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Alice Reid
@amrcampop.bsky.social
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Historical demographer at CAMPOP, Geography Dept Cambridge University. See also http://PopulationsPast.org. Views my own.

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Hampton Gaddy @hggaddy.bsky.social · 6d
🚨 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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LSE Methodology @lsemethodology.bsky.social · Sep 11
We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science ❗

📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Apply before 26 October and join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎
we're hiring assistant professor in computational social science, applications close 26/10/2025
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · Sep 6
Reflections on the #BSPS2025 conference, one of my favourites (after >20 years of conferencing). This year it was held at the beautiful campus on Swansea Bay (sadly didn’t get a pic of the delicious Welsh cakes that came out at afternoon tea!) 🧵
View from the conference location towards Swansea and the Mumbles (Mumbles lighthouse just visible if you really squint) View from the conference location towards Port Talbot (now decommissioned steelworks just visible if you squint)
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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · Sep 3
Proud winners of the #BSPS2025 conference quiz!
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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · Aug 28
In fact we do use the term 'birth rate', for certain types of rate, eg crude birth rate - births per 1000 people. 'Fertility rates' generally relate births to the people at risk of having them, ie women or women in particular age groups
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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · Aug 28
I agree it's confusing, but in demography, fertility refers to achieved births, and the term for the ability to become pregnant is fecundity.
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Hampton Gaddy @hggaddy.bsky.social · Aug 27
📢 Interested in excess mortality methods, and want a challenge? I'm organising the "One Epidemic, Many Estimates" (1EME) project! Register *now* as a many analyst team (submissions due 15 March 2026), and then join us at LSE for a workshop on 21-22 May 2026! (1/n)

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One Epidemic, Many Estimates (1EME)
One Epidemic, Many Estimates (1EME)
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Reposted by Stephen P. Jenkins, Patrick Präg, Alice Reid

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INVEST Research Flagship Centre @invest-flagship.bsky.social · Aug 25
We’re hiring!

Join @utu.fi & INVEST Research Flagship Centre as a #SeniorResearcher ( #postdoc ) or #DoctoralResearcher in the #SHARELEAVE project on parental leave and social inequality. 🌍👶

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#hiring #openvacancies
Senior researcher or doctoral researcher
The Faculty of Social Sciences, INVEST Flagship Research Centre at the University of Turku invites applications for contract-based, fixed term senior researcher or doctoral researcher position from 1....
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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · Aug 18
Congratulations!
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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · Aug 7
Great commentary on our broken university sector from @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social. Obviously it's a bit more complicated here and there, but she only had about 800 words
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Tuition fees are rising again and nobody is happy – it’s time to actually fix our broken university sector | Zoe Williams
The figures simply don’t add up for higher education in England and Wales. Yet delusional politicians from all parties seem intent on avoiding the issue, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · Aug 6
Are you an early-career historian interested in radical, public and digital history?

We are currently looking for two part-time, paid Editorial Fellows to join History Workshop.

Deadline is at midnight on 15th August. See below for more details!

www.historyworkshop....
Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop, 2025
History Workshop is advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships in 2025, open to early career historians.
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SOC-MISC @soc-misc.bsky.social · Aug 5
🔎 The University of St Andrews research team led by Katherine Keenan and partner in the SOC-MISC project is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to work on analysing Scottish public data on miscarriages.

More information in the link below :
👉 www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...
Post-doctoral Research Fellow – AR3162
Post-doctoral Research Fellow – AR3162, School of Geography and Sustainable Development, Salary: £38,249 - £45,413 per annum, Start: Earliest December 2025 (to be confirmed), Fixed term for 18 mont...
www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk
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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · Aug 5
College Lectureship and Fellowship in British History- University of Cambridge - Christ's College #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOE394/c...
College Lectureship and Fellowship in British History at University of Cambridge
Discover an exciting academic career path as a College Lectureship and Fellowship in British History at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
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Neil Johnston @nejohnst.bsky.social · Aug 4
We're recruiting for a new role in the Early Modern team at TNA to help us integrate the Parliamentary Archives. I'm looking for someone with an expertise in pre-modern Westminster Parliament so we can join the executive, legislative and judicial collections www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD893/r...
Records Specialist - Early Modern Parliament at The National Archives
Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...
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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · Jul 31
We've done it: 60 blogs over our 60th Anniversary Year!
Check out all 60 #Campop blogs here www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/, and keep your eyes peeled for occasional blogs to follow in the same space!
@camunicampop.bsky.social
@camunigeography.bsky.social
@camhistory.bsky.social
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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · Jul 31
The Demographic Transition Model is a useful shorthand for the fall from high birth and death rates to low, but not as a model for how it happens. 4/4
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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · Jul 31
During the period usually thought of as the first Demographic Transition in England (1870-1930) fertility fell faster than mortality and the population growth rate was slowing ... 3/4
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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · Jul 31
Instead of following the classic Demographic Transition Model, in England very rapid population growth before the mid 19C was driven by rises in fertility as well as falls in mortality, and fertility contributed more than mortality did ... 2/4
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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · Jul 31
Campop blog #60: According to the Demographic Transition Model, populations grow because economic growth leads to mortality decline. Population pressure then leads to fertility decline. But this was not what happened in England ...
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www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/07...
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, Cambridge
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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · Mar 27
Campop blog #42: The quality of care during birth has always affected outcomes for both mothers and infants. But the introduction of midwivery training in 1902 did seem to have an impact - today's blog explains why
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www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/03...
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, CambridgeCall the midwife! Birth attendance and birth outcomes across history. « Top of the Campops: 60 things you didn't know ...
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Cambridge Geography @camunigeography.bsky.social · Jul 25
Follow us and our research units

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Cambridge Geography @camunigeography.bsky.social · Jul 25
Expect to see research highlights, event announcements, student successes, and fascinating geographical insights.

Want to learn more about our journey? Check out our history here: www.geog.cam.ac.uk/alumni/early...
Department of Geography, Cambridge » A brief history of the early years of the Department 1888-1960
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Cambridge Geography @camunigeography.bsky.social · Jul 25
Hello Bluesky community! The Department of Geography of the University of Cambridge is here and we're excited to share our passion for understanding the world.

We explore everything from climate change and urbanisation to cultural landscapes and GIS mapping.
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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · Jul 25
Welcome to Bluesky @camunigeography.bsky.social!
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · Jul 25
Want to know why demographers aren't panicking over low birth rates? @lesja.bsky.social, @shelleydclark.bsky.social, & I have a new piece in @theconversation.com explaining the faulty logic that underlies the low birth rate-induced population panic than fuels the pronatalism movement. 1/n
Fears that falling birth rates in US could lead to population collapse are based on faulty assumptions
While the changes in population structure that accompany low birth rates are real, the impact of these changes has been dramatically overstated.
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Sheilagh Ogilvie @sheilaghogilvie.bsky.social · Mar 26
JOB OPPORTUNITY: Associate Professorship in Economic and Social History, Faculty of History and All Souls College, Oxford. Deadline for applications 23 April 2025. @oxford-esh.bsky.social @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · Jul 24
... Using the mid-20th century (when mortality was low, divorce was still relatively difficult, and the marriage & baby boom meant many families were fairly newly formed) as the only reference point for subsequent trends leads to deep misconceptions about families and households in the past. 3/3
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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · Jul 24
... In the 19th century there were more lone fathers than today, although there were still more lone mothers than lone fathers. In contrast to recent decades, 19th century lone parenthood was mainly formed by the death of one partner - breaking up happy families as well as unhappy ones ... 2/3
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Jenn Dowd @drjenndowd.bsky.social · Jul 23
I really enjoyed this, particularly the vivid description of an AI-like PhD student open.substack.com/pub/clauswil...
PhD-level intelligence or the graduate student from hell
AI companies love to tout that their models are approaching—or have reached—PhD-level intelligence. This is blatant nonsensical marketing geared towards an audience that deeply misunderstands what a P...
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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · Jul 17
... places with high fertility have low CO2 emissions, & few places have lowered fertility without massively increasing emissions. So 'population control' is unlikely to reduce environmental impacts on its own. Better to focus on reducing per capita consumption and waste where these are still high.
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