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Antonino Polizzi @polizzan.bsky.social · 1d

✍️ Just out: Annette Baudisch & I delve into the formal demography of fertility, birth, & reproduction timing. 👶 We use methods from mortality research to summarize when in the parental life course children are born. 📆 1/n
doi.org/10.1080/0032...
@sdu.dk @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social

Fertility, birth, reproduction: Connecting formal demographic frameworks

The conventional framework of fertility research conceptualizes childbirth from the mother’s perspective. From her perspective, birth is an uncertain and potentially recurring event. In contrast, t...

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Devikrishna N B (She/Her) @devikrishna.bsky.social · 6d

Congratulations 🎊

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Devikrishna N B (She/Her) @devikrishna.bsky.social · 11d

Not sure if this applies exactly, but European Human Behavior and Evolution Association (EHBEA) has a small grant to support workshop/events that falls under their domain. Worth checking out

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EHBEA @ehbea.bsky.social · Aug 15

We are happy to announce our brand new YoutTube channel 🥳

We start with the plenary talk of Petr Tureček as the New Investigator Award winner in @ehbea2025.bsky.social 🎤🤓

“Error, inspiration, and the dynamics of variance in cultural transmission” 👀

youtu.be/wafXoULA3B0?...

Petr Turecek - EHBEA 2025

YouTube video by European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · Aug 9

"It is now possible to compute the mean and variance of the projected Lifetime Kin Overlap with any type of kin, in one-sex or two-sex models based on age or combinations of age and stage."

www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

Demographic Research - The formal demography of kinship VII: Lifetime kin overlap within and across generations (Volume 53 - Article 5 | Pages 123–174)

Volume 53 - Article 5 | Pages 123–174

www.demographic-research.org

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Devikrishna N B (She/Her) @devikrishna.bsky.social · Aug 8

Congratulation Professor Lala ! The article looks promising! Unfortunately, I don't have access - would you be able to share a PDF ?

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FLUX @flux-consortium.bsky.social · Aug 6

📊 Are you interested in fertility trends in different countries? Try FLUX's new web application!

🔍 The application uses high-quality demographic data and automatically updates with the latest available information.

#demography #fertility

fluxconsortium.fi/news/new-web...

New Web Application Launch: Explore Fertility Trends Across Countries from 1891 to 2023 - Flux Consortium

We are excited to announce the release of our new interactive web application, “Fertility Statistics Visualization Tool (1891–2023)”, now available...

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Heini Väisänen @heinivaisanen.bsky.social · Aug 6

We are looking for a postdoc to work for the @soc-misc.bsky.social project. The post is based at the University of At Andrews in Scotland and focuses on analysing administrative and census data on #miscarriage. Let me or Katy Keenan know if you have any questions. More info below 👇

SOC-MISC @soc-misc.bsky.social · Aug 5

🔎 The University of St Andrews research team led by Katherine Keenan and partner in the SOC-MISC project is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to work on analysing Scottish public data on miscarriages.

More information in the link below :
👉 www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

Post-doctoral Research Fellow – AR3162

Post-doctoral Research Fellow – AR3162, School of Geography and Sustainable Development, Salary: £38,249 - £45,413 per annum, Start: Earliest December 2025 (to be confirmed), Fixed term for 18 mont...

www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk

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Population Europe @populationeu.bsky.social · Aug 5

Proud to announce this year's European Demographer Awards!

They go to Julia Hellstrand @juliahellstrand.bsky.social ‬ (Helsinki), Cosmo Strozza @cosmostrozza.bsky.social (Odense) and Éva Beaujouan @fertdem.bsky.social (Vienna).

More: population-europe.eu/network/news...

Congratulations!

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Devikrishna N B (She/Her) @devikrishna.bsky.social · Aug 5

Congratulations 🎊

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Jonas Schöley @jschoeley.com · Aug 4

Average mortality rates are a horrible measure of typical mortality during the first weeks of life. On the day of birth modal mortality is 189 times lower than average mortality. Read more in my recent piece on selection in neonatal mortality.

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David P. Schmitt, Ph.D. @psychoschmitt.bsky.social · Aug 5

In Memoriam: Dr. Jane Lancaster, Pioneer in Human Evolutionary Sciences (1935-2025)
anthropology.unm.edu/news-events/...

In Memoriam: Dr. Jane Lancaster, Pioneer in Human Evolutionary Sciences (1935-2025) :: Anthropology | The University of New Mexico

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Devikrishna N B (She/Her) @devikrishna.bsky.social · Jul 18

It's not everyday that you get to meet a legend !

Privileged to have met Joel E Cohen at #ipc2025 !!

@rahulmondal.bsky.social

#ipc2025
#iussp

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Devikrishna N B (She/Her) @devikrishna.bsky.social · Jul 13

An amazing start to #ipc2025

Had a wonderful pre-conference workshop on agent-based modelling in family planning using FPsim !

Thank you, Michelle and team

#Brisbane
#fpsim
#idm

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Devikrishna N B (She/Her) @devikrishna.bsky.social · Jul 8

Marking my calendar !

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Devikrishna N B (She/Her) @devikrishna.bsky.social · Jul 8

#ipc2025 is around the corner.
Tasks I'm yet to finish :

1. Packing
2. Poster making
3. Panicking

Currently : Crying in the corner 😢

Tell me I'm not alone, fellow demographers!

#demography
#Brisbane
#ipc2025 #iussp

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · Jul 2

Journalists often ask for my thoughts on the contemporary US pronatalist movement. My assessment is based on my expertise and training as a social demographer, and my own research on childbearing behaviors at the individual and aggregate levels.

Strap in, b/c I've got a lot to say. 1/

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Devikrishna N B (She/Her) @devikrishna.bsky.social · Jul 2

Looking forward to attending the workshop on Population and Kinship dynamics, and learning about SOCSIM !

#ipc2025

Devikrishna N B (She/Her) @devikrishna.bsky.social · Jun 26

Likewise, Adile !

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · Jun 25

New @iussp.bsky.social panel on Kinship Structures, Dynamics and Inequalities, aims to "bring together researchers from demography, sociology, public health, and related fields to advance the comparative study of kinship"

iussp.org/en/kinship-s...

Kinship Structures, Dynamics and Inequalities | International Union for the Scientific Study of Population

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Jorge Peña @jorgeapenas.bsky.social · Jun 24

Here, weird guy from X, I fixed it for you:

"If a scientific society wants to be welcoming to [...] students & researchers [from the Global South], does it make sense to hold its next annual conference in a country that's notorious for [being located in the Global South]?"

The answer is Yes.

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Devikrishna N B (She/Her) @devikrishna.bsky.social · Jun 25

Especially, the wonderful Reviewer No. 2 !

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Devikrishna N B (She/Her) @devikrishna.bsky.social · Jun 25

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Devikrishna N B (She/Her) @devikrishna.bsky.social · Jun 25

Toulouse Economics and Biology workshop was the cherry on the cake ! Had a fan-girl moment listening to THE Ronald Lee. Thank you , @iast.fr and @tse-fr.eu

PS: Had a very successful season of "Devi in Paris" as well 🙃

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Devikrishna N B (She/Her) @devikrishna.bsky.social · Jun 25

I had the most incredible opportunity to attend the Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences at @tse-fr.eu and learn from @lfitouchi.bsky.social , @cmolho.bsky.social & @jorgeapenas.bsky.social on the "Evolution of Human Sociality"
Toulouse was warm and welcoming, so was TSE !!

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