Aashish Gupta

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I recently discovered Conventional Comments (conventionalcomments.org) for providing a pseudo-standard set of labels for feedback and just tried it for an article review and it was really helpful to specify issues vs. thoughts vs. suggestions, etc. Hopefully it's helpful for the authors too!

Check out this conference if you work on topics related to kinship structure and dynamics (within and beyond the household), caregiving, intergenerational processes, family bereavement, LGBTQ+ & chosen kinship, etc. @iussp.bsky.social Submit by 21 Jan 2026 👇 www.demogr.mpg.de/go/kinship-conference

Prospective Students | Graduate Group in Demography

The Graduate Group in Demography at the University of Pennsylvania is now accepting applications for its PhD program in Demography. We look forward to recruiting a strong and diverse cohort for Fall 2026!

➡️ Applications are due December 15, 2025 ⬅️

Learn More:

We are hiring a Posd-Doctoral Research Fellow @standrewssgsd.bsky.social @phrg-standrews.bsky.social to work on #family and #housing #projections using #microsimulation. DL: 1 October. More info: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

In “Widow & Widower Mortality in India,” Megan Reed et al. employ IHDS data & find no higher mortality risk for widows or widowers aged 60+ relative to married individuals, but among those aged 25-59, the risk was 50% and 40% greater among widowers & widows, resp. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

@jacalazans.bsky.social, Carol Tomás and I are the editors of Revista Brasileira de Estudos de Populacao (www.rebep.org.br), a peer-reviewed, open-access journal that publishes population related papers in Portuguese, Spanish, and English. Rebep has just turned 40 years old in 2024.

Another job alert! Join us @sociologyoxford.bsky.social as a postdoc on @ewabatyra.bsky.social's ERC project. A great three-year position to work in the area of fertility and reproductive behaviour. www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/event/postdo...

GP Tea?

Universitair docent sociologie Wil jij studenten inspireren en vernieuwend onderwijs geven? Versterk ons team als universitair docent met expertise in migratie en/of sociale stratificatie.

📢 Job vacancy 📢
📍 Sociology Department at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
👩‍🎓 Assistant Professor specialized in migration/integration/polarization/stratification
⏰ Until 29th of September
☑️Teaching in Dutch is required
📃 More info at www.uu.nl/organisatie/...

As we enter September, you may see posts with news of jobs, promotions, grants, fellowships, and the like. That’s great! We should celebrate with colleagues, especially in an industry where rejection is the modal outcome. 1/n

Looking to do a PhD in demography, health, data science? Oxford Demography (LCDS) is recruiting to fill TWO positions! See Charlie's posts below for specifics.

Come join us in the beautiful (albeit a bit rainy) Oxford!! 👩‍🏫📊🌦️

WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you.

Apply by: 10 Oct

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

One Epidemic, Many Estimates (1EME) One Epidemic, Many Estimates (1EME)

📢 Interested in excess mortality methods, and want a challenge? I'm organising the "One Epidemic, Many Estimates" (1EME) project! Register *now* as a many analyst team (submissions due 15 March 2026), and then join us at LSE for a workshop on 21-22 May 2026! (1/n)

www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-His...

Job Opportunity at LSHTM: Research Assistant The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is one of the world’s leading public health universities. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working i...

🗣️Exciting PhD opportunity!

Join @lshtm.bsky.social PSG and @mpidr.bsky.social as a PhD student/Research Assistant on an 3-year project leading to a funded PhD. The role focuses on developing cutting-edge methods to model health & mortality in low-income countries.
jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

I am looking for a postdoc to join my ERC StG project DIVREP to work on global, quantitative analyses of fertility and reproductive behaviour. The post is based in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford. Let me know if you have any questions. More details below👇

Will the Government Finally Acknowledge the Scale of India’s Covid-19 Tragedy? Newly released 2021 government mortality data shows 3 million excess death registrations in India during Covid-19, suggesting over 4 million total excess deaths. The pandemic’s real impact then was fa...

"To this day, there has been no government recognition of the extent to which the pandemic hit India. It remains to be seen whether this will change now that such a clear story has emerged from the government’s own data." - @aashishg.bsky.social and Murad Banaji
www.theindiaforum.in/health/will-...

Will the Government Finally Acknowledge the Scale of India’s Covid-19 Tragedy? Newly released 2021 government mortality data shows 3 million excess death registrations in India during Covid-19, suggesting over 4 million total excess deaths. The pandemic’s real impact then was fa...

Newly released 2021 government mortality data shows 3 mn excess death registrations in India during Covid, suggesting over 4 mn total excess deaths. The pandemic’s real impact was far greater than the official estimate.
www.theindiaforum.in/health/will-...

Our new editorial in Bulletin of the WHO about ongoing initiative to improve the measurement of adult mortality in low-and-middle-income countries, where major data gaps have recently been compounded by US decision to end support for Demographic & Health Surveys

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

How can we grow our food in a way that respects our environment?

Our Rice Tastes of Spring with its earthy illustrations celebrates the importance of traditional farming while capturing the spirit of Adivasi communities.

Story and research: @anumeha.bsky.social

The biggest project I've worked on for the last chunk of years was just published. It asks, how big are US Black-white lifespan differences?

This might seem like a narrow question. I hope to convince you by the end that there are answers you didn't anticipate. And I hope some of them will move you.

Doctoral student in Economic History – Demographic Inequality The Department of Economic History is a research-intensive department that employs about 100 people: researchers, teachers, technical/administrative staff, and Ph.D. candidates. The department has a l

My colleague Martin Dribe is looking for a doctoral candidate interested in demographic inequality in his Wallenberg Scholar project ‘Unequal Lives: Socioeconomic Stratification, Life-Course, and Demography from Preindustrial Society to the Welfare State’. lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Doctoral student in Economic History – Inequalities in health and survival The Department of Economic History is a research-intensive department that employs about 100 people: researchers, teachers, technical/administrative staff, and Ph.D. candidates. The department has a l

I'm looking for 1-2 doctoral candidates in my ERC-funded project "Relative Health: Long-Run Inequalities in Health and Survival Between Families and Across Generations". These are 4-year, fully funded positions at Lund University. More info: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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In “Mortality by Cause of Death in Brazil,” @fernandofernandes.bsky.social, @cassiomturra.bsky.social, G Franca & M Castro quantify “the different & paradoxical ways the COVID-19 pandemic indirectly impacted other causes of death…in 2020 & 2021.” @hsph.harvard.edu read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

Great job opportunity: 3-year research fellow in José Manuel Aburto's Mortality and Inequalities Research Group at LSHTM: jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Image shows woman in business attire shaking hands with a man in business attire across a table at the end of an interview in an office environment. Text advertisies CPC-CG job opportunity: Research Fellow post within the ESRC Connecting Generations programme to examine fuller working lives and care provision for individuals in later life in the UK and internationally at the Department of Gerontology, University of Southampton. Closing date: 11 April 2025.

📑 JOB VACANCY - #ResearchFellow post within the ESRC-funded Connecting Generations programme.

Examining fuller #workinglives and #care for later life individuals in the UK and internationally

📨Apply by 11 April: jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

@bspsuk.bsky.social @britishgerontology.bsky.social

📣 The migration team at the @epc-official.bsky.social is looking for a new colleague (at junior/analyst level) w knowledge of labour migration & skills, integration & inclusion, & demography. Start date is ASAP, so please do consider applying & share widely in your networks! 🏃‍➡️

epc.eu/en/JPA-PA-EMD

Today's #worldhearingday 🦻So we shine a💡on a study on age-related #hearingloss in Europe by D.Stonkute @mpidr.bsky.social & Y.Vierboom @princetonupress.bsky.social. Educational inequalities in hearing loss vary by age, gender&region. www.demogr.mpg.de/go/hearing #hearingcare #safelistening @who.int