Kindle has chosen Sick of It to be part of their 99p deal for October! Given the first book I published back in 2010 was about £80 this is a much better deal. And cheaper than a whippy.

Only a few days left to register for our annual #student careers panel & reception! This is an opportunity to hear insights from panellists covering diverse fields of academia & research, the charity sector, law & consultancy in/around the #MiddleEast. www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-...

I am struggling to keep up with all the lecture material *rump is giving us at the moment.

We’re honoured to host Francia Elena Márquez Mina, Colombia’s first Black woman Vice President, for a special #BlackHistoryMonth event at LSE. ✊🏾🌍 🎟️ Free & open to the public. Register via link in bio 📅 Tue 14 Oct, 7.15–8.45pm

LSE and @bspsuk.bsky.social are hosting a workshop on "Being an academic in population studies" on 3 November! It'll be a nice mix of methods training and career advice with great talks by @ericbschneider.bsky.social, Wendy Sigle, José Manuel Aburto, and others! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/being-an-a...

Interested in exploring a #MiddleEast related career? Join us next Thurs 2 October for our annual student careers panel featuring Eyad Hamid (SLDP), @tizianaleone.bsky.social (@lseid.bsky.social) & @cwoodcraft.bsky.social (@jbs.cam.ac.uk), followed by a reception. www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-...

Sad (but not surprised) to read the latest Global Health 50/50 report, amidst turmoil in global health, erosion of democracy, withdrawal from multi-lateralism, aid cuts, attacks on science, DEI, human rights @kentbuse.bsky.social @jocalynclark.bsky.social global5050.org/2025-report/

"we advance data-linked explanatory analysis – to demonstrate how nested qualitative life history interviews with survey participants can be used to account for population patterns in studies using person-centered techniques to classify health behaviors" www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

We have updated our editorial policy for retrospective health database studies to strengthen scientific rigor and editorial integrity. 🔗 Read more here: plos.io/4g8Jbi8

📣 Job alert! 📣 2 fully funded PhD positions in sociology/demography in the ERC Starting Grant SeRO, which studies the impact of local violent crime on sexual and reproductive health in Mexico. Please share and apply! PhD post 1: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... PhD post 2: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

“The rise in high-fronted SUVs poses a clear and growing threat to public safety, especially for children,” states the report. “With no benefit to society, it’s time for lawmakers at all levels to act.” Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. Cap SUV/truck hood heights. And ban unsafe designs.

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👇

📢 Interested in excess mortality methods, and want a challenge? I'm organising the "One Epidemic, Many Estimates" (1EME) project! Register *now* as a many analyst team (submissions due 15 March 2026), and then join us at LSE for a workshop on 21-22 May 2026! (1/n) www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-His...

“What name do we give to a policy environment that suppresses the arrival of new life?” www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Burning contraceptives? Why? Why not use it in communities that need them?? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/w...

We are looking for a postdoc to work for the @soc-misc.bsky.social project. The post is based at the University of At Andrews in Scotland and focuses on analysing administrative and census data on #miscarriage. Let me or Katy Keenan know if you have any questions. More info below 👇

"We prefer to die by airstrike. But not to watch our families die slowly from hunger." The conclusion to The Foreign Gaze started and ended in Gaza; with hunger, malnutrition, and starvation on my mind; with famine on my mind. It's very painful to watch my fears of Israel and its allies fulfilled.

We’re editing a book on reproductive justice in Latin America and invite extended abstracts (800 words) by Nov 30, 2025. More info: tinyurl.com/2298h4c5

Mass rape, forced pregnancy and sexual torture in Tigray amount to crimes against humanity – report

Longer reproductive period associated with lower grip strength pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38016167/

Latest publication from Dr Myfanwy James which explores how the inclusion of pregnant women in an Ebola vaccine trial in Goma, DRC, sparked local rumors that reflected broader ethical concerns and historical anxieties anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A little education for all my students old and incoming that have no clue who Depeche Mode are. I might put this in all my reading lists from now on. I can't face anymore entire rooms of blank faces when I quote one of their songs... www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Israel would not allow the BBC to film Gaza from the sky, Thats in itself should speak volumes www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

A @who.int staff member in #Gaza remains in detention by the Israeli military.: bit.ly/4mblmrU WHO demands the immediate release of our colleague. We call for the protection of all humanitarians. A ceasefire in Gaza is overdue!

Racing for our local primary school again this year. Money raised can go towards resurfacing the playground, funding the music dept etc. Basically all the basic stuff state schools can't afford. And let's face it having a lot of fun! Come along and sponsor us! www.justgiving.com/campaign/spe...

Our new editorial in Bulletin of the WHO about ongoing initiative to improve the measurement of adult mortality in low-and-middle-income countries, where major data gaps have recently been compounded by US decision to end support for Demographic & Health Surveys pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

This is Hanin, a five-year-old survivor of a school fire caused by a strike in #Gaza. She was evacuated by @who.int and partners, along with 22 other patients, to receive urgent medical care abroad. WHO calls for medical evacuations to be expedited through all possible routes.

“We used sequence analysis to reveal five distinct postpartum pregnancy exposure patterns in Ethiopia. This approach offers holistic understanding of postpartum fecundity and measuring unmet need for family planning.” www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

As a group, demographers are not willing to project 100s of years into the future or make bold claims about depopulation. Just because you can extend a trend line mathematically doesn’t mean it makes sense to do so.

Rusted screws, metal spikes and plastic rubbish: the horrific sexual violence used against Tigray’s women

The United States reneged on its foreign aid commitments. Nepal’s malnourished children and their families are paying the price. Learn more in this week's issue of Science: scim.ag/46cnJFO

Meanwhile... Keep the info going. this has been going on unreported for decades www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

#WHO framework to implement a #life course approach in practice - Virtual meeting Date: June 27, 2025 Time: 14.00-15.30 (CEST) #Aging #Ageing #Health #Care #Prevention #PublicHealth Register here (and share): who.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Another excellent piece from a demographer, this time Stuart Gietel-Basten, on how "pronatalism is a dead end" "Without addressing the root causes of low fertility—inequality, instability, and the incompatibility of work and family life—top-down efforts to “encourage” childbearing will fail"

Since 2017 every major UK science publisher has paid men more than women, every single year. lnkd.in/eATsgY6c How do we move from transparency to action for closing the #genderpaygap? There is good evidence on what needs to be done - it's past time publishers took that evidence seriously 👇

This is all evidence leading to reprocide. Reproductive health as a weapon of war www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Are you doing research in contexts of conflict, insecurity and development? Are you using participatory and creative research methods? Apply now for our one-day workshop on 26 September, where we will discuss the benefits, practical and ethical challenges in using participatory methodologies.

“While the future of existing DHS datasets remains in flux, the global health and demographic research community should diversify its use of data sources, invest in strengthening data infrastructure in LMICs, and share data management and use practices publicly to accelerate research progress”

When is all this going to stop?https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/23/trumps-evidence-of-south-africa-white-genocide-contains-images-from-democratic-republic-of-congo

No it's not from the #onion www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

a little pick me up lol for the academics in the room

Only three days left to submit @bspsuk.bsky.social paper in the Demography of health in conflict and crisis session! come along to the friendliest conference of the year www.lse.ac.uk/internationa... @thegargiulian.bsky.social

Every global region has seen a steep rise in mobile phone subscriptions

When they go low (and, wow, they do), we go queer! 🏳️‍🌈 Together with @francescorampazzo.com, I’m organising a session on Queer Demography at @bspsuk.bsky.social. Submit your work on LGBTQ+ populations and/or the queering of demographic methods by 9th May: www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...

#25Aprile is one of the most important days in Italian history. Buona #liberazione a tutti www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kyj2... #neverforget

Students are not migrants