Leading scholars from our network met this month with EU Commissioner Dubravka Šuica and Commission officials to help shaping Europe's demographic policy agenda. Key takeaways: tinyurl.com/4pam8trb

📢 The new issue (Nov. 2025) of POPNET, the newsletter of the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital, highlights recent news, publications, events, and other activities of the population network. 🔗 Read now: mailchi.mp/updates.iias...

📖 New study by Alessandro Gallo & Daniele Vignoli @florenceups.bsky.social shows that in #Italy, everyday housing expenses (such as bills, mortgages, rent payments, and maintenance costs) truly influence childbearing patterns. Read it now - tinyurl.com/23pt2xt5

📕 New insight paper by CPC-CG member @jackiewahba.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social Discusses the impacts of return #migration on #entrepreneurship, #investment, human capital accumulation, and transfer of knowledge and norms. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @populationeu.bsky.social

Join our upcoming webinar - Demographic concerns and migration control: A look at debates and legal developments over the past 50 years Tuesday 18. November 2025, 1 PM CET Registration: tinyurl.com/48v7x33r By Dana Schmalz, author of “Das Bevölkerungsargument” (The Population Argument)

A more equal Europe needs both long-term investments in people and swift, targeted support in times of need. This is the key takeaway from the #Mapineq project. 💡 📘 Read the news & White Paper: invest.utu.fi/news/mapineq... @janierola.net @mariaohisalo.vihreat.fi @utu.fi @populationeu.bsky.social

CARE.IN.FOR una piattaforma formativa e informativa **gratuita** accessibile comprensibile pratica per informazioni e aiuto a chi dà cura a persone anziane scoprila qui: site.unibo.it/alma-aging/i...

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

📢 Call for Submissions | X Convegno SISEC – Florence, 28–31 Jan 2026 Our stream (with @francemente.bsky.social, “Opportunities and Challenges of an Ageing Population”, invites papers on caregiving inequalities and social stratification. Deadline: 12/11/2025 👉 sisec.it/wp-content/u...

🌍 EAPS Child & Adolescent Development Autumn Seminar 🗓 Nov 17 | 14:00–15:00 CET |Online Theme: Climate Change, Inequalities & Youth Speakers: @mariarubiocab.bsky.social & Raya Muttarak Zoom link: unil.zoom.us/j/99171418150 Open to researchers/students! cc: @eaps.bsky.social @eapsphd.bsky.social

Many East Germans still sympathize with Russia - despite decades of Soviet occupation & now Putin’s war. Why? Nostalgia, post-reunification disappointment, capitalism’s failures, & as @steffenmau.bsky.social notes, an image of Russia that hasn’t evolved beyond the democratic hopes of the 1990s.

Call for papers! Join the 16th Supercentenarians Seminar — one of the most inspiring events in our community, organised [email protected] . Deadline: 20 December More information: tinyurl.com/47cmvzjp

🔍 Introducing our new, more powerful search! → ourworldindata.org/search With such a rich publication—nearly 14,000 charts and 100s of articles on 120+ topics—it can be hard to find what matters to you. Now, finding what you’re looking for, or discovering something new, has never been easier.

Check out this conference if you work on topics related to kinship structure and dynamics (within and beyond the household), caregiving, intergenerational processes, family bereavement, LGBTQ+ & chosen kinship, etc. @iussp.bsky.social Submit by 21 Jan 2026 👇 www.demogr.mpg.de/go/kinship-conference

📢 Job opening! Join our Research Group on Fertility and Population Change as a Postdoctoral Researcher ⏰ Full-time (40h/week), 1-year position 🔗 Infos & application: oeawnr.onlyfy.jobs/job/2bka2yo1

Join INVEST as a Visiting Fellow! Our fellowship call is open 3.11.-28.11. Fellowships are designed for postdoctoral researchers and beyond who wish to spend time at the flagship, exchange ideas, and build new research collaborations. Read more and apply invest.utu.fi/fellowships/

We are proud to support the Age-It programme, led by Daniele Vignoli florenceups.bsky.social - driving socioeconomic, biomedical, and tech innovation for an inclusive ageing #Italy. Explore highlights from our latest discussion on health, care, and tech: tinyurl.com/3pjts9ph

📢 Vienna Institute of Demography @demographyvienna.bsky.social is seeking a Postdoc Researcher in Population Data and Projections RG 📈 📊 I can't recommend enough working at VID, especially with Anne! 💯 friendly, supportive environment with world-class researchers.🤓 oeawnr.onlyfy.jobs/job/km5kybrq

Bridging Health, Care, and Tech Innovation in Europe’s Longevity Transition www.population-europe.eu/research/pol... policy insights on how to meet the challenges and seize the opportunities of population aging cc. @populationeu.bsky.social

"Single women with high socioeconomic status are less likely to have a child without a partner at younger ages, but they are more likely to do so later in life."

Job Alert: Apply for the Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships 2026 by December 15. You will become a part of our fantastic interdisciplinary team at LCDS and help us push the boundaries of demographic research. cc @leverhulme.ac.uk www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/call-ex...

OPEN NOW the call for presenting your work at the @seqanalysisassn.bsky.social webinar series from Jan.2026! info for submission sequenceanalysis.org/saa-webinar-...

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...

Looking for career opportunities in demography? See the listings from our network! @mpidr.bsky.social is inviting applications for a PhD Studentship with the University of Hong Kong; and UCLouvain is looking to fill an Assistant or Associate Professorship. population-europe.eu/study-career...

How can science build fairer, more resilient societies? Join us in Turku for the 3rd INVEST Conference 6–8 May 2026. Keynotes by Kathryn Paige Harden @kph3k.bsky.social (first time in Finland!) and Philip N. Cohen @philipncohen.com Save the date now! invest.utu.fi/conference/ #INVESTconference

What are the links between demography and democracy? Join this year’s Berlin Demography Days on the topic of “Demography and Democracy” 📅 27 + 28 October, 2025 (online or in Person) Register here: lnkd.in/esXJ4Xqa

What’s a “longevity society”? It’s not just about having more older people around — it’s about how we live longer lives A true longevity society invests in prevention, digital health, and tackling loneliness so everyone can thrive at every age Here’s what experts recommend 👇 tinyurl.com/ypycc3v6

“More than half of the work done by women in the period between the 16th and 18th centuries took place outside of the home, and around half of all housework and three-quarters of care work was conducted professionally for other households” [England] phys.org/news/2025-10...

Join us at INET Oxford (@inetoxford.bsky.social)! I'm hiring one post-doctoral researcher and three research assistants in the field of inequality, social policy, and social mobility to join our research team. Deadline: October 24. Read more and apply: www.inet.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

🚨Job alert!🚨 Helsinki Institute for Demography and Population Health is recruiting 2 postdocs. Join our team and investigate social inequalities in health! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... #postdoc #demography #socialsciences #socialdata

📢 Our Sec. Gen. @mjkucharczyk.bsky.social will join the panel on “𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁” during the final stakeholder conference of the #FutuRes project. 📅 Tuesday, 4 Nov 2025 | 🕕 18:00 (CEST) 📍 Brussels, Belgium 👉Register: www.age-platform.eu/event/panel-...

Early childhood, graduation, mid-career, retirement—life stages are full of opportunity and vulnerability. Our new #Mapineq White Paper shows how to tackle inequalities across the life course. By @janierola.net , Daniela Vono, @elinakilpi.bsky.social & the Mapineq team. 🔗 mapineq.eu/white-paper/

We are thrilled to announce that @steffenmau.bsky.social, one of Germany’s leading sociologists, has been appointed Director at our Institute. He will lead a new Department on Inequality, Transformation & Conflict, addressing pressing societal challenges via cutting-edge social science research.

Do register-based research? 🔎 #FIRE Fellowships offer 1–2 month visits to Finland for postdocs & senior researchers. Apply now 👉 fire-infra.com/en/fire-visi... @utu.fi @stat.fi @aalto.fi #TampereUniversity @helsinki.fi @uniuef.bsky.social @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social @vatt-tutkimus.bsky.social

New #PopDigest! Do partners always see family planning the same way? A new study using @ggp.bsky.social data by @mussino.eu and Caroline Uggla suggests: not always—especially when their migration backgrounds differ. 🔗 tinyurl.com/4ztcn727

☎️ Berlin Calling: Your Research. Our City. A Perfect Match. The Einstein Postdoctoral Grant for early career researchers or the Einstein Visiting Fellowship for distinguished scholars – our funding opportunities offer pathways into Berlin’s research landscape. berlincalling.einsteinfoundation.de

📢 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

📢 Call for submissions for European Population Conference 2026 (3–6 June, Bologna) is open! Organized by EAPS & University of Bologna. 💡 More information: www.eaps.nl/epc/european...

❓Macht Armut krank oder führt Krankheit zu Armut? Soziologe @jpheisig.bsky.social von @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @socfub.bsky.social & @wzb.bsky.social zeigt, wie Bildung, Einkommen und psychosozialer Stress die Gesundheit beeinflussen – und welche Rolle die Politik dabei spielt. (1/2)

Just out in Nature Genetics, @melindacmills.bsky.social, @vincentjstraub.bsky.social Straub & team show how the UK’s largest new biomedical dataset Our Future Health (striving for 5M participants!) can set a global benchmark in #genomics and #health Read: www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/unlocki...

We are hiring a Posd-Doctoral Research Fellow @standrewssgsd.bsky.social @phrg-standrews.bsky.social to work on #family and #housing #projections using #microsimulation. DL: 1 October. More info: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

‼️Free IDEM 187 Course‼️ Topics in Digital and Computational Demography 📅3-7 November 2025 💻Online 💸no tuition fee 📝Application deadline: 28 September 2025 www.demogr.mpg.de/go/idem2025 @imprs-phds.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social @conteristo.bsky.social @ezagheni.bsky.social @j-d-klein.bsky.social

New #PopDigest! Retirement migration is a thing nowadays. Ever wonder how many actually return home sooner than planned? New Dutch research shows: Way more than expected! Health issues & family ties are the main reasons. 🔗https://tinyurl.com/2seve35w

🎉🎊A week full of celebrations ✨Two ERC Starting Grants for the MPIDR✨ We are thrilled to announce that @marilianep.bsky.social and @ugobas.bsky.social have each been awarded with an ERC Starting Grant by the @erc.europa.eu. #ERCStG www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even... #ERCStartingGrant #longevity

Consider joining us in beautiful Bologna for the largest gathering of population scientists in Europe… It is also a wonderful opportunity for those of us who are based outside of Europe to catch up with the latest demographic developments in the old continent. Hope to see you there!

📢 The Global Living Arrangements Database (GLAD) is out! 🎉 Check out all the details on how we built this new data infrastructure of the CORESIDENCE project in our article just published in Scientific Data. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #demography #familystudies

Do you know somebody who isn't yet a fan of #demography? Send them episode 1 of "Certain Futures": a new podcast with our amazing experts from "FutuRes" project. certain-futures.podigee.io With: Jakub Bijak, U Southampton, Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, Miguel Sánchez-Romero, TU Wien. Host: Dan Stern

Proud to announce this year's European Demographer Awards! They go to Julia Hellstrand @juliahellstrand.bsky.social ‬ (Helsinki), Cosmo Strozza @cosmostrozza.bsky.social (Odense) and Éva Beaujouan @fertdem.bsky.social (Vienna). More: population-europe.eu/network/news... Congratulations!

📰 OUT NOW - Issue 16 of our newsletter #ChangingPopulations A handy round-up of our activities from 2025 so far, including all things #demography, #population #ageing, #pensions, #fertility, #family, #geography, #economics, #socialpolicy and more... @bspsuk.bsky.social @populationeu.bsky.social

Acquiring citizenship is often seen as a milestone of integration. For once because it is assumed to lead to better job prospects. A new study on #Italy challenges this assumption. Read our #PopDigest led by scholars at @csisunitn.bsky.social 🔗https://tinyurl.com/mxd4rdk