Diego Alburez

Great presentations by A Colasurdo, N Panichella and J Wu at Session 96, "Internal Migration as a Life Course Trajectory", organized by the IUSSP Panel on Lifetime Migration at #IPC2025.

Papers from this session—and others—will appear in a Special Issue of Comparative Population Studies in 2026.

Interesting! Though I think there's a mistake in the labels of Fig 1 as 'Native (male) - immigrant (male)' should be 'Native (female) - immigrant (male)'.

🆕📰Rapid Demographic Changes Reshape Family Structures: Accelerated demographic change is creating significant differences in the number of relatives between peers of similar ages shows a study by @shajiang.bsky.social et al. in @readdemography.bsky.social. www.demogr.mpg.de/go/rapidchange

I was happy to speak to @faith-hill.bsky.social about the rise of great-grandparenthood in the US and elsewhere. Check out her piece, which is delightful as always 👇

Today's the 2nd day of our symposium "Demographic & Health Consequences of Violence & Armed Conflict" where international scholars present research on the impact of armed conflict & violence on mortality, migration, fertility, the environment, & population health.
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

🔦[SPOTLIGHT] Should you Claim Your #Pension Early or Wait? Retiring later increases the monthly pension amount in the US. @shajiang.bsky.social et al. have investigated whether this is optimal, given the uncertainties surrounding #LifeSpan. What they found:
www.demogr.mpg.de/go/USApension

Congrats, @shajiang.bsky.social and colleagues for this important contribution to the study of kinship in demography! Tl;dr: The speed at which birth and death rates change in a population affects the degree to which individuals have living kin (and how old these relatives are).

Some good news to brighten up your feed: Our #R package 📦 DemoKin for the demographic analysis of kinship has a new website with extensive documentation and literature 🎉🎈 @mpidr.bsky.social If you don't know it yet, why not check it out? ivanwilli.github.io/DemoKin/inde...

👓Recommended Reading📚Estimating Kinship Size of Older Adults in Europe With Models and Surveys
In a paper recently published in @readdemography.bsky.social, @demography.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social and his colleagues, @maikevd.bsky.social and @afcastr0t.bsky.social (CED), compared ... 🧵1/5

Ghanaian data shows weak support for the nuclear convergence hypothesis. Urbanisation hasn't led to the dominance of nuclear families—extended types persist.
www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

@josephineabaafi.bsky.social @rebeccasear.bsky.social @anushe.bsky.social

Three people

Student in front of tower at Nuffield College

1/ A huge congrats to Dr. Antonino Polizzi @polizzan.bsky.social, who passed his DPhil viva for his thesis “The Causes and the Consequences of Growing Life Expectancy Shortfalls” on Friday, examined by Prof. @ridhikashyap.bsky.social & Dr. Iñaki Permanyer. @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social #demography

How do demographic trends shape kinship networks? This replication study compares Swedish & Dutch kinship networks, showing how fertility patterns & divorce rates impact family ties across generations. #Replication #Kinship #POPNET. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol... @bokanyie.bsky.social

Work with us

*JOB OPENING*: Researcher in Reproductive #Demography

Dr. Josh Wilde is recruiting a Post-doc to join his ERC-funded SEXRATIO project at @oxforddemsci.bsky.social, focused on links b/t maternal stress & sex-biased conception & fetal loss. Deadline May 9 (noon UK time).
www.demography.ox.ac.uk/jobs

With a little delay we learned that @lpcalderonb.bsky.social, who could not attend #PAA2025, won a Best Poster Award! Her colleagues put up the poster and a note from Liliana and co-author @martinkolk.bsky.social jumped in to present the research. Congrats Liliana! @popassocamerica.bsky.social

Thanks for the suggestion! This didn't work, but the plot did render fine in another computer, so I guess it's something to do my my local config :/ I'll keep investigating..

Starting with #rayshader and I love it but find it frustrating that the first column of data consistently appears washed out or overly bright 🫠 Any advice on how to fill this edge with the column's colour (see below)? @tylermorganwall.bsky.social..? Full question: stackoverflow.com/questions/79...

Congrats, Elena 👏🏽 the project looks amazing!

In historical and conflict demography, it is common to estimate a large death toll as the discontinuity between two observed or projected population estimates. @hggaddy.bsky.social and @thegargiulian.bsky.social show why this method creates important problems for demographic and econometric work.

Our short course on Subnational Probabilistic Population Projections at PAA 2025 (description attached) will now be hybrid. To ask to join remotely, email raftery@uw.edu from your professional email by April 7 with subject “Join PAA workshop”, saying why you want to.

The social demography of war-related bereavement in Colombia, 1985–2018 <p>A presentation by <strong>Diego Alburez-Gutierrez (MPIDR Rostock).&nbsp;</strong>This event is part of the&nbsp;<i>Social Policy Research Colloquium</i>. For registration, and if you have any quest...

On Monday next week, I'll present new evidence on how armed groups weaponise kinship as a strategy to maximise suffering, as part of the @hertieschool.bsky.social Social Policy Colloqium. Register for the event in Berlin (only in-person unfortunately) 👇 www.hertie-school.org/en/events/ev...

In Rostock today to talk about how academia is facilitating the resurgence of eugenic ideology 👇

MPIDR - Publications The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock is one of the leading demographic research centers in the world. At the MPIDR, researchers from all over the world investigate demo...

Our (@stephzzhang.bsky.social @monjalexander.bsky.social @demography.bsky.social) working paper on the migrant mortality advantage among 18th and 19th century United Kingdom & Ireland emigrants has been updated -- spoiler, we find an advantage in this context too!

doi.org/10.4054/MPID...

Job Opportunity at LSHTM: Research Fellow 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...

#Demographers! Run don't walk at the chance to work w/ the amazing José Manuel Aburto @lshtm.bsky.social.

3 year post working on mortality estimation & trends in life expectancy & lifespan inequality in low-& middle-income countries. Not to mention..LONDON!

jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Genial! Yo te recomendaria hablar con gente del CED. Quiza Iñaki Permanyer para temas de envejecimiento o Albert Esteve com parte del proyecto CORESIDENCE. Aqui podes ver a la gente: ced.cat/en/categoria...

Mi recomendacion es que vayas a Barcelona =) Buen viaje!

🚨I'm advertising for a PhD position (4 yrs) in quant. Sociology/Social Demography (life course, social ineq.) @tcdsociology.bsky.social!
📅 Deadline: April 21, 2025
📄 More info: www.tcd.ie/sociology/va...
🔄 Please share! #Sociology #Demography #AcademicChatter #PhDOpportunity #TrinityCollegeDublin

I'm extremely proud to have @rebeccasear.bsky.social as a speaker @mpidr.bsky.social. Rebecca has been a powerful and vocal critic of the resurgence of eugenic ideologies in contemporary academia and society. Her message is more important than ever. Join the lecture online 👇

A demographic assessment of the impact of the war in the Gaza Strip on the mortality of children and their parents in 2023 - Population Health Metrics Background Following Hamas’s 7 October attack, Israel launched extensive aerial bombardments in the Gaza Strip, followed by a large-scale ground invasion. During the first 3 months of the conflict, up...

Our study estimates excess deaths in children and parental loss due to the war in Gaza in 2023. From Oct 8 to Dec 31, 2023, 8120 children <18 were killed due to the conflict, 15127 children lost a father, and 9886 children lost a mother -in 3 months
pophealthmetrics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

MPIDR - Demographic and Health Consequences of Violence and Armed Conflict This two-day symposium invites scholars across disciplines, including demography, public health, sociology, political science, and economics, to submit original research examining the short- and long-...

Doing research on the consequences of war? Join our two-day symposium "Demographic and Health Consequences of Violence and Armed Conflict" at @mpidr.bsky.social in Germany, July 01–02, 2025. Deadline: March 14. More info 👇 www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

The call for applications for the European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD) 2025-2026 is open!

This international doctoral program aims to provide students with a high-level education in demography.

Deadline to apply: March 25th, 2025 at 12 PM (noon).
More information: eaps.nl/edsd/how-to-...