The last chapter of my PhD thesis is out, just a few days before my defense 🎓 Read the new paper in Population Health Metrics with Andrea Nigri, Sergi Trias-Llimós (@sergitl.bsky.social), and Elisabetta Barbi on Deaths of Despair in Italy: 📄 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🎓 Scholarship announcement Dept of Stat. Sciences awards a scholarship of 8.000,00 Euros, for students from Developing countries who will enrol in the Msc in Statistical Sciences in Padova for the a.y. 2026/27 🗓️Deadline 27/2/2026 🔗Details: tinyurl.com/4ubefexj #Statistics #Scholarship #Padova

N-IUSSP: The importance of educational expansion for longevity trends www.niussp.org/health-and-m... #demography #populationstudies

📢 SLLS 2026 Conference | 1–3 July, Université Libre de Bruxelles. Submit your paper by 13 Feb 2026, 17:00 GMT! 🔗 tinyurl.com/yh242mm2

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-...

📖 New publication: "Why do women live longer than men, but spend more time in poor health? A decomposition analysis of the gender gap in unhealthy life years across Europe". @mmuszynskas.bsky.social et al. test the “longevity hypothesis". 🔗 Read now: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #demography

Join us on Tuesday, 20 January for a discussion on youth in Europe. Following a presentation on demographic trends in the near future, Prof. Aassve will lead a discussion on possible ways to strengthen the voice of young people. Register here: tinyurl.com/28jv36du

❄️ Freezing cold outside? Perfect timing to submit your work for our Family Diversity & Health summer workshop in Berlin ☀️ 📅 June 29–30, 2026 📍 Hertie School, Berlin 🫶 No participation fees 🏨 1 hotel night covered 📨 1-page abstracts due: Jan 31, 2026

📖 New publication: "Trends in time with children in European countries: Intensification and gender convergence"! Caroline Berghammer and @melissamilkie.bsky.social review studies investigating childcare trends in European countries. 🔗 Read now: www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap-o... #demography

Want to learn more about using the National Pupil Database, from experienced CEPEO researchers? Sign up for one (or both!) of our free courses this February... Online, Feb 10-11th: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cepeo-adru... In person (central London), Feb 25th: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cepeo-adru...

📢 PhD positions @univie.ac.at Follow this link 👇 to apply for one of the 40 paid PhD positions @univie.ac.at and select #ViDSS also for available topics and supervisors in #Sociology @ifswien.bsky.social

✨ 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿 - 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘀✨ You're invited to nominate exceptional sociologists and projects with significant contributions to the field for the 2026 #KohliPrize and #InfrastructurePrizeforSociology. Nominate until 𝟴 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. Further details and nomination form via: kohlifoundation.eu

Excellent @zeit.de conversation: Our Director @steffenmau.bsky.social with Juli Zeh & Stefan Brandt on escaping dystopian thinking. They explore what Mau calls "Veränderungserschöpfung" (change exhaustion), the crisis of progress narratives & reclaiming agency in imagining futures. Worth reading!

New paper finally published! Using data on 78 million births from 15 countries, we found that babies conceived during the COVID-19 pandemic have a different parental socioeconomic composition than expected had the pandemic not occurred. doi.org/10.1038/s414... @natcomms.nature.com @helsinki.fi

New name, new focus: The Max Planck Institute for Collective Goods is now the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral #Economics. This name change reflects the research conducted in Bonn very nicely. 👍 www.coll.mpg.de #BehavioralEconomics

Population Europe convened leading demographers, policymakers, and civil society representatives at the German-Italian Centre for European Dialogue, Villa Vigoni to dissect Europe's demographic challenges and to pathways to resilience and social cohesion: www.population-europe.eu/events/event...

What are the challenges, solutions, and opportunities connected with the need to provide long-term #care to an #aging population? a discussion of the topic and a summary of the activities on #caregiving & #caregivers conducted within the @ageit project academic.oup.com/psychsocgero...

Our new Lancet study from the Norwegian HUNT cohort shows that modifying risk factors across adulthood relat to dementia, including family and work-related factors. www.thelancet.com/action/showP...

Catch CPC-CG member Jakub Bijak in the final episode of the #FutuRes podcast Certain Futures where, with the help of #demographers, the host reconsiders the meaning of resilience, finding a hopeful theme for looking at today and into our future @populationeu.bsky.social @uossocstatdemo.bsky.social

In their last podcast episode before the Christmas break, @lagedernation.org interview our Director @steffenmau.bsky.social on the topic:“Solidarität: Verabschieden sich immer mehr Linke aus dem Gemeinwesen?“. "Solidarity: Are more and more leftists withdrawing from the civic sphere?"

What does "AI-ready" research infrastructure look like? In our new podcast episode, we talk with @mercecrosas.bsky.social from Barcelona Supercomputing Center about how AI is transforming social science infrastructure and what researchers need in an AI-driven landscape Listen here: edu.nl/a966w

“Low birth rates are not the end: they are the catalyst for a more humane, sustainable world – one where all the people live richer, fuller lives”

📨 Last EAPS Newsletter of 2025 is out now! 📨 💡 The newsletter includes a message from the EAPS President, updates on EPC 2026, (PhD) vacancies, workshops, calls for papers, and other interesting announcements! 💡 Read it here: lnkd.in/e3bXVece

Falling births, migration-driven population growth, residential moves and mobility: the latest INED article on the Demographic Situation in France brings to light striking regional contrasts 🔎 www.ined.fr/en/news/pres...

European Spinouts Report 2025: Max-Planck leads the way in Germany. In the top 20 research organisations in #Europe for research-driven #deeptech and life science #spinoffs, the Max Planck Society ranks second, just behind France’s CNRS. www.mpg.de/25797163/eur... #technologytransfer

World Population Maps Travel across the world map observing demographic trends and changes since 1950. www.ined.fr/en/everythin...

New year, new job? Join us at the Department of Sociology & Nuffield College. The post is open to candidates from different areas of empirical specialisation and at different levels of experience. Please consider applying! closes Jan 5th. www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/event/associ...

1/ In a recent @britishacademy.bsky.social video @rebeccasear.bsky.social from @brunelpsy.bsky.social takes a clear-eyed look at the 21st‑century rise of eugenics - an ideology that should have been left behind, yet is now re‑emerging in a number of troubling ways ⚠️🧬 🧪 Watch the full talk here 🎥👇

📢 The new issue (Dec. 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...

👩‍💻 Catch up on our last #CPCCGWebinar of 2025 @jpheisig.bsky.social from @wzb.bsky.social joined us last week to discuss evidence from a large nationwide field experiment to assess #discrimination in accessing #healthcare in #Germany. Grab a coffee and take a look ⤵️ @populationeu.bsky.social

Seven in ten women over the age of 60 face an average of 13 years of widowhood A new INED study on length of widowhood among women in France and across Europe. Read the December issue of #Population&Societies www.ined.fr/en/publicati... #INEDJournal

There is no progressive case for pronatalism: “giving in to population panic and endorsing a plan to increase birth rates implicitly supports anti-immigration policies and yields ground to racist fearmongering”

📢 Call for papers is now open! We invite you to submit your contributions to the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2027 special issue "Demographic perspectives on migration". 📆 Submit until 15 May 2026. 🔗 viennayearbook.org/call #demography @vypr.bsky.social

This Thursday! @vjdeimantas.bsky.social from @share-eric.bsky.social will talk about longitudinal #socialscience #data and its use for NGOs, journalists and policymakers. Register for the #Infra4NextGen webinar here: infra4nextgen.com/events/webin...

Register now and join us and the Age-It Programme in Brussels for a full-day, in-person event dedicated to the latest research on ageing! When? 14 January 2026 🔗 tinyurl.com/yftxb3d6

We study late fertility (ages 30+) and very late fertility (ages 35+) trends at the global, subregional, and national levels. Globally, more than one out of three births in 2023 occurs to women aged 30 and above, compared to only one in four in 1990. doi.org/10.1111/padr...

One more week to submit your abstracts for @ipdln.bsky.social 2026!! We are very excited to be welcoming everyone to Rotterdam and have seen so many interesting submissions already. Keep them coming ipdln.org/2026-ipdln-c...

Centre LIVES @unil.bsky.social is running the Good Life Data Challenge: Using existing Swiss Household Panel data, can you predict the feeling of having lived a happy, meaningful, and interesting (psychologically rich) life in 🇨🇭? These new items will be included in the next wave of SHP

📍Save the date for our next #CPCCGWebinar Thurs 11 Dec @jpheisig.bsky.social from @wzb.bsky.social will discuss evidence from a large nationwide field experiment to assess #discrimination in accessing #healthcare in #Germany 🧑‍🏫Join us online: www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/e... @populationeu.bsky.social

In November, we brought together leading demographers, policymakers, and civil-society representatives to reflect on key challenges posed by demographic change. This event review captures the main themes, evidence shared, and policy recommendations from the meeting: 🔗 tinyurl.com/29x777wr

📢 New dataset for researchers! The new European Parenting Leave Policies (EPLP) Dataset tracks parenting leave regulations over five decades! It provides harmonised data on maternity, co-parent, paid parental, and job-protected leave across 21 countries from 1970 to 2024. 🔗 eplp-dataset.org

Policy Insight by @populationeu.bsky.social co-authored by CPC-CG's Kulu & @sarahchristison.bsky.social, part of We-ID project 'Identities, #migration & #democracy' Examines #EU #migration policy and the tension between crisis response and long-term integration: population-europe.eu/research/pol...

BlueSky Why are ethnic minorities underrepresented in Belgium’s federal public sector? Read the key findings and recommendations from the FedDiverse project led by Bert Leysen and Pieter-Paul Verhaeghe. brispo.research.vub.be/en/new-polic...

We're hiring a Junior Researcher Data Management 🔎 Help improve metadata workflows, build tools for better data management, and support our training and outreach with researchers. Know someone who fits? Please share! 🌟 www.eur.nl/en/working-a...

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

What role does the local community play in democracy? In his book In der Nähe’, Strauß argues that neighbourhood closeness is pivotal. @steffenmau.bsky.social praises him for vividly showing how a collective East German has “we” emerged (though contested), but finds the argument overly optimistic.

| INTERVIEW | What demography realities and issues have inspired fiction writers? Jean-Marc Rohrbasser and Jacques Véron answered our questions. www.ined.fr/en/everythin...

📉 Many countries are seeing falling birth rates—but can rising gender equality reverse the trend? A new study from our centre revisits a major debate in demography and finds a modest fertility rebound at high levels of gender equality. www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/new-stu...

📢 Save the date for the next #WICColloquium! Miguel Sanchez Romero and Tomas Sobotka: "Future Births: A Formal Perspective on Humanity’s Yet-to-Be-Born Generations". 📅 3 December 2025, 13:00-14:00h 📍 PSK Building MR04 (4rd floor) and online 🔗 www.oeaw.ac.at/vid/events/w...

Smoking, alcohol, and obesity drive mortality gaps—but how did their combined effect play out across educational groups over time? Fanny Janssen and co-authors have the answer. 🔗 tinyurl.com/5sy9bsj8