My collaboration with @lukaszbaszczak.bsky.social presented at @usociety.bsky.social conference on Political identity and fertility!

Łukasz Baszczak@lukaszbaszczak.bsky.social · last yr.

Together with @ewaweychert.bsky.social we show that people are more likely to have a child during periods when the ruling party is the party they support. It hints that childbearing decisions are based on narratives of the future, including political ones. @usociety.bsky.social 2025!

Happy to present "LabFam Individual Biographies (LIB):open science project harmonizing family & employment histories" at @usociety.bsky.social user conference 2025! We build monthly spells— births, partnership & employment—to increase reproducibility in social science! @labfam.bsky.social

My first PhD article has been published! 🔎 It examines how the relationship between flexible working time arrangements and self-reported work-to-life and life-to-work conflict is moderated by an (un)equal domestic labor distribution within heterosexual couples.

Journal of Family Research@familyresearch.bsky.social · last yr.

#Published: "Flexible working time arrangements and work-life conflict: The role of gender and housework" by @olgaleshchenko.bsky.social & Susanne Strauß (doi.org/10.20377/jfr...). #JFR #JFamRes #openaccess #openscience #sociology #demography

🚫 Fertility fallacies busted! Our Director @melindacmills.bsky.social joined @lbc.co.uk to challenge myths: 1️⃣ Young ppl aren’t choosing fewer kids 2️⃣ Pronatalist policies won’t fix it 📉 Incentives ≠ long-term fertility boost Read the full @unfpa.org report: tinyurl.com/bdd3evsr #Policy #Demography

The fertility fallacy: Five things you didn’t know about global fertility rates

UNITED NATIONS, New York – “Do you want kids?” Every day, people around the world ask themselves, and others, this question. But it also begs another: “Do you feel able to have children

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Final session of #PopDays2025: presentation of the Population Report “Towards a Positive Demography” 📍Aula A — starting now!

#popdays2025 happy networking with @olgaleshchenko.bsky.social

Happy to share my last publication on Inclusive Tourism and Topic modelling and LLMs: Meneghini, A., & Tuzzi, A. (2025). Can tourism be a mean for promoting inclusive development? A textual analysis of funded projects in Greece. Current Issues in Tourism - www.tandfonline.com/eprint/68VV2...

Planet vs. Parenthood? When the future feels apocalyptic, family planning becomes a moral dilemma? We show that more climate change news + feeling you’re not doing enough = fewer first births #ClimateAnxiety #Fertility #UKHLS #Popdays2025 @amatysiak.bsky.social & @florenceups.bsky.social

Just before I turned 30, I received the "Start Scholarship" from the Foundation for Polish Science - a recognition for scientific accomplishments before reaching this magical milestone... 🥳 www.fnp.org.pl/znamy-laurea...

📊 Our #PAA2025 poster on employer’s perceptions on workers taking parental leaves with @amatysiak.bsky.social, @ewa-cukrowska.bsky.social & @gaylekaufman.bsky.social We find hiring and pay penalties for fathers taking (longer) leave and rewards for mothers taking shorter leave. @labfam.bsky.social

@heidicolleran.bsky.social starts her #ehbea2025 plenary with a manifesto to get behind: bring more demography into cultural evolution, and more ethnography into demography

Happy to share the results of our experiment on #PAA2025 with Anna Kurowska and @amatysiak.bsky.social . For childless females, reproductive rights outweigh even job and housing stability in shaping fertility intentions ❗️ @labfam.bsky.social #FertilityIntentions #ReproductiveRights

Here my #paa poster showing kin proximity in obscure Italian provinces. Who knows how close people in Termoli lives :)) @marcoalbertini.bsky.social @florenceups.bsky.social

It would be unforgivable to miss the largest poster of the conference—so step by the poster session happening now to say hi to @mimmilou.bsky.social and me, and chat about our work on employment uncertainty among migrants!

Elena Pirani is at the Poster Session P08-Family demography presenting her work “Caregivers' mental health: gender and age differences” w/ Cunsolo & Tocchioni. #PAA25

Waiting for you to come at the next poster session (P07) to see Carlos’ poster about educational inequality in the World! @karlosj89.bsky.social @paolobrunori.bsky.social @mtriventi.bsky.social

A large part (25-40%) of the effect of employment uncertainty on transition to parenthood is mediated by union formation - at least in Italy. Check our new study (w/ De Rose & Tocchioni @florenceups.bsky.social) just published on the Journal of Population Research! 🔗 tinyurl.com/37wd5d4b

Employment uncertainty and parenthood: quantifying the mediating role of union formation - Journal of Population Research

This study aims to quantify the extent to which union formation mediates the relationship between employment uncertainty and the transition to parenthood, taking Italy as a case study. Research on the...

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An outreach exhibition with Drs Jennifer Rao and Laura Maclean as part of SAGES network at Dynamic Earth Schools science event on how to design facilities around a hospital to cater for patient's needs using the Design Hopes Mosiac game. @phrg-standrews.bsky.social @cpc-cg.bsky.social

@maryabedalahad.bsky.social is presenting #homeownership #marriage & #childbirth & what comes first for #immigrants & #descendants in #Sweden #PAA2025

Our poster at #PAA2025 on Climate Change Narratives and Fertility in the UK with Daniele Vignoli, @amatysiak.bsky.social & @florenceups.bsky.social We found people who care about the climate are less likely to have a first child when exposed to more climate news #ClimateChange #Fertility

Poster session 04 at #PAA2025: there’s our poster about Climate change narratives and fertility in the UK - by Ewa Weychert, Vignoli & @amatysiak.bsky.social @labfam.bsky.social Come and say hi! 👋