📢 Join us at the first meeting of the new EAPS Working Group on Migrant Health in Bologna! #EPC2026 Details below ⬇️

Amazing figures! Will be interesting to see post-Covid figures too.

La politique anti-immigration du gouvernement belge est aussi une politique anti-intégration. L'exemple du Centre Placet à @uclouvain.bsky.social : www.petitionenligne.be/centreplacet...

📢Job Offer‼️New Max Planck Research Group on Medical Demography Marcus Ebeling will lead the team starting on 1 July 2026. The research group will be based at the MPIDR in Rostock. Read an interview with Marcus on his future research here: www.demogr.mpg.de/go/rgmd (including link to job) #postdoc

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

[1/10] Trois chercheurs analysent l’Afrique sub-saharienne comme principal moteur de la croissance démographique mondiale. À partir des données ONU, ils montrent comment jeunesse, fécondité et gains sanitaires structurent les dynamiques régionales. #geography #demography #population #Africa

Note that this in itself is a well-replicated finding. At least a dozen studies show that when researchers replicate qualitative research, or re-analyze it, they come to basically identical themes. There is nothing special about qualitative research with respect to replicability.

"Scavenging... wasn’t a desperate last resort, but a smart, reliable survival strategy... provided calorie-rich food with far less effort than hunting... & humans were uniquely suited... from strong stomach acid & long-distance walking to fire, tools & teamwork." www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Uttl, B., White, C. A., & Gonzalez, D. W. (2017). Meta-analysis of faculty's teaching effectiveness: Student evaluation of teaching ratings and student learning are not related. Studies in Educational Evaluation, 54, 22-42. 😜

This graph by @lefineder shows historic life expectancy among European and Chinese elites from the early Middle Ages to the Modern-Era. European nobles didn't live as long as Chinese nobles. European scholars on the other hand had similar life expectancies to Chinese elites.

In “The Demographic Potential of Polygyny,” Pesando evaluates “the suitability of a simple indicator—gamma—to measure the demographic potential of polygyny in the context of sub-Saharan Africa” & considers related applications & directions in demographic research. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

The Who’s Who in the Epstein files is so crowded that it almost makes not being listed look like personal failure.🫣😱

Yes! The Vienna Yearbook of Population Research @vypr.bsky.social is a peer reviewed, open-access journal ✅ no fee for authors and readers Check our call for paper for the new special issue bsky.app/profile/vypr... 🚨Deadline for submission ➡️ 15 May 2026!

Imagine if you had laws, and also enforcement for rich people

HAHAHAHA!!!

This also goes for scientific conferences in the USA: just, no.

Plus qu'une semaine pour voir (ou revoir !) l'exposition Les Gens de Paris 1926-1936, dans le miroir des recensements de population au @museecarnavalet.bsky.social

Almost 4000 people have done this quiz so far, although younger groups still under-represented in case you know anyone who'd like to give it a go and see how they compare to others! probability.kucharski.io

William Foege, the physician who saved many millions from smallpox— William Foege, who sadly died this week, is one of the reasons why this map ends in the 1970s.

Took me way too long to realize that its super easy to just merge pdfs in R rather than fussing with Adobe #rstats library(pdftools) pdf_combine( input = c("file1.pdf", "file2.pdf"), output = "merged.pdf" )

📣 Lancement de l'appel à communications pour le prochain colloque de l'AIDELF, qui se tiendra @umontreal.ca à l'été 2027 😎 Grande fierté et enthousiasme à l'idée d'accueillir la communauté de démographes francophones sur notre campus 💙 Soumettez d'ici le 15 avril 2026 : aidelf2027.sciencesconf.org

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Played around with Causion by @isager.bsky.social It's an impressive teaching tool for causal inference... and it also really pretty. Amazing color scheme and slick interface. Shown below a demonstration of an extended front-door DAG in Causion.

Normal research into the benefits of marriage identifies a relationship that people enter only if they can find one they think will benefit them, and remain in only if it continues to benefit them. Then it asks whether those people are better off than if they weren't married. Genius. /1

Opening a discussion on the relative perception on fertility decline.

Happening now (cont'd): Maria Rita Testa, Prof. at Luiss Guido Carli University in Roma presenting on Concerns about #environment and #fertility, at a conference organized by Dutch- & French-speaking Belgium associations.

Happening now: Birgit Van Hout,UNFPA representative in Belgium, presenting on The Real #fertility crisis, conference organized by Dutch- & French-speaking Belgium associations.

Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases

Users of survey data, lovers of DAGs, and general methodological enthusiasts, gather round! I'm so excited to share this new paper, joint work with my brilliant colleagues @rjsilverwood.bsky.social, @pwgtennant.bsky.social, and Liam Wright. 🧵

Next week, our colleague Hequn Wang will kickstart this semester's #LunchSeminar, presenting on healthcare disruption among older Europeans during COVID-19 "Family ties influenced the likelihood of having treatments postponed or denied" 📆 03/02 at 1pm 🖥️Join online: us02web.zoom.us/j/87199604242

Boycott Soccer World Cup in USA.

MUST LISTEN!

That is, indeed, the question that all Europeans should reflect on: "Will European democracies survive the tempting rightward drift underway in much of the continent, which both Russia and the Trump administration have each, in their own ways, encouraged?"

The Top Human Evolution Discoveries of 2025, From the Intriguing Neanderthal Diet to the Oldest Western European Face Fossil 🏺🧪 www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-... Smithsonian paleoanthropologists examine the year’s most fascinating revelations.

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Elle est soulagée d’avoir lavé ses pesticides avec des polluants éternels

Kent, Essex and apparently Sussex all decline to be gouged by Elsevier Read & Publish deals. Others may well follow. 1/2

Appel à communications L’Association internationale des démographes de langue française (AIDELF) organise son XXIIIe colloque international "La démographie dans tous ses états", du 1er au 4 juin 2027 à Montréal, et invite à soumettre des propositions de communication orale et d’affiche scientifique.

#mapping #datavis map projection bias leads to continental crisis.....

📣 Call for papers: We are inviting you to submit contributions to a Special Collection on the Socioeconomic Inequalities in Mortality in the Long-Run, organized by K. Thompson, T. Riswick & S. Clouston. Submissions to this collection are possible from January 28, 2026 until June 28, 2026. (1/2)

“One notable MIT study found that 95 percent of companies that integrated AI saw zero meaningful growth in revenue. For coding tasks, one of AI’s most widely hyped applications, another study showed that programmers who used AI coding tools actually became slower at their jobs.”

This is exciting! www.dhsprogram.com?fbclid=IwVER...

Surprisingly high in 🇱🇺, 🇳🇱 and... 🇨🇭 !

Embarrassing 😬🫣

Your food’s footprint varies widely.

📜🌳 L'enrichissement de la base de données du Registre de la population du Québec ancien a été considéré comme l'une des quinze découvertes @umontreal.ca qui ont marqué 2025 🎉 ♥️ Quelle fierté pour le PRDH qui chapeaute ce projet et pour notre département ! nouvelles.umontreal.ca/article/2025...

Great opportunity for anyone working with longitudinal data and life course perspectives. Very much looking forward to #SLLS2026 in Brussels (hosted at the Free University of Brussels, ULB). Please consider submitting and sharing widely! More information: www.slls.org.uk/events/slls-...

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