Conference@MPIDR #EPC2026 is over but no time to rest for MPIDR! Today we're heading into the second day of the Conference "Kinship Structures, Dynamics, and Inequalities" here in Rostock. https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events_6123/calendar_1921/kinship_structures_dynamics_and_inequalities_14814

📣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...

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

✍️ 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 doi.org/10.1080/0032... @sdu.dk @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social

Fertility, birth, reproduction: Connecting formal demographic frameworks

The conventional framework of fertility research conceptualizes childbirth from the mother’s perspective. From her perspective, birth is an uncertain and potentially recurring event. In contrast, t...

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Deeply honoured and genuinely surprised to receive this year’s European Demographer Award alongside @juliahellstrand.bsky.social and @fertdem.bsky.social 🥳Congratulations to all awardees 👏 Looking forward to seeing you in Berlin!

Population Europe@populationeu.bsky.social · last yr.

Proud to announce this year's European Demographer Awards! They go to Julia Hellstrand @juliahellstrand.bsky.social ‬ (Helsinki), Cosmo Strozza @cosmostrozza.bsky.social (Odense) and Éva Beaujouan @fertdem.bsky.social (Vienna). More: population-europe.eu/network/news... Congratulations!

Learned so much this week doing this course! Highly recommend it!Completed the week with this plot version from my project about Shared Lifetime in 1950 and 2023

IMPRS-PHDS@imprs-phds.bsky.social · last yr.

This week, @jschoeley.com from @mpidr.bsky.social shares his experience in designing and implementing impactful scientific data visualizations in a 5-day @imprs-phds.bsky.social elective course. Participants create, critique and refine visualizations, culminating in a final project. We are excited!

La Red Latinoamericana de Estudios de Familia invitan al Seminario virtual Encuestas longitudinales para el estudio de trayectorias familiares, conyugales y reproductivas en América Latina ✏️ forms.gle/C7ujv8eiDXRD... Jueves, 15 de mayo | 1pm(ARG/URY), 12pm(CHL), 10am(MEX)

GLAD is finally out!🎉 The first global database on living arrangements from an individual-based perspective is here! 🏠📊 Built from 740M+ individual cases, GLAD covers 107 countries from 1960–2020 🌍 Catch all the details tomorrow! P.S.🕥 10:30am–12pm📍Liberty & Independence Ballrooms (M4) #PAA2025

Feliz de haber concluido nuestro taller sobre "Modelos de Parentesco para América Latina y el Caribe" en el Congreso #ALAP2024 junto a @lpcalderonb.bsky.social @amandamalmeida.bsky.social e Ivan Williams. Todas las slides, código y materiales están en linea: amandamartinsal.github.io/ALAP24_paren...

We welcomed Angelita Alves de Carvalho & Ana Carolina Soares Bertho from Brazil this week. Both professors are working with marilianep.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social & Raphael Villela on the project "An in-depth assessment of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Brazilian population dynamics".