📣JOB OFFER 📣 Join the #SOUNFER Team at the University of Bologna I am hiring 4 #postdocs for the project ‘Social #uncertainty and #fertility in Europe’ Duration: 24 months Gross salary: € 38.986,47 Start date: 01/09/25 Apply by: 24/06/25 Call: bandi.unibo.it/s/apos7/proc...

S2 🔴 Vedovanza e rischio di mortalità: Chiara Ludovica Comolli ci invita a guardare dentro un evento di vita spesso invisibile nei numeri, ma centrale nei percorsi di salute in età anziana. @comochia.bsky.social #MeetingAgeItUniBo #Invecchiamento #Aging

⏳ Deadline approaching👇👇👇 🚀 Job Alert! 🥁 Junior Assistant Prof at the Department of Statistical Sciences of the University of Bologna funded by the FIS2 project Social Uncertainty and Fertility (SO-UNFER).  Deadline: April 1st, 2025 - h12:00AM Call website: lnkd.in/dMK-7GWd

🚨 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

Ukraine needs support from Europe now more than ever before. This is out way of maintaining that. Pass on the word!

At this point, it is obvious that it is not safe for scholars to travel the US. There are no easy solutions for conferences scheduled in the US this year but it should be cleary to everyone involved that they cannot just go ahead as planned.

So expect no European attending conferences in US

Interesting FT article about the declining response rate to the UK LFS #EconSky h/t @jterrerodavila.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/dd55...

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-...

Excellent new @us.theconversation.com piece by @dannagal.bsky.social (theconversation.com/how-populist...) led me to her new paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...: "Rejecting science, data, and evidence in favor of making sense of the world through intuition is the ultimate populist gesture"

🚨 Job Alert 🚨 4-year postdoc position to work on my ERC project HARSH - Uncovering the Roots of Harsh Parenting. 📍 Dep. of Economics @DSE_Unibo, Bologna, Italy 🇮🇹 📅 Deadline: March 14, 2025 💡 Learn more and apply here: econjobmarket.org/positions/11... #econtwitter #econjobmarket #ejm

PAA and the Association of Population Centers express alarm about recent events in which federal agencies have been purging scientific and statistical data from publicly available portals and websites. Read our full statement: www.populationassociation.org/blogs/paa-we...

Purging vital public data at CDC. How it started (yesterday from wayback machine), how it's going www.cdc.gov/yrbs/index.h...

l'effetto della vedovanza sulla mortalità, news sulla linea di ricerca di @comochia.bsky.social (gruppo alma aging, UniBo) corrieredibologna.corriere.it/notizie/cron...

Publication alert 🚨 So happy to see the outcome of one of my happiest experiences with co-authoring finally out💫! Don’t miss it if you are interested in the nexus between the transition to parenthood and perceptions about labor division in the couple 👇

❓ How fair is the division of labor around first childbirth? Women feel it is most fair near birth but increasingly unfair as the child grows, while men’s perceptions remain unchanged. ▶️ New publication by Maria Hornung & @comochia.bsky.social open access! 🔗 genus.springeropen.com/articles/10....

The PhD programme in Political and Social Sciences at the @eui-eu.bsky.social recruits new candidates, deadline 31 January 2025. With scholarships from all over Europe, candidates can get their own national scholarship to work on their PhD thesis in Florence. Tell your master students!

This Friday 14:00 is the deadline for applications to the Max Weber Fellowships at the EUI. come work with us!

📌JOB OFFER 🚨 Postdoc position at the University of Bologna (12-month) in the project “The inequality of Uncertainty and fertility decisions” co-funded by ERC projects GENPOP and POPCLIMA, and Statistical Science Department. Deadline: October 14, 2024 Call website: bandi.unibo.it/ricerca/asse...

If you are cool and a demographer at the assistant/early associate level who would be at home in a sociology or environmental studies department, you should apply to come work with me! Job link appears not to be live yet, but here is a link to the ad at least: drive.google.com/file/d/1dPwR...

🪧 social scientists! Who would like to visit Centre LIVES @unil.bsky.social or #UNIGE in 2025? 🇨🇭📈🏔️ Travel and accommodation grants of up to CHF 3,000 are available for research stays of at least 2 months ➡️ see 🔗 for details and apply by 15th November 2024 www.centre-lives.ch/en/appel/liv...

Special issue “Children with #Disability and Their #Families” in #EuropeanSocieties. Deadline to submit abstract: August 15! population-europe.eu/events/calls...

Critical events influence wellbeing more negatively if they are concentrated in time rather than sparsely distributed in the life course! Great to see our study with @danilobolano.bsky.social,LBernardi & MVoorpostel about our brand new Concentration Index and SWB published OA doi.org/10.1016/j.al...

ECSR network workshop on Geography of educational inequalities at UNED Madrid 9/10th of April Interested in attending the workshop? Come along! Just send an email to Manuel Valdés ([email protected]) or Ilaria Lievore ([email protected]) to register Program and great line-up ⬇️

🚨 New job alert 😎 We have 2 news job openings in Joshua Wilde's team as a Postdoc and Senior Researcher in #Reproductive #Demography. Apply now ➡️ www.demography.ox.ac.uk/jobs @leverhulme.bsky.social

‼️ Assistant Professor Job‼️ Department of Sociology, Utrecht University Interest in candidate with strong track record on diversity, migration and integration, discrimination, polarization or policy research. www.uu.nl/organisatie/... Deadline: 30 April

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...

Some 2023 updates on Nordic fertility. The downward trend endures.

Newest collaboration w/ #NicolettaBalbo is out. Using the Dutch #LISSpanel, we follow ppl over time to see if their #SocietalPessimism is linked to their transition to #Parenthood. What’s new about this? 1/6 doi.org/10.1111/padr...

I'm happy to announce the creation of the annual ESR Best Reviewer award at European Sociological Review! Starting in 2023, we'll be officially presenting this year prize at the European Consortium for Sociological Research conference in Barcelona in September 2024

I am excited to start my new research group on Migration and Health Inequalities at @mpidr.bsky.social & happy to share my first job announcement for a postdoc! Are you as curious as me to understand why immigrants age in poorer health compared to non immigrants? If yes, apply! ⬇️

We are looking for a new doctoral student in Sociological Demography. Hosted by the Department of Sociology / Demography Unit (SUDA) here at Stockholm University. Salaried position with good conditions! Deadline: March 1st. More details via the link below.

🚨 European Doctoral School of Demography 2024/25 🚨 EDSD application to the next Paris/INED cohort is open, deadline for applications is 2024-03-27 noon! eaps.nl/edsd/About-E... This year I wrote a small piece about my EDSD experience ❤️ #demography #AcademicSky #EpiSky

“What would society look like if we valued reproduction, and raising babies, not just your own, as much as [economic] production?” Great article in FT featuring Anna Rotkirch Finnish demographer by @henrymance.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/500c...

We are organizing a Housing & urban studies session in the Finnish Annual Sociological Conference (again). If you have research fitting the theme feel free to submit an abstract! Submission closes already tomorrow. Presentations in English are also welcome! sosiologipaivat.fi/annual-confe...

12-month position @ UniBo we are looking for a researcher interested in the social stratification aspects of the utilization of ICT among the older population. The successful candidate will be part of a lively research group. Deadline: 29th February 2024.   bandi.unibo.it/ricerca/asse...

This emerging gender gap in political ideology is quite impressive - on.ft.com/3Hv2Qs6

Is non-monogamy the solution to the nuclear family two-carers-aren’t-enough-to-raise-a-child problem? As kin networks shrink and fewer grandparents and siblings are available as allocarers, why not extend your family with romantic relationships instead? t.co/kLXhURrDg1

🔵 Exciting news! UPS - the Unit of Population Studies at the University of Florence is now on Bluesky! 🎉 👉 Stay up-to-date with our latest research and join this vibrant community. Spread the word and invite your fellow thinkers to connect with us!

Opportunity to work with the Population & Society Unit of the University of Florence: 👉 Research Fellowship on Well-being and #Fertility Policies 📍Florence 👤 Scientific coordinator: prof. Raffaele Guetto Application: ⬇️ 🇮🇹 tinyurl.com/3n5cnrj5 🇬🇧 tinyurl.com/3n5cnrj5 Contact us for more info!

At the EUI we have a #vacancy for a #postdoc, for 2.5 years, to study inequality in school careers in the Netherlands using register data. Maybe you know a researcher who would be interested in this position. #socsky Deadline: 31/12/2023. See for more: www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...

✨Brand new OA study out where I try to extend the conceptualization of uncertainty (beyond economic uncert) in contemporary societies and test if/how it influences childbearing decisions 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Now you know: This is bad. Maternal deaths per 100,000 live births: Selected countries, 1990-2020 www.who.int/publications... #publichealth #demography

call for a post-doc @UniBo working on "Social stratification and ICT utilization in later life" required basic skills in analysis with R, Python or Stata call is (partly) in Italian if u need help/info mail/DM me dead line: 02/2024 #sociology #demography #aging bandi.unibo.it/ricerca/asse...

Total Fertility Rate, Finland, latest 12 months (Nov22–Oct23) is 1,25. The decline from 2010 is now 33,2%. Last year (2022) TFR was still 1.32. New record low level coming up this year - now below the traditional "lowest-low fertility" level (1,30). #fertility #Finland #StatisticsFinland

Postdoc opportunity with me in computational demography at Oxford to explore questions about demographic change, kinship, gender and and inter-generational dynamics: tinyurl.com/2skdt98w Keen to apply but need a bit more time to get the application in? Deadline now: Tue, Nov 21, noon (UK time).

Come to visit us and let us pay the bill!

One week to apply to work on my ERC project Social Inequalities in the Risk and Aftermath of Miscarriage! We are looking for a researcher (initially for 3 years, but with a possible extention until the end of the project on 31 December 2028) More information here: heinivaisanen.com/2023/10/17/s...

Starting the 2nd day of the #InequalityOfUncertainty conference w/ a keynote by @karenguzzo.bsky.social on #fertility goals in the US. @marcoalbertini.bsky.social @comochia.bsky.social

Our second keynote speaker: @karenguzzo.bsky.social on the association between #uncertainty and #fertility in the US #demography #sociology #family Cc. @comochia.bsky.social