"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

📢 Job Alert: Associate Prof Digital Education @education.ox.ac.uk + @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social are hiring! Join a world-class research community, contribute to Digital & Social Change MSc 🗓️ Apply by 6 June 📍 Interviews 2 July 🔗 my.corehr.com/pls/. #DigitalEducation #EdTech #AcademicJobs

Our Douglas Leasure & @nickirons.bsky.social joined Migration Oxford to discuss epidemic preparedness & refugee healthcare— interdisciplinary approaches can drive real change for vulnerable populations. More info: migration.web.ox.ac.uk/event/enhanc... #RefugeeHealth #EpidemicPreparedness

🚨 The end of an era for global health data — and a defining crossroads. In Jan 2025, the DHS Program—the backbone of health & demographic data in 90+ countries—was terminated after US aid cuts of up to 84%. Our researchers & global collaborators reflect on it in a recent pre-print🧵

🚨 Our research on the income penalty of informal care was cited in Parliamentary debate by MP @wendychambld.bsky.social (thank you 🙏) Work by our own @dvaldenegro.bsky.social & @crahal.com with @mariapetrillo.bsky.social & co-authors from @centreforcare.bsky.social — here’s what we found 🧵1/6

Excited & honored to present at @oxforddemsci.bsky.social next Tuesday! Can’t wait to visit one of the superstar hubs of #demography and discuss our work on parenthood and employment in 🇫🇷 and 🇩🇪 —looking forward to the feedback and conversations!

Cheering our amazing Ekaterina (Kat) Degtiareva this week at Oxford Summer VIII #rowing competition Brilliant in science and on the water! Go smash it Kat!! #phdlife #oxford @reubencollege.bsky.social

Feeling bittersweet as I read this wonderful thread and reflect on my time at @oxforddemsci.bsky.social, @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social, + @sociologyoxford.bsky.social coming to a close. Immensely grateful to my supervisors, assessors, colleagues, + friends for making this journey so meaningful. 👨‍🎓📜

Deputy Director @drjenndowd.bsky.social weighs in with some "population realism" #demography #pronatalism

1/ A huge congrats to Dr. Antonino Polizzi @polizzan.bsky.social, who passed his DPhil viva for his thesis “The Causes and the Consequences of Growing Life Expectancy Shortfalls” on Friday, examined by Prof. @ridhikashyap.bsky.social & Dr. Iñaki Permanyer. @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social #demography

👶 Do early life conditions shape how long/well we live? Find out w/ @Jasonmfletcher.bsky.social (UW-Madison): 🗓️ 27 May | 🕑 2–3:30pm | @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Oxford 👉https://www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/jason-fletcher-gives-lcds-seminar-moving-forward-looking-back-new-evidence-early-life-shapes

Proud parent vibes! 🥹 Our brilliant PhD @polizzan.bsky.social is off to join the #Demography fam at @mpird.bsky.social 💼📊 More on Antonino ➡️ www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even... #PhDLife #AcademicTwitter #DemographyResearch #OxPop #MaxPlanck #AlumniWins #PopulationStudies

Join us 15 May for seminar by Iñaki Permanyer, CED @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Multimorbidity & mortality in random sample of 20% of Catalan population using Electronic Health Records…. Over 10 years! Across socioeconomic groups! @leverhulme.ac.uk @oxpop.bsky.social

🚨 Postdoc Digital Pandemic Preparedness 📍 Oxford with @melindacmills.bsky.social 💼 £38.6K–£46.9K | 3 yrs 📅 Deadline: 16 May 2025 Use digital, real-world data to future-proof pandemic response. 🔗 Apply: tinyurl.com/ydvfanap 📣 Boost or tag! 1/2 #Postdoc #DigitalHealth #AcademicJobs #NowHiring

🧬 Postdoc – Digital Pandemic Preparedness 📍 With @melindacmills.bsky.social 💼 £38.6K–£46.9K | 3-years 📅 Deadline: 16 May 2025 Digital, demographic & behavioural data for real-world readiness. 🔗 Apply: tinyurl.com/ydvfanap 📣 Share or tag! #Postdoc #ResearchJobs #DataScience #NowHiring

Senior Research Fellow in Demographic Science, in partnership with @oxforddemsci.bsky.social Closing Soon - deadline: 8 May, 12 noon Job spec & application details: buff.ly/NZuCdJO

🚨 Senior Research Fellow Demographic Science 📍 Oxford | LCDS + @reubencollege.bsky.social 💼 £64K–£74K + perks 📅 Deadline: 8 May 2025 Lead cutting-edge research, mentor grads, shape strategy 🔗 Apply: tinyurl.com/ydvfanap 📣 Know someone great? Boost! #AcademicJobs #Demography #HigherEd #NowHiring

🚨 Researcher Reproductive Demography 📍 With @joshuawild.bsky.social 💰 £38.6–46.9k | fertility, maternal health, social, biological data 🧠 PhD (or close), 2 yrs, full-time. Big thinkers wanted. 🔗 Apply by 9 May → www.demography.ox.ac.uk/jobs #AcademicJobs #ReproHealth #Demography #Postdoc #OxJobs

Have you applied to join @melindacmills.bsky.social and the team as a Senior Researcher in Geospatial Health and Digital Pandemic Preparedness? buff.ly/KiIvFFK Applications close noon UK time on Monday 28 April 😎 @leverhulme.ac.uk @oxpop.bsky.social @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social

*JOB OPENING*: Researcher in Reproductive #Demography Dr. Josh Wilde is recruiting a Post-doc to join his ERC-funded SEXRATIO project at @oxforddemsci.bsky.social, focused on links b/t maternal stress & sex-biased conception & fetal loss. Deadline May 9 (noon UK time). www.demography.ox.ac.uk/jobs

📝 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

*JOB OPENING* Come join me and the Digital Gender Gaps team @sociologyoxford.bsky.social @oxforddemsci.bsky.social. We study digital gender inequalities and their consequences w/ social media, geospatial, and population data. tinyurl.com/postdoc-oxf Apply by 9 May, noon (UK)

Scenes from our final few talks at #PAA2025 !