As it was high time to honor France’s achievements, Agnieszka Fihel and Heini Väisänen sat down with France to talk with her about her career and about bringing #cause-of-death analysis into #demography.
Please read the full interview here
👉 www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...
It’s been exactly 20 years since we published these two papers in the Special Collection on ‘Determinants of Diverging Trends in Mortality’:
By Jacques Vallin & France Meslé: www.demographic-research.org/articles/spe...
By France Meslé: www.demographic-research.org/articles/spe...
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Two-panel cartoon illustration comparing how UI designers and users perceive a baby mobile. The left panel, labelled "UI" in bold black text at the top, shows two smiling cartoon adults — a dark-haired person in yellow and a brown-haired person in blue — leaning happily over a cot railing. A speech bubble reads "I love it!" and another near the cot reads "Me too!" Small cute animal toys — a blue bear, pink pig, and orange cat — hang from the mobile above a contented baby lying face-up in light blue clothing. Musical notes float in the air. The right panel, labelled "Users" in bold black text, shows the baby's point-of-view perspective of the same mobile from below: a striped orange tiger, a blue elephant, a tan rabbit, and a large pink pig are seen upside-down and distorted, spinning chaotically with motion lines and musical notes scattered around. The watermark "VKCOM/PITERSKIS_PUNK_WALL" appears in small text in the upper right of the right panel.
For no specific reason, I want to share one of my all time favorite memes 😂
It’s a common misconception that life expectancy has increased only because fewer children die.
Historical mortality records show that adults today also live much longer than adults in the past.
For bizarre and idiosyncratic reasons, the ONE job interview I got when I went on the market was for a dream university that had good reasons to want to hire…
a formal demographer who could be recognized by a bunch of lefty social theorists as “one of us.”
(!!!!)
I really like this: "We like stories where effort explains outcomes. We do not like stories where variance explains outcomes." Amazing essay and reflection, Thanks for sharing!
‼️New paper! Together with Rami Cosulich and Virginia Zarulli we use statistical moments and a maximum entropy approach to derive and compare healthy longevity distributions.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The call for papers is approaching! Submit to the @vypr.bsky.social by May 15! @demographyvienna.bsky.social #demography
‼️New paper! Together with Rami Cosulich and Virginia Zarulli we use statistical moments and a maximum entropy approach to derive and compare healthy longevity distributions.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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
"Temporary shock or lasting scar?"
By 2024 nearly all high-income countries remained below their pre-pandemic life expectancy trends. We identify four distinct mortality shock patterns since 2020. Full analysis in our preprint: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
‼️Check out our paper where we test the longevity hypothesis to discuss the mechanisms behind why women live longer than men, but spend more time in poor health. 👇 @demographyvienna.bsky.social @ufmgbr.bsky.social
This was a very cool talk, Chiara gave a great overview of bivariate health-death distributions. The recording is here for those interested: www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0Jl...
It´s starting ! Join us for this amazing talk from Chiara Micheletti! 👇#demography
The Formal Demography Working Group is meeting next Thursday 5 Feb at 10am ET (4pm CET)! Chiara Micheletti will present work on CVD incidence and survival inequalities in Finland.
Sign up for Zoom Link! formaldemography.github.io/working_group/
the Formal Demography Working Group is starting its year with a marvelous guest : Chiara Micheletti will present on CVD incidence and survival inequalities in Finland. Don’t forget to sign up 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾#demography
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@demographyvienna.bsky.social @pdigiulio.bsky.social work led by Magdalena Muszynska-Spielauer, with Paola Di Giulio, Yuka Minagawa, myself & Marc Luy 😀 @ufmgbr.bsky.social
Great start of the year with this paper just out! Why do women live longer than men, but spend more time in poor health? Findings support the longevity hypothesis: women’s higher life expectancy is the main driver of their longer lifetime spent in poor health 👇
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
📢 Call for papers is now open!
We invite you to submit your contributions to the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2027 special issue "Demographic perspectives on migration".
📆 Submit until 15 May 2026.
🔗 viennayearbook.org/call
#demography
@vypr.bsky.social @demographyvienna.bsky.social
Our call for papers is out! Submit until May 15 2026.
New call for papers for the Vienna Yearbook is out @vypr.bsky.social ! The 2027 Special Issue will be on migration! See details on submission below👇
So great to see Dmytro in Vienna again!
Large interest in the poster on entrance of Syrians in the Austrian labour market by Bernhard Rengs at #WIC2025
this is also part of the project developed at @demographyvienna.bsky.social.
because it is very common for researchers and institutes to use gender gaps as markers for inequality, we raise the awareness that gender gaps in healthy life expectancy as a metric for gender inequality in health is misleading.
