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SUDA Stockholm @suda-sthlm.bsky.social · Sep 5

A new research project about sexual and reproductive outcomes of violent crime in Mexico is recruiting two PhD students. The project is lead by Signe Svallfors who has received the five year starting grant from European Research Council.

www.su.se/department-o...

@signesvallfors.bsky.social

Researchers to explore how violent crime affects health - Department of Sociology

If I had five years and generous resources, what would I most like to do? That is what Signe Svallfors was thinking before deciding to apply for the ERC starting grant. The dream project would be to f...

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Eleonora Mussino @mussino.bsky.social · Sep 5

Bologna is calling

EAPS.nl | Call for Submissions

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Nature @nature.com · Jul 23

Nature research paper: Immigrant–native pay gap driven by lack of access to high-paying jobs

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Immigrant–native pay gap driven by lack of access to high-paying jobs - Nature

Data from nine European and North American countries reveal that the disparity in earnings between immigrants and natives is largely a result of segregation of immigrant workers into lower-paying jobs.

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Mimmi Lounela @mimmilou.bsky.social · Jul 23

Happy that Anna Rotkirch is now promoting this perspective after lobbying for a baby bonus last year: www.hs.fi/politiikka/a...

Syntyvyys | Onko tässä lääke lapsikatoon? Kymmenien tuhansien eurojen kannustin, jos ensimmäisen lapsen saa alle 30-vuotiaana

Torstaina julkaistussa väestöpoliittisessa selvityksessä esitetään 20 ehdotusta lapsitoiveiden tukemiseksi. Listalla on muun muassa kannustin, jos ensimmäisen lapsen saa ennen 30 vuoden ikää.

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Mimmi Lounela @mimmilou.bsky.social · Jul 23

Swedish government: take notes.

Changing the perspective on low birth rates: why simplistic solutions won’t work

Stuart Gietel-Basten , Anna Rotkirch , and Tomáš Sobotka argue that policies responding to population decline and ageing should enable reproductive choice and maximise the potential of all citizens ...

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UPS Florence @florenceups.bsky.social · Jul 16

The University of Florence offers 4 positions within the PhD in Life Course Research!

🔹 3 open positions on topics such as social demography, family formation, fertility, union dissolution, ageing & wellbeing
🔹 1 thematic position on reproductive health & low fertility

Come join us in Florence! 👇👇

AISP @aisp-sis.bsky.social · Jul 16

📢 Applications open for the National PhD Program in Life Course Research!

👉 12 fully funded positions in Demography and Social Statistics, promoting an interdisciplinary approach to studying life courses.

🗓 Deadline: August 7
📍 More info: www.phd-lcr.com
📄 To apply: www.unifi.it/sites/defaul...

The PhD program in Life Course Research will train a new generation of highly skilled scholars relying on an evidence-based approach, with a strong emphasis on quantitative methods and data analysis.

www.phd-lcr.com

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

Our Deputy Director @drjenndowd.bluesky.social
gave the Keynote Lecture today at the 23rd Nordic Demographic Symposium

Has progress stalled? Reflecting on the uncertain future of #mortality in high income countries

👉more: www.demography.ox.ac.uk/people/jenni...

✍️Substack: jenndowd.substack.com

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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · Jun 11

Why is mortality progress stalling in the US and the UK?
@drjenndowd.bsky.social is giving a keynote overview at Nordic Demographic Symposium 🇩🇰 @demografi.dk

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Mimmi Lounela @mimmilou.bsky.social · Jun 11

I am personally deviating from the norm, but only because I was off pretty much the whole month of april. So, only a displacement of vacation (nod to @jschoeley.com)!

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Mimmi Lounela @mimmilou.bsky.social · Jun 11

@drjenndowd.bsky.social offering valuable insights at the #NDS2025! Warning to all the U.S. researchers: next week is midsummer, the official onset of the annual summer vacation. So you will have to wait until september with any US/Nordic comparative collabs!

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Eleonora Mussino @mussino.bsky.social · Jun 6

Our star @mimmilou.bsky.social fast and efficient at the flash session #Popdays2025 @suda-sthlm.bsky.social

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Mimmi Lounela @mimmilou.bsky.social · May 20

Auguri gaiaaaa <333

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Mimmi Lounela @mimmilou.bsky.social · Apr 13

Thank you for a phenomenal conference, until next time! Now time for a phenomenal nap #PAA2025 @popassocamerica.bsky.social

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Pia Puu Oksanen @piapuuox.bsky.social · Apr 12

Wake up wake up Washington! Sunday morning offer not to miss: Interesting and surely a brilliant presentation by one and only @mimmilou.bsky.social

Mimmi Lounela @mimmilou.bsky.social · Apr 12

If you missed this giant poster today, I have another one about the operationalisation of employment instability tomorrow 8:30 am at #PAA @popassocamerica.bsky.social !! Come and say hi!

Giammarco Alderotti @alderotti.bsky.social · Apr 12

It would be unforgivable to miss the largest poster of the conference—so step by the poster session happening now to say hi to @mimmilou.bsky.social and me, and chat about our work on employment uncertainty among migrants!

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Mimmi Lounela @mimmilou.bsky.social · Apr 12

If you missed this giant poster today, I have another one about the operationalisation of employment instability tomorrow 8:30 am at #PAA @popassocamerica.bsky.social !! Come and say hi!

Giammarco Alderotti @alderotti.bsky.social · Apr 12

It would be unforgivable to miss the largest poster of the conference—so step by the poster session happening now to say hi to @mimmilou.bsky.social and me, and chat about our work on employment uncertainty among migrants!

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Mimmi Lounela @mimmilou.bsky.social · Apr 12

Following a great panel discussion about the future of #DHS at @popassocamerica.bsky.social annual meeting. The global scientific community is not giving up!

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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · Mar 16

Self-help books often cite population studies as evidence that you can change your life with one simple trick. X will improve your health. Y will make you more successful. But there's a crucial catch...

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Demography - the flagship journal of PAA @readdemography.bsky.social · Mar 17

“The Demography of Sweden’s Transgender Population”: @martinkolk.bsky.social @ylvamoberg.bsky.social et al study transitions over 1973-2020, “a period of...legal advances, ↑ social acceptance & more accommodating HC system.” @stockholm-uni.bsky.social @sofi.su.se read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

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ERIKA HILTON @erikahilton.bsky.social · Mar 12

MARIELLE E ANDERSON PRESENTES!

Realizamos, aqui na Câmara, nossa sessão solene em memória de Marielle Franco e Anderson Gomes, executados em 14 de março de 2018.

Estamos aqui pelo fim da violência política de gênero e em defesa da vida de quem vive para defender nossos direitos. +👇🏽

Foto minha, no Congresso, com um punho em riste e segurando uma placa escrito "Rua Marielle Franco" com a outra mão.

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Josefa Maria Stiegler @josefastiegler.bsky.social · Mar 14

Today marks 7 years since the ambushed and brutal murder of Marielle Franco, a Black LGBTIQA+ and human rights activist and city councilor for Rio de Janeiro, and her driver Anderson Gomes. Read more about the lengthy road to justice: #MarielleVive #JustiçaPorMarielleEAnderson rioonwatch.org?p=80148

Marielle Franco’s Assassins Convicted: ‘Justice is Slow, Blind, Stupid, Unfair, Wrong, and Crooked. But It Always Comes,’ Says Judge – RioOnWatch

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Fabian Pfeffer @fabianpfeffer.bsky.social · Mar 13

When INEQUALITY is on the list of verboten words, we need to work harder to make the value of our work known.

Please follow @asa-ipm.bsky.social, the new account of the Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility section of
@asanews.bsky.social, which will help share the latest work on social inequality

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Mimmi Lounela @mimmilou.bsky.social · Mar 10

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Population Association of America @popassocamerica.bsky.social · Mar 10

Over the past week, grants that researchers had through NIH to study LGBTQ+ health have been canceled, researchers told via email their work conflicted with “agency priorities.”

PAA member and Vanderbilt LGBTQ+ Policy Lab Tara McKay quoted:
rollcall.com/2025/03/07/a...

After Trump’s inauguration, a dramatic halt to LGBTQ+ research - Roll Call

The Trump administration has dramatically dialed back research into LGBTQ+ health, and researchers say the impact has been dramatic.

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Politics & Gender @politicsgenderj.bsky.social · Mar 6

📣 Out on #FirstView 📣

In "Gender Equality and Armed Conflict" @signesvallfors.bsky.social argues that scholars should abandon total fertility rate as an indicator of gender equality for a measure that better captures women's status in society.

gendersky
🌟Available #OpenAccess🌟

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Bruno Masquelier @brunomasquelier.bsky.social · Mar 4

Our study estimates excess deaths in children and parental loss due to the war in Gaza in 2023. From Oct 8 to Dec 31, 2023, 8120 children <18 were killed due to the conflict, 15127 children lost a father, and 9886 children lost a mother -in 3 months
pophealthmetrics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

A demographic assessment of the impact of the war in the Gaza Strip on the mortality of children and their parents in 2023 - Population Health Metrics

Background Following Hamas’s 7 October attack, Israel launched extensive aerial bombardments in the Gaza Strip, followed by a large-scale ground invasion. During the first 3 months of the conflict, up...

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SUDA Stockholm @suda-sthlm.bsky.social · Mar 4

New study says children of immigrants in Sweden at high risk of being overqualified for their jobs. @wooseongkim.bsky.social talks about his recent doctoral thesis on Radio Sweden.

www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/new-...

New study says children of immigrants in Sweden at high risk of being overqualified for their jobs - Radio Sweden

A new study suggests that the children of immigrants face challenges in the labor market and are at a higher risk for overqualification than those with ...

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