Population Europe
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- Reposted by Population EuropeOut now - the new issue of Changing Populations, the @cpc-cg.bsky.social newsletter magazine. Rounding up the last six months, we cover how we are contributing to the debate across the UK and Europe on the #demographic challenges affecting our society. @bspsuk.bsky.social @populationeu.bsky.social
- Reposted by Population Europe@ipdln.bsky.social is opening nominations for the role of Director (2027–2028 term) 💼 The role provides strategic leadership for the future of the network, including overseeing the 2028 IPDLN Conference. For more info: edu.nl/egxdf
- What demography can do: inform the future. The foresight experts at @vdivde-it.bsky.social took some projections of demographic trends, and created a Qualitative Scenario Building exercise for our Policy Lab. The goal: to imagine Europe in 2045. Here are the results: futu-res.eu/european-res...
- Reposted by Population Europe📢 Register now! Francesco C. Billari (Rector of Bocconi University, Milan): "Demography and Hyperdiversity". 📅 23 February 2026, 17:00h 📍 Austrian Academy of Sciences, Festive Hall 🔗 www.oeaw.ac.at/en/detail/ev...
- Reposted by Population EuropeJoin us at 3pm today for our #CPCCGWebinar with @shajiang.bsky.social from @mpidr.bsky.social - all welcome, register to join us online: www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/e... @populationeu.bsky.social @bspsuk.bsky.social @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @uossocstatdemo.bsky.social @standrewssgsd.bsky.social
- 👩🏫 Join us on 22 Jan for our next #CPCCGWebinar @shajiang.bsky.social from @mpidr.bsky.social will discuss how adverse #mortality resulted in a substantial increase in the number of individuals bereaved annually in the US Register to join us online: www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/e... @bspsuk.bsky.social
- Reposted by Population EuropeThe last chapter of my PhD thesis is out, just a few days before my defense 🎓 Read the new paper in Population Health Metrics with Andrea Nigri, Sergi Trias-Llimós (@sergitl.bsky.social), and Elisabetta Barbi on Deaths of Despair in Italy: 📄 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Reposted by Population Europe🎓 Scholarship announcement Dept of Stat. Sciences awards a scholarship of 8.000,00 Euros, for students from Developing countries who will enrol in the Msc in Statistical Sciences in Padova for the a.y. 2026/27 🗓️Deadline 27/2/2026 🔗Details: tinyurl.com/4ubefexj #Statistics #Scholarship #Padova
- Reposted by Population EuropeN-IUSSP: The importance of educational expansion for longevity trends www.niussp.org/health-and-m... #demography #populationstudies
- 📢 SLLS 2026 Conference | 1–3 July, Université Libre de Bruxelles. Submit your paper by 13 Feb 2026, 17:00 GMT! 🔗 tinyurl.com/yh242mm2
- Reposted by Population EuropeGreat opportunity for anyone working with longitudinal data and life course perspectives. Very much looking forward to #SLLS2026 in Brussels (hosted at the Free University of Brussels, ULB). Please consider submitting and sharing widely! More information: www.slls.org.uk/events/slls-...
- Reposted by Population Europe📖 New publication: "Why do women live longer than men, but spend more time in poor health? A decomposition analysis of the gender gap in unhealthy life years across Europe". @mmuszynskas.bsky.social et al. test the “longevity hypothesis". 🔗 Read now: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #demography
- Join us on Tuesday, 20 January for a discussion on youth in Europe. Following a presentation on demographic trends in the near future, Prof. Aassve will lead a discussion on possible ways to strengthen the voice of young people. Register here: tinyurl.com/28jv36du
- Reposted by Population Europe❄️ Freezing cold outside? Perfect timing to submit your work for our Family Diversity & Health summer workshop in Berlin ☀️ 📅 June 29–30, 2026 📍 Hertie School, Berlin 🫶 No participation fees 🏨 1 hotel night covered 📨 1-page abstracts due: Jan 31, 2026
- Reposted by Population Europe📖 New publication: "Trends in time with children in European countries: Intensification and gender convergence"! Caroline Berghammer and @melissamilkie.bsky.social review studies investigating childcare trends in European countries. 🔗 Read now: www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap-o... #demography
- Reposted by Population EuropeWant to learn more about using the National Pupil Database, from experienced CEPEO researchers? Sign up for one (or both!) of our free courses this February... Online, Feb 10-11th: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cepeo-adru... In person (central London), Feb 25th: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cepeo-adru...
- Reposted by Population Europe📢 PhD positions @univie.ac.at Follow this link 👇 to apply for one of the 40 paid PhD positions @univie.ac.at and select #ViDSS also for available topics and supervisors in #Sociology @ifswien.bsky.social
- @univie.ac.at is advertising 40 paid PhD positions in the Social Sciences, Humanities & Cultural Studies. ⭐ All information on the call here: careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p... Select the Vienna Doctoral School of Social Sciences (VIDSS) for available topics & supervisors in Communication. 😍
- Reposted by Population Europe✨ 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿 - 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘀✨ You're invited to nominate exceptional sociologists and projects with significant contributions to the field for the 2026 #KohliPrize and #InfrastructurePrizeforSociology. Nominate until 𝟴 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. Further details and nomination form via: kohlifoundation.eu
- Reposted by Population EuropeExcellent @zeit.de conversation: Our Director @steffenmau.bsky.social with Juli Zeh & Stefan Brandt on escaping dystopian thinking. They explore what Mau calls "Veränderungserschöpfung" (change exhaustion), the crisis of progress narratives & reclaiming agency in imagining futures. Worth reading!
- Reposted by Population EuropeNew paper finally published! Using data on 78 million births from 15 countries, we found that babies conceived during the COVID-19 pandemic have a different parental socioeconomic composition than expected had the pandemic not occurred. doi.org/10.1038/s414... @natcomms.nature.com @helsinki.fi
- Reposted by Population EuropeNew name, new focus: The Max Planck Institute for Collective Goods is now the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral #Economics. This name change reflects the research conducted in Bonn very nicely. 👍 www.coll.mpg.de #BehavioralEconomics
- Reposted by Population EuropePopulation Europe convened leading demographers, policymakers, and civil society representatives at the German-Italian Centre for European Dialogue, Villa Vigoni to dissect Europe's demographic challenges and to pathways to resilience and social cohesion: www.population-europe.eu/events/event...
- Reposted by Population EuropeWhat are the challenges, solutions, and opportunities connected with the need to provide long-term #care to an #aging population? a discussion of the topic and a summary of the activities on #caregiving & #caregivers conducted within the @ageit project academic.oup.com/psychsocgero...
- Reposted by Population EuropeOur new Lancet study from the Norwegian HUNT cohort shows that modifying risk factors across adulthood relat to dementia, including family and work-related factors. www.thelancet.com/action/showP...
- Reposted by Population EuropeCatch CPC-CG member Jakub Bijak in the final episode of the #FutuRes podcast Certain Futures where, with the help of #demographers, the host reconsiders the meaning of resilience, finding a hopeful theme for looking at today and into our future @populationeu.bsky.social @uossocstatdemo.bsky.social
- Reposted by Population EuropeIn their last podcast episode before the Christmas break, @lagedernation.org interview our Director @steffenmau.bsky.social on the topic:“Solidarität: Verabschieden sich immer mehr Linke aus dem Gemeinwesen?“. "Solidarity: Are more and more leftists withdrawing from the civic sphere?"
- Reposted by Population EuropeWhat does "AI-ready" research infrastructure look like? In our new podcast episode, we talk with @mercecrosas.bsky.social from Barcelona Supercomputing Center about how AI is transforming social science infrastructure and what researchers need in an AI-driven landscape Listen here: edu.nl/a966w
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- Reposted by Population Europe📨 Last EAPS Newsletter of 2025 is out now! 📨 💡 The newsletter includes a message from the EAPS President, updates on EPC 2026, (PhD) vacancies, workshops, calls for papers, and other interesting announcements! 💡 Read it here: lnkd.in/e3bXVece
- Reposted by Population EuropeFalling births, migration-driven population growth, residential moves and mobility: the latest INED article on the Demographic Situation in France brings to light striking regional contrasts 🔎 www.ined.fr/en/news/pres...
- Reposted by Population EuropeEuropean Spinouts Report 2025: Max-Planck leads the way in Germany. In the top 20 research organisations in #Europe for research-driven #deeptech and life science #spinoffs, the Max Planck Society ranks second, just behind France’s CNRS. www.mpg.de/25797163/eur... #technologytransfer
- Reposted by Population EuropeWorld Population Maps Travel across the world map observing demographic trends and changes since 1950. www.ined.fr/en/everythin...
- Reposted by Population EuropeNew year, new job? Join us at the Department of Sociology & Nuffield College. The post is open to candidates from different areas of empirical specialisation and at different levels of experience. Please consider applying! closes Jan 5th. www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/event/associ...
- Reposted by Population Europe1/ In a recent @britishacademy.bsky.social video @rebeccasear.bsky.social from @brunelpsy.bsky.social takes a clear-eyed look at the 21st‑century rise of eugenics - an ideology that should have been left behind, yet is now re‑emerging in a number of troubling ways ⚠️🧬 🧪 Watch the full talk here 🎥👇
- Reposted by Population Europe📢 The new issue (Dec. 2025) of POPNET, the newsletter of the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital, highlights recent news, publications, events, and other activities of the population network. 🔗 Read now: mailchi.mp/updates.iias...
- Reposted by Population Europe👩💻 Catch up on our last #CPCCGWebinar of 2025 @jpheisig.bsky.social from @wzb.bsky.social joined us last week to discuss evidence from a large nationwide field experiment to assess #discrimination in accessing #healthcare in #Germany. Grab a coffee and take a look ⤵️ @populationeu.bsky.social
- Reposted by Population EuropeSeven in ten women over the age of 60 face an average of 13 years of widowhood A new INED study on length of widowhood among women in France and across Europe. Read the December issue of #Population&Societies www.ined.fr/en/publicati... #INEDJournal
- Reposted by Population EuropeThere is no progressive case for pronatalism: “giving in to population panic and endorsing a plan to increase birth rates implicitly supports anti-immigration policies and yields ground to racist fearmongering”
- New from me: In the New Republic @newrepublic.com, I wrote that we should refuse to choose between the easy way and the hard way to boost birth rates.
- Reposted by Population Europe📢 Call for papers is now open! We invite you to submit your contributions to the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2027 special issue "Demographic perspectives on migration". 📆 Submit until 15 May 2026. 🔗 viennayearbook.org/call #demography @vypr.bsky.social
- Reposted by Population EuropeThis Thursday! @vjdeimantas.bsky.social from @share-eric.bsky.social will talk about longitudinal #socialscience #data and its use for NGOs, journalists and policymakers. Register for the #Infra4NextGen webinar here: infra4nextgen.com/events/webin...
- Register now and join us and the Age-It Programme in Brussels for a full-day, in-person event dedicated to the latest research on ageing! When? 14 January 2026 🔗 tinyurl.com/yftxb3d6
- Reposted by Population EuropeWe study late fertility (ages 30+) and very late fertility (ages 35+) trends at the global, subregional, and national levels. Globally, more than one out of three births in 2023 occurs to women aged 30 and above, compared to only one in four in 1990. doi.org/10.1111/padr...
- Reposted by Population EuropeOne more week to submit your abstracts for @ipdln.bsky.social 2026!! We are very excited to be welcoming everyone to Rotterdam and have seen so many interesting submissions already. Keep them coming ipdln.org/2026-ipdln-c...
- Reposted by Population EuropeCentre LIVES @unil.bsky.social is running the Good Life Data Challenge: Using existing Swiss Household Panel data, can you predict the feeling of having lived a happy, meaningful, and interesting (psychologically rich) life in 🇨🇭? These new items will be included in the next wave of SHP
- Reposted by Population Europe📍Save the date for our next #CPCCGWebinar Thurs 11 Dec @jpheisig.bsky.social from @wzb.bsky.social will discuss evidence from a large nationwide field experiment to assess #discrimination in accessing #healthcare in #Germany 🧑🏫Join us online: www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/e... @populationeu.bsky.social
- In November, we brought together leading demographers, policymakers, and civil-society representatives to reflect on key challenges posed by demographic change. This event review captures the main themes, evidence shared, and policy recommendations from the meeting: 🔗 tinyurl.com/29x777wr
- Reposted by Population Europe📢 New dataset for researchers! The new European Parenting Leave Policies (EPLP) Dataset tracks parenting leave regulations over five decades! It provides harmonised data on maternity, co-parent, paid parental, and job-protected leave across 21 countries from 1970 to 2024. 🔗 eplp-dataset.org
- Reposted by Population EuropePolicy Insight by @populationeu.bsky.social co-authored by CPC-CG's Kulu & @sarahchristison.bsky.social, part of We-ID project 'Identities, #migration & #democracy' Examines #EU #migration policy and the tension between crisis response and long-term integration: population-europe.eu/research/pol...
- Reposted by Population EuropeBlueSky Why are ethnic minorities underrepresented in Belgium’s federal public sector? Read the key findings and recommendations from the FedDiverse project led by Bert Leysen and Pieter-Paul Verhaeghe. brispo.research.vub.be/en/new-polic...
- Reposted by Population EuropeWe're hiring a Junior Researcher Data Management 🔎 Help improve metadata workflows, build tools for better data management, and support our training and outreach with researchers. Know someone who fits? Please share! 🌟 www.eur.nl/en/working-a...
- Reposted by Population EuropeThe call for applications for the Summer Incubator 2026 at the @mpidr.bsky.social is open! Deadline: Jan 14, 2026. Topics/Teams: 1) Spatial Mobility and Scientific Production 2) Digitalization, AI and Inequalities Check out the brand new website for information: www.incubator.demogr.mpg.de
- Reposted by Population EuropeWhat role does the local community play in democracy? In his book In der Nähe’, Strauß argues that neighbourhood closeness is pivotal. @steffenmau.bsky.social praises him for vividly showing how a collective East German has “we” emerged (though contested), but finds the argument overly optimistic.
- Reposted by Population Europe| INTERVIEW | What demography realities and issues have inspired fiction writers? Jean-Marc Rohrbasser and Jacques Véron answered our questions. www.ined.fr/en/everythin...
- Reposted by Population Europe📉 Many countries are seeing falling birth rates—but can rising gender equality reverse the trend? A new study from our centre revisits a major debate in demography and finds a modest fertility rebound at high levels of gender equality. www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/new-stu...
- Reposted by Population Europe📢 Save the date for the next #WICColloquium! Miguel Sanchez Romero and Tomas Sobotka: "Future Births: A Formal Perspective on Humanity’s Yet-to-Be-Born Generations". 📅 3 December 2025, 13:00-14:00h 📍 PSK Building MR04 (4rd floor) and online 🔗 www.oeaw.ac.at/vid/events/w...
- Smoking, alcohol, and obesity drive mortality gaps—but how did their combined effect play out across educational groups over time? Fanny Janssen and co-authors have the answer. 🔗 tinyurl.com/5sy9bsj8
- Reposted by Population Europe📢Job Offer‼️New Max Planck Research Group on Reproductive Ageing Interview with D. Susie Lee 이수지 Leader of the Group: demogr.mpg.de/go/RGRA Job: demogr.mpg.de/en/career_6122/jobs…
