What a stellar group of honorary degrees this year @ox.ac.uk! It was a privilege to be able to meet Katalin Karikó and her daughter.

Jenn Dowd@drjenndowd.bsky.social · 2mo ago

So exciting to meet Nobel Prize winner & mRNA technology pioneer Katalin Karikó yesterday, where she was awarded an honorary degree from @ox.ac.uk. Also to meet her daughter Susan Francia, an Olympic Champion Rower! 🤩 @ridhikashyap.bsky.social @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social

🚨 New jobs! 🚨 We're looking for 2 Postdoctoral Research Fellows (1 quant, 1 qual), for a full-time, fixed-term position for up to 4 years! The Fellows will have full control over the nature/direction of their research while here 📝🌏 Deadline: 31 July 2026 🔗 www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/event/postdo...

It was a real pleasure to supervise Hampton’s MPhil thesis - great to see this out now in PDR!

Hampton Gaddy@hggaddy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A paper based on my master's thesis is out this morning in PDR! It offers a new way of theorising and estimating "demographic memory". In a week of heatwaves and political instability in the UK, these toy examples work as a nice graphical abstract 🌡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

PAA is the first conference I went to and remains one of my favourite conferences. This year’s PAA was extra special. Very grateful to mentors and colleagues who nominated me!

Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Oxford University@oxforddemsci.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🏆 Congratulations to @ridhikashyap.bsky.social , who received the PAA Early Achievement Award for distinguished contributions to population research within the first 10 years after the PhD. A well-deserved recognition of Ridhi’s outstanding contributions to demographic science. 🍾

1/ Has life expectancy fully recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic? In a new pre-print, we find that 31 of 34 high-income countries had still not returned to their expected life expectancy trajectories five years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... #demography

American professors, who wants to come to Oxford for a year or two? Get in quick - deadline soon. www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/vacancy-geor...

Winners of the Philip Leverhulme Prize, @fsturt.bsky.social @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social and @ridhikashyap.bsky.social, talk about their research and the Prize’s impact on their work and career. 🎬 media.leverhulme.ac.uk/video/philip...

Philip Leverhulme Prizes

The Philip Leverhulme Prizes recognise the achievements of outstanding researchers whose work has attracted international acclaim and whose future career is exceptionally promising

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Leverhulme Trust@leverhulme.ac.uk · 8mo ago

Nominations are now open for the Trust’s Philip Leverhulme Prizes, which are awarded in six broad subject areas and worth £100,000 each for two to three years. Deadline: Wednesday 14 May 2026, 4pm. 🔗 For more details, visit: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/philip-lever...

New study on global digital gender gaps 🧔‍♂️👩📱🌐: It finds that in low- and middle-income countries - women are 9% less likely to use the 🌐 - 8% less likely to own a 📱 than men ( ~320 million fewer women 🌐 and ~190 million fewer women with 📱) www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/mapping...

Mapping the global digital gender divide: new study reveals stark inequalities in internet and mobile access

A research team comprised of current and alumni members of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science (LCDS) has published a major new study in PNAS revealing where and to what extent women remain ...

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Proud to see @jasminabdelghany.bsky.social now a Dr. It was a pleasure advising her thesis and seeing her grow as a scholar. Congratulations!

Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Oxford University@oxforddemsci.bsky.social · 11mo ago

1/ HUGE congratulations to @jasminabdelghany.bsky.social for passing her DPhil viva w/ no corrections with her dissertation "The impact of in-utero exposure to ambient temperature on maternal health, infant health, and population composition." @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social @oxpop.bsky.social

New @pnas.org paper constructing subnational estimates of internet and mobile adoption by gender, including gender gaps, for 117 low- and middle- income countries from 2015 through 2025. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Mapping subnational gender gaps in internet and mobile adoption using social media data | PNAS

The digital revolution has ushered in many societal and economic benefits. Yet access to digital technologies such as mobile phones and internet re...

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🚨 The Economist has been telling you for years that polygamy causes civil war by locking men out of marriage. A new article with @rebeccasear.bsky.social and @anthrolog.bsky.social explains that the demography of marriage markets doesn't actually work that way. 🧵 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

High rates of polygyny do not lock large proportions of men out of the marriage market | PNAS

There is a widespread belief, in both the scholarly literature and the popular press, that polygyny prevents large numbers of men from marrying by ...

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Thanks for having me @i2sc.net - I enjoyed the discussion. Hope the rest of your SICSS goes well!

Interdisciplinary Institute for Societal Computing@i2sc.net · 12mo ago

We closed our Monday with a thought-provoking keynote by @ridhikashyap.bsky.social (@ox.ac.uk) on “𝐺𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝐼𝑛𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝐷𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑.” Her talk highlighted key challenges and opportunities for research at the intersection of gender, demography, and digital data.

🌍 Can satellites help count people where censuses are missing? New work by @edithdarin.bsky.social, @ridhikashyap.bsky.social K& Douglas Leasure shows building-footprint maps + smart models can fill census gaps—vital for health, planning & aid. www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/can-sat...

Can Satellite Maps Accurately Count People Where Censuses Are Missing?

A new study published by our Phd Student Edith Darin, together Ridhi Kashyap and Douglas Leasure from the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science

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New work from the Digital Gender Gaps team — we show how access to free laptops provided in public schools improved foundational math esp for economically disadvantaged households, w/ more time on time on learning, less private tuition and better language comprehension.

Nuffield College Library@nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · last yr.

Access to technology and foundational math proficiency among students: empirical evidence from India doi.org/10.1057/s415... Paper in @nature.com by Prashant Poddar, @rotondivale.bsky.social and @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellow @ridhikashyap.bsky.social

Are you attending the International Population Conference in Brisbane? The IUSSP Panel on Digital and Computational Demography is organising *3* pre-conference workshops on digital gender inequalities, kinship and microsimulation, and migration and digital trace data iussp.org/en/digital-a...

#IPC2025! Workshop by @lpcalderonb.bsky.social @aasli.bsky.social & @ridhikashyap.bsky.social in Brisbane: "Demographic Microsimulation in R Using SOCSIM:Modeling Population & Kinship Dynamics." ipc2025.iussp.org/cms/wp-conte... Sign up until 06/22/25 Applicants will be notified by the end of June.

🔥Coming July 2: 'Metrics and Models'!🔥 A new seminar series on advanced modelling w/ impact across health/society. 🌍 Open to *ALL*! 🕑 Weds 2pm UK alternating weeks (online) 🔗 metrics-and-models.github.io 📬 metrics_and_models-subscribe@maillist.ox.ac.uk Brilliant speakers. *Please share*!

Hey demographers! We're starting up the formal demography working group again! Next Friday 16 May at 11:30am ET @hggaddy.bsky.social will talk to us about challenges in estimating crisis mortality. Excited! Head to the website to sign up for Zoom details: formaldemography.github.io/working_group/

I’ve loved my time here — highly recommend applying! Just a few days left...

Ridhi Kashyap@ridhikashyap.bsky.social · last yr.

*JOB OPENING* Come join me and the Digital Gender Gaps team @sociologyoxford.bsky.social @oxforddemsci.bsky.social. We study digital gender inequalities and their consequences w/ social media, geospatial, and population data. tinyurl.com/postdoc-oxf Apply by 9 May, noon (UK)

Deadline approaching: Friday this week at noon UK! Apply and/or share widely!

Ridhi Kashyap@ridhikashyap.bsky.social · last yr.

*JOB OPENING* Come join me and the Digital Gender Gaps team @sociologyoxford.bsky.social @oxforddemsci.bsky.social. We study digital gender inequalities and their consequences w/ social media, geospatial, and population data. tinyurl.com/postdoc-oxf Apply by 9 May, noon (UK)

*JOB OPENING* Come join me and the Digital Gender Gaps team @sociologyoxford.bsky.social @oxforddemsci.bsky.social. We study digital gender inequalities and their consequences w/ social media, geospatial, and population data. tinyurl.com/postdoc-oxf Apply by 9 May, noon (UK)

REPOST #jobs @oxforddemsci.bsky.social 👨‍💻Senior Research Fellow Associate/Professor 👩‍💻Senior Researcher Geospatial Health 📲Postdoc Digital Pandemic Preparedness 👶Postdoc Reproductive Demography 🤖 Programmer AI See: www.demography.ox.ac.uk/jobs #Demography #Epidemiology #Health #Population

March 15, 2020 was a huge turning point for me w/ both @oxforddemsci.bsky.social & the start of my #scicomm adventure w/ @thosenerdygirls.bsky.social. On the 5th anniversary of that day, I am excited to launch my Substack "Data for Health"-please subscribe! jenndowd.substack.com/p/reflection...

Reflections on March 2020

Demography, Data, and "Dear Pandemic"

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The Population and Development turns 50 this year! To mark the occasion, w/ @aasli.bsky.social, we conduct a computational analysis of research themes and author characteristics in PDR and compare with @readdemography.bsky.social and Population Studies. doi.org/10.1111/padr...

<em>Population and Development Review</em> | Population Council Journal | Wiley Online Library

To mark the Population and Development Review's (PDR) 50th anniversary, we analyze its contributions to the landscape of population research. We examine the trajectory of research published in PDR an...

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How can we #AccelerateAction to improve women's health outcomes? buff.ly/pacAIJZ A new study co-authored by Dr Ursula Gazeley identifies the leading causes of maternal deaths globally and highlights the need to reduce health inequities in LMICs. @leverhulme.bsky.social @oxpop.bsky.social #IWD2025

Closing the digital gender gap starts with data 📊 For #InternationalWomensDay, Ridhi & team launched an updated dashboard tracking internet & mobile access by gender at a subnational level. Explore ➡️ digitalgendergaps.org/dashboard/

Sociology at Oxford@sociologyoxford.bsky.social · last yr.

This #IWD2025, let’s talk about the digital gender gap 🌍📱 Women in low- & middle-income countries are 22% less likely to use the internet & 14% less likely to own a mobile phone. Hear from @ridhikashyap.bsky.social on why digital access matters ➡️ www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/article/brid...

On #InternationalWomensDay, @ridhikashyap.bsky.social's Digital Gender Gaps team have launched an updated dashboard to #AccelerateAction by helping to ensure women are equal participants in digital society buff.ly/OSV35V8 @leverhulme.bsky.social @oxpop.bsky.social @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social

Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and launch interdisciplinary research projects? We are so excited to announce there will be *26* Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science this year! Apply to one of them here: sicss.io/locations

If you are interested in studying good old human activity on pre-Musk Twitter, we are now sharing the complete 375M dataset of our 24h Twitter data collection with researchers. Get in touch! ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC... Please forward to interested scholars.

What's the future of mortality in high-income countries? Making predictions (especially about the future) is hard. But that doesn't stop us from trying...I'm happy to share this contribution to the PDR 50th anniversary special issue: doi.org/10.1111/padr... (open access) #Demography