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Dennis Feehan

@dennisfeehan.bsky.social
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I'm an associate prof at UC Berkeley, where I study demography, social networks, and quantitative methodology.

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Berkeley Population Sciences @berkeleypopcenter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Join us on Wednesday, Sept. 16 at 12pm PT for our next Brown Bag talk. Joshua Goldstein (UC Berkeley) and Niklas van der Wagt (UC Berkeley) will present, "Population Momentum of Replacement-level Migration." Attend in-person or via Zoom. events.berkeley.edu/popsci/event...
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Berkeley Population Sciences @berkeleypopcenter.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The UC Berkeley Department of Demography is recruiting a tenure-track Assistant Professor, open field. Applications are due October 15, 2026. See details and applications: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05488 Please share widely.
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Assistant Professor - Open Field - Demography
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Mathew Kiang @mathewkiang.com · 24/06/2026
Looking for a postdoc? Interested in infectious disease modeling? Love causal inference? Want to work with @mlipsitch.bsky.social? Come do a postdoc with us at Stanford! postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/...
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Open Postdoctoral position, faculty mentor Marc Lipsitch | Office of Postdoctoral Affairs
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Jesse Rothstein @jrothst.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
#econ_ra
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Dean Eckles @eckles.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
⚙️ Working at the intersection of causality and networks? We're organizing a satellite event at @netsciconf.bsky.social in Boston on June 1st. The focus is networks science and causal inference. Submit your work by March 10th! causnets.github.io
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CausNetS: Toward a Causal Network Science
A NetSci 2026 Satellite
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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and identify new research partners across academic fields? Apply to one of the 2026 Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science (described in yellow in the attached map) here: sicss.io/locations
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Berkeley Population Sciences @berkeleypopcenter.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Reminder that we are accepting applications for our Annual Workshop on Formal Demography (June 1-5, 2026). This year's special topic: The Demography of Population Decline and Aging Grant support will fund air travel and lodging for accepted trainees. Make sure to apply by March 1st!
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
New Postdoctoral Research Associate positions at @Princeton's Office of Population Research!
postdoctoral associate at Princeton ad
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Rita Hamad @ritahamad.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
For anyone interested in demography methods, applications are now open for the @berkeleypopcenter.bsky.social workshop. populationsciences.berkeley.edu/population-c... I attended as a student once upon a time. It is a fabulous experience! @harvardpopcenter.bsky.social @popassocamerica.bsky.social
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Annual Workshop on Formal Demography - Population Sciences
The 12th Annual Workshop on Formal Demography will be held in person at UC Berkeley from June 1 – 5, 2026, with funding from Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Develop...
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Berkeley Population Sciences @berkeleypopcenter.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
We're now accepting applications for our Annual Workshop on Formal Demography, taking place in-person at UC Berkeley on June 1-5, 2026. Deadline to apply: March 1. See more information on the workshop and how to apply here: populationsciences.berkeley.edu/wp-content/u... Please share widely!
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Berkeley Population Sciences @berkeleypopcenter.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Call for Abstracts: Workshop on Determinants of Adult Mortality, Morbidity, and Healthy Aging in LMICs. Sponsors: UC Berkeley Center on Economics and Demography of Aging & USC/UCLA Center on Biodemography and Population Health Deadline: Dec 15 2025 populationsciences.berkeley.edu/conferences/...
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Call for Abstracts: Workshop on Determinants of Adult Mortality, Morbidity, and Healthy Aging in LMICs - Population Sciences
The Workshop on Determinants of Adult Mortality, Morbidity, and Healthy Aging in LMICs is co-sponsored by the NIA-supported UC Berkeley Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging-CEDA (William Do...
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Casey Breen @caseybreen.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Our new paper develops and tests a network-based method for estimating death rates in complex humanitarian emergencies. Joint w/ @dennisfeehan.bsky.social and team from Geneva-based NGO @impact-initiatives.bsky.social academic.oup.com/aje/advance-...
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Estimating death rates in complex humanitarian emergencies using the network survival method
Abstract. Reliable estimates of death rates in complex humanitarian emergencies are critical for assessing the severity of a crisis and for effectively all
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Elaine Ayers @eayers0.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Job at UC-Berkeley: Asst. Prof. in Global History of Technology, apps due 10/10 (so soon). #history #histSTM #histsci #histphilsci aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05065
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Assistant Professor – Global History of Technology - Department of History
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Eleanor Power @eapower.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
📣 Job alert! *Assistant Prof in Computational Social Science*. We're a friendly department, with sharp students, at a great institution, in a lovely city. We have real strengths in computational social science & are looking for a colleague to build this further. Share and reach out with quesions!
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Hampton Gaddy @hggaddy.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
📢 Interested in excess mortality methods, and want a challenge? I'm organising the "One Epidemic, Many Estimates" (1EME) project! Register *now* as a many analyst team (submissions due 15 March 2026), and then join us at LSE for a workshop on 21-22 May 2026! (1/n) www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-His...
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One Epidemic, Many Estimates (1EME)
One Epidemic, Many Estimates (1EME)
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
New job ad: Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Dartmouth College apply.interfolio.com/172357 Please share with your networks. I am the search chair and happy to answer questions!
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Christiaan Monden @cmonden.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Job alert! Join us at @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social as a postdoctoral fellow to work on your own research for three years. #sociology
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David J. Harding @djhardingsoc.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Berkeley Sociology is also participating in a cross-campus search in Climate Equity and Environmental Justice - open rank. Assistant Professor candidates for this position should also apply for our open field junior search to be considered for both. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04842
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Assistant/Associate/Full Professor - Climate Equity and Environmental Justice - Rausser College of Natural Resources
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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David J. Harding @djhardingsoc.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Berkeley Sociology is hiring faculty! Sept 1 application deadline. Two positions: (1) open area junior search. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05013, (2) associate or full professor in Anti-Black Racism and Social Inclusion aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05012 Please help spread the word!
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Assistant Professor - Open Field - Sociology
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Noah Greifer @noahgreifer.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Starting to look like I might not be able to work at Harvard anymore due to recent funding cuts. If you know of any open statistical consulting positions that support remote work or are NYC-based, please reach out! 😅
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Jennie Brand @jenniebrand.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
A great two weeks at UCLA! Come join us!
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Ridhi Kashyap @ridhikashyap.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
*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)
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Berkeley Population Sciences @berkeleypopcenter.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Join our next Brownbag this Wednesday, 4/16 at noon, to hear Magali Barbieri (UC Researcher in Demography at UC Berkeley) present her project, “Multi-morbidity and the US Disadvantage in Life Expectancy.” Attend in-person at 310 Social Sciences or via Zoom (ID: 985 2901 0198 Passcode: DEMOG_BB).
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Jesse Rothstein @jrothst.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
We are hiring an education researcher to join the @capolicylab.bsky.social and @berkeleycshe.bsky.social teams. You'll work on projects using administrative data relating to California higher education. Here's more information: capolicylab.org/careers/rese...
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Researcher - California Policy Lab
About the Center for Studies in Higher Education and the California Policy Lab The Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE) at the Goldman School of Public Policy produces multi-disciplinary scho...
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David Bamman @dbamman.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Among these is one working with me -- if you have a background in literary/cultural theory and are interested in the ways in which computational methods, including LLMs, are able to provide support for empirical sensemaking about literature, media and culture, please get in touch!
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Population Studies Group, LSHTM @psglshtm.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
📢 Funding opportunity 📢 We’re accepting applications for the Basia Zaba Scholarship for the MSc in Demography & Health @lshtm.bsky.social 🎓 The scholarship covers full tuition fees for a UK home student for the 2025-26 academic year. Deadline 26 March. For more information 👉 tinyurl.com/3j7esk22
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Basia Zaba Memorial Scholarship | LSHTM
This scholarship is for the MSc Demography & Health. Professor Basia Zaba (1949-2018) Basia started her long association with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) in 1975 when she
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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and launch interdisciplinary research projects? We are so excited to announce there will be *26* Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science this year! Apply to one of them here: sicss.io/locations
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Berkeley Population Sciences @berkeleypopcenter.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
We are now accepting applications for our Annual Workshop on Formal Demography, taking place in-person at UC Berkeley on June 2-6, 2025. Deadline to apply is March 10. See more information on the workshop and how to apply here: populationsciences.berkeley.edu/wp-content/u... Please share widely!
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MIDAS Network @midas-network.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
The Department of Demography at the University of California, Berkeley, invites applications for a Postdoctoral Scholar position in the research group of Prof. Ayesha Mahmud. For more info, visit: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04716
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Postdoctoral Scholar Employee - Demography
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Dilek Yildiz @dyildiz.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Are you a PhD student interested in population studies and would like to spend the summer in beautiful Vienna? Check out the Young Scientists Summer Program International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis! YSSP in the Population and Just Societies Program ⬇️ iiasa.ac.at/young-scient...
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Young Scientists Summer Program in the POPJUS Program
The Population and Just Societies Program (POPJUS) focuses on major societal challenges and delivers insights into current and future population sizes, structures, and distributions that are fundament...
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Berkeley Population Sciences @berkeleypopcenter.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social is accepting applications for Fall 2025 for the PhD program in Demography AND the Graduate Group in Sociology & Demography. Seeking a diverse and strong cohort; applications DUE 12/17/2024. Learn more about the program: www.demog.berkeley.edu/graduate-pro...
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Graduate Program - Department of Demography
Graduate Program UC Berkeley Demography offers three graduate degree tracks independently and in conjunction with the department of Sociology. Ph.D. in Demography The doctoral program is intended to p...
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Demography - the flagship journal of PAA @readdemography.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
@caseybreen.bsky.social, in “Longevity Benefits of Homeownership,” finds life expectancy differs btw homeowners & renters, presenting “compelling evidence that owning a home in early adulthood has a causal effect on later-life mortality.” @oxforddemsci.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Applications to host a 2025 Summer Institute in Computational Social Science are due December 1st. Feel free to email me with questions and/or help connecting with others (especially since grant support will be limited): sicss.io/host
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Host a Partner Location
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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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Casey Breen @caseybreen.bsky.social · 30/10/2024
Just a few days left to apply to the CenSoc Users Conference on Dec 6th!
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Dan Goldstein @dggoldst.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
🚨Postdoc Alert 🚨 The Computational Social Science group at Microsoft Research NYC (Jake Hofman, David Rothschild, Dan Goldstein) is hiring a postdoc! jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo... Deadline: December 20, 2024
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Search Jobs | Microsoft Careers
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Casey Breen @caseybreen.bsky.social · 03/10/2024
New paper (w/ @dennisfeehan.bsky.social ) on 'new' data sources for demographic research and the shared cross-cutting methodological challenges they present: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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<em>Population and Development Review</em> | Population Council Journal | Wiley Online Library
We are in the early stages of a new era of demographic research that offers exciting opportunities to quantify demographic phenomena at a scale and resolution once unimaginable. These scientific poss...
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Berkeley Population Sciences @berkeleypopcenter.bsky.social · 09/09/2024
We're hosting a CenSoc Users Conference on December 6th, remote. Please consider joining us! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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CenSoc Users Conference
CenSoc Users Conference Organized by the CenSoc Project (PIs: Joshua R. Goldstein and Jason Fletcher) We invite submissions for our first CenSoc Users Conference. The conference will be held remot...
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Dennis Feehan @dennisfeehan.bsky.social · 25/06/2024
Excited about this working paper with @msalganik.bsky.social ! We use household surveys to produce sibling and network-based adult mortality estimates in 27 cities, and validate estimates against death certificates. Lots of implications for survey-based mortality estimation osf.io/preprints/so...
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Patrick Gerland @pgerland.bsky.social · 02/04/2024
1 year Consultant for UNICEF/IGME - Supporting child mortality and stillbirth estimation and analysis, D&A, DAPM NYHQ (remote-based) www.unicef.org/careers/vaca...
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Patrick Heuveline @patrickhvl.bsky.social · 02/02/2024
Applications accepted until 3/29/24 to Summer Institute in Computational Social Science on UCLA campus, 6/24 to 7/3 2023. Researchers not affiliated with UCLA are also welcome to participate: sicss.io/2024/ucla/
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Berkeley Population Sciences @berkeleypopcenter.bsky.social · 13/03/2024
We're hiring! The Berkeley Population Center is seeking a part-time (60%) Research Administrator. Come work with a great team of folks! Please share widely with your networks. careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucb/EMPL...
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Berkeley Population Sciences @berkeleypopcenter.bsky.social · 07/03/2024
The deadline to apply is this Friday, March 8th. Get your applications in!
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Stéphane Helleringer @shelleringer.bsky.social · 01/03/2024
New postdoc opportunity in demography and public health at NYU Abu Dhabi. Please share widely: apply.interfolio.com/142228
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Berkeley Population Sciences @berkeleypopcenter.bsky.social · 29/02/2024
Join us! In person, Mar 6, 12pm, for our next BrownBag Seminar w/ Jenny Trinitapoli (@uchicago.bsky.social ): “Excerpts from An Epidemic of Uncertainty: Navigating HIV and Young Adulthood in Malawi.” 310 Social Sciences. events.berkeley.edu/popsci/event...
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Demography Brown Bag Seminar: “Excerpts from An Epidemic of Uncertainty: Navigating HIV and Young Adulthood in Malawi”
This event is part of the UC Berkeley Demography Brown Bag Seminar Series. The speaker will be Jenny Trinitapoli, Professor of Sociology at the Uni...
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Berkeley Population Sciences @berkeleypopcenter.bsky.social · 23/02/2024
We're happy to announce that on Feb 28, 12pm, our next Brown Bag Seminar is with Emilio Zagheni (@ezagheni.bsky.social): “Global Improvements in the Representation of Women in Science Have Stalled.” Join us! events.berkeley.edu/popsci/event...
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Demography Brown Bag Seminar: “Global Improvements in the Representation of Women in Science Have Stalled”
This talk is part of the UC Berkeley Demography Brown Bag Seminar Series. The speaker will be Emilio Zagheni, Managing Director of the Max Planck I...
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Matthew Salganik @msalganik.bsky.social · 25/02/2024
You can participate in a new scientific mass collaboration. The aim of the challenge is to measure current predictability of fertility outcomes in the Netherlands to advance understanding of fertility. Apply by March 24 at preferdatachallenge.nl
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Bernardo Lanza Queiroz @blqueiroz.bsky.social · 18/02/2024
The 10th Annual Workshop on Formal Demography will be held in person from June 3-7, 2024. Application Deadline: March 8, 2024 Notification Date: March 22, 2024 populationsciences.berkeley.edu/population-c...
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Annual Workshop on Formal Demography - Population Sciences
The 10th Annual Workshop on Formal Demography will be held in person from June 3-7, 2024, with funding from Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R25HD083136...
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