Vegard Skirbekk

Vegard Skirbekk

@vegardskirbekk.bsky.social

Advocates raise alarm over Pfas pollution from datacenters amid AI boom | Pfas | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Advocates raise alarm over Pfas pollution from datacenters amid AI boom

Tech companies’ use of Pfas gas at facilities may mean datacenters’ climate impact is worse than previously thought

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by Vegard Skirbekk

Vegard Skirbekk

@vegardskirbekk.bsky.social

Singapore's dragon year fails for the first time to raise fertility

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Singapore's 2024 dragon year fertility rate

Singapore's total fertility rate remained at a historic low in the 2024 dragon year, despite hopes for a baby boom, highlighting societal shifts. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstim...

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by Rebecca Sear — Reposted by: Vegard Skirbekk, Lesley A. Hall

Rebecca Sear

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“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”

Contemporary Pronatalism in Demographic Context

Call for Papers Low and declining birth rates across the world have consequences for countries’ population size and structure. Concerns over the potential ...

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by Vegard Skirbekk — Reposted by: Vegard Skirbekk

Vegard Skirbekk

@vegardskirbekk.bsky.social

Our new study in Eur J Ageing finds daughters’ life satisfaction declines due to frail parents’ care needs, not caregiving itself.

No effect on sons.

Explore the emotional toll of parental frailty: doi.org/10.1007/s104... #Caregiving #WellBeing #Aging

Frail parents and adult children’s life-satisfaction: a longitudinal analysis of Norwegian data - European Journal of Ageing

Earlier research has found that adult children’s caregiving for older parents is associated with a decline in life satisfaction. However, other research indicates that emotional stress in adult children might be related to the declining health and frailty of their older parents rather than caregiving per se. Hence, there is a possibility that the first set of findings (declining life satisfaction when giving care) reflects factors not specified in statistical models rather than the care provided by adult children. This study tests this possibility by investigating changes in life satisfaction among 3,094 adult children from panel data in Norway that includes multiple indicators of health and care needs in older parents, together with data on who is providing care. Declining life satisfaction was observed among daughters but not among sons, and these changes were driven by the frailty and care needs of their parents rather than caregiving per se. The findings indicate that it is not caregiving that affects life satisfaction but the circumstances leading to caregiving. In these situations, adult daughters may struggle with sources of distress beyond providing support and care. Further research should investigate these relationships in countries with different distributions of care between families and public care institutions.

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by Vegard Skirbekk — Reposted by: Vegard Skirbekk

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by Vegard Skirbekk

Vegard Skirbekk

@vegardskirbekk.bsky.social

Peak and current global fertility lower when accounting for mortality using the 2SNRR (2 Sex Net Reproduction Rate) relative to the Total Fertility Rate (TFR)
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by Vegard Skirbekk

Vegard Skirbekk

@vegardskirbekk.bsky.social

‘One jab will do the job’: Pakistan begins rollout of HPV vaccine to millions of girls www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

‘One jab will do the job’: Pakistan begins rollout of HPV vaccine to millions of girls

Despite vaccination hesitancy, the end may be in sight for cervical cancer, which kills 64% of women with the disease

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by Vegard Skirbekk

Vegard Skirbekk

@vegardskirbekk.bsky.social

Fertility decline is misunderstood

📊 When mortality is considered, global fertility peaked at 4.1 children per woman in 1963, not the 5.3 suggested by TFR
🔍 In Middle Africa, TFR data suggests fertility peaked in 1987, 2SNRR shows fertility hasn't yet declined

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

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by Vegard Skirbekk

by Rebecca Sear — Reposted by: Vegard Skirbekk

Rebecca Sear

@rebeccasear.bsky.social

Unveiling Mexico's Demographic Transitions: "Our spatial analysis reveals a concentric diffusion pattern, where fertility changes spread outward from urban, high-SES municipalities" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

<em>Studies in Family Planning</em> | Population Council Journal | Wiley Online Library

This study examines Mexico's fertility transition (1930–2015) and how socioeconomic status (SES), geography, and indigeneity shaped reproductive behaviors. Using net fertility—the number of surviving...

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by Vegard Skirbekk

Reposted by: Vegard Skirbekk

Pepe Navarro

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Excellent take on declining fertility in The Economist.

But why do they have to call it a "fertility crash"?

"Peak humanity" will happen much sooner than forecast. The consequences are that maybe, just maybe, humanity may avert extinction by overpopulation.

www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

Don’t panic about the global fertility crash

A world with fewer people would not be all bad

www.economist.com

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Mika Rantanen

@mikarantane.bsky.social

What a warm day. Exceptionally high temperatures almost in the whole country.

By 16:00 local time, the highest temperature was 24.8 °C in Kokemäki Tulkkila. The reading is also new national daily heat record for this date.

Daily maximum temperatures in Finland by 16.00 local time. Temperatures are > 20 C almost in the whole country.

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by Vegard Skirbekk

Vegard Skirbekk

@vegardskirbekk.bsky.social

Indian Rural fertility rate drops to 2.1 children per woman - Delhi has reached 1.2 children per woman share.google/7OXE1ixLKnbg...

Rural fertility rate drops to 2.1: Govt

The TFR decline marks a milestone where a decades-long fertility decline has now brought rural India in line with global demographic trends.

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by Vegard Skirbekk

Vegard Skirbekk

@vegardskirbekk.bsky.social

/www.news18.com/lifestyle/health-and-fitness/chinese-women-use-most-contraceptive-pills-in-asia-this-is-where-india-ranks-globally-ws-dkln-9526115.html

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