A Max Planck research group will launch on April 1, 2026, focusing on reproductive aging and its social implications.
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_6123/news...
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/
More information about the Working Group at www.eaps.nl/page/open-sc... @timriffe1.bsky.social @arianna-caporali.bsky.social Olga Grünwald
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
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...
PhD opportunity!
CPop is opening a fully funded three year PhD position on lifespan inequalities.
Apply here 👇
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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...
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
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...
✍️ 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
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@sdu.dk @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social
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
Grazie mille, Angela 🥰
Thank you so much, Matt!! 🥰
Grazie mille, Silvia 🥰
Thank you, Brendan!
Grazie mille, Stefano!!
Thank you Carl!
Grazie mille Margherita :)
Grazie Bruno!
Grazie mille, Luca!!
Extremely grateful to be given this opportunity – and even more so for sharing this journey with the amazing @marilianep.bsky.social
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!
📢 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...
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.
✨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...
🚨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
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.
#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
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👇
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.
🚨 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🧵