But mostly, I just think “my AI says its trending toward significance” belongs in the bad stats take hall of fame.

📢 Is Germany experiencing urban or suburban growth? New paper out now: Contrasting long-standing and novel urban gradient classifications ✨ First article from my thesis, published Open Access in Applied Geography! 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.ap...

“High-income contexts may be less supportive of continued childbearing for women with lower levels of education.” New publication building on efforts made together with @demomapper.bsky.social and many others. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Smoothing god Giancarlo C. giving another smooth talk on smoothing in a non-parametric setting 🤩 #IPC2025 #Brisbane

𝗙𝗡𝗔-𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗱𝘂𝗶𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗸𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘂𝗺 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 2 Tage Graduiertenkolloquium mit spannenden Vorträgen, und interessanten Gästen liegen hinter uns. Die vortragenden Nachwuchswissenschaftler:innen und Stipendiat:innen präsentierten ihre Forschungsergebnisse zu Fragen rund um die Alterssicherung. 👉🏻 rb.gy/rzr9ow

We are hiring a 3-year postdoc for the ERC-funded WEALTHTRAJECT project at DIW Berlin. More details here: www.diw.de/sixcms/detai...

Interested in doing a PhD on social inequalities in retirement transitions? Then join our team at the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB) in Wiesbaden, Germany 😀 We offer great research conditions and a thriving research environment: www.bib.bund.de/EN/Institute...

Wie lange erwarten wir zu leben? In einem neuen Beitrag gehen Andreas Mergenthaler, Sebastian Klüsener (@demomapper.bsky.social) & ich dieser Frage auf den Grund. Anhand einer Stichprobe der Bevölkerung 40 Jahre und älter (DEAS) finden wir, dass Frauen zur Unterschätzung der Lebensdauer neigen 1/4

Deadline is approaching!!! Submit your contribution until May 31 for the 2026 Issue of @vypr.bsky.social 👇 @fertdem.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social @demographyvienna.bsky.social

📄 Non‐Survival to Pension Age in Denmark and Sweden: A Sub‐National Investigation #demography 🎉 this faithful companion of my last crazy years is finally published 🔗 PSP: doi.org/10.1002/psp.... 🔓 preprint: doi.org/10.31219/osf... 🛠️ #rstats code: github.com/ikashnitsky/...

Grace Wahba, "the mother of smoothing splines," won the International Prize (aka the Nobel) in Statistics #stats for her representer theorem. youtu.be/8Ae_QzwwR_U?... So well deserved! I guess, one could also give her the price again in two years for her work on Generalized Cross-Validation.

Anomalies & data problems are found in the Hungarian EU SILC income data from around year 2017. It is very likely that the data was manipulated to decrease the poverty rate. Annamaria Tatrai and Andras Gabos conducted a very thorough investigation of the issue: www.valaszonline.hu/2025/04/01/e...

6 PhD scholarships at University of Padova for candidates interested in the area of Statistical Sciences- included Demography Start of activities: November 1st, 2025 Annual grant: 18,643.00 euros (gross) The call is published (deadline May 13, 2025 - 1 pm CEST) at www.unipd.it/en/node/1053

🚨 Job alert - please share! I'm looking for a doctoral researcher (3 years, 75%) to join my #ERC project #Loneliness across time and space (LOTIS) at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de, starting June 1 or later. Details in thread 👇 #PsychSciSky

Did you get a chance to read the thread on our new @naturehumbehav.bsky.social paper on SES yet? If not, don't worry, I have something better for you! Check out this comic by the amazing @lizahaart.bsky.social Complete comic: communities.springernature.com/posts/are-we... Or in this thread 👇🏾

Big news! We have two new #demography vacancies open and three others on the way, stay tuned buff.ly/Bi7dyix 😎 @leverhulme.bsky.social @oxpop.bsky.social @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social @reubencollege.bsky.social @melindacmills.bsky.social

Open Postdoctoral position! - ERC Advanced Grant project HOMME www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/276000/postdoctoral-fellow About the HOMME project www.sv.uio.no/psi/english/research/projects/homme

🚨 Come research singlehood with me! I’m hiring a 3-year Postdoc w/interest in Family Demography to start this Fall. Please share! 📍 Barcelona (@cedemografia.bsky.social) 🔎 ERC-funded project 'SINGLE' 📅 Deadline – April 24, 2025 🔗 More info: shorturl.at/400eo #Postdoc #Demography

@cdudel.bsky.social in action 😀 Promoting our work on working life expectancy to demographers and statisticians at the DGD conference in Wiesbaden.

The @imprs-phds.bsky.social team worked hard to make it happen: We're happy & proud to announce that the International Max Planck Research School for Population, Health and Data Science has been made permanent by the @maxplanck.de . IMPRS_PHDS Team, you rock! www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

Fascinating article by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social on the concentration of high-paying jobs in the UK. But does the graphic show that the situation is even more extreme in France and Canada? on.ft.com/3OWo5H2

Radiating exuberant euphoria 🥳🎉🥂, I announce that our study with initial results from the #KINMATRIX survey has been published 👉 doi.org/10.1111/jomf.... KINMATRIX is a unique new source of ego-centric network data that offers unprecedented scope and detail in mapping family relations. #Demography

Three more days to apply for the International Population Conference in Brisbane next July. If you work on innovative spatial research, consider to submit to our session: "Spatial demography: New data and emerging insights" 🙂 iussp.org/en/internati...

Deadline extended: 3 more days to apply! At @bib_bund we offer a ⭐️permanent senior research scientist position 🏆 to conduct research on population dynamics and its components (fertility, mortality, family change, employment, ...): bit.ly/bibpopdyn

Great question: "How big does a population need to be before demographers can ignore individual-level randomness in demographic events?" Even better, a straightforward answer: arxiv.org/html/2406.15...

Mark the dates for the Nordic Demographic Symposium, 10-12 June 2025, 🤩 Hindsgavl Castle, Middelfart, DK. It's going to be three hyggelig days filled with high-quality #demography. The call for papers in in Jan'25 on our website (demografi.dk). Demography in getting back to Denmark😍

We are seeking a postdoctoral researcher in sociology. su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

❗️ One more week to apply for this fully funded PhD project on the geography of online labour platforms under the supervision of Deyu Li, Carolina Castaldi and myself: www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #geography #platforms #gigeconomy

4 more days to apply! At @bib_bund we offer a ⭐️permanent senior research position⭐️to conduct research on population dynamics and its components (fertility, mortality, family change, employment, ...): bit.ly/bibpopdyn

Excited for our workshop on #Geodata and #SpatialAnalysis at @Gesis Mannheim from 01.07 - 03.07.2024! 🌍🗺️ Join us in Mannheim from 01.07 - 03.07.2024 if you're into spatial data and advanced #RStats techniques. 📊👩‍🎓👨‍🎓 training.gesis.org?site=pDetail...

Join our team at BiB 😀We offer a permanent ⭐️ research scientist position to conduct research on population dynamics and its components (fertility, mortality, family change, employment, etc.) bit.ly/bibpopdyn

Die Anmeldung zu unserer Jahrestagung am 6. und 7. Juni 2024 ist nur noch bis zum 17. Mai möglich! Am zweiten Tag gibt es einen Workshop zu unseren SOEP-RV-Daten. Zu Programm und Anmeldung geht es hier: drvbund-fdz.yve-tool.de/public_regis...

On Friday I am giving a talk at the #data2speak conference 2024! You can watch my presentation and many other great talks FOR FREE 💸 📚 "Print's (not) dead — creating graphics for reports and books" 📅 Friday, May 10 🕒 14:55 GMT // 16:55 CEST #dataviz #datavisualization #graphics

📣JOB OPENING @mpidr.bsky.social Forschungskoordinator*in (m/w/d) mit Schwerpunkt Drittmittelmanagement Bewerbungsfrist: 24. Mai 2024 Die vollständige Jobbeschreibung gibt es hier: www.demogr.mpg.de/de/karriere_... #job #academia #forschung #maxplanck #jobs #rostock #ostsee #wissenschaft

Sharing from Sheryl Sawyer (@cherylcsawyer) on X: The Population Division, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, is recruiting a Senior Population Affairs Officer (P5) to lead our Fertility and Population Ageing Section. Apply at the link below by 29 May. t.co/beHy5CQjl0

So I've seen #rstats people rave about DuckDB and Parquet but haven't really had a chance to see what it does—until today! I came across a 2.5 GB Stata file that {haven} couldn't open, so I used Python to convert it to Parquet, then read it into R! File is now only 200 MB and R memory usage is tiny!

"Motivated procrastination" sounds like an oxymoron, but so happy that someone looked into that papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Suche Postdoc-Mitarbeiter:in in meinem Team an der Universität Hamburg ab 1. Oktober. Hier geht es zur Stellenausschreibung: www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...

86 years In April 1938, Guy Callendar published his seminal paper showing that Earth’s land areas had warmed over the previous 50 years. He also suggested that man-made CO₂ emissions had caused around half of the observed warming. 86 years ago. rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

if u are interested in - - working @ University of Bologna - doing (quantitative) research on formal and informal care givers - social stratification aspects of caregiving and its consequences then this call it is for u bandi.unibo.it/ricerca/asse... if u need help or info just dm/mail me

Industrial Revolution began in 17th not 18th century: “17th century Britain laid down the foundations for a shift from an agricultural society to a manufacturing economy, where home-based artisans worked with merchants, functioning similarly to factories” www.theguardian.com/education/20...

New publication with Kai Willfuehr in Human Reproduction: "Current "dramatically" high paternal ages at childbirth are not unprecedented". Probably no big news for demographers, but very likely big news to many medical researchers and biologists: bit.ly/Paternal_Age

Our #flagship project, the Human Mortality Database (@HMDatabase), has received a major #update with the release of cause-specific data series. This is the first major expansion since the addition of short-term #mortality #fluctuation #data in 2020. More: www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

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...

You like Maps? Geography is your Passion? Join the US State Department Media Team!

🚨🚨 A few days left to apply for 2 #PhDpositions at the #Sociology department of #TilburgUniversity. 🚨🚨 #PhD #PhDposition #AcademicJobs #Sociology

Job alert📣 Join our team at @bib_bund in Wiesbaden! We are looking for a Postdoc (for 4 years) working on old-age potential in a life-course perspective on aspects such as labour force participation, healthy ageing, or civic engagement (deadline: 24/4): bit.ly/BiB-Old-Age-Potential

CALL FOR PAPERS: Mobility in the life course 🏫 : LIVES & nccr on the move 🗓 : 5-6th November 2024 📍 : Geneva 💰 : no conference fee; lunches & conference dinner provided 📄 : abstracts by 31st May 2024 centre-lives.ch/fr/lives-int...

Good statement re bogus Rufo plagiarism charge from PAA President Jennifer Glass.

Our paper with the dream team has just been published in Demographic Research. We developed a decomposition method measuring subnational contributions to life expectancy and lifespan variation, using the US as an example. Please go check it out! www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...