UK Humanitarian Innovation Hub: Funding Opportunity: Mortality Estimation in Humanitarian Crises - Systems Innovation Partnership: To apply and/or share - Call for Expressions of Interest (lnkd.in/e7cv_VUS) - UKHIH Website (www.ukhih.org/news/now-ope...). ► EOI deadline: 11 August 2025, 5pm UTC

A recent interview with BBC Radio 4 - More or Less: Behind the Stats, Is the UN underestimating the global fall in fertility? www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p... and online TFR plots to browse more countries: population.un.org/wpp/graphs?l...

🚨Job Offer🚨 St Andrews–Max Planck PhD Studentship in Population, Health and Data Science 3.5-year St Andrews–Max Planck PhD studentship in Population, Health and Data Science. Deadline: June 11 @mpidr.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @imprs-phds.bsky.social www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61...

🚨 New paper: when researchers study epidemics, disasters, or conflicts but don't know how many people died, they often subtract pre and post population estimates or do a crude projection. Unfortunately, this almost never provides an accurate death toll 🧵 www.demographic-research.org/Volumes/Vol5...

Reminder that the Formal Demography Working Group is meeting tomorrow! Sign up to receive Zoom details: formaldemography.github.io/working_group/

Topical cluster map of terms used in recently cancelled NIH grants. No surprises there I guess. Data by grant-watch.us and NYT for the flagged terms. Source code available here github.com/jschoeley/gr....

See also childmortality.org?indicator=SBR from UN-IGME for global and country data and internationally comparable estimates of stillbirth rates, neonatal and infant mortality available in an harmonized way. See also PDF reports and articles at the bottom of the home page.

Where in the world are babies at the lowest risk of dying? Seems simple to answer, but countries count live births and infant deaths slightly differently. I look at the data in my latest article: ourworldindata.org/where-are-ba...

🆕 study reveals global patterns of the migration of scientists shedding light on how researchers move both within and between countries. A team of researchers @mpidr.bsky.social found large disparities in the appeal of various countries and regions to scientists. www.demogr.mpg.de/go/migration...

We are hiring postdocs in Computational Social Science 📍SweCSS, Norrköping, Sweden ⏰Deadline June 3 🔗https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/26854 Please apply // help us spread the word

2025 Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID) | IDMC - Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre www.internal-displacement.org/global-repor...

Some potential funding support for UK students who are assessed as having a Home/UK fee status and who meet the residency requirements as defined by ESRC Studentship regulations.

Using satellite imagery and advanced spatial modelling we are collaborating with #UNHCR to innovate mapping of displaced populations and unlocking the power of registration data. By WorldPop's Dr Sarchil Qader and Edith Darin, and others. #refugees #geodata #mapping medium.com/unhcr-innova...

📢 L’IR Progedo #recrute un ou une ingénieur·e d'études en production, traitement, analyse de données et enquêtes dans le cadre du projet ANR EXO-POPP, sous la direction de @sandrabree.bsky.social. 🔗 En savoir plus : exopopp.hypotheses.org 📌 Postulez avant le 1ᵉʳ juin 2025 : bit.ly/43hMBZV

East Asia demonstrates that financial incentives alone are insufficient to reverse declining birthrates. Deep-rooted issues like gender inequality in childcare, high living/education costs, and work-life imbalance need addressing for any profamily policy to succeed. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...

[Recrutement] Je recrute, sur l'ANR Exo-POPP (Extraction Optique des entités nommées manuscrites pour les actes de mariage de la population de Paris (1880-1940) (exopopp.hypotheses.org) un ou une ingénieur·e pour 12 mois (localisation : Paris, @progedo.bsky.social ).

Ever wondered why some charts are more effective and engaging than others? I’ll be going through all the theory, evidence and principles behind compelling data storytelling from this Wednesday. Free to watch for anyone who is interested: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-fundam...

Open call for Associate Editors at our journal!! To find out more about requirements and application procedures 👀 here www.demographic-research.org/files/Call_f...

Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

"The foundation will close its doors, permanently, on Dec. 31, 2045, at least several decades before originally intended. In the meantime, it will be spending down its endowment, as well as almost all of Gates’s remaining personal fortune." better than not www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/m...

A Roadmap to Accessing Mobile Network Data for Statistics www.data4sdgs.org/sites/defaul...

Keep in mind that recent data carry over the momentum of past and recent efforts, but the global impact of the cut in international aid and development will affect, if not revert, some of these progresses.

India saw ~2 million excess deaths in 2021, govt data reveals: New SRS, CRS and MCCD reports from the RGI show the true toll of the pandemic year 2021. Official records now indicate over 2 million excess deaths—far more than the ~332k Covid deaths reported by states. #India #Covid19 #ExcessDeaths

Whoa -- what a cool and terrifying paper. Under the most conservative global warming pathway, half of people born in 2020 will experience an "unprecedented lifetime exposure" to heatwaves. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Today, UNDP lauched the latest edition of their flagship publication, the Human Development Report (HDR). The 2025 HDR focuses on 𝐴 𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒: 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐴𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 (𝐴𝐼). 1/3

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/

Germany's central medical library, ZBMed, is building an alternative to PubMed. It will be open source, based on MeSH & associated data standards, built to be sustainable in case PubMed becomes unreliable - with APIs & MeSH maintenance. Open meeting called! 1/2 www.heise.de/news/Wegen-T... #MedLibs

📢New paper out on measuring global #migration flows using online data in @pnas.org We use privacy-protected records from over 3 billion Facebook users to estimate migration flows between 181 countries, accounting for biases in social media usage 🔗https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2409418122

World report on social determinants of health equity @WHO #SDOH iris.who.int/bitstream/ha...

🚨 Researcher Reproductive Demography 📍 With @joshuawild.bsky.social 💰 £38.6–46.9k | fertility, maternal health, social, biological data 🧠 PhD (or close), 2 yrs, full-time. Big thinkers wanted. 🔗 Apply by 9 May → www.demography.ox.ac.uk/jobs #AcademicJobs #ReproHealth #Demography #Postdoc #OxJobs

Senior Research Fellow in Demographic Science, in partnership with @oxforddemsci.bsky.social Closing Soon - deadline: 8 May, 12 noon Job spec & application details: buff.ly/NZuCdJO

🧬 Postdoc – Digital Pandemic Preparedness 📍 With @melindacmills.bsky.social 💼 £38.6K–£46.9K | 3-years 📅 Deadline: 16 May 2025 Digital, demographic & behavioural data for real-world readiness. 🔗 Apply: tinyurl.com/ydvfanap 📣 Share or tag! #Postdoc #ResearchJobs #DataScience #NowHiring

Join us and join a wonderful lineup of confirmed speakers for a lively exchange on climate change and demography. Deadline for submissions: May 15 👇👇👇

👓Recommended Reading📚 New Approach Predicts Individual Fertility Behavior from Aggregated Data In their paper, Daniel Ciganda and Nicolas Todd present a new approach to identifying individual #fertility behavior from aggregate #data. ... 🧵1/8 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Stillbirth rates across Europe are generally declining or stable, except for Germany and Belgium where rates are increasing. @maxikniffka.bsky.social tests if maternal age and the prevalence of multiple births explain these divergent trends across Europe. doi.org/10.1093/eurp...

Abstract submission deadline: April 20, 2025. To submit your abstract, please use the following form. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... The results of the selection will be communicated by May 15, 2025.

Call for Papers: Workshop on Health and Mortality in Latin America (Montevideo, Uruguay, 17-18 Sept 2025) Deadline for submission: 20 April 2025 This workshop will focus on discussing recent changes in health and mortality profiles in LA and the challenges these pose for different countries.

The call for applications for the European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD) 2025-2026 is open! This international doctoral program aims to provide students with a high-level education in demography. Deadline to apply: March 25th, 2025 at 12 PM (noon). More information: eaps.nl/edsd/how-to-...

Having a monk in the family is associated with lower mortality in older Tibetans: a seven-year prospective cohort study Liqiong Zhou @erhaoworld.bsky.social et al |Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Want to understand the epidemiology of #InfectiousDiseases🧬🔬 Join our short course and learn to analyse data using methods from bioinformatics, population genetics and statistics. Running 28 April - 1 May 2025 in London or online. Apply now✍️ bit.ly/3TT8cT4

Are you interested in applying for a DPhil that focusses on pandemic research? https://buff.ly/4fHGfI2 The Pandemic Sciences Institute is offering a scholarship for Oxford Population Health's DPhil in Population Health to work with PSI Investigators on a PSI-related project, apply by 3 Dec.

This is really getting quite remarkable • BlueSky user numbers have doubled in the past week and now total 3.5 million across US & UK 🚀 • Number of people deleting their X/Twitter account remains way up And the next chart is particularly notable...

Childlessness has skyrocketed in Japan, and risen sharply in post-Cold War Eastern Europe. It has started rising again in the US, but not as dramatically. #demography #fertility #rstats code at github.com/schmert/bone...

The U-Shaped Curve of Health Inequalities Over the 20th and 21st Centuries journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

WHO unveils a digital health promoter harnessing generative AI for public health S.A.R.A.H. Smart AI Resource Assistant for Health www.who.int/campaigns/s-... News: www.who.int/news/item/02...

1 year Consultant for UNICEF/IGME - Supporting child mortality and stillbirth estimation and analysis, D&A, DAPM NYHQ (remote-based) www.unicef.org/careers/vaca...

new database (DEMOSPA0521) summarising more than 868 million demographic records from Spain (2005–2021). Includes a group of (monthly and daily moving averages) datasets derived from population stocks and data from population, death, migration and birth statistics www.nature.com/articles/s41...

INSPIRE datahub: a pan-African integrated suite of services for harmonising longitudinal population health data using OHDSI tools www.frontiersin.org/journals/dig...

Applications accepted until 3/29/24 to Summer Institute in Computational Social Science on UCLA campus, 6/24 to 7/3 2023. Researchers not affiliated with UCLA are also welcome to participate: sicss.io/2024/ucla/