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ridhikashyap.bsky.social
Demographer. Data enthusiast. Cricket aficionado.
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How can we #AccelerateAction to improve women's health outcomes? buff.ly/pacAIJZ A new study co-authored by Dr Ursula Gazeley identifies the leading causes of maternal deaths globally and highlights the need to reduce health inequities in LMICs. @leverhulme.bsky.social @oxpop.bsky.social #IWD2025

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Closing the digital gender gap starts with data 📊 For #InternationalWomensDay, Ridhi & team launched an updated dashboard tracking internet & mobile access by gender at a subnational level. Explore ➡️ digitalgendergaps.org/dashboard/

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On #InternationalWomensDay, @ridhikashyap.bsky.social's Digital Gender Gaps team have launched an updated dashboard to #AccelerateAction by helping to ensure women are equal participants in digital society buff.ly/OSV35V8 @leverhulme.bsky.social @oxpop.bsky.social @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social

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Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and launch interdisciplinary research projects? We are so excited to announce there will be *26* Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science this year! Apply to one of them here: sicss.io/locations

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If you are interested in studying good old human activity on pre-Musk Twitter, we are now sharing the complete 375M dataset of our 24h Twitter data collection with researchers. Get in touch! ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC... Please forward to interested scholars.

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What's the future of mortality in high-income countries? Making predictions (especially about the future) is hard. But that doesn't stop us from trying...I'm happy to share this contribution to the PDR 50th anniversary special issue: doi.org/10.1111/padr... (open access) #Demography

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Happy 5th birthday to us! 🥳 In October, we celebrated five years of disrupting and realigning demography with the #demographic community at our inaugural #DemSciSummit https://buff.ly/3Da6Kre @leverhulme.bsky.social @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @melindacmills.bsky.social

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@caseybreen.bsky.social, in “Longevity Benefits of Homeownership,” finds life expectancy differs btw homeowners & renters, presenting “compelling evidence that owning a home in early adulthood has a causal effect on later-life mortality.” @oxforddemsci.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

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We have another faculty opening at Oxford — this time in demography: Associate Professor in Social Demography, open to any area/topic, and open to different career stages, incl. junior scholars. With linked tutorial fellowship at St John’s College. t.co/rQ4Uob7bIz Happy to answer questions!

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Proud supervisor moment —congratulations to Xinyi on an excellent and ambitious thesis! Here is a glimpse of Xinyi’s research: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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We have a new faculty opening at Oxford Sociology and Nuffield College — come join us and be my colleague! An Oxford AP is the main faculty grade and a very broad category — covering those just out of PhD to those more senior, incl. Full Professor. www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/article/asso...

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New from the Digital Gender Gaps team: "Social capital mediates knowledge gaps in informing sexual and reproductive health in Africa" We use Facebook friendships between regions w/ DHS data to explore how social capital shapes diffusion of SRH behaviours www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Two 3-year PhD fellowships are available within the remit of my ERC project on the risks and vulnerability of widowhood across ageing societies!!! Deadline for applications - December 10 Start date - September 1 www.sciencespo.fr/osc/fr/conte...

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Postdoc opportunity with me in computational demography at Oxford to explore questions about demographic change, kinship, gender and and inter-generational dynamics: tinyurl.com/2skdt98w Keen to apply but need a bit more time to get the application in? Deadline now: Tue, Nov 21, noon (UK time).

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