Leaving my hotel as a new prof (Perhaps because Metallica stays in the same hotel)

I've been appointed Professor in Economic, Social and Demographic History at Radboud University in the Netherlands, and will start on September 1st. I'm really excited to return to the Netherlands and work on questions about inequality in the long run. www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...

Hello Bologna! #epc2026

Deze week kwam het pijnlijke nieuws dat de gemeente Moerdijk het oude dorp Moerdijk wil gaan opheffen. Een bittere pil voor de bewoners. Moerdijk, hieronder in de situatie van 1832, kent een bijzondere geschiedenis.

I'm biased, but this looks like a brilliant job opportunity to me. Join us at the Department of Sociology & Nuffield College. www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...

A new article and blog post: "Inequality in Child Mortality Persists Between Generations in the Netherlands, 1835–1919" From Ingrid van Dijk (@ingridvandijk.bsky.social)

Curious about using census microdata in your research? 📊 Join us for a webinar on IPUMS International, the world’s leading repository of harmonized census data. 🗓️ 12 Nov 2025 | 🕒 15:15–16:30 UK | 💻 Zoom Register: forms.gle/oqTDNU4Zpn2s... Hosted by the LSE Historical Economic Demography Group.

Check out this conference if you work on topics related to kinship structure and dynamics (within and beyond the household), caregiving, intergenerational processes, family bereavement, LGBTQ+ & chosen kinship, etc. @iussp.bsky.social Submit by 21 Jan 2026 👇 www.demogr.mpg.de/go/kinship-conference

Nemesis of the day: An online article proofing system (a nemesis in itself), that doesn't work in Chrome 👀

"there are clear links between tuberculosis as a cause of death during the 60 days following a delivery and the socio-spatial inequalities characteristic of a city" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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

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 ... @camunicampop.bsky.social www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/07...

On the way to the Nordic Demographic Symposium 🥸 #NDS2025

📝 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. 🧵⬇️

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 🌞

Permanent position, they said👀

And another one in the books

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.

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*.

Happy to see that journals are making sharing preprints easier 👏

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...

Washington impressions (1): Pink

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;

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

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

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! 😂

Lund Population day is on May 8th

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/...

Everything I touch turns into null results. 🌟 Some nice ones coming up at PAA next week.

The question of this morning: AI re-constructed, AI constructed, or AI hallucinated #ESSHC

The conference bingo has convinced me to increase the size of the legends on my slides 👀 (If you're at ESSHC in Leiden, I'm presenting on inequalities in stature in Sweden at 0830 tomorrow morning)

The stage of migrant de-integrating in their country of origin where they (ok, me) think the WiFi network must be fake, as it's name is in their (ok, my) native tongue

We are organizing this super cool training course on coding Historical Causes of Death in Cambridge this summer. Deadline is approaching, April 1st.

This is horrendous and should make anyone think twice about travel plans to the US

When is Hammarskjöld going to clean your office? Very happy to have this article from my PhD now published in RSSM, on surnames and social mobility: doi.org/10.1016/j.rs... 🥳

I'm co-organising the historical demography strand for PopFest 2025! We're looking forward to a range of interesting talks from UK and European students — economic historians and historians of medicine also welcome! Get in touch if you want to chat about submitting!👋 www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/p...

New study says children of immigrants in Sweden at high risk of being overqualified for their jobs. @wooseongkim.bsky.social talks about his recent doctoral thesis on Radio Sweden. www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/new-...

Demographers ability to model the global population ("10 billion by 2050 followed by plateau") rely on DHS surveys. Without them we're blind to large parts of the globe and quality of forecasts will go down. Which is of course a non-issue if planing-horizons don't extend beyond next Friday.

It's no longer on pause. It's been terminated.

The first warm winds of spring are accompanied by soft, melancholic honking. The cranes are back ❤️

Campop blog #36: Who did older people live with in the pre-industrial English past? Richard Smith shows that, as today, they lived independently for as long as possible, and rarely moved in with married children @camunicampop.bsky.social www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/02...

Population Europe is saddened to announce the passing of Professor Kirk Scott. An engaged member of our network since its inception, he has been a demographer at the Centre for Economic Demography, Lund University, and at the Stockholm University Demography Unit. 🔗Obituary: tinyurl.com/4js6pwjk

The kind of info I'm on social media for

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

Us: Increasing maternal age, late abortions, or definition changes don't explain recent German trends in stillbirths. Some perinatologists: It's probably explained by maternal age, late abortions and definition changes though. Always good to see both sides of an argument represented in the media.

This is how you can generate lollipop charts in #tidyplots 🍭 #rstats #dataviz #phd

Will twinning rate ⬆️ in low-income countries, even if the spread of IVF remains slow? Polyovulation rate increases w/maternal age (Evolved trait) + Maternal age structure is shifting upward (Demographic trend) = More twins expected! ✌️ doi.org/10.1093/humr... with wonderful @kieronbarclay.bsky.social

Impossible choice

Very happy to give a seminar tomorrow at CEDAR (the centre for demographic and ageing research), Umeå University, on health and survival inequalities in Sweden over the past century and a half

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-...