Our paper "Sleeping With the Enemy" is featured in the Süddeutsche Zeitung in "Wie viel Gegensatz verträgt die Liebe?" (how much opposition can love bear?), Sebastian Herrmann uses our study to make a point that political difference between partners has stopped being only a matter of taste.

How often do older parents and adult children stay in touch across Europe, and how geographically close are they to one another? These were the starting questions of our new paper w/ @marco16.bsky.social @valeriabordone.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4tcc8z2b

Older parent–adult child contact and proximity across Europe: New evidence, digital communication, and measurement issues

AbstractObjectives. We aim to provide updated, comparative evidence on the prevalence of frequent (face-to-face, telephone, and digital) contact and close

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“Submission to first decision (median)” Curious how, in this context, the median suddenly becomes preferable to the much more commonly used mean. I wonder why :)

Many interesting courses as usual! Have a look :)

The Research and Expertise Centre for Survey Methodology@recsm.bsky.social · 2mo ago

One week left to register for the RECSM Summer Methods School 2026 at @upf.edu! Topics include R, AI in research, causal inference, survey design, multilevel models & more. June 29–July 17 · In person or online Discounts for students, researchers & multi-course bundles: www.upf.edu/web/survey/r...

🚨Out today in @nature.com our new paper uses deep learning to map four decades of global human migration. By building the first comprehensive, four-decade dataset of annual flows (1990-2023), we reveal that global migration has nearly tripled since 2000. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We’re excited to join Bluesky! 🌏 RC06 brings together scholars working on families, kinship, intimacy, care, gender, generations & social change across diverse global contexts. Looking forward to connecting with the family research community here. #FamilySociology

I will soon be recruiting researchers for SOCIAL – Social relations, digital technologies and wellbeing of older people, a FIS-2 project on ageing, digitalisation, social relations, and wellbeing. Expressions of interest are now welcome.

Interested in demography? You might like our new tool on @ourworldindata.org which lets you see how changes in fertility rates, life expectancy, and migration rates will change future populations. Have a play! You can even do it continent wide. ourworldindata.org/population-s...

Population tool: how will populations across the world change in the 21st century?

We created an interactive tool that lets you test how changes in fertility rates, life expectancy, and migration rates will change future populations.

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Innovation must not become exclusion. I have seen this message circulating on social media (in Italian): a society that forces an 80-year-old to use a smartphone to access their rights is not modern, is discriminatory #digitaldivide #intergenerationalfairness

Many exciting courses at RECSM as usual! I will have again the privilege to teach a causal inference course. Check the website for details on courses, fees and discounts. Hope to see you in the best city in the world ... Barcelona!

The Research and Expertise Centre for Survey Methodology@recsm.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Exciting News! The 13th edition of the RECSM #SummerMethodsSchool held at @upf.edu is now open for registration! Ready to learn from experts in #researchmethods? Head to our website using the link in our bio for more information and to sign up for classes. Registration closes on June 22, 2026.

Are you a student or researcher? Take advantage of our many discounts: 40% off for students, 20% off for researchers, and many more. This summer, join us in #Barcelona for the RECSEM Summer School at @upf.edu . Learn from and connect with leading experts in #methods for social science #research.

Two new facts stand out: 1. 85% of hallucinated citations in preprints are also in the subsequent journal version (thanks, peer review!) 2. Fake cites more likely to use the names of (male) scholars who are already highly cited, creating a fake-citation Matthew effect. arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723

LLM hallucinations in the wild: Large-scale evidence from non-existent citations

Large language models (LLMs) are known to generate plausible but false information across a wide range of contexts, yet the real-world magnitude and consequences of this hallucination problem remain p...

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At today's #ESSAustria #SHAREAustria #GGPAustria Joint User Meeting, our team will be represented by @valeriabordone.bsky.social showing the results of her ongoing work with @brunoarpino.bsky.social and #MarcoTosi 👇

ESS Österreich@ess-austria.bsky.social · 6mo ago

📣Call for papers ESS Austria, SHARE Austria and GGP Austria are organizing the 3rd Joint User Meeting at IHS Vienna on 8th of May 2026. The meeting highlights comparative and longitudinal ESS, SHARE, and GGP research. 📝Abstracts due 15th March 2026 👥Apply to attend by 27th April 2026

Population ageing is too often framed as a “burden” to be managed. In our new preprint, @valeriabordone.bsky.social , @pdykstra.bsky.social, and I argue for a different framing: sustainable ageing. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/so...

President Trump approval poll (Reuters/Ipsos) Disapprove 64% (+2) Approve 34% (-2) (Shift from April 15) www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

This is a new one for me from the predatory-journal world: publish 2 for the price of 1. The supermarket of papers. “The standard publication charge is $3,019 per paper. However, we are pleased to offer you a special discount: •Publish 2 papers for $3,019 (limited-time offer)”

Still a few places available for the next Sustainable Ageing working group meeting 🗓 Wednesday 3 June 2026; 14:00–17:00 📍 Room Q Plesso Belmeloro, Via Andreatta 8, Bologna Free of charge and also open to people not participating at #EPC2026 www.eaps.nl/page/sustain... @valeriabordone.bsky.social

An Imbens retrospective on experimental v. non-experimental methods — looks like a must-read www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Comparing Experimental and Nonexperimental Methods: What Lessons Have We Learned Four Decades after LaLonde (1986)?

(Fall 2025) - In 1986, Robert LaLonde published an article comparing nonexperimental estimates to experimental benchmarks (LaLonde 1986). He concluded that the nonexperimental methods at the time coul...

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Regardless of whether your paper has been accepted for presentation at #EPC2026, join the Working Group #SustainableAgeing side meeting "Technological Change and Sustainable Ageing" Interested in presenting or participating? 👇 📝 Register here: forms.gle/Tq21zqX7ddN7...

Registration to the Sustainable Ageing "Technological Change and Sustainable Ageing”, EPC-side meeting, 3 June 2026, Bologna

Date and time of the meeting: 3 June 2026; 14.00-17.00 Venue: Room Q, Plesso Belmeloro, Via Andreatta 8, Bologna Contact: sustainableageing@gmail.com Link to the Sustainable Ageing working group page ...

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Bruno Arpino@brunoarpino.bsky.social · 7mo ago

📣 Announcement | EAPS @eaps.bsky.social Working Group Sustainable Ageing side meeting @ #EPC2026 (Bologna) Technological Change and Sustainable Ageing: Challenges and Opportunities 🗓 Wednesday, 3 June 2026 🕑 14:00–17:00 📍 Room Q, Plesso Belmeloro, Via Andreatta 8, Bologna #SustainableAgeing

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...

📢 Read my new article w/ Di Patrizio & Giudici about school-university transition between Italians and students with migrant backgrounds! 👇🏻

Demographic Research@demresjournal.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Academic expectations don’t always become reality. @etrappolini.bsky.social, Di Patrizio & Giudici show that migrant-origin students — especially later arrivals — are less likely to enrol in university than Italian peers with similar expectations. Full📄 www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

Major news outlets: Please consider prominently reporting what this all-star team of researchers has found. www.nber.org/papers/w34791

In the first two months of 2025, ICE raids in the Central Valley increased absentee rates by 22%. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The thing where ICE parks masked men in school lots is something I would not have believed unless I saw it with my own two eyes. They do it constantly. It’s purely a terror tactic and they’ve done it to schools over the region. Our schools are collapsing - often at 50% attendance or less.

"2025 is the first year of this century where child deaths will increase." As aid cuts begin to bite it is projected that an additional 200,000 children under the age 5 will die from preventable illnesses bringing the annual total to 4.8 million. www.gatesfoundation.org/goalkeepers/...

2025 Goalkeepers Report | Ending Preventable Child Deaths with Primary Healthcare, Vaccines, and Next-Gen Innovations

Millions of children’s lives are at stake—without action, global aid cuts could lead to more child deaths over the next 20 years. But that future isn’t inevitable. If we act now—by getting proven, low...

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Would you put ICE in wine? No way! #NoICE #NoICEinItaly #MilanoCortina2026

🚨 Following the murder of protesters and widespread arbitrary detentions in the USA, ICE cannot be allowed in Europe. We are calling for an immediate travel ban on all ICE agents. This is now urgent following reports ICE will police the Winter Olympics in Italy 🚨

📣 Announcement | EAPS @eaps.bsky.social Working Group Sustainable Ageing side meeting @ #EPC2026 (Bologna) Technological Change and Sustainable Ageing: Challenges and Opportunities 🗓 Wednesday, 3 June 2026 🕑 14:00–17:00 📍 Room Q, Plesso Belmeloro, Via Andreatta 8, Bologna #SustainableAgeing

📣 Call for Papers | European Journal of Ageing Topical Collection “Ageing Well for All: Multidimensional Pathways to Sustainable Ageing” Guest Editors: Bruno Arpino & Valeria Bordone (@valeriabordone.bsky.social) Submissions open now (deadline: 31 Aug 2026) 🔗 link.springer.com/collections/...

Family research usually focuses on the nuclear family. Relationships with other relatives have hardly been studied to date. Yet these relations play an important role: https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events_6123/news_press_releases_4630/news/important_relatives_14970 Bettina Hünteler Diego Alburez

Happy 2026! 🎉 I finally built the thing I'd had in mind for a while: FG's Research Radio, AI-generated audio deep dives into computational social science papers. It pulls from my PaperPile reading list, so I can catch up on papers while walking or driving fabiogiglietto.github.io/research-rad...