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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR)
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The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) is one of the largest demographic research bodies in Europe and part of Max Planck Society (@maxplanck.de). www.demogr.mpg.de/go/press
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Human Mortality Database @hmdatabase.bsky.social · 2d
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Human Mortality Database @hmdatabase.bsky.social · 2d
Session IV wrapped up with engaging talks and lively discussion — thank you all! 💡
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Human Mortality Database @hmdatabase.bsky.social · 2d
Welcome back to day two of the #HMDsymposium2025!
We’re starting with session IV on ✨global trends✨, featuring presentations by pgerland.bsky.social, @brunomasquelier.bsky.social, Isaac Sasson, @jiaxinshi.bsky.social, and Jim Oeppen.
Chair: Domantas Jasilionis
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Human Mortality Database @hmdatabase.bsky.social · 10d
The 7️⃣th #HMD symposium is only one week away

🧐 Check out the program 👇
mortality.org/File/GetDocument/Public/HMD_7th_Symposium/Programme_JE%20HMD_2025.pdf

⏲️📅 October 9-10, 2025
🌍📍 @ined-english.bsky.social

#episky #mortality #longevity #HMDsymposium2025
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Human Mortality Database @hmdatabase.bsky.social · 3d
We’re kicking off the #HMDsymposium2025 with a welcome from @ined-english.bsky.social director François Clanché and @mpidr.bsky.social directors Mikko Myrskylä & @ezagheni.bsky.social
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Antonino Polizzi @polizzan.bsky.social · 5d
✍️ 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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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 5d
🎉Congrats Aliakbar Akbaritabar🎉We are happy to announce that @akbaritabar.bsky.social took up his new position as Assistant Professor of Computational Social Science at the University of Rostock. His position is a collaboration between the University and @mpidr.bsky.social.
ow.ly/XI4Z50X7zEO
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 6d
🎓🎓🎓Congratulations, Henrik Schubert🎉🎉🎉

Henrik is proud recipient of an award-winning doctorate. He successfully defended his thesis, "The #fertility puzzle. Trends and patterns of male and female fertility" at the Sociology at Oxford at the University of Oxford.
https://ow.ly/OM1O50X6U4Y

Two men are standing in front of a modern building, one wearing a black suit with a white bow tie, the other wearing a plaid shirt.
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 9d
35 Years of #Reunification
MPIDR Researchers Discuss the Demographic Situation in #Germany
Josephine Jackisch is Research Scientist in the Laboratory of Population Health @mpidr.bsky.social
Full quote:
https://ow.ly/MZT350X4WmO
#EastGermany #WestGermany #Childhood #Population #Family #Health
Woman with long brown hair in front of an orange background, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research logo visible. Josephine Jackisch says: I am particularly shocked by the significant disparities in childhood circumstances, as these can have long-term consequences. Nearly 1 in 4 children in Eastern Germany is at risk of poverty — about twice the rate in Western Germany.
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 10d
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MPIDR - 35 Years of Reunification
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 demographic change, aging, fertility, biological demography and other issues at the forefront of population research.
www.demogr.mpg.de
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 10d
35 Years of #Reunification
MPIDR Researchers Discuss the Demographic Situation in #Germany
Athina Anastasiadou is Doctoral Student in the Laboratory of Migration and Mobility @mpidr.bsky.social.
Full quote:
https://ow.ly/SBJh50X4Wlw
#EastGermany #WestGermany #Migration #Inequality #Gender
Young woman with long brown hair and a red sweater in front of a green background with a quote about gender-specific migration in Germany. Migration from Eastern to Western Germany is a notable example of gender-specific migration and its demographic consequences in the field of migration research.
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Mine Kühn @minekuhn.bsky.social · 17d
I’m excited to share our new publication in @readdemography.bsky.social 🥳 written w/ @angelacar.bsky.social, J. Caputo, L. Ahrenfeldt, @annaoksuzyan.bsky.social

👉 Read the full paper here lnkd.in/enf3Duvg

@sociologytiu.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social

www.tilburguniversity.edu/current/pres...
Study reveals elevated mortality risk for single parents, with single fathers at particularly high risk | Tilburg University
A new study by Tilburg University and the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research reveals that single parents in Denmark face significantly higher mortality risks than their partnered counterpar...
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Demography - the flagship journal of PAA @readdemography.bsky.social · 17d
In “Single Parenthood, Gender & Mortality” @minekuhn.bsky.social @angelacar.bsky.social J Caputo, L Ahrenfeldt & @annaoksuzyan.bsky.social examine “variations in mortality by pathway into single p'hood" & other factors. @sociologytiu.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 11d
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MPIDR - 35 Years of Reunification
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 demographic change, aging, fertility, biological demography and other issues at the forefront of population research.
www.demogr.mpg.de
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 11d
💻Join online! 🎧
Süßmilch Lecture at the @mpidr.bsky.social
Climate Change Implications of Emissions Trends Since the Paris Agreement, via Bayesian Integrated Assessment Modeling
🗣️Adrian Raftery, University of Washington
📅Oct 8, 2025
🕒3 pm CEST
✏️Sign up now:
https://ow.ly/NtnU50X4kON
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 11d
35 Years of #Reunification
MPIDR Researchers Discuss the Demographic Situation in #Germany
Henrik-Alexander Schubert is Research Scientist in the Laboratory of Fertility and Well-Being @mpidr.bsky.social
Full quote: https://ow.ly/bpMV50X4l0h
#EastGermany #WestGermany #Fertility #Inequality
Man in a white shirt in front of an orange background with a quote from the Max Planck Institute on the birth rate in East and West Germany. Henrik Schubert says: Although the fertility rates in East and West Germany have converged significantly in the first decades of the 21st century and are now almost identical, the former inner-German border continues to be reflected in regional differences in fertility.
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 12d
www.demogr.mpg.de/go/reunification
MPIDR - 35 Years of Reunification
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 demographic change, aging, fertility, biological demography and other issues at the forefront of population research.
www.demogr.mpg.de
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 12d
35 Years of #Reunification
MPIDR Researchers Discuss the Demographic Situation in #Germany
Nicole Hiekel is Leader of the Research Group Gender Inequalities & Fertility @mpidr.bsky.social.
Full quote: www.demogr.mpg.de/go/reunification
#EastGermany #WestGermany #CareWork #GenderInequality #Family
Portrait of a woman with brown hair and a black top in front of a green background with text about German reunification and gender inequality. Her quote says: German reunification brought together two different traditions of balancing family and career. Even 35 years later, these differences persist. While women's participation in the labor market has increased overall, the unequal distribution of care work remains a key challenge.
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 12d
Please follow this link to read the full quote:
www.demogr.mpg.de/go/reunification
MPIDR - 35 Years of Reunification
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 demographic change, aging, fertility, biological demography and other issues at the forefront of population research.
www.demogr.mpg.de
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 13d
35 Years of #Reunification: This week our researchers discuss the demographic situation in #Germany in short quotes – starting with Jonas Schöley
https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events_6123/topics_10339/35_years_of_reunification_14656
#LifeExpectancy #EastGermany #WestGermany #Health #Inequality
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 17d
Armut, Bildung und Konflikte in der Familie
Die neue Ausgabe (Nr. 03/2025) von Demografische Forschung Aus Erster Hand, dem demografischen Newsletter mit verständlich aufgearbeiteten Ergebnissen der aktuellen Forschung, ist erschienen.
www.demografische-forschung.org
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 26d
💡[SPOTLIGHT] 💡Too Many Men, Too Few Women
Research by Henrik Schubert & @cdudel.bsky.social shows that regional partner markets —particularly the ratio of ♂️ to ♀️ in the relevant age & educational groups — significantly influence childlessness among men in Finland.
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...
A map of Finland showing the individual regions in different colors. The colors indicate the extent of childlessness among men in these regions. The map refers to men aged 45, born between 1968 and 1975. Childlessness is expressed as a percentage.
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Interdisciplinary Institute for Societal Computing @i2sc.net · Sep 11
On the third day of SICSS Saarbrücken, we had the pleasure of learning from @ezagheni.bsky.social (@mpidr.bsky.social), who shared his expertise on “𝑀𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑖𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑑𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎”.
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Interdisciplinary Institute for Societal Computing @i2sc.net · Sep 11
In the afternoon, @theiletom.bsky.social (@mpidr.bsky.social) guided participants through a hands-on tutorial on the LinkedIn Campaign Manager, where everyone had the chance to set up and run their own data collection.
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · Sep 11
Ben Malinga John began leading a Max Planck Partner Group (UNIMAX) at the University of Malawi in Zomba. Over the next five years, he will study family formation processes among highly educated individuals.
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...
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