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Christiaan Monden @cmonden.bsky.social · Mar 20

Some great job opportunities at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute: vacatures.knaw.nl/job/The-Hagu...

3 Researchers at the Assistant/Associate Professor Level at NIDI

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ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations @cpc-cg.bsky.social · Mar 21

🗓️ Diaries at the ready - next week @cdudel.bsky.social is presenting our #CPCCGwebinar.

Hear about findings from an analysis of the causal impact of #smoking on healthy working #lifeexpectancy at age 50 using US Health & Retirement Study data. @mpidr.bsky.social

▶️ www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/f...

Image shows woman wearing headphones and making notes at an office desk while watching a webinar on a laptop screen. The text advertises the next CPC-CG webinar: Thursday 27 March at 13:00 UK Time. Dr Christian Dudel, Deputy Director of the Max Planck-University of Helsinki Centre for Social Inequalities in Population Health will be delivering a presentation, entitled "Smoking and the length of working life". Full info an registration at: https://www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/full_events_calendar/892/CPC_CG_Webinar__Christian_Dudel

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Sebastian Kluesener @demomapper.bsky.social · Mar 19

@cdudel.bsky.social in action 😀 Promoting our work on working life expectancy to demographers and statisticians at the DGD conference in Wiesbaden.

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Tim Riffe @timriffe1.bsky.social · Mar 18

The Barcelona Summer School of Demography (BSSD) is still accepting applications until May 1. Attend in person or online if you'd like to brush up either on demography or R skills ced.cat/es/bcn4seaso... These are Modules 1-4 listed in the four-seasons school. I teach module 2 this year :-)

Centro de Estudios Demográficos

El Centro de Estudios Demográficos fue fundado en 1984 con una triple misión: promover la investigación, la docencia y la difusión del conocimiento en materia de población.

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Feb 26

The answer is here and it's called matilda.science
@matilda-science.bsky.social

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Christian Dudel @cdudel.bsky.social · Feb 26

The MaxHel center is looking for two postdocs who will be based at our Helsinki site. Join an international team working with exciting data in a fantastic city. Full details here: jobs.helsinki.fi/job-invite/3...

Two Postdoctoral Researchers on Social Inequalities in Health

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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · Feb 24

📣Job Offer for Students! @mpidr.bsky.social is seeking a #StudentAssistant for the Research Group Labor Demography. You should have a background in #demography, #economics, #sociology, or a related field. Knowledge of R or Stata is appreciated. #studentjob
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61...

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Population Europe @populationeu.bsky.social · Feb 21

Population Europe, in collaboration with the Förderfonds Wissenschaft in Berlin & Stifterverband invites nominations for the European Demographer Award

The prize honours outstanding research in the field of population studies on demographic change in Europe

🔗 tinyurl.com/4z3av6mb

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Giulia Ferrari @giufer.bsky.social · Feb 4

📢Calling all aspiring demographers! Apply for next year’s EDSD here: eaps.nl/edsd/how-to-... and join us in Paris at INED! Deadline March 25 at noon

INED (in english) @ined-english.bsky.social · Feb 4

The call for applications for the European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD) 2025-2026 is open!

This international doctoral program aims to provide students with a high-level education in demography.

Deadline to apply: March 25th, 2025 at 12 PM (noon).
More information: eaps.nl/edsd/how-to-...

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Human Mortality Database @hmdatabase.bsky.social · Jan 30

📢 #episky #mortality

Interested in investigating the drivers and obstacles to #longevity progress, pre- and post-COVID ❓
Submit your abstract for the 7th #HMD Symposium by March 30, 2025

More details ⬇️
mortality.org/File/GetDocu...

📅 9-10 October 2025
📍 @ined.bsky.social, Aubervilliers, France

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Angela Carollo @angelacar.bsky.social · Jan 30

In December 2024, 223 new R-packages were published on CRAN.
TwoTimeScales is one of the top 40 packages according to Joseph Rickert.
Shutout to @egorkotov.bsky.social and his spanishoddata also appearing among the top 40!

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Silvia Loi @loisilvia.bsky.social · Jan 28

I am hiring a PostDoc to work with me in my group Migration and Health Inequalities at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research! Come work with me! ⬇️

Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · Jan 28

🚨🚨🚨JOB OFFER🚨🚨🚨 Post-Doctoral Researcher | Research Group Migration and Health Inequalities
@mpidr.bsky.social is seeking to appoint a post-doctoral researcher to join the Research Group led by @loisilvia.bsky.social.
📅 Deadline: Feb 28, 2025
Learn more:
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61...

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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · Jan 28

🚨🚨🚨JOB OFFER🚨🚨🚨 Post-Doctoral Researcher | Research Group Migration and Health Inequalities
@mpidr.bsky.social is seeking to appoint a post-doctoral researcher to join the Research Group led by @loisilvia.bsky.social.
📅 Deadline: Feb 28, 2025
Learn more:
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61...

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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · Jan 28

🚨JOB OFFER🚨PhD Student | Research Group Migration & Health Inequalities
@mpidr.bsky.social is seeking to appoint a full-time PhD student to join the Group of @loisilvia.bsky.social.
📅Deadline: Feb 28, 2025
Admitted students take part in the @imprs-phds.bsky.social.
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61...

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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · Jan 22

The @imprs-phds.bsky.social team worked hard to make it happen: We're happy & proud to announce that the International Max Planck Research School for Population, Health and Data Science has been made permanent by the
@maxplanck.de . IMPRS_PHDS Team, you rock!
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · Jan 21

The MPIfG is seeking a research group leader (tenure track) with a focus on the socioeconomic and political impacts of technological change to set up a new research group at the intersection of #economy, #society, and #technology.

📢Please share widely!

s.gwdg.de/SULoAf

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Carla Rowold @crowold.bsky.social · Jan 17

Are you going to #PAA2025 and work with sequence analysis? Then submit your paper to our pre-PAA sequence analysis workshop, happening right before #PAA2025, same venue, on April 9 - free of charge! You only need a 200-word abstract 🚀 and can also just register for attendance.

See y'all there! 🤗

Sequence Analysis Association @seqanalysisassn.bsky.social · Dec 20

CALL FOR PAPERS!

One day workshop on sequence analysis on April 9, 2025 in Washington DC (before the @popassocamerica.bsky.social annual meeting). Free of charge - onsite only event.

For expressing your interest in attending and/or presenting a paper: sequenceanalysis.org/conference/

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Christian Dudel @cdudel.bsky.social · Jan 17

Sitze gerade mit einer großen deutschen Zeitung für ein Interview zur Rente und Rentenhöhe zusammen. Bereite mich innerlich schon auf absurde Beleidigungs-E-Mails vor, weil sich irgendwelche Boomer auf die Füße getreten fühlen.

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INVEST Research Flagship Centre @invest-flagship.bsky.social · Jan 15

We’re hiring!
💎 Doctoral Researcher or Project Researcher
💎 Contract-based, fixed-term positions from 1.2.2025 to 31.12.2026
💎 Deadline for applications: 28 January at 16:00 (Finnish time)

#Hiring #AcademicSky #SocioeconomicSegregation #sociology

👉 ats.talentadore.com/apply/vaitos...

Doctoral Researcher or Project Researcher

The Faculty of Social Sciences, INVEST Flagship Research Centre at at the University of Turku invites applications for contract-based, fixed term doctoral researcher or project researcher position fro...

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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · Jan 14

🚨Job Offer🚨PhD Studentship in Social Statistics with focus on Digital & Computational Demography: 3.5-year @official-uom.bsky.social doctoral studentship in Social Statistics. The studentship is jointly funded by the University of Manchester and @mpidr.bsky.social.
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61...

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ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations @cpc-cg.bsky.social · Jan 13

📢Calling all #postgraduate students - the call for papers for #PopFest25 is now open!

Join us for the annual postgraduate #population studies conference, this year taking place @unisouthampton.bsky.social, 6-8 July.

📨Find out more and submit: www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/p...

Image shows the University of Southampton campus and sights from around Southampton. Text advertises 'The British Society for Population Studies presents PopFest2025! 6-8 July, University of Southampton. Open to all PhD students. Accessible registration fee and bursaries available. Call for papers opens in now OPEN' Logos featured are BSPS, CPC, NCRM, University of Southampton, Connecting Generations and Population Geography Research Group.

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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · Jan 13

🆕📰by Henrik-A. Schubert, @cdudel.bsky.social, M.Kolobova & M.Myrskylä in @readdemography.bsky.social: #Fertility rates can increase at high levels of #HumanDevelopment. But this relationship shifted after 2010, influenced by economic recession & changing societal values. www.demogr.mpg.de/go/j-shape

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Danish Demographic Society @demografi.dk · Jan 9

👋 #AcademicSky and especially #demography
We are delighted to join bsky 🙌
Danish Demography Society was established in 1972 and was reborn in 2022 after almost a decade of inactivity 🇩🇰
This summer we are honored to host Nordic Demographic Symposium, please apply
🔗 demografi.dk/aktiviteter/...

Call for papers – Nordic Demographic Symposium 2025
Published: 2024-12-23
Updated: 2024-12-23
The symposium brings together leading population scholars and stakeholders across the Nordic countries to present cutting-edge demographic research and discuss recent trends in population development and policy. We particularly encourage the participation of producers of register data to join this important dialogue. Keynote speakers are Jennifer Dowd (Oxford University), Tomáš Sobotka (Vienna Institute of Demography), and Ulla Muller (UNFPA).
The event aims to enhance the integration of research and data into policy, support young researchers, and strengthen the demographic field across the Nordic countries.
We welcome abstracts of 250-300 words from all areas of demographic research. The deadline for submission is February 10, 2025. Notification of participation will be sent on March 1, 2025.

We look forward to your contributions and to seeing you at the 23rd Nordic Demographic Symposium.

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Angela Carollo @angelacar.bsky.social · Jan 9

TwoTimeScales is now avaiable on CRAN:
cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

🎉🥳💻

#rstats #statssky

TwoTimeScales: Analysis of Event Data with Two Time Scales

Analyse time to event data with two time scales by estimating a smooth hazard that varies over two time scales and also, if covariates are available, to estimate a proportional hazards model with such...

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Philipp Dierker @philippdierker.bsky.social · Jan 8

New paper just out in @actasociologica.bsky.social with @minekuhn.bsky.social and Mikko Myrskylä, looking at the selective nature of re-partnering among single mothers in terms of their well-being in Germany and the UK. Read the paper here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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