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Robert Chung @rchung.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Here's my 1-month alert: applications to join us in the Demography Department at UC Berkeley are due in 1 month. This is a great department in a great place with collegial people doing cool things. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05488

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Assistant Professor - Open Field - Demography

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Rense Nieuwenhuis @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Good thing to note that social sciences are, indeed, not as simple as rocket science. Insights into China's one child policy by Susan Greenhalgh, quoted in @newyorker.com

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Berkeley Population Sciences @berkeleypopcenter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Join us next Wednesday, Sept. 9 at 12pm PT for our first Brown Bag talk of the 2026-2027 academic year! Mathew Hauer (Florida State University) and Tyler McCormick (University of Washington) will discuss, "AI in Demography." Attend in-person or via Zoom. events.berkeley.edu/popsci/event...

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Liza Fuentes @lizafuentes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

New paper with @appdemography.bsky.social & Rahisa Delucca Moraleson fertility decline in Puerto Rico following economic crisis. As anxiety about declining fertility proliferates, we explore how socioeconomic instability delays parenthood. www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

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Accelerated fertility decline following the onset of the economic crisis in Puerto Rico, 1990–2020

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APDU @apduorg.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Congratulations to the 2026 Data Integrity Award winners - @datarescueproject.org - Gina Plata-Nino of @fracposts.bsky.social - @mapresearch.bsky.social & Williams Institute - @hudgov.bsky.social & FEMA - Disaster Recovery Data Portal Details in 🧵

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The Trump admin wants to purge America of its undesirables. And for those Trump can’t deport, he hopes to simply hide away. On the new DOJ memo authorizing states to forcibly institutionalize more disabled Americans, rather than fund services that allow them to stay in their homes:

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The Americans Trump Would Rather Not See

There are some uncomfortably eugenicist vibes in Trump’s latest disability policy, which authorizes states to institutionalize more Americans.

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Hampton Gaddy @hggaddy.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

A paper based on my master's thesis is out this morning in PDR! It offers a new way of theorising and estimating "demographic memory". In a week of heatwaves and political instability in the UK, these toy examples work as a nice graphical abstract 🌡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Figure 2. The estimated annual level of global warming in the Northern Hemisphere from 1900 to 2025, compared to the 1861–90 average (panel a); a Lexis surface of the average memory of global warming from 1900 to 2025, in terms of average experience of warming after age 5 (panel b); population pyramids of Japan and Niger in 2025 with cohorts colored by their average memory of warming in 2025 (panel c); and the average memory of warming in Japan and Niger in 2025 across all cohorts since age 5 (panel d)

Figure 3. The proportions of the life of the average British resident lived after age 18 (survivorship memory without individual-level forgetting) under the premiership of Margaret Thatcher, Theresa May, Liz Truss, a male prime minister, an unknown prime minister (from August 2029 onwards), or outside the UK

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 19/06/2026

New paper out now! We (w/ @rmcelreath.bsky.social and @gregork.bsky.social) start from the observation that among adolescents in Leipzig, the gender gap in life satisfaction has doubled over time and ask: why?> link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Why Did the Gender Gap in Adolescent Life Satisfaction Grow? Evaluating Methodological and Demographic Explanations

The city of Leipzig in Germany conducts large-scale school surveys of adolescents in secondary schools. While in 2010 and 2015 girls were somewhat less satisfied than boys, in 2023 this gender gap had doubled. Why? When asking such a reverse causal question, answers often focus on broad narratives, such as the psychological impact of social media. Here, we illustrate how to probe alternative explanations, such as demographic changes and methodological issues. First, we rule out that the observed pattern is a simple scaling artifact. Second, we find that the widening of the gender gap is much more pronounced among students with a migration background. This could plausibly be explained by a shift in the composition of the underlying population, with a strong increase in the proportion of Syrian students, and a relative decrease of Vietnamese students. Third, part of the increasing gender gap could potentially be attributed to survey mode: In 2023, for the first time, the survey was conducted on tablets—and unexpectedly, girls (but not boys) reported significantly lower satisfaction when surveyed on tablet rather than on paper. Lastly, beyond these patterns, we still find significantly widening gender gaps in satisfaction with leisure time activities and relationships to friends. Thus, there may be a substantive increase in the gender gap in satisfaction in those two domains that is not readily attributable to changes in demographics and survey mode.

Plot showing mean life satisfaction among female and male adolescents over time. In general, boys show higher levels than girls; from 2010 to 2015 the lines for the two genders are pretty much parallel. In 2023, both boys and girls decline -- but girls much more so, effectively doubling the gender gap.

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UW-Madison Sociology @uwsoc.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

“…We demonstrate that mobile device data can detect miscarriage and replicate patterns of miscarriage risk found in high-quality Norwegian administrative data and in US clinical cohorts.” -Jenna Nobles, Lindsay Cannon, Sungsik Hwang, Shannon Malloy, Katie Noddin & Allen J. Wilcox

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Mobile device data for the study of miscarriage and its causes - npj Women's Health

npj Women's Health - Mobile device data for the study of miscarriage and its causes

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Alexis R. Santos @alexisrsantos.com · 28/04/2026

New publication on the role of neighborhood length of residence and perceived neighborhood cohesion on drinking among working-age adults in the US.

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Isma Muñoz @ishmamunoz.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

New paper out in The Gerontologist on ageing and inequality in Peru! We examine how demographic change is unfolding through deeply unequal social and territorial conditions, and what this means for pensions, care, health, and social policy. Read the paper here: doi.org/10.1093/gero...

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Alexis R. Santos @alexisrsantos.com · 06/04/2026

I am on TikTok as alexisrsantos I will be doing clips on population health, demography and Puerto Rico. #populationhealth #demography #PuertoRico

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Alexis R. Santos @alexisrsantos.com · 26/02/2026

New paper on Latinos + Race + Political Behavior authored by Giovanni Castro!

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Alexis R. Santos @alexisrsantos.com · 28/01/2026

Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo has been the first place I have heard and seen Cotorras in the wild. It has been such a beautiful thing to see them fly around between 10 am to 1 pm. Cotorras are nearly extinct in Puerto Rico, so this really brought some emotions! 🦜

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Alexis R. Santos @alexisrsantos.com · 03/12/2025

Can’t believe it has been 4 months already! I’m proud to represent Penn State in the Dominican Republic and foster connections with academics here! Thanks to @ssripennstate.bsky.social for their unwavering support! #WeAre

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

For profs with a little extra research funding sitting around (and I know it’s an awful time for that), I really recommend this weekly facilitated writing group. The facilitator is excellent and it’s given me a place to work on the writing tasks I’m most resistant to (but need to do!) each week

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Early bird rate for spring writing groups!

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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Call for Papers! Submit your paper for the conference: 'Kinship Structures, Dynamics and Inequalities', taking place on 8 and 9 June 2026 @mpidr.bsky.social in Rostock organized by @demography.bsky.social, @iussp.bsky.social +coll. Deadline: 21 January 2026 www.demogr.mpg.de/go/kinship-conference

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Paul Naish @paulnaish.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Book Review: A Little History of Mathematics Author: @snezanalawrence.bsky.social Published in Annals of Science and #FREE to read! @tandfresearch.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 06/10/2025

3 MAGA extremists have re-intro'd a bill that allows South Carolina to execute women who receive an abortion. If you haven't heard about S 323, it's because corporate media has completely ignored it. Here's the overview, the sponsors, & how to fight back: www.qasimrashid.com/p/s-carolina...

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S. Carolina RE-Intros Bill To Kill Women For Getting An Abortion

Here's what's in the bill, why it is so dangerous, and the meaningful steps you can take to fight back, support women's health, and help block this bill from becoming law

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Hampton Gaddy @hggaddy.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

🚨 The Economist has been telling you for years that polygamy causes civil war by locking men out of marriage. A new article with @rebeccasear.bsky.social and @anthrolog.bsky.social explains that the demography of marriage markets doesn't actually work that way. 🧵 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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High rates of polygyny do not lock large proportions of men out of the marriage market | PNAS

There is a widespread belief, in both the scholarly literature and the popular press, that polygyny prevents large numbers of men from marrying by ...

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Leah Abrams @leahrabrams.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

The @popassocamerica.bsky.social deadline is coming up on Sunday 📆 I welcome submissions to Session 708: Older Workers, Longer Working Lives, and Health. I look forward to reading your work in this area!

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Alexis R. Santos @alexisrsantos.com · 01/10/2025

Have they endorsed @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social? What happened to Vote Blue No Matter Who? @democrats.org

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Alexis R. Santos @alexisrsantos.com · 30/09/2025

A lot of people will need to update their slides :D

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Marti Rovira @mrovira.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

✨ Want to use quant methods to study crime, desistance and intimate partner violence? A *funded PhD* at ‪@demosocupf.bsky.social‬ is opening soon! DM if you are interested 📬

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𝐔𝐧𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐫𝐚𝐛 @johnxuandou.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Netanyahu said Monday there is "no starvation" in Gaza. Netanyahu is a war criminal. youtu.be/ejPzTSeB_OI?...

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Netanyahu denies starvation in Gaza as images of emaciated children spark global outcry

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Alexis R. Santos @alexisrsantos.com · 29/07/2025

My mom has kept issues of ArcUser received in my home in Puerto Rico since Spring 2019! Wow! What do I do with them?

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Bruce Desmarais @brucedesmarais.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

I’m thrilled to share new work out in Social Networks! In this project, randomly allocating students to teams permitted identifying causal effects of co-membership. Thanks to Sarah Gordon, Wayne Baker, Jose Uribe, and Cassandra Chambers for bringing me on! Ful article: 📄 lnkd.in/e9TyvnRX

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Jen @jdloverr63.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

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Alexis R. Santos @alexisrsantos.com · 13/07/2025

My student has worked so hard. He just turned in his final dissertation chapter draft …. It is so good! … I AM CERTAINLY NOT EMOTIONAL RIGHT NOW …

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Alexis R. Santos @alexisrsantos.com · 06/07/2025

I hate that my friend moved from Los Angeles to Chicago! I used to be able to call him at EST Midnight and talk for an hour. He should go back to Los Angeles as it is move convenient for me.

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Alexis R. Santos @alexisrsantos.com · 04/07/2025

Time for some good old phrenology!

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Alexis R. Santos @alexisrsantos.com · 04/07/2025

Anybody with a Kindergarten diploma could have told him this.

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Alexis R. Santos @alexisrsantos.com · 28/06/2025

Fetterman is probably one of the worse disappointments we’ve had as voters in PA. Voted for a so called “liberal” and turns out he is OK with a bunch of Trump agenda. For shame, @fetterman.senate.gov …

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Alexis R. Santos @alexisrsantos.com · 27/06/2025

Free Markets have failed the people 100% of the time. Yet, we always justify such failures. Why not try a new way?

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Alexis R. Santos @alexisrsantos.com · 21/06/2025

I’m attending a social function of the Central Pennsylvania Nobility. 😱 Which fork do I use for soup?

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Alexis R. Santos @alexisrsantos.com · 20/06/2025

It takes the right set of circumstances! I have been working with Wilmarí De Jesús (Visiting Scholar from Puerto Rico) and in 2.5 weeks we’ve compiled a dataset that includes 90 years + of data, written a full manuscript and drafted another! 🤩

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