Reposted by Philippe BocquierDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 1hHarvard researchers studied 718 companies and found AI coding agents increased lines of code by 30%, but no major increase in completed tasks or projects. Meanwhile, review time rose 49%. Generating code faster hasn’t translated into completing more work. The bottleneck has moved to code reviews. 99135
Reposted by Philippe BocquierDEMO LLN 🇧🇪 @demographielln.bsky.social · 6h📢New #LunchSeminar next week! Yannick Van den Abbeel from the Federal Planning Bureau, will present a new approach to forecasting Belgian #mortality up to 2080. Join us next week to find out more! 📆 13/10 at 1 pm 🖥️ Join online: us02web.zoom.us/j/87199604242 See you there! 😊 021
Reposted by Philippe BocquierSimon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Relive the last 1.8 billion years of our planet in just 60 seconds. Try to see how much your country moved around over time. Source: buff.ly/mPpFhoX 07117
Philippe Bocquier @phbocquier.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Halzen's alma mater, @uclouvain.bsky.social, is very proud! 👏 000
Reposted by Philippe BocquierKaren Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I look at this graph, and I see the benefits of worldwide public health efforts and investments. It's hard not to wonder what this figure will look like in 10 years because of DOGE. 1155
Reposted by Philippe BocquierIUSSP @iussp.bsky.social · 05/10/2026IUSSP-PAA Webinars on AI & Demography - Part 1 on OCT 16 with Ridhi Kashyap, Emilio Zagheni, Andrew Tatem, Matthew Hauer / Part 2 on OCT 22 with Evans Omondi, Isaac Maddow-Zimet,Tyler McCormick, Madeleine Short Fabic. Moderation V. Adjiwanou iussp.org/en/iussp-paa... #demography #populationstudies 0126
Reposted by Philippe BocquierOur World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 05/10/2026📝 New article on Our World in Data: What impact will climate change have on malaria? Malaria is a very temperature- and rainfall-sensitive disease. This means it’s one whose distribution and severity could change a lot in a warming climate. 1409
Philippe Bocquier @phbocquier.bsky.social · 05/10/2026A VOIR ABSOLUMENT : Le film tiré du livre d'Emmanuelle Bernheim, disponible sur @artefr.bsky.social, sur la fin de vie et le suicide assisté. Film très fort, André Dussolier y est incroyable, et Sophie Marceau remarquable. Je vous conseille ! www.arte.tv/fr/videos/12...arte.tvTout s'est bien passé - Regarder le film complet | ARTEDiminué après un AVC, un octogénaire demande à sa fille aînée de l'aider à mourir. Avec Sophie Marceau, tout en retenue, François Ozon adapte le poignant récit autobiographique de l'écrivaine Emmanuèl... 000
Reposted by Philippe BocquierOur World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 02/10/2026The world faces two energy problems: hundreds of millions lack access to energy, and most of our energy still produces greenhouse gas emissions. The first energy problem of the world is the problem of energy poverty. People in very poor countries have very low emissions. 25723
Reposted by Philippe BocquierRebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“Unia, Belgium’s independent centre for equal opportunities, plans to file a complaint against Nathan Cofnas, a US researcher at Ghent University, over remarks it believes repeatedly breached the country’s anti-racism law” www.brusselstimes.com/2341250/unia...brusselstimes.comUnia to take 'race realist' researcher Nathan Cofnas to courtUnia said the US philosopher was spreading ideas in Belgium that rank people in a hierarchy on the basis of supposed scientific knowledge. 1248
Reposted by Philippe BocquierDEMO LLN 🇧🇪 @demographielln.bsky.social · 30/09/2026📢 The #LunchSeminar programme for this semester is here! We’re excited to announce a new series of presentations covering a wide range of topics in #demography and population studies. 🖥️ All seminars can be followed online: us02web.zoom.us/j/87199604242 011
Reposted by Philippe BocquierDEMO LLN 🇧🇪 @demographielln.bsky.social · 29/09/2026#LunchSeminar is back! Kicking off with @giacomolanfiuti.bsky.social who will explore the limits of life expectancy. 🗣️ “Even if life expectancy may be slowly approaching a limit, the limits of longevity continue to be strongly broken.” Intrigued? Join us: 📆 06/10 at 1pm 🖥 Zoom: lnkd.in/gnaNuxZB 032
Philippe Bocquier @phbocquier.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Even keeping the same % foreign-born, this map is more reliable: ourworldindata.org/grapher/migr...ourworldindata.orgShare of the population born in another countryAn interactive visualization from Our World in Data. 000
Philippe Bocquier @phbocquier.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This map is very misleading, there are a lot more south-south migration: ourworldindata.org/explorers/po...ourworldindata.orgPopulation & Demography Data ExplorerExplore data from the United Nations World Population Prospects. 000
Reposted by Philippe BocquierAlexis Litvine @alexislitvine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026❗Big update on our French GIS data ❗All historical railways, stations, rivers, canals, all administrative units and population back to 1790s now available on Zenodo. 10.5281/zenodo.3727273. Check out the data papers (more to come soon) here: www.repository.cam.ac.uk/collections/...repository.cam.ac.ukCambridge Data Papers in Economic and Social History 31910
Philippe Bocquier @phbocquier.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Venez visiter #Dinant, très chouette petite ville, et son Jazz Festival ! #Belgium 000
Philippe Bocquier @phbocquier.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Cela rappelle furieusement le cas de Jason Arday au Royaume Uni. 010
Philippe Bocquier @phbocquier.bsky.social · 26/09/2026*I laughed at the automated correction, "cagnotte" = cannot 🤣 000
Philippe Bocquier @phbocquier.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I cagnotte read the source, do you have a better quality picture? 110
Reposted by Philippe BocquierSimon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This map shows the "Francosphere". What share of the population is capable of holding a conversation in French? 3387
Reposted by Philippe BocquierHoward French @hofrench.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Exciting book news today. The Second Emancipation is now out in paperback, and I've just learned that its predecessor, Born in Blackness, is coming out in another translated edition in November, this time Mandarin Chinese. 0324
Philippe Bocquier @phbocquier.bsky.social · 24/09/2026youtu.be/97ONfMIa5Xkyoutu.beScreencast SoSAD effectsYouTube video by Philippe Bocquier 021
Reposted by Philippe BocquierSimon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Whatever you got used to while growing up I guess... 105320
Reposted by Philippe BocquierNuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 21/09/2026How political events become demographic: Toward a cumulative demography of conflict and violence doi.org/10.1111/padr... Paper in Population & Development Review by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow Mathis Ebbinghaus, Nuffield Alumna Liliana Andriano and Patrick Heuveline 111
Reposted by Philippe BocquierDEMO LLN 🇧🇪 @demographielln.bsky.social · 21/09/2026📢NEW article in Quetelet Journal by Ignacio Pardo & Gonzalo De Armas, nominees for the DemogCrazy Award! The demographic decline of the werwolves! doi.org/10.14428/rqj... 022
Reposted by Philippe BocquierDEMO LLN 🇧🇪 @demographielln.bsky.social · 19/09/2026📢NEW Article in Quetelet Journal by Mélanie Bourguignon, winner of the DemogCrazy Award! “Mariés au premier regard” ou comment le mariage permet d’échapper à ses obligations citoyennes. ojs.uclouvain.be/index.php/Qu... 021
Philippe Bocquier @phbocquier.bsky.social · 18/09/2026En français (but with most slides in English), un long screencast (un cours entier) sur les théories de la #migration youtu.be/1UtvdAIasGEyoutu.beThéories de la migrationYouTube video by Philippe Bocquier 020
Philippe Bocquier @phbocquier.bsky.social · 18/09/2026youtu.be/z4gO7OvzcoIyoutu.beDefinitions of migrant and migrationYouTube video by Philippe Bocquier 000
Philippe Bocquier @phbocquier.bsky.social · 18/09/2026youtu.be/qGYOUVTxsmwyoutu.beWhat is International Migration?YouTube video by Philippe Bocquier 000
Philippe Bocquier @phbocquier.bsky.social · 18/09/2026youtu.be/27JOsG-tiTQyoutu.beWhat is Migration?YouTube video by Philippe Bocquier 000
Reposted by Philippe BocquierDEMO LLN 🇧🇪 @demographielln.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Our afterwork was also a great opportunity to welcome newcomers to the centre: 👋 Risto Conte Keivabu, professor 👋 Céline De Guchteneere, teaching assistant 👋 Jollivet Nsungu Mputu, PhD candidate 👋 Karim Ouattara, PhD candidate 131
Reposted by Philippe BocquierDEMO LLN 🇧🇪 @demographielln.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Registrations for this year's Quetelet Conference are now open! ⤵️ 021
Reposted by Philippe BocquierDEMO LLN 🇧🇪 @demographielln.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Yesterday, DEMO celebrated the start of the new academic year under some unexpectedly sunny Belgian skies! ☀️ 151
Reposted by Philippe BocquierINEQKILL Research Project @ineqkill.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Join us in Louvain-la-Neuve, 18–20 November for the Joint INEQKILL & Quetelet Conference: “How Inequality Kills”. Exploring health inequalities across time, space and social groups. 📍 UCLouvain 📅 18–20 November 2026 Register: uclouvain.be/fr/instituts... #HealthInequalities #Demography #INEQKILLuclouvain.beChaire Quetelet 2026Inscrivez-vous ici !Register here! 032
Philippe Bocquier @phbocquier.bsky.social · 11/09/2026J'ai trouvé une contrepèterie : Ces lions dînent, et le pourri jaillit. 000
Philippe Bocquier @phbocquier.bsky.social · 09/09/2026MUST READ: From our... brilliant colleague! 😉 Rare analysis of internal migration of international migrants (asylum serkers and refugees), using previously untapped, linked social security and register data. 020
Reposted by Philippe BocquierNatacha Zimmer @natachazimmer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026New paper from my PhD! I investigate the internal migration of recognised #refugees in Belgium and how it relates to the reception system and the duration of asylum procedures. Read the full paper: doi.org/10.4000/16pdqdoi.orgNavigating through Reception Network and Asylum Procedures: Interna...1. Introduction Administrative procedures, reception policies, and residence permits shape the integration processes of immigrants in destination countries, particularly among asylum-seeking migran... 163
Reposted by Philippe BocquierGiles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026It's always the way, isn't it giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... 753079808
Reposted by Philippe BocquierHoward French @hofrench.bsky.social · 05/09/2026You'd almost think they have a problem with Black people. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...washingtonpost.comThe U.N. backed a map that shows Africa true to size. The U.S. was sole objector.The U.S. was the only country to vote against the U.N. resolution, which encourages the use of an “Equal Earth” map. The U.S. described it as a “radical ideological project.” 1439895
Reposted by Philippe BocquierCatherine Kyobutungi @ckyobutungi.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Millions of women now rely on period-tracking apps to manage their health but how many of us actually read the privacy policy first? These apps promise convenience: cycle predictions, symptom logs, fertility insights. What's less visible is where that data goes, who can access it.healthbusiness.co.keSmart Tracking or False Confidence? Women’s Use of Period-Tracking Apps Overshadowed by Questions of Accuracy and Data PrivacyBy Melisa Mong’ina For many young women in Kenya, period-tracking apps have become more than digital calendars. With just a 452
Reposted by Philippe BocquierDEMO LLN 🇧🇪 @demographielln.bsky.social · 07/09/2026🎓 Last Friday, our colleague Kassoum Dianou successfully defended his PhD thesis, entitled "The promises and pitfalls of Mobile Phone Survey for mortality measurement in Low- and Middle-Income countries: a case study in Burkina Faso". 151
Reposted by Philippe BocquierLe Gorafi @legorafi.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Les Allemands décident de voter extrême droite « pour essayer » www.legorafi.fr/2026/09/07/les-alle… legorafi.frLes Allemands décident de voter extrême droite « pour essayer » Toute l'information selon des sources contradictoires. 19821235
Reposted by Philippe BocquierDorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 07/09/2026what Elsevier doesn’t seem to grasp is that there’s a finite supply of good, honest, competent editors in any field. Though maybe they do know that and don’t care 1368