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Ingrid van Dijk @ingridvandijk.bsky.social · Aug 18

Seasonal variation in births at Lund Hospital. We added a pearl to August for our newborn son Arthur Ejnar.

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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · Jul 24

Campop blog #59: Some say rises in lone motherhood since c.1950 indicate breakdown of the nuclear family & call for returns to Victorian values. But 19C levels of lone parenthood & reconstituted families were similar to today's ...
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www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/07...

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, Cambridge

www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk

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Ingrid van Dijk @ingridvandijk.bsky.social · Jun 9

On the way to the Nordic Demographic Symposium 🥸 #NDS2025

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GREATLEAP COST Action @thegreatleap22116.bsky.social · May 12

📝 WORKSHOP: Writing Individual Grants on Inequalities in Health
📅 June 25 | ⏰ 14:00 – 15:30 CET | 💻 Online

Planning to apply for an individual research grant? Join our interactive workshop focused on crafting strong proposals in the field of health inequalities. 🧵⬇️

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Ingrid van Dijk @ingridvandijk.bsky.social · May 7

Apply before May 15th for the doctoral positions at the Centre for Economic Demography at Lund University with my colleagues Martin Dribe, Jeanne Cilliers or with me! These are externally funded, 4-year positions in fascinating projects. We're a highly international department in a cute small city 🌞

Ingrid van Dijk @ingridvandijk.bsky.social · Apr 1

I'm looking for 1-2 doctoral candidates in my ERC-funded project "Relative Health: Long-Run Inequalities in Health and Survival Between Families and Across Generations". These are 4-year, fully funded positions at Lund University. More info: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Doctoral student in Economic History – Inequalities in health and survival

The Department of Economic History is a research-intensive department that employs about 100 people: researchers, teachers, technical/administrative staff, and Ph.D. candidates. The department has a l

lu.varbi.com

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Ingrid van Dijk @ingridvandijk.bsky.social · Apr 29

Ahhh we can do our retirement party together! 🎈

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Ingrid van Dijk @ingridvandijk.bsky.social · Apr 29

Permanent position, they said👀

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Ingrid van Dijk @ingridvandijk.bsky.social · Apr 18

And another one in the books

Ingrid van Dijk @ingridvandijk.bsky.social · Feb 19

On the question of how many years it takes until a migrant [me] is integrated well enough to remember public holidays in a new country, and not plan any work activity on said days, the answer must be: > 6

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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · Apr 15

Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.

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Ingrid van Dijk @ingridvandijk.bsky.social · Apr 13

And, not sure who brought it up, but that US data on stillbirths is problematic because of a financial incentive to register a newborn as a live birth. There's an interesting parallel to the problems in historical data in Catholic regions (where a newborn needs to be born alive to be baptized). 👀

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Ingrid van Dijk @ingridvandijk.bsky.social · Apr 13

This was such a great session. One of the excellent comments (by @jnobles.bsky.social) I was thinking about later was that events of stillbirth & neonatal mortality should also be thought of as health events happening to the *mothers*.

Jonas Schöley @jschoeley.com · Apr 13

Packed room for our session on #perinatal-demography at #paa2025 with Payal Hathi, @alisongemmill.bsky.social, Tim Bruckner, Haley Comfort @ihmeuw.bsky.social, and @jnobles.bsky.social as inspiring discussant.

You can download their submissions here:
submissions.mirasmart.com/PAA2025/Itin...

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Ingrid van Dijk @ingridvandijk.bsky.social · Apr 13

Happy to see that journals are making sharing preprints easier 👏

SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · Apr 13

Here's an update on sociology (and some demography) journal editorial polices with regard to sharing preprints before submission and after acceptance. A big improvement from the last edition of this table. With one exception.

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Jonas Schöley @jschoeley.com · Apr 13

Packed room for our session on #perinatal-demography at #paa2025 with Payal Hathi, @alisongemmill.bsky.social, Tim Bruckner, Haley Comfort @ihmeuw.bsky.social, and @jnobles.bsky.social as inspiring discussant.

You can download their submissions here:
submissions.mirasmart.com/PAA2025/Itin...

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Ingrid van Dijk @ingridvandijk.bsky.social · Apr 9

Washington impressions (1): Pink

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Ingrid van Dijk @ingridvandijk.bsky.social · Apr 8

If you have questions about these vacancies, I'm happy to chat 😊
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Ingrid van Dijk @ingridvandijk.bsky.social · Apr 1

I'm looking for 1-2 doctoral candidates in my ERC-funded project "Relative Health: Long-Run Inequalities in Health and Survival Between Families and Across Generations". These are 4-year, fully funded positions at Lund University. More info: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Doctoral student in Economic History – Inequalities in health and survival

The Department of Economic History is a research-intensive department that employs about 100 people: researchers, teachers, technical/administrative staff, and Ph.D. candidates. The department has a l

lu.varbi.com

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Ingrid van Dijk @ingridvandijk.bsky.social · Apr 8

I'll present another poster on top survivors (maybe looking less nervous) this Saturday at 16, shared work with Niels van den Berg. Also on Saturday at 14, Isa Barraclough is presenting our paper on trends in intergenerational persistence of lifespan in Sweden 1860-2020.

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Ingrid van Dijk @ingridvandijk.bsky.social · Apr 8

Very happy to be in Washington for #PAA2025! I've only attended once before and presented a poster of what's still one of my favorite papers. Me EIGHT years ago presenting a poster and not looking nervous at all;

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Ingrid van Dijk @ingridvandijk.bsky.social · Apr 4

Bike commuting is great year-round but in april it's the best ❤️ (km1, km2, km5)

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · Apr 3

Nothing like an exhibit of iron lung machines to remind us how life was before polio vaccines

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Ingrid van Dijk @ingridvandijk.bsky.social · Apr 3

My hotel in Washington for PAA just confirmed and comically emphasized its *free* Wifi in the lobby. Wait, no wifi in my room? I'll have to bring a pile of books! 😂

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Ingrid van Dijk @ingridvandijk.bsky.social · Apr 3

Lund Population day is on May 8th

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Ingrid van Dijk @ingridvandijk.bsky.social · Apr 1

Forgot to add the link to the vacancy for a doctoral student working with Jeanne Cilliers. The topic is colonial-era investments in maternal healthcare and how these continue to shape health outcomes today: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Doctoral student in Economic History – Colonial maternal health legacies

The Department of Economic History is a research-intensive department that employs about 100 people: researchers, teachers, technical/administrative staff, and PhD. candidates. The department has a la

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Ingrid van Dijk @ingridvandijk.bsky.social · Apr 1

I can highly recommend working with Martin and Jeanne. The positions are all exciting, combining historical with contemporary registers or surveys and investigating demographic change from an innovative angle. Join us at the Centre for Economic Demography / Department of Economic History in Lund!

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Ingrid van Dijk @ingridvandijk.bsky.social · Apr 1

And finally, Jeanne Cilliers is looking for a doctoral candidate interested in health developments in Africa in her VR-funded project "Birthing Inequity: Legacies of Colonial Maternal Health and Child Welfare Services in Africa".

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Ingrid van Dijk @ingridvandijk.bsky.social · Apr 1

My colleague Martin Dribe is looking for a doctoral candidate interested in demographic inequality in his Wallenberg Scholar project ‘Unequal Lives: Socioeconomic Stratification, Life-Course, and Demography from Preindustrial Society to the Welfare State’. lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Doctoral student in Economic History – Demographic Inequality

The Department of Economic History is a research-intensive department that employs about 100 people: researchers, teachers, technical/administrative staff, and Ph.D. candidates. The department has a l

lu.varbi.com

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