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Devikrishna N B (She/Her)

@devikrishna.bsky.social
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Demographer Doctoral Fellow at the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), India. Researching fertility and long-term demographic dynamics.

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Devikrishna N B (She/Her) @devikrishna.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
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Aliakbar Akbaritabar @akbaritabar.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
𝐀𝐰𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐜 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐝𝐬 list is live since a few weeks! Access and share it with others: opensciencedemography.github.io/awesome-demo... Several colleagues generously added their suggestions (Thanks). You can contribute to it by adding new items here github.com/OpenScienceD...
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Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Oxford University @oxforddemsci.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Pronatalist policies are rising as birth rates fall. In The Lancet, LCDS researcher @sanderwagner.bsky.social says support should focus on autonomy, fertility care, childcare and parental leave — not pressure. Read: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Concerns over reproductive rights as pronatalism increases
“It is time to reflect on whether or not to have a child.” That will be the opening line of a government letter being sent to 29-year-olds in France in June, 2026. Aiming to address infertility, the l...
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Population Europe @populationeu.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Measuring the human cost of an ongoing conflict is exceptionally difficult. Researchers from our network have developed a demographic framework to estimate population loss in Gaza more accurately. Read it now: tinyurl.com/ycyh3ark
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Devikrishna N B (She/Her) @devikrishna.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Check out this preprint from my amazing colleague @rahulmondal.bsky.social and a wonderful team
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Devikrishna N B (She/Her) @devikrishna.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
(Chorus) Should I stay or should I go 🎶
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Taylor & Francis Research @tandfresearch.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
The Population Investigation Committee (PIC) invites applications for the position of Editor(s)-in-Chief of Population Studies, a leading international journal in demography. Applications deadline: 5pm UK time, 23 June 2026 👉Details: spr.ly/63323B8X3VB
A call for editors for the Population Studies Journal for the position of Editor(s)-in-Chief is announced. An abstract background of out-of-focus people is behind the text.
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Devikrishna N B (She/Her) @devikrishna.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
I thought I'd made a mistake by asking an extremely famous scientist, "So, what do you work on?" Then I recognized him and attempted a recovery by asking how his equally-famous collaborator was doing 😭 A remarkable achievement in which the recovery was more embarrassing than the original error.
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Tobias Rüttenauer @ruettenauer.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
📢 Open positions! I’m recruiting 2 postdocs + 3 PhD positions at C³S, @goetheuni.bsky.social in #ClimateJustice, environmental inequality, #Demography & #ComputationalSocialScience 🌍📊💻 3–4 years + strong support for training🎒 Deadline: 23 June 2026 More: www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794987/Zen...
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Southern Demographic Association @sda-demography.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Thanks to @popassocamerica.bsky.social for a successful #PAA2026! Looking for a #demography conference in Fall 2026? Submit your work to the Southern Demographic Association conference! We'll meet October 7-9 in Austin, TX! Abstract submission portal opens next week.
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Devikrishna N B (She/Her) @devikrishna.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Would love to join ! How does this reading group work for someone on the other side of the globe 👀 ? I’m based in India
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 12/05/2026
New from me: "Pronatalism isn't sending their best." In which I cast considered doubt on the precious bodily fluids fecundity theory of fertility decline.
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Pronatalism is not sending their best
Birth rates are falling, but it’s not because of falling sperm counts and toxic soup.
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Elena Pojman @elenapojman.com · 29/04/2026
how do we feel the age-sex pattern of queer identification in our kinship networks? check out our preprint or come see us present in the queer family demography section at PAA! dx.doi.org/10.4054/MPID... (w/ carolyn hong & @demography.bsky.social)
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Vienna Yearbook of Population Research (VYPR) @vypr.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
💡New Research Article from Hal Caswell just out! He shows how delayed reproduction has unexpected effects on population growth and structure #demography @demographyvienna.bsky.social austriaca.at?arp=0x004183...
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Devikrishna N B (She/Her) @devikrishna.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
This is so cool !!
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Jonas Schöley @jschoeley.com · 29/04/2026
How many siblings does a recently born child in China likely have? @demography.bsky.social etal have estimated global kinship by age since 1950 and can answer the question (and a million others). Check out their results as interactive heatmaps on demoscapes.org. demoscapes.org/collections/...
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D. Susie Lee 이수지 @dsusielee.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Demography of menopause @bspsuk.bsky.social 2026! The strand on "Women's health: Beyond maternal mortality" will host a special session on #menopause. Submit your works 👇until April 17 (5pm UK time) Call for papers: www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...
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Devikrishna N B (She/Her) @devikrishna.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Congratulations Léo !!!
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
📣Calls of Abstracts‼️Second International Workshop on Life Course Analysis Theory, methods, & applications 📅August 18-19, 2026 🗺️Hertie School, Berlin www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events_61… Christian Dudel Carla Rowold
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christophecoste.bsky.social @christophecoste.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
How to compute the expected number of any kin from a population projection model? —> new paper out ! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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The Kinship Formula: Inferring the numbers of all kin from any structured population projection model | PNAS
Structured population projection models are fundamental to many fields of science. They enable abundance forecasting for populations categorized by...
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Devikrishna N B (She/Her) @devikrishna.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Congratulations Elena !
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Come visit MPIDR in ☀️Summer 2026☀️ 📣Call for Application for the "Population and Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program" 📅☀️June 8th – August 21st, 2026☀️ 🗺️MPIDR in Rostock, Germany Application Deadline: Jan 14, 2026 Apply here and learn more: incubator.demogr.mpg.de
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Devikrishna N B (She/Her) @devikrishna.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
A novel probabilistic approach for identifying stalls, upswings, and reversals in fertility transitions (SURFs 🏄‍♂️ ) by Wheldon et al. #Demography
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Devikrishna N B (She/Her) @devikrishna.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Now, that is a super cool way of applying Caswell's formal demography of kinship framework ! #Demography #Kinship
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Alan Rogers @alanrogers.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
I taught (and co-taught) a course on human population genetics from 2000-2024. Having retired, I'm now making all the course materials public: github.com/alanrogers/p... #popgen #evbio
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GitHub - alanrogers/popgen: A course on population genetics
A course on population genetics. Contribute to alanrogers/popgen development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Devikrishna N B (She/Her) @devikrishna.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Day 2 of kinship workshop, we moved into richer terrain with two-sex, time-varying models and spent time unpacking a powerful idea : kin loss and bereavement One striking insight: in India, an individual aged 100 in 2020 would have experienced the loss of nearly 45 kin over their lifetime!
Estimated Number of youth who lost a parent due to drug poisoning in the US over the years, by racial characteristics.
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Devikrishna N B (She/Her) @devikrishna.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Today, we officially kickstarted the workshop on "Analysis of Population Level Kinship Structures" at IIPS Mumbai with @demography.bsky.social and Saroja Adhikari from @mpidr.bsky.social ! Already picking up fresh ideas and good energy. I'll keep sharing little moments from the workshop ✨️
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Vegard Skirbekk @vegardskirbekk.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
The Interdisciplinary Centre on Population Dynamics (CPop) will host an ERC Workshop on "A Unified Perspective on Formation and Dissolution Processes in Demography," 9-11 March 2026, at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense. Abstract deadline: 19 December 2025. www.sdu.dk/en/forskning...
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Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) @tse-fr.eu · 19/11/2025
Apply now to our next Summer School! 🤝 We are glad to host the Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences from 26 May to 19 June 2026 — a great opportunity for PhD students in economics, political science, and other social sciences. Application: www.tse-fr.eu/toulouse-sum...
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Patrick Gerland @pgerland.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Today, launching the World Urbanization Prospects 2025 with new UN estimates and projections of urbanization for 237 countries and areas of the world & 12,000+ cities with 50,000+ inhabitants in 2025. www.un.org/development/... - see also new online datasets and plots: population.un.org/wup/
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Launch: World Urbanization Prospects 2025 | Population Division
The World Urbanization Prospects 2025 will be launched on Tuesday, 18 November 2025 at 12:45 (EST).
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Devikrishna N B (She/Her) @devikrishna.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Incredible!
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Tim Riffe @timriffe1.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Over a dozen ways to decompose life expectancy, all in one (we hope) friendly interface. Please have a look at the LEdecomp R package cran.r-project.org/web/packages... See the function LEdecomp() for access to all of them. If we left something out, please shout! #rstats #demography #mortality
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LEdecomp: Decompose Life Expectancy by Age (and Cause)
A set of all-cause and cause-specific life expectancy sensitivity and decomposition methods, including Arriaga (1984) &lt;<a href="https://doi.org/10.2307%2F2061029" target="_top">doi:10.2307/2061029<...
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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma. It's *scientific publishing*. We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
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Isabelle Marie @isabellemarie.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
The Roman empire built 300,000 kilometres of roads: new study. theconversation.com/the-roman-em...
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The Roman empire built 300,000 kilometres of roads: new study
A new comprehensive map reveals the true scale of the ancient Roman road network – but it is still incomplete.
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Devikrishna N B (She/Her) @devikrishna.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
This is amazing! Thank you for sharing
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Measles is back Whooping cough is back Now, diphtheria is staging a return with large outbreaks now in Somalia, Sudan, Yemen and Chad — countries with civil wars or large populations of refugees where vaccination coverage is low... www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/h... @stephanienolen.bsky.social
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Diphtheria, a Once Vanquished Killer of Children, Is Resurgent
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Ariane Ophir @arianeophir.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Demographers & sociologists assemble! I'm looking for papers that use both Generation & Gender Survey and SHARE in the same paper. Don't care about topic, sub-sample, or design - just that it's empirical. Self-promotion is encouraged. #sociology #demography
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Job Offer: PhD Student Position The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and the @mpidr.bsky.social + @imprs-phds.bsky.social invite applications for a 4-year PhD position. The studentship is not limited to specific topics. Apply until November 17! www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61...
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EHBEA 2026 @ehbea2026.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
🚨𝗔𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗵𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗮𝘀𝘁𝘀! www.ehbea2026.com is now live for our 2026 European Human Behaviour & Evolution Association (EHBEA) conference in Leiden (NL🇳🇱) Check for 𝗮𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻, first 𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 & the [𝗔𝗜]𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸! 🗓️ 14–17 Apr 2026 | CBEN pre-conf 14 Apr 📍Pesthuis #EHBEA2026
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Overview | EHBEA2026
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Kasey Buckles @kaseybuckles.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
The Economic Demography Workshop will be on May 6, at the PAAs in St. Louis. See the call for papers 👇 Thanks to co-chairs @hnmansour.bsky.social & @mguldi.bsky.social !
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EDW Call for Papers 2026.pdf
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EHBEA @ehbea.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
🚨AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 EHBEA is calling for SELF-nominations for their New Investigator Award. If you are doing, or know someone, some really cool research as an early-career researcher please don’t hesitate to apply! DEADLINE: December 19th, 2025 Here is the form👇 docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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EHBEA-2026-New-Investigator-Award-nomination-form.docx
2026 NEW INVESTIGATOR AWARD Self-nomination Form Please submit this application form by e-mail to the EHBEA Secretary ehbea.secretary@gmail.com. Next Deadline: 5pm (GMT), 19th DECEMBER 2026 ...
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Antonino Polizzi @polizzan.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
✍️ Just out: Annette Baudisch & I delve into the formal demography of fertility, birth, & reproduction timing. 👶 We use methods from mortality research to summarize when in the parental life course children are born. 📆 1/n doi.org/10.1080/0032... @sdu.dk @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social
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Fertility, birth, reproduction: Connecting formal demographic frameworks
The conventional framework of fertility research conceptualizes childbirth from the mother’s perspective. From her perspective, birth is an uncertain and potentially recurring event. In contrast, t...
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Devikrishna N B (She/Her) @devikrishna.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Congratulations 🎊
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Devikrishna N B (She/Her) @devikrishna.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Not sure if this applies exactly, but European Human Behavior and Evolution Association (EHBEA) has a small grant to support workshop/events that falls under their domain. Worth checking out
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EHBEA @ehbea.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
We are happy to announce our brand new YoutTube channel 🥳 We start with the plenary talk of Petr Tureček as the New Investigator Award winner in @ehbea2025.bsky.social 🎤🤓 “Error, inspiration, and the dynamics of variance in cultural transmission” 👀 youtu.be/wafXoULA3B0?...
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Petr Turecek - EHBEA 2025
YouTube video by European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
"It is now possible to compute the mean and variance of the projected Lifetime Kin Overlap with any type of kin, in one-sex or two-sex models based on age or combinations of age and stage." www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...
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Demographic Research - The formal demography of kinship VII: Lifetime kin overlap within and across generations (Volume 53 - Article 5 | Pages 123–174)
Volume 53 - Article 5 | Pages 123–174
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Devikrishna N B (She/Her) @devikrishna.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Congratulation Professor Lala ! The article looks promising! Unfortunately, I don't have access - would you be able to share a PDF ?
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FLUX @flux-consortium.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
📊 Are you interested in fertility trends in different countries? Try FLUX's new web application! 🔍 The application uses high-quality demographic data and automatically updates with the latest available information. #demography #fertility fluxconsortium.fi/news/new-web...
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New Web Application Launch: Explore Fertility Trends Across Countries from 1891 to 2023 - Flux Consortium
We are excited to announce the release of our new interactive web application, “Fertility Statistics Visualization Tool (1891–2023)”, now available...
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Heini Väisänen @heinivaisanen.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
We are looking for a postdoc to work for the @soc-misc.bsky.social project. The post is based at the University of At Andrews in Scotland and focuses on analysing administrative and census data on #miscarriage. Let me or Katy Keenan know if you have any questions. More info below 👇
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Population Europe @populationeu.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Proud to announce this year's European Demographer Awards! They go to Julia Hellstrand @juliahellstrand.bsky.social ‬ (Helsinki), Cosmo Strozza @cosmostrozza.bsky.social (Odense) and Éva Beaujouan @fertdem.bsky.social (Vienna). More: population-europe.eu/network/news... Congratulations!
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