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Andrew Heiss
10 days ago
I recently discovered Conventional Comments (
conventionalcomments.org
) for providing a pseudo-standard set of labels for feedback and just tried it for an article review and it was really helpful to specify issues vs. thoughts vs. suggestions, etc. Hopefully it's helpful for the authors too!
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Diego Alburez
22 days ago
Check out this conference if you work on topics related to kinship structure and dynamics (within and beyond the household), caregiving, intergenerational processes, family bereavement, LGBTQ+ & chosen kinship, etc.
@iussp.bsky.social
Submit by 21 Jan 2026 👇
www.demogr.mpg.de/go/kinship-conference
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Population Studies Center
2 months ago
The Graduate Group in Demography at the University of Pennsylvania is now accepting applications for its PhD program in Demography. We look forward to recruiting a strong and diverse cohort for Fall 2026! ➡️ Applications are due December 15, 2025 ⬅️ Learn More:
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Prospective Students | Graduate Group in Demography
https://demog.pop.upenn.edu/prospective-students
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Julia Mikolai
3 months ago
We are hiring a Posd-Doctoral Research Fellow
@standrewssgsd.bsky.social
@phrg-standrews.bsky.social
to work on
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#housing
#projections
using
#microsimulation
. DL: 1 October. More info:
www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
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Research Fellow (or Research Assistant*) – AR2690
Research Fellow (or Research Assistant*) – AR2690, School of Geography and Sustainable Development, Salary: £38,784 - £46,049 per annum, Start: As soon as possible, Fixed term until May 2027, <p st...
https://www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/5839/0/456726/889/research-fellow-or-research-assistant-ar2690
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Demography - the flagship journal of PAA
4 months ago
In “Widow & Widower Mortality in India,” Megan Reed et al. employ IHDS data & find no higher mortality risk for widows or widowers aged 60+ relative to married individuals, but among those aged 25-59, the risk was 50% and 40% greater among widowers & widows, resp.
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Bernardo Lanza Queiroz
3 months ago
@jacalazans.bsky.social
, Carol Tomás and I are the editors of Revista Brasileira de Estudos de Populacao (
www.rebep.org.br
), a peer-reviewed, open-access journal that publishes population related papers in Portuguese, Spanish, and English. Rebep has just turned 40 years old in 2024.
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Revista Brasileira de Estudos de População
REBEP - Revista Brasileira de Estudos de População
https://www.rebep.org.br
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Christiaan Monden
3 months ago
Another job alert! Join us
@sociologyoxford.bsky.social
as a postdoc on
@ewabatyra.bsky.social
's ERC project. A great three-year position to work in the area of fertility and reproductive behaviour.
www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/event/postdo...
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Chloé Lavest
3 months ago
📢 Job vacancy 📢 📍 Sociology Department at
@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
👩🎓 Assistant Professor specialized in migration/integration/polarization/stratification ⏰ Until 29th of September ☑️Teaching in Dutch is required 📃 More info at
www.uu.nl/organisatie/...
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Universitair docent sociologie
Wil jij studenten inspireren en vernieuwend onderwijs geven? Versterk ons team als universitair docent met expertise in migratie en/of sociale stratificatie.
https://www.uu.nl/organisatie/werken-bij-de-universiteit-utrecht/vacatures/universitair-docent-sociologie
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Will Allen
3 months ago
As we enter September, you may see posts with news of jobs, promotions, grants, fellowships, and the like. That’s great! We should celebrate with colleagues, especially in an industry where rejection is the modal outcome. 1/n
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Andrea Tilstra
3 months ago
Looking to do a PhD in demography, health, data science? Oxford Demography (LCDS) is recruiting to fill TWO positions! See Charlie's posts below for specifics. Come join us in the beautiful (albeit a bit rainy) Oxford!! 👩🏫📊🌦️
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Per Engzell
3 months ago
WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you. Apply by: 10 Oct
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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Hampton Gaddy
3 months ago
📢 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...
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One Epidemic, Many Estimates (1EME)
One Epidemic, Many Estimates (1EME)
https://www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-History/HED/Workshops/One-Epidemic-Many-Estimates-1EME
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Population Studies Group, LSHTM
3 months ago
🗣️Exciting PhD opportunity! Join
@lshtm.bsky.social
PSG and
@mpidr.bsky.social
as a PhD student/Research Assistant on an 3-year project leading to a funded PhD. The role focuses on developing cutting-edge methods to model health & mortality in low-income countries.
jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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Job Opportunity at LSHTM: Research Assistant
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is one of the world’s leading public health universities. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working i...
https://jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=EPH-DPH-2025-13
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Ewa Batyra
3 months ago
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👇
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The India Forum
5 months ago
"To this day, there has been no government recognition of the extent to which the pandemic hit India. It remains to be seen whether this will change now that such a clear story has emerged from the government’s own data." -
@aashishg.bsky.social
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Will the Government Finally Acknowledge the Scale of India’s Covid-19 Tragedy?
Newly released 2021 government mortality data shows 3 million excess death registrations in India during Covid-19, suggesting over 4 million total excess deaths. The pandemic’s real impact then was fa...
https://www.theindiaforum.in/health/will-government-india-finally-acknowledge-scale-indias-covid-tragedy
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The India Forum
5 months ago
Newly released 2021 government mortality data shows 3 mn excess death registrations in India during Covid, suggesting over 4 mn total excess deaths. The pandemic’s real impact was far greater than the official estimate.
www.theindiaforum.in/health/will-...
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Will the Government Finally Acknowledge the Scale of India’s Covid-19 Tragedy?
Newly released 2021 government mortality data shows 3 million excess death registrations in India during Covid-19, suggesting over 4 million total excess deaths. The pandemic’s real impact then was fa...
https://www.theindiaforum.in/health/will-government-india-finally-acknowledge-scale-indias-covid-tragedy
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Stéphane Helleringer
5 months ago
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...
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Westland Books
5 months ago
How can we grow our food in a way that respects our environment? Our Rice Tastes of Spring with its earthy illustrations celebrates the importance of traditional farming while capturing the spirit of Adivasi communities. Story and research:
@anumeha.bsky.social
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
7 months ago
The biggest project I've worked on for the last chunk of years was just published. It asks, how big are US Black-white lifespan differences? This might seem like a narrow question. I hope to convince you by the end that there are answers you didn't anticipate. And I hope some of them will move you.
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Three Ways of Looking at Black–White Mortality Differences in the United States | Annual Reviews
Everyone agrees that US Black deaths happen earlier than white deaths on average, but it is surprisingly challenging to find the best ways to summarize, quantify, and compare this gap. This review arg...
https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-soc-031021-105213
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Ingrid van Dijk
8 months ago
My colleague Martin Dribe is looking for a doctoral candidate interested in demographic inequality in his Wallenberg Scholar project ‘Unequal Lives: Socioeconomic Stratification, Life-Course, and Demography from Preindustrial Society to the Welfare State’.
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Doctoral student in Economic History – Demographic Inequality
The Department of Economic History is a research-intensive department that employs about 100 people: researchers, teachers, technical/administrative staff, and Ph.D. candidates. The department has a l
https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:809395/
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Ingrid van Dijk
8 months ago
I'm looking for 1-2 doctoral candidates in my ERC-funded project "Relative Health: Long-Run Inequalities in Health and Survival Between Families and Across Generations". These are 4-year, fully funded positions at Lund University. More info:
lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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Doctoral student in Economic History – Inequalities in health and survival
The Department of Economic History is a research-intensive department that employs about 100 people: researchers, teachers, technical/administrative staff, and Ph.D. candidates. The department has a l
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Demography - the flagship journal of PAA
8 months ago
In “Mortality by Cause of Death in Brazil,”
@fernandofernandes.bsky.social
,
@cassiomturra.bsky.social
, G Franca & M Castro quantify “the different & paradoxical ways the COVID-19 pandemic indirectly impacted other causes of death…in 2020 & 2021.”
@hsph.harvard.edu
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Christiaan Monden
8 months ago
Great job opportunity: 3-year research fellow in José Manuel Aburto's Mortality and Inequalities Research Group at LSHTM:
jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations
8 months ago
📑 JOB VACANCY -
#ResearchFellow
post within the ESRC-funded Connecting Generations programme. Examining fuller
#workinglives
and
#care
for later life individuals in the UK and internationally 📨Apply by 11 April:
jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
@bspsuk.bsky.social
@britishgerontology.bsky.social
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Anastasia Karatzas
9 months ago
📣 The migration team at the
@epc-official.bsky.social
is looking for a new colleague (at junior/analyst level) w knowledge of labour migration & skills, integration & inclusion, & demography. Start date is ASAP, so please do consider applying & share widely in your networks! 🏃➡️
epc.eu/en/JPA-PA-EMD
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR)
9 months ago
Today's
#worldhearingday
🦻So we shine a💡on a study on age-related
#hearingloss
in Europe by D.Stonkute
@mpidr.bsky.social
& Y.Vierboom
@princetonupress.bsky.social
. Educational inequalities in hearing loss vary by age, gender®ion.
www.demogr.mpg.de/go/hearing
#hearingcare
#safelistening
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Klaus Pforr
9 months ago
A Message from 2025
@popassocamerica.bsky.social
President Irma Elo on how PAA is responding to the uncertainty in our government
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vclk...
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A Message from 2025 PAA President Irma Elo
YouTube video by Population Association of America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vclkY0umcVs
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Stéphane Helleringer
9 months ago
With
@otorrisi.bsky.social
, we tested several methods to improve data on recent household deaths collected during surveys & censuses in many low-and-middle income countries. These are essential when civil registration of deaths is limited. Results in paper ⬇️
#EpiSky
academic.oup.com/ije/article/...
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Improving retrospective data on recent household deaths: a multi-arm randomized trial in Guinea-Bissau
AbstractBackground. In countries with limited civil registration and vital statistics systems, assessing the impact of health crises requires precise retro
https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/54/2/dyaf009/8038164
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Jeff Edmeades
9 months ago
I’ve struggled to find the right words following Musk/Trump’s decision to end the Demographic and Health Surveys Program (the OG DHS). While nothing is inevitable, there is no denying this is a huge blow personally, professionally and for the world. /1
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The DHS Program - Quality information to plan, monitor and improve population, health, and nutrition programs
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Trump Administration Ends Global Health Research Program
The Demographic and Health Surveys were the only sources of reliable information in many countries on metrics such as mortality, nutrition and education.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/health/usaid-global-health-surveys.html
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Samkelo depended on USAID-backed drugs to stay alive. Then came Trump’s order
The suspension of billions in US funding has brought the fight against Aids screeching to a halt
https://www.ft.com/content/533bc63c-f374-4ea0-a46a-5af76bff849b
9 months ago
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Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦
9 months ago
No words. This is absolutely horrendous news
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"...life expectancy in the Gaza Strip decreased by 34·9 yrs during the first 12 months of the war, about half the prewar level..." Guillot, M, M Draidi, V Cetorelli, José HCM Da Silva, & I Lubbad. 2025. Life Expectancy Losses in the Gaza Strip during the Period Oct, 2023, to Sep, 2024. The Lancet.
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Life expectancy losses in the Gaza Strip during the period October, 2023, to September, 2024
Our approach to estimating life expectancy losses in this study is conservative as it ignores the indirect effect of the war on mortality. Even ignoring this indirect effect, results show that the ong...
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)02810-1/fulltext
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roadscholarz
10 months ago
India's “egg map”: Eggs in midday meals are still a no-no across India’s entire “north-west” region, even in states where most people eat non-veg. Undernourished children pay the price. [Credit: Swati Narayan]
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Heather Randell
11 months ago
Hey PhD students with demography/population health training! The Minnesota Population Center
@minnpop.bsky.social
is hiring multiple postdoc positions for next year. Apply to come work in the coolest pop center around (not that I'm biased or anything)!
pop.umn.edu/training/pos...
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Postdoctoral Training | Minnesota Population Center
Postdoctoral TrainingWe hire both project-based Post Doctoral Associates and program-based Post Doctoral Trainees.
https://pop.umn.edu/training/postdoctoral?j=13168476&sfmc_sub=334312352&l=591_HTML&u=270550037&mid=6370110&jb=1
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Erwan Rivault
11 months ago
NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold. We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940. 2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.
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Stéphane Helleringer
11 months ago
Our new paper on a survey method to improve the measurement of mortality at older ages in countries with limited death registration ⬇️
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Fabian Pfeffer
11 months ago
Before you start into the well-deserved holiday break, may I submit a possible entry for your New Year's resolution:
job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5...
Come and work with us in Munich as a postdoctoral researcher. Applications are due January 15th.
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Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Oxford University
11 months ago
📝 Our new
@pnasnexus.org
study has found significant effects of the
#COVID-19
pandemic on many causes of death across 24 countries
https://buff.ly/4iI51tF
@polizzan.bsky.social
@drjenndowd.bsky.social
@aashishg.bsky.social
@leverhulme.bsky.social
@oxpop.bsky.social
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New study reveals the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on other causes of death
An international study involving researchers at the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science has found significant effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on many causes of death across 24 countries.
https://buff.ly/4iI51tF
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Luca Maria Pesando
11 months ago
📢 Job: Sabino Kornrich and I are hiring a 3-year Postdoc to join us at
#NYUAD
to work on parenting, childhood inequalities, and parenting norms in international and comparative perspective using experimental methods. Deadline to apply: February 14, 2025. To apply:
apply.interfolio.com/160976
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Daniela Urbina J.
11 months ago
A great postdoc opportunity for family researchers!
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Berkeley Population Sciences
12 months ago
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
is accepting applications for Fall 2025 for the PhD program in Demography AND the Graduate Group in Sociology & Demography. Seeking a diverse and strong cohort; applications DUE 12/17/2024. Learn more about the program:
www.demog.berkeley.edu/graduate-pro...
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Graduate Program - Department of Demography
Graduate Program UC Berkeley Demography offers three graduate degree tracks independently and in conjunction with the department of Sociology. Ph.D. in Demography The doctoral program is intended to p...
https://www.demog.berkeley.edu/graduate-program/
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Facebook, Instagram failed to curb shadow ads in Jharkhand targeting CM Soren and others: new report
These advertisements violate the platforms’ policies as well as India’s electoral laws, researchers argue.
https://scroll.in/article/1075335/facebook-instagram-failed-to-curb-shadow-ads-in-jharkhand-targeting-cm-soren-and-others-new-report
about 1 year ago
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Indian coal giants pushed for lax pollution rules while ramping up production
Even after agreeing to phase down coal, the Indian state-run giants were pushing to weaken pollution rules and expand the sector
https://www.climatechangenews.com/2024/10/28/indian-coal-giants-pushed-for-lax-pollution-rules-while-ramping-up-production/
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