Ever wondered why nearby places behave more alike than distant ones?🤔 Turns out, many regression model may be missing spatial dependencies!🗺️📍 Join our #Geodata & #Spatial Regression workshop (30 Jun–2 Jul, Mannheim) and learn how to model spatial regression models in R 📊 👉 t1p.de/geodata-spat...

Today was the last talk in our 25/6 #SRICLEAN seminar series. Thanks to our fantastic speakers fostering discussion on #socialsciences and #climate. Catch up on some of the talks here. www.youtube.com/@CLEAN-UCL @jasminabdelghany.bsky.social Ben Sovacool, Ulf Liebe, @antvalentim.bsky.social

Still time to sign up for the Climate Demography workshop at EPC until 1 May!

Our symposium will explore recent advances in environment & health data research #PublicHealth It’s your chance to network with researchers & stakeholders working with #HealthData & learn about some of the latest work in this field @lshtm.bsky.social More details 🔽 www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...

Sign up until 1 May! 📨

Max Planck Research Group on Reproductive Ageing, led by D. Susie Lee 이수지, is starting today! It will investigate indicators of female & male reproductive ageing: https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events_6123/news_press_releases_4630/news/new_max_planck_research_group_on_reproductive_ageing_14854

Opinion: Global health data is at a crossroads. After #USAID cuts, experts call for rebuilding the #DemographicAndHealthSurvey with stronger #DataInfrastructure and #ResearchIntegrity to support better #PublicHealth worldwide. Read more: https://ow.ly/jonk50YqGnm#USAID#DemographicAndHealthSurvey#DataInfrastructure#ResearchIntegrity#PublicHealth#vaccines #HIV #malaria

Join us for the 🌱 Climate Demography 🌱 workshop at EPC 2026! We'll have an interesting set of keynotes, a meet the editor session, & ample time for discussion!

I ran a simple model with new public data then used 1 prompt to make ChatGPT guess what the model would produce. With 10 seconds of "thinking," it was very close. The implications of this are catastrophic. The American Sociological Association should do something about this but it doesn't care to /1

More evidence that maternal exposure to stress early on in pregnancy has consequences. In this case, higher mortality rates for male foetuses but lower sex selective abortion. It reminded me of your earthquake study in Chile @ftorche.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

PAA member and @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social Demography professor Jenna Nobles @jnobles.bsky.social will present the NIH OBSSR Director's Webinar: How Responsible Use of Mobile Device Data Can Advance Our Understanding of Fertility. Register now for March 25 at 11am ET:

Read the full paper here where we argue urgent DHS Program reform should be country-led and ensure data access stability: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

UCL Social Research Institute #CLEAN Seminar Series. Book now for our next talk with Professor Ulf Liebe. #SocialScience seminar series with leading researchers, topics ranging from #ClimatePolicy and #ClimateJustice to #Energy transitions www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2... @sriucl.bsky.social

Climate change might be making men scarcer: "high temperatures in the nine months before birth are negatively associated with male births" in sub-Saharan Africa and India, a new study finds www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Opinion: In the wake of #USAID cuts, a reimagined #DemographicAndHealthSurvey could advance equitable #DataInfrastructure and stronger #ResearchIntegrity—safeguarding data on #vaccines, #ChildHealth, #HIV, #malaria & more. In PNAS Front Matter: https://ow.ly/ZNhS50Ymwwa

This is well worth a read, with an ultimately hopeful message, but it also makes clear just how damage one billionaire can do, if given leeway: “In the wake of USAID cuts, we can create a Demographic & Health Survey Program founded on more equitable data infrastructure & stronger research integrity”

Fascinating. Bottom line: Days with maximum high temperatures (only above 20°C/68º F!) reduce the number of male births. "Our findings lend support to the Trivers-Willard hypothesis" – that under conditions like wars, terrorist attacks, and natural disasters—births of girls are more likely.

"We show that high temperatures in the nine months before birth are negatively associated with male births in sub-Saharan Africa and India. The exposure timing demonstrates that ambient heat can increase prenatal mortality in early pregnancy, particularly among males" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🚨 A defining moment for global health data. The termination of the #USAID-supported Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) Program has wide-ranging consequences. We reflect on the collapse and argue what should come next in a new PNAS: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2… 📊 9,000+ studies

The termination of the DHS Program and what should be next? Our opinions piece is out in PNAS -we invite the research community to join the discussion on the future of global health data infrastructure. DOI: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Join us in Bologna for the 1st meeting of the EAPS WG Open Science in Demography. Program: group intro + 2h workshop led by @jschoeley.com & @akbaritabar.bsky.social. Free & open to all. Register: [email protected] #EPC2026 #OpenScience #Demography @eaps.bsky.social @populationeu.bsky.social

NEW: Oxford researchers have found that higher temperatures can shift the sex ratio at birth. Temperatures above 20°C are consistently linked to fewer boys being born across multiple regions - with implications for population health and gender balance. Read more from @sociologyoxford.bsky.social ⬇️

Honored to have received this recognition in memory of Julia Mead Knox next to impressive work by my colleagues.

🌡️ New research published in @pnas.org finds that high temperatures may influence the sex ratio at birth. Analysing 5+ million births, researchers show that exposure to temps above 20°C during pregnancy is linked to fewer boys being born 📊👶 🔗 www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/article/new-...

New research led by Jasmin Abdel Ghany, Nuffield Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Sociology, reveals that rising temperatures can influence the sex ratio at birth — with important implications for population health and gender balance in a warming world. Read more: tinyurl.com/yr6tn5jv

How does extreme heat shape who is born — and where? New study by @jasminabdelghany.bsky.social out in @pnas.org today links high temperatures to changes in sex ratios at birth in sub-Saharan Africa and India. 🔬📊 www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/new-lcd...

Excited to share a new #OA study with @dariatisch.bsky.social and @schechtlm.bsky.social🎉We show that while most people prefer equal inheritance, wealthy individuals are more willing to support unequal transfers when they help preserve wealth across generations ➡️ academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

Surveys are important for miscarriage research, yet questionnaire design and sample characteristics can influence reported miscarriage prevalence We compared miscarriage reporting across British surveys with @mccompans.bsky.social & @heinivaisanen.bsky.social - take a look at our pre-print here ⬇️

🌍🌱 New #CLEAN 2026 Seminar Series ♻️🔥💡 #SocialScience seminar series with leading researchers to discuss topics ranging from #ClimateJustice and #Adaptation policies to #Energy transitions and #Health impacts of extreme heat 🏜️ 📆 #hybrid Get in touch for zoom link www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/departme...

New paper, led by Estelle McLean, on the value of data from Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems. These data sources are particularly suitable for complex longitudinal analyses which require consideration of household and familial contexts, but their complexity may result in their under-use

Looking forward to the 18th INAS conference! Next year's edition will take place at @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social. Check out Ozan's post below for more details.

📢 Analytical sociology is coming home! Call 4 INAS26 is open 🌍 1-3Jul26 @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social and @sociologyoxford.bsky.social (☔) ☢️ Deadline: 1Feb26 🦹 Organisers: @aksoyundan.bsky.social , @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social, D Kretschmer, @awaldendorf.bsky.social Info: tinyurl.com/yc2tusjx

📢Job Offer‼️New Max Planck Research Group on Reproductive Ageing Interview with D. Susie Lee 이수지 Leader of the Group: https://www.demogr.mpg.de/go/RGRA Job: https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_6122/jobs_fellowships_1910/postdoc_research_scientist_in_the_reproductive_ageing_research_group_14844/

"Our findings support the claim that local government austerity cuts unequally restricted the right to have children amongst the most disadvantaged." This study highlights the negative impacts found for poorer households only and the disproportionate allocation of cuts to racially minoritized women.

UNDESA's report (Assessing the impact of the loss of the Demographic and Health Surveys on global pop & family planning data & estimates & on pop research) is out. "For some countries, there would be almost a complete absence of any fundamental demographic or family planning data without the DHS."

Gaza: Study Reveals Unprecedented Losses of Life & Life Expectancy Researchers from MPIDR & the Centre for Demographic Studies (CED) investigated the impact of the conflict in Gaza on mortality. Life expectancy 2024 fell to nearly half the level expected without the war. www.demogr.mpg.de/go/GazaLE

1/ Concerns about low birth rates & below "replacement" fertility have been in the news a lot lately. But what does "replacement fertility" mean exactly? (Throwback pic to that time I tried replacement fertility all in one go). jenndowd.substack.com/p/what-is-re... #demography #fertility

Climate Change, Environmental Hazards, & Population Dynamics: 1st Climate Conference @mpidr.bsky.social discusses connections between environmental #Hazards #Sustainability & the impact on #SocialInequalities #Mortality #Migration #Fertility #HumanCapital #Health: www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

We conducted a systematic review of the effect of in-utero exposure to ambient air pollution on the sex ratio at birth. Evidence is scarce and we need more studies employing rigorous causal inference designs. Work led by Ursula Gazeley @oxforddemsci.bsky.social, preprint available below.

Thank you @mpidr.bsky.social colleagues, @ezagheni.bsky.social and @conteristo.bsky.social for excellent and stimulating discussion points in the Department of Digital and Computational Demography's lab talk! Check out upcoming lab talks and events here: www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

🚨 Earth's vital signs are flashing red. 🌡️ 2024 was the hottest year in recorded history. Read the latest Climate report from @williamripple.bsky.social and Christopher Wolf's team, published in BioScience. oxford.ly/47i6K5j

Excited to come back to @mpidr.bsky.social for a short visit from next week! Presenting our work on the effect of temperature on sex ratios at birth on Nov 5, 10.00 Rostock time (ZOOM link below!) & excited for @iussp.bsky.social's Climate Change, Environmental Hazards & Pop Dynamics conference! 🍃

The first half of 2025 was the costliest ever recorded for U.S. weather & climate disasters - info the public might never have learned b/c the Trump admin cut the NOAA program that tracked such events. A private group hired the researcher who'd handle it at NOAA to redevelop the database.

Heart full of joy and gratitude for my depicted, literal superhero team 🦸🦸🦸🦸🦸🦸of incredible supervisors Josh Wilde, @ridhikashyap.bsky.social, @melindacmills.bsky.social, and excellent examiners @drjenndowd.bsky.social & @ftorche.bsky.social, as well as my terrific mentors, peers, & friends!!!

While the recent interim funding by the Gates Foundation for the DHS Program buys time for data collection of selected surveys and data availability, many countries don't benefit and the future of new surveys remains uncertain. Read the updated version of our preprint that got 1,000+ views now here:

I'm excited to have started my Nuffield Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowship in Sociology this month at @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social. Grateful for this community - and for Oxford views... More work on environmental inequalities and also fertility to follow!!

Looking forward to submissions to session "1310: Climate, Environmental Change, and Population Health" as part of the Mortality and Morbidity strand at PAA 2026 @popassocamerica.bsky.social! Call for papers is open until 5 Oct 2025 📮📮📮

Join us for a 1-week course on the Demography of Fertility at beautiful @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social, 8-12 Dec! 📮 We'll cover theory, methods foundations, and many current issues at the intersection of fertility & maternal health! 🚼 Book your spot. @oxforddemsci.bsky.social

Two exciting PhD positions at @oxforddemsci.bsky.social on predicting health outcomes at the population level and natural language of health and social care! Apply to work in a wonderful team.