New paper out 🎓: Personality Traits and Provision of Grandparental Childcare: Evidence from Europe (w/ @valeriabordone.bsky.social, Giorgio Di Gessa & @mdkraemer.bsky.social Using data from @share-eric.bsky.social, we find personality matters for grandhild care provision doi.org/10.1080/1535...

🚀 2-year Postdoc opportunity with me on older adults, digital technologies & wellbeing. Flexible location/remote-friendly Deadline 9 Oct, 13:00 CEST Details & how to apply (both ITA/ENG): www.stat.unipd.it/procedura-se... #Postdoc #Ageing #Demography #DigitalInequality

Nell'ambito della #MilanoDigitalWeek ti invitiamo al webinar “L’uso del Digitale nella Popolazione Anziana: Ricerca e Applicazioni”, mercoledì 1 ottobre ore 20:00 — un evento promosso da Università di Padova e Università della Terza Età Iscrizione gratuita www.milanodigitalweek.com/event/luso-d...

The 1st Conference of the #SustainableAgeing @eaps.bsky.social Working Group has just started, opened by @valeriabordone.bsky.social and @brunoarpino.bsky.social at @unipd.bsky.social Looking forward to two days of discussions on #SustainableAgeing

These were four very interesting papers on care demand and supply gap, potential intergenerational conflict as well as caregivers well-being

@brunoarpino.bsky.social has just announced next meeting will be at EPC2026

📢 The 1st Conference of the EAPS Working Group on Sustainable Ageing will take place in Padova, Italy, on 11–12 September 2025. The program features around 50 presentations on ageing, intergenerational relations, and digitalization and more. ℹ️More information: www.eaps.nl/page/sustain...

Submit your abstracts! 🚀 I especially encourage submissions to the Ageing & Intergenerational Relations theme, which I have the honour of convening. A great conference in a great location — don’t miss it! ✨

⭐🎓The Department of Sociology in Vienna @univie.ac.at‬ invites applications for a Tenure Track Professor in Sociology with focus on Quantitative Social Science Research Methods | #Sociology | quant methods Apply here (17 Sept 25): jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...

The program for the 1st Sustainable Ageing Conference (EAPS Working Group @eaps.bsky.social) is online! www.eaps.nl/page/sustain... 📍 Padua, Italy 📅 Sept 11–12 🎤 Keynote: Pearl Dykstra ⚡ 25 flash talks + posters Free registration (limited spots, first-come-first-served): forms.gle/kfmk1HFc8eVG...

Wow! It will be compulsory in Spain to make micro data available when publishing electoral polls!

The weather is hot in Germany today... but not as hot as my new paper, out now in Journal of Family Research @familyresearch.bsky.social !

Couples tend to have similar partisan preferences, but is that because of (a)direct political, or (b)indirect (eg social) matching, or (c)alignment over time? German research by @hudde.bsky.social & Grunow suggests it’s mostly (a), with some (c): buff.ly/TeGy2UI

@isa-sociology.org executive committee decision on the Israeli Sociological Society --> www.isa-sociology.org/en/about-isa... #StopGenocide

It just happened again, as it happens multiple times each year: Someone's student asked me to look at their model output, I asked why they chose those variables, they say "these variables might influence outcome". This is a failure of training in biology, not student's fault. Committee is no better!

📑 New paper is out! We are excited to announce the publication of our research in the European Journal of Public Health, on social patterns of #miscarriage reporting and risk in #France by @mccompans.bsky.social and @heinivaisanen.bsky.social 🔗 academic.oup.com/eurpub/advan... 1/4

Thanks @demographyvienna.bsky.social It was great to be invited as speaker to such an interdisciplinary audience interested in #MachineLearning and to present with @brunoarpino.bsky.social

Is there a future for (ML in) #Demography? Yes 🙂 says Bruno Arpino @brunoarpino.bsky.social at the “AI meets Humanities & Social Science” Conference in Vienna today. @mla2s-oeaw.bsky.social @demographyvienna.bsky.social @aisp-sis.bsky.social

I'm truly grateful to be part of this program, working alongside outstanding students and colleagues!

Summer Incubator Program 2025 @mpidr.bsky.social is in full swing! Everyone has arrived, & the research groups have begun their work. 🧵1/4 www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even... @perrottadaniela.bsky.social @ezagheni.bsky.social @conteristo.bsky.social @ebrusanliturk.bsky.social @brunoarpino.bsky.social

“Sleeping With the Enemy…”: @aledinal.bsky.social & @brunoarpino.bsky.social examined data on nearly 30K British couples & found that couples holding divergent political party and Brexit preferences were at increased risk of union dissolution. @mpidr.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

Relationships are often built on shared values and beliefs, but what happens when political preferences create a divide? @brunoarpino.bsky.social and I investigated how political (mis)match affects union dissolution in @readdemography.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

Love across the ballot box? It's complicated!💔A 30-yr UK study shows that couples with opposing political views are 38% more likely to break up - & Brexit disagreements proved particularly divisive! @readdemography.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social @aledinal.bsky.social @brunoarpino.bsky.social

🎓 If you missed the chance to attend our event with Prof. David Bartram, Editor of Social Indicators Research — “What Makes Rigorous Quantitative Social Research?” — 🎥 The full recording is now available on YouTube! 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pE5...

Really excited for this upcoming event! If you’re in Padova tomorrow (Friday the 16th), there’s still time to register and join us!

📢Registration is open until June 1st! Join us at “AI meets Humanities & Social Sciences” to explore AI- & ML-methods. We are excited to welcome our invited speakers: @brunoarpino.bsky.social, @valeriabordone.bsky.social & #AfuaDurowaa-Boateng! 📆June 23-25 at @oeaw.bsky.social 🔗 tinyurl.com/regaihss

Reminder! Register until May 10 at shorturl.at/eJJwW

Thank you all for the submissions! We were thrilled to receive so many high-quality abstracts. Now comes the hard part—selecting them! We're committed to meeting the April 11th deadline. Stay tuned for an exciting workshop program! @valeriabordone.bsky.social

How do #GrandchildCare and #LabourMarket participation affect #cognition of older people? @mksicabaraban.bsky.social is presenting her joint work with @valeriabordone.bsky.social @webervienna.bsky.social @brunoarpino.bsky.social at #RC28 @isa-rc28.bsky.social

🚨 The deadline is approaching! 🚨 Submit your extended abstract to the 1st Conference of the Sustainable Ageing Working Group of the @eaps.bsky.social 🗓 Deadline: 21 March 2025 See the Call for Papers for details tinyurl.com/4u7ajh8c @valeriabordone.bsky.social

Early Bird registrations are now open for #NZPopCon 2025, and we have our keynotes lined up as well: Wokje Abrahamse & @terryfleming.bsky.social from @vicuniwgtn.bsky.social, Irina Grossman from @rmitcomputing.bsky.social, and Tracey McIntosh from @aucklanduni.bsky.social. More info here!

Our new #research examines how changes in individuals’ resources (health, financial, time) are associated with #volunteering among older Europeans. Read more: doi.org/10.1093/gero... @invest-flagship.bsky.social @netresilience.bsky.social @geronsociety.bsky.social @share-eric.bsky.social

Reminder: 📢Call for abstracts #SustainableAgeing 👇

📅 May 16, 2025, 10:30–12:30 | Univ. of Padua 🎓: “What Makes a Rigorous Quantitative Social Research?” w/ Prof. David Bartram, Editor of Social Indicators Research Register at: shorturl.at/eJJwW

Say you’ve got very good causal IDENTIFICATION. Can you say you have causality, can make a causal general claim, and can say what “THE causal effect” is? NO We explain why in new article at Journal of Causal Inference. www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

1/ 🧩 How do loneliness patterns look like in later life? The new study by #GiorgioDiGessa, @valeriabordone.bsky.social , @brunoarpino.bsky.social describes 10-year trajectories using #ELSA_Study #OpenAccess 👇 doi.org/10.1016/j.so... Let’s unpack the findings 🧵:

📢 New publication in our team @ifswien.bsky.social "Trajectories of loneliness in later life – Evidence from a 10-year English panel study" #GiorgioDiGessa @valeriabordone.bsky.social @brunoarpino.bsky.social #SocialScience&Medicine #OpenAcess 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.so... 🧵👇

Yet another paper on how (not) to choose control variables? Yes! We really need such papers published in at least one journal per discipline because bad or unjustified choices of controls are so common! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Our R package CMatching is back on CRAN Huge credit to Massimo Cannas! cran.r-project.org/web/packages... CMatching implements propensity score matching with clustered data based on the methods in Arpino & Cannas 2106 (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...) #causalinference #rstats

Ciencia para Mejorar las Políticas Publicas #Science4Policy El @csic.es explica que la IA es útil para formular políticas públicas Y expone algunas usos de la IA para gestionar políticas de educación, bienestar, acción social p sostenibilidad Descarga libre science4policy.csic.es/inteligencia...

Reminder :)

Exploring the interplay of culture, demography, and policy: join Michele Lamont, Adrian Favell, Ron Lesthaeghe, Arnstein Aassve & many others at our Population Europe workshop on 30 April: www.population-europe.eu/events/upcom...

Sciences Po is hiring an Assistant Professor on Digital Inequalities. Candidates should have strong theoretical/methodological skills, and an ambitious research agenda on social stratification and inequality. www.sciencespo.fr/osc/sites/sc...

Applications open for the SICSS-ODISSEI summer school at Erasmus University. For PhD students, post-docs and early career researchers interested in computational social science. More info: odissei-data.nl/event/sicss-...

Postdoc opportunities at the Knowledge Lab at U Chicago. Application review begins Jan 31. form.jotform.com/241295631499...

Università, il prof rientrato dall’estero: “In Italia guadagno un terzo e non ho neanche un pc” - la Repubblica repubblica.it/cronaca/2025... Purtroppo (a parte l'highly cited)... una storia troppo comune...

Happy new year everyone! I wish you all to age sustainably 🙂 Submit! Submit! Submit! Share! Share! Share! 🙏

Lower marriage rates aren’t always a bad thing, mind! Data on divorce rates in Britain shows marriages since 2000s have been more likely to stay together…

The Sustainable Ageing Working Group of the European Association for Population Studies announces its first conference! 11-12 September 2025 Padua, Italy Deadline for submissions: 21 March 2025 See the attached call for papers for further details tinyurl.com/4u7ajh8c @valeriabordone.bsky.social

Does machine learning help predicting fertility behaviours? Join us at the @ggp.bsky.social Austria workshop www.ggp-austria.at/veranstaltun...