📢 New dataset for researchers! The new European Parenting Leave Policies (EPLP) Dataset tracks parenting leave regulations over five decades! It provides harmonised data on maternity, co-parent, paid parental, and job-protected leave across 21 countries from 1970 to 2024. 🔗 eplp-dataset.org

Deadline is approaching!!!! 📌 Submit your contribution until 30 November 2025 for #REVES2026 📆 11–13 March 2026|Tokyo, Japan 🔗 www.reves2026.com #demography #LifeExpectancy

Call for Papers! Submit your paper for the conference: 'Kinship Structures, Dynamics and Inequalities', taking place on 8 and 9 June 2026 @mpidr.bsky.social in Rostock organized by @demography.bsky.social, @iussp.bsky.social +coll. Deadline: 21 January 2026 www.demogr.mpg.de/go/kinship-conference

Last week, the Czech GGP team presented at the 8th GGP User Conference in Tallinn, Estonia! We shared our research on 🎓 education and marriage, 🤱 fertility, and 💻 the analytical use of para-data. Many thanks to the organizers and participants for an inspiring conference! @ggp.bsky.social

💍Attitudes toward marriage in Europe have changed - some countries saw a rise in neutral or negative views, while attitudes became more positive in Czechia and Estonia. 🇨🇿 Czechia stands out as the most traditional. link.springer.com/article/10.1... @soc-muni.bsky.social @ggp-cz.bsky.social

🏠 Are you curious about the co-residence of parents and adult children? 🚻 17% of men and 14% of women aged 22–30 live in the same household with at least one parent. 📊 Data from our leaflet (available in Czech only): ggp-cz.fss.muni.cz/en/zajimave-...

📫 📨 Dear EAPS members, 📢 The first EAPS newsletter of October is now online, including new EAPS Awards, the call for submissions for the European Population Conference 2026, (PhD) vacancies and other interesting announcements! 📢 lnkd.in/eW7UrjAY

The PAA Applied Demography Conference provides a unique opportunity for you to showcase applied demography, strengthen professional networks, and bring the applied demography community together. The Call for Submissions is now open! Deadline Oct. 23. buff.ly/jSjI2Ru

📌 Hledáme posily! Přihlaste se na pozice: 👩🏻‍🎓👨🏻‍🎓 Doktorand/ka se zaměřením na měření a analýzu fertilních nebo životních záměrů a plánů 🧑🏻‍🦱👩🏻 Odborník/ice na propagaci, diseminaci a péči o uživatele výzkumu GGP – Současná česká rodina 🔗 Podmínky a více informací zde: ggp-cz.fss.muni.cz/aktuality/hl...

Only 4 𝐤𝐞𝐲 𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐉𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

📢 Call for submissions for European Population Conference 2026 (3–6 June, Bologna) is open! Organized by EAPS & University of Bologna. 💡 More information: www.eaps.nl/epc/european...

🎓 The Czech Demographic Society announces the 10th Student Competition! Have you defended a thesis in demography or related fields in 2024/2025? Apply now! 📅 Deadline: October 17, 2025 🏆 Results: December, with financial prizes! 👉 Details: www.czechdemography.cz/soutez/10-rocnik-souteze/pravidla/

Our #Sociology department is looking for an #AssistantProfessor in the field of Social Inequality (with the possibility for a permanent contract). www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3546... @sociologytiu.bsky.social @tilburg-university.bsky.social @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicjobs

we are hiring! a sociologist/survey methodologist to join the @ggp-cz.bsky.social team at @soc-muni.bsky.social.

Come work on my new research project! We are studying whether and how #parentalLeave is shared in different types of families, how the use of parental leave has changed in different families since the 2000s, and how parents’ social environments influence their leave uptake. #research #hiring

Happy PAA abstract season! Looking forward to see your submissions to the "Union Formation, Dissolution, and Singlehood" session 813 (under Family Demography). #PAA2026

I am looking for a postdoc to join my ERC StG project DIVREP to work on global, quantitative analyses of fertility and reproductive behaviour. The post is based in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford. Let me know if you have any questions. More details below👇

Ice cream sales predict shark attacks? 🦈🍦 More master’s degrees, more movie tickets sold? Causal inference helps separate causality from misleading correlations! Join @michaelgebel.bsky.social for a gentle intro to counterfactuals, #DAGs, methods & apps in #Stata. ➡️ t1p.de/meth-caus-in...

📌 Téměř 15 % žen (18–49) má za to, že určitě nebo pravděpodobně nemohou mít děti. ❓ Jaké jsou nejčastější příčiny? A kolik žen má zkušenost s léčbou neplodnosti? 🔗 To se dozvíte v naší nejnovější analýze. Celý leták pod názvem ASISTOVANÁ REPRODUKCE naleznete zde: ggp-cz.fss.muni.cz/zajimave-vys...

Soliciting paper submissions for a special issue in Spatial Demography (Springer Nature) on #climate and #health! More info here: link.springer.com/collections/.... 🛟📈📉🧪 #geosky #AcademicSky #gis #spatial #population #popsky #demography #healthequity #climatechange #sustainability #weather #medsky

🎓 Opportunity for students of the Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University 📌 Are you interested in sociology or population studies, and have you used data from the GGS in your work? Submit your paper to our competition! 📆 Application deadline: February 13, 2026 🔗 More at: muni.cz/go/867db9

❓ Kolik žen má zkušenost s léčbou neplodnosti? Jaké metody asistované reprodukce tyto ženy využívají a jak je kombinují? 🔗 To se dozvíte v naší nejnovější analýze věnované asistované reprodukci. Celý leták naleznete zde: ggp-cz.fss.muni.cz/zajimave-vys...

The University of Florence offers 4 positions within the PhD in Life Course Research! 🔹 3 open positions on topics such as social demography, family formation, fertility, union dissolution, ageing & wellbeing 🔹 1 thematic position on reproductive health & low fertility Come join us in Florence! 👇👇

🚨 Job alert! Join our DFG-funded project on educational inequality & instability for families at @morayhouse.bsky.social, University of Edinburgh 📍 Research Associate/Postdoc | Fixed-term to June 2027 📊 Longitudinal data | Stata/R 🗓️ Apply by 4 Aug 2025 jobs.ac.uk/job/DNX731/research-associate

📢 Call for papers is now open for the #ALPPOP2026 conference! ⛷️🏂❄️ @dondenacentre.bsky.social 🗓️ 18–21 January 2026, in La Thuile Aosta Valley ⛰️ Keynote speakers @marthajbailey.bsky.social and @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social Send your abstracts by 21 September!

🎨📊I'm teaching a course on "Data Visualization with Stata"📊🎨 Good data visualization generates & communicates insight. The workshop balances general principles of visualization with hands-on Stata implementation. Hope to see you there! Registration is open: training.gesis.org?site=pDetail...

Are you new to ERC grants? Find out about the ERC grant application and evaluation process later this week: 📆 10 July 🕒 15:00 CEST 📍 online information session This webinar is tailored to researchers who are just starting out in their attempt to get an ERC grant. Watch 👉 buff.ly/3kvG3yr

👵👶 Four generations in one family? A new article in The Atlantic discusses a phenomenon that’s becoming increasingly common – and our PhD student Zuzana Talašová shares her insights on the topic! 💬 #sociology #greatgrandparents #intergenerationalrelationships #sandwichgeneration

💡 Why are fertility rates falling - even in the Nordic countries? Watch #GostaEspingAndersen and #TomasSobotka discuss the role of gender inequality, uncertainty, economic pressures and changing mindsets. 🔗 Watch now: tinyurl.com/ep4a6k3c @oeaw.bsky.social #Democraft #Demography

Interesting paper on effect of interviewer gender on gender gap in reported housework. "women tend to report significantly more hours of housework when interviewed by a woman rather than by a man" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The Department of Sociology at FSS MU is now on LinkedIn! 🎓🌍 Follow us there for updates on research, events, and academic opportunities: 👉 www.linkedin.com/company/depa... #sociologysky #academicsky #LinkedIn

We just published this open access review paper on SES inequality in family formation and dissolution in Central and Eastern Europe. We identified several promising RQ and hypotheses for others to examine. Especially with the new @ggp.bsky.social data. compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

🗓️ The full program for the 8th GGP User Conference in Tallinn, Estonia, on 15–17 October 2025 is now available! 🔗 You can find it here: www.ggp-i.org/8th-ggp-user...

I want to highlight 3 things from this excellent report: 1) Women's reproductive labor is too often the solution to "population problems." 2) Low birth rates aren't a rejection of children & parenthood. 3) Supporting families is a worthy goal in itself, even if policies don't raise birth rates. 1/

🎓 GGP Best Master Thesis Award Have you used GGP data in your 2023/24 or 2024/25 thesis? Apply now for the Best Master Thesis Award! 📅 Deadline: September 10, 2025 📧 Submit: [email protected] 🔗 Info: www.ggp-i.org/event/ggp-be... @ggp.bsky.social

👶 #Farage wants a UK baby boom — will it work? 🍼 Our Director @melindacmills.bsky.social says: “Throwing money at it doesn’t work.” Tax breaks ≠ baby boom. Work hours, #housing, #childcare — it takes an ecosystem. 📎 Telegraph article: tinyurl.com/m6b9kbxm #fertility #demography

Our paper (with @dominikasladka.bsky.social) on Sexual Disagreements and Separation Proneness has finally been published in The Journal of Sex Research. Thanks to @ggp.bsky.social for the data. Free eprints at www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DKYZG...! @ggp-cz.bsky.social @soc-muni.bsky.social

Are you new to #Stata or looking to refresh your skills in data management, analysis, and visualization? Brush up your skills quickly and easily in our short online course at the #GESISsummerschool! ➡️ More information & registration at t1p.de/GSS25-SCB

Geography shapes social processes – voting, migration & protests are often spatially dependent in ways standard regression models can’t capture. Learn with @ruettenauer.bsky.social to detect, visualize & model spatial ties via advanced spatial regression techniques! ➡️ tinyurl.com/07-25-geodat...

Had great fun at @tilburg-university.bsky.social's #NightUniversity. During the talk, I asked the audience what they think the main reason is people expect they won't have #children. The room was majority young #students. This is what they said (& yes, my opening slide might have primed them ;))...

Co o lásce prozrazuje statistika? Na to se zaměřilo dubnové vydání časopisu Statistika&My (04/2025) 💓 Najdete v něm i článek o partnerských vztazích a rodičovství založený na datech z výzkumu GGP-"Současná česká rodina" (strany 30-31). Časopis ke stažení: statistikaamy.csu.gov.cz/casopis-stat...

Nový Sociologický bulletin obsahuje také text o výukových datech výzkumu Generations & Gender Survey. 📰 Čtěte na straně 90: ceskasociologicka.org/bulletin/

Interested in how how migration reshapes fatherhood, emotional life, and gender performances? @klararaiber.bsky.social and Francesco Cerchiaro are hiring a PhD candidate for an exiting project at Radboud University. Find all information here: www.ru.nl/en/working-a... Deadline: June 1st

Our journal Sociální studia / Social Studies has jumped from the 4th to the 3rd quartile in SCOPUS - and is looking for proposals for monothematic issues for the next years! (in Czech or English) 📢 Call for Issues: journals.muni.cz/socialni_stu... #socialstudies #sociologysky #academicsky

Badatelské odpoledne o klasických základech sociologie s Radimem Maradou - ve středu 7. 5.! 📆 7. 5. │ 14:00 │ FSS MU

⏰Only one month left! Don´t forget to submit your research for the Wittgenstein Centre Conference 2025! 🔗 tinyurl.com/wittconfdem @vypr.bsky.social #WICVienna

📢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

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

‼️Save the date‼️ @jdonzowa.bsky.social is going to talk about what she learned from using Facebook Surveys. 📅 May 20, 2025 🕒 15:00 GMT 💻 Sign up and join online!

Next Wednesday, Olivera Tesnohlidkova will present findings from her doctoral research on the effects of political satirical television on civil society! 📆 APRIL 30 │ 2PM │ FSS MU #sociologysky #academicsky