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DEMO LLN 🇧🇪 @demographielln.bsky.social · 6h

The #HMDsymposium2025 is starting tomorrow!
On Friday, our colleague @brunomasquelier.bsky.social will present his joint work with Ashira Menashe-Oren on #mortality inequalitities worldwide.
Info & program: www.mortality.org/Research/Eve...

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DEMO LLN 🇧🇪 @demographielln.bsky.social · 1d

Join us next week for another #LunchSeminar!

We welcome Tania Moutai, who will give a presentation on the mobility of immigrants (and their descendants) to their country of origin, based on TeO2 data in France.

📆14/10 at 1pm
🖥️Join online: us02web.zoom.us/j/87199604242

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DEMO LLN 🇧🇪 @demographielln.bsky.social · 5d

🚨New Tenure Position!
We're looking for a new colleague to join our dynamic team in Belgium.

Innovative quantitative methods | Health & environment | Population dynamics

Read job description here: jobs.uclouvain.be/PersonnelAca...
Application Deadline: Nov 11, 2025
#job #tenure

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Mireille Le Guen @mireilleleguen.bsky.social · 13d

Très heureuse de voir (enfin) publié le numéro spécial de Sociétés contemporaines sur les enjeux normatifs de la promotion de la contraception que j’ai co-coordonné avec Leslie Fonquerne et Aurore Koechlin !
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Sociétés contemporaines 2024/2-3 (n° 134-135)

Enjeux normatifs de la promotion de la contraception

shs.cairn.info

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Philippe Bocquier @phbocquier.bsky.social · 13d

NOUVEAU POSTE PROF /
NEW TENURE POSITION @demographielln.bsky.social

jobs.uclouvain.be/PersonnelAca...

jobs.uclouvain.be

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Ageing Sociology Vienna @ageingsocvienna.bsky.social · 16d

Full foom @ifswien.bsky.social for the presentation of our research fellow @damianouccheddu.bsky.social

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DEMO LLN 🇧🇪 @demographielln.bsky.social · 16d

The next #LunchSeminar is happening tomorrow!

Ashira Menashe-Oren will present her work on #mortality in 🇲🇼Malawi. Using mobile phone surveys, she examined the effect of cyclone Freddy in 2023.
📆23/09 at 1pm
🖥️Join online: us02web.zoom.us/j/87199604242

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Philippe Bocquier @phbocquier.bsky.social · 18d

Every year since 1974 @demographielln.bsky.social organizes an international conference Quetelet Seminar @uclouvain.bsky.social as a tribute to Adolphe.
www.uclouvain.be/en/research-...

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DEMO LLN 🇧🇪 @demographielln.bsky.social · 19d

"findings suggest that childlessness is less about economic disadvantage and more about the cumulative sequencing and timing of transitions into independent adulthood and family formation."
Read more: sciety-labs.elifesciences.org/articles/by?...

Mapping Early Mid-Life Trajectories and Ultimate Childlessness: A Multichannel Sequence Analysis in Finland and Belgium

BACKGROUNDThe transition to adulthood has become increasingly diverse, with delays in residential independence, changing partnerships, and economic uncertainty contributing to varied life course traje...

sciety-labs.elifesciences.org

DEMO LLN 🇧🇪 @demographielln.bsky.social · 19d

📢New publication alert from our colleague, Alice Rees @ayrees.bsky.social, & Marika Jalovaara
In Finland & Belgium, they identify early mid-life trajectories of partnership, income, and residential independence, & how they are associated with #childlessness

Mapping Early Mid-Life Trajectories and Ultimate Childlessness: A Multichannel Sequence Analysis in Finland and Belgium

BACKGROUNDThe transition to adulthood has become increasingly diverse, with delays in residential independence, changing partnerships, and economic uncertainty contributing to varied life course traje...

sciety-labs.elifesciences.org

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DEMO LLN 🇧🇪 @demographielln.bsky.social · 20d

A quick word from Didier about his work:
"I am passionate about research on population and health, which I have been working on for many years. #Demography is a crossroads science that allows me to engage with other fields."

Follow us to get updates about his work and meet other DEMO members!

DEMO LLN 🇧🇪 @demographielln.bsky.social · 20d

His most recent results show that sexual violence is strongly associated with the unmet need for family planning among women in union in the DRC. Reproductive coercion is one of the mechanisms linking domestic violence to reproductive outcomes.

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DEMO LLN 🇧🇪 @demographielln.bsky.social · 20d

For his thesis, he works on the dynamics of domestic violence, the deprivation of #reproductive autonomy, and their implications for reproductive health in 🇨🇩DRC and 🇨🇮Côte d'Ivoire.

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DEMO LLN 🇧🇪 @demographielln.bsky.social · 20d

It's time for a 🆕#MeetDEMOmembers thread!

Today, meet Didier Ndombe Mbombo.

Didier has extensive experience in research projects in community & public health assessment. He is currently pursuing a PhD at DEMO.

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DEMO LLN 🇧🇪 @demographielln.bsky.social · 22d

If you missed @phbocquier.bsky.social's presentation at the Formal Demography working group last week, you can now watch the recording! ⏬

Monica Alexander @monjalexander.bsky.social · 26d

A really great presentation from @phbocquier.bsky.social yesterday! The recording is up for those interested: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C_R...

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DEMO LLN 🇧🇪 @demographielln.bsky.social · 23d

📆16/09 at 1pm
🖥️Join online: us02web.zoom.us/j/87199604242

DEMO LLN 🇧🇪 @demographielln.bsky.social · 23d

The next #LunchSeminar is tomorrow!
We'll have 2 presentations:
- Bruno Lankoandé will talk about forced displacement & under-five #mortality in Burkina Faso
- Fabrice Yameogo will speak about the use of synthetic populations & present an innovative #method to spatialize synthetic populations.

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DEMO LLN 🇧🇪 @demographielln.bsky.social · 23d

Our colleague Alice Rees (@ayrees.bsky.social) is attending the BIOSFER conference this week.

She’ll present her joint work with Marika Jalovaara on ultimate #childlessness, through a comparison between 🇧🇪Belgium and 🇫🇮Finland.

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Institut für Soziologie, Universität Wien @ifswien.bsky.social · 29d

👋 We are happy to welcome Tabitha Scott and Damiano Uccheddu as research fellows at Assoc. Prof. Valeria Bordone's team @ageingsocvienna.bsky.social !
Read more about them ➡️ www.soz.univie.ac.at/en/detail-ne...
@valeriabordone.bsky.social
@damianouccheddu.bsky.social
#sociology @univie.ac.at

Incoming Research Fellows: Tabitha Scott and Damiano Uccheddu

We are delighted to welcome Tabitha Scott and Damiano Uccheddu as visiting scholars at Team Bordone!

www.soz.univie.ac.at

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DEMO LLN 🇧🇪 @demographielln.bsky.social · 29d

⚠️ Today's LunchSeminar is postponed to September 16th ⚠️

DEMO LLN 🇧🇪 @demographielln.bsky.social · Sep 8

Our next #LunchSeminar is tomorrow!
Bruno Lankoandé will present his work on forced #displacement and under-5 #mortality in Burkina Faso.

📆09/09 at 1pm
🖥️Join online: us02web.zoom.us/j/87199604242

DEMO LLN 🇧🇪 @demographielln.bsky.social · 29d

This week, some of our colleagues are also attending the 1st international conference of the Sustainable Ageing #EAPS working group in Padua.

🩺On Sept 11, Hequn Wang will present her joint work with Ester Rizzi on unmet #healthcare needs in older ages during and after Covid-19

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DEMO LLN 🇧🇪 @demographielln.bsky.social · Sep 8

🇮🇹 This week, some DEMO Members will be in Bologna for the 6th Conference Of The European Society Of Historical Demography #ESHD2025

⏬Here is a summary of their participation. Do not hesitate to join their promising sessions if you are also attending the conference!

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DEMO LLN 🇧🇪 @demographielln.bsky.social · Sep 8

Our next #LunchSeminar is tomorrow!
Bruno Lankoandé will present his work on forced #displacement and under-5 #mortality in Burkina Faso.

📆09/09 at 1pm
🖥️Join online: us02web.zoom.us/j/87199604242

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DEMO LLN 🇧🇪 @demographielln.bsky.social · Sep 5

📊Next Thursday, our colleague @phbocquier.bsky.social will present a #IneqKill paper, "Identifying small-area diffusion of #mortality transitions using non-linear modelling in 19th-century Belgium" for the Formal Demography Working Group.

Register here: formaldemography.github.io/working_group/

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European Association for Population Studies @eaps.bsky.social · Sep 4

📢 Call for submissions for European Population Conference 2026 (3–6 June, Bologna) is open! Organized by EAPS & University of Bologna.

💡 More information: www.eaps.nl/epc/european...

EAPS.nl | European Population Conference 2026

EAPS.nl

www.eaps.nl

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