Looking for a new position in 2026? The call for a new postdoc or research scientist in the newly formed research group on Reproductive Ageing by D. Susie Lee is still open until January 11. Apply now!

The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) looks back on an eventful and successful year. We wish all MPIDR employees, research partners, and supporters a peaceful holiday season and a happy New Year. www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even... 📸 iStockphoto.com / Jenny Sturm

Familie, Geburtenverhalten von Geflüchteten und palliative Versorgung von Demenzkranken Die neue Ausgabe von Demografische Forschung Aus Erster Hand, dem demografischen Newsletter mit verständlich aufgearbeiteten Ergebnissen der aktuellen Forschung, ist erschienen. demografische-forschung.org

Jordan D. Klein & Ingmar Weber published a Letter to the Editor in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that opens a conversation on the findings of Chi et al (Measuring global migration flows using online data). https://www.demogr.mpg.de/go/PNAS-Letter-Editor

WelcomeWeeks@MPIDR! 👋👋👋 The Laboratory of Fertility & Wellbeing welcomes Jiseon Baek as a new research scientist. Jiseon is enthusiastic about investigating disparities in reproductive outcomes. https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events_6123/news_press_releases_4630/news/welcome_jiseon_baek_14907

Recap of the IMPRS-PHDS Annual Academy 2025 at MPIDR: When the weather outside turns cold, doctoral students, alumni, faculty members, and friends gather in the cozy MPIDR auditorium: https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events_6123/news_press_releases_4630/news/imprs_phds_annual_academy_2025_14689

WelcomeWeeks@MPIDR 👏👏👏 We welcome Aijie Zhang to the Laboratory of Fertility and Wellbeing. Her doctoral research will focus on fertility dynamics and patterns in high-income countries. https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events_6123/news_press_releases_4630/news/welcome_aijie_zhang_14910

🌍🌎🌏New Research Questions for Climate Change🌍🌎🌏 In mid-November, numerous scientists from around the world gathered at the MPIDR in Rostock to discuss the topic of “Climate Change, Environmental Hazards and Population Dynamics”. www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

Many thanks to everyone who took part in the 7th IMPRS-PHDS Academy at @mpidr.bsky.social, either in person or online, and helped to make it such a success. Big congratulations to Andrea Colasurdo, Chiara Micheletti and @lauraleone.bsky.social on winning the Best Poster Award!

We’ve got a strong contingent of PhD students and staff at the three-day @imprs-phds.bsky.social Annual Academy being held from 3-5 December @mpidr.bsky.social in Rostock, Germany! 💙 @maryabedalahad.bsky.social @ischiathere.bsky.social

WelcomeWeeks@MPIDR 👏👏👏We welcome Jan Einhoff as new research scientist. His main research interests are in social demography, life course research, and quantitative methods. His dissertation examined the social stratification of late working lives in Europe. https://www.demogr.mpg.de/go/welcomeJein

‼️Jobangebot‼️ Zur Verstärkung unserer Institutsverwaltung suchen wir unbefristet eine*n Sachbearbeiter*in Buchhaltung (m/w/d) Bewerbungsschluss: 5. Januar 2026 https://www.demogr.mpg.de/de/karriere_6122/jobs_fellowships_1910/sachbearbeiter_in_buchhaltung_m_w_d_14866

As always, it is a pleasure to have everybody here!

WelcomeWeeks@MPIDR We welcome Elena Pojman 👏👏👏. Before MPIDR, Elena was a dual-title Ph.D. candidate in sociology and demography at Penn State University. Her research focuses on social stratification & how it affects how people spend their time & money. https://www.demogr.mpg.de/go/welcomeEP

Congratulations Jan and welcome!

Come visit MPIDR in ☀️Summer 2026☀️ 📣Call for Application for the "Population and Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program" 📅☀️June 8th – August 21st, 2026☀️ 🗺️MPIDR in Rostock, Germany Application Deadline: Jan 14, 2026 Apply here and learn more: incubator.demogr.mpg.de

🚅🛫🧳MPIDR on Tour" What a successful visit to Vienna looks like: In Nov, we joined the Wittgenstein Centre Conference 2025 on "Demographic Perspectives on Migration in the 21st Century". Poster awards for @athinaanas.bsky.social & Julie Kim (former MPIDR summer incubator student & MPIDR guest)

The call for applications for the Summer Incubator 2026 at the @mpidr.bsky.social is open! Deadline: Jan 14, 2026. Topics/Teams: 1) Spatial Mobility and Scientific Production 2) Digitalization, AI and Inequalities Check out the brand new website for information: www.incubator.demogr.mpg.de

🎓🎓🎓Congratulations, @philippdierker.bsky.social🎉🎉🎉 He successfully defended his doctoral thesis “Partnership Dynamics and Changes in Health and Well-Being: A Bidirectional Relationship”. His findings are relevant to family sociology, public health, social policy. www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

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

MPIDRonTour! 🛄🛫 🚅 🚢This week Stefano Arnolfo presented his work on “The Cost of #Family Complexity: How Multipartnered #Fertility Shapes Earnings Trajectories in the Netherlands” at the Meeting of the @eaps.bsky.social Working Group on Register-Based Fertility Research at the University of Antwerp.

📢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/

New Faces @MPIDR! Welcome, Aysha Basheer! 👋👋👋 Autumn is the time when many bright young scientists join MPIDR & become part of our team. This year's Welcome Weeks start with Aysha Basheer! https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events_6123/news_press_releases_4630/news/welcome_aysha_basheer_14850

Welcome to the 2025-2026 class of EDSD students! After 8 weeks of preparatory courses at the @mpidr.bsky.social, they arrived at INED where they'll be hosted for the next 9 months to the completion of the program, and they've each given a flash-talk on their activities and research subjects.

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...

Thank you @mpidr.bsky.social for inviting me to the workshop, "Climate Change, Environmental Hazards and Population Dynamics." I am learning so much from the new research led by environmental demographers in Europe.

👓Recommended Reading📚 Rethinking Formal Demography: Birth as an Event Experienced by the Child In their current paper, Annette Baudisch @sdu.dk & @polizzan.bsky.social (MPIDR) use methods from mortality research to describe when children are born in the parental ...1/6 @oxforddemsci.bsky.social

🚨Job🚨Postdoc Position(s) at the Max Planck–University of Helsinki Centre for Social Inequalities in Population Health, a joint initiative of @mpidr.bsky.social & @helsinki.fi with the vision to unearth pivotal social processes that generate health inequalities. www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61...

Call for Papers! Submit your paper for the conference: 'Kinship Structures, Dynamics and Inequalities', taking place on 8 and 9 June 2026 @mpidr.bsky.social in Rostock organized by @demography.bsky.social, @iussp.bsky.social +coll. Deadline: 21 January 2026 www.demogr.mpg.de/go/kinship-conference

Six Million Euros for Research on Population Projections in Finland MPIDR director Mikko Myrskylä + coll. Wolfgang Lutz, Mirkka Danielsbacka and Anna Rotkirch will receive 6 million euros to do research on population projections for migration scenarios (MigScene). www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

👏 Our hybrid IDEM Course "Topics in Digital and Computational Demography" is currently happening and we are happy about so many students from all over the world joining us!

🆕📰Marriage or Separation Angela Carollo, H.Putter,P.Eilers​​​​​​ &J.Gampe have developed a model to analyze transitions from non-marital cohabitation to either marriage or separation considering two-time scales simultaneously: age of individuals & duration of cohabitation. https://ow.ly/WUty50XcZzT

3 full-time positions on Probabilistic Migration Modeling at University of @helsinki.fi in collaboration with @mpidr.bsky.social and Mikko Myrskylä. DM me if you want to know more, as I'm part of the project. Definitely DM me if you heard of conformal prediction www.vaestoliitto.fi/en/news/post...

Job Offer: PhD Student Position The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and the @mpidr.bsky.social + @imprs-phds.bsky.social invite applications for a 4-year PhD position. The studentship is not limited to specific topics. Apply until November 17! www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61...

🆕📰COVID-19 Pandemic: Facebook Ads for Survey Recruitment Jessica Donzowa, Daniela Perrotta & Emilio Zagheni investigated whether the recruitment material used for online surveys during the pandemic influenced respondents' answers. https://ow.ly/THxk50XcUyq

In “...Educational Expansion to Trends in Life Expectancy & Lifespan Variation,” @jdzazueta.bsky.social @ugobas.bsky.social @ezagheni.bsky.social et al. show how expansion contributes to ↑ expectancy and ↓ variation. @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

In “Evolution of Widowhood Lifespan," @morettimarg.bsky.social K Korhonen, @alysonvanraalte.bsky.social @timriffe1.bsky.social & P Martikainen find widowhood is less common & occurs later in life. @pophel.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social @opik-ikerketa.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

EDSD Lightning Talks @MPIDR: 2 Minutes to Present Your Scientific Self Each year, the EDSD cohorts resume their stay by giving short presentations. The 2025 cohort gave an outlook where future research might be heading. Next stop: @ined-english.bsky.social. @eaps.bsky.social @eapsphd.bsky.social

💻Join online! 🎧 Süßmilch Lecture at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) Putting Science Before #Statistics 🗣️Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ MPI-EVA Leipzig 📅Oct 21, 2025 🕒3 pm CEST ✏️Sign up now: https://ow.ly/uxfc50Xb5Yx

That’s a wrap on #HMDsymposium2025 👏 A heartfelt thank you to everyone who made these inspiring days of exchange a great success 📈💡 Special thanks to @ined-english.bsky.social, @mpidr.bsky.social, and CEDA @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social, for their support in making this event possible 🧡

Session IV wrapped up with engaging talks and lively discussion — thank you all! 💡

Welcome back to day two of the #HMDsymposium2025! We’re starting with session IV on ✨global trends✨, featuring presentations by pgerland.bsky.social, @brunomasquelier.bsky.social, Isaac Sasson, @jiaxinshi.bsky.social, and Jim Oeppen. Chair: Domantas Jasilionis

The 7️⃣th #HMD symposium is only one week away 🧐 Check out the program 👇 mortality.org/File/GetDocument/Public/HMD_7th_Symposium/Programme_JE%20HMD_2025.pdf ⏲️📅 October 9-10, 2025 🌍📍 @ined-english.bsky.social #episky #mortality #longevity #HMDsymposium2025

We’re kicking off the #HMDsymposium2025 with a welcome from @ined-english.bsky.social director François Clanché and @mpidr.bsky.social directors Mikko Myrskylä & @ezagheni.bsky.social

✍️ Just out: Annette Baudisch & I delve into the formal demography of fertility, birth, & reproduction timing. 👶 We use methods from mortality research to summarize when in the parental life course children are born. 📆 1/n doi.org/10.1080/0032... @sdu.dk @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social

🎉Congrats Aliakbar Akbaritabar🎉We are happy to announce that @akbaritabar.bsky.social took up his new position as Assistant Professor of Computational Social Science at the University of Rostock. His position is a collaboration between the University and @mpidr.bsky.social. ow.ly/XI4Z50X7zEO

🎓🎓🎓Congratulations, Henrik Schubert🎉🎉🎉 Henrik is proud recipient of an award-winning doctorate. He successfully defended his thesis, "The #fertility puzzle. Trends and patterns of male and female fertility" at the Sociology at Oxford at the University of Oxford. https://ow.ly/OM1O50X6U4Y#fertility

35 Years of #Reunification MPIDR Researchers Discuss the Demographic Situation in #Germany Josephine Jackisch is Research Scientist in the Laboratory of Population Health @mpidr.bsky.social Full quote: https://ow.ly/MZT350X4WmO #EastGermany #WestGermany #Childhood #Population #Family #Health

35 Years of #Reunification MPIDR Researchers Discuss the Demographic Situation in #Germany Athina Anastasiadou#Reunification#Germanys Doctoral Student in the Laboratory of Migration and Mobility @mpidr.bsky.social. Full quote: https://ow.ly/SBJh50X4Wlw #EastGermany #WestGermany #Migration #Inequality #Gender