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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · Sep 4

🎉🎊A week full of celebrations
✨Two ERC Starting Grants for the MPIDR✨
We are thrilled to announce that @marilianep.bsky.social and @ugobas.bsky.social have each been awarded with an ERC Starting Grant by the @erc.europa.eu. #ERCStG
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...
#ERCStartingGrant #longevity

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Signe Svallfors @signesvallfors.bsky.social · Sep 4

📣 Job alert! 📣 2 fully funded PhD positions in sociology/demography in the ERC Starting Grant SeRO, which studies the impact of local violent crime on sexual and reproductive health in Mexico. Please share and apply!
PhD post 1: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
PhD post 2: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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Ewa Batyra @ewabatyra.bsky.social · Aug 25

I am looking for a postdoc to join my ERC StG project DIVREP to work on global, quantitative analyses of fertility and reproductive behaviour. The post is based in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford. Let me know if you have any questions. More details below👇

Sociology at Oxford @sociologyoxford.bsky.social · Aug 20

🚨 New Job Alert! 🚨

Join Dr @ewabatyra.bsky.social as a Postdoc Researcher in Demography!

Contribute to a global study on disparities in reproductive behaviour, focusing on childbearing age & fertility levels 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦

Apply now 👉 www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/event/postdo...

We're hiring: Postdoctoral Researcher in Demography, deadline: 30 September 2025

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Aug 11

“If I live to 80, what percentage of my life will I have spent as someone’s sister? What percentage as no one’s sister?”

Liz Krieger on the “grief math” that’s preoccupied her ever since her brother’s death: https://theatln.tc/5jIeBQIz

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Sergi Vidal @svidal.bsky.social · Jul 16

Great presentations by A Colasurdo, N Panichella and J Wu at Session 96, "Internal Migration as a Life Course Trajectory", organized by the IUSSP Panel on Lifetime Migration at #IPC2025.

Papers from this session—and others—will appear in a Special Issue of Comparative Population Studies in 2026.

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Diego Alburez @demography.bsky.social · Jul 11

Interesting! Though I think there's a mistake in the labels of Fig 1 as 'Native (male) - immigrant (male)' should be 'Native (female) - immigrant (male)'.

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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · Jul 2

🆕📰Rapid Demographic Changes Reshape Family Structures: Accelerated demographic change is creating significant differences in the number of relatives between peers of similar ages shows a study by @shajiang.bsky.social et al. in @readdemography.bsky.social. www.demogr.mpg.de/go/rapidchange

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Diego Alburez @demography.bsky.social · Jul 3

I was happy to speak to @faith-hill.bsky.social about the rise of great-grandparenthood in the US and elsewhere. Check out her piece, which is delightful as always 👇

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Jul 3

Even with people having children later, more families now include great-grandparents. It’s beautiful—but it also presents a new caretaking challenge, @faith-hill.bsky.social‬ writes: https://theatln.tc/I5uOd3RN

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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · Jul 2

Today's the 2nd day of our symposium "Demographic & Health Consequences of Violence & Armed Conflict" where international scholars present research on the impact of armed conflict & violence on mortality, migration, fertility, the environment, & population health.
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · Jun 25

🔦[SPOTLIGHT] Should you Claim Your #Pension Early or Wait? Retiring later increases the monthly pension amount in the US. @shajiang.bsky.social et al. have investigated whether this is optimal, given the uncertainties surrounding #LifeSpan. What they found:
www.demogr.mpg.de/go/USApension

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Diego Alburez @demography.bsky.social · Jun 13

Congrats, @shajiang.bsky.social and colleagues for this important contribution to the study of kinship in demography! Tl;dr: The speed at which birth and death rates change in a population affects the degree to which individuals have living kin (and how old these relatives are).

Demography - the flagship journal of PAA @readdemography.bsky.social · Jun 12

In “Changing Demographic Rates Reshape Kinship Networks,” @shajiang.bsky.social W Zuo, Z Guo & S Tuljapurkar “explore how demographic transition, especially the speed of transition, affects the number & age of kin” & kin networks. @stanford.edu @mpidr.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

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Diego Alburez @demography.bsky.social · Jun 4

Some good news to brighten up your feed: Our #R package 📦 DemoKin for the demographic analysis of kinship has a new website with extensive documentation and literature 🎉🎈 @mpidr.bsky.social If you don't know it yet, why not check it out? ivanwilli.github.io/DemoKin/inde...

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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · May 26

👓Recommended Reading📚Estimating Kinship Size of Older Adults in Europe With Models and Surveys
In a paper recently published in @readdemography.bsky.social, @demography.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social and his colleagues, @maikevd.bsky.social and @afcastr0t.bsky.social (CED), compared ... 🧵1/5

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Demographic Research @demresjournal.bsky.social · May 21

Ghanaian data shows weak support for the nuclear convergence hypothesis. Urbanisation hasn't led to the dominance of nuclear families—extended types persist.
www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

@josephineabaafi.bsky.social @rebeccasear.bsky.social @anushe.bsky.social

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Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Oxford University @oxforddemsci.bsky.social · May 20

1/ A huge congrats to Dr. Antonino Polizzi @polizzan.bsky.social, who passed his DPhil viva for his thesis “The Causes and the Consequences of Growing Life Expectancy Shortfalls” on Friday, examined by Prof. @ridhikashyap.bsky.social & Dr. Iñaki Permanyer. @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social #demography

Student in front of tower at Nuffield College

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Demographic Research @demresjournal.bsky.social · May 7

How do demographic trends shape kinship networks? This replication study compares Swedish & Dutch kinship networks, showing how fertility patterns & divorce rates impact family ties across generations. #Replication #Kinship #POPNET. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol... @bokanyie.bsky.social

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Jenn Dowd @drjenndowd.bsky.social · Apr 21

*JOB OPENING*: Researcher in Reproductive #Demography

Dr. Josh Wilde is recruiting a Post-doc to join his ERC-funded SEXRATIO project at @oxforddemsci.bsky.social, focused on links b/t maternal stress & sex-biased conception & fetal loss. Deadline May 9 (noon UK time).
www.demography.ox.ac.uk/jobs

Work with us

www.demography.ox.ac.uk

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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · Apr 30

With a little delay we learned that @lpcalderonb.bsky.social, who could not attend #PAA2025, won a Best Poster Award! Her colleagues put up the poster and a note from Liliana and co-author @martinkolk.bsky.social jumped in to present the research. Congrats Liliana! @popassocamerica.bsky.social

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Diego Alburez @demography.bsky.social · Apr 25

Thanks for the suggestion! This didn't work, but the plot did render fine in another computer, so I guess it's something to do my my local config :/ I'll keep investigating..

Diego Alburez @demography.bsky.social · Apr 24

Starting with #rayshader and I love it but find it frustrating that the first column of data consistently appears washed out or overly bright 🫠 Any advice on how to fill this edge with the column's colour (see below)? @tylermorganwall.bsky.social..? Full question: stackoverflow.com/questions/79...

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Diego Alburez @demography.bsky.social · Apr 12

Congrats, Elena 👏🏽 the project looks amazing!

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Demographic Research @demresjournal.bsky.social · Apr 10

In historical and conflict demography, it is common to estimate a large death toll as the discontinuity between two observed or projected population estimates. @hggaddy.bsky.social and @thegargiulian.bsky.social show why this method creates important problems for demographic and econometric work.

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Adrian Raftery @adrianraftery.bsky.social · Apr 3

Our short course on Subnational Probabilistic Population Projections at PAA 2025 (description attached) will now be hybrid. To ask to join remotely, email [email protected] from your professional email by April 7 with subject “Join PAA workshop”, saying why you want to.

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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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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · Mar 25

In Rostock today to talk about how academia is facilitating the resurgence of eugenic ideology 👇

Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · Mar 10

💻Join online! 🎧
Süßmilch Lecture @mpidr.bsky.social
Eugenics, demography and academia: an ongoing relationship
🗣️ @rebeccasear.bsky.social, @brunelcce.bsky.social & @ehbea.bsky.social
📅March 25, 2025
🕒3 pm CET
✏️Sign up now:
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