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Joan Damiens

@joandamiens.bsky.social

📊 Demographer Post-doc at @pophel (University of Helsinki) Social inequalities in health and mortality; mental health, housing, intergenerational and longitudinal perspectives.

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Marie-Pier Bergeron Boucher@mpbergeron.bsky.social · 6mo ago

PhD opportunity! CPop is opening a fully funded three year PhD position on lifespan inequalities. Apply here 👇 fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

PhD scholarship for research project on lifespan inequalities across social determinants of health

The Interdisciplinary Centre on population Dynamics (CPop) at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) invites applications for a fully funded three year PhD position within a Danish Research Council ...

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Damiano Uccheddu@damianouccheddu.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Great opportunity for anyone working with longitudinal data and life course perspectives. Very much looking forward to #SLLS2026 in Brussels (hosted at the Free University of Brussels, ULB). Please consider submitting and sharing widely! More information: www.slls.org.uk/events/slls-...

Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies (SLLS)@sllshome.bsky.social · 9mo ago

📢 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS SLLS Annual Conference 2026 Structure & Change in Critical Times: Implications for the Life Course Université Libre de Bruxelles 1 - 3 July 2026 For full details and to submit an abstract: www.sllsconference.com/callforabstr... Deadline for submissions: 13 February 2026

Philippe Bocquier@phbocquier.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I recorded a series of short 📽️ to explain Fundamental Cause Theory (of diseases) proposed by B. Link, J. Phelan and S. Clouston: what are "cause", "fundamental cause" & "fundamental cause theory"? How to test FCT? How can structural modelling help? Please share! 😉 youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Fundamental Cause Theory of Disease: what is it and how to test it? - YouTube

Fundamental Cause Theory is an important contribution to the understanding of why diseases, mortality and other demographic phenomena change over time. It wa...

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Helsinki Institute for Demography and Population Health@pophel.bsky.social · 7mo ago

We led an international effort to analyse changes in the parental socioeconomic composition of babies conceived during the COVID-19 pandemic across 15 countries. The results may have long-term implications for these birth cohorts. Read more here -> doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Parental socioeconomic composition of birth cohorts changed during the COVID-19 pandemic - Nature Communications

The authors show that babies conceived during the COVID-19 pandemic have a different parental socioeconomic composition than expected had the pandemic not occurred.

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DEMO LLN 🇧🇪@demographielln.bsky.social · 9mo ago

📢 New publication alert! Ashira Menashe-Oren, @damianouccheddu.bsky.social & Ester Rizzi published their work on social ties in old age and the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic. They compared 13 European countries using SHARE data. Read more: doi.org/10.1007/s104...

Social ties in old age: the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic - European Journal of Ageing

Social ties amongst older adults were immediately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic—both by the deaths occurring disproportionately amongst older adults and by the policies limiting social contact imp...

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Jonas Schöley@jschoeley.com · 9mo ago

3 full-time positions on Probabilistic Migration Modeling at University of @helsinki.fi in collaboration with @mpidr.bsky.social and Mikko Myrskylä. DM me if you want to know more, as I'm part of the project. Definitely DM me if you heard of conformal prediction www.vaestoliitto.fi/en/news/post...

Postdoctoral Researchers in Demography and Population Projections

The Population Research Institute (PRI) at Väestöliitto – Family Federation of Finland and the University of Helsinki invite applications for three positions as Postdoctoral research fellow to study…

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Julia Hellstrand@juliahellstrand.bsky.social · last yr.

Highly surprised but deeply honored to receive the European Demographer Award. Thank you! Congratulations to fellow awardees @cosmostrozza.bsky.social and @fertdem.bsky.social. See you in Berlin in October?

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!

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Natacha Zimmer@natachazimmer.bsky.social · last yr.

The first paper of my PhD research is out! Using Belgian national register data, we analyse the influence of the initial reception place on residential trajectories among asylum-seeking migrants. Read more ⏬

DEMO LLN 🇧🇪@demographielln.bsky.social · last yr.

📢New publication from DEMO Members! Natacha Zimmer (@natachazimmer.bsky.social) and Bruno Schoumaker (@brunoschoumaker.bsky.social) explore internal migration trajectories among #asylum seekers in #Belgium, highlighting how initial reception shapes residential patterns. ⏩ doi.org/10.1002/psp....

Eugenio Paglino@eugeniopaglino.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 Another article on health and migration out in Social Science and Medicine! With Pekka Martikainen and Irma Elo, we look at the mortality of internal migrants in Finland www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Internal migration, health selection, and the salmon bias: A register-based study of Finland

Studies on international migrants have repeatedly found a mortality advantage of migrant over native-born populations. Data artifacts, differential pr…

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Helsinki Institute for Demography and Population Health@pophel.bsky.social · last yr.

How homeownership (and possibly its duration) both in teenage years and in the late thirties can be associated with psychotropic medication and hospital visits and specialised care for mental health reasons and self-harm? Read here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🏠💊🏥

Individual and parental housing tenure and mental healthcare use among Finnish men and women in early mid-adulthood

Homeownership is a valuable status associated with better mental health outcomes than being a tenant. However, research has yet to investigate the rol…

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Joan Damiens@joandamiens.bsky.social · last yr.

"If #academia is serious about #equity, it needs to rethink how authorship is assigned." Authors highlight: 1️⃣"Local researchers should be recognised as intellectual partners" 2️⃣"Marginalised scholars’ work is overlooked" 3️⃣"Encouraging multilingual publications" #science #demography #inclusivity

LSE Impact@lseimpactblog.bsky.social · last yr.

💥New: #Authorship shapes academic careers, but as Joseph Mellors and Stroma Cole of the University of Westminster argue, current practices often reinforce #inequality, overlooking key contributors and marginalising voices from the Global South. #Publishing #Research ⬇️

Eugenio Paglino@eugeniopaglino.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 New article out in Social Science & Medicine! Irma Elo and I take a deeper look at trends in life expectancy for foreign-born and native-born populations in the United States before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

US-Born and Foreign-born Life Expectancy by Race and Hispanic Origin before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States

Interdisciplinary health scholarship has long documented the lower mortality of the foreign-born compared to the US-born populations. In this study, w…

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Philippe Bocquier@phbocquier.bsky.social · last yr.

A retrospective on fundamental cause theory: State of the literature, and goals for the future Sean A P Clouston et al. Annu Rev Sociol. 2021 Jul. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34949900/

A retrospective on fundamental cause theory: State of the literature, and goals for the future - PubMed

Fundamental Cause Theory (FCT) was originally proposed to explain how socioeconomic inequalities in health emerged and persisted over time. The concept was that higher socioeconomic status helped some...

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Michelle Kelly-Irving@mkellyirving.bsky.social · last yr.

Any thoughts? 💭 #HealthInequality

Cartoon person thinking “why are social determinants so easily dismissed as not being true causes of health inequalities when there’s so much evidence that they are?”