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Toronto Population Network @tpn-uoft.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🚨 We're Back! 🚨 Tomorrow, join us for Anna Zajacova from @westernu.ca presentation titled: Chronic Pain as a Demographic Phenomenon In person at the @uoftsociology.bsky.social or by zoom: utoronto.zoom.us/j/83915377595 Looking forward to another year of excellent presentations!

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Robin Ryder @robinryder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Conference: Bayesian Methods for the Social Sciences III, Dublin, 9-11 December 2026. Join us! bayesforshs3.sciencesconf.org

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Bayesian Methods for the Social Sciences III - Sciencesconf.org

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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

New paper out with @monjalexander.bsky.social and @rohanalexander.bsky.social using Kitagawa decomposition to examine the rate and composition components of the non-Hispanic Black/white racial disparity in US infant mortality, 2003-2024 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Decomposition of Black and White Infant Mortality Rates

This cross-sectional study uses 22 years of mortality data to quantify gestational age distribution and mortality rates in infants born to Black mothers compared with infants born to White mothers.

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Demography - the flagship journal of PAA @readdemography.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

“MSE Workflow for Mortality Analysis”: @thegargiulian.bsky.social presents a workflow for “estimating conflict mortality using multiple heterogeneous & statistically biased lists of victims” & applies it to the 1985-2018 conflict in Colombia. @psglshtm.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Individual-Level Mortality Predictions: Statistical Models vs. Machine Learning Study examined whether ML could improve individual-level lifespan predictions. www.demogr.mpg.de/go/ML-SM-LS Monica Alexander | Ugofilippo Basellini | Emilio Zagheni | Demography - the flagship journal of PAA

A green female figure next to an hourglass symbolizes individual mortality predictions using statistical models and machine learning.

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Laura K. Nelson @lauraknelson.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I'm really vibing with this collection of essays on the Future of Quantitative Social Science. It flat out has me buzzing. As Kevin Munger says in Chapter 14: "But AI will soon make it impossible for us to ignore the absurdity of the status quo..." rohanalexander.github.io/notes_on_the...

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Notes on the Future of Quantitative Social Science

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Leontine Alkema @leontinealkema.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

At PAA, @monjalexander.bsky.social and I taught a workshop on Applied Bayesian Modeling in Demography and Global Health. If anyone’s interested, all materials are here github.com/AlkemaLab/ba...

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GitHub - AlkemaLab/bayesgoespaa2026

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Monica Alexander @monjalexander.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Lots of cool work from our group and friends being presented at #PAA2026, come say hi!

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Monica Alexander @monjalexander.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

If you will be at #PAA2026 and would like a Formal Demography Working Group sticker, come and find me or @polizzan.bsky.social!

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Toronto Population Network @tpn-uoft.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Join us next week for the final POP Speaker Series talk of the season featuring @jnobles.bsky.social ! She’ll present research on how wildfire exposure shapes prenatal scarring and selection. In person or on Zoom: utoronto.zoom.us/j/81954963223

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Monica Alexander @monjalexander.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

The Formal Demography Working Group is meeting tomorrow, April 23, at 11am ET (8am PT, 5pm CET)! Nik van der Wagt (UC Berkeley) will present work on "Population Momentum from Replacement Migration." Sign up for Zoom Link! formaldemography.github.io/working_group/

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Toronto Population Network @tpn-uoft.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Join us tomorrow for the next POP Speaker Series event: our Student Symposium! Five U of T PhD students will be sharing their latest research and works in progress, come see what’s next in population research. In person or by zoom: utoronto.zoom.us/j/83352385599 utoronto.zoom.us/j/83352385599

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Rohan Alexander @rohanalexander.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Please join us in Toronto on the 29th!

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Toronto Population Network @tpn-uoft.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Yesterday we had the chance to host Zhenchao Qian and hear about his fascinating research on interethnic and interracial marriage among Asian Americans. Thank you Professor Qian for an engaging talk as part of our POP Speaker Series! Join us April 21 for our next installment!

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Monica Alexander @monjalexander.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Many years ago I made a (very rough) 'D is for Demography' children's alphabet book: github.com/MJAlexander/... Now the awesome @zehang-richard-li.bsky.social has made a fabulous 'B is for Bayesian' book: github.com/richardli/b_... Check it out! Gotta indoctrinate the kids early!!

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Toronto Population Network @tpn-uoft.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

🚨 Program Change 🚨 We’re excited to welcome Zhenchao Qian (Brown University) for our next POP Speaker Series talk on April 7th. Mark your calendars! He will be discussing Interethnic and Interracial Marriage in Asian Americans In person or by zoom: utoronto.zoom.us/j/89252071524

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Inessa De Angelis @inessadeangelis.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

New article w/ Lindsay Katz & @rohanalexander.bsky.social in @ausjpolsci.bsky.social! Analyzing Australian House of Reps debates, we find that as women’s representation increases, interruptions of women MPs & interruptions overall decline Read more: doi.org/10.1080/1036... #polsky #gendersky

Screenshot of a journal article published at the Australian Journal of Political Science titled "Do women politicians face more interruptions? An analysis of interjections in the Australian parliamentary debates (1998-
2025)." Authored by Lindsay Katz, Inessa De Angelis, and Rohan Alexander.

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Wen Su @wensu221.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Paper led by colleagues from Australian National University is out now in JAMANetworkOpen. We used novel mortality measure to quantify how female reproductive cancers affect female survival advantages over male across ages and cohorts among high-income countries. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam....

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Female Reproductive Cancers and the Sex Gap in Survival

This cohort study quantifies differences in survival over time between males and females and examines how female reproductive cancers are associated with these differences.

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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

We're recruiting a new cohort of postdocs focusing on health disparities research for our NIH-funded T32. pophealth.wisc.edu/health-dispa... Interested candidates should feel free to reach out!

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Health Disparities Research Scholars

OUR VISION The goal of the HDRS Postdoctoral Fellowship Training Program is to foster training opportunities for the next generation of investigators within health disparities research, with a focus o...

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Toronto Population Network @tpn-uoft.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Yesterday we heard from Orsola Torrisi on the consequences of violent crime on sexual and reproductive health outcomes as part of our POP speaker series! We thank Orsola for the excellent talk and attendees for the great discussion! Join us April 7 for our next talk with @mdhayward.bsky.social!

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Monica Alexander @monjalexander.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

My favorite line in a piece full of good lines

Quote from Leslie roots piece about pronatalism talking about how unserious some projections are.

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Last week, I mentioned this in passing in a workshop: In 1938 Enrico Fermi won a Nobel Prize for discovering two new elements of the periodic table. Lise Meitner shortly showed that Fermi was mistaken and instead had produced known lighter elements by fission. She did not win a Nobel prize.

Portrait of Lise Meitner taken in 1928. She is smoking a cigarette and looking impatient to get back to her experiments.

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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Weaponizing Kinship: Four out of ten Colombians have lost a family member in the conflict 🇨🇴 Enrique Acosta, Diego Alburez, Maria Gargiulo, & Catalina Torres quantified how many Colombians have ever lost at least a family member to conflict-related violence. www.demogr.mpg.de/go/weaponkinship

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Monica Alexander @monjalexander.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Really excited about this one! Find the Zoom link via the QR code below if you'd like to join us remotely.

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Toronto Population Network @tpn-uoft.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Very excited to share that our speaker series featuring Orsola Torrisi next week will be a hybrid event! Scan the QR code to join! Come March 10th at 11 am EST for Orsola's talk on The Consequences of Violent Crime on Sexual and Reproductive Health Outcomes. Link : utoronto.zoom.us/j/86168036725

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Rohan Alexander @rohanalexander.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Two recent pre-prints: 1) "Same Prompt, Different Outcomes: Evaluating the Reproducibility of Data Analysis by LLMs" with Jiaxin (Allyson) Cui, arxiv.org/abs/2602.14349 2) "Benchmarking AI Performance on End-to-End Data Science Projects" with Evelyn Hughes, arxiv.org/abs/2602.14284 Comments welcome.

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Monica Alexander @monjalexander.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

This was so great! Fabulous set of speakers

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Monica Alexander @monjalexander.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Next Tuesday 24 Feb the Toronto Population Network @tpn-uoft.bsky.social is hosting flash talks featuring population researchers from around the UofT campus! Please come along if you're in Toronto or join online!

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Toronto Population Network @tpn-uoft.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Looking forward to having @kazumi-t.bsky.social at the upcoming UofT Flash Session! Join us on on February 24 for our next event in the TPN speaker series! Find out interesting research insights from several excellent speakers from across the University of Toronto.

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Toronto Population Network @tpn-uoft.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Continuing with our speakers for the upcoming UofT flash session we are happy to announce Melissa Milkie! Join us on on February 24 for our next event in the TPN speaker series! Find out interesting research insights from several excellent speakers from across the University of Toronto.

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Dana M. Johnson @danamartha.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Fellow #demographers - coming to #PAA2026 ? 🤓 💫 Please save the date for the Feminist Demography Pre-Conference Workshop! Wednesday 5/6/2026 9-5pm CST in-person at PAA! Flash talks! A moderated panel discussion! And a social hour to connect with fellow feminist demography colleagues!

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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

📢Job Offer‼️New Max Planck Research Group on Medical Demography Marcus Ebeling will lead the team starting on 1 July 2026. The research group will be based at the MPIDR in Rostock. Read an interview with Marcus on his future research here: www.demogr.mpg.de/go/rgmd (including link to job) #postdoc

Job opening for postdoctoral researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic-Epidemiology.

The Medical Demography research group explains its goals for studying disease progression and its effects on health and the population.

We are looking for a PhD in demography, sociology, epidemiology, or related fields with experience in quantitative health data analysis.

Apply now: The application deadline is March 22, 2026. For more information, visit www.demogr.mpg.de/go/jobs.

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Toronto Population Network @tpn-uoft.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Come and join us for our next event in the TPN speaker series! On February 24 we'll be hosting a multi-disciplinary UofT flash session with several excellent speakers from across the university. Here is a first look at one of our presenters Shari Eli!

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Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Big congratulations to Rohan Alexander & Tim Hatton for their article ‘The making of a nation: Who voted for Australian federation?' which has won the 2025 Sir Timothy Coghlan award for best paper in the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review!

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The making of a nation: Who voted for Australian federation?

Between 1898 and 1900, six British colonies held referendums on whether or not to join together as states in a federal Australia. We focus on New South Wales, which was pivotal to the affirmative res...

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Monica Alexander @monjalexander.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

This was a very cool talk, Chiara gave a great overview of bivariate health-death distributions. The recording is here for those interested: www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0Jl...

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Formal Demography Working Group meeting 13

YouTube video by Formal Demography

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Monica Alexander @monjalexander.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

The Formal Demography Working Group is happening today at 10am ET!

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Monica Alexander @monjalexander.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

The Formal Demography Working Group is meeting next Thursday 5 Feb at 10am ET (4pm CET)! Chiara Micheletti will present work on CVD incidence and survival inequalities in Finland. Sign up for Zoom Link! formaldemography.github.io/working_group/

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Toronto Population Network @tpn-uoft.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Yesterday was the official kick off of the Toronto Population Network speaker series. We want to thank @lucampesando.bsky.social for the excellent presentation on the Dynamics of School Expansion and Inter-Caste Marriage in India. Come join us Feb 24th for the second event in the series!

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Monica Alexander @monjalexander.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The first @tpn-uoft.bsky.social pop seminar is tomorrow! If you're in Toronto come along and see @lucampesando.bsky.social ! 11am in Sociology dept (level 17, 700 University Ave).

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Monica Alexander @monjalexander.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

The Toronto Population Network @tpn-uoft.bsky.social Seminar Series is happening this semester, with a great line-up, including @lucampesando.bsky.social, Orsola Torrisi, @mdhayward.bsky.social, and @jnobles.bsky.social! Starts next Tuesday. If you're in Toronto please come along!

Poster showing speakers for the TPN seminar series

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Monica Alexander @monjalexander.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

This semester I'm teaching demographic methods to sociology grad students and having a whale of a time. Here are the materials if people are interested (will be updated throughout the semester): github.com/MJAlexander/...

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GitHub - MJAlexander/soc6708

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Monica Alexander @monjalexander.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Call for papers: joint conference of the Canadian Population Society and the Association des démographes du Québec; to be held in Ottawa on May 25-28: event.fourwaves.com/cps-adq-2026...

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CPS-ADQ 2026 Joint Meeting

Join CPS-ADQ 2026 Joint Meeting, May 25-28, 2026. Learn more on Fourwaves.

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Tiffany Timbers @tiffanytimbers.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Ana Elisa Lopez, @rohanalexander.bsky.social and my paper, "Prompting the Professoriate: A Qualitative Study of Instructor Perspectives on LLMs in Data Science Education" is now available (the "Just Accepted" version) from Harvard Data Science Review: hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/xv4hxs7u...

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Prompting the Professoriate: A Qualitative Study of Instructor Perspectives on LLMs in Data Science Education

Forthcoming. Now Available: Just Accepted Version.

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