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Agnese Vitali @agnese-vitali.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Honored to be part of the team of writers behind the @unfpa.org State of the World Population 2025 report. The real fertility crisis: The most consequential reproductive decision a person can make –when, whether and with whom to have a child– is being undermined by a set of barriers and obstacles

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Hannah Ritchie @hannahritchie.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Tuberculosis still kills around 1.3 million people every year. It was once a massive killer in Europe and the US, but not anymore. How did these countries manage to tackle it? Our first article on TB in a three-part series: ourworldindata.org/tuberculosis...

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Professor Melinda Mills @melindacmills.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Every few years these pronatalist policies re-emerge (sort of like Godzilla) & every few years I say the same thing… #demography

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Eugenio Paglino @eugeniopaglino.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

🚨 Another article on health and migration out in Social Science and Medicine! With Pekka Martikainen and Irma Elo, we look at the mortality of internal migrants in Finland www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Internal migration, health selection, and the salmon bias: A register-based study of Finland

Studies on international migrants have repeatedly found a mortality advantage of migrant over native-born populations. Data artifacts, differential pr…

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Ros Atkins @rosatkins.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

I’ve been working with BBC Panorama on a documentary about the pressures on the UK’s public finances - and why the state is struggling to provide public services that meet our expectations. This is the first minute. The whole film is here: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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Viz Comic @vizcomic.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

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Magazine Letter: They say that each cigarette you smoke takes five minutes off your life. But if you would have spent those five minutes smoking, it cancels itself out. So if you can make your piggies last more than five minutes every time you smoke one, you're technically prolonging your life. I think. Ben Nunn, Caterham

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A Reader of the FT @a-reader-ft.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Italy’s exodus of young talent worsens population squeeze—The Bank of Italy has estimated that the projected drop in Italy’s working age population could lead to an 11 per cent drop in GDP, although… www.ft.com/content/7544... @amykazmin.bsky.social @financialtimes.com

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Italy’s exodus of young talent worsens population squeeze

Central bank governor Fabio Panetta warns the brain drain is adding to pressure on the economy

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Kenneth Field @kennethfield.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Wonderful to receive this utterly beautiful 3D printed diorama of "Snow's map of cholera" by @alexselbyb.bsky.social. Exceptional attention to detail. Simply stunning. Dare I say better than the original! Thanks Alex.

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Andrew Hind @andrewhind.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Population pyramid style graphic of the day showing transition to widowhood.

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Jamie Driscoll @jamiedriscoll.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

A lad called Ryan told me he would vote Reform. In 5 minutes I learned he wanted to end homelessness, help poor families, and help vulnerable people get off drugs. Not a word about immigration. He just couldn't vote Labour after so may lies. My latest article in The Canary.

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Heather Randell @heatherrandell.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

We had a little protest of UMN faculty and researchers to raise awareness of what this administration is doing to science and universities. Apparently lots of students have no clue. We’ve gotta break through our information bubbles and get the word out to the youngins’.

Holding protest signs for science and research.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Stopping international students from coming to UK universities will hit exports, growth & tax revenues. The quote below should be a statement of the obvious... observer.co.uk/news/politic...

Another source added: “Immigration is high in people’s minds as it is key to how we try to head off the threat from Reform, but it’s a false dichotomy because they will capitalise on any sense of disenchantment or job losses from universities in financial distress.” The source said students were the low-hanging fruit but the critical issue is tackling illegal immigration.

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Heidi Colleran @heidicolleran.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

NEW PAPER heroically led by @drelenamiu.bsky.social on how changing demography, friendship networks and personal values around low fertility interact. See Elena’s thread below!👇

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 23/04/2025

How old are you compared to the rest of the world?

A line graph titled "How old are you, compared to most of the world?" is displayed. The y-axis represents age in years, ranging from 0 to 45, while the x-axis represents the years from 1950 to 2100. The line starts below 25 in 1950, gradually rises to about 30 in 2020, and goes above 40 by 2100. The data points are connected by a smooth, dark blue line with dotted segments for future projections. Also noted is a data source, indicating that the information comes from the United Nations' World Population Prospects of 2024. The graphic is credited with "CC BY" for licensing.

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

@heidicolleran.bsky.social starts her #ehbea2025 plenary with a manifesto to get behind: bring more demography into cultural evolution, and more ethnography into demography

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Andrew Hind @andrewhind.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

“These Are My Principles. If You Don’t Like Them I Have Others.” Groucho would make a successful US University President or head of a major law firm.

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Pablo J. Varas Enríquez @handle.invalid · 15/04/2025

Great theoretical work showing how cultural mechanisms related to birth spacing and cultural menopause influence demographic outcomes in a human population 💻👶 #EHBEA2025 @ehbea.bsky.social @ehbea2025.bsky.social @heidicolleran.bsky.social

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Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · 09/04/2025

We asked adults in 18 mostly middle-income countries what they think is the best age to get married. People across the countries surveyed think it’s best to get married in one’s mid-20s. Average ideal ages range from 21.2 in Bangladesh to 28.9 in Argentina. www.pewresearch.org/...

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What Age Do People Around the World Think Is Best to Reach Major Life Milestones?

People in mostly middle-income survey countries say it’s ideal to start a family and own a home by 30, and retire by 60.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Any Labour SpAd arguing for restricting student imm should be sat down in front of a map and asked three Qs: 1. Where do you think the unis in most financial trouble are? 2. How many people rely on them for jobs and income? 3. Which party represents these seats?

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Professor Melinda Mills @melindacmills.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

REPOST #jobs @oxforddemsci.bsky.social 👨‍💻Senior Research Fellow Associate/Professor 👩‍💻Senior Researcher Geospatial Health 📲Postdoc Digital Pandemic Preparedness 👶Postdoc Reproductive Demography 🤖 Programmer AI See: www.demography.ox.ac.uk/jobs #Demography #Epidemiology #Health #Population

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Andrew Hind @andrewhind.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I don’t think Matt has got a BlueSky account yet…

Man sitting watching the news on TV. Caption: “Good evening, and welcome to ‘What’s Trump Done Now?’”

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Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Lund University (Sweden) has opened 3 doctoral student positions in historical demography-economic history - Inequalities in health and survival /jobID:810603 - Demographic Inequality /jobID:809395 - Colonial maternal health legacies /jobID:808817 Applications are invited! 📉📈🗃🛟 #history #demography

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Work at Lund University

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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 29/03/2025

Want to join the FT's skunkworks? Here's your chance. on.ft.com/41Nc11W

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FT Alphaville is hiring

The best job in journalism is open for applications

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Tucson, Arizona today. Original projected attendance was 3,000 people. 23,000 showed up.

Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Greg Casar on stage in Tucson in front a crowd of 23,000 people.

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Hannah Ritchie @hannahritchie.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Women tend to live longer than men in every country in the world. But the size of this life expectancy gap varies a lot. From @scientificdiscovery.dev's data insight today: ourworldindata.org/data-insight...

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Jenn Dowd @drjenndowd.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

#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...

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Job Opportunity at LSHTM: Research Fellow

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is one of the world’s leading public health universities. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working i...

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Andrew Hind @andrewhind.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

If you love Student’s t-test or Guinness you should read this.

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 17/03/2025

Thousands of people are ditching Tesla. Here’s one of them with a message you can see from space. Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK Led By Donkeys is 100% funded by small donations.

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 07/03/2025

NEW: The actions of Trump and Vance in recent weeks highlight something under-appreciated. The American right is now ideologically closer to countries like Russia, Turkey and in some senses China, than to the rest of the west (even the conservative west). My column: www.ft.com/content/3046...

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Bruno Masquelier @brunomasquelier.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Our study estimates excess deaths in children and parental loss due to the war in Gaza in 2023. From Oct 8 to Dec 31, 2023, 8120 children <18 were killed due to the conflict, 15127 children lost a father, and 9886 children lost a mother -in 3 months pophealthmetrics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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A demographic assessment of the impact of the war in the Gaza Strip on the mortality of children and their parents in 2023 - Population Health Metrics

Background Following Hamas’s 7 October attack, Israel launched extensive aerial bombardments in the Gaza Strip, followed by a large-scale ground invasion. During the first 3 months of the conflict, up...

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Nicole Kapelle @nicolekapelle.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

🚨I'm advertising for a PhD position (4 yrs) in quant. Sociology/Social Demography (life course, social ineq.) @tcdsociology.bsky.social! 📅 Deadline: April 21, 2025 📄 More info: www.tcd.ie/sociology/va... 🔄 Please share! #Sociology #Demography #AcademicChatter #PhDOpportunity #TrinityCollegeDublin

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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

📣Call for Papers‼️ Climate Conference "Climate Change, Environmental Hazards and Population Dynamics" 📅Nov 11–12, 2025 🗺️@mpidr.bsky.social 📰Submission Deadline: May 15, 2025 www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even... @iussp.bsky.social @conteristo.bsky.social @ezagheni.bsky.social @ebrusanliturk.bsky.social

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Duncan Exley @duncanexley.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Why “students from disadvantaged backgrounds [are] more likely to attend… less selective university courses than their entry grades would permit” ucl.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #WideningParticipation #HigherEd #SocialMobility @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social

An event invite that says “Reach for the stars: Inequalities in university applications and their role in student-degree
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Professor Gill Wyness (UCL)
Thursday 6th March 2025, 15:00 (UK Time)”

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INED (in english) @ined-english.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

| CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR FUNDED PHD POSITIONS | Ined is recruiting three PhD students for the start of the 2025 academic year. The deadline for applications is 5 May 2025 at 12:00 PM (noon), Paris time. More information: www.ined.fr/en/research/...

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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

BREAKING: Foreign-born leader comes to Oval Office, dressed down in a disrespectful manner, having already received billions from America, asking for American taxpayers to keep paying him more billions, subsidizing him for years to come:

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Heidi Colleran @heidicolleran.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Incase you thought what’s happening in the US can’t affect you….The DHS is being cancelled. The biggest demographic data collection effort in the world, with over 400 waves of data collected since the early 1980s. It was funded by USAID.

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Jason P. Steed @profsteed.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place): 1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 21/02/2025

This chart basically explains all politics:

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UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies @clscohorts.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

✨ We’re delighted the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) have given the go ahead to a new UK-wide birth cohort study! We're looking forward to submitting our proposal. The news follows on from the #EarlyLifeCohortFeasibilityStudy - find out more here: buff.ly/4i4f9fa

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 20/02/2025

Americans used to move all of the time to better their life. Then they stopped. Why? @hannarosin.bsky.social talks with @yappelbaum.bsky.social about the end of upward mobility in the U.S. and who's actually to blame.

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Americans Are Stuck. Who’s to Blame?

Yoni Appelbaum on his new book, Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity

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Andrew Hind @andrewhind.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

When even the right wing red-top scandal sheets are mocking trump!

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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

NEW on Wonkhe: Why does it take the British Academy to plot subject geographies? bit.ly/413qRQd

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Jonas Schöley @jschoeley.com · 19/02/2025

Us: Increasing maternal age, late abortions, or definition changes don't explain recent German trends in stillbirths. Some perinatologists: It's probably explained by maternal age, late abortions and definition changes though. Always good to see both sides of an argument represented in the media.

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Andrew Hind @andrewhind.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

For some reason Molotov and Ribbentrop spring to mind today.

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