Call for Abstracts: Workshop on Determinants of Adult Mortality, Morbidity, and Healthy Aging in LMICs. Sponsors: UC Berkeley Center on Economics and Demography of Aging & USC/UCLA Center on Biodemography and Population Health Deadline: Dec 15 2025 populationsciences.berkeley.edu/conferences/...

Our new paper develops and tests a network-based method for estimating death rates in complex humanitarian emergencies. Joint w/ @dennisfeehan.bsky.social and team from Geneva-based NGO @impact-initiatives.bsky.social academic.oup.com/aje/advance-...

Job at UC-Berkeley: Asst. Prof. in Global History of Technology, apps due 10/10 (so soon). #history #histSTM #histsci #histphilsci aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05065

📣 Job alert! *Assistant Prof in Computational Social Science*. We're a friendly department, with sharp students, at a great institution, in a lovely city. We have real strengths in computational social science & are looking for a colleague to build this further. Share and reach out with quesions!

📢 Interested in excess mortality methods, and want a challenge? I'm organising the "One Epidemic, Many Estimates" (1EME) project! Register *now* as a many analyst team (submissions due 15 March 2026), and then join us at LSE for a workshop on 21-22 May 2026! (1/n) www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-His...

New job ad: Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Dartmouth College apply.interfolio.com/172357 Please share with your networks. I am the search chair and happy to answer questions!

Job alert! Join us at @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social as a postdoctoral fellow to work on your own research for three years. #sociology

Berkeley Sociology is also participating in a cross-campus search in Climate Equity and Environmental Justice - open rank. Assistant Professor candidates for this position should also apply for our open field junior search to be considered for both. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04842

Berkeley Sociology is hiring faculty! Sept 1 application deadline. Two positions: (1) open area junior search. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05013, (2) associate or full professor in Anti-Black Racism and Social Inclusion aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05012 Please help spread the word!

Starting to look like I might not be able to work at Harvard anymore due to recent funding cuts. If you know of any open statistical consulting positions that support remote work or are NYC-based, please reach out! 😅

A great two weeks at UCLA! Come join us!

*JOB OPENING* Come join me and the Digital Gender Gaps team @sociologyoxford.bsky.social @oxforddemsci.bsky.social. We study digital gender inequalities and their consequences w/ social media, geospatial, and population data. tinyurl.com/postdoc-oxf Apply by 9 May, noon (UK)

Join our next Brownbag this Wednesday, 4/16 at noon, to hear Magali Barbieri (UC Researcher in Demography at UC Berkeley) present her project, “Multi-morbidity and the US Disadvantage in Life Expectancy.” Attend in-person at 310 Social Sciences or via Zoom (ID: 985 2901 0198 Passcode: DEMOG_BB).

We are hiring an education researcher to join the @capolicylab.bsky.social and @berkeleycshe.bsky.social teams. You'll work on projects using administrative data relating to California higher education. Here's more information: capolicylab.org/careers/rese...

Among these is one working with me -- if you have a background in literary/cultural theory and are interested in the ways in which computational methods, including LLMs, are able to provide support for empirical sensemaking about literature, media and culture, please get in touch!

📢 Funding opportunity 📢 We’re accepting applications for the Basia Zaba Scholarship for the MSc in Demography & Health @lshtm.bsky.social 🎓 The scholarship covers full tuition fees for a UK home student for the 2025-26 academic year. Deadline 26 March. For more information 👉 tinyurl.com/3j7esk22

Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and launch interdisciplinary research projects? We are so excited to announce there will be *26* Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science this year! Apply to one of them here: sicss.io/locations

We are now accepting applications for our Annual Workshop on Formal Demography, taking place in-person at UC Berkeley on June 2-6, 2025. Deadline to apply is March 10. See more information on the workshop and how to apply here: populationsciences.berkeley.edu/wp-content/u... Please share widely!

The Department of Demography at the University of California, Berkeley, invites applications for a Postdoctoral Scholar position in the research group of Prof. Ayesha Mahmud. For more info, visit: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04716

Are you a PhD student interested in population studies and would like to spend the summer in beautiful Vienna? Check out the Young Scientists Summer Program International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis! YSSP in the Population and Just Societies Program ⬇️ iiasa.ac.at/young-scient...

@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social is accepting applications for Fall 2025 for the PhD program in Demography AND the Graduate Group in Sociology & Demography. Seeking a diverse and strong cohort; applications DUE 12/17/2024. Learn more about the program: www.demog.berkeley.edu/graduate-pro...

@caseybreen.bsky.social, in “Longevity Benefits of Homeownership,” finds life expectancy differs btw homeowners & renters, presenting “compelling evidence that owning a home in early adulthood has a causal effect on later-life mortality.” @oxforddemsci.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

Applications to host a 2025 Summer Institute in Computational Social Science are due December 1st. Feel free to email me with questions and/or help connecting with others (especially since grant support will be limited): sicss.io/host

Are you a #student who is interested in #Demography and #DataScience & you have no plans for ☀️☀️☀️#summer 2025☀️☀️☀️☀️ yet? Look no more! @mpidr.bsky.social has just the program for you: Population and Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program! Apply until Jan 8, 2025 demogr.mpg.de/go/Incubator...

Just a few days left to apply to the CenSoc Users Conference on Dec 6th!

🚨Postdoc Alert 🚨 The Computational Social Science group at Microsoft Research NYC (Jake Hofman, David Rothschild, Dan Goldstein) is hiring a postdoc! jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo... Deadline: December 20, 2024

New paper (w/ @dennisfeehan.bsky.social ) on 'new' data sources for demographic research and the shared cross-cutting methodological challenges they present: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We're hosting a CenSoc Users Conference on December 6th, remote. Please consider joining us! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Excited about this working paper with @msalganik.bsky.social ! We use household surveys to produce sibling and network-based adult mortality estimates in 27 cities, and validate estimates against death certificates. Lots of implications for survey-based mortality estimation osf.io/preprints/so...

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...

Applications accepted until 3/29/24 to Summer Institute in Computational Social Science on UCLA campus, 6/24 to 7/3 2023. Researchers not affiliated with UCLA are also welcome to participate: sicss.io/2024/ucla/

We're hiring! The Berkeley Population Center is seeking a part-time (60%) Research Administrator. Come work with a great team of folks! Please share widely with your networks. careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucb/EMPL...

The deadline to apply is this Friday, March 8th. Get your applications in!

New postdoc opportunity in demography and public health at NYU Abu Dhabi. Please share widely: apply.interfolio.com/142228

Join us! In person, Mar 6, 12pm, for our next BrownBag Seminar w/ Jenny Trinitapoli (@uchicago.bsky.social ): “Excerpts from An Epidemic of Uncertainty: Navigating HIV and Young Adulthood in Malawi.” 310 Social Sciences. events.berkeley.edu/popsci/event...

We're happy to announce that on Feb 28, 12pm, our next Brown Bag Seminar is with Emilio Zagheni (@ezagheni.bsky.social): “Global Improvements in the Representation of Women in Science Have Stalled.” Join us! events.berkeley.edu/popsci/event...

You can participate in a new scientific mass collaboration. The aim of the challenge is to measure current predictability of fertility outcomes in the Netherlands to advance understanding of fertility. Apply by March 24 at preferdatachallenge.nl

The 10th Annual Workshop on Formal Demography will be held in person from June 3-7, 2024. Application Deadline: March 8, 2024 Notification Date: March 22, 2024 populationsciences.berkeley.edu/population-c...

We're now accepting applications to our 10th Annual Workshop on Formal Demography, Jun 3-7, 2024. The workshop covers classic topics incl fertility, mortality, & population dynamics. This year’s special emphasis is on the demography of immigration. populationsciences.berkeley.edu/population-c...

I am hiring a predoc to work with me at UC Berkeley. Anticipated start this summer. See here for more info: eml.berkeley.edu/~jrothst/Rot... Please circulate widely! This is a great role for someone considering grad school in the quantitative social sciences. Diverse candidates welcome. #EconSky

Still time to apply to work w/ me & amazing peeps @oxforddemsci.bsky.social as a PostDoc on ERC MORTAL project-deadline Jan 25! We want YOUR unique expertise to help understand the biological & social determinants of #mortality. #Demography #EconSky #EpiSky don't be shy! tinyurl.com/ynnd735h

Great postdoc opportunity in network science/ data science/ computer science at Northeastern! see www.khoury.northeastern.edu/research/pos... (please share widely!)

#ASA2024 - I am organizing the General Session on Mathematical Sociology. If your work is in the area of Math Soc, Data Science, etc you should consider sending your ASA paper here! www.asanet.org/2024-annual-...

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).

David Weil & I are hiring a full-time post-doc to work with us on new strategic enforcement research. Folks interested in computational methods, labor policy, industrial relations, labor economics, etc.. pls apply (+ don't hesitate to get in touch)! Apps due 1/8/24 shift.hks.harvard.edu/about/jobs/

The *amazing* Ridhi Kashyap is post-doc in in Computational Demography! The postdoc will use computational methods to understand demographic change & implications for kinship & intergenerational overlap. Apply now: tinyurl.com/2skdt98w #demography #popsky

📢 Stanford MS&E is hiring! 📢 We're seeking a tenure-track Assistant Professor to help us push the frontiers of Management Science & Engineering, broadly defined. Review begins Nov 3, apps due Dec 15. Happy to answer questions! Please spread the word! msande.stanford.edu/get-involved...