New preprint📈📉 What happens to health and work when people become grandparents? Using Norwegian register data on all individuals born 1950-1960, we use event-study models comparing grandparents to not-yet grandparents to track changes in health and labour supply. 🔗 www.ssrn.com/abstract=571...

Join me as 3-year #postdoc to study Demography of "Reproductive Ageing" -menopause 🩸infertility 💉older fathers 👨‍👧 and more -novel data sources from around the world -population-level understanding of causes and consequences of reproductive ageing + Wonderful research community @mpidr.bsky.social

A hobbey project - writing on the sheer complexity of nature, using public narratives on human nature built around science as examples. "The way we say natural" ➡️ Now published by 사이언스북스 in Korea. It was wonderfulto be able to write in mother tongue on topics I care as a scientist 😇 #scicomm

3 #PostDoc researcher positions at @helsinki.fi in collaboration with IIASA @iiasa.ac.at and MPIDR @mpidr.bsky.social on population projections, migration dynamics, and human capital development #demography #박사후연구 www.vaestoliitto.fi/en/news/post...

Learned a lot from “Making Menopause Matter: Multidisciplinary Insights” webinar - by Australian Society for Psychosocial Obstetrics and Gynaecology. #1 Ten priorities in #menopause research by Martha Hickey – now published www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Study global fertility as #postdoc with a wonderful colleague @ewabatyra.bsky.social ✔️ Apply by September 30, 2025. ERC Starting Grant funded!

One more week left to apply for a 3-year postdoc in Demography (deadline: Sept 30, 12:00 midday UK time). Join me at the Sociology Department in Oxford to study global fertility change as part of the DIVREP project!👇

🚨Call for Papers🚨 BIOSFER Conference Fertility, Childlessness, and Reproductive Aging: Bio-social Perspectives Organizer: ERC Synergy BIOSFER project 🗺️Villa Vigoni, Menaggio, Italy, 📅September 15–17, 2025 Application Deadline: April 30, 2025 Learn all: www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even... @au.dk

‼️ #JobOpening ‼️ #Postdoc Position(s) at the Max Planck | University of Helsinki Centre for Social Inequalities in Population Health in #Rostock 📅Deadline: May 4, 2025 www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61... #Postdoc #SocialInequalities #Population #Demography #Epidemiology #Health @pophel.bsky.social

Call for papers - Submit your Bio-Social works on Fertility, Childlessness, Reproductive ageing (deadline 30 Apr, 2025) for BIOSFER workshop at the beautiful Lake Como! www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

New paper🎉 just published🎉 in Biological Reviews 🎉 We propose a new gold standard to avoid “just-so” storytelling in evolutionary inference & apply it to autism. It’s been 9 years (!!) in the making.

Today 3pm CET We are delighted to have Süßmilch Lecture @mpidr.bsky.social by @rebeccasear.bsky.social on Eugenics, Demography, and academia. Cannot be more timely! Sign up 👇 for online participation www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

"A growing body of evidence suggests -the existence of abrupt transitions in the aging process, marked by sudden molecular shifts; -such transitions occur not only in late life but also throughout the entire lifespan." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Will twinning rate ⬆️ in low-income countries, even if the spread of IVF remains slow? Polyovulation rate increases w/maternal age (Evolved trait) + Maternal age structure is shifting upward (Demographic trend) = More twins expected! ✌️ doi.org/10.1093/humr... with wonderful @kieronbarclay.bsky.social

Female couples’ likelihood of having a child has increased, but only among those with high education #Fertility #Inequality #Demography @pophel.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social fluxconsortium.fi/female-coupl...

#PhDposition to work on "Social inequalities in health" at Helsinki University #Finland through Max Planck – University of Helsinki Center joint project 건강의 사회적 불평등을 핀란드의 광범위한 등록자료를 이용해 연구할 수 있는 박사 연구 기회 #유학 jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Impact of socioeconomic status on fertility treatment -> Studies are few, outcomes and the results are conflicting. It is unknown which, if any, marker of socioeconomic status is the most significant for fertility patients." pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34315303/

Check out our paper in Science. We argue that more than content knowledge is required in science education. The sociopolitical in human genetics education | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🚨JOB ALERT🚨Post-Doctoral Researcher @mpidr.bsky.social! Come & work with @loisilvia.bsky.social in her Research Group on #Migration & #Health #Inequalities. Learn more about Silvia's project: www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even... #Job description: www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61... #postdoc #poptwitter

Have interesting works on "how human reproduction in the context of demographic changes informs evolutionary medicine"? Be part of symposium @drsarahmyers.bsky.social & I propose for Evo Medicine and Public Health conference, Durham (Aug 6-9). Contact us by Feb 28 (abstract due Mar 1)

Family ideals in an era of low fertility: "Parenthood remains a positive ideal, but the number of children does not matter once other family dimensions are considered, potentially important in light of conventional wisdom regarding the two-children ideal" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Physical Activity Paradox - occupational physical activity (OPA) does not confer health benefits that leisure time physical activity does. Makes me think jobs with little control and high demand often involve higher OPA. Lots of paradox to decipher... blogs.cdc.gov/niosh-scienc...

Interested in co-organizing symposium with me on "evolutionary demography of human reproduction" or similar themes around the evolution of human reproduction in the context of populatin change? DM or email me 😉 Conference - Evolutionary Medicine & Public Health 👉https://isemph.org/ISEMPH-2024

Great pleasure to have taught Fertility & Health this year @mpidr.bsky.social @imprs-phds.bsky.social Thank you all for engaging with why fertility and health are linked beyond reproductive health, & why paritymight be related to number of teeth! :) So much to learn cutting across disciplines.

Adolescence is characterized by more sedentary behaviour and less physical activity even among highly active forager-farmers royalsocietypublishing.org/action/oidcS...