📢 #episky #mortality #opendata #HMD The weekly deaths series #STMF was just updated at mortality.org/Data/STMF ✅ New data for 32 countries ✅ Full data for 2025 for 34 countries To further explore the data, check out the excess visualization toolkit 👇 mpidr.shinyapps.io/stmortality/

This is so cool. This atlas has Lexis plots on how various things have changed over time in different age groups – mortality rates, fertility rates, number of parents and siblings. And you can reach out to Jonas to add your own plots too. I'd like to see Lexis plots for absolutely everything.

Mindel Sheps b #OTD 1913 (d 13 Jan 1973) ASA Fellow 1970. Physician, political healthcare activist, biostatistics professor, advisor to WHO, she made substantial contributions to mathematical demography but is best known for her highly influential NEJM 1958 paper on the asymmetry of relative risk.

Congratulations to the data wizards at @ourworldindata.org who created this elegant tool so you can adjust fertility, mortality & migration rates for any country to see the impact on population sizes & age structures. This is really, really great!! Check it out!! Excellent tool, terrific write up.

We are recruiting for a PhD student who will be studying jointly between Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and University of St Andrews, More information are attached. @phrg-standrews.bsky.social @cpc-cg.bsky.social @bspsuk.bsky.social

What is the main reason for premature male mortality in Mexico? @ikashnitsky.phd and Aburto answered this question in 2019 for every Mexican state, every year since 1990 and all ages from 15 to 50. Their rich results are available on demoscapes. demoscapes.org/collections/...

Max Planck Research Group on Reproductive Ageing, led by D. Susie Lee 이수지, is starting today! It will investigate indicators of female & male reproductive ageing: https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events_6123/news_press_releases_4630/news/new_max_planck_research_group_on_reproductive_ageing_14854

New visualizations of a deeply important paper (out last year) by @mathewkiang.com and colleagues

Exiting news 🎉 We @timriffe1.bsky.social @opik-ikerketa.bsky.social @ehu.eus will be organizing and hosting the 38th REVES conference on #healthexpectancy in #Bilbao! Save the date for #REVES2027 @reves-network.bsky.social 📆 18-21 may 2027 📍 Bizkaia Aretoa in Bilbao, Spain

📣One more #tenuretrack Assistant Professor job going at TCD Sociology! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQY837/a... Closing date: April 20 @tcdsociology.bsky.social @isa-rc28.bsky.social @eaps.bsky.social

I see quite a few demographers with exploited works that are owed part of the Anthropic settlement. Too many for me to give individual heads-ups to. Worth your time if you’re one of them.

📣Pre-Conference EPC Workshop: Demographic Microsimulation in R using SOCSIM – Modelling Population and Kinship Dynamics 📅June 03, 2026 🗺️Bologna #EPC2026 Learn all: www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even... @eaps.bsky.social @eapsphd.bsky.social

Ok: 1 like = 1 demographic fact* * may include estimates, generalizations, dataviz, or unsubstantiated claims

🚨PhDs in demography, sociology, public health, biomedical science.... Check out this exciting postdoc opportunity to work in the new and growing area of "medical demography" with Dr. Marcus Ebeling! www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61...

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

1/ Has life expectancy fully recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic? In a new pre-print, we find that 31 of 34 high-income countries had still not returned to their expected life expectancy trajectories five years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... #demography

Weaponizing Kinship: Four out of ten Colombians have lost a family member in the conflict 🇨🇴 Enrique Acosta, Diego Alburez, Maria Gargiulo, & Catalina Torres quantified how many Colombians have ever lost at least a family member to conflict-related violence. www.demogr.mpg.de/go/weaponkinship

Paper by E Acosta, @demography.bsky.social, @thegargiulian.bsky.social & C Torres first from PDR special issue I guest edited w/ L Andriano & M Ebbinghaus, Social and Demographic Consequences of Political Conflict and Violence, to be available on early view onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨New paper out in Demographic Research🚨 and my first foray into demographic methods. It develops a new method to quantify how specific subpopulations drive demographic gaps. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol... @demresjournal.bsky.social @pophel.bsky.social #demography #methods

An excellent resource!

New post! It may seem ambitious to ask for individual patient data from clinical trials to be shared, anonymized, for use by other researchers. But the history of medicine shows us that clinical trials have already undergone a series of transformations that once seemed equally bold:

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

📈 New preprint on life expectancy trajectories in high-income countries since 2020. 📉 Joint work with a great team from @mpidr.bsky.social @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @psglshtm.bsky.social @camunicampop.bsky.social Link below. 👇

Another way to use Kitagawa decomposition in demography:-) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I'll be teaching again for Barcelona Summer School of Demography, "Demography with R" 6-10 July: ced.cat/en/bcn4seaso... You can do this program in person or online. Sign up, it's fun to do demography! @cedemografia.bsky.social

Join us in Bologna for the 1st meeting of the EAPS WG Open Science in Demography. Program: group intro + 2h workshop led by @jschoeley.com & @akbaritabar.bsky.social. Free & open to all. Register: [email protected] #EPC2026 #OpenScience #Demography @eaps.bsky.social @populationeu.bsky.social

The last part abt how measles disrupts immunity vs other infections is, imo, underappreciated (& mechanism was recently clarified). It's part of why measles vaccination was seen to help beyond just reducing measles complications - not getting measles reduces severity of subsequent infections too.

Have you ever considered studying demography – also alongside your work? Charles University in Prague is offering a part-time distance-learning programme leading to a Master's degree in Demography. 🔜 Application deadline: 28 February 2026 Read more here: lnkd.in/dHVw-3gR Photo: Petr Jan Juračka

📢Job Offer‼️New Max Planck Research Group on Medical Demography Marcus Ebeling will lead the team starting on 1 July 2026. The research group will be based at the MPIDR in Rostock. Read an interview with Marcus on his future research here: www.demogr.mpg.de/go/rgmd (including link to job) #postdoc

Big congratulations to Rohan Alexander & Tim Hatton for their article ‘The making of a nation: Who voted for Australian federation?' which has won the 2025 Sir Timothy Coghlan award for best paper in the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review!

‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." … She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’

🎓🎩 Congratulations to Nicolò, Francesca, Giacomo, and Agostino on earning their PhDs! It was a wonderful day filled with inspiring talks on fertility, migration, mortality, and health — everything that demography is about. We are truly proud of your paths, well done to all four of you! 🌟📊

Call for Applications! NextGenPop is an undergraduate program in population research, 2-week on-campus summer experience and virtual components hosted by the University of Minnesota, June 7 – 19, 2026. Deadline Feb. 5

Population science/demography folks: Looking for a list of journals that either a) don't have OA fees, b) have reasonable OA fees (a few hundred), or c) allow authors to deposit the author's accepted manuscript in PubMed. Does this exist somewhere? Do we need to start such a list?

This is terrible. It is also an opportunity for certain journalists to finally speak up with a *fraction* of the courage the people of Minneapolis have shown. It is also instructive that Lemon is Black. Woe/pox etc upon white journalists who don’t freak out about this.

PhD opportunity! CPop is opening a fully funded three year PhD position on lifespan inequalities. Apply here 👇 fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

It all comes back to the corrupting influence of money in politics. Get it out!

Vignette: solving facility location problems with realistic travel-times. Use the r5 routing engine to generate a travel-time cost matrix from OSM data, then optimize facility locations with a lightning-fast Rust backend in spopt-r. Learn how: walker-data.com/spop...

The Toronto Population Network @tpn-uoft.bsky.social Seminar Series is happening this semester, with a great line-up, including @lucampesando.bsky.social, Orsola Torrisi, @mdhayward.bsky.social, and @jnobles.bsky.social! Starts next Tuesday. If you're in Toronto please come along!

MiCDA is excited to announce that our call for Research Fellow proposals is now open! Early career faculty are invited to submit proposals for pilot research related to the demography of aging. Visit myumi.ch/P34p4 for details. We look forward to your submissions by March 2.

📢 #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.

This is exciting! www.dhsprogram.com?fbclid=IwVER...

Two more weeks to apply for this job! Tenure track or tenured! Living in Paris! Nice colleagues (and me)! Let me know if you have any questions! Details: www.shorturl.at/E57le

I belatedly realized that one thing I can do to help Minneapolis is connect people there who want to write about what they're experiencing, but need support, to people who can provide that. Support can mean comments on a draft, but it can also mean listening to you talk & asking questions, 1/

Finally, a note to the many professors in my networks: One other specific, small thing you can do from outside of Minneapolis is reach out to colleagues who are heavily affected (because of their own or their family's risk, or because they're very busy protecting neighbors) and offer a guest lecture

Want to get the data out of a PDF figure? As in, the actual data – not a rough trace-along-the-lines version? I made an app you might like: adamkucharski.github.io/pdf2plot/ It all started a few years ago... 🧵

Our paper "Ageing populations: new challenges in longevity" updating Christensen et al. (2009) is out! This was one of the first tasks Jim Vaupel gave me 5 years ago & grateful to have worked with 3 of the original authors plus 2 CPop colleagues to bring this to fruition @cosmostrozza.bsky.social

The Minnesota Population Center at the University of Minnesota (@minnpop.bsky.social) is hiring a postdoc in Population Health. Happy to chat about the MPC, UMN, and the Twin Cities, which are all awesome in my humble opinion! pop.umn.edu/training/pos...