Nearly twenty years after the first igraph release, igraph 1.0 has finally arrived! 🎉 This release focuses on providing a stable and more consistent interface that users and downstream maintainers can rely on with confidence. For more detail, see igraph.org/2025/09/20/i...

In the afternoon, @theiletom.bsky.social (@mpidr.bsky.social) guided participants through a hands-on tutorial on the LinkedIn Campaign Manager, where everyone had the chance to set up and run their own data collection.

On the third day of SICSS Saarbrücken, we had the pleasure of learning from @ezagheni.bsky.social (@mpidr.bsky.social), who shared his expertise on “𝑀𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑖𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑑𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎”.

‼️Free IDEM 187 Course‼️ Topics in Digital and Computational Demography 📅3-7 November 2025 💻Online 💸no tuition fee 📝Application deadline: 28 September 2025 www.demogr.mpg.de/go/idem2025 @imprs-phds.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social @conteristo.bsky.social @ezagheni.bsky.social @j-d-klein.bsky.social

🚨Job Offer🚨PhD Student Position The @lshtm.bsky.social, in partnership with the @mpidr.bsky.social is opening an 18-month Research Assistant position, with the successful candidate embarking on a PhD program at LSHTM. www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61... @ezagheni.bsky.social #phd #jobs #demography

Mentoring & advising doctoral researchers is at the very heart of the PHDS School. We are much indebted to PHDS faculty for their invaluable services in mentoring predocs as well as to Thomas Koch for leading a two-day workshop on "Supervising Doctoral Researchers" @mpidr.bsky.social. Thank you all!

🎉🎊A week full of celebrations ✨Two ERC Starting Grants for the MPIDR✨ We are thrilled to announce that @marilianep.bsky.social and @ugobas.bsky.social have each been awarded with an ERC Starting Grant by the @erc.europa.eu. #ERCStG www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even... #ERCStartingGrant #longevity

In preparation for teaching in the winter semester (October onwards) at the University of Rostock, here is my plan and syllabus for the course on "Computational approaches to migration research". Comments and suggestions are welcome and highly appreciated: akbaritabar.github.io/Courses_Syll...

🚨Open Positions!🚨 Postdoc/Research Scientist Positions Migration | Population Dynamics | Computational Demography Application Deadline: Oct 10, 2025 See job description here: www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61... #Postdoc #Jobs @ezagheni.bsky.social @perrottadaniela.bsky.social @ugobas.bsky.social

Apply now for our five-day doctoral course on Topics in Digital and Computational Demography, which will take place in hybrid format from November 3-7, 2025. Details: www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61... Application deadline is September 28, 2025.

I am looking for a postdoc to join my ERC StG project DIVREP to work on global, quantitative analyses of fertility and reproductive behaviour. The post is based in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford. Let me know if you have any questions. More details below👇

📢Publication alert 📢 @berndweiss.bsky.social and my new OA article is out in Comparative Migration Studies: "Surveying Emigrants Worldwide – Using Facebook and Instagram to Recruit Respondents in Cross-National (E)Migration Research" 👉 rdcu.be/ezhZf #MigrationResearch #SurveyResearch [1/5]

The Data Infrastructure of the German Kompetenznetzwerk Bibliometrie: An Enabling Intermediary between Raw Data and Analysis doi.org/10.1162/qss.... This paper provides a very helpful overview of the data infrastructure of @bibliometrie-info.bsky.social.

Nights are filled with sirens, days with research tasks that demand focus. It’s difficult to write, analyse data, or prepare papers when missiles keep interrupting sleep. But nothing stops, life, and with it science, goes on. #Ukraine #Kyiv #StandWithUkraine #AcademicLife #ScienceUnderAttack

📣 Starting today: Science Maps. Bibliometrics between understanding and visualization We'll have traditional, current, and critical perspectives on one of the most iconic forms of #DataViz data in #Bibliometrics and #NetworkAnalysis.

✨ The IAS Seminar Series returns for the Fall 2025 semester with a stellar lineup of speakers and thought-provoking talks. Open to all! #AcademicSky #Sociology #CSS

We're super excited to announce the programme for our Jour Fixe in the upcoming semester! Every other Wednesday at 11am, guest speakers will present their current work on science and we are thrilled to welcome fantastic colleagues! Everyone is welcome, zoom links on our website. @ibi-hu.bsky.social

To coauthors/collaborators in ongoing projects, After 3 PAAs, I will not submit anything (as in last year), since no hybrid/online participation option has been announced #PAA2026 If you can attend and present our work, plz let me know, and I'll be happy to take the lead in preparing a submission!

Reading list from the talk! I.e., the references slide

(just heard in @ic2s2.bsky.social) -> nice article measuring the prevalence of *linear models* in social science, with a call to more diversity (extending classic criticisms that Bourdieu or Abbott raised) direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

This hegemony is more apparent in some fields, as indicated by OpenAlex, and even more so in Global South countries. We have previously noted these patterns using Web of Science Data. doi.org/10.1162/qss_...

This is the % of articles reporting linear models among articles reporting statistical methods according to first author's country of affiliation.

I am delighted to see this paper by myself and @akbaritabar published. "The hegemonic use of linear models in quantitative social sciences." I will present it on Tuesday at #IC2S2 in a session on Theory and Methodology. doi.org/10.1177/0759...

Overjoyed to see that the structured training plan paid off immensely. I could improve my last year's half-marathon time by ~14 minutes and the pace by ~40 seconds per KM.

Just published in Scientometrics: "Who Talks to the Prof? Gender Differences in Interaction with Senior Scholars at Four Academic Conferences." Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Director at Max Planck - a unique position! The Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships is open now and can be submitted by the 31st of October 2025. ➡️ mpg.de/directors - Please share the Open Call among potential candidates.

Heading out of the office to visit the supermarket before going home and saw this nice surprise! #IC2S2 @ic2s2.bsky.social

A Swedish summer and a conference! Our colleagues enjoyed the IC2S2 in Norrköping, and also seized the opportunity to catch up with former colleagues and guests of the MPIDR: @afcastr0t.bsky.social, Carolina Coimbra Vieira, Xinyi Zhao, @akbaritabar.bsky.social, Egor Kotov, Ole Hexel & Johannes Mast.

All the keynote recordings are available now, enjoy! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

The 11th International Conference on Computational Social Science – IC2S2 in Norrköping, Sweden started. We are there! Look out to meet Carolina Coimbra Vieira, @olhxl.bsky.social, @akbaritabar.bsky.social and @ekotov.pro. #IC2S2 www.ic2s2-2025.org 📸 iStockphoto.com / Marcus Lindstrom

First run at Norrköping for IC2S2 conference. I guess it is already obvious that I really liked this city's first impression. A walk/run beside the water is highly recommended! Thanks #IC2S2 @ic2s2.bsky.social for giving me an excuse to visit!

Early morning train from Rostock to Berlin, flight to Stockholm, awaiting the last hop and train to Norrkoping. Looking forward to a great #ic2s2 #IC2S22025 @ic2s2.bsky.social conference. My fifth conference (that is equal to the N of times it has been in Europe, 2021 was virtual of course)

🚨Job Alert W2 (TT W3) Professorship in Computer Science "AI for People & Society" @saarland-informatics-campus.de/@uni-saarland.de is looking to appoint an outstanding individual in the field of AI for people and society who has made significant contributions in one or more of the following areas:

Our tutorial at @ic2s2.bsky.social "Mobility Flows and Accessibility Using R and Big Open Data " will be available here: www.ekotov.pro/spanish-open...

📝 Excited to share my new publication with @ezagheni.bsky.social and Helga de Valk in @pnas.org where we look at gravity-type models for migration prediction. Our results suggest that ignoring gender makes these models less reliable 🌐👫 ⬇️ www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #migration #gender #modeling

Today's the 2nd day of our symposium "Demographic & Health Consequences of Violence & Armed Conflict" where international scholars present research on the impact of armed conflict & violence on mortality, migration, fertility, the environment, & population health. www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

Our (with Oskar Burger and Ron Lee) edited volume Human Evolutionary Demography is now published by Open Book Publishers 🎉 32 chapters completely free to read, including an impressive line-up of researchers working in this area 😊

More than 9,000 studies, reports, & book chapters published based on 400+ DHS surveys that were conducted in 91 countries, according to our bibliometric analysis (by @aasli.bsky.social). The termination could set the global research community back for years or even decades. osf.io/preprints/so...

🔥Coming July 2: 'Metrics and Models'!🔥 A new seminar series on advanced modelling w/ impact across health/society. 🌍 Open to *ALL*! 🕑 Weds 2pm UK alternating weeks (online) 🔗 metrics-and-models.github.io 📬 [email protected] Brilliant speakers. *Please share*!

Published now in the Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM). Openly accessible here: doi.org/10.1609/icws...

We welcome the participants of this years Population & Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program 2025! We put together a video of our favorite places in and around Rostock for them to explore during the summer. After all, great research requires awesome breaks. www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

Food for thought, lots of it ... youtu.be/IXR9PByA9SY?...

We'll get started at 9am with a group discussion of best practices for sharing network data. Come share your perspective and experiences!

How bad will it be? Catastrophic. Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come. But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget. Speak up now before it is too late. (inflation adjusted $-s below)

If academic freedom is suppressed in one country (here, Serbia) and we continue to ignore it, there is no guarantee that it will not be suppressed elsewhere. Read their statement and support the freedom of Serbian academics. cc: @jelena3121.bsky.social

Have you been wondering where to find a comprehensive list of publications about the Scholarly Migration Database (SMD) using the SMD data or publications by its team and collabs? Or the ones citing SMD-related works? Now, we have a public Zotero Group library to join www.zotero.org/groups/59990...

A team @mpidr.bsky.social examined professional migration of men and women in 48 countries using data from LinkedIn. It found that, although men aspire to migrate more often than women, globally, as many women as men migrate for a job. www.demogr.mpg.de/go/professional-migration

🚨Call for Registration🚨 Symposium 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗰 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗩𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘁 📅 July 01–02, 2025 🗺️ @mpidr.bsky.social To participate onsite sign up here: www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even... #Demography #Health #Violence #Population #Migration #Fertility #Environment

Ever wonder what demographers do when they are not "demographing"? Sometimes they run! 🏃‍♂️ 🏃‍♂️ 🏃‍♂️ 🏃‍♀️ 🏃‍♀️ 🏃‍♀️ Yesterday Team Tempo-Effects represented the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) at the Rostocker Citylauf. Along the course they had the best MPIDR fans ever! Go MPIDR!

Germany's loss of scientific dominance 1933-1945 is remarkable. But the lack of recovery 1945+ can be blamed on competition from U.S.A., which became the gravitational center of scientific thought and labor via massive investment in NSF/NIH, expansion of its universities, and embrace of liberalism