Why? Is it because it's half-price? 🤔

If only it could happen so fast... 🫩

Our colleague, @didierndombe.bsky.social, is attending #ICFP2025 in Bogota! He'll present his joint work with Ester Rizzi on domestic violence, reproductive coercion & unmet need for family planning among women in union in 🇨🇩 DCR More about his session: icfp2025.dryfta.com/program-sche...

I am using LLM basically to sort students' answers (after asking to create a table of verbatims). But my attempts at asking AI to mark is catastrophic, even with some criteria. We need to develop guidelines, not banning AI altogether.

Mon entretien sur le pan-africanisme, Nkrumah, et l'ère des indépendances, en français, avec la publication en ligne afriquexxi: afriquexxi.info/L-epopee-Nkr...

AI are really good at summarizing, with minimum guidelines and checks. Are abstract really necessary now? 🤔 The paper might have been corrected, not necessarily generated, by AI. Original ideas are never generated by AI, let alone hallucinations.

Well, they should know, the story is at least 20-year old! youtu.be/YbEQ7acb0IE?...

Me, before and after marking students' work filled with #AI hallucinations and nonsense. #academia #halloween

Reading. www.ft.com/content/36fa...

That one is even worse. ourworldindata.org/grapher/life...

Why do associations between grandparents & child health vary [Africa]?: "implication is that net flows of support from grandparents to children diminish as societies undergo demographic & epidemiological transitions, weakening the positive association between grandparent coresidence & child health"

Nice work by @demographielln.bsky.social!

🌏Next Tuesday, DEMO welcomes Grace Cruz from the University of the Philippines for our next #LunchSeminar! She'll talk about #ageing and its challenges in the 🇵🇭Philippines, using the Longitudinal Study of Ageing and Health 📆04/11 at 1pm 🖥️Join online: us02web.zoom.us/j/87199604242

Today is INED’s 80th birthday 🎂! 📜INED was founded on October 24, 1945—80 years ago today—to answer queries from the public authorities about France’s population and population dynamics.

Monty Python understood p-hacking

This map shows that polygamy is relatively uncommon around the world. In Mali a third of people live in a polygamous household though. Source: buff.ly/08h4pCx

The #QueteletSeminar is happening in 1 month! 3 days dedicated to measuring, understanding & explaining in #demography 📆Nov, 19-21 📍Louvain-la-Neuve, BE 📑Program: www.uclouvain.be/fr/system/fi... ⏩Registration: uclouvain.odoo.com/en_US/event/...

Published today: One of the biggest #science #communication studies to date. We asked 71,922 people in 68 countries how they #engage with information about #science and combined the data with several country-level factors: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #OpenAccess

🎊 Vient de paraître ! Nouvelle étude des professeur.e.s @sophiachae.bsky.social @demo-udem.bsky.social et Victor Agadjanian @ccpratucla.bsky.social sur la polygynie et la fécondité en Afrique subsaharienne 🌍 #Fertility

📢New publication from DEMO members! Results from a survey conducted among 900+ people of Sub-Saharan African origin in 🇧🇪Belgium are now available 7 main topics analysed: #migration | #families | living conditions | #racism & discrimination | #employment | #health | #citizenship & social ties

Research conducted under the initiative of the Fondation Roi Baudouin, in collaboration with IRD, UGent & ULB Read the full report here: media.kbs-frb.be/fr/media/135...

Résumés des principales théories de la #migration : Ravenstein, Lee, Harris-Todaro, Stark et al., Zelinsky (enregistrement d'un de mes cours de Master @demographielln.bsky.social @uclouvain.bsky.social) youtu.be/1UtvdAIasGE

✨À lire ! Dans cette entrevue @umontreal-en.bsky.social, notre professeure @anacanedog.bsky.social décrit la réintégration économique et sociale de migrants mexicains ayant vécu aux États-Unis 🗞️ nouvelles.umontreal.ca/article/2025...

The Living Planet Index is the biodiversity metric that always claims the headlines. Unfortunately, many of these headlines are wrong. The index is very easy to misinterpret. The Living Planet Index reports an average decline of 73% across tens of thousands of wildlife populations since 1970.

Rapport disponible ici : media.kbs-frb.be/fr/media/135...

Remarquable étude auprès de 900 immigrants d' #Afrique en #Belgique menée par @demographielln.bsky.social, l'IRD, UGent et VUB. Rapport d'analyse bientôt disponible sites.uclouvain.be/roam-be/?Pag...

Our #MeetDEMOmembers series continues! 👋Meet Ilya ( @klimkin.bsky.social ), a first-year doctoral student. With a background in demographic research, data analysis & data journalism, he'll work on "Excess Winter #Mortality in Belgium in the 21st Century" under the supervision of Bruno Masquelier

Really recommend the truly fascinating Gens de Paris 1926-1936 expo at Musée Carnavalet. A treasure trove of fascinating detail on the lives of Parisians, based on census data

Pourquoi Paris est-elle la ville de l’amour (ou plutôt celle des célibataires) ? Le musee Carnavalet expose << Les gens de Paris, 1926-1936 >>, un voyage au coeur d'une ville qui aime, flirte et s'amuse, tandis qu'y plane la question de la natalite.

La condition et le droit des #femmes aux #USA sont bien pires encore que je ne me l'imaginais : #avortement #viol #marriage... youtu.be/gCPblewsQaY?...

Who is yet to be convinced?

💥New: Academic careers have become a professional sport ✍️ @swallaschek.bsky.social #AcademicSky #ECRchat #AcademicCareers

N-IUSSP: Modest changes in spousal age differences over time in sub-Saharan Africa www.niussp.org/family-and-h... #demography #populationstudies

🚨New Tenure Position! We're looking for a new colleague to join our dynamic team in Belgium. Innovative quantitative methods | Health & environment | Population dynamics Read job description here: jobs.uclouvain.be/PersonnelAca... Application Deadline: Nov 11, 2025 #job #tenure

As a primatologist, Jane Goodall was a huge inspiration to me. I admired the way she describes chimpanzee behavior with such detail and empathy, and she’s inspired so many people and advocated for chimpanzee conservation and welfare. However, I'm dismayed at what her narrative leaves out (1/10)

Here is a #badgeographyjoke to alienate my French friends 😉🇫🇷

120. Among 66 women Nobel Prize winners (counting Marie Curie twice), the mean number of children is 1.5, the median is 2, 82% had 2 or fewer, 36% had none. Counts adopted and most step children. Three are still under age 50. (Data and code: osf.io/tj769/)

👏 Roxana Arana-Ovalle, diplômée @demo-udem.bsky.social obtient la mention d'honneur pour sa thèse lors de la remise du prix Tamara Hareven à #ESHD2025 @eshistdemo.bsky.social Un nouvel article issu de sa thèse vient d'ailleurs d'être publié ! 📄 À lire : doi.org/10.1111/sifp...

It depends.

[Emploi] Poste de professeur·e à temps plein en Méthodes quantitatives et analyse comparée des dynamiques des populations. Le ou la candidat·e retenu·e développera des recherches sur les dynamiques des populations et les transitions liées à l’environnement,

C'est pas dit dans l'annonce mais on recherche quelqu'un de sympa ;)

NOUVEAU POSTE PROF / NEW TENURE POSITION @demographielln.bsky.social jobs.uclouvain.be/PersonnelAca...

This map shows the major global migrant flows from 1500 to 1914. Huge settlement movements away from Europe. Source: buff.ly/lQQcyS2

www.lemonde.fr/societe/arti... Magnifique projet et félicitations à @sandrabree.bsky.social et son équipe du magnifique travail ! Cela m'aidera beaucoup pour localiser la communauté sourde avec cette base de données !

Unrelated but related: Population growth in the 1970s was blamed on women having too many kids. Population decline now is being blamed on women having too few kids. Blaming women is just the fallback for every problem.

N-IUSSP: Does grit matter for migration? The case of South Africa 2018–2020 www.niussp.org/migration-an... #demography #populationstudies

The next #LunchSeminar is happening tomorrow! Ashira Menashe-Oren will present her work on #mortality in 🇲🇼Malawi. Using mobile phone surveys, she examined the effect of cyclone Freddy in 2023. 📆23/09 at 1pm 🖥️Join online: us02web.zoom.us/j/87199604242

📢 Registration is open & the agenda is now available! Participate in the Wittgenstein Centre Conference on "Demographic Perspectives on Migration in the 21st Century", taking place from Nov 19–21 2025 at @oeaw.bsky.social in Vienna and online. 🔗 www.oeaw.ac.at/vid/news-eve... #WICVienna #demography

Full foom @ifswien.bsky.social for the presentation of our research fellow @damianouccheddu.bsky.social