Low-educated groups die at higher rates from nearly every cause, yet the share of deaths from each cause is almost the same as in high-educated groups. So the common idea that they die mostly of "avoidable" diseases doesn't quite hold. Denmark and the US both 🇩🇰🇺🇸 Open Access 👇

Marie-Pier Bergeron Boucher@mpbergeron.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New paper with @cosmostrozza.bsky.social in European Journal of Epidemiology: Education attainment influences when we die much more than what we die from link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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/...

Paper with Mengxue Chen @aihw.bsky.social and Vladimir Canudas-Romo @ouranu.bsky.social applying the decomposition method I developed during my PhD to Chinese context, looking at regional contributions to national longevity improvements, and all the interesting implications.

Demographic Research@demresjournal.bsky.social · 3mo ago

China’s life expectancy rose sharply, yet regional dynamics mattered. Mortality decreased across the country. However, internal migration and population changes partially offset these improvements in certain regions. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

New paper published with colleagues from Australian National University. Men in Australia with lower levels of education are dying years earlier than women, and cardiovascular disease, cancer, accidents and suicide are driving the gap. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Guy I’m sponsoring very quietly releases #rstats package I’ve been wanting for the last couple of years. pkg.yihui.org/gglite/doc/g... Guess he shut up and took my money. 🤣🤣🤣

Here are a couple of examples. Lung cancer survival rates for EGFR+ mutated Lung cancer.

Thank you @bspsuk.bsky.social and @camunicampop.bsky.social. It was a fun week thinking about formal demography, meeting like-minded colleagues, hearing fun stories about demography, and jotting down cool things Robert said🤣, all in the beautiful Cambridge uni. All hail the rule of one!

Robert Chung@rchung.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Thanks @camunicampop.bsky.social and @bspsuk.bsky.social for sponsoring the Informal Introduction to Formal Demography workshop! It was a great week!

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 🎂Mar 21, 1768 Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier born in Auxerre, Bourgogne, France 🇫🇷 Fourier series, yeah, yeah but also: In 1821 he developed cumulative frequency curves, showing inhabitants of Paris by age groupings ("Notions Generales, Sur La Population")

If female reproductive cancers (breast and gynecological cancers combined) were to be eliminated, the overall female survival advantage would increase by approximately 0.77 years on average, with country-specific increases ranging up to nearly one year.

Wen Su@wensu221.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Using a novel mortality measure (Truncated Cross-sectional Average Length of Life), we show a pattern of elevated female cancer mortality in midlife that was consistent across birth cohorts.

Using a novel mortality measure (Truncated Cross-sectional Average Length of Life), we show a pattern of elevated female cancer mortality in midlife that was consistent across birth cohorts.

Wen Su@wensu221.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Paper led by colleagues from Australian National University is out now in JAMANetworkOpen. We used novel mortality measure to quantify how female reproductive cancers affect female survival advantages over male across ages and cohorts among high-income countries. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam....

Paper led by colleagues from Australian National University is out now in JAMANetworkOpen. We used novel mortality measure to quantify how female reproductive cancers affect female survival advantages over male across ages and cohorts among high-income countries. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam....

Female Reproductive Cancers and the Sex Gap in Survival

This cohort study quantifies differences in survival over time between males and females and examines how female reproductive cancers are associated with these differences.

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How does extreme heat shape who is born — and where? New study by @jasminabdelghany.bsky.social out in @pnas.org today links high temperatures to changes in sex ratios at birth in sub-Saharan Africa and India. 🔬📊 www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/new-lcd...

New LCDS Research Shows High Temperatures Affect Sex Ratios at Birth

A study led by Dr Jasmin Abdel Ghany, and including several LCDS associated researchers, provides new evidence that rising temperatures can influence the sex ratio at birth, with important implication...

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Dr. Josh Wilde: "But lower birthrates don’t necessarily mean the population or economy will shrink, especially in the near-term...The engine of adaptation that enabled us to survive the population bomb could help us weather a future with fewer babies." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/h... #demography

Birthrates Are Down. That Can Be a Sign of Progress

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This was a very cool talk, Chiara gave a great overview of bivariate health-death distributions. The recording is here for those interested: www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0Jl...

Formal Demography Working Group meeting 13

YouTube video by Formal Demography

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Vanessa di Lego@vdilego.bsky.social · 7mo ago

It´s starting ! Join us for this amazing talk from Chiara Micheletti! 👇#demography

The Formal Demography Working Group is meeting next Thursday 5 Feb at 10am ET (4pm CET)! Chiara Micheletti will present work on CVD incidence and survival inequalities in Finland. Sign up for Zoom Link! formaldemography.github.io/working_group/

We are excited to share our upcoming line-up of Brown Bag talks for the 2026 Spring semester! Our Brown Bag talks are held every Wednesday at noon (PT) at the UC Berkeley Demography Department's Seminar Room (310 Social Sciences Building), and via Zoom. Join us starting next week!

N-IUSSP: The importance of educational expansion for longevity trends www.niussp.org/health-and-m... #demography #populationstudies

The importance of educational expansion for longevity trends - N-IUSSP

Educational expansion has contributed to increasing the average lifespan and reducing its variability. As Jesús-Daniel Zazueta-Borboa, Ugofilippo Basellini and Fanny Janssen show for England & Wales, ...

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Beautifully written by @drjenndowd.bsky.social on replacement level fertility. Some very inspiring ideas: do not treat replacement fertility as a threshold for destiny.

Jenn Dowd@drjenndowd.bsky.social · 10mo ago

After @philipncohen.com's talk, I had #demography on the brain today! jenndowd.substack.com/p/what-is-re... @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social

In “...Educational Expansion to Trends in Life Expectancy & Lifespan Variation,” @jdzazueta.bsky.social @ugobas.bsky.social @ezagheni.bsky.social et al. show how expansion contributes to ↑ expectancy and ↓ variation. @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

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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@farid-flici.bsky.social has done some amazing works! Please check it out his seminar.

Population Studies Group, LSHTM@psglshtm.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Join us next week to hear from @farid-flici.bsky.social on population ageing and social security sustainability in Algeria 🇩🇿 🗓 Wednesday, 22 October 2025 🕐 12:45–13:45 (BST) 📍 KS-LG19 💻 Zoom: lshtm.zoom.us/j/89990670777 ℹ️ More details: www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...

HMDHFDplus updated to account for minor web design update of @hmdatabase.bsky.social . If you started experiencing funny behavior when using the package to read HMD data from the web, just reinstall; it's already on CRAN. #rstats #demography #mortality

For our next seminar at the Demography Department at Cedeplar, UFMG, we have the extraordinary Ridhi Kashyap @ridhikashyap.bsky.social presenting. Don´t miss it! The Zoom link is below. We see you all tomorrow, October 8, at 2 pm Brazilian time 👇 💡 Zoom link: lnkd.in/e5UC-M54 #demography

✍️ 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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Hot off the press 🔥 My first PhD chapter is now published as a research article in Population, Space and Place! @mpidr.bsky.social @phrg-standrews.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Health Decline and Residential Transitions Among Older Adults in Europe

Residential mobility is a possible strategy to cope with health challenges in later life. However, little research has examined whether and how health decline triggers residential mobility and whethe...

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🚨It's that exciting time of year!🚨 Our team has got TWO open DPhil (PhD) positions in #datascience + #health here at @oxforddemsci.bsky.social for 2026🎉! See for details: 1️⃣ 👉 crahal.com/HDS_2026.html 2️⃣ 👉 crahal.com/pophealth_2026.html Please share and help us to find our future teammates ❤️!

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

ggplot2 4.0.0

A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.

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👋 We are happy to welcome Tabitha Scott and Damiano Uccheddu as research fellows at Assoc. Prof. Valeria Bordone's team @ageingsocvienna.bsky.social ! Read more about them ➡️ www.soz.univie.ac.at/en/detail-ne... @valeriabordone.bsky.social @damianouccheddu.bsky.social #sociology @univie.ac.at

Incoming Research Fellows: Tabitha Scott and Damiano Uccheddu

We are delighted to welcome Tabitha Scott and Damiano Uccheddu as visiting scholars at Team Bordone!

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Persistent minimizing of the COVID death toll hits me especially hard in the #demography feels. To be clear: ➡️ Over one million Americans died of COVID-19. ➡️ Official COVID deaths were likely undercounted, not overcounted. jenndowd.substack.com/p/how-many-p...

How many people died of COVID?

We likely undercounted, not overcounted COVID deaths

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Following major European pandemics and wars of the 19th and 20th centuries, "recovery times across events averaged approximately seven years and showed no significant statistical differences by event type or sex," find Silva & Aburto in new article: doi.org/10.1007/s426...

Life Expectancy Loss and Recovery by Age and Sex Following Catastrophic Events in Europe during the 19th and 20th Centuries - Canadian Studies in Population

Canadian Studies in Population - Following catastrophic events such as pandemics or wars, a systematic loss in life expectancy at birth ( $$\:{e}_{0}$$ ) can be observed. This study aims to...

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