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When they go low (and, wow, they do), we go queer! 🏳️‍🌈 Together with @francescorampazzo.com, I’m organising a session on Queer Demography at @bspsuk.bsky.social. Submit your work on LGBTQ+ populations and/or the queering of demographic methods by 9th May: www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...

Now that #PAA2025 is over, why not think about submitting your work to the Queer Demography session I'm co-organising with @mortenkthomsen.bsky.social at @bspsuk.bsky.social?
We welcome abstracts on LGBTQIA+ populations at any stage of development.
Deadline: May 9th
www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...

Big day yesterday, marking the end of my DPhil (Oxford lingo for PhD) 👨🏻‍🎓! Huge thanks to @melindacmills.bsky.social and @drcompton.bsky.social for making my viva a wonderful experience. Very excited that I get to continue studying queer populations as a postdoc here in Oxford in the years to come!

Funded PhD project in trans and non-binary inclusion An opportunity to develop a PhD project around trans and non-binary inclusion within health and social care.

University of Brighton & @CottinghamTrust launch one of the UK’s first PhD scholarships focusing on trans & non-binary inclusion‍ ⚧

The landmark initiative provides an opportunity to advance research that drives equality & transforms lives. Find out more bit.ly/42gt3Gn

Letter on Modifications to the National Stonewall Monument Web Pages Letter on the National Park Service Modifications to the Stonewall National Monument Web Pages Signatures closed at 5 P.M. EST on February 19, 2025. If you are a journalist writing about this issue o...

I joined more than 350 LGBTQIA+ historians in signing this letter protesting the government attempt to erase trans people from history by censoring the Stonewall National Monument website. Erasing a word does not erase our existence--now or in the past. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

1/ 🚨 New paper! 🚨
How do the economic trajectories of children of immigrants vary across 15 high-income countries? We study intergenerational mobility of immigrants, using individual-level linked parent-child data across Europe, North America, and beyond. 🧵👇 #EconSky

@abicadams.bsky.social, Barbara Petrongolo and I provide new results on the implications of birth timing & spacing on parental leave dynamics and child penalty estimates. More details ⬇️

Poster for the seminar 'Unpacking the Work and Family Life of Same-Sex Parents' by Maaike van der Vleuten, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute. Held on Monday 24 February, 12.45pm at the Department of Sociology

📢 Join us this Monday as we host Maaike van der Vleuten from the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute!

🕝 12:45pm | 📍 Online & In-Person

Find out more 👉 www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/event/unpack...

A black and white photo of Marsha P Johnson. She is standing by a building, smoking a cigarette and holding a sign that reads "Power to the People "

Goodnight, dear friends.

On a day when our government continues to try to erase the existence of transgender folks, be encouraged to keep up the fight, keep up the love.

Power to the people. I love you.

Background Matters, but Not Whether Parents Are Immigrants: Outcomes of Children Born in Denmark (Forthcoming Article) - In Europe, the children of migrants often have worse economic outcomes than those with local-born parents. This paper shows that children born in Denmark with immigrant parents...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Background Matters, but Not Whether Parents Are Immigrants: Outcomes of Children Born in Denmark" by Mathias Fjællegaard Jensen and Alan Manning. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

The pleasure was all ours, Dario! Thank you for a very interesting presentation!

CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Topics cdc, government, united states, dataset, archive Language English Item Size 98.5G An archive of all CDC datasets uploaded to https://data.cdc.gov/browse before January 28th, 2025. Excludes corrupt datasets and data not publicly accessible.

The entire archive of all CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 has been backed up on Internet Archive.

Incredible work everyone. Science will never be silenced!

If this is true, researchers at the CDC are no longer allowed to use terms such as ‘gender’, ‘transgender’, and ‘LGBT’ in their research — land of the free, indeed.

it is more important than ever that we protect and love and hold the hands of the trans kids in our lives right now. this is absolutely deplorable.

Huge thanks to Prof Fane Groes for delivering a captivating talk on the unequal battle against infertility at @sociologyoxford.bsky.social. Her research highlights a striking statistic: college-educated women have a 25% higher IVF success rate compared to those who didn’t graduate high school!

Created a new starter pack on SOGI things, queer demography, and folks interested in surveying sex and sex surveys--very loosely some quantitative sexualities. Let me know if you want to be added, its just a starter and I drew from my head of who was currently here:

Would love to be added! 🤩

I often talk to people who have no idea how dire the situation is in the UK when it comes to trans healthcare provision. So this is just a gentle reminder that waiting times for INITIAL ASSESMENTS at NHS gender clinics currently exceed 6 years. Yes, 6. Yes, for initial assessments.

Note that Alito asked about suicide, and Strangio answered about suicidality—the latter of which refers to thoughts of or intent to attempt suicide. Though suicide would be preceded by suicidality, research does not show that suicidality is a reliable predictor of suicide. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2022, for every one person who committed suicide, 270 people “seriously thought about suicide” and 33 attempted it. Strangio’s pivot to suicidality is a standard tactic of gender medicine activists in public debates. They exploit public ignorance about the difference between suicidality—thinking about suicide, attempting suicide, using gestures of self-harm as a cry for help or as a form of emotional manipulation—and actual death by suicide.

A few things wrong here from our friends at City Journal but the most obvious is that a coroner cannot identify a corpse as transgender unless they've medically transitioned-- which reduces their rate of suicide. A living trans person, however, can report their pre-transition suicidal behavior.

Transgender lives at the population level: Evidence from Danish administrative data This paper provides the first rigorous account of the diverse characteristics of transgender individuals at the population level, using data from Dani…

What defines the transgender population?
We recently had a paper come out in SSM in which we explore this in Danish population data. We find that certain groups of transgender individuals, but not all, are disadvantaged in education, labour market outcomes, and health. Keen to hear your thoughts!

Would love to be added, Lis, thanks so much!

Celebrating five years of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science On 17 October 2024, the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science hosted the inaugural Demographic Science Summit to celebrate five years of disrupting and realigning demography for the benefit of…

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

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