) in response to the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated a trade-off between the health impacts of viral spread and the social and economic costs of restric...

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Casey Breen @caseybreen.bsky.social · Sep 6

Fantastic! Well deserved!

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Berkeley Population Sciences @berkeleypopcenter.bsky.social · Aug 26

The BERKELEY POPULATION SCIENCES BROWNBAG SERIES returns! Our first three talks feature:

Ian Lundberg - UCLA
@nathanlo.bsky.social - Stanford University
@mpbitler.bsky.social‬ - UC Davis

Join us Wednesdays, 12 - 1PM at 310 Social Sciences Building, or via Zoom ID: 985 2901 0198 Passcode: DEMOG_BB

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Casey Breen @caseybreen.bsky.social · Jul 28

Looks great - congrats!

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Monica Alexander @monjalexander.bsky.social · Jul 28

The wonderful Niamh Cahill is recruiting a PhD student (co-supervised by me!) to work on estimating and projecting population exposure to extreme sea levels. Please contact me if interested!

Maynooth University @maynoothuniversity.ie · Jun 19

MU Prof Niamh Cahill has been awarded nearly €520,000 in funding by the @epaireland.bsky.social for a research project on rising sea levels and their impact on Ireland.

https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/faculty-science-engineering/news/mu-researcher-awarded-epa-funding-project-rising-sea-levels

MU researcher awarded EPA funding for project on rising sea levels | Maynooth University

Prof Niamh Cahill of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, the Hamilton Institute and ICARUS has been awarded nearly €520,000 in funding by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for a research project on rising sea levels and their impact on Ireland. Prof Cahill received €519,880 for...

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Sociology at Oxford @sociologyoxford.bsky.social · Jul 2

🎉 Congrats to @francescorampazzo.com, winner of an @socsci.ox.ac.uk Teaching Excellence Award for his innovative and inclusive teaching!

His approach includes using creative data sources like digital trace data to enrich student learning 🧑‍🎓

Read more ➡️ socsci.web.ox.ac.uk/article/winn...

Image of Francesco Rampazzo and quote: 'I'm honoured to receive this Teaching Excellence Award. As a researcher, I view teaching as integral to my academic role. Integrating my research into the classroom not only enriches students' learning experiences but also invigorates my own research, fostering a dynamic exchange of ideas that benefits both teaching and scholarship.'

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Ridhi Kashyap @ridhikashyap.bsky.social · Jul 2

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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Berkeley Population Sciences @berkeleypopcenter.bsky.social · Jun 24

During the 1st week of June we held our 11th Annual Berkeley Workshop in Formal Demography. We had a terrific workshop & are already looking forward to next year! TY to NIH & to instructors @ayesha-mahmud.bsky.social
@rchung.bsky.social Josh Goldstein @dennisfeehan.bsky.social @jnobles.bsky.social!

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Casey Breen @caseybreen.bsky.social · Jun 17

Interesting! What’s the y-axis on the figure?

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Casey Breen @caseybreen.bsky.social · Jun 3

Interesting! Can you give an example?

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Casey Breen @caseybreen.bsky.social · May 29

Can you say more? Thanks!

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Danya Lagos @danyalagos.bsky.social · May 13

Had a blast working on this paper with Christina Pao, @chrisajulian.bsky.social, @drcompton.bsky.social, and Lawrence Stacey, in which we combed through the HPS to identify demographic differences between groups based on gender identity question responses. sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

Demographic Differences in Responses to a Two-Step Gender Identity Measure

Article: Demographic Differences in Responses to a Two-Step Gender Identity Measure | Sociological Science | Posted May 6, 2025

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Jenn Dowd @drjenndowd.bsky.social · May 9

While we at @oxforddemsci.bsky.social & @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social will miss seeing @polizzan.bsky.social daily, we are happy for the good fortune of our friends at @mpidr.bsky.social in landing this superstar!

#demography

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

👋👋👋WelcomeWeeks @mpidr.bsky.social!

We are happy to welcome @polizzan.bsky.social! He is a new member in the Laboratory of Population Health at the Department of Social Demography. Welcome Antonino!
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

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Casey Breen @caseybreen.bsky.social · May 6

I’ve loved my time here — highly recommend applying! Just a few days left...

Ridhi Kashyap @ridhikashyap.bsky.social · Apr 14

*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)

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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · May 5

$500 million is… less than 1.25% of the NIH’s 2024 budget.

When I say there is no capacity to absorb the shock, I mean it.

Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · May 5

We will put forward a 500 million package for 2025-2027 to make Europe a magnet for researchers.

As well as ambitious proposals for R&I in the next EU budget.

We will also offer the best and brightest the right incentives to come to Europe ↓

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · Apr 30

The biggest project I've worked on for the last chunk of years was just published. It asks, how big are US Black-white lifespan differences?

This might seem like a narrow question. I hope to convince you by the end that there are answers you didn't anticipate. And I hope some of them will move you.

Three Ways of Looking at Black–White Mortality Differences in the United States | Annual Reviews

Everyone agrees that US Black deaths happen earlier than white deaths on average, but it is surprisingly challenging to find the best ways to summarize, quantify, and compare this gap. This review arg...

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Penn State Population Research Institute @pop.psu.edu · Mar 24

Register now for the PRI Methods Workshop on hard-to-reach populations held May 13.

tinyurl.com/2025gradmeth...

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UM Population Studies Center @um-psc.bsky.social · Apr 12

🌸 Yasamin Kusunoki chairs today's #PAA2025 session on reproductive autonomy, women's empowerment, and reproductive outcomes. Participants include postdoc Jess Dozier, @lsenderowicz.bsky.social @jnobles.bsky.social Jolene Tan, and @caseybreen.bsky.social
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PAA 2025: Session: Autonomy, Empowerment, and Reproductive Outcomes
Eastern Market Room
Saturday April 12th, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Yasamin Kusunoki chairs

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Francesco Rampazzo @francescorampazzo.com · Apr 2

With Leah Rosenzweig, Parrish Bergquist, Katherine Hoffmann Pham & Matto Mildenberger, I co-authored a piece in
@psrm.bsky.social on Facebook ads for survey sampling in 🇲🇽, 🇰🇪 & 🇮🇩. We assessed sample quality, replicated a canonical experiment & explored trade-offs.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Survey sampling in the Global South using Facebook advertisements | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge Core

Survey sampling in the Global South using Facebook advertisements

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Diego Alburez @demography.bsky.social · Apr 2

On Monday next week, I'll present new evidence on how armed groups weaponise kinship as a strategy to maximise suffering, as part of the @hertieschool.bsky.social Social Policy Colloqium. Register for the event in Berlin (only in-person unfortunately) 👇 www.hertie-school.org/en/events/ev...

The social demography of war-related bereavement in Colombia, 1985–2018

A presentation by Diego Alburez-Gutierrez (MPIDR Rostock). This event is part of the Social Policy Research Colloquium. For registration, and if you have any quest...

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Mark Hayward @mdhayward.bsky.social · Apr 1

Dr. Diana Bianchi, director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, was fired this morning at 10AM EDT. Part of the NIH “reorg” (whatever that means)? Or the start of an NIH leadership bloodbath. Guess we will find out.

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