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Ewa Weychert @ewaweychert.bsky.social · Jul 3

My collaboration with @lukaszbaszczak.bsky.social presented at @usociety.bsky.social conference on
Political identity and fertility!

Łukasz Baszczak @lukaszbaszczak.bsky.social · Jul 3

Together with @ewaweychert.bsky.social we show that people are more likely to have a child during periods when the ruling party is the party they support.
It hints that childbearing decisions are based on narratives of the future, including political ones.
@usociety.bsky.social 2025!

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Ewa Weychert @ewaweychert.bsky.social · Jul 2

Happy to present "LabFam Individual Biographies (LIB):open science project harmonizing family & employment histories" at
@usociety.bsky.social user conference 2025!
We build monthly spells— births, partnership & employment—to increase reproducibility in social science!
@labfam.bsky.social

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Olga Leshchenko @olgaleshchenko.bsky.social · Jul 1

My first PhD article has been published!

🔎 It examines how the relationship between flexible working time arrangements and self-reported work-to-life and life-to-work conflict is moderated by an (un)equal domestic labor distribution within heterosexual couples.

Journal of Family Research @familyresearch.bsky.social · Jun 30

#Published: "Flexible working time arrangements and work-life conflict: The role of gender and housework" by @olgaleshchenko.bsky.social & Susanne Strauß (doi.org/10.20377/jfr...). #JFR #JFamRes #openaccess #openscience #sociology #demography

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Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Oxford University @oxforddemsci.bsky.social · Jun 10

🚫 Fertility fallacies busted!
Our Director @melindacmills.bsky.social joined @lbc.co.uk to challenge myths:
1️⃣ Young ppl aren’t choosing fewer kids
2️⃣ Pronatalist policies won’t fix it
📉 Incentives ≠ long-term fertility boost
Read the full @unfpa.org report: tinyurl.com/bdd3evsr
#Policy #Demography

The fertility fallacy: Five things you didn’t know about global fertility rates

UNITED NATIONS, New York – “Do you want kids?” Every day, people around the world ask themselves, and others, this question. But it also begs another: “Do you feel able to have children

unfpa.org

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AISP @aisp-sis.bsky.social · Jun 6

Final session of #PopDays2025: presentation of the Population Report “Towards a Positive Demography”

📍Aula A — starting now!

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Ewa Weychert @ewaweychert.bsky.social · Jun 5

#popdays2025 happy networking with @olgaleshchenko.bsky.social

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Alessandro Meneghini @alemeneghini.bsky.social · Apr 4

Happy to share my last publication on Inclusive Tourism and Topic modelling and LLMs:
Meneghini, A., & Tuzzi, A. (2025). Can tourism be a mean for promoting inclusive development? A textual analysis of funded projects in Greece. Current Issues in Tourism - www.tandfonline.com/eprint/68VV2...

doi.org

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Ewa Weychert @ewaweychert.bsky.social · Jun 5

Planet vs. Parenthood?
When the future feels apocalyptic, family planning becomes a moral dilemma?
We show that more climate change news + feeling you’re not doing enough = fewer first births
#ClimateAnxiety #Fertility #UKHLS #Popdays2025
@amatysiak.bsky.social & @florenceups.bsky.social

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Jan Blonski @janblo.bsky.social · May 13

Just before I turned 30, I received the "Start Scholarship" from the Foundation for Polish Science - a recognition for scientific accomplishments before reaching this magical milestone... 🥳

www.fnp.org.pl/znamy-laurea...

Wyniki konkursu START 2025 ogłoszone - Fundacja na rzecz Nauki Polskiej

Fundacja na rzecz Nauki Polskiej ogłosiła listę stu najzdolniejszych polskich naukowców przed trzydziestką. Są to laureaci i laureatki konkursu w programie START (konkurs 2025), w którym Fundacja już od ponad 30 lat nagradza wybitnych przedstawicieli młodego pokolenia badaczy. W tym roku … Kontynuuj

www.fnp.org.pl

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Aga Kasperska @akasperska.bsky.social · Apr 12

📊 Our #PAA2025 poster on employer’s perceptions on workers taking parental leaves with @amatysiak.bsky.social, @ewa-cukrowska.bsky.social & @gaylekaufman.bsky.social
We find hiring and pay penalties for fathers taking (longer) leave and rewards for mothers taking shorter leave. @labfam.bsky.social

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · Apr 16

@heidicolleran.bsky.social starts her #ehbea2025 plenary with a manifesto to get behind: bring more demography into cultural evolution, and more ethnography into demography

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Ewa Weychert @ewaweychert.bsky.social · Apr 13

Great work!

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Magdalena Grabowska @magdalenagrabowska.bsky.social · Apr 13

Happy to share the results of our experiment on #PAA2025 with Anna Kurowska and @amatysiak.bsky.social .

For childless females, reproductive rights outweigh even job and housing stability in shaping fertility intentions ❗️

@labfam.bsky.social
#FertilityIntentions
#ReproductiveRights

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Brian Buh @brianbuh.bsky.social · Apr 3

In a new paper, @fertdem.bsky.social , @ann-berrington.bsky.social and I explore the relationship between the sense of belonging to the neighbourhood and the birth of the first child. @bspsuk.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Belonging to the neighbourhood, residential mobility, and the transition to parenthood

The sense of belonging to the current neighbourhood may play a role in the transition to parenthood by indicating a feeling of being ‘at home’ and having access to social resources. However, previo...

www.tandfonline.com

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Marco Tosi @marco16.bsky.social · Apr 12

Here my #paa poster showing kin proximity in obscure Italian provinces. Who knows how close people in Termoli lives :)) @marcoalbertini.bsky.social @florenceups.bsky.social

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Giammarco Alderotti @alderotti.bsky.social · Apr 12

It would be unforgivable to miss the largest poster of the conference—so step by the poster session happening now to say hi to @mimmilou.bsky.social and me, and chat about our work on employment uncertainty among migrants!

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UPS Florence @florenceups.bsky.social · Apr 12

Elena Pirani is at the Poster Session P08-Family demography presenting her work “Caregivers' mental health: gender and age differences” w/ Cunsolo & Tocchioni.
#PAA25

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UPS Florence @florenceups.bsky.social · Apr 12

Waiting for you to come at the next poster session (P07) to see Carlos’ poster about educational inequality in the World!
@karlosj89.bsky.social @paolobrunori.bsky.social @mtriventi.bsky.social

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Giammarco Alderotti @alderotti.bsky.social · Oct 8

A large part (25-40%) of the effect of employment uncertainty on transition to parenthood is mediated by union formation - at least in Italy.
Check our new study (w/ De Rose & Tocchioni @florenceups.bsky.social) just published on the Journal of Population Research!
🔗 tinyurl.com/37wd5d4b

Employment uncertainty and parenthood: quantifying the mediating role of union formation - Journal of Population Research

This study aims to quantify the extent to which union formation mediates the relationship between employment uncertainty and the transition to parenthood, taking Italy as a case study. Research on the...

tinyurl.com

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Dr Mary @maryabedalahad.bsky.social · Mar 17

An outreach exhibition with Drs Jennifer Rao and Laura Maclean as part of SAGES network at Dynamic Earth Schools science event on how to design facilities around a hospital to cater for patient's needs using the Design Hopes Mosiac game.
@phrg-standrews.bsky.social
@cpc-cg.bsky.social

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MigrantLife @migrantlife.bsky.social · Apr 11

@maryabedalahad.bsky.social is presenting #homeownership #marriage & #childbirth & what comes first for #immigrants & #descendants in #Sweden #PAA2025

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Ewa Weychert @ewaweychert.bsky.social · Apr 12

Our poster at #PAA2025 on Climate Change Narratives and Fertility in the UK with Daniele Vignoli, @amatysiak.bsky.social & @florenceups.bsky.social
We found people who care about the climate are less likely to have a first child when exposed to more climate news
#ClimateChange #Fertility

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UPS Florence @florenceups.bsky.social · Apr 11

Poster session 04 at #PAA2025: there’s our poster about Climate change narratives and fertility in the UK - by Ewa Weychert, Vignoli & @amatysiak.bsky.social
@labfam.bsky.social

Come and say hi! 👋

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