Very instructive information about upcoming chances to the ERC calls for proposals!

Ben Malinga John began leading a Max Planck Partner Group (UNIMAX) at the University of Malawi in Zomba. Over the next five years, he will study family formation processes among highly educated individuals. www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

We're hiring in wonderful Copenhagen 🇩🇰 Two or more open rank sociology professorships (tt assistant, associate with tenure, or full prof with tenure). You'll join a leading sociology department in Europe with many core fields represented! #sociology More 👇 jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

Very pleased to announce the (nearly complete) list of our monthly events coming up this term! Sept: Invisible biases, unequal outcomes Oct: What is a feminist method Nov: Panel discussion - Feminist research & data in political turmoil. Details & sign up: femquant.wordpress.com/seminar-seri...

My department is hiring an assistant professor of environmental behavioral sciences. The research area is open but we are particularly interested in people with research on collective action or computational social sciences. Happy to answer questions about the Doerr School or the department.

A recent BSPS initiative is a critical demography strand, which thinks about how demography could be even better. This panel organised by Laura Sochas & Ben Wilson w/ Wendy Sigle, @signesvallfors.bsky.social & @honoratabogusz.bsky.social had great ideas about applying critical thinking in demography

Two research projects are looking for PhD students. One of the projects is about how AI is changing the labour market. The other one will examine how violent crime affects sexual and reproductive health in Mexico. Last application date is 1 October. www.su.se/department-o...

Please apply! PhD position @sofi.su.se. Stockholm University ERC-funded project, Making Time: Organized Labour and the Politics of Care Leave. MA degree (or near completion) and quant training required. 1 Oct deadline, start Jan 2026. See: su.varbi.com/what:job/job....

A new research project about sexual and reproductive outcomes of violent crime in Mexico is recruiting two PhD students. The project is lead by Signe Svallfors who has received the five year starting grant from European Research Council. www.su.se/department-o... @signesvallfors.bsky.social

📣 Job alert! 📣 2 fully funded PhD positions in sociology/demography in the ERC Starting Grant SeRO, which studies the impact of local violent crime on sexual and reproductive health in Mexico. Please share and apply! PhD post 1: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... PhD post 2: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

So excited to announce that I have been awarded a €1.6M Starting Grant from @erc.europa.eu to study the impact of local violent crime on sexual and reproductive health. I'm so grateful to all who provided their support through this journey. Ads for 2 fully funded PhD studentships in comments 👇

🔥 Peak conference moment at #BSPS2025 – An absolutely awe-inspiring Early Career Award plenary by Orsola Torrisi on family, reproductive health and global violence. This award is so well deserved for Orsola’s outstanding contributions to the field of demography. @bspsuk.bsky.social @mcgill.ca

📣 CSDE Seminar – Panel: Demographic Methods for Estimating Mortality During Armed Conflict Fri, Jan 26, 2024 (12:30-1:30 PM Pacific) This panel features Dr. Amy Hagopian, Dr. Abraham D. Flaxman, Dr. Patrick Heuveline, Dr. Orsola Torrisi, Dr. Nathalie Williams washington.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Join us for a 1-week course on the Demography of Fertility at beautiful @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social, 8-12 Dec! 📮 We'll cover theory, methods foundations, and many current issues at the intersection of fertility & maternal health! 🚼 Book your spot. @oxforddemsci.bsky.social

At #BSPS2025 @bspsuk.bsky.social talking about how demography as a field has engaged with intersectionality as a critical framework. 📷 The fantastic @joestrong.bsky.social

📍 In Swansea, Wales for #BSPS2025. 📆 On the agenda: Poster about how demographers engage with intersectionality in theory and practice! Panel on the future of critical demography research! Presentation on how maternal health is affected by violent crime in Mexico! Let's goooo 🚀

🚨Open Positions!🚨 Postdoc/Research Scientist Positions Migration | Population Dynamics | Computational Demography Application Deadline: Oct 10, 2025 See job description here: www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61... #Postdoc #Jobs @ezagheni.bsky.social @perrottadaniela.bsky.social @ugobas.bsky.social

You still have one week to apply to work with us in the SOC-MISC project! See more info below about this postdoc position based at the University of St Andrews in Scotland

🚨 New Job Alert! 🚨 Join Dr @ewabatyra.bsky.social as a Postdoc Researcher in Demography! Contribute to a global study on disparities in reproductive behaviour, focusing on childbearing age & fertility levels 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 Apply now 👉 www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/event/postdo...

Job alert! Join us at @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social as a postdoctoral fellow to work on your own research for three years. #sociology

The submission site is now open! Submit your work to #PAA2026 — Deadline is Sunday, October 5. www.populationassociation.org/paa2026/call...

DHS is (interim) up and running again, or at least new processing data applications. Global health research is not dead yet. www.dhsprogram.com/Who-we-are/N...

We are excited to announce the #PAA2026 Call for Papers is now available! The submission site opens on Monday, Aug. 18 and the deadline is Sunday, Oct. 5. Meet me in St. Louis! May 6-9, 2026: www.populationassociation.org/paa2026/call...

TWO AP positions in Women's and Gender Studies at UofSC! Expertise in global social movements; Latina/o, Asian American, and/or Indigenous activism in the US; or girlhood studies. Happy to talk about what it's like to work/live here! #sociology uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/192...

I won the R&R lottery: BOTH reviewers asked me to only remove models, and not add any new ones. 🏆

📢 New platform, same great section: ASA Medical Sociology is officially on Bluesky! Follow along for section activities, publications, and member highlights: @asamedsoc. We’re excited to build community in new spaces! #MedSoc #ASA2025

In #NewPublication @signesvallfors.bsky.social explores the relationship between women’s exposure to local conflict violence and experiences of unwanted births in Colombia. Read here to find out more: bit.ly/4fq0E5h @stockholm-uni.bsky.social @stanfordsoc.bsky.social @asamedsoc.bsky.social

We are looking for a postdoc to work for the @soc-misc.bsky.social project. The post is based at the University of At Andrews in Scotland and focuses on analysing administrative and census data on #miscarriage. Let me or Katy Keenan know if you have any questions. More info below 👇

We’re editing a book on reproductive justice in Latin America and invite extended abstracts (800 words) by Nov 30, 2025. More info: tinyurl.com/2298h4c5

📣 New OA article in Journal of Health and Social Behavior! I show that the Colombian war has infringed on reproductive autonomy by increasing risks of unwanted births, especially among marginalized women. doi.org/10.1177/0022...

👋 A huge welcome to @ewabatyra.bsky.social, who has just joined us as Associate Professor in Social Demography! Ewa's research lies at the intersection of demography, sociology, international development and social policy 🌏 www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/people/ewa-b...

What it took to get tenure in the Batman Studies Department in the 1960s, and what it takes to get tenure in Batman Studies today...

This was an amazing symposium! Thank you everyone who made it happen.

📣 New #OpenAccess publication in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social 📣 I argue that scholars should abandon total fertility rate as an indicator of gender equality for a measure that better captures women's status in society. When we know better, we do better research. #gendersky #polisky buff.ly/41jm39E

🚨 New publication in SS&M 🚨 on the effects of intrauterine exposure to organized violence & anticoca fumigation on birthweight in Colombia 🇨🇴 with amazing @siddarthaaradhya.bsky.social @gudrunostby.bsky.social & Sunnee Billingsley

**Important** Have you used the DHS in your research? If yes, please take this survey by the UN Statistics Division 👇

This feels like the defining image from this year’s Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting. The National Science Foundatipn paid for a booth in the exhibit hall. But the booth sits empty, because NSF has been DOGE’d, and there is no one left to send.

📢 Spread the word! The call for papers for #BSPS2025 is now open. I’m co-organising the Fertility and Sexual & Reproductive Health strand with @joestrong.bsky.social and we can't wait to read your fascinating work. 📝 Submit your abstracts by May 9, 5 PM (BST).

‼️ #JobOpening ‼️ #Postdoc Position(s) at the Max Planck | University of Helsinki Centre for Social Inequalities in Population Health in #Rostock 📅Deadline: May 4, 2025 www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61... #Postdoc #SocialInequalities #Population #Demography #Epidemiology #Health @pophel.bsky.social

I only wrote this substack *yesterday* about the dangers of being a foreign student or academic in the US, but I am already having to update it as more disappearances and visa revocations happen. christinapagel.substack.com/p/trumps-att...

There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵

Does anyone in my network know where the DHS Program’s Service Provision Assessment datasets are archived? I’m trying to help a student who would like to analyze data from Senegal’s SPA’s but who did not set up an account with the DHS Program before it got shut down.

In an unprecedented move, the US National Institutes of Health has begun mass terminations of research grants that fund active scientific projects because they no longer meet “agency priorities”. https://go.nature.com/4bpG2It

📣 Out on #FirstView 📣 In "Gender Equality and Armed Conflict" @signesvallfors.bsky.social argues that scholars should abandon total fertility rate as an indicator of gender equality for a measure that better captures women's status in society. gendersky 🌟Available #OpenAccess🌟 buff.ly/41jm39E

We were elated to see A LOT of submissions to NDS'25. On the plus side, the conference will be packed with amazing #demography talks. On the downside, we had a hard time selecting the talks that out small&cozy conference can accommodate. Notices of acceptance will be sent out early next week 🙌

South Korea’s TFR on the rise? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

If anyone at the Gates Foundation cared what I think, my advice would be to pivot away from shiny “innovations” and invest in helping to preserve the basic infrastructure of global health, starting with the Demographic and Health Surveys program.

⚠️ New OA paper out in Politics & Gender! ⚠️ With this, I hope that scholars of conflict and gender abandon the total fertility rate as a proxy for domestic gender equality. It simply isn't. There are better measures out there! Read and find out more 👇 doi.org/10.1017/S174...

The Demographic Health Surveys Program is on pause. This is not surprising, but it's devastating on many levels. dhsprogram.com

🚨🚨🚨Call for Papers! 🚨 Save the Date!🚨🚨🚨 Symposium 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗰 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗩𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘁 📅 July 01–02, 2025 🗺️ @MPIDRnews www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even... @IUSSP #health #population #migration