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CSN-RÉC @csnrec.bsky.social · 7d

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TENURE-TRACK ASSISTANT PROFESSOR POSITION IN HEALTH AND THE LIFE COURSE OR WORK AND THE ECONOMY

Department of Sociology, Western University

csn-rec.ca/job-postings...

@westernu.ca #cdnsoci

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 6d

Very excited to announce that @srhayford.bsky.social, @lesja.bsky.social, and I will be guest-editing a special volume of @prpr-journal.bsky.social on "Contemporary Pronatalism in Demographic Context"! Submissions due March 1, 2026. link.springer.com/collections/...

Contemporary Pronatalism in Demographic Context
Participating journal: Population Research and Policy Review

Call for Papers

Low and declining birth rates across the world have consequences for countries’ population size and structure. Concerns over the potential economic effects of population aging have spurred many countries to engage in efforts to raise birth rates. At the same time, there is growing concern about the social and cultural causes and consequences of low birth rates. Pronatalism – an ideology based on the belief that birth rates are too low, and societies should work to raise them in the interest of economic productivity and cultural preservation – has re-emerged as an increasingly visible and powerful force across different settings. The dynamics of low fertility – such as fertility decline, postponement, and changing patterns of family formation – have been common topics in population science over the last 25 years, but pronatalism has received considerably less attention from the field.

This Special Issue will provide an opportunity for population scientists to contribute to the conversations about pronatalism throughout the world. We welcome critical, theoretical, descriptive, and empirical submissions that explicitly focus on some aspect of pronatalism. Further research is needed on the evidentiary base upon which pronatalism rests; the social, political, and cultural inspirations and implications of pronatalism; and the support for, and effects of, pronatalist policies. Evaluation of alternative approaches (besides raising birth rates) for addressing changes in population size and composition is also warranted. Submissions that discuss the causes and consequences of low fertility but do not directly engage with pronatalism fall outside of the scope of this issue.

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Peter Catron @petercatron.bsky.social · 6d

New working paper. Comments always welcome osf.io/preprints/so...

OSF

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Jennifer Hook @jenlhook.bsky.social · 7d

There's still time to join us in Montreal for the 2026 @wfrn.bsky.social conference - the deadline is extended until October 15!

Jennifer Hook @jenlhook.bsky.social · Jun 30

The call for @wfrn.bsky.social papers is open! Join us in lovely Montreal June 17-20. The 2026 theme is Centering Care across the Life Course. Preconferences for Early Career Fellows and Predocs, plus plenty of social activities.

Submit by Oct 1. All the info here: wfrn.org/2026-work-an...

2026 Work and Family Researchers Network Conference - Work and Family Researchers Network

ABOUT THE EVENT Work and Family Researchers Network next conference will be June 17-20, 2026 at Concordia University in Montreal Canada. The WFRN will host preconference events on June 17, including ...

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Patrick Heuveline @patrickhvl.bsky.social · 7d

Right, got it

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Patrick Heuveline @patrickhvl.bsky.social · 7d

Pronatalism is fascism?

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Rene Almeling @ralmeling.bsky.social · 8d

Yale Sociology is hiring an associate or full professor in quantitative sociology. Come work with me! Applications open tomorrow. Details available here:

apply.interfolio.com/174709

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Robert Chung @rchung.bsky.social · 14d

Formal demographers encouraged to apply.
facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Social Sciences (Environmental Behavioral Sciences)

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Patrick Heuveline @patrickhvl.bsky.social · 22d

"The probability of first birth within marriage has become increasingly similar across social classes, while cohabiting and single parenthood have become more strongly stratified," finds
@aledinal.bsky.social in new DR article

Demographic Research @demresjournal.bsky.social · 29d

When do people become parents—and in what unions? @aledinal.bsky.social studies the risks of first parenthood (15–50) by union status and parental class across cohorts. Read more: www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

#FamilyFormation #ReproducibleResearch

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Hampton Gaddy @hggaddy.bsky.social · Aug 27

📢 Interested in excess mortality methods, and want a challenge? I'm organising the "One Epidemic, Many Estimates" (1EME) project! Register *now* as a many analyst team (submissions due 15 March 2026), and then join us at LSE for a workshop on 21-22 May 2026! (1/n)

www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-His...

One Epidemic, Many Estimates (1EME)

www.lse.ac.uk

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Patrick Heuveline @patrickhvl.bsky.social · 23d

New paper by @vegardskirbekk.bsky.social & Spoorenberg shows that "accounting for mortality through metrics like the 2-Sex Net Reproductive Rate (2SNRR) [could] change our understanding of fertility transitions globally" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Bringing mortality back into our understanding of fertility change: revisiting the onset of fertility transitions using net reproduction measures - Journal of Population Research

This paper argues for the reintegration of mortality into studies of fertility transition by using net reproduction measures rather than solely focusing on total fertility rates (TFR). Accounting for ...

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Adrian Raftery @adrianraftery.bsky.social · 26d

Our paper, “Optimal pandemic control strategies …” bmcglobalpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... w @nickirons.bsky.social, just published.Takeaway: U.S. COVID-19 school closures were not cost-effective, but other measures were. medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09...

Optimal pandemic control strategies and cost-effectiveness of COVID-19 non-pharmaceutical interventions in the United States - BMC Global and Public Health

Background Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) in response to the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated a trade-off between the health impacts of viral spread and the social and economic costs of restric...

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Patrick Heuveline @patrickhvl.bsky.social · Sep 6

"Women with children increased their [desired family size] in response to growing COVID-19 mortality" in Pernambuco, Brazil, find @leticiamarteleto.bsky.social & Kumar in: read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

Dynamic Family Size Preferences During the COVID-19 Mortality Crisis: A Research Note | Demography | Duke University Press

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DEMO LLN 🇧🇪 @demographielln.bsky.social · Sep 5

📊Next Thursday, our colleague @phbocquier.bsky.social will present a #IneqKill paper, "Identifying small-area diffusion of #mortality transitions using non-linear modelling in 19th-century Belgium" for the Formal Demography Working Group.

Register here: formaldemography.github.io/working_group/

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Patrick Heuveline @patrickhvl.bsky.social · Sep 4

Congratulations!

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Patrick Heuveline @patrickhvl.bsky.social · Sep 4

"Sociology recognizes social relationships are fundamental to the structure and organization of society, yet the discipline has shown limited interest in the dissolution of social ties through death," top-notch, agenda-setting read by E. Smith-Greenaway, A. Verdury & D. Carr:
doi.org/10.1146/annu...

The New Sociology of Bereavement | Annual Reviews

Bereavement—the loss of a loved one through death—is a common and consequential life course experience. Although bereavement, and the topic of death and dying more broadly, has remained on the margins...

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European Association for Population Studies @eaps.bsky.social · Sep 4

📢 Call for submissions for European Population Conference 2026 (3–6 June, Bologna) is open! Organized by EAPS & University of Bologna.

💡 More information: www.eaps.nl/epc/european...

EAPS.nl | European Population Conference 2026

EAPS.nl

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Patrick Heuveline @patrickhvl.bsky.social · Sep 3

Following major European pandemics and wars of the 19th and 20th centuries, "recovery times across events averaged approximately seven years and showed no significant statistical differences by event type or sex," find Silva & Aburto in new article:
doi.org/10.1007/s426...

Life Expectancy Loss and Recovery by Age and Sex Following Catastrophic Events in Europe during the 19th and 20th Centuries - Canadian Studies in Population

Canadian Studies in Population - Following catastrophic events such as pandemics or wars, a systematic loss in life expectancy at birth ( $$\:{e}_{0}$$ ) can be observed. This study aims to...

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Patrick Heuveline @patrickhvl.bsky.social · Sep 3

"Cohabitation remains a liminal space between singlehood and marriage for the NLSY97 cohort" find Huang & Kelley in new article:
doi.org/10.4054/DemR...

Demographic Research - Where do we go from here? Partnership-parenthood trajectories of cohabitation as first union during young adulthood in the United States (Volume 53 - Article 9 | Pages 245–260)

Volume 53 - Article 9 | Pages 245–260

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Patrick Heuveline @patrickhvl.bsky.social · May 17

If ithe author doing the study seems implausible, shouldn't it be a plausible cause for desk rejection? In a perfect world, we should and could have blind reviews after scrutiny from Editors. In reality, Editors are swamped, uncompensated, etc.

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Patrick Heuveline @patrickhvl.bsky.social · May 14

"Oaxaca-Blinder meets Kitagawa" is something I've been thinking of writing about for a while, but even better to read it from one of the original characters:
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Oaxaca-Blinder meets Kitagawa: What is the link?

Recently, papers have started combining the naming of two popular decomposition methods: the Oaxaca-Blinder (OB) method and the Kitagawa method, a popular method in demographics and sociology. Althoug...

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Patrick Heuveline @patrickhvl.bsky.social · May 8

Confirmation rather than a surprise. Based on work by Jha et al (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) & by Guilmoto (www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...) suggesting a 6 or 7 to 1 ratio of excess to reported deaths, my estimates were about 1.0M in 2000 & 2.3M in 2001: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

<em>Population and Development Review</em> | Population Council Journal | Wiley Online Library

Timely, high-quality mortality data have allowed for assessments of the impact of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on life expectancies in upper-middle- and high-income countries. Extant...

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California Center For Population Research @ccpratucla.bsky.social · May 7

Janet Currie, Princeton University, “Investing in Children to Address the Child Mental Health Crisis” CCPR Seminar today at 12:00pm!
#CCPR #JanetCurrie #UCLA @UCLA #CCPRWednesdays #UCLAEvent #CampusEvents #Seminar

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Patrick Heuveline @patrickhvl.bsky.social · May 4

🤣
Or morality declines?

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Patrick Heuveline @patrickhvl.bsky.social · May 4

Same here, from their profiles, seems like some algorithm confused demography and democracy 🤣

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