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...

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

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

Starting the second day of the #EPC2026 with the brain I got from IASA's booth related to their research on human capital which goes well with our Scholarly Migration Database (www.scholarlymigration.org)! @mpidr.bsky.social

We have a new major release! The Scholarly Migration Database 2.0 is now online! Working paper is here: dx.doi.org/10.4054/MPID... Updated data: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Website: www.scholarlymigration.org

It is a great pleasure to share that we now include global bilateral flows and rates disaggregated by gender and fields of science, at both the internal (subnational) and international levels! Access the data on Zenodo: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... And visit the website here: www.scholarlymigration.org

The Scholarly Migration Database 2.0 is now online! Just in time for the European Population Conference 2026 in Bologna! See the working paper here: dx.doi.org/10.4054/MPID... @ezagheni.bsky.social @theiletom.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social @populationeu.bsky.social

This is a very nice example of using the @smdatabase.bsky.social alongside other data to answer a societally relevant question. Asgari, Y., et al. Arab Spring’s impact on science through the lens of scholarly attention, funding, and migration. Scientometrics (2026). doi.org/10.1007/s111...

Arab Spring’s impact on science through the lens of scholarly attention, funding, and migration - Scientometrics

The 2010–2011 Arab Spring reverberated far beyond politics, reshaping how the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA) is studied. Analyzing 3.6 million Scopus-indexed articles published between 2002 and 2019, we find that mentions of ten of these countries in titles or abstracts rose significantly after 2011 relative to the global baseline, with Egypt receiving the greatest attention in the region. We link this surge to two intertwined mechanisms: an increase in research funding directed to the MENA region and the emigration of researchers who continued publishing about their countries of origin. Our analysis reveals that Saudi Arabia has emerged as a regional hub for research on the target countries, providing funding and attracting scholars and thereby playing a significant role in shaping the scientific narrative on the region. These findings demonstrate how political upheaval can reshape global knowledge flows by altering who studies whom, with what resources, and in which disciplines.

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See you at EPC 2026! Come talk to SMD's team about SMD 2.0 data!

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

MPIDR@EPC2026 Have a chat with the team behind the Scholarly Migration Database 📅 Friday, June 4🕑10:30-11:00📍MPIDR booth #EPC2026 Emilio Zagheni Aliakbar Akbaritabar Tom Theile European Association for Population Studies https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events_6123/press_6175/mpidr_epc2026_15303

📣 Heads-up everyone interested in databases and scholarly migration! 📣 We have great news "loading..."! (see photo) www.scholarlymigration.org Tune in and watch this space. More soon ... @theiletom.bsky.social @akbaritabar.bsky.social @ezagheni.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social #BiblioDemography

Job Offer‼️Doctoral Student Position Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) / University of Rostock Supervisors: Aliakbar Akbaritabar | Emilio Zagheni 📆Apply until April 15, 2026 https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_6122/jobs_fellowships_1910/doctoral_student_position_15039/

Highly recommended to apply to this doctoral position to contribute to the future of @smdatabase.bsky.social ! #BiblioDemography

Aliakbar Akbaritabar@akbaritabar.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Know a master graduate looking for a funded doctoral position? Please share this! Come work with @ezagheni.bsky.social and me at @mpidr.bsky.social on topics related to migration of scholars and the highly-skilled. More details: www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61...

Come visit MPIDR in ☀️Summer 2026☀️ 📣Call for Application for the "Population and Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program" 📅☀️June 8th – August 21st, 2026☀️ 🗺️MPIDR in Rostock, Germany Application Deadline: Jan 14, 2026 Apply here and learn more: incubator.demogr.mpg.de

This is the second year that I’m teaching a short session on Open Science and Reproducibility with Quarto, GitHub, and R for students in the European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD) program (by @mpidr.bsky.social, @ined.bsky.social, @eaps.bsky.social). Materials: www.ekotov.pro/2025-EDSD-op...

Have you been wondering where to find a comprehensive list of publications about the Scholarly Migration Database (SMD) using the SMD data or publications by its team and collabs? Or the ones citing SMD-related works? Now, we have a public Zotero Group library to join www.zotero.org/groups/59990...

🆕 study reveals global patterns of the migration of scientists shedding light on how researchers move both within and between countries. A team of researchers @mpidr.bsky.social found large disparities in the appeal of various countries and regions to scientists. www.demogr.mpg.de/go/migration...

Very proud of this work by Faeze Ghorbanpour, @thiagomalaguth.bsky.social and me, which addresses the left censoring issues in migration research that uses digital trace data. It will appear in the proceedings of #ICWSM2025, and Faeze is going to present it there. Access: doi.org/10.48550/arX...

Hot off the press as population enthusiasts gather for #PAA2025... New paper on global interrelationships between internal and international migration reveals novel patterns, inequalities and asymmetries. Bonus item: a high-resolution database free to download...

Aliakbar Akbaritabar@akbaritabar.bsky.social · last yr.

I am extremely happy to share. Just out in @pnas.org: “Global subnational estimates of migration of scientists reveal large disparities in internal and international flows” Open Access: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... with Maciej J. Dańko, Xinyi Zhao, @ezagheni.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social #PAA2025

I am extremely happy to share. Just out in @pnas.org: “Global subnational estimates of migration of scientists reveal large disparities in internal and international flows” Open Access: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... with Maciej J. Dańko, Xinyi Zhao, @ezagheni.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social #PAA2025

Some subnational regions were disproportionately more attractive to receive scholars from both internal and international origins. Some regions were consistently sending scholars to both internal and international destinations: brain drain. Data on the @smdatabase.bsky.social doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

I have arrived in Catania, and I am excited for tomorrow to deliver an invited talk on "Mobility, Migration, and Collaboration of Scholars" at the University of Catania. A long shot, perhaps, but let me know if you are around here! #BiblioDemography @smdatabase.bsky.social

📂Find the data publicly on Zenodo doi.org/10.5281/zeno... and all details on the website of the Scholarly Migration Database scholarlymigration.org “Use them to find the causes and consequences of the migration of scholars!”, says Tom Theile.🧵4/5

👓Recommended reading📚 🆕Migration data🚶🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️ Reliable migration data is notoriously hard to get. But very detailed longitudinal data about the mobility of almost all researchers publishing papers is hidden in big bibliometric databases like Scopus + OpenAlex🧵1/5

A 1-day hybrid symposium dedicated to high-skilled and scientific mobility! Please spread the word and join online or in Rostock! @smdatabase.bsky.social www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

MPIDR - Migration and Mobility Symposium

8 am - 6 pm The MPIDR invites to a one-day symposium in Rostock to promote lively exchange and collaboration between interdisciplinary researchers interested in scholary migration and mobility.

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

📣Call for Registration! Migration and Mobility Symposium @mpidr.bsky.social An event to promote exchange & collaboration among scientists interested in scholarly #migration & scientific #mobility. 📅Oct 15, 2024 🕗8am-6pm CEST 💻Join online: www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even... #demography

📣Call for Registration! Migration and Mobility Symposium @mpidr.bsky.social An event to promote exchange & collaboration among scientists interested in scholarly #migration & scientific #mobility. 📅Oct 15, 2024 🕗8am-6pm CEST 💻Join online: www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even... #demography

With one day focused on: Using large-scale bibliometric data for demographic research; (e.g., family planning, migration research); [...] to trace internal and international scholarly migration worldwide. More information here: demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61... #BiblioDemography

MPIDR - Topics in Digital and Computational Demography

The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock is one of the leading demographic research centers in the world. At the MPIDR, researchers from all over the world investigate demo...

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Aliakbar Akbaritabar@akbaritabar.bsky.social · 2y ago

Applications are now open for our PhD level course on "Topics in Digital and Computational Demography" with a hybrid setup from November 4 to 8th 2024. Info here: www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61... @mpidr.bsky.social @ezagheni.bsky.social @jiisu.bsky.social Tom Theile @conteristo.bsky.social

We, @smdatabase.bsky.social's core team, are thrilled to share this publication alongside the updated version of the data. "Bilateral flows and rates of international migration of scholars for 210 countries for the period 1998-2020" Open Access: doi.org/10.1038/s415... #BiblioDemography

Excited! Paper w/ Tom Theile and @ezagheni.bsky.social on the Scholarly Migration Database is published in Nature Scientific Data "Bilateral flows and rates of international migration of scholars for 210 countries for the period 1998-2020" doi.org/10.1038/s415... @mpidr.bsky.social #BiblioDemography

This happens tomorrow afternoon CET time. Looking forward to presenting @smdatabase.bsky.social, hearing the comments/suggestions of the attendees and panelists, learning about the other initiatives and meeting many of you on Zoom @mpidr.bsky.social IUSSP @ezagheni.bsky.social Tom Theile

LIFELONGMOVE Project@lifelongmove.bsky.social · 3y ago

📣📣Don't miss this webinar on innovations in data infrastructure for the longitudinal study of international migration! 📆 March 7th 2024, 15:00-16:30 CET More info and registrations: iussp.org/en/innovatio... @svidal.bsky.social @rosaweber.bsky.social @akbaritabar.bsky.social