Kaart van het dorp Moerdijk in 1832, met de moderne luchtfoto als onderlaag.

Deze week kwam het pijnlijke nieuws dat de gemeente Moerdijk het oude dorp Moerdijk wil gaan opheffen. Een bittere pil voor de bewoners. Moerdijk, hieronder in de situatie van 1832, kent een bijzondere geschiedenis.

Associate Professorship in Sociology - Nuffield College Oxford University

I'm biased, but this looks like a brilliant job opportunity to me. Join us at the Department of Sociology & Nuffield College. www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...

A new article and blog post:

"Inequality in Child Mortality Persists Between Generations in the Netherlands, 1835–1919"

From Ingrid van Dijk (@ingridvandijk.bsky.social)

Register for IPUMs International Online Session Please use this form to register for the IPUMs International Session hosted by the Historical Economic Demography Group at LSE. The session will be on Zoom from 15:15-16:30 UK Time on 12 November 202...

Curious about using census microdata in your research? 📊

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Hosted by the LSE Historical Economic Demography Group.

Check out this conference if you work on topics related to kinship structure and dynamics (within and beyond the household), caregiving, intergenerational processes, family bereavement, LGBTQ+ & chosen kinship, etc. @iussp.bsky.social Submit by 21 Jan 2026 👇 www.demogr.mpg.de/go/kinship-conference

I predict a cheese sandwich for lunch. Nice cup though!

Nemesis of the day: An online article proofing system (a nemesis in itself), that doesn't work in Chrome 👀

Maternal mortality, tuberculosis and social deprivation in Madrid during the second and third decades of the 20th century In this paper we jointly study maternal mortality and tuberculosis during the second and third decades of the 20th century in Madrid. Nicknamed the “c…

"there are clear links between tuberculosis as a cause of death during the 60 days following a delivery and the socio-spatial inequalities characteristic of a city" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Seasonal variation in births at Lund Hospital. We added a pearl to August for our newborn son Arthur Ejnar.

Campop blog #59: Some say rises in lone motherhood since c.1950 indicate breakdown of the nuclear family & call for returns to Victorian values. But 19C levels of lone parenthood & reconstituted families were similar to today's ...
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On the way to the Nordic Demographic Symposium 🥸 #NDS2025

📝 WORKSHOP: Writing Individual Grants on Inequalities in Health
📅 June 25 | ⏰ 14:00 – 15:30 CET | 💻 Online

Planning to apply for an individual research grant? Join our interactive workshop focused on crafting strong proposals in the field of health inequalities. 🧵⬇️

Apply before May 15th for the doctoral positions at the Centre for Economic Demography at Lund University with my colleagues Martin Dribe, Jeanne Cilliers or with me! These are externally funded, 4-year positions in fascinating projects. We're a highly international department in a cute small city 🌞

Ahhh we can do our retirement party together! 🎈

Permanent position, they said👀

And another one in the books

Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.

And, not sure who brought it up, but that US data on stillbirths is problematic because of a financial incentive to register a newborn as a live birth. There's an interesting parallel to the problems in historical data in Catholic regions (where a newborn needs to be born alive to be baptized). 👀

This was such a great session. One of the excellent comments (by @jnobles.bsky.social) I was thinking about later was that events of stillbirth & neonatal mortality should also be thought of as health events happening to the *mothers*.

Happy to see that journals are making sharing preprints easier 👏

Packed room for our session on #perinatal-demography at #paa2025 with Payal Hathi, @alisongemmill.bsky.social, Tim Bruckner, Haley Comfort @ihmeuw.bsky.social, and @jnobles.bsky.social as inspiring discussant.

You can download their submissions here:
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Washington impressions (1): Pink

If you have questions about these vacancies, I'm happy to chat 😊
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I'll present another poster on top survivors (maybe looking less nervous) this Saturday at 16, shared work with Niels van den Berg. Also on Saturday at 14, Isa Barraclough is presenting our paper on trends in intergenerational persistence of lifespan in Sweden 1860-2020.

Very happy to be in Washington for #PAA2025! I've only attended once before and presented a poster of what's still one of my favorite papers. Me EIGHT years ago presenting a poster and not looking nervous at all;

Bike commuting is great year-round but in april it's the best ❤️ (km1, km2, km5)

Nothing like an exhibit of iron lung machines to remind us how life was before polio vaccines

My hotel in Washington for PAA just confirmed and comically emphasized its *free* Wifi in the lobby. Wait, no wifi in my room? I'll have to bring a pile of books! 😂

Lund Population day is on May 8th

Doctoral student in Economic History – Colonial maternal health legacies The Department of Economic History is a research-intensive department that employs about 100 people: researchers, teachers, technical/administrative staff, and PhD. candidates. The department has a la

Forgot to add the link to the vacancy for a doctoral student working with Jeanne Cilliers. The topic is colonial-era investments in maternal healthcare and how these continue to shape health outcomes today: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...