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Tamilwai J. Kolowa @tamilwhy.bsky.social · 13d

📢 Is Germany experiencing urban or suburban growth?

New paper out now: Contrasting long-standing and novel urban gradient classifications

✨ First article from my thesis, published Open Access in Applied Geography!

👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.ap...

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Jessica Nisén @jessicanisen.bsky.social · Aug 12

“High-income contexts may be less supportive of continued childbearing for women with lower levels of education.”

New publication building on efforts made together with @demomapper.bsky.social and many others.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Economic Conditions, Education and Parity‐Specific Fertility: A Sub‐National Regional Study Across 15 Countries in Europe

There is a longstanding interest in the link between economic conditions and fertility levels. Most research measuring economic development has focused on national-level patterns and period total fer...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Sebastian Kluesener @demomapper.bsky.social · Jul 16

Smoothing god Giancarlo C. giving another smooth talk on smoothing in a non-parametric setting 🤩 #IPC2025 #Brisbane

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Forschungsnetzwerk Alterssicherung (FNA) bei der DRV-Bund @fna.bsky.social · Jul 4

𝗙𝗡𝗔-𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗱𝘂𝗶𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗸𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘂𝗺 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱

2 Tage Graduiertenkolloquium mit spannenden Vorträgen, und interessanten Gästen liegen hinter uns. Die vortragenden Nachwuchswissenschaftler:innen und Stipendiat:innen präsentierten ihre Forschungsergebnisse zu Fragen rund um die Alterssicherung. 👉🏻 rb.gy/rzr9ow

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Philipp Lersch @pmlersch.bsky.social · Jun 13

We are hiring a 3-year postdoc for the ERC-funded WEALTHTRAJECT project at DIW Berlin. More details here: www.diw.de/sixcms/detai...

DIW Berlin: Researcher (f/m/x)

www.diw.de

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Sebastian Kluesener @demomapper.bsky.social · May 21

Interested in doing a PhD on social inequalities in retirement transitions? Then join our team at the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB) in Wiesbaden, Germany 😀 We offer great research conditions and a thriving research environment: www.bib.bund.de/EN/Institute...

Job Vacancies

Job Vacancies at the Federal Institute for Population Research

www.bib.bund.de

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Anna Reuter @anna-reuter.de · May 21

Wie lange erwarten wir zu leben?
In einem neuen Beitrag gehen Andreas Mergenthaler, Sebastian Klüsener (@demomapper.bsky.social) & ich dieser Frage auf den Grund.
Anhand einer Stichprobe der Bevölkerung 40 Jahre und älter (DEAS) finden wir, dass Frauen zur Unterschätzung der Lebensdauer neigen 1/4

Gender Gap bei selbst eingeschätzter Lebensdauer

Wie schätzen Menschen ihre persönlich erwartete Lebensdauer ein? Frauen und Männer unterscheiden sich in ihren Antworten – mit welchen Folgen? Mehr dazu in der neuen Ausgabe.

www.bib.bund.de

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Vienna Yearbook of Population Research (VYPR) @vypr.bsky.social · May 17

Deadline is approaching!!! Submit your contribution until May 31 for the 2026 Issue of @vypr.bsky.social 👇
@fertdem.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social @demographyvienna.bsky.social

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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · May 16

📄 Non‐Survival to Pension Age in Denmark and Sweden: A Sub‐National Investigation
#demography
🎉 this faithful companion of my last crazy years is finally published
🔗 PSP: doi.org/10.1002/psp....
🔓 preprint: doi.org/10.31219/osf...
🛠️ #rstats code: github.com/ikashnitsky/...

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Dominik Liebl @dliebl.com · May 4

Grace Wahba, "the mother of smoothing splines," won the International Prize (aka the Nobel) in Statistics #stats for her representer theorem.
youtu.be/8Ae_QzwwR_U?...

So well deserved! I guess, one could also give her the price again in two years for her work on Generalized Cross-Validation.

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Lili Vargha @lilivargha.bsky.social · Apr 3

Anomalies & data problems are found in the Hungarian EU SILC income data from around year 2017. It is very likely that the data was manipulated to decrease the poverty rate.

Annamaria Tatrai and Andras Gabos conducted a very thorough investigation of the issue: www.valaszonline.hu/2025/04/01/e...

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stefanomazzuco.bsky.social @stefanomazzuco.bsky.social · Apr 8

6 PhD scholarships at University of Padova for candidates interested in the area of Statistical Sciences- included Demography
Start of activities: November 1st, 2025
Annual grant: 18,643.00 euros (gross)
The call is published (deadline May 13, 2025 - 1 pm CEST) at www.unipd.it/en/node/1053

PhD Programmes Calls and Admissions | Università di Padova

UniPD

www.unipd.it

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Sebastian Kluesener @demomapper.bsky.social · Apr 8

Not sure whether German data allows such an analysis 🫠

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Maike Luhmann @maikeluhmann.bsky.social · Apr 8

🚨 Job alert - please share!

I'm looking for a doctoral researcher (3 years, 75%) to join my #ERC project #Loneliness across time and space (LOTIS) at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de, starting June 1 or later.

Details in thread 👇

#PsychSciSky

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Abdel Abdellaoui @dr-appie.bsky.social · Mar 28

Did you get a chance to read the thread on our new @naturehumbehav.bsky.social paper on SES yet?

If not, don't worry, I have something better for you!

Check out this comic by the amazing @lizahaart.bsky.social

Complete comic: communities.springernature.com/posts/are-we...

Or in this thread 👇🏾

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Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Oxford University @oxforddemsci.bsky.social · Mar 28

Big news! We have two new #demography vacancies open and three others on the way, stay tuned buff.ly/Bi7dyix 😎

@leverhulme.bsky.social @oxpop.bsky.social @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social @reubencollege.bsky.social @melindacmills.bsky.social

Work with us

Find out more about our new Senior Research Fellow Demographic Science and Senior Researcher in Geospatial Health and Digital Pandemic Preparedness roles.

www.demography.ox.ac.uk

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Vegard Skirbekk @vegardskirbekk.bsky.social · Mar 27

Open Postdoctoral position! - ERC Advanced Grant project HOMME

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/276000/postdoctoral-fellow

About the HOMME project www.sv.uio.no/psi/english/research/projects/homme

Postdoctoral Fellow (276000) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow (276000), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Friday, April 25, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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Ariane Ophir @arianeophir.bsky.social · Mar 25

🚨 Come research singlehood with me! I’m hiring a 3-year Postdoc w/interest in Family Demography to start this Fall. Please share!

📍 Barcelona (@cedemografia.bsky.social)
🔎 ERC-funded project 'SINGLE'
📅 Deadline – April 24, 2025
🔗 More info: shorturl.at/400eo
#Postdoc #Demography

a sign that says we 're hiring in orange on a white background

ALT: a sign that says we 're hiring in orange on a white background

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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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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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Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · Dec 15

Fascinating article by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social on the concentration of high-paying jobs in the UK. But does the graphic show that the situation is even more extreme in France and Canada? on.ft.com/3OWo5H2

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Marcel Raab @raabm.bsky.social · Nov 26

Radiating exuberant euphoria 🥳🎉🥂, I announce that our study with initial results from the #KINMATRIX survey has been published 👉 doi.org/10.1111/jomf.... KINMATRIX is a unique new source of ego-centric network data that offers unprecedented scope and detail in mapping family relations. #Demography

<em>Journal of Marriage and Family</em> | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library

Objective This study presents initial results from the KINMATRIX survey, a large-scale source of ego-centric network data offering an unprecedented level of scope and detail in mapping family relati...

doi.org

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Sebastian Kluesener @demomapper.bsky.social · Sep 12

Three more days to apply for the International Population Conference in Brisbane next July. If you work on innovative spatial research, consider to submit to our session: "Spatial demography: New data and emerging insights" 🙂

iussp.org/en/internati...

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Sebastian Kluesener @demomapper.bsky.social · Sep 12

For mothers this is possible for a number of countries (see long-term trends for France). For fathers, only few statistical offices collect information on paternal age at childbirth by parity. The longest of these time-series only go back to the early 1960s:
Norway: www.ssb.no/en/statbank/...

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Sebastian Kluesener @demomapper.bsky.social · Aug 9

Deadline extended: 3 more days to apply! At
@bib_bund we offer a ⭐️permanent senior research scientist position 🏆 to conduct research on population dynamics and its components (fertility, mortality, family change, employment, ...): bit.ly/bibpopdyn

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