PHD!

The last chapter of my PhD thesis is out, just a few days before my defense 🎓 Read the new paper in Population Health Metrics with Andrea Nigri, Sergi Trias-Llimós (@sergitl.bsky.social), and Elisabetta Barbi on Deaths of Despair in Italy: 📄 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Life course folks, you may be interested in our brand new article (w @etrappolini.bsky.social) on housing tenure trajectories and health in later life across Europe 🏡 open access on ALCR www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti....

Gaza: Study Reveals Unprecedented Losses of Life & Life Expectancy Researchers from MPIDR & the Centre for Demographic Studies (CED) investigated the impact of the conflict in Gaza on mortality. Life expectancy 2024 fell to nearly half the level expected without the war. www.demogr.mpg.de/go/GazaLE

Quitting smoking in middle age or later is linked to slower cognitive decline over the long term, according to a new study led by Dr Mikaela Bloomberg @mapbloom.bsky.social that suggests, for cognitive health, "it is never too late to quit" @ucliehc.bsky.social @uclpophealthsci.bsky.social

✨20th anniversary of the European Doctoral School of Demography✨On this day 20 years ago(Sept 1, 2005) the EDSD opened its doors @mpidr.bsky.social for the 1st time. Today, we welcome the 21st cohort. We wish everyone a great year of study, research & networking! www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

New publication! We introduce a Skellam-based age-period model to capture and forecast mortality gaps between populations — an alternative to modeling rates separately. Tested on causes of deaths, but extensible beyond. Check it out 👉 doi.org/10.1177/0282...

🆕New preprint of our study on widowhood! "Evolution of widowhood lifespan and its gender and educational inequalities in Finland over three decades" osf.io/preprints/so... in @socarxiv.bsky.social Joint work with K. Korhonen, @alysonvanraalte.bsky.social , @timriffe1.bsky.social and P. Martikainen

‼️ Extended deadlines for #PopFest2025 UK/Europe based? We need your papers and posters! Send a short abstract to [email protected] by 5pm BST on 13 June - bursaries are available too. Registration to attend now open until 15 June 🎉 @bspsuk.bsky.social Full info: www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/p...

Here’s a fresh read for your Monday brain🧠: A new article by Mendola and Busetta on refugees’ health in Germany - now out in GENUS and available #openaccess. 👉 genus.springeropen.com/articles/10....

#PopDays2025 in Cagliari really felt like home and we are already looking forward to seeing you all in Trento 2027!🍀

Nowcasting at #Popdays2025 🌞🌞

Opening new PhD positions in Statistical Sciences! The PhD programme includes a specific curriculum for Demography. 3-years programme starting next fall. Deadline for applications: June 19th 2025 🚨 For more infos, get in touch and visit the website:

My (very first) article is now available on SSM🎉 We investigated the extent to which the well-known educational disparities in dementia incidence persisted in subsequent healthcare utilization after dementia onset. Don't just go to read it, run!🏃

A student yesterday: "Not even ChatGPT understands Lexis diagrams..." I guess the spatial logic of triangles, squares, and parallelograms trips it up? I just asked it to explain and draw a Lexis parallelogram, and yeah, it didn't go great. Maybe a tip for testing demographic reasoning these days!

A nice group of young Sapienza demographers are in Washington for PAA2025! Here is a calendar with all the sessions where you can visit us:

The call for applications for the European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD) 2025-2026 is open! This international doctoral program aims to provide students with a high-level education in demography. Deadline to apply: March 25th, 2025 at 12 PM (noon). More information: eaps.nl/edsd/how-to-...

Finally joining Bluesky, and finishing my PhD feels like the perfect moment!✨ Heartfelt thanks to @etrappolini.bsky.social and @mussino.eu for their guidance, and to the committee (@manuelastranges.bsky.social, @lisakkraus.bsky.social, Oliviero Casacchia) for their amazing suggestions😊

CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) has provided real-time data and analysis about disease outbreaks and emerging health threats without a break every week since 1960. Until today.

My research stay at the Stockholm University Demographic Unit (SUDA) officially started! I am very happy to be here 💙🤍

Apply, apply, apply!

This morning I joined the poster session at the #YoungDemographers Conference in Prague with my work on housing tenure trajectories and health in later life. Such a nice experience! #YD2024