6 days to go to apply to 2 postdoc positions (3-year and 2-year) at @ucl.ac.uk with @pravpatalay.bsky.social! For all those interested in employment<->health, trade unions & longitudinal methods. Feel free to share. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPB406/r...

Bruxelles mérite mieux que l’indifférence politique

New publication in BMC Public Health: Incidence of reported cases of euthanasia adjusted for demographic composition: a study of ten years of Belgian administrative data (2014–2023) bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... With @healthsociety.bsky.social

We are organising a @royalstatsoc.bsky.social Social Statistics Section online event: Handling survey mode effects Wednesday 12 November 2025, 10.00AM - 12.10PM Full info and booking: rss.org.uk/training-eve...

Here's our second HSRU seminar: @janemaddock.bsky.social was presenting her work "A target trial emulation of retirement and self-rated health and life satisfaction in the UK, US and Germany" at @ulbruxelles.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AISW...

RIP Robert Redford. I got the same jacket, the same shirt and the same glasses because of you.

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper: Alex Bryson, Ryo Kambayashi, Susumu Kuwahara, Akie Nakamura, and @jacqueswels.bsky.social examine trends in union density in Japan and how workforce composition has shaped its growth. www.rfberlin.com/network-pape...

Euthanasie : quel est le profil socioéconomique des demandeurs et leurs motivations? Dans @france.theconversation.com les chercheurs Jacques Wels et Natasia Hamarat s'intéressent à l’augmentation des demandes d'euthanasie depuis 20 ans, en Belgique.

Interesting to compare UK/French readership of our article on euthanasia. Of course, many variables play a role but more readers in France. The UK seems quite not keen at looking at other countries when it comes to implementing assisting dying.

Marie Dauvrin, Céline Ricour (KCE),“Propositions for reinforcing and expanding the Belgian palliative care offer” Yesterday's seminar on the state of palliative care in Belgium is now available on YouTube. Feel free to have a look. @ulbrecherche.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uOs...

Another article, this time in The Conversation France on the rising number of euthanasia cases in Belgium. Augmentation du nombre d’euthanasies en Belgique, que révèle cette statistique ? theconversation.com/augmentation...

Comment: Belgium’s euthanasia trends dispute ‘slippery slope’ argument via @ucl.ac.uk www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ap...

"Belgium’s euthanasia trends dispute ‘slippery slope’ argument – new study" Have a look at our @theconversationuk.bsky.social piece: theconversation.com/belgiums-eut...

Check our new article in @jama.com network open if you want to know more about full trends (!) of Euthanasia in Belgium since the implementation of the law back in 2002. In short: nothing alarming. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

One year later ... a major update to our manuscript showing that most Alzheimer's disease is attributable to the gene APOE. We expanded it to analyses of four studies, now with data on about 460,000 people in total..... www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... #Alzheimers #Dementia #Epidemiology #EpiSky

"New" Paper : Associations between different measures of SARS-CoV-2 infection status and subsequent economic inactivity: A pooled analysis of five longitudinal surveys linked to healthcare records. doi.org/10.1371/jour... Using @ukllc.bsky.social data

Please, feel free to attend our online seminars at @healthsociety.bsky.social

hsru.phisoc.ulb.be Our research unit, the Health & Society Research Unit, website is online! @healthsociety.bsky.social

Our new research unit, the "Health & Society Research Unit" at @ulbrecherche.bsky.social has its own accounts - on @bsky.app : bsky.app/profile/heal... - on @YouTube: youtube.com/@HealthSocie... Please, follow us.