📣 Call for Papers‼️ Our colleagues @demography.bsky.social and @elenapojman.com are calling for papers for a special issue on 𝘒𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘺: 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴, 𝘋𝘺𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐𝘯𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 in Demographic Research. Submissions will be open from June 15 to December 15, 2026.

Demographic Research@demresjournal.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📣We are excited to share another Call for Papers. This time for a special issue on 𝘒𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘺: 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴, 𝘋𝘺𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐𝘯𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴. Submissions are possible from 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞 15 𝐭𝐨 𝐃𝐞𝐜 15, 2026. ℹ️CfP with all the info here: www.demographic-research.org/files/202605...

How many siblings does a recently born child in China likely have? @demography.bsky.social etal have estimated global kinship by age since 1950 and can answer the question (and a million others). Check out their results as interactive heatmaps on demoscapes.org. demoscapes.org/collections/...

how do we feel the age-sex pattern of queer identification in our kinship networks? check out our preprint or come see us present in the queer family demography section at PAA! dx.doi.org/10.4054/MPID... (w/ carolyn hong & @demography.bsky.social)

“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” In a new study, we show that decades of violence mean that four out of ten Colombians alive today have lost family members as a result of the Colombian Armed Conflict. This 'demographic memory' of war has implications for post-conflict reconciliation 👇

Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR)@mpidr.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Weaponizing Kinship: Four out of ten Colombians have lost a family member in the conflict 🇨🇴 Enrique Acosta, Diego Alburez, Maria Gargiulo, & Catalina Torres quantified how many Colombians have ever lost at least a family member to conflict-related violence. www.demogr.mpg.de/go/weaponkinship

I am thrilled to announce that my first PhD paper, 'Analysing biases in genealogies using demographic microsimulation', co-authored with @demography.bsky.social and @ezagheni.bsky.social, has already been published in the European Journal of Population. rdcu.be/eTImq

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

Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR)@mpidr.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Call for Papers! Submit your paper for the conference: 'Kinship Structures, Dynamics and Inequalities', taking place on 8 and 9 June 2026 @mpidr.bsky.social in Rostock organized by @demography.bsky.social, @iussp.bsky.social +coll. Deadline: 21 January 2026 www.demogr.mpg.de/go/kinship-conference

🎉🎊A week full of celebrations ✨Two ERC Starting Grants for the MPIDR✨ We are thrilled to announce that @marilianep.bsky.social and @ugobas.bsky.social have each been awarded with an ERC Starting Grant by the @erc.europa.eu. #ERCStG www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even... #ERCStartingGrant #longevity

📣 Job alert! 📣 2 fully funded PhD positions in sociology/demography in the ERC Starting Grant SeRO, which studies the impact of local violent crime on sexual and reproductive health in Mexico. Please share and apply! PhD post 1: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... PhD post 2: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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👇

Sociology at Oxford@sociologyoxford.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🚨 New Job Alert! 🚨 Join Dr @ewabatyra.bsky.social as a Postdoc Researcher in Demography! Contribute to a global study on disparities in reproductive behaviour, focusing on childbearing age & fertility levels 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 Apply now 👉 www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/event/postdo...

“If I live to 80, what percentage of my life will I have spent as someone’s sister? What percentage as no one’s sister?” Liz Krieger on the “grief math” that’s preoccupied her ever since her brother’s death: https://theatln.tc/5jIeBQIz

Great presentations by A Colasurdo, N Panichella and J Wu at Session 96, "Internal Migration as a Life Course Trajectory", organized by the IUSSP Panel on Lifetime Migration at #IPC2025. Papers from this session—and others—will appear in a Special Issue of Comparative Population Studies in 2026.

🆕📰Rapid Demographic Changes Reshape Family Structures: Accelerated demographic change is creating significant differences in the number of relatives between peers of similar ages shows a study by @shajiang.bsky.social et al. in @readdemography.bsky.social. www.demogr.mpg.de/go/rapidchange

I was happy to speak to @faith-hill.bsky.social about the rise of great-grandparenthood in the US and elsewhere. Check out her piece, which is delightful as always 👇

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Even with people having children later, more families now include great-grandparents. It’s beautiful—but it also presents a new caretaking challenge, @faith-hill.bsky.social‬ writes: https://theatln.tc/I5uOd3RN

Today's the 2nd day of our symposium "Demographic & Health Consequences of Violence & Armed Conflict" where international scholars present research on the impact of armed conflict & violence on mortality, migration, fertility, the environment, & population health. www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

🔦[SPOTLIGHT] Should you Claim Your #Pension Early or Wait? Retiring later increases the monthly pension amount in the US. @shajiang.bsky.social et al. have investigated whether this is optimal, given the uncertainties surrounding #LifeSpan. What they found: www.demogr.mpg.de/go/USApension

Congrats, @shajiang.bsky.social and colleagues for this important contribution to the study of kinship in demography! Tl;dr: The speed at which birth and death rates change in a population affects the degree to which individuals have living kin (and how old these relatives are).

Demography - the flagship journal of PAA@readdemography.bsky.social · last yr.

In “Changing Demographic Rates Reshape Kinship Networks,” @shajiang.bsky.social W Zuo, Z Guo & S Tuljapurkar “explore how demographic transition, especially the speed of transition, affects the number & age of kin” & kin networks. @stanford.edu @mpidr.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

Some good news to brighten up your feed: Our #R package 📦 DemoKin for the demographic analysis of kinship has a new website with extensive documentation and literature 🎉🎈 @mpidr.bsky.social If you don't know it yet, why not check it out? ivanwilli.github.io/DemoKin/inde...

👓Recommended Reading📚Estimating Kinship Size of Older Adults in Europe With Models and Surveys In a paper recently published in @readdemography.bsky.social, @demography.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social and his colleagues, @maikevd.bsky.social and @afcastr0t.bsky.social (CED), compared ... 🧵1/5

Ghanaian data shows weak support for the nuclear convergence hypothesis. Urbanisation hasn't led to the dominance of nuclear families—extended types persist. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol... @josephineabaafi.bsky.social @rebeccasear.bsky.social @anushe.bsky.social

1/ A huge congrats to Dr. Antonino Polizzi @polizzan.bsky.social, who passed his DPhil viva for his thesis “The Causes and the Consequences of Growing Life Expectancy Shortfalls” on Friday, examined by Prof. @ridhikashyap.bsky.social & Dr. Iñaki Permanyer. @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social #demography

How do demographic trends shape kinship networks? This replication study compares Swedish & Dutch kinship networks, showing how fertility patterns & divorce rates impact family ties across generations. #Replication #Kinship #POPNET. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol... @bokanyie.bsky.social

*JOB OPENING*: Researcher in Reproductive #Demography Dr. Josh Wilde is recruiting a Post-doc to join his ERC-funded SEXRATIO project at @oxforddemsci.bsky.social, focused on links b/t maternal stress & sex-biased conception & fetal loss. Deadline May 9 (noon UK time). www.demography.ox.ac.uk/jobs

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With a little delay we learned that @lpcalderonb.bsky.social, who could not attend #PAA2025, won a Best Poster Award! Her colleagues put up the poster and a note from Liliana and co-author @martinkolk.bsky.social jumped in to present the research. Congrats Liliana! @popassocamerica.bsky.social

Starting with #rayshader and I love it but find it frustrating that the first column of data consistently appears washed out or overly bright 🫠 Any advice on how to fill this edge with the column's colour (see below)? @tylermorganwall.bsky.social..? Full question: stackoverflow.com/questions/79...

In historical and conflict demography, it is common to estimate a large death toll as the discontinuity between two observed or projected population estimates. @hggaddy.bsky.social and @thegargiulian.bsky.social show why this method creates important problems for demographic and econometric work.

Our short course on Subnational Probabilistic Population Projections at PAA 2025 (description attached) will now be hybrid. To ask to join remotely, email raftery@uw.edu from your professional email by April 7 with subject “Join PAA workshop”, saying why you want to.

On Monday next week, I'll present new evidence on how armed groups weaponise kinship as a strategy to maximise suffering, as part of the @hertieschool.bsky.social Social Policy Colloqium. Register for the event in Berlin (only in-person unfortunately) 👇 www.hertie-school.org/en/events/ev...

The social demography of war-related bereavement in Colombia, 1985–2018

<p>A presentation by <strong>Diego Alburez-Gutierrez (MPIDR Rostock).&nbsp;</strong>This event is part of the&nbsp;<i>Social Policy Research Colloquium</i>. For registration, and if you have any quest...

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In Rostock today to talk about how academia is facilitating the resurgence of eugenic ideology 👇

Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR)@mpidr.bsky.social · last yr.

💻Join online! 🎧 Süßmilch Lecture @mpidr.bsky.social Eugenics, demography and academia: an ongoing relationship 🗣️ @rebeccasear.bsky.social, @brunelcce.bsky.social & @ehbea.bsky.social 📅March 25, 2025 🕒3 pm CET ✏️Sign up now: www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

Our (@stephzzhang.bsky.social @monjalexander.bsky.social @demography.bsky.social) working paper on the migrant mortality advantage among 18th and 19th century United Kingdom & Ireland emigrants has been updated -- spoiler, we find an advantage in this context too! doi.org/10.4054/MPID...

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The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock is one of the leading demographic research centers in the world. At the MPIDR, researchers from all over the world investigate demo...

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#Demographers! Run don't walk at the chance to work w/ the amazing José Manuel Aburto @lshtm.bsky.social. 3 year post working on mortality estimation & trends in life expectancy & lifespan inequality in low-& middle-income countries. Not to mention..LONDON! jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Job Opportunity at LSHTM: Research Fellow

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is one of the world’s leading public health universities. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working i...

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