IUSSP-PAA Webinars on AI & Demography - Part 1 on OCT 16 with Ridhi Kashyap, Emilio Zagheni, Andrew Tatem, Matthew Hauer / Part 2 on OCT 22 with Evans Omondi, Isaac Maddow-Zimet,Tyler McCormick, Madeleine Short Fabic. Moderation V. Adjiwanou iussp.org/en/iussp-paa... #demography #populationstudies

Internal and International Migration of Scholars in Times of Conflict: The Case of Ukraine, 2009-2022 Press release: demogr.mpg.de/go/ukraine-r... Open Access paper: doi.org/10.1111/padr...

Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR)@mpidr.bsky.social · 2w ago

What happens to researcher mobility in war & armed conflict? A new study traces scholars in #Ukraine from 2009–2022: conflict-affected regions lost researchers within Ukraine & abroad. The findings challenge the idea that #ScholarlyMmobility is simply a matter of free choice. #ResearchersAtRisk

What happens to researcher mobility in war & armed conflict? A new study traces scholars in #Ukraine from 2009–2022: conflict-affected regions lost researchers within Ukraine & abroad. The findings challenge the idea that #ScholarlyMmobility is simply a matter of free choice. #ResearchersAtRisk

A new paper shows that british universities face a potential funding crisis by 2030, as the number of international undergraduate students is expected to stagnate or decline. www.demogr.mpg.de/go/UKstuMobility Ruth Neville Emilio Zagheni Geographic Data Science Lab UCL University of Liverpool

Internal & International Migration of Scholars in Times of Conflict: Case of Ukraine "armed conflict can be associated w/ a reorganization of national science systems by changing where researchers work & publish, questioning accounts treating scholarly mobility as voluntary high-skilled migration"

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Current migration theories occasionally ignore the potentially negative aspects of scholarly migration as a form of high-skilled migration, largely viewing it in a positive light. Yet scholarly migra....

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The Computational Social Sciences and Humanities Laboratory at BSC is hiring Postdoctoral Researcher for Semantic and Citation Networks. If you are interested in Science and Technology Studies, Science of Science, and Network Analysis, come to work with us. www.bsc.es/join-us/job-...

🚨Who is migrating and how educated are they? With @guyabel.bsky.social, we estimated the educational and age profile of immigrants across 199 countries from 1990 to 2020. ➡️https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-026-07969-8

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Who is moving across borders? A new IIASA study published in Scientific Data (@natureportfolio.nature.com), maps immigration by age, sex, and education across 199 countries. One 🔑 finding: the share of immigrants with higher education has risen in every world region. iiasa.ac.at/news/sep-202...

Apply now for our five-day doctoral course on Topics in Digital and Computational Demography, which will take place in hybrid format from November 2-6, 2026. Details: www.demogr.mpg.de/go/DCD26 Application deadline is September 25, 2026.

CDWG hybrid meetings (Wednesdays 10-11 AM PT) feature paper presentations, methods demonstrations, software tutorials, and professional development opportunities. #demography @uwcsde.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social @popassocamerica.bsky.social

Computational Demography Working Group

About The Computational Demography Working Group (CDWG) at the University of Washington meets weekly to provide an interdi

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✨ We’re excited to announce the Fall 2026 IAS Seminar Series, featuring a stellar lineup of speakers and thought-provoking talks. Seminars take place every Thursday and are open to all! #AcademicSky #CSS #socsky #sociology

Do you have some exciting research ideas? Apply for a three-year postdoc position in sociology at Nuffield College starting September 2027. Apply by 21/9. www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...

Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Sociology (two posts) - Nuffield College Oxford University

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Open Science Ambassadors Annual Meeting 2026! 🌐✨ Join the OSA on September 14–15, 2026 at Harnack House in Berlin for talks, workshops and exchange on Open Science, research integrity, and science communication. Swipe for impressions from past meetings 📸 Register now! https://bit.ly/44Gc8wY

Great to have a bit of time to polish the personal website, and update the CV. Here is the updated intro: I am Aliakbar Akbaritabar (Ali), Assistant Professor of Computational Social Science at the University of Rostock and Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research.

Are you a sociologist studying social inequality? Come join our awesome sociology department at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social as an assistant professor www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

Assistant Professor in Social Inequality

Are you an expert in the sociology of social inequality or social stratification? Do you want to inspire students? Become our new assistant professor!

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𝐀𝐰𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐜 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐝𝐬 list is live since a few weeks! Access and share it with others: opensciencedemography.github.io/awesome-demo... Several colleagues generously added their suggestions (Thanks). You can contribute to it by adding new items here github.com/OpenScienceD...

👉 Check out the full story here: shorturl.at/vJWeZ 📃 Read the paper published in PNAS Nexus: shorturl.at/8jJVd

What Determines Where Scientists Go? The Role Of Networks And Institutional Prestige In Academic Mobility

A new study tracks the early-career mobility of 172,000 scientists to understand what drives where they go.

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Novelty and Inequalities in Science symposium Prague, Oct. 8–9, 2026 📆Extended deadline: June 30, 2026 👉Submit an abstract on the topics of recognizing and rewarding novelty in science or find more details: 🔗 stss.flu.cas.cz/novelty2026 #scienceofscience #metascience #sociologyofscience 🙏Repost🧪

Population and Social Data Science ☀️Summer ☀️Incubator Program 2026 Since the beginning of June, MPIDR has been hosting the "Population and Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program 2026." Learn all: https://incubator.demogr.mpg.de/ Emilio Zagheni Aliakbar Akbaritabar

Prepared a list of R packages, Python libraries, and other tools allowing to implement "demographic methods" for students. Added a few example reproducibility packages to learn from as well. If you know of other packages that I should include, please reply or send them as a direct message, thanks 🙏

The confirmed programme of the lecture series on Foundations and Frontiers of Analytical Sociology is now available online. The lectures will take place between September 2 and December 11, 2026. Please find the full programme, and short bios of the lecturers here: liu.se/en/news-item...

World-leading researchers to headline new lecture series in analytical sociology

Some of the world's most influential researchers in analytical sociology, network science, and computational social science will visit Linköping University this autumn as part of a new international l...

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The Institute for Analytical Sociology@iasliu.bsky.social · 4mo ago

*Upcoming lecture series and PhD course at IAS* 📚 In Fall 2026, IAS will host an online lecture series featuring many of the scholars whose work has been instrumental in the development of analytical sociology.

SMD 2.0 @akbaritabar.bsky.social & @theiletom.bsky.social not only won the EAPS Open Science and Outreach Award (www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...). They also updated the @smdatabase.bsky.social. More dissaggregations: Gender, field of science, subnational location. www.scholarlymigration.org

🎉Congratulations 🏅Henrik-Alexander Schubert was awarded the Otto Hahn Medal for his doctoral thesis. https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events_6123/news_press_releases_4630/news/henrik_alexander_schubert_receives_otto_hahn_medal_15475 📸© David Ausserhofer / MPG Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

It was a pleasure speaking on "Mobility, Migration, and Collaboration of Scholars" for the Center for Computational Social Sciences at Koç University. Thanks to everyone for the great discussion! Thank you for the invitation and for sharing the recording. youtu.be/OdgWQoSz2hc?...

Aliakbar Akbaritabar | Mobility, Migration, and Collaboration of Scholars

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Late but still trying to watch part of the dissertation defense by @aschniedermann.bsky.social a former colleague at @bibliometrie-info.bsky.social ... Very articulated answers to pretty sharp questions, well done Alex (so far, I had to disconnect to attend another meeting)...

Welcome to Rostock! It is that time of the year again. The Population and Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program 2026 just started this Monday. We hope you will have a good time and we did our best to secure a ☀️sunny summer ☀️ https://incubator.demogr.mpg.de/Program

#EPC2026 Open Science Workshop materials are publicly available here: Slides: github.com/jschoeley/ep... Hands-on course on git, GitHub, etc: github.com/akbaritabar/...

Ugofilippo Basellini@ugobas.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Thank you @akbaritabar.bsky.social and @jschoeley.com for an excellent workshop and thanks to all participants!

MPIDR@EPC2026 We are on our ways home and looking back at a great conference. We had fun, great talks, delicious food, simply a really good time. Thanks to the organizers, thanks to Bologna, thanks to everyone who was there. We are looking forward to #EPC2028 in Tallin! #EPC2026

Viva Open Science and free access to data for research!

Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR)@mpidr.bsky.social · 4mo ago

And here is another Award for MPIDR! Congratulations! Aliakbar Akbaritabar and Tom Theile received the EAPS Open Science and Outreach Award for Population Studies for the Scholarly Migration Database. www.scholarlymigration.org #OpenScience #EPC2026 European Association for Population Studies

And here is another Award for MPIDR! Congratulations! Aliakbar Akbaritabar and Tom Theile received the EAPS Open Science and Outreach Award for Population Studies for the Scholarly Migration Database. www.scholarlymigration.org #OpenScience #EPC2026 European Association for Population Studies