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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
We are happy to support this 📣 Call for Abstracts ‼️ for the POPCLIMA Conference in January 2027, organized by our colleague @conteristo.bsky.social together with @jasminabdelghany.bsky.social, Sirinya Kaikeaw, Raya Muttarak, Chiara Puglisi, Tobias Rüttenauer, and Nkechi S. Owoo, Ph.D
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Jasmin Abdel Ghany @jasminabdelghany.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Working on climate & population? Keen to discuss future directions & methodological frontiers? Join 28-29 Jan in Bologna 🇮🇹 📩 Call for abstracts by 20 Sep! Organized with POPCLIMA project, @iussp.bsky.social Panel on Climate & Environmental Demography & @eaps.bsky.social Climate Demography.
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POPCLIMA: Call for Abstracts - POPCLIMA
Population Dynamics in a Changing Climate – Future Directions for Climate Demography Organiser: University of Bologna (POPCLIMA – ERC Consolidator Grant), in...
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Demography - the flagship journal of PAA @readdemography.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
In “Wildfires & Birth Outcomes,” @conteristo.bsky.social & @mariarubiocab.bsky.social assess how exposure to wildfire & PM2.5 during pregnancy is associated w/ lower birth weight & increased risk of LBW & preterm birth. @mpidr.bsky.social @cedemografia.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
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Jasmin Abdel Ghany @jasminabdelghany.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Join us for the 🌱 Climate Demography 🌱 workshop at EPC 2026! We'll have an interesting set of keynotes, a meet the editor session, & ample time for discussion!
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
📣𝗣𝗿𝗲-𝗘𝗣𝗖 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 🇮🇹 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝘆: 𝗣𝗼𝗽𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 📅June 3rd 🗺️Bologna www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events_61… Risto Emilio Zagheni European Association for Population Studies
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
‼️Free IDEM 187 Course‼️ Topics in Digital and Computational Demography 📅3-7 November 2025 💻Online 💸no tuition fee 📝Application deadline: 28 September 2025 www.demogr.mpg.de/go/idem2025 @imprs-phds.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social @conteristo.bsky.social @ezagheni.bsky.social @j-d-klein.bsky.social
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Summer Incubator Program 2025 @mpidr.bsky.social is in full swing! Everyone has arrived, & the research groups have begun their work. 🧵1/4 www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even... @perrottadaniela.bsky.social @ezagheni.bsky.social @conteristo.bsky.social @ebrusanliturk.bsky.social @brunoarpino.bsky.social
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
“Climate Change and Mobility” mentored by @conteristo.bsky.social, @ebrusanliturk.bsky.social and @perrottadaniela.bsky.social with @mattgmasn.bsky.social, Sophie Noel, Lovisa Rosenquist Ohlsson and Zarmeen Salim. 2/4
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Manuel T. Valdés @mvaldes1989.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
📢Entrada en Universidad,sí sobre la PAU y el papel de factores como la calidad del aire😶‍🌫️ Recupero las conclusiones de un paper con @conteristo.bsky.social y @marespadafor.bsky.social sobre el efecto de una ZBE sobre el rendimiento en la PAU Echa un vistazo!👇 www.universidadsi.es/zonas-de-baj...
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Zonas de bajas emisiones y rendimiento en la PAU - Universidad, sí
Las zonas de bajas emisiones afectan directamente al éxito de la PAU y a la posibilidad de que los alumnos ingresen a la universidad.
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
👓Recommended Reading📚 𝗕𝗶𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆: 𝗘𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗚𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝘀 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗔𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 There are times of the year when more children are born than usual. In his latest publication, @conteristo.bsky.social (@mpidr.bsky.social) examines how ... 🧵1/6
Three diagrams that show the Seasonalitiy of fertility in East and West Germany during the time periods 1955-1963, 1973-1981, 1990-1998
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Copernicus ECMWF @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
#CopernicusAtmosphere participated at the WHO 2nd Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health in March. Discover how CAMS air quality monitoring data supports global health initiatives and transboundary collaborations. Read the conference highlights! atmosphere.copernicus.eu/who-2nd-glob...
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CLIC @clic.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Poster winners at #PAA25: @conteristo.bsky.social, @marcocozzani.bsky.social & @pfallesen.bsky.social ⭐️ Project: From spring to summer: change in the seasonality of fertility in 24 European countries 1950-2020
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
We're starting a busy morning at #PAA2025 with D.Stonkute, H.Schubert, K.Wright, @conteristo.bsky.social, @nhiekel.bsky.social, A.Polizzi, @angelacar.bsky.social, @athinaanas.bsky.social, J.Schöley, @philippdierker.bsky.social, S.Arnolfo, @josecas91.bsky.social , R.Duerst & @shajiang.bsky.social.
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Last day of #PAA2025 with a very good start: Congratulations to @conteristo.bsky.social won the Best Poster Award for his Poster on "Change in the Seasonality of Fertility in 20 European Countries from 1950 to 2019". Congratulation Risto!
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Gaia Ghirardi @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
New pub (w/ @fabriberna.bsky.social) highlighting how family socioeconomic background plays a key role in shaping genetic associations: advantaged families both compensate for and amplify their children’s genetic propensities for education doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103174 👇🧵
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Alessandro Ferrara @ferraraale.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Check out my new new paper with @marcocozzani.bsky.social on Population Studies: doi.org/10.1080/0032... We show that immigrants’ educational selectivity improves their children’s health at birthin Spain, but just for some outcomes and some migrant groups
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Explaining immigrant–native differences in health at birth: The role of immigrant selectivity in Spain
Evidence shows that immigrants are often in better health than the native born—the so-called ‘immigrant health paradox’—and this advantage may extend to their children’s health. A commonly cited bu...
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Air-Moving Device @airmovingdevice.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
DOGE/Musk preferentially cancelled grants and contracts to recipients in counties that voted for Harris in 2024. Among cancellations with election data available, 92.9% and 86.1% cancelled grants and contracts went to Harris counties, representing 96.6% and 92.4% of total dollar amounts.
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Copernicus ECMWF @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The new #C3S Climate Data Store (CDS) reached 100,000 users! Thanks to each and every one of you. We are very happy to see our user community grow after the implementation of the new CDS.
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
“The bottom line is not whether heat or cold is more dangerous, but how we can save the most lives. Nowadays, given the current climate trends & limited success in climate mitigation, the current epidemiological literature strongly suggests an urgent focus on heat-related deaths is well justified”
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Are there more cold deaths than heat deaths?
Non-optimal temperatures are now considered among the leading risk factors of mortality worldwide.1 A global analysis showed that 9·4% of all deaths can be attributed to both cold and hot non-optimal ...
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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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Marion Leroutier @leroutierm.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
📣To all PhD students in environmental econ: apply to our (free!) E4C summer school on "Environmental Data Collection and Analysis for the Social Sciences" co-organized by @crestumr.bsky.social When? 2-6 June 2025 Where? Palaiseau near Paris Info: www.ip-paris.fr/en/news/e4c-... Apply by 25 Apr!
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E4C - Summer School 2025
Environmental data collection and analysis for the social sciences
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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Evidence from Madrid shows that the introduction of a low emission zone improved academic performance among high-school students: link.springer.com/article/10.1... Paper by @mvaldes1989.bsky.social, @conteristo.bsky.social and @marespadafor.bsky.social.
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Can a low emission zone improve academic performance? Evidence from a natural experiment in the city of Madrid - Population and Environment
In the last decades, various policies have been implemented to reduce air pollution exposure and improve public health outcomes. Among these, low emission zones (LEZs) have been shown to effectively e...
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Raquel Guimaraes 🇧🇷 🇦🇹 @raquelrguima.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Rising temperatures🌡️are a growing #humanhealth threat, claiming 489,000 lives globally each year. Next week, I’ll join experts at the Science for Policy Hackathon 🧑‍🔬🌍 to explore solutions. Adaptation strategies like cooling ❄️ and education 📚 are critical. #ClimateChange #HeatWaves #PublicHealth
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Estimating future heat-related and cold-related mortality under climate change, demographic and adaptation scenarios in 854 European cities - Nature Medicine
Modeled analyses of 854 European cities show that net temperature-related mortality will increase because of an increase in heat-related mortality exceeding future reductions in cold-related mortality...
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Population Europe @populationeu.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Does cleaner air improve student performance? New study by @mvaldes1989.bsky.social @marespadafor.bsky.social & @conteristo.bsky.social finds Madrid’s low emission zone boosted exam scores. Policy rollback raises questions about the future. #Mapineq 🔗https://tinyurl.com/ary5ce77
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meteoHRO - Wetter MV @meteohro.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Die Anzahl der Frosttage im Januar in #Warnemünde seit 1947. Bisher einmal, nämlich 1983, blieb ein Jan. im Ostseebad komplett frostfrei. Das Maximum von 31 Tagen mit #Frost dagegen 1963, 1970 und 1987. Langj. Mittel (1991-2020) wurde zuletzt 2017 überschritten, 2025 bisher 13. #Wetter #Klima
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Professor Melinda Mills @melindacmills.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Great new publication from our MAPIneq project!
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Mar Cañizares Espadafor @marespadafor.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
💡 My recent work with @mvaldes1989.bsky.social & @conteristo.bsky.social, published today (what better timing than International Education Day?), explores the relationship between low-emission zones (LEZs) and academic performance. Our findings?
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Need a read for the weekend? How about "Can a low emission zone improve academic performance?" A new paper our colleague @conteristo.bsky.social just published together with @mvaldes1989.bsky.social #climatechange #climate #population
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Manuel T. Valdés @mvaldes1989.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
📢📢 PUB DAY! Ever wondered how low emission zones affect academic performance? You are lucky! Our new #OA paper in Population & Environment with amazing @marespadafor.bsky.social and @conteristo.bsky.social within the Mapineq project explores this. 🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s111... Curious? Read on!
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
💭Blog@MPIDR: Risto Conte Keivabu @conteristo.bsky.social was part of a @maxplanck.de delegation that attended #COP29 as an observer last year. The scientist summarizes his impressions and insights from the trip to Baku. 👉 www.demogr.mpg.de/go/COP29 #climatechange #ClimateAction #population
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Amy Lee @amyelee.com · 18/01/2025
“We estimate a total of 52,480 to 55,710 premature deaths are attributable to wildland fire PM2.5 over the 11-year period with respect to two exposure scenarios, equating to an economic impact of $432 to $456 billion.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Mortality attributable to PM2.5 from wildland fires in California from 2008 to 2018
More than 50,000 deaths from 2008 to 2018 in California were attributable to fine particulate matter from wildland fires.
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Bruno Arpino @brunoarpino.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Happy new year everyone! I wish you all to age sustainably 🙂 Submit! Submit! Submit! Share! Share! Share! 🙏
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Rebecca Elliott @rfelliott.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
New from me in Social Problems -- "The Sociology of Property Value in a Climate-Changed United States" -- in which I set out an analytical strategy for reckoning with the emerging set of complex issues at the intersection of climate impacts and homeownership doi.org/10.1093/socp...
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The Sociology of Property Value in a Climate-Changed United States
ABSTRACT. In the United States, individual and collective economic well-being is closely tied to homeownership. But there is an emerging set of complex iss
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Stefanie Stantcheva @s-stantcheva.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
🚨🔢 New data alert! If you are curious about people's attitudes towards climate change and related policies, check out this large-scale survey data from 20 countries from our paper. Publicly available with codes here socialeconomicslab.org/research/pub... 🚨🔢
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Fighting Climate Change: International Attitudes Toward Climate Policies - Social Economics Lab
Using new surveys on more than 40,000 respondents in twenty countries that account for 72% of global CO2 emissions, we study the understanding of and attitudes toward climate change
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Julian Cribb @juliancribb.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Another year, another record temperature... where will it end?
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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Insurance companies know something about climate change if they are pulling out of Florida and most coastal areas. Insurance $$$ don’t lie. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Copernicus ECMWF @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
The year 2024 saw contrasting wildfire activity across the globe: Records in parts of South America and intense fires in North America, near-to-average in Europe and Oceana, below average in most parts of Asia. Read our full summary here: atmosphere.copernicus.eu/cams-global-...
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Works in Progress @worksinprogress.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Our latest issue is now out! - Animals as chemical factories - How housing shortages cause homelessness - Where the glamour of progress went - How big data created the modern dairy cow - Urbanist cruise ships - Functionalism - How Madrid built its Metro
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Home - Works in Progress
Works in Progress is an online magazine dedicated to sharing new and underrated ideas to improve the world, and features original writing from some of the most interesting thinkers in the world.
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Centre for Sustainability - Hertie School @hertiesustain.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
We invite you to the last Social Policy Research Colloquium of the Fall term. Our guest, @conteristo.bsky.social from MPIDR, will talk on "The Impact of Climate Change on Demographic Trends and Sociodemographic Inequalities". 📅 Friday, 6 December 🕧 12:30 🔗 www.hertie-school.org/en/events/ev...
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The impact of climate change on demographic trends and sociodemographic inequalities
<p>A presentation by&nbsp;<strong>Risto Conte</strong> (MPIDR Rostock). This event is part of the&nbsp;Social Policy Research Colloquium&nbsp;&nbsp;in collaboration with the Centre for Sustainability....
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Christian Dudel @cdudel.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
New open access paper in @readdemography.bsky.social with H Schubert, M Kolobova, and M Myrskylä. We show that in the US, historically, the association between fertility and development followed an inverse J-shape. This pattern vanished after the Great Recession. doi.org/10.1215/0070...
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Revisiting the J-Shape: Human Development and Fertility in the United States | Demography | Duke University Press
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Juho Härkönen @juhoharkonen.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Can support for Brexit survive? 🤔 in this paper with @fresejoris.bsky.social @simonhix.bsky.social we estimate that the declining support for Brexit has to an important extent related to older Brexit supporters passing away (and younger Bremainers joinig the electorate). 1/2
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David Brady @davebrady72.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Brexit associated with 86% increase in departure of EU origin professors from UK.
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Fabrizio Bernardi @fabriberna.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
He publicado una tribuna el El País: "Defender la universidad publica" #UniversidadPublica #DefendPublicUniversity elpais.com/opinion/2024...
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Defender la universidad pública
El ataque sistemático a la educación superior refleja la tendencia a un modelo neoliberal de pago, elitista y basado en una falsa retórica de meritocracia y libertad
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Hannah Ritchie @hannahritchie.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Around two-thirds of Denmark's electricity generation comes from solar and wind. It's mostly wind, but solar has grown quickly in the last three years. When I was born, coal made up almost 90% of the mix. This is now less than 10%.
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BatManitou @manitouryan.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
“In short, culling cars has been far more popular than her petrolhead critics predicted, with Paris becoming cleaner and healthier to boot.”
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
As the COP29 is still ongoing in #Baku, a multidisciplinary team from @maxplanck.bsky.social is present - not directly negotiating, but serving as critical observers. @mpidr.bsky.social 's Risto Conte Keivabu @conteristo.bsky.social is on his way to Baku. #COP29 www.mpg.de/23719761/cop...
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Climate, culture and community: what three researchers hope for at COP29
Three Max Planck scientists discuss COP29’s challenges, from the Loss and Damage Fund to human rights and the health risks of climate change.
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Fabrizio Bernardi @fabriberna.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
In this research note we show how the anti-far-right movement Le Sardine managed to curb far-right electoral performance in Italy's 2020 regional elections. Using a diff-in-diff design, local exposure to Sardine events significantly reduced far-right vote shares. doi.org/10.1093/poq/...
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Egor Kotov 🌐🏃‍♂️🚊🚋🚙 @ekotov.pro · 16/11/2024
Here's a starter pack of researchers at Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research: go.bsky.app/4MjXqv8
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Are you a #student who is interested in #Demography and #DataScience & you have no plans for ☀️☀️☀️#summer 2025☀️☀️☀️☀️ yet? Look no more! @mpidr.bsky.social has just the program for you: Population and Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program! Apply until Jan 8, 2025 demogr.mpg.de/go/Incubator...
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