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

American professors, who wants to come to Oxford for a year or two? Get in quick - deadline soon. www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/vacancy-geor...

Winners of the Philip Leverhulme Prize, @fsturt.bsky.social @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social and @ridhikashyap.bsky.social, talk about their research and the Prize’s impact on their work and career. 🎬 media.leverhulme.ac.uk/video/philip...

New study on global digital gender gaps 🧔‍♂️👩📱🌐: It finds that in low- and middle-income countries - women are 9% less likely to use the 🌐 - 8% less likely to own a 📱 than men ( ~320 million fewer women 🌐 and ~190 million fewer women with 📱) www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/mapping...

Proud to see @jasminabdelghany.bsky.social now a Dr. It was a pleasure advising her thesis and seeing her grow as a scholar. Congratulations!

New @pnas.org paper constructing subnational estimates of internet and mobile adoption by gender, including gender gaps, for 117 low- and middle- income countries from 2015 through 2025. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🚨 The Economist has been telling you for years that polygamy causes civil war by locking men out of marriage. A new article with @rebeccasear.bsky.social and @anthrolog.bsky.social explains that the demography of marriage markets doesn't actually work that way. 🧵 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Thanks for having me @i2sc.net - I enjoyed the discussion. Hope the rest of your SICSS goes well!

🌍 Can satellites help count people where censuses are missing? New work by @edithdarin.bsky.social, @ridhikashyap.bsky.social K& Douglas Leasure shows building-footprint maps + smart models can fill census gaps—vital for health, planning & aid. www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/can-sat...

New work from the Digital Gender Gaps team — we show how access to free laptops provided in public schools improved foundational math esp for economically disadvantaged households, w/ more time on time on learning, less private tuition and better language comprehension.

Are you attending the International Population Conference in Brisbane? The IUSSP Panel on Digital and Computational Demography is organising *3* pre-conference workshops on digital gender inequalities, kinship and microsimulation, and migration and digital trace data iussp.org/en/digital-a...

#IPC2025! Workshop by @lpcalderonb.bsky.social @aasli.bsky.social & @ridhikashyap.bsky.social in Brisbane: "Demographic Microsimulation in R Using SOCSIM:Modeling Population & Kinship Dynamics." ipc2025.iussp.org/cms/wp-conte... Sign up until 06/22/25 Applicants will be notified by the end of June.

🔥Coming July 2: 'Metrics and Models'!🔥 A new seminar series on advanced modelling w/ impact across health/society. 🌍 Open to *ALL*! 🕑 Weds 2pm UK alternating weeks (online) 🔗 metrics-and-models.github.io 📬 [email protected] Brilliant speakers. *Please share*!

Hey demographers! We're starting up the formal demography working group again! Next Friday 16 May at 11:30am ET @hggaddy.bsky.social will talk to us about challenges in estimating crisis mortality. Excited! Head to the website to sign up for Zoom details: formaldemography.github.io/working_group/

I’ve loved my time here — highly recommend applying! Just a few days left...

Deadline approaching: Friday this week at noon UK! Apply and/or share widely!

*JOB OPENING* Come join me and the Digital Gender Gaps team @sociologyoxford.bsky.social @oxforddemsci.bsky.social. We study digital gender inequalities and their consequences w/ social media, geospatial, and population data. tinyurl.com/postdoc-oxf Apply by 9 May, noon (UK)

REPOST #jobs @oxforddemsci.bsky.social 👨‍💻Senior Research Fellow Associate/Professor 👩‍💻Senior Researcher Geospatial Health 📲Postdoc Digital Pandemic Preparedness 👶Postdoc Reproductive Demography 🤖 Programmer AI See: www.demography.ox.ac.uk/jobs #Demography #Epidemiology #Health #Population

March 15, 2020 was a huge turning point for me w/ both @oxforddemsci.bsky.social & the start of my #scicomm adventure w/ @thosenerdygirls.bsky.social. On the 5th anniversary of that day, I am excited to launch my Substack "Data for Health"-please subscribe! jenndowd.substack.com/p/reflection...

The Population and Development turns 50 this year! To mark the occasion, w/ @aasli.bsky.social, we conduct a computational analysis of research themes and author characteristics in PDR and compare with @readdemography.bsky.social and Population Studies. doi.org/10.1111/padr...

How can we #AccelerateAction to improve women's health outcomes? buff.ly/pacAIJZ A new study co-authored by Dr Ursula Gazeley identifies the leading causes of maternal deaths globally and highlights the need to reduce health inequities in LMICs. @leverhulme.bsky.social @oxpop.bsky.social #IWD2025

Closing the digital gender gap starts with data 📊 For #InternationalWomensDay, Ridhi & team launched an updated dashboard tracking internet & mobile access by gender at a subnational level. Explore ➡️ digitalgendergaps.org/dashboard/

On #InternationalWomensDay, @ridhikashyap.bsky.social's Digital Gender Gaps team have launched an updated dashboard to #AccelerateAction by helping to ensure women are equal participants in digital society buff.ly/OSV35V8 @leverhulme.bsky.social @oxpop.bsky.social @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social

Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and launch interdisciplinary research projects? We are so excited to announce there will be *26* Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science this year! Apply to one of them here: sicss.io/locations

If you are interested in studying good old human activity on pre-Musk Twitter, we are now sharing the complete 375M dataset of our 24h Twitter data collection with researchers. Get in touch! ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC... Please forward to interested scholars.

What's the future of mortality in high-income countries? Making predictions (especially about the future) is hard. But that doesn't stop us from trying...I'm happy to share this contribution to the PDR 50th anniversary special issue: doi.org/10.1111/padr... (open access) #Demography

Happy 5th birthday to us! 🥳 In October, we celebrated five years of disrupting and realigning demography with the #demographic community at our inaugural #DemSciSummit https://buff.ly/3Da6Kre @leverhulme.bsky.social @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @melindacmills.bsky.social

@caseybreen.bsky.social, in “Longevity Benefits of Homeownership,” finds life expectancy differs btw homeowners & renters, presenting “compelling evidence that owning a home in early adulthood has a causal effect on later-life mortality.” @oxforddemsci.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

We have another faculty opening at Oxford — this time in demography: Associate Professor in Social Demography, open to any area/topic, and open to different career stages, incl. junior scholars. With linked tutorial fellowship at St John’s College. t.co/rQ4Uob7bIz Happy to answer questions!

Proud supervisor moment —congratulations to Xinyi on an excellent and ambitious thesis! Here is a glimpse of Xinyi’s research: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We have a new faculty opening at Oxford Sociology and Nuffield College — come join us and be my colleague! An Oxford AP is the main faculty grade and a very broad category — covering those just out of PhD to those more senior, incl. Full Professor. www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/article/asso...

New from the Digital Gender Gaps team: "Social capital mediates knowledge gaps in informing sexual and reproductive health in Africa" We use Facebook friendships between regions w/ DHS data to explore how social capital shapes diffusion of SRH behaviours www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Two 3-year PhD fellowships are available within the remit of my ERC project on the risks and vulnerability of widowhood across ageing societies!!! Deadline for applications - December 10 Start date - September 1 www.sciencespo.fr/osc/fr/conte...

Postdoc opportunity with me in computational demography at Oxford to explore questions about demographic change, kinship, gender and and inter-generational dynamics: tinyurl.com/2skdt98w Keen to apply but need a bit more time to get the application in? Deadline now: Tue, Nov 21, noon (UK time).