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...

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations

🚨🧵on Venezuela While the final US military operation last weekend might have been under cover of darkness, the build-up to it was out in the open for all to see. I've constructed some timelines of the immediate build-up covering both the strikes and the supporting actions... 1/11

Donald Trump is on a colonial rampage. This is about American Empire - and there's not even an attempt to disguise it. Discussing that on BBC Radio 2 at 12pm

And actually--Comet Pizza was a page out of a playbook that started with daycare decades before. In 1983, a California mom accused her son's childcare provider of subjecting children to Satanic rituals--like flushing them down toilets into secret basements where they were then filmed for porn. 1/🧵

New visualization in @sociusjournal.bsky.social Extending our prior work with new data through 2024 we show infant health improves under Democratic presidents Black, White, Hispanic & Asian babies benefit, with largest gains for Black infants. Joint w terrific @tsrauf.bsky.social

NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇

A short preprint describing our adoption of more consistent and precise use of terminology related to reproducibility, robustness, replicability, repeatability, and credibility. osf.io/preprints/me...

Deadline is approaching!!!! 📌 Submit your contribution until 30 November 2025 for #REVES2026 📆 11–13 March 2026|Tokyo, Japan 🔗 www.reves2026.com #demography #LifeExpectancy

I was going to ask if someone knows of a comprehensive archive of US state policies that changed over the last 50 years. But then I remembered there's this: ippsr.msu.edu/public-polic... So now I'm posting it here for everyone's benefit instead

A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF

Our new paper develops and tests a network-based method for estimating death rates in complex humanitarian emergencies. Joint w/ @dennisfeehan.bsky.social and team from Geneva-based NGO @impact-initiatives.bsky.social academic.oup.com/aje/advance-...

Why are there so many ways to compute a frequentist interval for a proportion? Because the sample space is discrete, coverage can be garbage without adjustment. The Agresti-Coull interval ("score" below) is really a Bayes interval with a weak prior, has good freq coverage! >

#Autoimmune disease study breakthrough In @theipaper.com Helen Stagg discusses new US study which found Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), which causes glandular fever, is a trigger for #lupus as well as #MS, & how a vaccine could help prevent it. inews.co.uk/news/autoimm...

1,600+ fossil fuel lobbyists at COP30, outnumbering every delegation except Brazil This isn’t ‘dialogue’; it’s the industry responsible for the crisis hijacking the negotiations meant to stop it If this doesn’t make you furious, you’re not paying attention www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I'm concerned about the health research community rushing to *require* patient/public involvement (PPI) for all methodological research. 🧵 1/12

Over a dozen ways to decompose life expectancy, all in one (we hope) friendly interface. Please have a look at the LEdecomp R package cran.r-project.org/web/packages... See the function LEdecomp() for access to all of them. If we left something out, please shout! #rstats #demography #mortality

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

Berkeley Demography application deadline for Fall 2026 admission is Dec 1, 2025. Read more here: www.demog.berkeley.edu/graduate-adm...

LAST CALL! #Sociology Professorships in Copenhagen, Denmark! We're hiring 2+ open-rank profs (Asst/Assoc/Full). Any area. Deadline: this Saturday, Nov 15! Join a leading European sociology department. Please repost! jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

Earlier this week I came across a book with this dedication page (from 1938).

New BMJ Research: Greenness and hospital admissions for cause specific mental disorders. Study finds that local greenness was associated with a 7% reduction in hospital admissions for all cause mental disorders #BMJClimate www.bmj.com/content/391/...

At some point you might want to write your own geom_* for ggplot2. Here's an instruction booklet: evamaerey.github.io/ggplot2-exte... #rstats

📢 Job opening! Join our Research Group on Population Data and Projections as a Postdoctoral Researcher ⏰ Full-time (40h/week), 1-year position 🔗 Infos & application: oeawnr.onlyfy.jobs/job/km5kybrq

Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term www.gov.uk/government/p...

! New Paper Out! In this paper - with Ernesto Amaral, Samantha Haussman and Guilherme Quaresma - we investigate, for Brazil, whether area level composition of workers by age, educational and formal-informal labor relations impact the wage levels of workers. www.cepal.org/en/publicati...

Measuring the Scale of Loss: Life Expectancy and Conflict Mortality in Gaza. Enrique Acosta, Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics (CED) Come join us: Next Tuesday 4.11 at noon. @demosocupf.bsky.social www.upf.edu/web/politiqu...

17th Conference of Young Demographers, 4–6 February 2026, Prague, Czech Republic Deadline for submissions: 27 October 2025 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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

Up to 3 Post-docs: Pop. Projections for Migration Scenarios, Human Capital Dev & Sust. Integration [email protected], Population Research Inst, in collab w @mpidr.bsky.social & @iiasa.ac.at .https://www.vaestoliitto.fi/en/news/postdoctoral-researchers-in-demography-and-population-projections/