New publication out of Jianji Chen's thesis! Widowhood shapes economic well-being among older adults in China as a process. doi.org/10.1093/gero...

Publication alert🚨

Check out this open-access article that deepens on compound effects of residential and social mobility!

Proud (and a little sad to see him go): Jianji Chen defended last week his PhD in Demography at UAB—on family dynamics & older adults’ well-being. Congrats, Dr. Chen, and all the best ahead! Also, big thanks to the committee: Karsten Hank, @elirenteria.bsky.social @marcoalbertini.bsky.social

Double participation of @lifelongmove.bsky.social members in a session of the @sllshome.bsky.social conference 2025. Talks dealt with residential trajectories since early life and socio-economic and health outcomes in adulthood. Thank you to participants for useful tips to improve our research.

💫Very happy to share that my first single-authored paper has been published in @sfjournal.bsky.social. I suggest to combine Life Course Feature Selection with Ñopo decomposition to disentangle which life-course events drive gender inequalities such as Gender Pension Gaps doi.org/10.1093/sf/s... 🧵👇

Excellent conference and powerful session on housing precarity organized by @lifecoursecentre.bsky.social. Homelessness, gender inequalities, and homeownership dynamics. I am grateful for the insights and discussion!

📢New Publication with A Bernard & @pmcmullin.bsky.social Individuals who moved during childhood are more likely to feel often lonely—especially with repeated moves. Siblings help. Duration matters. The impact is stronger in individualist societies.🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Great presentations by A Colasurdo, N Panichella and J Wu at Session 96, "Internal Migration as a Life Course Trajectory", organized by the IUSSP Panel on Lifetime Migration at #IPC2025. Papers from this session—and others—will appear in a Special Issue of Comparative Population Studies in 2026.

Great energy at the Workshop on Mining Migration Trajectories, hosted by the IUSSP Panel on Lifetime Migration at #IPC2025 ! @iussp.bsky.social Led by our own @svidal.bsky.social & Juste Lekstyte, it brought hands-on exploration of lifetime migration data using ML techniques #sequenceanalysis

Last Friday, Min Zhu successfully defended her PhD in Demography at UAB- @cedemografia.bsky.social with a dissertation on couple migration in China. Congratulations, Min, on this achievement - and best wishes for your career ahead!

Just wrapped up an inspiring workshop on “Causes and Consequences of Spatial Mobility Over the Life Course”! Great presentations and discussions on geographic mobility in childhood and adulthood across Europe. Thanks to everyone who made it such a success! See you next time!

Congratulations to @pertzikovitz.bsky.social team member of @lifelongmove.bsky.social for the successful defense of his doctoral thesis at Groningen University. Well done Dr. Pertzikovitz @popresgroningen.bsky.social

• Workshop: Causes and Consequences of Spatial Mobility over the Life Course (18 June 2025) Causes and Consequences of Spatial Mobility Over the Life CourseTuesday, June 18 | 10:00–13:00 | CED (Sala Àngels Torrents) & Zoom Organizers: Claudia Brunori, Juste Lekstyte, and Alon Pertzikovitz We are…

📢 Publication alert! In our new study (w/ Belinda Hewitt), we track individuals over time and find that cohabiting with marriage intentions is linked to similar—or even better—health & well-being than being married. 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

Have a read to this new publication on the role of transnational separation from a child for the mental health of migrant populations.

If interested in migration and mobility trajectories: Follow @lifelongmove.bsky.social for updates on the lifrlongmove ERC project and activities of the IUSSP panel on lifetime migration.

📢 Reminder: Submit your paper or extended abstract for the Comparative Population Studies special issue on “Migration Trajectories Over the Life Course”! 🧳 🗓️ Deadline: May 15 📄 Call for papers: www.comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CP... #Migration #Lifecourse

• CALL FOR PAPERS –  2026 CPoS Special Issue “Migration Trajectories Across the Life Course” Comparative Population Studies welcomes submissions to the 2026 special issue Migration Trajectories Across the Life Course, guest edited by Sergi Vidal (Autonomous University of Barcelona), Aude Bernard…

📢 Call for Papers We welcome submissions to the 2026 special issue Migration Trajectories Across the Life Course. It aims to provide deeper insights into diverse migration trajectory patterns and their long-term individual and societal implications www.comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CP...

The European Association for Population Studies is now on bluesky. Follow @eaps.bsky.social for updates on activities and the next European Population Conference in Bologna!

Guess who’s on BlueSky? 🙌 @eaps.bsky.social 🙌 A must-follow!

Today we had Naza Panichella visiting at @cedemografia.bsky.social UAB, and gave us a great lecture on couple's internal migration and gender inequality in six European country

Great opportunity to work on a very interesting research project with a great team 👇👇👇

And we do have a website now: https://www.deciphe.eu/

👇👇👇Thrilled to see this collaboration with @pertzikovitz and @ValkHelga published! 📢 We examine how childhood moves underlie partnership stability in adulthood, to contribute to our understanding of the long-term impacts of residential mobility! @lifelongmove

One more month to submit your abstract for the International Population Conference, to be held in Brisbane in July 2025 iussp.org/fr/page/what...

🚨New research project DECIPHE investigates the impact of demographic changes on the intergenerational persistence of homeownership. See: shorturl.at/sAV26 ⚓DIW (Berlin), DSPI (Oxford), TÁRKI (Budapest), CED (Barcelona).   💰Funded by @VolkswagenSt (2024/28)   📢Job openings and website coming soon!!

🔊CfA - #EPC2024 side event for Early Career Researchers "Migrations over the life course" 🌍Edinburgh 📆June 12th 9am-1pm ✉️[email protected] Submit your abstract by February 29th! More info: shorturl.at/inBFG @eapsphd.bsky.social @svidal.bsky.social

📣📣Don't miss this webinar on innovations in data infrastructure for the longitudinal study of international migration! 📆 March 7th 2024, 15:00-16:30 CET More info and registrations: iussp.org/en/innovatio... @svidal.bsky.social @rosaweber.bsky.social @akbaritabar.bsky.social

Are you an early-career researcher focusing on spatial mobility, migration, and the life course? If so, you might find this pre-event of EPC 2024 (June 12, Edinburgh) intriguing. Stay tuned for the upcoming call for papers!

Great conference #LIVES at Unil (Lausanne)

Finally the ERC-funded Lifelongmove project has joined bluesky. Follow us for updates on our research and activities :-)

First post on here! 🫐 📢 Call for papers! 2024 Annual Meeting of the German Demographic Association & the Demographic Societies of the Nordic Countries. Submit to my & Jonathan Wörn's session on "The impact on sickness & health on family members" 👪⚕️📈, deadline is 27 Nov 23 tinyurl.com/t2cymy9e

The @seqanalysisassn.bsky.social is hosting a workshop on "Dissimilarity Measure Choices", featuring Anna-Victoria Holtz and Dana Sarnak - join us on November 2nd, 4 pm CET sequenceanalysis.org/webinars/

🔥 On Thursday (10/19) at 4 pm CET, the Sequence Analysis Association is hosting a webinar featuring @satuhelske.bsky.social and Matthias Studer, who will discuss recent developments in sequence cluster analysis. 👉 sequenceanalysis.org/webinars/