New paper out in BMJ Open 🎉 doi.org/10.1136/bmjo... We revisit US longevity trends and find: 👉 Life expectancy increased in all states (1941–2000 cohorts) 👉 Inequalities exist, but are smaller than previously suggested 👉 The key question now is why progress slowed

☺️ What a view! 👉Enjoy #REVES2026‼️

Looking for a new position in 2026? The call for a new postdoc or research scientist in the newly formed research group on Reproductive Ageing by D. Susie Lee is still open until January 11. Apply now!

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

📢 The #REVES2026 Call for Papers is OPEN! Join us to discuss about aging, longevity, and population health — with a focus on health expectancy and policy impact! 📆 11–13 March 2026|Tokyo, Japan 🔗 www.reves2026.com 📌 Submit by 30 November 2025 reves-network.org #demography #LifeExpectancy

Life expectancy has increased in high-income countries over the past century, but mortality forecasting methods suggest people living today won’t see dramatic gains. Even people born in 2000 are unlikely to reach a life expectancy of 100. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🚨Job Offer🚨PhD Student Position The @lshtm.bsky.social, in partnership with the @mpidr.bsky.social is opening an 18-month Research Assistant position, with the successful candidate embarking on a PhD program at LSHTM. www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61... @ezagheni.bsky.social #phd #jobs #demography

🎉🎊A week full of celebrations ✨Two ERC Starting Grants for the MPIDR✨ We are thrilled to announce that @marilianep.bsky.social and @ugobas.bsky.social have each been awarded with an ERC Starting Grant by the @erc.europa.eu. #ERCStG www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even... #ERCStartingGrant #longevity

📢Excited to share our new article describing the HEALIN cohort—a Catalan pop-based data of >1.5M people. This is the starting point for future research on health inequalities and multimorbidity in Catalonia. More info 👉 shorturl.at/xawaj @demosocupf.bsky.social @cedemografia.bsky.social

Average expected lifespan is still increasing in high-income countries, but the rate of increase is slowing. go.nature.com/4mGTUCK

Authors: @josecas91.bsky.social, Carlo Giovanni Camarda, Héctor Pifarré i Arolas Institutions: @ined-english.bsky.social @uwlafollette.bsky.social @uwmadison.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social 2/2

The participants at #REVES2025 Conference in Tampere 🇫🇮! REVES is the International Network on Health Expectancy.

New CRAN package verdata with initial version 1.0.0 #rstats https://cran.r-project.org/package=verdata

The April issue has posted—5 research notes and 13 articles—research on a deportation boomerang, length of widowhood, schooling & old-age cognition, contraceptive use & discontinuation, social fathering & childlessness, self-assessed health & fertility … and more. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/i...

#PAA2025 – we are on our way! 🛫🚄🎒🛄 Who else is starting to pack for Washington D.C.? If you want to know where & when to meet us at the conference, check out our MPIDR program: www.demogr.mpg.de/go/PAA2025 Meet us at booth 212 in Liberty. Max, the MPIDR Alpaka will be there and bring a friend.

“An Overlapping Cohorts Perspective of Lifespan Inequality”: Hector Pifarre i Arolas et al. introduce a new perspective "that fully incorporates cohort trajectories of all cohorts alive in the period of consideration.” @mpidr.bsky.social @pophel.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...