New paper out in The Gerontologist on ageing and inequality in Peru! We examine how demographic change is unfolding through deeply unequal social and territorial conditions, and what this means for pensions, care, health, and social policy. Read the paper here: doi.org/10.1093/gero...

"That's a hell of an act. What do you call it?" "The art of the deal!"

Diego Ramiro Fariñas & coauthors report 1444 different causes of death from 367K individual death notices in "Individual-Level Data on Causes of Death in Madrid From 1905 to 1927", a new paper in the open access Historical Life Course Studies. doi.org/10.52024/hlc...

Direct hit

Happy to win the College of Liberal Arts Excellence in Teaching Award. I came to CU Denver because I saw something familiar in our students. Like me, most are the first in their families to pursue a college degree. It's an honor to serve them and foster their growth as professionals, as citizens.

Our new study in Social Science & Medicine: Using 2022–23 BRFSS and IRT-derived ACE scores, we show higher childhood adversity → higher odds of problem drinking in adulthood. Social support attenuates the risk. Open access link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1mc9L-CmV9... #pophealth

Sociologist C. Wright Mills saw this coming—and tried to warn us—60+ years ago. jacobin.com/2026/02/wrig...

Medicare stopped covering telehealth services *yesterday*

📢 #episky #mortality New year, new #STMF data 🎆 Revised and updated data available 📈 ➡️ mortality.org/Data/STMF 🔒 STMF data access is now limited to registered #HMD users to protect sensitive data. Log in with your existing HMD credentials to download the data series.

Since I started developing the mapgl R package I've envisioned built-in interactive legends. They're finally here in the upcoming package release: a filter slider for continuous legends, and click-to-filter for categorical legends. Blog post coming this week!

Good opportunity for many of y'all

I have *the best* news to share

That makes seven straight months of manufacturing job losses - a sector in deep recession along with residential construction and transportation.

My cohort for the 2026 CU in Spain global studies program is nearly complete! ¿Estamos listos?

And when the mayor tried to overturn it Madrileños protested

An interactive map of Census data from start-to-finish in 10 minutes. For #30DayMapChallenge Day 13: 10 minute map, I recorded an impromptu, unedited tutorial on how to find and map Census tract-level data using R and Positron. riverside.fm/shared/expor...

Oh hey, little update. Indiana University Department of Sociology is hiring this fall. Keeping you on your toes deadline is 11/16. We’re looking for an assistant professor specializing in sociology of medicine, health, and/or well-being broadly defined. indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/30984

A national cohort study in France shows no association between mRNA COVID-19 vaccine received in the first trimester & congenital defects in babies. This adds to previous national studies that reported similar outcomes. Kennedy is wrong, as usual. 🧪 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Interesting new tool from the Chicago Fed. Forecasting consistent or slight increase in unemployment. We'll see once the September jobs report is published.

Who'd have thought

Just published online first @cjphrcsp.bsky.social The geographic distribution and community correlates of electronic cigarette use in Canada @lippertam.bsky.social & Corsi) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

It's not complicated

This is, in fact, not news and has been known for a long time.

mapgl for #rstats now includes full support for PMTiles as a data source in both @maplibre.org and @mapbox.com maps! Try out the example in the docs where you can visualize the 64 million places hosted by @overturemaps.bsky.social: walker-data.com/mapgl/refere...

We can't wait!

Looking forward to bringing my graduate students to Madrid for a week of GIS and spatial demography training with @juangaleano.bsky.social at the @cchscsic.bsky.social. Muchisimas gracias al @csic.es por su colaboración y apoyo. ¡Estoy emocionado! #CUinSpain

When in doubt, be generous

The cut comes to me now. Looking for a postdoc or admin staff position (or whatever else as long as sponsoring visa) starting this Aug. I am experienced with statistic models, spatial analysis, and causal mediation in Stata, R, ArcGIS. I appreciate any information about potential opportunities.

Deadline approaching! Join me in #Barcelona to study the #demography of #singlehood and develop your own independent research. Deadline: April 24 (15h00 CEST). #postdoc

Interested in using R for GIS? Begin here ⬇️

** Researchers using US Natality Data: Code to read & label restricted-access CDC natality data into Stata/R now includes 2019–2023 (in addition to 2010–18): florenciatorche.github.io/ReadNatality... Please share—no need for us all to write the same code! Thanks to @RussellSageFdn for funding

Join us for the EAPS PhD Network Seminar: Academic Careers in Demography 🎓 🗓️ 29 April 2025 | 🕒 15:30–17:00 CEST | 💻 Zoom Hear from early-career, mid-career and senior scholars on pathways, challenges & more. 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/EAPSPHD2025 #Demography #Academia #EAPS

‼️ #JobOpening ‼️ #Postdoc Position(s) at the Max Planck | University of Helsinki Centre for Social Inequalities in Population Health in #Rostock 📅Deadline: May 4, 2025 www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61... #Postdoc #SocialInequalities #Population #Demography #Epidemiology #Health @pophel.bsky.social

🚀 Call for Papers! 🚀 I’m coordinating the sessions on AI, Big Data, and Demographic Challenges at the next Conference of the Association of Historical Demography of Spain! 🌍📊 📢 Got research to share? Submit your 300-word abstract by April 25 here: 🔗 adeh.org/untitled-pag... See you in Málaga! ☀️

From Dr. Kassandra Martinchek at Urban Institute: cutting SNAP benefits would have particularly adverse effects on food security in #Colorado

The Surgeon General report "Eliminating Tobacco-Related Disease and Death: Addressing Disparities (2024)" has disappeared from the CDC website. Luckily, UCSF archived it on its website. escholarship.org/uc/ctcre_ussg

📢 The call for applications for the 8th edition of the BaRcelona Summer School of Demography is now open!! Info and registration: ced.cat/en/bcn4seaso... #rstats #demography #barcelona @sergitl.bsky.social @timriffe1.bsky.social @ikashnitsky.phd

A heads up for those of you who use US Census Bureau geospatial data: The TIGER/Line website is currently down, but you can still get your data (for now) with the tigris (#rstats) and pygris (#Python) packages. github.com/walkerke/... walker-data.com/pygris/

📢CEDWorkshop at the next #PAA2025 Join us in our WS "Leveraging Comprehensive Population Microdata from Multiple Repositories: The Case of the CORESIDENCE Project" 📅 Apr 10, 2025 8:00am -12:00PM 🌎 @popassocamerica.bsky.social Washington D.C www.populationassociation.org/paa2025/rela...

Inaugural cohort for my study abroad in Spain is full. Students will complete 30 hours of training in GIS & spatial demography with the Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales in Madrid followed by fieldwork in Seville, Córdoba, & Cádiz. Excited to expand our population science curriculum abroad!

My favorite part of being a professor? Being showered with gifts from students. Thanks to Danielle Duran (PhD candidate @Northeastern) for the cute mug. I'm ready to put three toes to work 🦥

Had a good time catching up with former student José Puente (current doctoral student at Maryland, obviously). José is leading our new study on symptom severity among people with asthma and its neighborhood-level determinants

Teaching survey data analysis using R? Check out Zimmer et al's new [free] book: tidy-survey-r.github.io/tidy-survey-...

It seems I was in a starter pack. Thanks to whoever did that, and hello new followers! Glad we all migrated over. Looking forward to nerding out over demography, rstats, and pophealth (and Bucks basketball)

For those teaching demtech ⬇️

❗New methods paper out on OSF ❗ A new R-squared for multilevel models 👀👀 Resolves a long-standing R-squared oddity identified by Snijders/Bosker 30 years ago! with the amazing Anders Holm #sociology #erc Paper: osf.io/preprints/so...

Excellent reporting from @victoriastmartin.bsky.social

#demography and #pophealth folks - give Isma a follow!

SAVE THE DATE - Talk@MPIDR (Hybrid) October 4 from 11am to 12pm (CEST) Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research Dr. Stefan Leyk will talk about learned lessons in mapping and analyzing the built environment and its evolution over long periods. Register now www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

Tip when learning web scraping in R: start with something you can hand-check, like a movie with a small cast. It's surprisingly easy with tidy and rvest (example ⬇️). Once you get the hang of it, you can move on to more interesting use cases 😊