I am thrilled to announce that my first PhD paper, 'Analysing biases in genealogies using demographic microsimulation', co-authored with @demography.bsky.social and @ezagheni.bsky.social, has already been published in the European Journal of Population. rdcu.be/eTImq

The call for applications for the Summer Incubator 2026 at the @mpidr.bsky.social is open! Deadline: Jan 14, 2026. Topics/Teams: 1) Spatial Mobility and Scientific Production 2) Digitalization, AI and Inequalities Check out the brand new website for information: www.incubator.demogr.mpg.de

We are thrilled to have talented students from all over the world joining us for our hybrid course on Topics in Digital and Computational Demography, and wish everyone a productive and exciting week of study!

Job Offer: PhD Student Position The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and the @mpidr.bsky.social + @imprs-phds.bsky.social invite applications for a 4-year PhD position. The studentship is not limited to specific topics. Apply until November 17! www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61...

🆕📰COVID-19 Pandemic: Facebook Ads for Survey Recruitment Jessica Donzowa, Daniela Perrotta & Emilio Zagheni investigated whether the recruitment material used for online surveys during the pandemic influenced respondents' answers. https://ow.ly/THxk50XcUyq

In “...Educational Expansion to Trends in Life Expectancy & Lifespan Variation,” @jdzazueta.bsky.social @ugobas.bsky.social @ezagheni.bsky.social et al. show how expansion contributes to ↑ expectancy and ↓ variation. @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

💻Join online! 🎧 Süßmilch Lecture at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) Putting Science Before #Statistics 🗣️Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ MPI-EVA Leipzig 📅Oct 21, 2025 🕒3 pm CEST ✏️Sign up now: https://ow.ly/uxfc50Xb5Yx

We are hiring (again!). We are searching for up to four tenure-track hires. Two of these are open-field/open-rank. Two are endowed at the full professor level -- one with a focus on applied micro and poverty, the other with a focus on demography.

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

My department is hiring an assistant professor of environmental behavioral sciences. The research area is open but we are particularly interested in people with research on collective action or computational social sciences. Happy to answer questions about the Doerr School or the department.

Excited and grateful to launch my ERC project #SOCIO-CLIMP 🌍🌤️ The project explores how #ClimateChange and #EnvironmentalHazards unequally affect different socio-demographic groups 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 across Europe — combining spatial climate data with demographic detail to uncover patterns of #ClimateInjustice.

📣 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/...

🎉🎊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

Consider joining us in beautiful Bologna for the largest gathering of population scientists in Europe… It is also a wonderful opportunity for those of us who are based outside of Europe to catch up with the latest demographic developments in the old continent. Hope to see you there!

👓Recommended Reading📚Facebook Ads for Scientific Data Collection? @jdonzowa.bsky.social Z.Zindel & S.Kühne investigated how ad design influences quality of survey responses. Ads explicitly referencing specific topics generate more clicks but lower-quality responses: www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

✨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...

🚨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

The Department ‘Anthropology of Politics and Governance’ invites applications for one: Senior Scientist (m/f/d) in the field of Social Anthropology as Max Planck Research Group Leader (W2 level, tenure track) Deadline: 15 October 2025 recruitingapp-5034.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/51...

We are excited to announce the #PAA2026 Call for Papers is now available! The submission site opens on Monday, Aug. 18 and the deadline is Sunday, Oct. 5. Meet me in St. Louis! May 6-9, 2026: www.populationassociation.org/paa2026/call...

‼️Register now‼️Climate Conference 🌍 Climate Change, Environmental Hazards & Population Dynamics 🗺️ Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) 📆Nov 11–12, 2025 Sign up here: www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even... @mpidr.bsky.social @iussp.bsky.social @conteristo.bsky.social @ezagheni.bsky.social

New study 🚨 out in @jama.com! We find that California wildfires🔥in January may have contributed 440 excess deaths in Los Angeles County. This estimate significantly exceeds the 30 direct fatalities linked to these events jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... @pophel.bsky.social @helsinki.fi

Proud to announce this year's European Demographer Awards! They go to Julia Hellstrand @juliahellstrand.bsky.social ‬ (Helsinki), Cosmo Strozza @cosmostrozza.bsky.social (Odense) and Éva Beaujouan @fertdem.bsky.social (Vienna). More: population-europe.eu/network/news... Congratulations!

#jobs #stellenangebote #GESISjobs #jobfairy 🎓 Join GESIS Cologne as a #Postdoc in Platform Data & Computational Social Science! 💻 Work internationally, shape DSA data access, and develop your research. Apply now: www.gesis.org/en/ins...#jobs#stellenangebote

Statement from the largest economics association about the BLS firing As context: AEA approximately never makes such public statements This is a big deal

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.

We're hiring! Please share with your networks! The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the field of demography of health and aging beginning in August 2026 jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

🚨New Publication🚨 A recent study published in @pnas.org by @athinaanas.bsky.social, @ezagheni.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social + Helga de Valk examined the limitations of theoretical and methodological approaches to understanding gender-specific migration trends. www.demogr.mpg.de/go/predictin...

📝 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

As many of us are gathering for the IUSSP International Population Conference #IPC2025, it worth re-watching this video that reminds us of what IUSSP stands for and why we are here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCyD...

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

Are you looking for easy to use temperature data for Europe from 1980 to 2024? If so, check out the Temperature Extremes in Europe (TEE) dataset! It includes 67 commonly used extreme temperature metrics at the NUTS 2 and 3 scales. See here for more info: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

👓Recommended Reading📚 #Basketball, #Physics, and #Demography in one paper? Can we predict Steph Curry’s next move on the court? Boris Barron @mpidr.bsky.social & his colleagues @cornelluniversity.bsky.social analyze detailed positional info of players in #NBA games. www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

Summer Incubator Program 2025 @mpidr.bsky.social is in full swing! Everyone has arrived, & the research groups have begun their work. 🧵1/4 www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even... @perrottadaniela.bsky.social @ezagheni.bsky.social @conteristo.bsky.social @ebrusanliturk.bsky.social @brunoarpino.bsky.social

MPIDR@PopDays2025 @aisp-sis.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social will be participating in #PopDays2025 in Cagliari. From 4 to 6 June, we will be presenting our research there. We're looking forward to the conference & to lots of 🍨🍕🍧🍝🍦- not necessarily in that order 😉 demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

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...

👓Recommended Reading📚Estimating Kinship Size of Older Adults in Europe With Models and Surveys In a paper recently published in @readdemography.bsky.social, @demography.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social and his colleagues, @maikevd.bsky.social and @afcastr0t.bsky.social (CED), compared ... 🧵1/5

🆕 study reveals global patterns of the migration of scientists shedding light on how researchers move both within and between countries. A team of researchers @mpidr.bsky.social found large disparities in the appeal of various countries and regions to scientists. www.demogr.mpg.de/go/migration...

Very proud of this work by Faeze Ghorbanpour, @thiagomalaguth.bsky.social and me, which addresses the left censoring issues in migration research that uses digital trace data. It will appear in the proceedings of #ICWSM2025, and Faeze is going to present it there. Access: doi.org/10.48550/arX...

#ROSW2025🔒🔓🔐 "The Workshop was an important step towards promoting #openscience practices in demographic research. In addition to the benefits for science & the general public, there are already many personal incentives (..) for adhering to open science practices." www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

Join us and join a wonderful lineup of confirmed speakers for a lively exchange on climate change and demography. Deadline for submissions: May 15 👇👇👇

With a little delay we learned that @lpcalderonb.bsky.social, who could not attend #PAA2025, won a Best Poster Award! Her colleagues put up the poster and a note from Liliana and co-author @martinkolk.bsky.social jumped in to present the research. Congrats Liliana! @popassocamerica.bsky.social

It's official. 15% ICR on NSF grants. My favorite line: "Reducing administrative burdens for awardee institutions." Say the opposite of what is true... the communication strategy of our time: www.nsf.gov/policies/doc...

Proud to announce the 2025 IUSSP Early Career Awards: Nurudeen Alhassan (AFIDEP), Luca Maria Pesando (NYU-Abu Dhabi), Diego Alburez-Gutierrez (MPIDR), Igor Cavallini Johansen (UNICAMP) & Monica Alexander (University of Toronto). Join us on 12 May. REGISTER NOW! shorturl.at/HBXIx #demography

The @nytopinion.nytimes.com today features a #dataviz of our new global migration flow estimates. nytimes.com/interactive/... Using privacy protected records from three billion Facebook users, we estimated country-to-country #migration flows at monthly granularity for 181 countries.

Only 10 days until the deadline! Apply now to the Saarbrücken Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science here: sicss.io/2025/saarbru...

What a great final for us! Daniela Perrotta won a Best Poster Award for her poster on "Gender Differences in High-Skilled Migration Europe - Insights from LinkedIn". Congrats Daniela! #PAA2025

Last day of #PAA2025 with a very good start: Congratulations to @conteristo.bsky.social won the Best Poster Award for his Poster on "Change in the Seasonality of Fertility in 20 European Countries from 1950 to 2019". Congratulation Risto!