Professor Melinda Mills

Join our first @oxforddemsci.bsky.social seminar of the term!
Who said causality couldn’t be fun?

Looking forward to those applications!

I was already excited to have this superstar join us at Oxford & @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social but - famous award aside (congratulations of course) - I am excited that I finally have someone to talk about baseball with!l (besides @ridhikashyap.bsky.social of course!). Go @bluejays.com !

🚀 Ready to dive into the future of social science research?

Join us on November 4 at Royal Jaarbeurs, Utrecht, for cutting-edge insights on computational social sciences.

🎤 Keynotes: @mercecrosas.bsky.social & @melindacmills.bsky.social

Register and check the programme 👉 edu.nl/men7n

Loved hosting @essgn.bsky.social in Oxford including @dr-appie.bsky.social & family (& the rest of the ESSGN family as well) - read the post and links below to hear about this great event

Just 2 more weeks left to apply for the ODISSEI Conference 2025!

📣 Keynotes: @melindacmills.bsky.social and @mercecrosas.bsky.social

Submit your abstracts (max 300 words) by June 27

2025 Ceremony for graduates of the PhD, LLM, and Master of Research in Economics programmes YouTube video by EUI TV

My work would not have been possible without my incredible collaborators, funders & supporters of risky research @erc.europa.eu @leverhulme.ac.uk @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social @oxpop.bsky.social
🎥 Watch the ceremony (mine from 34:00): www.youtube.com/live/r1sNRAp...

I also reflected on this in my keynote:
🎤 “From Friction to Flourishing: Navigating the risks, rewards & long-term advantages of interdisciplinary research”

I noted it is celebrated in theory, yet often challenged in practice.
📖 Read more: www.eui.eu/events?id=57...

In his generous speech @juhoharkonen.bsky.social highlighted my work on sociogenomics, family inequality, fertility and methods.

He recognised that #interdisciplinary work is not always welcomed and causes tension...👇

Melinda Mills shaking the hand of EUI President Patricia Nanz receiving honorary doctorate

I’m deeply honoured to have received an Honorary Doctorate from the @eui-eu.bsky.social in Florence this week 👇

Full crowd today at the @eui-eu.bsky.social Professor @melindacmills.bsky.social of Demography at @ox.ac.uk is giving an honorary talk, which examines the systemic and institutional barriers that interdisciplinary researchers face.

The fertility fallacy: Five things you didn’t know about global fertility rates UNITED NATIONS, New York – “Do you want kids?” Every day, people around the world ask themselves, and others, this question. But it also begs another: “Do you feel able to have children

🚫 Fertility fallacies busted!
Our Director @melindacmills.bsky.social joined @lbc.co.uk to challenge myths:
1️⃣ Young ppl aren’t choosing fewer kids
2️⃣ Pronatalist policies won’t fix it
📉 Incentives ≠ long-term fertility boost
Read the full @unfpa.org report: tinyurl.com/bdd3evsr
#Policy #Demography

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

Dr Andreas Filser gives LCDS Seminar on Parenthood and employment in France and Germany – insights from administrative data Dr Andreas Filser, researcher at the Research Data Centre of the Institute for Employment Research (FDZ-IAB), will give a talk on Parenthood and employment in France and Germany – insights from admini...

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

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

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!

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

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

Digital Pandemic Preparedness This programme will develop a blueprint for digital health systems that can be deployed during pandemics, create a funding model for implementation, and…

Learn more about our research programme here: www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/digital-pand...

Work with us

🚨 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

"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 🇫🇷

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!)

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

How population stratification led to a decade of sensationally false genetic findings Stratification makes environments look like genes

I agree that assortative mating, population stratification, etc. has greatly influenced past findings.
You might enjoy the excellent substack on this subject by @sashagusevposts.bsky.social , here: theinfinitesimal.substack.com/p/how-popula...

I agree that she is an amazing artist & kind that you say it! But I don't agree the @dr-appie.bsky.social et al paper is 'bad science'. We argue that social structural factors, like environment, families, assortative mating & population stratification ARE important AND impact estimates.

Socio-economic status is a social construct with heritable components and genetic consequences Nature Human Behaviour - Abdellaoui et al. synthesize genomic evidence on the link between socio-economic status and heredity. They show how social stratification may create selection pressures,...

Thanks for your reflection. I would suggest you delve into article (rdcu.be/efacK) & stick with the facts.

We are not arguing what you state above.

Or read the great book Control by our co-author @adamrutherford.bsky.social available here: www.adamrutherford.com/eugenics

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, The Middle Classes Muriel Zagha, Prof Sam Friedman, Lord Willetts, Lisa Holdsworth and Prof Melinda Mills.

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

Are we born to succeed or are we made to succeed? Genes and society shape each other. This comic, based on our Nature Human Behaviour article, shows how social inequality leaves genetic traces — and how social structures and genetics are linked acros...

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

Work with us Find out more about our new Senior Research Fellow Demographic Science and Senior Researcher in Geospatial Health and Digital Pandemic Preparedness roles.

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

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 😆)

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