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UPS Florence @florenceups.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

📢 Applications are now open for the PhD Programme in Life Course Research! We offer 10 PhD scholarships in Demography & Social Statistics. 🗓️ Deadline: August 6, 2026. A great opportunity to join a stimulating research environment! 🌍

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UPS Florence @florenceups.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

🔥 New publication by @amatysiak.bsky.social & Daniele Vignoli on Population and Development Review 🔥 👉 The End of an Era: The Vanishing Negative Effect of Women's Employment on Fertility 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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UPS Florence @florenceups.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

New publication on Population Space and Place by Alessandro Gallo & Daniele Vignoli! ❓ Better Home, More Children? 👉 In #Italy, having children goes hand in hand with owning a home, especially for those who can sustain higher #housing expenses. 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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UPS Florence @florenceups.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

The Second General Meeting of the #AgeIt project is underway in wonderful Naples, where many researchers from our team are presenting their latest contributions to demographic research on population ageing! 👇👇👇 @alderotti.bsky.social @elibrini.bsky.social @karlosj89.bsky.social

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UPS Florence @florenceups.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

🔥 New publication by @marcocozzani.bsky.social, Tocchioni, Vignoli et al. in @demresjournal.bsky.social examines ART birth disparities, showing they don’t seem to stem from treatment success — at least within Italy’s public, widely subsidized system. 🔗 www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

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UPS Florence @florenceups.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Our members were also in Cologne for #ECSR2025, contributing to the programme with @aballerini.bsky.social, B. Cacciamani, @marcocozzani.bsky.social, @giuliafeltrin.bsky.social, @karlosj89.bsky.social & MF Morabito. 🙌 A very inspiring conference — looking forward to the next occasions to meet! 👋

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UPS Florence @florenceups.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Glad to have been present at the #RSS25 conference, where — among other contributions — Valentina Tocchioni presented work with Vignoli, Lazzari & @marcocozzani.bsky.social on attitudes towards assisted reproductive technology in Italy.

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UPS Florence @florenceups.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

UPS is well represented at #PopDays2025 - many of our researchers have already presented / are presenting their work over the next few days! If you’re around, come say hi - we’d love to connect!

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UPS Florence @florenceups.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Elena Pirani is at the Poster Session P08-Family demography presenting her work “Caregivers' mental health: gender and age differences” w/ Cunsolo & Tocchioni. #PAA25

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UPS Florence @florenceups.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Waiting for you to come at the next poster session (P07) to see Carlos’ poster about educational inequality in the World! @karlosj89.bsky.social @paolobrunori.bsky.social @mtriventi.bsky.social

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UPS Florence @florenceups.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Shoutout to Andrea @aballerini.bsky.social for his first #PAA2025! 👉 He’s presenting on the subjective wellbeing of single-parent families in Europe.

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UPS Florence @florenceups.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Poster session 04 at #PAA2025: there’s our poster about Climate change narratives and fertility in the UK - by Ewa Weychert, Vignoli & @amatysiak.bsky.social @labfam.bsky.social Come and say hi! 👋

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UPS Florence @florenceups.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Session 046 - Transition to adulthood: @danilobolano.bsky.social presents a contribution about psychological distress in adolescence and life course trajectories in early adulthood in the UK (w/ @sironimaria.bsky.social & Chiara Serra). #PAA2025

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UPS Florence @florenceups.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Let’s get it started at #PAA25! Elena Pirani is at the Poster Session 01 with her contribution titled “Kinship Networks, Kinlessness, and Friendship Across Different Ages: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Italian case Over Two Decades” - w/ @brunoarpino.bsky.social, Pittavino & Meli

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UPS Florence @florenceups.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

👉 Starting now: the launch event of Age-Florence, a research institute that brings together several departments of the University of Florence to conduct cutting-edge, multidisciplinary research on aging.

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UPS Florence @florenceups.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

🔎 Join the final Workshop of the UnFamiLiC project! 📅 November 25th, 9:00am-5:00pm 📍 University of Florence (Polo Didattico Morgagni, Room 203). ✅ Sign up now – free event! tinyurl.com/3prbyhkd 👉 For more information, click here: tinyurl.com/mpd2pzuj

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UPS Florence @florenceups.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

Want to know more about kinlessness in EU? 👉 New paper by Marta Pittavino, @brunoarpino.bsky.social & Elena Pirani - just accepted on the Journal of Gerontology series B, from the Age-It research project. 🔗 tinyurl.com/45dpywyb

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UPS Florence @florenceups.bsky.social · 17/07/2024

New work by Bastianelli, Guetto & Vignoli shows that even in Italy, union dissolutions show a shift from a positive to a negative educational and social class gradient, also among men! #openaccess 👇 📰 Research in Social Stratification and Mobility www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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UPS Florence @florenceups.bsky.social · 30/05/2024

First presentation of today’s FloPS workshop is by Alessandro Gallo who presents a work about housing insecurity and fertility in Italy 👇

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UPS Florence @florenceups.bsky.social · 30/05/2024

Another FloPS workshop is about to start - with a keynote speech by @lucampesando.bsky.social about family change in India. @clic.bsky.social

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UPS Florence @florenceups.bsky.social · 29/02/2024

🎉 Join us live for the Launch Event of the National Doctoral Program in 'Life Course Research'! 👉 Tune in now and follow the event here: 🔗https://unifi.it/webtv

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UPS Florence @florenceups.bsky.social · 26/01/2024

Check out this new publication by Marco Tosi and Raffaele Guetto on @familyresearch.bsky.social. 👇 They investigate the association between parental separation during childhood and later parent-child contact frequency and whether it varies according to parental gender and education.

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UPS Florence @florenceups.bsky.social · 24/01/2024

🎉 Many congratulations to Daniele Vignoli, who was awarded the 🏆European Demographer Award🏆 2023 by Population Europe at the Berlin Demography Days! Well deserved! 👏👏👏

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UPS Florence @florenceups.bsky.social · 18/01/2024

🔵 Exciting news! UPS - the Unit of Population Studies at the University of Florence is now on Bluesky! 🎉 👉 Stay up-to-date with our latest research and join this vibrant community. Spread the word and invite your fellow thinkers to connect with us!

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