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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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Aliakbar Akbaritabar @akbaritabar.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

#EPC2026 Open Science Workshop materials are publicly available here: Slides: github.com/jschoeley/ep... Hands-on course on git, GitHub, etc: github.com/akbaritabar/...

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GitHub - jschoeley/epc26os

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Only 9.9% of top Sociology articles from 2019-2024 provided replication packages. And ≈ half of those with replication packages could not be verified due to missing or incomplete materials. www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...

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Aliakbar Akbaritabar @akbaritabar.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

#EPC2026 workshops just kicked off with @ugobas.bsky.social starting the introduction to the @eaps.bsky.social working group on open science. Looking forward to four days of discussions and learning. @mpidr.bsky.social

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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Max Planck Research Group on Reproductive Ageing, led by D. Susie Lee 이수지, is starting today! It will investigate indicators of female & male reproductive ageing: www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events_61…

A Max Planck research group will launch on April 1, 2026, focusing on reproductive aging and its social implications.

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Sam Clark @samclark.net · 27/03/2026

There’s a long tradition of using the SVD matrix factorization to model and forecast mortality. I used the higher-order SVD to decompose a 4-way tensor of mortality and explore the possibilities that this gives us. * arxiv.org/abs/2603.20518 * arxiv.org/abs/2603.24299 * samclark.shinyapps.io/mdmx/

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Multi-dimensional Mortality (MDMx): Sex-Age-Specific Model Life Tables, Fitting, Prediction from Summary Mortality Indicators, and Forecasting

Demographers rely on a variety of tools and methods to work with mortality schedules - model life tables, fitting methods, summary-indicator prediction, and forecasting - largely developed independent...

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Ugofilippo Basellini @ugobas.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Join us in Bologna for the 1st meeting of the EAPS WG Open Science in Demography. Program: group intro + 2h workshop led by @jschoeley.com & @akbaritabar.bsky.social. Free & open to all. Register: eaps.opensci@gmail.com #EPC2026 #OpenScience #Demography @eaps.bsky.social @populationeu.bsky.social

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Demography - the flagship journal of PAA @readdemography.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

In “Limits of Predicting Individual-Level Longevity,” Badolato et al. assess a range of classic statistical & machine learning survival analysis models. @nickirons.bsky.social @monjalexander.bsky.social @ugobas.bsky.social @ezagheni.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

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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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Tim Riffe @timriffe1.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Over a dozen ways to decompose life expectancy, all in one (we hope) friendly interface. Please have a look at the LEdecomp R package cran.r-project.org/web/packages... See the function LEdecomp() for access to all of them. If we left something out, please shout! #rstats #demography #mortality

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LEdecomp: Decompose Life Expectancy by Age (and Cause)

A set of all-cause and cause-specific life expectancy sensitivity and decomposition methods, including Arriaga (1984) <<a href="https://doi.org/10.2307%2F2061029" target="_top">doi:10.2307/2061029<...

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Demography - the flagship journal of PAA @readdemography.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

In “...Educational Expansion to Trends in Life Expectancy & Lifespan Variation,” @jdzazueta.bsky.social @ugobas.bsky.social @ezagheni.bsky.social et al. show how expansion contributes to ↑ expectancy and ↓ variation. @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

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Antonino Polizzi @polizzan.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

✍️ Just out: Annette Baudisch & I delve into the formal demography of fertility, birth, & reproduction timing. 👶 We use methods from mortality research to summarize when in the parental life course children are born. 📆 1/n doi.org/10.1080/0032... @sdu.dk @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social

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Fertility, birth, reproduction: Connecting formal demographic frameworks

The conventional framework of fertility research conceptualizes childbirth from the mother’s perspective. From her perspective, birth is an uncertain and potentially recurring event. In contrast, t...

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Tim Riffe @timriffe1.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

HMDHFDplus updated to account for minor web design update of @hmdatabase.bsky.social . If you started experiencing funny behavior when using the package to read HMD data from the web, just reinstall; it's already on CRAN. #rstats #demography #mortality

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Ugofilippo Basellini @ugobas.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Extremely grateful to be given this opportunity – and even more so for sharing this journey with the amazing @marilianep.bsky.social

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IMPRS-PHDS @imprs-phds.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Mentoring & advising doctoral researchers is at the very heart of the PHDS School. We are much indebted to PHDS faculty for their invaluable services in mentoring predocs as well as to Thomas Koch for leading a two-day workshop on "Supervising Doctoral Researchers" @mpidr.bsky.social. Thank you all!

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European Association for Population Studies @eaps.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

📢 Call for submissions for European Population Conference 2026 (3–6 June, Bologna) is open! Organized by EAPS & University of Bologna. 💡 More information: www.eaps.nl/epc/european...

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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

✨20th anniversary of the European Doctoral School of Demography✨On this day 20 years ago(Sept 1, 2005) the EDSD opened its doors @mpidr.bsky.social for the 1st time. Today, we welcome the 21st cohort. We wish everyone a great year of study, research & networking! www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

Group Pic of the EDSD cohort 2025. A very diverse group of young people standing at a waterside surrounded by green bushes. There is a litte ferry on the water in the background and you can see the other side of the river Warnow.

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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

🚨Open Positions!🚨 Postdoc/Research Scientist Positions Migration | Population Dynamics | Computational Demography Application Deadline: Oct 10, 2025 See job description here: www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61... #Postdoc #Jobs @ezagheni.bsky.social @perrottadaniela.bsky.social @ugobas.bsky.social

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IMPRS-PHDS @imprs-phds.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Apply now for our five-day doctoral course on Topics in Digital and Computational Demography, which will take place in hybrid format from November 3-7, 2025. Details: www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61... Application deadline is September 28, 2025.

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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

#LifeExpectancy rose rapidly in the first half of the 20th century. But will those born between 1939 and 2000 benefit from these rapid gains in #longevity? A recent study suggests that none of these #generations will reach 100 years of age on average. 1/2 www.demogr.mpg.de/go/LifeExpectancy2025

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Ewa Batyra @ewabatyra.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

I am looking for a postdoc to join my ERC StG project DIVREP to work on global, quantitative analyses of fertility and reproductive behaviour. The post is based in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford. Let me know if you have any questions. More details below👇

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Jonas Schöley @jschoeley.com · 01/08/2025

In this piece in honour of Jim Vaupel I pull the veil from hidden heterogeneity. I show how the observed distribution of frailties changes in a cohort of newborns over the first month of life and quantify mortality selection and its impact on the age pattern of neonate mortality. Fully reproducible.

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Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Oxford University @oxforddemsci.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

🚨 The end of an era for global health data — and a defining crossroads. In Jan 2025, the DHS Program—the backbone of health & demographic data in 90+ countries—was terminated after US aid cuts of up to 84%. Our researchers & global collaborators reflect on it in a recent pre-print🧵

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Demographic Research @demresjournal.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Open call for Associate Editors at our journal!! To find out more about requirements and application procedures 👀 here www.demographic-research.org/files/Call_f...

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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

#ROSW2025🔒🔓🔐 "The Workshop was an important step towards promoting #openscience practices in demographic research. In addition to the benefits for science & the general public, there are already many personal incentives (..) for adhering to open science practices." www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

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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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Sergi @sergitl.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

The MultiCause network meeting will be held October 16-17, 2025, at UPF in Barcelona. All topics related to multiple causes of death are welcome. Submit your abstract by April 21: More info: mcod.web.ined.fr/wiki/Accueil #mortality #mcod @cedemografia.bsky.social @ined-english.bsky.social

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Multiple Causes-of-Death Network

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Adrian Raftery @adrianraftery.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Our short course on Subnational Probabilistic Population Projections at PAA 2025 (description attached) will now be hybrid. To ask to join remotely, email raftery@uw.edu from your professional email by April 7 with subject “Join PAA workshop”, saying why you want to.

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Ugofilippo Basellini @ugobas.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Attending #IPC2025 in Brisbane and interested in #mortality #forecasting? Register for our hands-on workshop on “Advances in Mortality Forecasting” (11-12 July) ipc2025.iussp.org/side-meeting... @mpidr.bsky.social @ined.bsky.social

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Side Meetings & Workshops | The 30th International Population Conference (IPC 2025)

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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

🔓📊Yesterday the Rostock #OpenScience Workshop started @mpidr.bsky.social with a lot of ☀️☀️☀️. We welcome scientists from all over the 🌏 to discuss ideas of how we can make our research more #open. We start today with great energy⚡ & look forward to sharing our knowledge & learning from our guests.

Group picture of a group of scientists in front of the MPIDR building.

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Silvia Loi @loisilvia.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I am hiring a PostDoc to work with me in my group Migration and Health Inequalities at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research! Come work with me! ⬇️

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Aliakbar Akbaritabar @akbaritabar.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

Just a reminder of the deadline for application on January 10. Apply for the 2024 "Population and Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program" here: www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61... One team works on "Network and Gender Dynamics on Mobility and Migration" @mpidr.bsky.social @ezagheni.bsky.social

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 20/12/2023

By Ugofilippo Basellini: "Open science practices in demographic research: an appraisal" (spoiler: In four top journals, open access to articles is ok, code not so much): osf.io/preprints/so... #openscience #demography

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Vanessa di Lego @vdilego.bsky.social · 22/12/2023

Great reflection by Ugofilippo Basellini on open science practices in demographic research @ugobas.bsky.social . osf.io/preprints/so...

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