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Professor Melinda Mills

@melindacmills.bsky.social
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Professor Demography & Population Health, University of Oxford & Director, Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science www.melindacmills.com

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Professor Melinda Mills @melindacmills.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Yes this is a fantastic win for @oxforddemsci.bsky.social to be joined by Jakub Bijak - a gem indeed! @leverhulme.ac.uk @reubencollege.bsky.social
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Professor Melinda Mills @melindacmills.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Great new research from our own @jasminabdelghany.bsky.social - @leverhulme.ac.uk @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social
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Professor Melinda Mills @melindacmills.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Really excited to have Bill around as our guest to help us strategise for the future! @leverhulme.ac.uk @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social
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Professor Melinda Mills @melindacmills.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
So proud of the incredible @jasminabdelghany.bsky.social & it was an honour to serve as PhD supervisor! Was sorry I was away for this important milestone but glad you are sticking around @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Can’t wait to see what this talent does next!
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Fabrizio Bernardi @fabriberna.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
The UNED inequality and social demography seminar is back, with @ramina-sotoudeh.bsky.social @l-sage.bsky.social @melindacmills.bsky.social @mariavaalavuo.bsky.social @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social @nicolettabalbo and @danieloesch If you are Madrid, come along! 👇the program for this academic year
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Professor Melinda Mills @melindacmills.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Join our first @oxforddemsci.bsky.social seminar of the term! Who said causality couldn’t be fun?
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Professor Melinda Mills @melindacmills.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Looking forward to those applications!
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Professor Melinda Mills @melindacmills.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I was already excited to have this superstar join us at Oxford & @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social but - famous award aside (congratulations of course) - I am excited that I finally have someone to talk about baseball with!l (besides @ridhikashyap.bsky.social of course!). Go @bluejays.com !
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ODISSEI @odissei.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
🚀 Ready to dive into the future of social science research? Join us on November 4 at Royal Jaarbeurs, Utrecht, for cutting-edge insights on computational social sciences. 🎤 Keynotes: @mercecrosas.bsky.social & @melindacmills.bsky.social Register and check the programme 👉 edu.nl/men7n
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Professor Melinda Mills @melindacmills.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Loved hosting @essgn.bsky.social in Oxford including @dr-appie.bsky.social & family (& the rest of the ESSGN family as well) - read the post and links below to hear about this great event
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ODISSEI @odissei.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Just 2 more weeks left to apply for the ODISSEI Conference 2025! 📣 Keynotes: @melindacmills.bsky.social and @mercecrosas.bsky.social Submit your abstracts (max 300 words) by June 27
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Professor Melinda Mills @melindacmills.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
I’m deeply honoured to have received an Honorary Doctorate from the @eui-eu.bsky.social in Florence this week 👇
Melinda Mills shaking the hand of EUI President Patricia Nanz receiving honorary doctorate
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EUI Department of Political and Social Sciences @eui-sps.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Full crowd today at the @eui-eu.bsky.social Professor @melindacmills.bsky.social of Demography at @ox.ac.uk is giving an honorary talk, which examines the systemic and institutional barriers that interdisciplinary researchers face.
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Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Oxford University @oxforddemsci.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
🚫 Fertility fallacies busted! Our Director @melindacmills.bsky.social joined @lbc.co.uk to challenge myths: 1️⃣ Young ppl aren’t choosing fewer kids 2️⃣ Pronatalist policies won’t fix it 📉 Incentives ≠ long-term fertility boost Read the full @unfpa.org report: tinyurl.com/bdd3evsr #Policy #Demography
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The fertility fallacy: Five things you didn’t know about global fertility rates
UNITED NATIONS, New York – “Do you want kids?” Every day, people around the world ask themselves, and others, this question. But it also begs another: “Do you feel able to have children
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Professor Melinda Mills @melindacmills.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Every few years these pronatalist policies re-emerge (sort of like Godzilla) & every few years I say the same thing… #demography
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Professor Melinda Mills @melindacmills.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
How does becoming a parent shape #employment in France and Germany? Andreas Filser @filsa.bsky.social @iabnews.bsky.social shares new findings using rich administrative data. 🗓 June 3 | 🕒 3–4:30pm 📍 @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Oxford Hosted by @oxforddemsci.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3d3cwu2d
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Dr Andreas Filser gives LCDS Seminar on Parenthood and employment in France and Germany – insights from administrative data
Dr Andreas Filser, researcher at the Research Data Centre of the Institute for Employment Research (FDZ-IAB), will give a talk on Parenthood and employment in France and Germany – insights from admini...
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Professor Melinda Mills @melindacmills.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Congratulations to our @oxforddemsci.bsky.social superstar ⭐️ @polizzan.bsky.social on completion of his PhD! Great thread below about his research with @drjenndowd.bsky.social @andreatilstra.bsky.social & more… @leverhulme.ac.uk @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social
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Professor Melinda Mills @melindacmills.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Congratulations @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social on your impressive PhD & supervisor @fabriberna.bsky.social (don’t worry - he didn’t wear the football shirt during the defense 😆) Sorry I couldn’t join in person!
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Professor Melinda Mills @melindacmills.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Looking forward to this upcoming talk @oxforddemsci.bsky.social Electronic Health Records for 20% of the Catalan population studying multimorbidity & mortality #Demography #Morbidity #HealthInequality #EHR #ElectronicHealthRecords #DigitalHealth
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Professor Melinda Mills @melindacmills.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Still time to apply for this position & looking for creative talent to join us in Oxford! Learn more about our programme here: www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/digital-pand... And our @oxforddemsci.bsky.social #interdisciplinary #demography centre & other #jobs here: www.demography.ox.ac.uk
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Digital Pandemic Preparedness
This programme will develop a blueprint for digital health systems that can be deployed during pandemics, create a funding model for implementation, and…
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Professor Melinda Mills @melindacmills.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
🚨 Postdoc Digital Pandemic Preparedness 📍 Oxford @oxforddemsci.bsky.social 💼 £38.6K–£46.9K | 3 yrs 📅 Deadline: 16 May 2025 Use digital, real-world data to future-proof pandemic response. 🔗 Apply: tinyurl.com/ydvfanap 📣 Boost or tag! 1/2 #Postdoc #DigitalHealth #AcademicJobs #NowHiring
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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 05/05/2025
"Science is an investment. We will put forward a new 500 million package for 2025-2027 to support the best and the brightest researchers and scientists from Europe and around the world." — President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu at the ‘Choose Europe for Science' event at La Sorbonne 🇫🇷
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Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Oxford University @oxforddemsci.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Great kick off today at #PAA2025 Come & visit our booth in Salon 1 Pick up some info on the 5 #jobs we are advertising - join us in Oxford!! Get an #InDataWeTrust button or tattoo (and no we don’t have an in person tattoo artist…it is temporary!)
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Professor Melinda Mills @melindacmills.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
REPOST #jobs @oxforddemsci.bsky.social 👨‍💻Senior Research Fellow Associate/Professor 👩‍💻Senior Researcher Geospatial Health 📲Postdoc Digital Pandemic Preparedness 👶Postdoc Reproductive Demography 🤖 Programmer AI See: www.demography.ox.ac.uk/jobs #Demography #Epidemiology #Health #Population
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Professor Melinda Mills @melindacmills.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Had great time on #BBCRadio4 #FreeThinking @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social Discussed our @naturehumbehav.bsky.social SES articles w/ TV Writer @lisaholdsworth.bsky.social sky.social French Londoner @murielzagha.bsky.social @samfriedman.bsky.social Lord David Willets 👉 tinyurl.com/ybr6tjzw
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BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, The Middle Classes
Muriel Zagha, Prof Sam Friedman, Lord Willetts, Lisa Holdsworth and Prof Melinda Mills.
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Professor Melinda Mills @melindacmills.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Check out the Comicbook🦸‍♀️version of our new @naturehumbehav.bsky.social article on genetic & environmental influences Awesome artwork by @lizahaart.bsky.social Full comic here: communities.springernature.com/posts/are-we... Loving the cartoon version of @dr-appie.bsky.social
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Are we born to succeed or are we made to succeed?
Genes and society shape each other. This comic, based on our Nature Human Behaviour article, shows how social inequality leaves genetic traces — and how social structures and genetics are linked acros...
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Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Oxford University @oxforddemsci.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Big news! We have two new #demography vacancies open and three others on the way, stay tuned buff.ly/Bi7dyix 😎 @leverhulme.bsky.social @oxpop.bsky.social @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social @reubencollege.bsky.social @melindacmills.bsky.social
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Work with us
Find out more about our new Senior Research Fellow Demographic Science and Senior Researcher in Geospatial Health and Digital Pandemic Preparedness roles.
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Professor Melinda Mills @melindacmills.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
This is interesting to read - 15 years ago I wrote a textbook using R for survival & event history analysis Many warned me not to focus on R, that it was a passing hype, that I would regret it. R is a great example of #OpenScience Good I didn’t listen (as usual 😆) uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/in...
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Introducing Survival and Event History Analysis
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Vegard Skirbekk @vegardskirbekk.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Open Postdoctoral position! - ERC Advanced Grant project HOMME www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/276000/postdoctoral-fellow About the HOMME project www.sv.uio.no/psi/english/research/projects/homme
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Postdoctoral Fellow (276000) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow (276000), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Friday, April 25, 2025
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Professor Melinda Mills @melindacmills.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
🎉Congratulations to @mortenkthomsen.bsky.social who successfully defended his Phd 📖 & thanks to @drcompton.bsky.social Important #demography work using register, survey & medical records to study the lives of sexual & gender minorities. @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @sociologyoxford.bsky.social
Morten in formal Oxford examination academic dress, looking pensive, contemplating his next career move now that he has his Phd, surrounded by majestic columns in Oxford
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Professor Melinda Mills @melindacmills.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Me again. I just posted 2 new senior jobs @oxforddemsci.bsky.social 📻Stay tuned - we will post 3 more new jobs in the next days, some junior While you are waiting, learn more about #demography at Oxford: www.demography.ox.ac.uk Or watch our fancy 5 year anniversary video: tinyurl.com/5d3s3yku
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Homepage | Leverhulme Centre For Demographic Science, Oxford
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Professor Melinda Mills @melindacmills.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Come to Oxford! 🪄 Hiring now: Senior Researcher in Geospatial Health and Digital Pandemic Preparedness More info: tinyurl.com/maf6db7h @oxforddemsci.bsky.social #demography www.demography.ox.ac.uk Linked with: mapineq.eu/inequality-d... And : tinyurl.com/ks4u84z **REPOST WIDELY PLEASE* DM if❓
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Professor Melinda Mills @melindacmills.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
WE ARE HIRING!! Senior Research Fellow Demographic Science (Associate/Full Professor) @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @reubencollege.bsky.social See: lnkd.in/e_Gw84JN #demography in Oxford: www.demography.ox.ac.uk Our recent celebration: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIu4... DM or reach out *PLEASE RE-POST*
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Professor Melinda Mills @melindacmills.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Nice thread from lead author @dr-appie.bsky.social about our paper out today on the complicated topic of socioeconomic status and genetics @naturehumbehav.bsky.social @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @leverhulme.bsky.social
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Professor Melinda Mills @melindacmills.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Happy #DemographyDay ! I am honoured to direct Oxford’s unapologetically interdisciplinary @oxforddemsci.bsky.social & work with all of our amazing colleagues & national and international partners!
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Professor Melinda Mills @melindacmills.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Great new publication from our MAPIneq project!
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Professor Melinda Mills @melindacmills.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Just saw this news from over here in Europe - sending strength to our world leading US scientists, collaborators & groundbreaking data collection efforts www.science.org/content/arti...
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Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring
Researchers facing “a lot of uncertainty, fear, and panic”
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Jason Fletcher @jasonmfletcher.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
**Call for Papers** The Advances in Social Genomics Conference Series (TAGC) May 14-16, 2025 UW-Madison @uwmadison.bsky.social Deadline for submissions: March 7, 2025 Funding available for presenters Keynotes: Kelly Bakulski and Dan Belsky isg.wisc.edu/events/the-a...
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The Advances in Social Genomics Conference
Social genomics researchers from across the world convene at the University of Wisconsin–Madison each year to discuss advances in the field.
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Professor Melinda Mills @melindacmills.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
It was an honour to open as keynote to celebrate the NEW UZH Population Research Center in Zurich! There are many affinities with our @oxforddemsci.bsky.social I warmly welcome the link of demography, medical sciences, epidemiology, psychology, geography, economics & 🔗 with business, government.
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The Institute for Fiscal Studies @theifs.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
PODCAST: How big are the UK's demographic challenges? With birth rates at record lows @pjtheeconomist.bsky.social, @melindacmills.bsky.social and Carl Emmerson discuss the implications for the UK and how it might impact the public finances. 🎧 Listen here: buff.ly/3YD8S1P
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Professor Melinda Mills @melindacmills.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
We examined the complex interplay of genetics, family environment, health and intergenerational transmission of occupational status @naturehumbehav.bsky.social Article 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... FAQs unpacking study 👉 tinyurl.com/yckamr7x Graphical summary below 👇
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Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Oxford University @oxforddemsci.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
📝 Our new @pnasnexus.org study has found significant effects of the #COVID-19 pandemic on many causes of death across 24 countries buff.ly/4iI51tF @polizzan.bsky.social @drjenndowd.bsky.social @aashishg.bsky.social @leverhulme.bsky.social @oxpop.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @lshtm.bsky.social
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New study reveals the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on other causes of death
An international study involving researchers at the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science has found significant effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on many causes of death across 24 countries.
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Professor Melinda Mills @melindacmills.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Great opportunity to work with @crahal.com on his frontier informatics ideas & join @oxforddemsci.bsky.social
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Professor Melinda Mills @melindacmills.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Want to know EVERYTHING about the #genetics of female and male reproduction? Our @natureportfolio.bsky.social study provides a review #️⃣ 159 genetic studies & 37 key genes Also links with: 🥗 (FSHB, testosterone) ⏰ longevity 🧬 cancer & obesity risks 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 generations www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Genetics of female and male reproductive traits and their relationship with health, longevity and consequences for offspring - Nature Aging
Benonisdottir et al. review the genetics of reproductive traits and examine how these associate with links to health, behavior, aging and longevity as well as outcomes for offspring.
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Professor Melinda Mills @melindacmills.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Amazing work on the longevity benefits of homeownership by our own talented @caseybreen.bsky.social @oxforddemsci.bsky.social
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Professor Melinda Mills @melindacmills.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
An ENTIRE podcast on collider bias 🤓🎉 - love it! Here is our take for gene x evironment studies! Can’t wait to listen! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Gene-environment dependencies lead to collider bias in models with polygenic scores - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Gene-environment dependencies lead to collider bias in models with polygenic scores
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Professor Melinda Mills @melindacmills.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
South Korea has a Total Fertility Rate of 0.72 & ageing population I give a Keynote Tomorrow in Seoul on data, alternative approaches #lowfertility #demography Global Symposium: Policy Responses to Low Fertility & #Ageing registration 👉 lnkd.in/dy3SNE5q more info: 👉https://lnkd.in/di9CzZaZ
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Charlie Rahal @crahal.com · 22/11/2024
🚨Two Exciting DPhil\PhD Opportunities to join us at @oxforddemsci.bsky.social in Fall 2025!🚨 1️⃣ ABM project with 'Big Data' & LLMs (HDS CDT):👉 shorturl.at/wcMQo 2️⃣ Scientometrics project (DPhil PopHealth):👉 shorturl.at/qwsor 🕒⏳Deadline: ~10 days! Feel free to DM me w\ any Qs. Please share widely! 🙌
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Professor Melinda Mills @melindacmills.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Has been a fascinating 2 days discussing delayed fertility. I had the opportunity to present work on biological, genetic & medical factors related to postponement. And these amazing Vienna VID, ÖAW surroundings! Glad the focus was on the ceiling (and not me, haha) @oxforddemsci.bsky.social
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Professor Melinda Mills @melindacmills.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Great presentation on the educational gradient & fertility timing in Spain from our MapIneq project by @mvaldes1989.bsky.social @cristinasuero.bsky.social @fabriberna.bsky.social at VID Vienna
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