Would you like to do a #PhD on #family #complexity and #inequalities in #children’s lives in #Scotland'? New #BAME PhD Scholarships available @uniofstandrews.bsky.social. More info www.st-andrews.ac.uk/geography-su... (current funded opportunities tab) and www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

Read more about the incredible work being done by @drjenndowd.bsky.social and her team in the context of her ERC grant on mortality 👇

💼 Job opportunities 3 x Research Fellows to work on @ukri.org ESRC-funded Connecting Generations projects, based @phrg-standrews.bsky.social @standrewssgsd.bsky.social 📨 Apply by 29 June. More info: www.cpc.ac.uk/news/vacanci... @bspsuk.bsky.social @populationeu.bsky.social @eapsphd.bsky.social

Our latest publication presents policy advice from the Age-It programme. Age-It is perhaps the largest research initiative ever funded on ageing in Europe, by the European Commission and the Italian Ministry of Research, and led by demographer Daniele Vignoli. Read it now: tinyurl.com/ms8bd7bb

New preprint: WorldPop researchers detail the methodology behind the subnational population dataset powering Global 2. The research highlights a growing global population alongside increasingly diverse demographic futures. Learn more: www.worldpop.org/blog/mapping...

Thanks to all the experts with whom we got to chat at #EPC2026 in Bologna. Check out policy take-aways from the conference on our Linkedin! Skills mismatch: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... "Age of Inheritance": www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... Health & wealth: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

🎉 Congratulations to Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz on receiving the prestigious EAPS Award for Population Studies, the highest award of @eaps.bsky.social! 🔗 More: tinyurl.com/432fte86 Previous laureates: www.eaps.nl/page/EAPS-aw...

Is Germany's middle class eroding? In this piece, 3 experts give a differentiated answer, among them our director @steffenmau.bsky.social. He warns that faith in progress has faded: under 10% think the next generation will fare better. He points to 'clear fault lines' that could deepen polarization

The Scholarly Migration Database 2.0 is now online! Just in time for the European Population Conference 2026 in Bologna! See the working paper here: dx.doi.org/10.4054/MPID... @ezagheni.bsky.social @theiletom.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social @populationeu.bsky.social

Are you working with FReDA, pairfam, and/or GGS Data? Yes 👉 Consider applying for the FReDA User Conference in Cologne until 21 June No 👉 Check out our Data (now including Wave 4 from 2024) More Info on www.freda-panel.de/FReDA/EN/Startseite.html

“Countries sharing very low fertility levels increasingly follow divergent demographic trajectories. A single threshold no longer captures this diversity, calling for a less fertility-centered, more multidimensional perspective on population change”

Check out our newest #PopDigest by @mimmilou.bsky.social and find out why employment uncertainty does not translate into lower fertility intentions in a uniform way across populations. 🔗 tinyurl.com/yc4ftnxa

| Just released | Historically low fertility in the Maghreb A new study of this issue presented in the latest issue of #Population&Societies www.ined.fr/en/publicati... #INEDJournal

New by Spoorenberg & Skirbekk: "Is your country producing too many or too few births to keep its population size stable? We introduce a simple ratio that captures the immediate numerical balance between births and deaths, Bₒ/Bₙ.” #Demography #OpenAccess www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

I will soon be recruiting researchers for SOCIAL – Social relations, digital technologies and wellbeing of older people, a FIS-2 project on ageing, digitalisation, social relations, and wellbeing. Expressions of interest are now welcome.

Easy to use for teaching! #population #teaching #demography

Come and join us for our 2nd Zurich Population Research Conference from February 1-2 2027! The call for abstracts is now open. www.prc.uzh.ch/en/conferenc... @populationeu.bsky.social @karstendonnay.bsky.social @melindacmills.bsky.social @ezagheni.bsky.social

The fabulous folks at @ourworldindata.org have created an simulation model where you can plug in different fertility, mortality, and migration rates to see how population size and composition will change in the future at different levels. ourworldindata.org/population-s...

!!! JOBS !!! Come work with us in Florence @florenceups.bsky.social 5 posizioni tra post doc e pre doc per lavorare sui temi di data integration e data analysis su bullismo e violenza tra minori. Info su call e scadenze qui www.disia.unifi.it/upload/sub/d... www.disia.unifi.it/upload/sub/d...

Our department is hiring a postdoc to study the educational experiences of Asian immigrants within East and Southeast Asia, and between Asia / Europe, over long time periods. See these links for full details on this EduTrack project www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/research/pro... www.mpg.de/26445995/one...

N-IUSSP: Population growth and family planning are still important. Has UNFPA forgotten? by Frank Götmark, Chukwuedozie Ajaero, Mohammad Mainul Islam, Rhoda Mundi, Nebechukwu H. Ugwu and Malte Andersson www.niussp.org/family-and-h... #demography #populationstudies

🗓️ Join us this Thursday, May 14 at 4 pm CET for two exciting methodological presentations on sequence analysis: 📊 Nika Corradi: Adult Children's Partnership Trajectories and Vulnerability to Employment Shocks 🐍 Thomas Guyet: TanaT: a Python library for Temporal Analysis of Trajectories

The Population Investigation Committee is recruiting for an Editor-in-Chief or team of Editors-in-Chief for Population Studies: A journal of demography. files.taylorandfrancis.com/rpst-call-fo...

We’re hiring. @Dr. Hania Sobhy’s group “Teachers, Inequality and Collective Action” (TICA) is recruiting a Researcher, Postdoc & Doctoral Researcher. Focus: teachers, inequality & collective action, anchored in MENA. Part of EduTrack. Deadlines 31 May / 6 June. @populationeu.bsky.social

📢 Reminder: Apply to the @odissei-soda.bsky.social SoDa Fellowship 2026! If you’re an early-career social scientist in 🇳🇱 looking to strengthen your data science skills, this is your sign💡 The fellowship offers a 3–6 month paid position, expert mentorship, and more! Deadline: June 11 🔗 edu.nl/xut9k

📺 Tune in to BBC South Today at 18:30 tonight to see the full news story 'Falling birth rates blamed for business closing', featuring an interview with @bperelli-harris.bsky.social ⤵️ (@bspsuk.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social @ukri.org @uossocstatdemo.bsky.social @populationeu.bsky.social)

🔉New Dondena Decode Episode is out! 🎙️ In this episode, Nicoletta Balbo (@bocconi.bsky.social) interviews @fabriberna.bsky.social (UNED Madrid) on the role of luck in shaping social inequality and life chances. 🎧 Episode available here: creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

New vacancies 🌟 As part of the #EduTrack program, Dept. "Artifacts, Action, Knowledge" is hiring a #PostDoc to work on "Migratory Expertise and Practices of Knowledge Transmission" 🗓️ Deadline: June 7 📍 MPIWG Berlin 🔗 tinyurl.com/mu5tend3 #HistSci #STS

N-IUSSP featured an article co-authored by Tobias Vogt, Sophie Stroich, and colleagues from BIB (Wiesbaden). The study analyzes patterns of avoidable mortality at the district level within and across EU member states. Read more at: www.niussp.org/health-and-m...

New vacancies 🌟 As part of the #EduTrack program, Dept. "Artifacts, Action, Knowledge" is hiring one #PostDoc to work on "Tackling the Digital Gap between Asia and Europe." 🗓️ Deadline: May 31 (open until filled) 📍 MPIWG Berlin 🔗 buff.ly/nlrNBq7 #HistSci #DH #STS @populationeu.bsky.social

🚨Job Alert🚨 We are seeking to appoint 𝘀𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹-𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁-𝗱𝗼𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀 to join the EduTrack project consortium. 📅Application Deadline: August 15, 2026 https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_6122/jobs_fellowships_1910/post_doctoral_researchers_edutrack_15429 #Postdoc #Education #Demography

Tuesday Dialogue: tomorrow we compare migration narratives in media in Germany and other countries. population-europe.eu/events/tuesd...

demoscapes.org is a visual atlas of demographic surfaces hosted at @mpidr.bsky.social. It is also my passion project growing out of my 2016 human mortality database explorer. Did you publish something containing Lexis surfaces? Consider reaching out and having your work featured on the site.

APPLY & SHARE 📢 EOI for PhD in Sociology & Demography at @cedemografia.bsky.social @uab.cat in Barcelona Topics: Families, Inequalities, Life Course, Well-Being Supervisors: @maikevd.bsky.social & me Deadline: 12 May, 2026 Call👇 8d87235d-b140-4b6e-949c-c9606376b3fa.usrfiles.com/ugd/8d8723_a...

The latest wave of #data collected via our self-completion panel #survey (CRONOS-3) in 11 countries is now available. Questions fielded in October and November 2025 focused on the green transition, #climate change, security and #defence policies, and mental health and #wellbeing.

There is still time to apply for the Summer School on Socioeconomic Opportunity and Inequality, organized in Milan by @dondenacentre.bsky.social and @ucstonecenter.bsky.social! Early-career researchers, join us for this great experience! (deadline May 15) stonecenter.uchicago.edu/events/summe...

Only a few days left to submit your abstract for the 2026 #QueteletSeminar! 📆Deadline this Friday ⏩Read the call: www.uclouvain.be/fr/system/fi...

📆 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗢𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗦𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝘆 𝗗𝗶𝘃𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲 Grey divorces—or, more broadly, “silver splits,” a term that also encompasses separations—have been extensively studied in the United States, whereas they remain a relatively recent and less explored phenomenon in Europe.

New data alert! 🚨 Our #LEARNineq team at UCL CEPEO is diving into the latest wave of the Millennium Cohort Study. Tracking UK people born in 2000, it looks at changes in education, work, health & families to help tackle educational inequality. Learn more: cls.ucl.ac.uk/millennium-c...

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Our results demonstrate that over-coverage substantially affects demographic and economic indicators, particularly at typical migration ages, with mortality rates showing the largest bias at older ages.

📢 Job opening! Join our Research Group on Health and Longevity as a Postdoctoral Researcher ⏰ Full-time (40h/week), 3-year position 🔗 Infos & application: oeawnr.onlyfy.jobs/job/2pwe2l9p

Technological and demographic change create needs for #education systems to adapt. @maxplanck.de launches the project "EduTrack" for science-based policy. We are thrilled to be working with @mpidr.bsky.social, @mpiwg.bsky.social and @mpips.bsky.social. population-europe.eu/network/news...

New research from new LCDS member Jakub Bijak (among others) shows that better fertility forecasts depend on looking beyond total birth rates 👶📊 By accounting for birth order dynamics, predictions become more accurate and informative for policy & planning. 🔗 www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/improvi...

📆 Save the date for our next #CPCCGWebinar with Albert Esteve @uab.cat and @cedemografia.bsky.social: How #livingarrangements are structured and evolve across #societies over time, reflecting #demographic dynamics, #family systems, and #economic conditions. Register: www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/e...

You can follow the event via streaming!

Children with disabilities and their families remain underrepresented in research and policy Join our next online event with Nicoletta Balbo @bocconi.bsky.social and learn how child disability shapes family life, schooling and what this means for policy 🗓 21.04, 1-2 pm CEST tinyurl.com/2t7ey8vm

🎧 New episode! How do you make social science research more accessible? @kturek.bsky.social tells @drtomemery.bsky.social about the Comparative Panel File, an open-source project bringing together survey data from across the world. 🌍 Listen here: odissei.transistor.fm/episodes/the...

Should intergenerational co-residence be viewed in a negative light - as a 'failure to launch' or as 'privileged dependence'? This is the question by @ann-berrington.bsky.social, in a think piece where she explores the prolonged living at home by young people.

N-IUSSP: Immigrant housing and mobility across countries and generations - Joseph Harrison www.niussp.org/migration-an... #demography #populationstudies

🧑‍🏫 Join us THIS THURSDAY for our #CPCCGWebinar with @jeinhoff.bsky.social of @mpidr.bsky.social & @vincentrramos.bsky.social of @uossocstatdemo.bsky.social Register to join us online: www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/e... @bspsuk.bsky.social @populationeu.bsky.social @ukri.org @standrewssgsd.bsky.social