We’re excited to join Bluesky! 🌏 RC06 brings together scholars working on families, kinship, intimacy, care, gender, generations & social change across diverse global contexts. Looking forward to connecting with the family research community here. #FamilySociology

I will soon be recruiting researchers for SOCIAL – Social relations, digital technologies and wellbeing of older people, a FIS-2 project on ageing, digitalisation, social relations, and wellbeing. Expressions of interest are now welcome.

Interested in demography? You might like our new tool on @ourworldindata.org which lets you see how changes in fertility rates, life expectancy, and migration rates will change future populations. Have a play! You can even do it continent wide. ourworldindata.org/population-s...

Innovation must not become exclusion. I have seen this message circulating on social media (in Italian): a society that forces an 80-year-old to use a smartphone to access their rights is not modern, is discriminatory #digitaldivide #intergenerationalfairness

Many exciting courses at RECSM as usual! I will have again the privilege to teach a causal inference course. Check the website for details on courses, fees and discounts. Hope to see you in the best city in the world ... Barcelona!

Are you a student or researcher? Take advantage of our many discounts: 40% off for students, 20% off for researchers, and many more. This summer, join us in #Barcelona for the RECSEM Summer School at @upf.edu . Learn from and connect with leading experts in #methods for social science #research.

Two new facts stand out: 1. 85% of hallucinated citations in preprints are also in the subsequent journal version (thanks, peer review!) 2. Fake cites more likely to use the names of (male) scholars who are already highly cited, creating a fake-citation Matthew effect. arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723

At today's #ESSAustria #SHAREAustria #GGPAustria Joint User Meeting, our team will be represented by @valeriabordone.bsky.social showing the results of her ongoing work with @brunoarpino.bsky.social and #MarcoTosi 👇

Population ageing is too often framed as a “burden” to be managed. In our new preprint, @valeriabordone.bsky.social , @pdykstra.bsky.social, and I argue for a different framing: sustainable ageing. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/so...

President Trump approval poll (Reuters/Ipsos) Disapprove 64% (+2) Approve 34% (-2) (Shift from April 15) www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

This is a new one for me from the predatory-journal world: publish 2 for the price of 1. The supermarket of papers. “The standard publication charge is $3,019 per paper. However, we are pleased to offer you a special discount: •Publish 2 papers for $3,019 (limited-time offer)”

Still a few places available for the next Sustainable Ageing working group meeting 🗓 Wednesday 3 June 2026; 14:00–17:00 📍 Room Q Plesso Belmeloro, Via Andreatta 8, Bologna Free of charge and also open to people not participating at #EPC2026 www.eaps.nl/page/sustain... @valeriabordone.bsky.social

An Imbens retrospective on experimental v. non-experimental methods — looks like a must-read www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Regardless of whether your paper has been accepted for presentation at #EPC2026, join the Working Group #SustainableAgeing side meeting "Technological Change and Sustainable Ageing" Interested in presenting or participating? 👇 📝 Register here: forms.gle/Tq21zqX7ddN7...

In “Limits of Predicting Individual-Level Longevity,” Badolato et al. assess a range of classic statistical & machine learning survival analysis models. @nickirons.bsky.social @monjalexander.bsky.social @ugobas.bsky.social @ezagheni.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

📢 Read my new article w/ Di Patrizio & Giudici about school-university transition between Italians and students with migrant backgrounds! 👇🏻

Major news outlets: Please consider prominently reporting what this all-star team of researchers has found. www.nber.org/papers/w34791

In the first two months of 2025, ICE raids in the Central Valley increased absentee rates by 22%. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

"2025 is the first year of this century where child deaths will increase." As aid cuts begin to bite it is projected that an additional 200,000 children under the age 5 will die from preventable illnesses bringing the annual total to 4.8 million. www.gatesfoundation.org/goalkeepers/...

Would you put ICE in wine? No way! #NoICE #NoICEinItaly #MilanoCortina2026

🚨 Following the murder of protesters and widespread arbitrary detentions in the USA, ICE cannot be allowed in Europe. We are calling for an immediate travel ban on all ICE agents. This is now urgent following reports ICE will police the Winter Olympics in Italy 🚨

📣 Announcement | EAPS @eaps.bsky.social Working Group Sustainable Ageing side meeting @ #EPC2026 (Bologna) Technological Change and Sustainable Ageing: Challenges and Opportunities 🗓 Wednesday, 3 June 2026 🕑 14:00–17:00 📍 Room Q, Plesso Belmeloro, Via Andreatta 8, Bologna #SustainableAgeing

📣 Call for Papers | European Journal of Ageing Topical Collection “Ageing Well for All: Multidimensional Pathways to Sustainable Ageing” Guest Editors: Bruno Arpino & Valeria Bordone (@valeriabordone.bsky.social) Submissions open now (deadline: 31 Aug 2026) 🔗 link.springer.com/collections/...

Family research usually focuses on the nuclear family. Relationships with other relatives have hardly been studied to date. Yet these relations play an important role: https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events_6123/news_press_releases_4630/news/important_relatives_14970 Bettina Hünteler Diego Alburez

Happy 2026! 🎉 I finally built the thing I'd had in mind for a while: FG's Research Radio, AI-generated audio deep dives into computational social science papers. It pulls from my PaperPile reading list, so I can catch up on papers while walking or driving fabiogiglietto.github.io/research-rad...

𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲: 𝗔𝗜 𝗶𝗻 𝗣𝗼𝗽𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 We are excited to share that IJPDS is dedicating its 2026 Special Issue to the use of AI in Population Data Science research. 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗜𝗝𝗣𝗗𝗦 and we'll make sure that you'll be the first to know when this call opens! ijpds.org/user/register

I think about this post every day 🧪

Mi sono chiesto quali fossero le fonti di un articolo di La Repubblica che parla di over 60 e digitale, ma non citando alcuno studio scientifico. Così ho chiesto a Chatgpt di ✔️ leggere l’articolo ✔️ individuare ogni passaggio in cui si fa riferimento a ricerche/dati ...

¿Te interesan los temas de desigualdad y movilidad social? ¿Quieres hacer el doctorado? Va a salir una Beca FPI en el proyecto I+D que dirijo: “Does luck matter? The role of luck in individual life courses and views of redistribution”. La convocatoria oficial de la UNED saldrá en breve. 1/2

Awesome text by Lea Bottmer, Guido Imbens, Jason Weitze and Mary Wooters: "An Undergraduate Course in Causality" hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/uynpjlow... #EconSky 📉📈

Next week, Nov 10, we organize a small conference on social mobility at the EUI. We collaborate with Georgetown University. The meeting is in person, but if you want to receive the recording, you can register here. global.georgetown.edu/events/works...

Best spam conference invitation ever: ... Your publication titled " " is truly remarkable and of exceptionally high standard on the core subject. ... Actually, " " is a nice title!

New @pnas.org paper constructing subnational estimates of internet and mobile adoption by gender, including gender gaps, for 117 low- and middle- income countries from 2015 through 2025. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

nel dibattito politico e pubblico degli ultimi mesi si parla molto di fecondità e di inverno dmeografico #neodemos ha preparato un "vademecum", sul tema "tutto quello che avreste voluto sapere sulla fecondità e non sapevate dove cercare" www.neodemos.info/wp-content/u...

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