On Tuesday, we hosted Jane Greve (VIVE – Danish Centre for Social Science Research) for a fascinating seminar on “Family Spillovers of Dementia.” Using 20 years of Danish register data, she explored how parental dementia affects adult children’s lives.

Are the cardiovascular benefits of GLP-1s just a result of losing weight? Probably not--a significant portion of risk reduction seems to be independent of weight loss. jenndowd.substack.com/p/ozempic-fo... #publichealth #episky #medsky

LCDS Seminar tomorrow: Jane Greve from the Danish Center for Social Science Research will present on "Family Spillovers of Dementia" For those in Oxford, the seminar is from 2:00-3:30pm, in the Chester Room at Nuffield College. www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/upcomin...

The talk fromer Canadian Finance Minister Bill Morneau gave at our centre yesterday focussed on the current growth and productivity challenge. His main message: sustainable prosperity depends on growth grounded in consent, investment, and execution—not ideology.

For those in Oxford, join us today at 2pm in the Butler Room at Nuffield College.

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...

Our LCDS team meeting with representatives from Pompeu Fabra, to work on future international international collaborations. European demographic research is 🔥

Tomorrow at 2 pm we have a very special seminar: Bill Morneau, the former Canadian Minister of Finance will be talking about "The Reality of the Growth and Productivity Challenge" www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/upcomin...

3 #PostDoc researcher positions at @helsinki.fi in collaboration with IIASA @iiasa.ac.at and MPIDR @mpidr.bsky.social on population projections, migration dynamics, and human capital development #demography #박사후연구 www.vaestoliitto.fi/en/news/post...

If your research touches on population dynamics, aging, education, labor force participation, or the links between demography, environment, and socioeconomic development, check out our research at the Multidimensional Demographic Modelling group for #YSSP2026 ➡️https://iiasa.ac.at/programs/popjus/mdm

Some colleagues and I have been trying to counter both pronatalism broadly and the specific ways demography is being misused to make it seem like raising birth rates is a neutral, reasonable thing to do.

Very excited to announce that @srhayford.bsky.social, @lesja.bsky.social, and I will be guest-editing a special volume of @prpr-journal.bsky.social on "Contemporary Pronatalism in Demographic Context"! Submissions due March 1, 2026. link.springer.com/collections/...

Heart full of joy and gratitude for my depicted, literal superhero team 🦸🦸🦸🦸🦸🦸of incredible supervisors Josh Wilde, @ridhikashyap.bsky.social, @melindacmills.bsky.social, and excellent examiners @drjenndowd.bsky.social & @ftorche.bsky.social, as well as my terrific mentors, peers, & friends!!!

In “...Educational Expansion to Trends in Life Expectancy & Lifespan Variation,” @jdzazueta.bsky.social @ugobas.bsky.social @ezagheni.bsky.social et al. show how expansion contributes to ↑ expectancy and ↓ variation. @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

1/ HUGE congratulations to @jasminabdelghany.bsky.social for passing her DPhil viva w/ no corrections with her dissertation "The impact of in-utero exposure to ambient temperature on maternal health, infant health, and population composition." @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social @oxpop.bsky.social

New @pnas.org paper constructing subnational estimates of internet and mobile adoption by gender, including gender gaps, for 117 low- and middle- income countries from 2015 through 2025. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🎉 Welcome to Bill Morneau! Former 🇨🇦 Finance Minister, business leader & champion of inclusive policy, Bill joins LCDS & @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social for the coming year — helping connect demography with industry, government & real-world impact. www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/lcds-an...

Delighted to see our interdisciplinary nest hatch such brilliant work 🪶 This fabulous paper by alumni @hggaddy.bsky.social brings together demography, evolutionary research, and economic history — a true cross-species of ideas!

Fantastic work by our LCDS alumni @polizzan.bsky.social and Annette Baudish - morality methods applied to fertility - now that is clever 💡

🎓 Join us for a 4 year fully funded PhD in Health Data Science @Oxford 📊 Predicting Health Outcomes 🔗 www.demography.ox.ac.uk/dphil-opport... 🗣️ The Natural Language of Health and Social Care 🔗 www.demography.ox.ac.uk/dphil-opport... Contact @crahal.com for a chat

thinking about your next academic home? 🏡✨ imagine: an office where people actually show up, hang out, and do brilliant research on #Demography in Oxford! that’s us 👋 #EarlyCareerResearchers #ResearchFellowships See below 👇 📅 deadline: 15 Dec 2025 🔗 www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/call-ex...

nonparametric. multiply robust. semiparametrically efficient. 💥the Avengers lineup of causal estimators Felix Elwert, 8 Oct, 2pm 📍 Butler Room, @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Nonparametric Causal Decomposition of Group Differences w/metrics-and-models.github.io 🔗 demography.ox.ac.uk/news/upcoming-…

"Fundamentally, having a child is making a decision about the future." Great piece by @karenguzzo.bsky.social #demography #birthrates www.newsweek.com/low-birth-ra...

We welcomed the next generation of @essgn.bsky.social social science genomics researchers in Oxford! ✨ Speakers from industry (deCODE, Genomics), data (UKBiobank), experts from Oxford & beyond + an Editor from Nature Human Behaviour! 📸 More here 👉 www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/lcds-ho...

This is an extraordinary piece on Russian pro-natalist policies. Putin will do anything to increase the population except stop sending men to war to be brought home in body bags.

We closed our Monday with a thought-provoking keynote by @ridhikashyap.bsky.social (@ox.ac.uk) on “𝐺𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝐼𝑛𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝐷𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑.” Her talk highlighted key challenges and opportunities for research at the intersection of gender, demography, and digital data.

Our Director @melindacmills.bsky.social on the 'impotence' of pronatalist policies 📉: “Silver bullets, quick cash & gimmicks won’t change #Fertility.” Read more 👇 www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/terror-and-security/what-russians-really-think-about-putins-baby-boom-drive/ #Demography #Policy

🎉 Big congrats to @wensu221.bsky.social Su, Postdoc at LCDS, for winning the Charles Price Prize in #Demography! 🏆 His work bridges national & subpopulation #mortality to reveal hidden patterns in health outcomes. A true star demographer in the making! 🌟 www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/wen-su-...

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...

🌍 Can satellites help count people where censuses are missing? New work by @edithdarin.bsky.social, @ridhikashyap.bsky.social K& Douglas Leasure shows building-footprint maps + smart models can fill census gaps—vital for health, planning & aid. www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/can-sat...

Our star bakers @andreatilstra.bsky.social & @sanderwagner.bsky.social Wagner met Dame Prue Leith at the grand opening of Life Changing Bakes in Oxford! 🍰✨ A bakery giving people with learning disabilities & autism work experience—& every crumb of profit goes to charity: www.yellowsubmarine.org.uk

The plenaries this year were excellent. Stuart Gietel-Basten argued passionately that demographers must reclaim the narrative around low fertility and drive the debate in a more productive, less dysfunctional, direction. We have the skills, and this issue *matters* for multiple reasons

🚨Job Offer🚨PhD Student Position The @lshtm.bsky.social, in partnership with the @mpidr.bsky.social is opening an 18-month Research Assistant position, with the successful candidate embarking on a PhD program at LSHTM. www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61... @ezagheni.bsky.social #phd #jobs #demography

Persistent minimizing of the COVID death toll hits me especially hard in the #demography feels. To be clear: ➡️ Over one million Americans died of COVID-19. ➡️ Official COVID deaths were likely undercounted, not overcounted. jenndowd.substack.com/p/how-many-p...

Some of my brilliant colleagues here at @oxforddemsci.bsky.social are now organizing an online metrics and models seminar that has really high quality speakers. It is online and open to everyone so have a look at the program and write yourself in metrics-and-models.github.io

⚠️ICYMI: Oxford Demography (LCDS) is offering three short courses throughout this academic year. A great chance to visit Oxford & learn from our amazing team! 🤓🏛️ Details [course titles, dates, fees] available here: www.demography.ox.ac.uk/short-courses @oxforddemsci.bsky.social

🚨It's that exciting time of year!🚨 Our team has got TWO open DPhil (PhD) positions in #datascience + #health here at @oxforddemsci.bsky.social for 2026🎉! See for details: 1️⃣ 👉 crahal.com/HDS_2026.html 2️⃣ 👉 crahal.com/pophealth_2026.html Please share and help us to find our future teammates ❤️!

Two exciting PhD positions at @oxforddemsci.bsky.social on predicting health outcomes at the population level and natural language of health and social care! Apply to work in a wonderful team.

As well as housing & childcare costs, Connecting Gens Co-Director @melindacmills.bsky.social of @oxforddemsci.bsky.social said uncertainty over employment, gender inequality & difficulties combining work & family life were behind the rise in people delaying having children- in @financialtimes.com

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

📝 A new study involving Dr José Manuel Aburto and Daniel Zazueta explores the impact of violence and COVID-19 on Mexico's life expectancy losses and recent bounce-backs between 2015 and 2022 buff.ly/G2SFOvt @leverhulme.ac.uk @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social @sociologyoxford.bsky.social

📢 Oxford LCDS Seminar – June 17, 14:30, Said Business School Oxford Join us as Vahé Nafilyan (ONS) explores how health affects work, income & benefits—using rich, deeply linked health & admin data across NHS, HMRC, DWP & more! @oxpop.bsky.social @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social

🧬 With ongoing debate on vaccine guidance, it's vital to ground our choices in science. Our Director @melindacmills.bsky.social @royalsociety.org & others asked us to: 🤔 imagine a world without vaccines 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi7g... #VaccinesWork @leverhulme.ac.uk @psioxford.bsky.social

Why is mortality progress stalling in the US and the UK? @drjenndowd.bsky.social is giving a keynote overview at Nordic Demographic Symposium 🇩🇰 @demografi.dk

Our Deputy Director @drjenndowd.bluesky.social gave the Keynote Lecture today at the 23rd Nordic Demographic Symposium Has progress stalled? Reflecting on the uncertain future of #mortality in high income countries 👉more: www.demography.ox.ac.uk/people/jenni... ✍️Substack: jenndowd.substack.com

Our Demographic Science centre has a brand new seminar series - Metrics & Models led by @crahal.com ! Thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk

Louder for those in the back!

🚫 Fertility fallacies busted! Our Director @melindacmills.bsky.social joined @lbc.co.uk to challenge myths: 1️⃣ Young ppl aren’t choosing fewer kids 2️⃣ Pronatalist policies won’t fix it 📉 Incentives ≠ long-term fertility boost Read the full @unfpa.org report: tinyurl.com/bdd3evsr #Policy #Demography

Congrats to our @oxpop.bsky.social PhD student @vincentjstraub.bsky.social for a powerful @theguardian.com letter on how fiction can support men’s health via “access to emotional nuance, empathy & self-reflection.” @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

👶 #Farage wants a UK baby boom — will it work? 🍼 Our Director @melindacmills.bsky.social says: “Throwing money at it doesn’t work.” Tax breaks ≠ baby boom. Work hours, #housing, #childcare — it takes an ecosystem. 📎 Telegraph article: tinyurl.com/m6b9kbxm #fertility #demography