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Ridhi Kashyap @ridhikashyap.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

What a stellar group of honorary degrees this year @ox.ac.uk! It was a privilege to be able to meet Katalin Karikó and her daughter.

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Sociology at Oxford @sociologyoxford.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

🚨 New jobs! 🚨 We're looking for 2 Postdoctoral Research Fellows (1 quant, 1 qual), for a full-time, fixed-term position for up to 4 years! The Fellows will have full control over the nature/direction of their research while here 📝🌏 Deadline: 31 July 2026 🔗 www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/event/postdo...

Image of the Department of Sociology building overlaid with text: We're hiring! Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2 Positions). Deadline: 31 July 2026

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Ridhi Kashyap @ridhikashyap.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

It was a real pleasure to supervise Hampton’s MPhil thesis - great to see this out now in PDR!

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Ridhi Kashyap @ridhikashyap.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

PAA is the first conference I went to and remains one of my favourite conferences. This year’s PAA was extra special. Very grateful to mentors and colleagues who nominated me!

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Jenn Dowd @drjenndowd.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

1/ Has life expectancy fully recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic? In a new pre-print, we find that 31 of 34 high-income countries had still not returned to their expected life expectancy trajectories five years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... #demography

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Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Oxford University @oxforddemsci.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

New study on global digital gender gaps 🧔‍♂️👩📱🌐: It finds that in low- and middle-income countries - women are 9% less likely to use the 🌐 - 8% less likely to own a 📱 than men ( ~320 million fewer women 🌐 and ~190 million fewer women with 📱) www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/mapping...

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Mapping the global digital gender divide: new study reveals stark inequalities in internet and mobile access

A research team comprised of current and alumni members of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science (LCDS) has published a major new study in PNAS revealing where and to what extent women remain ...

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Ridhi Kashyap @ridhikashyap.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Proud to see @jasminabdelghany.bsky.social now a Dr. It was a pleasure advising her thesis and seeing her grow as a scholar. Congratulations!

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Casey Breen @caseybreen.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

New @pnas.org paper constructing subnational estimates of internet and mobile adoption by gender, including gender gaps, for 117 low- and middle- income countries from 2015 through 2025. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Mapping subnational gender gaps in internet and mobile adoption using social media data | PNAS

The digital revolution has ushered in many societal and economic benefits. Yet access to digital technologies such as mobile phones and internet re...

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Hampton Gaddy @hggaddy.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

🚨 The Economist has been telling you for years that polygamy causes civil war by locking men out of marriage. A new article with @rebeccasear.bsky.social and @anthrolog.bsky.social explains that the demography of marriage markets doesn't actually work that way. 🧵 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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High rates of polygyny do not lock large proportions of men out of the marriage market | PNAS

There is a widespread belief, in both the scholarly literature and the popular press, that polygyny prevents large numbers of men from marrying by ...

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Ridhi Kashyap @ridhikashyap.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Thanks for having me @i2sc.net - I enjoyed the discussion. Hope the rest of your SICSS goes well!

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Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Oxford University @oxforddemsci.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

🌍 Can satellites help count people where censuses are missing? New work by @edithdarin.bsky.social, @ridhikashyap.bsky.social K& Douglas Leasure shows building-footprint maps + smart models can fill census gaps—vital for health, planning & aid. www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/can-sat...

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Can Satellite Maps Accurately Count People Where Censuses Are Missing?

A new study published by our Phd Student Edith Darin, together Ridhi Kashyap and Douglas Leasure from the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science

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Ridhi Kashyap @ridhikashyap.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

New work from the Digital Gender Gaps team — we show how access to free laptops provided in public schools improved foundational math esp for economically disadvantaged households, w/ more time on time on learning, less private tuition and better language comprehension.

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Ridhi Kashyap @ridhikashyap.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Are you attending the International Population Conference in Brisbane? The IUSSP Panel on Digital and Computational Demography is organising *3* pre-conference workshops on digital gender inequalities, kinship and microsimulation, and migration and digital trace data iussp.org/en/digital-a...

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Digital and Computational Demography | International Union for the Scientific Study of Population

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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

#IPC2025! Workshop by @lpcalderonb.bsky.social @aasli.bsky.social & @ridhikashyap.bsky.social in Brisbane: "Demographic Microsimulation in R Using SOCSIM:Modeling Population & Kinship Dynamics." ipc2025.iussp.org/cms/wp-conte... Sign up until 06/22/25 Applicants will be notified by the end of June.

Workshop: Demographic Microsimulation in R using SOCSIM:
Modelling Population and Kinship Dynamics
Date and time: 13 July 2025, 10am-1.30pm
Location: The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Organisers: Liliana P. Calderón-Bernal – Max Planck Institute for Demographic
Research (MPIDR), Aasli Abdi Nur and Ridhi Kashyap – University of Oxford
Description
Join us for an interactive workshop on SOCSIM demographic microsimulation using the
"rsocsim" R package. SOCSIM is a powerful open-source tool for modelling individual
demographic events and producing synthetic populations with plausible age and
kinship structures, using population-level demographic rates as input. It has supported
demographic research for decades.
By simulating individual life courses that are consistent with macro-demographic rates,
microsimulation enables the study of complex demographic phenomena, such as kin
availability, kin loss, generational overlap, and the long-term effects of changing fertility
and mortality rates on kinship networks. This approach is particularly useful for studying
heterogeneous populations and understanding variation in demographic experience at
both the individual and the population levels.
In this workshop, we will cover the basics of demographic microsimulation with
SOCSIM, including the process of setting up, running, and verifying a microsimulation in
R using ‘rsocsim’ (https://github.com/MPIDR/rsocsim) and publicly available data from
the World Population Prospects (WPP) 2024. From there, you will explore how to
interpret and analyse the simulation output through practical examples of estimating
kin loss and kin availability. Whether you are new to demographic modelling or looking
to deepen your expertise, this workshop will provide valuable skills and insights for
researchers interested in studying kinship dynamics.
Requirements
- Own laptop
If you wish to attend this workshop, please fill out the online form here:
https://forms.gle/nqyKrNaXzMSEmgWf6

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Charlie Rahal @crahal.com · 10/06/2025

🔥Coming July 2: 'Metrics and Models'!🔥 A new seminar series on advanced modelling w/ impact across health/society. 🌍 Open to *ALL*! 🕑 Weds 2pm UK alternating weeks (online) 🔗 metrics-and-models.github.io 📬 metrics_and_models-subscribe@maillist.ox.ac.uk Brilliant speakers. *Please share*!

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Monica Alexander @monjalexander.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Hey demographers! We're starting up the formal demography working group again! Next Friday 16 May at 11:30am ET @hggaddy.bsky.social will talk to us about challenges in estimating crisis mortality. Excited! Head to the website to sign up for Zoom details: formaldemography.github.io/working_group/

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Casey Breen @caseybreen.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I’ve loved my time here — highly recommend applying! Just a few days left...

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Ridhi Kashyap @ridhikashyap.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Deadline approaching: Friday this week at noon UK! Apply and/or share widely!

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Ridhi Kashyap @ridhikashyap.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

*JOB OPENING* Come join me and the Digital Gender Gaps team @sociologyoxford.bsky.social @oxforddemsci.bsky.social. We study digital gender inequalities and their consequences w/ social media, geospatial, and population data. tinyurl.com/postdoc-oxf Apply by 9 May, noon (UK)

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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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Jenn Dowd @drjenndowd.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

March 15, 2020 was a huge turning point for me w/ both @oxforddemsci.bsky.social & the start of my #scicomm adventure w/ @thosenerdygirls.bsky.social. On the 5th anniversary of that day, I am excited to launch my Substack "Data for Health"-please subscribe! jenndowd.substack.com/p/reflection...

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Reflections on March 2020

Demography, Data, and "Dear Pandemic"

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Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Oxford University @oxforddemsci.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

How can we #AccelerateAction to improve women's health outcomes? buff.ly/pacAIJZ A new study co-authored by Dr Ursula Gazeley identifies the leading causes of maternal deaths globally and highlights the need to reduce health inequities in LMICs. @leverhulme.bsky.social @oxpop.bsky.social #IWD2025

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Sociology at Oxford @sociologyoxford.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Closing the digital gender gap starts with data 📊 For #InternationalWomensDay, Ridhi & team launched an updated dashboard tracking internet & mobile access by gender at a subnational level. Explore ➡️ digitalgendergaps.org/dashboard/

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Digital Gender Gaps

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Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Oxford University @oxforddemsci.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

On #InternationalWomensDay, @ridhikashyap.bsky.social's Digital Gender Gaps team have launched an updated dashboard to #AccelerateAction by helping to ensure women are equal participants in digital society buff.ly/OSV35V8 @leverhulme.bsky.social @oxpop.bsky.social @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social

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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and launch interdisciplinary research projects? We are so excited to announce there will be *26* Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science this year! Apply to one of them here: sicss.io/locations

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Jürgen Pfeffer @jurgenpfeffer.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

If you are interested in studying good old human activity on pre-Musk Twitter, we are now sharing the complete 375M dataset of our 24h Twitter data collection with researchers. Get in touch! ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC... Please forward to interested scholars.

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View of Just Another Day on Twitter: A Complete 24 Hours of Twitter Data

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Jenn Dowd @drjenndowd.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

What's the future of mortality in high-income countries? Making predictions (especially about the future) is hard. But that doesn't stop us from trying...I'm happy to share this contribution to the PDR 50th anniversary special issue: doi.org/10.1111/padr... (open access) #Demography

Male and female life expectancy at birth for high income countries, in 2000 (tail of arrow) and 2019 (head of arrow)

Rates of mortality improvement decomposed by age across countries from 2000-2019

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Demography - the flagship journal of PAA @readdemography.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

@caseybreen.bsky.social, in “Longevity Benefits of Homeownership,” finds life expectancy differs btw homeowners & renters, presenting “compelling evidence that owning a home in early adulthood has a causal effect on later-life mortality.” @oxforddemsci.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

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Ridhi Kashyap @ridhikashyap.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

We have another faculty opening at Oxford — this time in demography: Associate Professor in Social Demography, open to any area/topic, and open to different career stages, incl. junior scholars. With linked tutorial fellowship at St John’s College. t.co/rQ4Uob7bIz Happy to answer questions!

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https://my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit/erq_jobspec_details_form.jobspec?p_id=176603

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Ridhi Kashyap @ridhikashyap.bsky.social · 20/08/2024

We have a new faculty opening at Oxford Sociology and Nuffield College — come join us and be my colleague! An Oxford AP is the main faculty grade and a very broad category — covering those just out of PhD to those more senior, incl. Full Professor. www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/article/asso...

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Associate Professorship in Sociology

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Ridhi Kashyap @ridhikashyap.bsky.social · 14/08/2024

New from the Digital Gender Gaps team: "Social capital mediates knowledge gaps in informing sexual and reproductive health in Africa" We use Facebook friendships between regions w/ DHS data to explore how social capital shapes diffusion of SRH behaviours www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Social capital mediates knowledge gaps in informing sexual and reproductive health behaviours across Africa

Advancing sexual and reproductive health is essential for promoting human rights and women’s empowerment, and combating the HIV/AIDS epidemic. A large…

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Zachary Van Winkle @zjvanwinkle.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

Two 3-year PhD fellowships are available within the remit of my ERC project on the risks and vulnerability of widowhood across ageing societies!!! Deadline for applications - December 10 Start date - September 1 www.sciencespo.fr/osc/fr/conte...

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Call for Two PhD Candidates | Sciences Po Centre de recherche sur les inégalités sociales

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Ridhi Kashyap @ridhikashyap.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

Postdoc opportunity with me in computational demography at Oxford to explore questions about demographic change, kinship, gender and and inter-generational dynamics: tinyurl.com/2skdt98w Keen to apply but need a bit more time to get the application in? Deadline now: Tue, Nov 21, noon (UK time).

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