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Population Research Centre Groningen @popresgroningen.bsky.social · 2d

📚💡 Our colleague Rolando Gonzales Martinez just published ULTRA: a dive into dystopian AI nightmares and utopian dreams. While different from our population research focus, it raises questions about intelligence, technology, and what it means to be human.

👉 books.ugp.rug.nl/ugp/catalog/...

Ultra: Dystopian Nightmares and Utopian Dreams of Artificial Intelligence | University of Groningen Press

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Population Research Centre Groningen @popresgroningen.bsky.social · 7d

Last Monday, we welcomed #censusmanagement expert Bart de Bruijn! He gave a very interesting guest lecture on his experience in advising dozens of countries from the #GlobalSouth in the best way to organise their censuses🌍📖

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Population Research Centre Groningen @popresgroningen.bsky.social · 9d

Our Master Population Studies students visited the Municipality of Groningen's research department (OIS) as part of the course Demographic Data and Analysis 🌍📊 They learned how research informs policy through surveys, panel studies, CBS microdata, and PowerBI dashboards. Thank you OIS!

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Population Research Centre Groningen @popresgroningen.bsky.social · 22d

✨Gezocht:✨ Onderzoeksmedewerker (0,3 fte) bij de @frw-rug.bsky.social ! Werk mee aan het project 'Een thuis voor Home & Place Making: methodiek & trainingen implementeren voor mensen met niet-aangeboren hersenletsel'.

📅 Solliciteren kan tot 28 sept.

Meer info & eisen 👉 www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

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Population Research Centre Groningen @popresgroningen.bsky.social · 23d

Last week, our colleague @billiedehaas.bsky.social joined the talk “Wil ik een kind?” at Forum Groningen. She shared her insights on what shapes couples' choices about having kids today. Really interesting discussion on personal decisions, power dynamics, and societal trends!

Photo by: Ykka de Jong

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Faculteit Ruimtelijke Wetenschappen | Spatial Sciences @frw-rug.bsky.social · 28d

Vanavond in het Forum in Groningen: Wil ik een kind? Waar onder andere Billie de Haas de normen en aannames rondom een kinderwens onder de loep neemt
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Wil ik een kind?

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University of Groningen | Rijksuniversiteit Groningen @rug.nl · 28d

Join us for the European Researchers' Night 2025 in Forum Groningen 🙌

Everybody is welcome, whether you are a researcher, student or just interested in all kinds of science 🧪

Get your tickets now 🎟️
forum.nl/nl/agenda/eu...

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Population Research Centre Groningen @popresgroningen.bsky.social · 28d

Our colleague Rolando Gonzalez Martinez has received a grant from the Jantina Tammes School to develop "Lines of Tension: Human-AI Co-Creation or Antagonism?"🎉

He will present this #art & #AI project at the upcoming European Researchers’ Night 2025 @ Forum Groningen, Sept 26!🎨💻

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Population Research Centre Groningen @popresgroningen.bsky.social · 29d

The NWO recently funded the €3.8M BEAT Project (Building Equitable Accessibility Together)! Louise Meijering leads the #Geographies of #Inclusivity work package, with Farzaneh Bahrami & Bettina van Hoven, focusing on the everyday #barriers that quietly undermine #accessibility

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Misparked Bikes and Broken Elevators: €3.8M Research Project Boosts Accessibility in Dutch Cities

As society ages and climate change advances, cities are increasingly failing to meet accessibility needs. In a project led by UvA and funded by NWO, Dutch municipalities, accessibility experts, and scholars are joining forces to explore a radically new approach to inclusive city making. Grounded in people’s lived experiences and powered by AI, design, and policy.

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Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥 @hermwerf.bsky.social · Sep 8

An assistant professor position in Tilburg, in the sociology of social inequalities.

Katya Ivanova 🟥 @katyaoivanova.bsky.social · Sep 8

Our #Sociology department is looking for an #AssistantProfessor in the field of Social Inequality (with the possibility for a permanent contract).

www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3546...

@sociologytiu.bsky.social @tilburg-university.bsky.social @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicjobs

Universitair Docent in de Sociologie van Sociale Ongelijkheid

Tilburg University | Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences is op zoek naar een Universitair Docent in de Sociologie van Sociale Ongelijkheid, Departement Sociologie, locatie Tilburg.

www.academictransfer.com

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Katya Ivanova 🟥 @katyaoivanova.bsky.social · Sep 8

Our #Sociology department is looking for an #AssistantProfessor in the field of Social Inequality (with the possibility for a permanent contract).

www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3546...

@sociologytiu.bsky.social @tilburg-university.bsky.social @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicjobs

Universitair Docent in de Sociologie van Sociale Ongelijkheid

Tilburg University | Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences is op zoek naar een Universitair Docent in de Sociologie van Sociale Ongelijkheid, Departement Sociologie, locatie Tilburg.

www.academictransfer.com

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Population Research Centre Groningen @popresgroningen.bsky.social · Sep 8

This Wednesday, our colleague Billie de Haas will be at the #Forum in #Groningen to discuss her research on conversations around couples' desires of having children & her card game (hetkinderspel.nl) that helps couples in their decision process👶🧩

🕑20:00 - 21:30 (in Dutch)

forum.nl/nl/agenda/ta...

Wil ik een kind?

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Migration Policy Centre @mpc-eui.bsky.social · Sep 5

🔊 We’re looking for researchers working on migration at universities, research institutes, and think-tanks in Africa and Europe.

👉 We’re conducting a study to understand how researchers think about the drivers of international migration.

📋 Take the survey here: mpcsurveys.limesurvey.net/acd

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Population Research Centre Groningen @popresgroningen.bsky.social · Sep 5

🆕 New paper by our colleague Rolando Gonzales Martinez in Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics! 🔎 He introduces a nonlinear morphogenetic model of fertility shifts, linking micro- and macro-level patterns—grounded in our “oliebollen theory.” 🍩

📄👉 doi.org/10.1515/snde...

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Population Research Centre Groningen @popresgroningen.bsky.social · Sep 4

📄 New article! Our colleague Clara Mulder, together with Niels Kooiman, wrote in Demos (Aug 29, 2025) that while living closer to family can matter, care needs hardly influence moving—neither for adult children nor for older adults.

🔗 In Dutch: nidi.nl/demos/zorgbe...

Zorgbehoefte van ouderen speelt nauwelijks rol bij verhuizen om dichterbij familie te wonen - NIDI

Wie gaat er dichter bij de ouders wonen als hun ouderdom met gebreken komt? En wie van de ouderen gaat juist in de buurt van de kinderen wonen? Op basis van nieuwe data over wonen en verhuizen laten w...

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Population Research Centre Groningen @popresgroningen.bsky.social · Sep 2

At the #IUNS-ICN2025 conference in Paris 🇫🇷, Hinke Haisma & Rolando Gonzales Martinez spoke on “Health, Nutrition, and the Ethics of Leaving no Child Behind in a World Shaped by Wars and Climate Change.” 🌍 The symposium highlighted justice-oriented strategies for resilient child #nutrition & growth.

Population Research Centre Groningen @popresgroningen.bsky.social · Sep 1

New academic year, Le-Go! 🧱👩🏽‍🎓 Our research master student, Kate Lehane, is building a Lego Serious Play workshop for our colleague @billiedehaas.bsky.social’s qualitative research course.

Being a student-assistant at the PRC means having all the right pieces in your skill set! ✨ #BuildingKnowledge

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Population Research Centre Groningen @popresgroningen.bsky.social · Sep 1

🏆 Call for nominations! The Christiaan Eijkman Award honors outstanding researchers in the field of global health.

Know someone who deserves recognition? Submit your nomination by 15 September.

🔗 www.kit.nl/news/the-chr...

#GlobalHealth #GlobalHealthResearch #ChristiaanEijkmanAward #KIT

The Christiaan Eijkman Award is now accepting nominations - KIT

The Christiaan Eijkman medal is awarded to researchers who carry out innovative and critical research in the field of Global Health. Candidates can nominate themselves or be nominated by colleagues. P...

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Population Research Centre Groningen @popresgroningen.bsky.social · Aug 27

Last week we received wonderful news from our former PhD candidate Lara Bister: her thesis at the Population Research Center, University of Groningen, supervised by Fanny Janssen & Tobias Vogt, was awarded the German Thesis Award 2025! 🎉

📰🔗👉 www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

MPIDR - Lara Bister receives German Thesis Award

Lara Bister received the first prize in the social sciences section of the Körber Foundation's German Thesis Award for her doctoral thesis on economic crises and health, with a focus on the long-term ...

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Population Research Centre Groningen @popresgroningen.bsky.social · Aug 25

🔔 Published in the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2025:

Leo van Wissen & Becky Arnold examine recent urbanisation trends in Europe and the role of migration in shaping population change.

Read the full article here: austriaca.at/0xc1aa5572_0...

#migration #populationdynamics

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Population Research Centre Groningen @popresgroningen.bsky.social · Aug 15

🚨Publication alert!

Our colleague Marieke published a new paper in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition! It’s about predicting total body water in babies and the impact of a new equation on measuring human milk intake using the dose-to-mother technique

ajcn.nutrition.org/article/S000...

Predicting total body water in infants aged 0.5–24 months and the implications for measuring breast milk intake: a secondary analysis of isotope dilution data

Total body water (TBW) is commonly used to derive estimates of body composition. The deuterium oxide dose-to-mother (DTM) technique for measuring breast milk intake requires an estimate of infant TBW....

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Population Research Centre Groningen @popresgroningen.bsky.social · Jul 31

Are you working at the intersection of #SRHR, #globalhealth & #internationaldevelopment?📢🌍

Submit your abstract now for the 14th Linking Research, Policy & Practice Conference! #LRPP

Details: tinyurl.com/584xjhu8

Call for Abstracts: Linking Research, Policy and Practice 2025 - Share-Net Netherlands

The call for abstracts for the Linking Research, Policy and Practice Conference is now open! Apply by August 22nd 2025.

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Population Research Centre Groningen @popresgroningen.bsky.social · Jul 3

Last week, 3 of our #populationstudies master students presented their thesis research during the biannual Graduate Research Day! Congratulations on almost finishing your studies🥳

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Simone Sprenger @simonesprenger.bsky.social · Nov 19

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Population Research Centre Groningen @popresgroningen.bsky.social · Nov 19

Hinke Haisma, Louise Meijering & Adrien Remund won the Demog-crazy Award from the Center for Demographic Research at Louvain-la-Neuve for a humorous, thought-provoking article. They address Ron Lee's doughnut critique 🍩of #Demography, proposing the Dutch #oliebol as an optimistic new metaphor.

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Sergi Vidal @svidal.bsky.social · Jun 16

Congratulations to @pertzikovitz.bsky.social team member of @lifelongmove.bsky.social for the successful defense of his doctoral thesis at Groningen University. Well done Dr. Pertzikovitz @popresgroningen.bsky.social

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