We are excited to announce the #PAA2026 Call for Papers is now available! The submission site opens on Monday, Aug. 18 and the deadline is Sunday, Oct. 5. Meet me in St. Louis! May 6-9, 2026: www.populationassociation.org/paa2026/call...

Assisted reproductive technologies - such as in-vitro fertilisation - are on the rise. How do they affect fertility rates? Read our latest #PopDigest by @jenchanfreau.bsky.social , Alice Goisis & Øystein Kravdal 🔗 tinyurl.com/2wkefabd

Holy shit, I hadn't even thought of this! asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tec... You hide AI prompts in your paper that tell AI reviewers to say positive stuff (presumably both for public reviews and private analysis) I wonder if Amazon sellers are already doing this?

Honored to be part of the team of writers behind the @unfpa.org State of the World Population 2025 report. The real fertility crisis: The most consequential reproductive decision a person can make –when, whether and with whom to have a child– is being undermined by a set of barriers and obstacles

Repost @FReDA: Wer trägt die Last der #Verhütung? Studie von @kfirl.bsky.social, @nrmllr.bsky.social & T. Nutz mit #FReDA-Daten: ➡️ Frauen leisten die meiste Verhütungsarbeit – emotional, körperlich & organisatorisch. 📊 Das gilt auch bei höherem Einkommen oder Bildung. Link: osf.io/preprints/so...

Ab in den Druck!🎉 Mein Buch „Wo wir wie wählen: Politische Muster in Deutschlands Nachbarschaften“ ab 18.06. bei Campus Eine politische Landkarte🇩🇪 basierend auf Wahldaten, Sozialstruktur & Eindrücken vor Ort Jetzt vorbestellen—in eurer Lieblingsbuchhandlung oder hier www.campus.de/buecher-camp...

📢 New paper alert. Get a free copy of the paper of Detlev Lück and me on the drivers of contraceptive non-use in Germany. Get in touch if you want to discuss more www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JQKER...

I've published a blog post article that explores the emotional and behavioral effects of parental separation on children, and reflects on how positive connections with parents can act as a buffer to protect children during this time 🌱 Check out the post (and related research article)

Here are a few lists of sociologists in no particular order. Slant towards German and quantitative sociologists. #socsky go.bsky.app/Kr3Rj1D go.bsky.app/EAwwzdk go.bsky.app/EAwwzdk go.bsky.app/Ugw67cP go.bsky.app/9WAVGNd go.bsky.app/4aZkRmJ go.bsky.app/81Hby5t

Justizminister Buschmann will #Eizellspende noch in dieser Legislaturperiode legalisieren. www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/fami...

A new data infrastructure for family research and demographic analysis: the German Family Demography Panel Study (FReDA) academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...

"a grant proposal’s percentage of promotional language is associated with up to a doubling of the grant’s probability of being funded"

Mobile Europeans love Europe but participate less in EP elections #UseYourVote deadlines & rules must be simplified and harmonised for mobile Europeans. Read more here: buff.ly/3Vr3YVq - Joint work with @deutschmann.bsky.social @politico.eu @volteuropa.bsky.social @dpzberlin.bsky.social

This is a super interesting large scale study about replicability in economics and political sciences

Save the date 📣 EAPS Infertility and Medically Assisted Reproduction Working Group is organizing a pre-conference workshop at European Population Conference 2024! 12 June 2024 13:00-17:00, Edinburgh eaps.nl/page/inferti... @fertdem.bsky.social @passetwittig.bsky.social and Alice Goisis

Excited and nervous to share our new paper TLDR: Folks talk about contraception as a silver bullet for BIG problems in the Global South. Not only are these arguments racist/misogynist (long established), but the evidence for them is much thinner than we’ve been led to believe. We dig in a bit!

‼️new paper: Is religiosity associated higher lifetime fertility intentions across the life course? Short answer: religiosity mainly contributes to higher starting level at teenage years but not as much to later trajectories. Joint work with C. Bein, M. Bujard & Anne Gauthier

Now you know: This is bad. Maternal deaths per 100,000 live births: Selected countries, 1990-2020 www.who.int/publications... #publichealth #demography

ResearchGate is vandalized too. Don't wait to see how things decay there, quit now. ResearchGate --> click on profile pic --> Settings --> Delete account #AcademicSky #ScientificPublishing

Aus d. Abstract: "[...] Frauen [sind] noch nicht entsprechend ihrem erwartbaren Anteil in allen Funktionsgruppen vertreten. Als Herausgeberinnen [&] Autorinnen von Forschungsbeiträgen haben sie am stärksten aufgeholt, wobei sich bei letzteren Kooperationen mit Männern begünstigend ausgewirkt haben."

Update: the EAPS working group on „infertility and MAR“ will be organizing its first in-person meeting as a pre-EPC workshop on 12 June 2024. Take note and we hope to see you there! Contact us if you want to join the Working Group @passetwittig.bsky.social +Alice Goisis #demography #fertility