🦘#IPC2025 – Day 4 We're not tired of conferencing yet! Meet Carolina Coimbra Vieira, @vinodjosephkj.bsky.social (Poster), Alyson van Raalte, @lpcalderonb.bsky.social and @conteristo.bsky.social. @iussp.bsky.social

I'm happy to share that the 2nd paper of my PhD "Assessing the validity of microsimulated kinship networks using Swedish population registers", with @demography.bsky.social, @martinkolk.bsky.social and @ezagheni.bsky.social, is available as an MPIDR Working Paper share.google/g0nVmiSI6huB...

#IPC2025! Workshop by @lpcalderonb.bsky.social @aasli.bsky.social & @ridhikashyap.bsky.social in Brisbane: "Demographic Microsimulation in R Using SOCSIM:Modeling Population & Kinship Dynamics." ipc2025.iussp.org/cms/wp-conte... Sign up until 06/22/25 Applicants will be notified by the end of June.

Some good news to brighten up your feed: Our #R package 📦 DemoKin for the demographic analysis of kinship has a new website with extensive documentation and literature 🎉🎈 @mpidr.bsky.social If you don't know it yet, why not check it out? ivanwilli.github.io/DemoKin/inde...

With a little delay we learned that @lpcalderonb.bsky.social, who could not attend #PAA2025, won a Best Poster Award! Her colleagues put up the poster and a note from Liliana and co-author @martinkolk.bsky.social jumped in to present the research. Congrats Liliana! @popassocamerica.bsky.social

you after the PAA. If you win, you can pick up Pinky at the booth on Sunday until noon. You can come to the booth and meet Pinky there and apply, but you can also already apply here: survey.demogr.mpg.de/index.php/99...

Max is currently hosting a guest alpaka for a short research stay at MPIDR. The pink Alpaka will also be attending PAA and is looking for a travel buddy to explore other academic institutions around the world. If you would like to offer "Pinky" a research stay, you can apply here to take her with

#PAA2025 – we are on our way! 🛫🚄🎒🛄 Who else is starting to pack for Washington D.C.? If you want to know where & when to meet us at the conference, check out our MPIDR program: www.demogr.mpg.de/go/PAA2025 Meet us at booth 212 in Liberty. Max, the MPIDR Alpaka will be there and bring a friend.

Feliz de haber concluido nuestro taller sobre "Modelos de Parentesco para América Latina y el Caribe" en el Congreso #ALAP2024 junto a @lpcalderonb.bsky.social @amandamalmeida.bsky.social e Ivan Williams. Todas las slides, código y materiales están en linea: amandamartinsal.github.io/ALAP24_paren...

#ALAP2024 en Bogotá @mpidr.bsky.social estará allí! @demography.bsky.social @amandamalmeida.bsky.social @lpcalderonb.bsky.social organizan la escuela "Familia,parentesco y hogares en América Latina y el Caribe". ¡Inscríbase antes del 18 de agosto! bit.ly/3Sdgdmn 🎬 www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPtT...

In our new paper, we present the first set of global protections of kinship structures for the 1950-2100 period. How will families change in the future and how many relatives will we have as populations grow older? Check it out here 👇 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...