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www.scholarlymigration.org
Tune in and watch this space. More soon ...
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Job posting for a doctoral position at the University of Rostock and the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research.
Large-scale bibliometric data project to analyze and forecast the migration of scientists.
Research project on scientific mobility with a survey on the motivations and context of researchers and skilled workers.
Apply now! The application deadline is April 15, 2026. For more information, visit www.demogr.mpg.de/go/jobs.
Job Offer‼️Doctoral Student Position
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) / University of Rostock
Supervisors: Aliakbar Akbaritabar | Emilio Zagheni
📆Apply until April 15, 2026
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_6122/jobs_fell...
Highly recommended to apply to this doctoral position to contribute to the future of @smdatabase.bsky.social !
#BiblioDemography
Come visit MPIDR in ☀️Summer 2026☀️
📣Call for Application for the "Population and Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program"
📅☀️June 8th – August 21st, 2026☀️
🗺️MPIDR in Rostock, Germany
Application Deadline: Jan 14, 2026
Apply here and learn more:
incubator.demogr.mpg.de
tutorial screenshot: flow map shows migration of scientists on a world map
tutorial screenshot: positron is given priority over rstudio
scholarly migration database
This is the second year that I’m teaching a short session on Open Science and Reproducibility with Quarto, GitHub, and R for students in the European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD) program (by @mpidr.bsky.social, @ined.bsky.social, @eaps.bsky.social). Materials: www.ekotov.pro/2025-EDSD-op...
Public Zotero Group library: Scholarly Migration Database (SMD)
Have you been wondering where to find a comprehensive list of publications about the Scholarly Migration Database (SMD) using the SMD data or publications by its team and collabs? Or the ones citing SMD-related works?
Now, we have a public Zotero Group library to join
www.zotero.org/groups/59990...
🆕 study reveals global patterns of the migration of scientists shedding light on how researchers move both within and between countries.
A team of researchers @mpidr.bsky.social found large disparities in the appeal of various countries and regions to scientists.
www.demogr.mpg.de/go/migration...
Very proud of this work by Faeze Ghorbanpour, @thiagomalaguth.bsky.social and me, which addresses the left censoring issues in migration research that uses digital trace data.
It will appear in the proceedings of #ICWSM2025, and Faeze is going to present it there.
Access:
doi.org/10.48550/arX...
Hot off the press as population enthusiasts gather for #PAA2025...
New paper on global interrelationships between internal and international migration reveals novel patterns, inequalities and asymmetries.
Bonus item: a high-resolution database free to download...
I am extremely happy to share. Just out in @pnas.org:
“Global subnational estimates of migration of scientists reveal large disparities in internal and international flows”
Open Access: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
with Maciej J. Dańko, Xinyi Zhao, @ezagheni.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social #PAA2025
Some subnational regions were disproportionately more attractive to receive scholars from both internal and international origins. Some regions were consistently sending scholars to both internal and international destinations: brain drain. Data on the @smdatabase.bsky.social doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
I have arrived in Catania, and I am excited for tomorrow to deliver an invited talk on "Mobility, Migration, and Collaboration of Scholars" at the University of Catania.
A long shot, perhaps, but let me know if you are around here!
#BiblioDemography @smdatabase.bsky.social
📂Find the data publicly on Zenodo doi.org/10.5281/zeno... and all details on the website of the Scholarly Migration Database
scholarlymigration.org
“Use them to find the causes and consequences of the migration of scholars!”, says Tom Theile.🧵4/5
👓Recommended reading📚
🆕Migration data🚶🚶♀️🚶♂️
Reliable migration data is notoriously hard to get. But very detailed longitudinal data about the mobility of almost all researchers publishing papers is hidden in big bibliometric databases like Scopus + OpenAlex🧵1/5
A 1-day hybrid symposium dedicated to high-skilled and scientific mobility!
Please spread the word and join online or in Rostock!
@smdatabase.bsky.social
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...
📣Call for Registration!
Migration and Mobility Symposium @mpidr.bsky.social
An event to promote exchange & collaboration among scientists interested in scholarly #migration & scientific #mobility.
📅Oct 15, 2024
🕗8am-6pm CEST
💻Join online: www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...
#demography
With one day focused on:
Using large-scale bibliometric data for demographic research; (e.g., family planning, migration research); [...] to trace internal and international scholarly migration worldwide.
More information here:
demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61...
#BiblioDemography
We, @smdatabase.bsky.social's core team, are thrilled to share this publication alongside the updated version of the data.
"Bilateral flows and rates of international migration of scholars for 210 countries for the period 1998-2020"
Open Access:
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#BiblioDemography
Excited!
Paper w/ Tom Theile and @ezagheni.bsky.social on the Scholarly Migration Database is published in Nature Scientific Data
"Bilateral flows and rates of international migration of scholars for 210 countries for the period 1998-2020"
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
@mpidr.bsky.social #BiblioDemography
This happens tomorrow afternoon CET time. Looking forward to presenting @smdatabase.bsky.social, hearing the comments/suggestions of the attendees and panelists, learning about the other initiatives and meeting many of you on Zoom
@mpidr.bsky.social
IUSSP
@ezagheni.bsky.social
Tom Theile
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
With one day dedicated to #BiblioDemography including the introduction of the Scholarly Migration Database!
Continued by showing the "new look" of the Scholarly Migration Database's Exploration page accessible here:
www.scholarlymigration.org/exploration....
#BiblioDemography
@smdatabase.bsky.social
@ezagheni.bsky.social
@mpidr.bsky.social
@ezagheni.bsky.social speaking about "Global Migration of Scholars –Trends, Patterns with Economic Development, and Gender Inequalities" MPI_inno_comp and here describing the sub-national disparities in migration of scholars in Europe
doi.org/10.4054/MPID...
#BiblioDemography
@smdatabase.bsky.social
