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Tom Emery @drtomemery.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It 100% does this very very well already. AI is very very good for those mindless tasks that take up time, just don't let it write the thing. Also very good at verifying a bibliography if you do it right.

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Tom Emery @drtomemery.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

New paper in European Journal of Population 💡💡. What happens when demographic surveys move from face-to-face to online? Using a 3-country GGS experiment 🇩🇪🇭🇷🇵🇹, we find that mode matters for social desirability items, respondent burden and who participates. edu.nl/7mbhx

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Tom Emery @drtomemery.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Also, a small nice nugget to end on. In all that change, by mere coincidence, the GGP is now housed just 13 mins by bike or one pleasant stroll through the Haagse Bos away from where the ISI was based in the Hague.

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Tom Emery @drtomemery.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Overall, if the US is stepping back then maybe we all need to be a little more international and collaborative to patch the gaps. Maybe the @gatesfoundation.bsky.social should consider that? Is this something the EU wants to support? 🇪🇺

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Tom Emery @drtomemery.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Compare this to fields like astronomy. Look at the Square Kilometer Array. A massive international effort to coordinate efforts and resources to take a broad and unprecendented perspective. Maybe its time that the World Fertility Survey is revived to help us take the big broadview on demography?

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Tom Emery @drtomemery.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

In addition the funding landscape has shifted AGAIN. USAID looks like a less reliable supporter of the DHS. Meanwhile, the GGP is about to become an ERIC and an established part of the European Data Landscape. Is it time for the @iussp.bsky.social to look at the global demographic data landscape?

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Tom Emery @drtomemery.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

That brings us to today though. Whilst there are clear differences in needs across the surveys, there are many many countries that sit across the two surveys general designs. This was really clear when the GGP was fielded in 🇰🇿🇧🇾🇲🇩. There are lots of important questions that span both surveys.

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Tom Emery @drtomemery.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Very few researchers realize that the DHS and GGP are actually twins seperated at birth. It made sense to split as sexual health was the primary concern for the DHS were as gender equality and low fertility were the concern in the FFS/GGP. This was reenforced by differing funding streams

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Tom Emery @drtomemery.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

This went well but struggled to find a sustainable funding environment like USAID provided for the DHS. However, in the early 2000's the European Commission provided that funding ecosystem and with the help of the UNECE the FFS became what is now the GGP @ggp.bsky.social

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Tom Emery @drtomemery.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The UNECE coordinated the efforts to create a follow on survey to the WFS which focused on the demographic transition underway in many developed economies. The initial round of data collection conducted in the 1990's was called the Fertility and Family Survey (FFS).

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Tom Emery @drtomemery.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

....The other half included countries who participated in the WFS by contributing their own fertility survey data including 🇧🇪🇧🇬🇨🇿🇩🇰🇫🇮🇫🇷🇬🇧🇭🇺🇮🇱🇮🇹🇯🇵🇳🇱🇳🇴🇵🇱🇷🇴🇪🇸🇺🇸🇵🇹🇨🇦🇸🇪🇨🇭 and Yugoslavia. When the DHS was born, these countries went off and did something entirely different.

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Tom Emery @drtomemery.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The interview paints the DHS as the natural successor of WFS but I have always considered this to be an instance of twins seperated at birth. Half of the WFS community went on to be financed by USAID and become the DHS.

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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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ODISSEI @odissei.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

🎙️ New episode of the ODISSEI podcast is out now! @drtomemery.bsky.social speaks with Lana Fani, Managing Director of the Netherlands Cohorts Consortium, about how linking data across cohorts could open up findings that a single study could seldom reach on its own. 🔗 Listen here: edu.nl/gef8x

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International Journal of Population Data Science (IJPDS) @ijpds.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

IPDLN 2026 Conference Proceedings are now Published! Explore the innovative research being presented, discover new ideas, and start planning your conference. Happy reading! 𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗙𝗨𝗟𝗟 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗙𝗘𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗖𝗘𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗦 𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘: ijpds.org/issue/view/47 @drtomemery.bsky.social @kasiakarpinska.bsky.social

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ODISSEI @odissei.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

🎓 That’s a wrap on SICSS-ODISSEI 2026! Two weeks of computational social science, community, and hands-on research at Erasmus University Rotterdam. A big thank you to everyone who taught, organised, and showed up! See you in 2027 👋

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Jack Fitzgerald @jackfitzgerald.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Happy to have the CBS Replication Games (and my replication research more broadly) featured on the ODISSEI Podcast! Tune in if you're interested in hearing @drtomemery.bsky.social and I nerd out over replication!

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Tom Emery @drtomemery.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Hi Guy, thanks for this. It’s been a tricky paper to get through review.

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clementinecttn.bsky.social @clementinecttn.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Last week to apply for the *Behave Summer school on Agent Based Modelling*. Very happy to be involved this year by presenting works from @erc-segue.bsky.social and other collaborations on the last day... behavelab.org/behave-summe...

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BEHAVE Summer School on Agent Based Modelling

University of Brescia, Department of Information Engineering via Branze 38, Brescia, Italy, 31 August-11 September 2026 (hybrid) Jointly organised by the Department of Social and Political Sciences, ...

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Tatiana Filatova @tatianafilatova.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

🌟 TWO fully-funded 4-year PhD positions 🌟 at TU Delft (NL) on how #climate #risks impact our #homes, property #prices, #inequality, #mortgage portfolios and eventually #systemic economic and social #stability. What can different ‘climate risk owners’ do to reduce adverse impacts? Details 👇

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Platform for Large-scale Analysis of Networks @planet-nl.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Our @iasamsterdam.bsky.social Festival session was a hit! Thanks to @rafaelprietocuriel.bsky.social (Complexity Science Hub), Laure Michon (City of Amsterdam), & @drtomemery.bsky.social (ODDISEI) for their insights on how network science can evolve to meet the challenges of the next decade.

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ODISSEI @odissei.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

📣 Submit your paper to the ODISSEI Conference! We're celebrating 10 years of advancing Dutch social science research infrastructure. Open to all (computational) social science researchers, in the Netherlands and beyond. 🔗 Submit your abstract: edu.nl/hyyyk

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ODISSEI @odissei.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

We’re excited to share the Action Plan Towards FAIR Implementation in Dutch SSH 🎉 FAIR principles are widely endorsed, but implementation is hard. This plan identifies key challenges and points to actionable solutions. Many thanks to all contributors who shaped it! 📄 Read more: edu.nl/x847c

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ODISSEI @odissei.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Nominations for the ODISSEI Open Science Award 2026 are now open! We’re looking for researchers or teams in computational social science who are leading by example: making their research outputs open, FAIR, and impactful. ⏱️ Deadline to nominate: 30 September 2026 👉 edu.nl/nxcmy

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

The UK govt is Palantir’s 2nd biggest customer. Why? Or, more to the point, how? Our latest @thenerve_news investigation reveals a web of cronyism into the highest levels of govt. But Palantir also has a spin machine that uses political journalists to launder its PR 1/

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Tom Emery @drtomemery.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

The sociology of sociologists is fascinating

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ODISSEI @odissei.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

🎧 New episode! How do you make social science research more accessible? @kturek.bsky.social tells @drtomemery.bsky.social about the Comparative Panel File, an open-source project bringing together survey data from across the world. 🌍 Listen here: odissei.transistor.fm/episodes/the...

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Tom Emery @drtomemery.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Isn’t that what an editor fundamentally does?

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Tom Emery @drtomemery.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

The worst type of review request is being called in on 2nd or 3rd round. What is the point? There are normally two or three reviewers already and the authors have responded. Surely the editor can just take a position, especially with a shallow reveiwer pool. What am I missing here?

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Suze Zijlstra @suzezij.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Fellowships! The National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam has published a call for proposals to conduct research into its maritime historical collection. More information, including the English translation of the call texts, can be found here www.hetscheepvaartmuseum.nl/collectie/on... #skystorians

Between large book cases, a researcher is conducting research in the museum collection. Photo by Almicheal Fraay

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ODISSEI @odissei.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Just one day left for Early Bird Registration for the IPDLN Conference 2026 - don’t miss the chance to secure your spot! Find more information about the conference programme and registration below 👇

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ODISSEI @odissei.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Early Bird registration for the IPDLN Conference 2026 closes March 31 — just one week left! ⏳ Join 11 workshops on linked data, trusted research environments, data governance, community engagement, and more. 🔗 Register now: edu.nl/mrnvv

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ODISSEI @odissei.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

🎧 New podcast episode: making use of ODISSEI infrastructure! @drtomemery.bsky.social talks with @kasiakarpinska.bsky.social about how ODISSEI can improve your research and make it easier 💡 ➡️ They also introduce the ODISSEI Early Career Board 🔗 Listen to the podcast episode here: edu.nl/dvdcf

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Tom Emery @drtomemery.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I’ve been working with population scale networks for a while now and there are now versions in 🇳🇱🇸🇪🇩🇰 But I want one in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 so we can validate Ellis James Cymru Connects. FWIW the average degrees of separation in the NL is about 4.5 so it’s not surprising. youtu.be/omONxHtQAyg?...

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ODISSEI @odissei.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Just over one week left to apply ⏱ Make sure to submit your proposal for MAG 2026-1 by March 26th at 15:00. Researchers at ODISSEI member organisations are eligible to apply, and we particularly encourage those in their early-career to do so. 🔗 Find out more here: edu.nl/ecpnr

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Tom Emery @drtomemery.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

The wording of this title is an interesting choice: “The Mortality Risk of Raising Grandchildren in the United States” Homicidal grandchildren everywhere journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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ODISSEI @odissei.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

ODISSEI is excited to launch the Early Career Board, an initiative to strengthen the voice and engagement of early career researchers in our community. Please welcome the members of the 2026 Board: @elenacandellone.bsky.social, Oskar Veerhoek, Goan Booij, and Tilbe Atav. Read more about them below 👇

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Tom Emery @drtomemery.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Not raw, but I’m fine with a human in the loop. An AI assisted review. Like with anything, the fact that you used AI doesn’t negate your end responsibility for the output

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Tom Emery @drtomemery.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

The same as if you upload your own paper to ChatGpt and ask if to provide a critical peer review. In all honesty, I don't mind reviewers using an LLM to help with the review (assuming that the paper itself isn't then transferred). I think editoris are oftern too passive with desk rejects

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Tom Emery @drtomemery.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

....I'm already getting some

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Tom Emery @drtomemery.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

When the funding rate is too low, increase it.

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