💉 The HPV vaccine is a miracle 💉 *Zero* cervical cancer cases so far among vaccinated younger cohorts in Scotland & Australia. But currently only 62% of U.S. adolescents are up to date on their HPV vaccinations...we can do better! jenndowd.substack.com/p/the-cancer... #medsky #publichealth

📣 Call for Papers‼️ Our colleagues @demography.bsky.social and @elenapojman.com are calling for papers for a special issue on 𝘒𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘺: 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴, 𝘋𝘺𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐𝘯𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 in Demographic Research. Submissions will be open from June 15 to December 15, 2026.

MPIDR@EPC2026 Have a chat with Marcus Ebeling 📅 Friday, June 5 🕑 14:00-15:00 📍MPIDR booth Marcus Ebeling will be promoting his new Research Group Medical Demography. If you want to learn about his research and the future possibilities to join the group, visit us at our booth. #EPC2026

The Population Investigation Committee (PIC) invites applications for the position of Editor(s)-in-Chief of Population Studies, a leading international journal in demography. Applications deadline: 5pm UK time, 23 June 2026 👉Details: spr.ly/63323B8X3VB

Japan may be "a harbinger of the demographic headwinds that will soon buffet other developed countries", but not that soon, and not the US, where TFR today is what Japan's was 40 years ago. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... NYT figure from today, and mine for context:

1/ New #paper by Chuck Manski, @johnmullahy.bsky.social, and me in the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics (@amstatnews.bsky.social).

Atheen nicely summarizes the paper. I will just add that the DCC issues we study are increasingly recognized in other contexts, e.g. discrimination www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... and demography onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... where terminology like identity fluidity is often used.

This is super concerning... please read and comment by July 13th if you care about the future of US federally funded research. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...?

📣We are excited to share another Call for Papers. This time for a special issue on 𝘒𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘺: 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴, 𝘋𝘺𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐𝘯𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴. Submissions are possible from 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞 15 𝐭𝐨 𝐃𝐞𝐜 15, 2026. ℹ️CfP with all the info here: www.demographic-research.org/files/202605...

Confirmed: The HPV vaccine is amaze amaze amaze. Still TBD: Will Project Hail Mary finally displace my penchant for Princess Bride quotes? #GenX #episky #medsky #publichealth #idsky Read more (and subscribe!) jenndowd.substack.com/p/the-cancer...

I'm adopting a family's June rent, & asking for help raising $1450 This Minneapolis-area mom of 5 kids needs help since her husband was deported during Operation Metro Surge Can you help? Venmo @wrigleyfield / CashApp $ewrigleyfield (DM for last 4 digits of phone or Zelle) Incentives in next post

Interested in demography? You might like our new tool on @ourworldindata.org which lets you see how changes in fertility rates, life expectancy, and migration rates will change future populations. Have a play! You can even do it continent wide. ourworldindata.org/population-s...

That reframing suggests a different goal: not chasing higher birth rates, but building a society in which people can make meaningful choices about parenthood—and feel able to act on them.” 👏👏 Great piece @alisongemmill.bsky.social @prbdata.bsky.social #demography www.prb.org/news/are-ame...

Landmark systematic review of the British birth cohorts, providing further evidence of Generational Health Drift. Led by the fantastic Laura Gimeno with superstar team: @dmorenoagostino.bsky.social @martindanka.bsky.social @yiling1015.bsky.social Alice Goisis & @drjenndowd.bsky.social

demoscapes.org is a visual atlas of demographic surfaces hosted at @mpidr.bsky.social. It is also my passion project growing out of my 2016 human mortality database explorer. Did you publish something containing Lexis surfaces? Consider reaching out and having your work featured on the site.

It’s a good day in Milan when you get a special tour of @bocconi.bsky.social from the Rector himself!! #demography

Important explanation that these headlines were not based on any science but are essentially the opinions of well connected people. open.substack.com/pub/gidmk/p/...

I’m not saying correlation is causation but the inverse correlation between the quality of news articles on demography and the number of demographers quoted in them is…notable. I count one demographer in total across these two recent articles, for example 🤔

Mindel Sheps wrote many beautiful papers about the mathematics of demography. Her papers "On the person years concept in epidemiology and demography" in Millbank and "Shall we count the living or the dead?" in NEJM are my favorites. Also, she mentored Jane Menken!!!

You may have seen this graph in the FT, which claims to show birth rates plunging since the introduction to smartphone. Except it doesn't. Read my short piece with @debscohen.bsky.social on some of the problems with this graph of juicy cherries! unherd.com/newsroom/are...

I’m late, but want to Blue Sky celebrate the amazing @ridhikashyap.bsky.social & her Early Career Award from the @popassocamerica.bsky.social!! 🎉🏆👏🙌. Sometimes good things *do* happen to good people :). #demography @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social

Really important piece, especially in the context of mass marketing of polygenic scores for things like precision medicine or embryo selection.

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this is a great interview. hanage is one of the best outbreak communicators and you should be following him

This is an excellent opportunity to do a PhD on #health, #adolescence, and #emergingadulthood in two of the best places to study demography!

@paaalpaca.bsky.social seen about town in St. Louis, but not hitting the drinks too hard (yet). 🤩🤩 @popassocamerica.bsky.social #demography

Hantavirus update. Still not a five alarm fire, but an escalation. Story broken in @medpagetoday.com by Kristina Fiore. I contributed reporting. www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo... insidemedicine.substack.com/p/medpage-to... www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

I was just asked about reproducibility issues in demography and healthy life expectancy came to mind.

Nooooooo...... On my way to see you in St. Louis my demography peeps, but perhaps not as productive on the plane as I had hoped (or maybe more, we'll see :)).

#ECDC is monitoring a suspected #hantavirus outbreak linked to a cruise ship in the Atlantic. Risk to the population in Europe - VERY LOW. A cluster of severe respiratory illness has been reported among passengers, including three deaths and one severe case. The ship is currently off Cabo Verde.

1/ No, the New York Times was *not* wrong about birth rates.. There has been some pushback on a recent @upshot.nytimes.com article on US birth rate trends that I think is *mostly* unfair. The original article: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u... #demography

Ugh, I really wish such poor quality studies were not given headlines in major news outlets... it really hurts the credibility of findings from good studies IMO---how can the public be expected to know the difference? 😫 Come on, @cnn.com!

A reminder that there's lots of variation beneath an average treatment effect, even a very impressive one.... jenndowd.substack.com/p/do-glp-1-d... #episky #medsky #GLP

Researchers writing about their work frequently rely on clichés. Yet, little is known about how such clichés affect

Finally @drjenndowd.bsky.social has an excellent explainer on the new data: "When people shift to having children later in life, overall birth rates can appear artificially lower for a time. Whether delayed births eventually “catch up” is an open question that demographers are watching closely" 7/7

Creating a moral panic over low birth rates is how we get here: attacks on contraceptive methods and on public funding of family planning. 1/

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We’re hiring! The Gateway is looking for a Research Scientist to join the CESR team. Researchers in #aging -related fields with experience in international health & retirement studies (e.g., HRS, HCAP) are encouraged to apply. Read more and apply: tinyurl.com/yvkk76nt

Periodic reminder to use the right fertility rates and terms familyinequality.wordpress.com/2025/10/03/l...

Totally stuck on this draft for weeks after writing the results but completely flailing around about why anyone should care. Then, in a one-hour appointment, I more or less fully figured out the introduction and discussion sections. I do recommend this coaching service!!

I'm speaking at ML-NYC on Monday, April 20 4pm at Flatiron Institute. "Life Trajectories and Life Chances: New Approaches from Population Registries and AI". Registration is free and reception afterwards: www.eventbrite.com/e/ml-nyc-spe...

It’s been exactly 20 years since we published these two papers in the Special Collection on ‘Determinants of Diverging Trends in Mortality’: By Jacques Vallin & France Meslé: www.demographic-research.org/articles/spe... By France Meslé: www.demographic-research.org/articles/spe...

I really enjoyed this comprehensive explainer of what's in the pipeline for Alzheimer's and what we've learned from past failures. I left feeling optimistic about what we might see in the next decade! drglorioso.substack.com/p/the-alzhei... #medsky #scicomm #episky #dementia

“So much of the experimentation with GLP-1s is happening outside of traditional research models, careful clinical trials and even the health system. Given the immense popularity of these drugs, regulators and the medical establishment need urgently to figure out how to best capture and keep pace”

🏛️ New #PhD opportunity at @lshtm.bsky.social & @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social building models of #InfectiousDisease transmission that incorporates data on health inequalities Interested in developing #epidemiology & modelling skills? Apply by 11 May 2026 Details 🔽 www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-a...

Featured on INOMICS: Oxford University Economics Summer School #Econsky

The timing of childbearing has been widely studied by demographers since the 20s. It's newly worth reading the early stuff from the 30s-60s because it handwrings about fertility being "too low" among some: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

@mcsweeneys.net nails it. Funny/not funny 🫠

There are reasons to believe the record-low U.S. birthrate could be only temporary as today’s young women postpone pregnancy. Several PAA Members featured in @nytimes.com piece: buff.ly/848YtKB @karenguzzo.bsky.social @philipncohen.com @alisongemmill.bsky.social @marthajbailey.bsky.social

@mcsweeneys.net nails what it feel like to be a demographer these days… 🤌 🎯 www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ame...