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Ian Timaeus

@iantimaeus.bsky.social
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Confused squirrel; some-time professor of demography; LSHTM; methods, fertility, Africa; likes being outdoors, the Isle of Purbeck, sailing, family history, cricket, birds. 🇪🇺 🌹🍉

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LSHTM Alumni @lshtmalumni.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
What if Ale could reduce the inequalities in healthcare access? Alejandra Parra (MSc Demography & Health, 2025) reflects on her @lshtm.bsky.social journey, her passion for demography, and her next steps towards a funded PhD. Read more: www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/studen...
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Excellent review essay of three books on demography - After the Spike and No One Left, which promote “underpopulation” panic; and Toxic Demography, which describes the political mobilisation of demography represented in the first two books doi.org/10.1111/padr...
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Ian Timaeus @iantimaeus.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Useful resource for anyone who would like to learn about demographic methods using interactive materials rather than a traditional textbook: www.linkedin.com/pulse/open-a... We put a lot of work into these modules a few years ago, so thank you LSHTM for taking on hosting them.
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Open access training materials in Demographic Methods and Population Analysis
The Population Studies Group at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, U. of London published a self-study course Introduction to Demographic Methods and Population Analysis for students ...
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Ian Timaeus @iantimaeus.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
These are the first global urbanization statistics since the UN Population Division stopped revising them biennially in 1918. The estimates have changed a lot! They suggest that 81% of the world’s population now live in towns and cities, compared to the 2018 estimate of just 55%. What is going on?
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Population Studies Group, LSHTM @psglshtm.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Tomorrow @farid-flici.bsky.social will talk about population ageing and social security sustainability in Algeria. Join us! 👇
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Ian Timaeus @iantimaeus.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
There's lots for all demographers (OK, a few of you probably know it all already) to ponder on in this paper. #demography
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IPUMS @ipums.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Users of the Demographic and Health Surveys, please take the United Nations Statistics Division DHS impact survey (form.jotform.com/250913880478...) regarding recent cuts. Replies inform future planning and advocacy. All responses are confidential and presented only in aggregate.
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Questionnaire on the use of the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) data
Please click the link to complete this form.
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Bruno Masquelier @brunomasquelier.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Our study estimates excess deaths in children and parental loss due to the war in Gaza in 2023. From Oct 8 to Dec 31, 2023, 8120 children <18 were killed due to the conflict, 15127 children lost a father, and 9886 children lost a mother -in 3 months pophealthmetrics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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A demographic assessment of the impact of the war in the Gaza Strip on the mortality of children and their parents in 2023 - Population Health Metrics
Background Following Hamas’s 7 October attack, Israel launched extensive aerial bombardments in the Gaza Strip, followed by a large-scale ground invasion. During the first 3 months of the conflict, up...
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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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Ian Timaeus @iantimaeus.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
The Population Studies Group at LSHTM now has a Bluesky account! Feel free to follow us at Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/psgl... #demography #population #populationstudies #lshtm
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Ian Timaeus @iantimaeus.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
After years of low-level hostilities and border incidents, war has broken out inside my phone as to whether Adobe or Microsoft get to display pdfs. My efforts at peace-keeping have been about as much use as those of the UN Security Council. Is this somehow to do with Trump?
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Ian Timaeus @iantimaeus.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I feel a new handle coming on!
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 05/12/2024
"looking at the broader picture of Israel’s military campaign and the cumulative impact of its policies and acts, genocidal intent is the only reasonable conclusion." www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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Amnesty International concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza
Amnesty International’s research has found sufficient basis to conclude that Israel has committed and is continuing to commit genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip.
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Steffi Doebler @sdoebler.bsky.social · 01/10/2024
Quirky & cool! The (satirical) Ig Nobel was awarded for the first time to a demographer, Saul Justin Newman (UCL), for his study which debunked the media myth of extreme-old-age blue zones, revealing fundamental errors in the underlying data, i.e. clerical errors & signs of possible pension fraud.
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UCL demographer’s work debunking ‘Blue Zone’ regions of exceptional lifespans wins Ig Nobel prize
A study by Dr Saul Justin Newman (Centre for Longitudinal Studies) has won the first-ever Ig Nobel award in Demography at this year’s 34th Ig Nobel Prizes. His work reveals fundamental flaws in the da...
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Ian Timaeus @iantimaeus.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
New paper on estimating recent adult mortality from summary sibling histories with Bruno Masquelier, Ashira Menashe-Oren and Georges Reniers. doi.org/10.1186/s129... I'm delighted to be helping to develop this method further 23 years after my first paper on the subject.
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A new method for estimating recent adult mortality from summary sibling histories - Population Health Metrics
Background In low- and middle-income countries with limited death registration statistics, adult mortality rates are commonly estimated through sibling survival histories (SSH). In full SSH, responden...
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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
Welcome to new Bluesky users. Here’s how we do things: 1. Always observe the Hambledon Protocol 2. No flisking 3. If someone tealights you, rink them without apology 4. I don’t mind them so much, but tissue-posts are generally frowned on 5. No questions Good luck!
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 07/08/2024
Another great Campop blogpost: “Looking backwards in time can give the impression that family sizes in the past were larger than they actually were” www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2024/08...
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The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, CambridgeWhat a big family you have, Grandma! « Top of the Campops: 60 things you didn't know about family, marriage, work, and...
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 15/08/2024
LSHTM is making some of its MSc level demography courses available as stand alone modules - on demographic methods & population studies. I am obviously biased but they’re great modules for those who want training in demography without signing up for a degree 😊 www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/course...
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Intensive modules | LSHTM
Individual intensive modules are a great way to expand your knowledge and gain new skills whilst not requiring the same time commitment as a full master's programme.Our modules focus on a range of spe...
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 03/06/2024
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Max Roser @maxroser.bsky.social · 29/04/2024
The reduction of child mortality is one of the big achievements of our time. But it is hard to celebrate something that is *not* happening. So, for my new article, I turned things around. This is the main chart and takeaway. Here is the article: ourworldindata.org/children-sav...
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Ian Timaeus @iantimaeus.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
Pwned!
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Ian Timaeus @iantimaeus.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
Did England and Wales conduct their last census in 2011? #demography
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Out for the count: has Britain already conducted its last census?
Academics express unease over government ambition to replace once-a-decade snapshot with ‘other sources of data’
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Ian Timaeus @iantimaeus.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
This post needs a #demography tag.
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Ian Timaeus @iantimaeus.bsky.social · 29/10/2023
There's a nice demography clue in the Everyman crossword (in the Observer/Guardian) today: It's enumerated poorly? (13)
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