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Every few years these pronatalist policies re-emerge (sort of like Godzilla) & every few years I say the same thing… #demography

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How does becoming a parent shape #employment in France and Germany? Andreas Filser @filsa.bsky.social @iabnews.bsky.social shares new findings using rich administrative data. 🗓 June 3 | 🕒 3–4:30pm 📍 @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Oxford Hosted by @oxforddemsci.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3d3cwu2d

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Congratulations to our @oxforddemsci.bsky.social superstar ⭐️ @polizzan.bsky.social on completion of his PhD! Great thread below about his research with @drjenndowd.bsky.social @andreatilstra.bsky.social & more… @leverhulme.ac.uk @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social

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Congratulations @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social on your impressive PhD & supervisor @fabriberna.bsky.social (don’t worry - he didn’t wear the football shirt during the defense 😆) Sorry I couldn’t join in person!

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Looking forward to this upcoming talk @oxforddemsci.bsky.social Electronic Health Records for 20% of the Catalan population studying multimorbidity & mortality #Demography #Morbidity #HealthInequality #EHR #ElectronicHealthRecords #DigitalHealth

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Still time to apply for this position & looking for creative talent to join us in Oxford! Learn more about our programme here: www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/digital-pand... And our @oxforddemsci.bsky.social #interdisciplinary #demography centre & other #jobs here: www.demography.ox.ac.uk

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🚨 Postdoc Digital Pandemic Preparedness 📍 Oxford @oxforddemsci.bsky.social 💼 £38.6K–£46.9K | 3 yrs 📅 Deadline: 16 May 2025 Use digital, real-world data to future-proof pandemic response. 🔗 Apply: tinyurl.com/ydvfanap 📣 Boost or tag! 1/2 #Postdoc #DigitalHealth #AcademicJobs #NowHiring

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"Science is an investment. We will put forward a new 500 million package for 2025-2027 to support the best and the brightest researchers and scientists from Europe and around the world." — President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu at the ‘Choose Europe for Science' event at La Sorbonne 🇫🇷

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Great kick off today at #PAA2025 Come & visit our booth in Salon 1 Pick up some info on the 5 #jobs we are advertising - join us in Oxford!! Get an #InDataWeTrust button or tattoo (and no we don’t have an in person tattoo artist…it is temporary!)

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REPOST #jobs @oxforddemsci.bsky.social 👨‍💻Senior Research Fellow Associate/Professor 👩‍💻Senior Researcher Geospatial Health 📲Postdoc Digital Pandemic Preparedness 👶Postdoc Reproductive Demography 🤖 Programmer AI See: www.demography.ox.ac.uk/jobs #Demography #Epidemiology #Health #Population

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Had great time on #BBCRadio4 #FreeThinking @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social Discussed our @naturehumbehav.bsky.social SES articles w/ TV Writer @lisaholdsworth.bsky.social sky.social French Londoner @murielzagha.bsky.social @samfriedman.bsky.social Lord David Willets 👉 tinyurl.com/ybr6tjzw

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Check out the Comicbook🦸‍♀️version of our new @naturehumbehav.bsky.social article on genetic & environmental influences Awesome artwork by @lizahaart.bsky.social Full comic here: communities.springernature.com/posts/are-we... Loving the cartoon version of @dr-appie.bsky.social

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Big news! We have two new #demography vacancies open and three others on the way, stay tuned buff.ly/Bi7dyix 😎 @leverhulme.bsky.social @oxpop.bsky.social @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social @reubencollege.bsky.social @melindacmills.bsky.social

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This is interesting to read - 15 years ago I wrote a textbook using R for survival & event history analysis Many warned me not to focus on R, that it was a passing hype, that I would regret it. R is a great example of #OpenScience Good I didn’t listen (as usual 😆) uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/in...

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Open Postdoctoral position! - ERC Advanced Grant project HOMME www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/276000/postdoctoral-fellow About the HOMME project www.sv.uio.no/psi/english/research/projects/homme

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🎉Congratulations to @mortenkthomsen.bsky.social who successfully defended his Phd 📖 & thanks to @drcompton.bsky.social Important #demography work using register, survey & medical records to study the lives of sexual & gender minorities. @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @sociologyoxford.bsky.social

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Me again. I just posted 2 new senior jobs @oxforddemsci.bsky.social 📻Stay tuned - we will post 3 more new jobs in the next days, some junior While you are waiting, learn more about #demography at Oxford: www.demography.ox.ac.uk Or watch our fancy 5 year anniversary video: tinyurl.com/5d3s3yku

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Come to Oxford! 🪄 Hiring now: Senior Researcher in Geospatial Health and Digital Pandemic Preparedness More info: tinyurl.com/maf6db7h @oxforddemsci.bsky.social #demography www.demography.ox.ac.uk Linked with: mapineq.eu/inequality-d... And : tinyurl.com/ks4u84z **REPOST WIDELY PLEASE* DM if❓

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WE ARE HIRING!! Senior Research Fellow Demographic Science (Associate/Full Professor) @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @reubencollege.bsky.social See: lnkd.in/e_Gw84JN #demography in Oxford: www.demography.ox.ac.uk Our recent celebration: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIu4... DM or reach out PLEASE RE-POST

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Nice thread from lead author @dr-appie.bsky.social about our paper out today on the complicated topic of socioeconomic status and genetics @naturehumbehav.bsky.social @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @leverhulme.bsky.social

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Happy #DemographyDay ! I am honoured to direct Oxford’s unapologetically interdisciplinary @oxforddemsci.bsky.social & work with all of our amazing colleagues & national and international partners!

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Great new publication from our MAPIneq project!

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Just saw this news from over here in Europe - sending strength to our world leading US scientists, collaborators & groundbreaking data collection efforts www.science.org/content/arti...

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Call for Papers The Advances in Social Genomics Conference Series (TAGC) May 14-16, 2025 UW-Madison @uwmadison.bsky.social Deadline for submissions: March 7, 2025 Funding available for presenters Keynotes: Kelly Bakulski and Dan Belsky isg.wisc.edu/events/the-a...

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It was an honour to open as keynote to celebrate the NEW UZH Population Research Center in Zurich! There are many affinities with our @oxforddemsci.bsky.social I warmly welcome the link of demography, medical sciences, epidemiology, psychology, geography, economics & 🔗 with business, government.

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PODCAST: How big are the UK's demographic challenges? With birth rates at record lows @pjtheeconomist.bsky.social, @melindacmills.bsky.social and Carl Emmerson discuss the implications for the UK and how it might impact the public finances. 🎧 Listen here: https://buff.ly/3YD8S1P

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We examined the complex interplay of genetics, family environment, health and intergenerational transmission of occupational status @naturehumbehav.bsky.social Article 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... FAQs unpacking study 👉 tinyurl.com/yckamr7x Graphical summary below 👇

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📝 Our new @pnasnexus.org study has found significant effects of the #COVID-19 pandemic on many causes of death across 24 countries https://buff.ly/4iI51tF @polizzan.bsky.social @drjenndowd.bsky.social @aashishg.bsky.social @leverhulme.bsky.social @oxpop.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @lshtm.bsky.social

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Great opportunity to work with @crahal.com on his frontier informatics ideas & join @oxforddemsci.bsky.social

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Want to know EVERYTHING about the #genetics of female and male reproduction? Our @natureportfolio.bsky.social study provides a review #️⃣ 159 genetic studies & 37 key genes Also links with: 🥗 (FSHB, testosterone) ⏰ longevity 🧬 cancer & obesity risks 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 generations www.nature.com/articles/s43...

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Amazing work on the longevity benefits of homeownership by our own talented @caseybreen.bsky.social @oxforddemsci.bsky.social

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An ENTIRE podcast on collider bias 🤓🎉 - love it! Here is our take for gene x evironment studies! Can’t wait to listen! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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South Korea has a Total Fertility Rate of 0.72 & ageing population I give a Keynote Tomorrow in Seoul on data, alternative approaches #lowfertility #demography Global Symposium: Policy Responses to Low Fertility & #Ageing registration 👉 lnkd.in/dy3SNE5q more info: 👉https://lnkd.in/di9CzZaZ

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🚨Two Exciting DPhil\PhD Opportunities to join us at @oxforddemsci.bsky.social in Fall 2025!🚨 1️⃣ ABM project with 'Big Data' & LLMs (HDS CDT):👉 shorturl.at/wcMQo 2️⃣ Scientometrics project (DPhil PopHealth):👉 shorturl.at/qwsor 🕒⏳Deadline: ~10 days! Feel free to DM me w\ any Qs. Please share widely! 🙌

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Has been a fascinating 2 days discussing delayed fertility. I had the opportunity to present work on biological, genetic & medical factors related to postponement. And these amazing Vienna VID, ÖAW surroundings! Glad the focus was on the ceiling (and not me, haha) @oxforddemsci.bsky.social

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Great presentation on the educational gradient & fertility timing in Spain from our MapIneq project by @mvaldes1989.bsky.social @cristinasuero.bsky.social @fabriberna.bsky.social at VID Vienna

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Health experts fact-check RFK Jr's views on health policy in #BBCVerify's latest article, including our Director @melindacmills.bsky.social on RFK Jr's widely criticised COVID claims https://buff.ly/3YVQTE7 @leverhulme.bsky.social @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social @cpc-cg.bsky.social

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NEW PODCAST: How big are the UK's demographic challenges? Paul Johnson, @melindacmills.bsky.social and Carl Emmerson explore the implications of record low fertility rates, other demographic shifts and the potential impact on the public finances. 🎧 Listen here: https://buff.ly/3YD8S1P

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Tune into @theifs.bsky.social #demography podcast w/Paul Johnson @pjtheeconomist.bsky.social Low birth rates, shrinking populations, shifts in age distribution, migration, increased life expectancy - what are impacts on public finances and the #economy? ifs.org.uk/articles/how...

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Just out! Our new Nature article on the importance of family-based samples and data for social, medical and genetic research! rdcu.be/dXQ56

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#ICYMI here's a useful recap of @drjenndowd.bsky.social's keynote at the University of Pennsylvania's Population Aging Research Center Aging Retreat last week ➡️ ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/res... @leverhulme.bsky.social

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Join us on Monday for a talk by James Raymer, Professor of Demography at the Australian National University, on new insights into the #demographic effects of immigration across Australia ➡️ www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/lcds-se... @leverhulme.bsky.social

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Congratulations to Charlie Rahal @oxforddemsci.bsky.social for being promoted to Associate Professor at Oxford! Strong research, teaching and administrative service and one of the brightest & nicest people you will ever meet! 🎉

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🚨 Applications close on Thursday to join Dr Joshua Wilde's team as a Postdoc Researcher in Reproductive #Demography ➡️ www.demography.ox.ac.uk/jobs @leverhulme.bsky.social

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Excited to start new partnership with Berlin Universities & Oxford! Yesterday we opened a new Einstein Centre for Population Diversity - combining biomedical, demographic & social science research @oxforddemsci.bsky.social

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🚨 New job alert 😎 We have 2 news job openings in Joshua Wilde's team as a Postdoc and Senior Researcher in #Reproductive #Demography. Apply now ➡️ www.demography.ox.ac.uk/jobs @leverhulme.bsky.social

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