New evidence showing that educational attainment has a dose-response association with dementia risk throughout the entire distribution of education. 🧪 read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

📣 Job alert! *Assistant Prof in Computational Social Science*. We're a friendly department, with sharp students, at a great institution, in a lovely city. We have real strengths in computational social science & are looking for a colleague to build this further. Share and reach out with quesions!

Our paper, “Optimal pandemic control strategies …” bmcglobalpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... w @nickirons.bsky.social, just published.Takeaway: U.S. COVID-19 school closures were not cost-effective, but other measures were. medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09...

The BERKELEY POPULATION SCIENCES BROWNBAG SERIES returns! Our first three talks feature: Ian Lundberg - UCLA @nathanlo.bsky.social - Stanford University @mpbitler.bsky.social‬ - UC Davis Join us Wednesdays, 12 - 1PM at 310 Social Sciences Building, or via Zoom ID: 985 2901 0198 Passcode: DEMOG_BB

The wonderful Niamh Cahill is recruiting a PhD student (co-supervised by me!) to work on estimating and projecting population exposure to extreme sea levels. Please contact me if interested!

🎉 Congrats to @francescorampazzo.com, winner of an @socsci.ox.ac.uk Teaching Excellence Award for his innovative and inclusive teaching! His approach includes using creative data sources like digital trace data to enrich student learning 🧑‍🎓 Read more ➡️ socsci.web.ox.ac.uk/article/winn...

Are you attending the International Population Conference in Brisbane? The IUSSP Panel on Digital and Computational Demography is organising *3* pre-conference workshops on digital gender inequalities, kinship and microsimulation, and migration and digital trace data iussp.org/en/digital-a...

During the 1st week of June we held our 11th Annual Berkeley Workshop in Formal Demography. We had a terrific workshop & are already looking forward to next year! TY to NIH & to instructors @ayesha-mahmud.bsky.social @rchung.bsky.social Josh Goldstein @dennisfeehan.bsky.social @jnobles.bsky.social!

Had a blast working on this paper with Christina Pao, @chrisajulian.bsky.social, @drcompton.bsky.social, and Lawrence Stacey, in which we combed through the HPS to identify demographic differences between groups based on gender identity question responses. sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

While we at @oxforddemsci.bsky.social & @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social will miss seeing @polizzan.bsky.social daily, we are happy for the good fortune of our friends at @mpidr.bsky.social in landing this superstar! #demography

I’ve loved my time here — highly recommend applying! Just a few days left...

$500 million is… less than 1.25% of the NIH’s 2024 budget. When I say there is no capacity to absorb the shock, I mean it.

The biggest project I've worked on for the last chunk of years was just published. It asks, how big are US Black-white lifespan differences? This might seem like a narrow question. I hope to convince you by the end that there are answers you didn't anticipate. And I hope some of them will move you.

Register now for the PRI Methods Workshop on hard-to-reach populations held May 13. tinyurl.com/2025gradmeth...

🌸 Yasamin Kusunoki chairs today's #PAA2025 session on reproductive autonomy, women's empowerment, and reproductive outcomes. Participants include postdoc Jess Dozier, @lsenderowicz.bsky.social @jnobles.bsky.social Jolene Tan, and @caseybreen.bsky.social myumi.ch/E8wgJ

With Leah Rosenzweig, Parrish Bergquist, Katherine Hoffmann Pham & Matto Mildenberger, I co-authored a piece in @psrm.bsky.social on Facebook ads for survey sampling in 🇲🇽, 🇰🇪 & 🇮🇩. We assessed sample quality, replicated a canonical experiment & explored trade-offs. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

On Monday next week, I'll present new evidence on how armed groups weaponise kinship as a strategy to maximise suffering, as part of the @hertieschool.bsky.social Social Policy Colloqium. Register for the event in Berlin (only in-person unfortunately) 👇 www.hertie-school.org/en/events/ev...

Dr. Diana Bianchi, director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, was fired this morning at 10AM EDT. Part of the NIH “reorg” (whatever that means)? Or the start of an NIH leadership bloodbath. Guess we will find out.

🎉Congratulations to @mortenkthomsen.bsky.social who successfully defended his Phd 📖 & thanks to @drcompton.bsky.social Important #demography work using register, survey & medical records to study the lives of sexual & gender minorities. @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @sociologyoxford.bsky.social

#Demographers! Run don't walk at the chance to work w/ the amazing José Manuel Aburto @lshtm.bsky.social. 3 year post working on mortality estimation & trends in life expectancy & lifespan inequality in low-& middle-income countries. Not to mention..LONDON! jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

I hate how ungrateful I was for things that I now miss.

On #InternationalWomensDay, @ridhikashyap.bsky.social's Digital Gender Gaps team have launched an updated dashboard to #AccelerateAction by helping to ensure women are equal participants in digital society buff.ly/OSV35V8 @leverhulme.bsky.social @oxpop.bsky.social @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social

How do drinking and smoking habits change during marital separation? 🚬🍻 You can read Nicole and I's new article in JHSB here (Open access!): doi.org/10.1177/0022... @nicolekapelle.bsky.social @jofhsb.bsky.social

📢 Just gave a talk @oxforddemsci.bsky.social, @ox.ac.uk on #gene-environment interactions in #child #development - #RCT & #quasi-experimental evidence! 🧬 Great discussions on #genetics & social science, with an engaged & insightful audience. Tx++ @drjenndowd.bsky.social for the invite!🙏🏻

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 We are recruiting for multiple Research Assistant Professor (RAP) / Post-doctoral Fellow (PDF) positions in the HKU Research Hub of Population Studies. jobs.hku.hk/en/job/53127... #demography #population #poptwitter #hongkong

The SICSS is a fantastic event. We are hosting again at UCLA! See the link to apply.

Today's top story in @theconversation.com shares research on the effect of rising house prices that have widened the White-Black wealth gap in recent decades. Read more from @um-psc.bsky.social @umichstonecid.bsky.social affiliate @joelabriola.bsky.social! #Econsky #UMichResearch

New today from me @us.theconversation.com: I talk about my research on how rising housing prices have widened the White-Black wealth gap over the past several decades. theconversation.com/rising-house...

Looking forward to this!!

We are now accepting applications for our Annual Workshop on Formal Demography, taking place in-person at UC Berkeley on June 2-6, 2025. Deadline to apply is March 10. See more information on the workshop and how to apply here: populationsciences.berkeley.edu/wp-content/u... Please share widely!

“Hidden Heterogeneity: How the White Racial Category Masks Interethnic Health Inequality”: Read & Fairfax use NHIS data to examine variation among White subgroups & find ↑ ethnic heterogeneity by nativity & birth region. See researchblog.duke.edu/2025/02/03/d... read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

“Flooding, Sociospatial Risk & Population Health”: @ethanraker incorporates local health survey, floodplain & flood inundation data to assess “how sociospatial determinations of risk shape postdisaster mental health outcomes by stratifying" resources & responses. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

Interested in using big microdata to understand health and pop dynamics? We are now accepting abstracts for the Data-Intensive Research Conference with @umnlifecourse.bsky.social. Abstract submission & workshop apps now open! Find it at: lcc.umn.edu/DIRC

Great new publication from our MAPIneq project!

As a journal editor for a few decades I find it pleasing to watch scholars mature. They eventually realize that journal refeering is not about how many papers they can knock down but how many they can lift up.

We're looking forward to hosting Dr Daphne Oluweseun Martschenko from @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social at our next seminar at @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social on 28 January, 14:00-16:00 https://buff.ly/4g2n6jz @leverhulme.bsky.social @oxpop.bsky.social

Sociologists working on inequality: Still time to apply for this 3yr+ postdoc position in beautiful Munich (no German required) EN: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5... DE: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/f... Applications are 01/15, but let me know if you need another 1-2 days to put in your materials

We are delighted to be leading four new exciting 1-year master’s degrees in Sociology. Covering vital modern topics including Children’s Rights, Data Science, Social Inequalities and more, they start this September. Applications are open right now! Take a look here: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/202...

We're hiring: Fully funded 3-year PhD position in Sociology, here in wonderful Copenhagen, Denmark! Come work with us! employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

The December issue is a hefty tome—2 research notes and 16 articles—ranging from maternal wealth & child incarceration, the legacy of Indian residential schools, academic migration after Brexit, to safety net spending on children. Enjoy some light holiday reading. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/i...

I wrote a joint book review on three longevity books, posted here. I viewed each book as a different bait-and-switch move. What do you think--do we have any silver bullets for longevity right now?

Our new paper on a survey method to improve the measurement of mortality at older ages in countries with limited death registration ⬇️

The long-term effects of the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission's hookworm eradication campaign, initiated in the American South in the 1910s, from Hamid Noghanibehambari and Jason Fletcher https://www.nber.org/papers/w33249

Know an undergrad interested in research? Encourage them to apply to Texas A&M Sociology's Research Experience for Undergrads #REU program. Students spend two summer months collaborating with a professor and receive a stipend. Applications due Feb 17: artsci.tamu.edu/sociology/re...

Just reposting this in case anyone missed it last week. Please submit your work! #EconSky #histmed #demography #econhist

Many Americans think that vaccine hesitancy is a uniquely American threat to population health. It’s not. Vaccine hesitancy has spread broadly across many countries. Vaccine hesitancy has become a major threat to global health — not just national health. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Want to know EVERYTHING about the #genetics of female and male reproduction? Our @natureportfolio.bsky.social study provides a review #️⃣ 159 genetic studies & 37 key genes Also links with: 🥗 (FSHB, testosterone) ⏰ longevity 🧬 cancer & obesity risks 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 generations www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Follow our amazing & eclectic crew of population scientists 🤩 #demography #epidemiology #sociology #datascience #publichealth

I created a starter pack for social network researchers. Please let me know if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/L7PFtcW