Tim Riffe

A short preprint describing our adoption of more consistent and precise use of terminology related to reproducibility, robustness, replicability, repeatability, and credibility.

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Deadline is approaching!!!!

📌 Submit your contribution until 30 November 2025 for #REVES2026 📆 11–13 March 2026|Tokyo, Japan

🔗 www.reves2026.com

#demography
#LifeExpectancy

I was going to ask if someone knows of a comprehensive archive of US state policies that changed over the last 50 years.

But then I remembered there's this: ippsr.msu.edu/public-polic...

So now I'm posting it here for everyone's benefit instead

A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF

Estimating death rates in complex humanitarian emergencies using the network survival method Abstract. Reliable estimates of death rates in complex humanitarian emergencies are critical for assessing the severity of a crisis and for effectively all

Our new paper develops and tests a network-based method for estimating death rates in complex humanitarian emergencies.

Joint w/ @dennisfeehan.bsky.social and team from Geneva-based NGO @impact-initiatives.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/aje/advance-...

Why are there so many ways to compute a frequentist interval for a proportion? Because the sample space is discrete, coverage can be garbage without adjustment. The Agresti-Coull interval ("score" below) is really a Bayes interval with a weak prior, has good freq coverage! >

Autoimmune disease breakthrough as virus is found to cause lupus as well as MS The virus that causes glandular fever may be an unsuspected cause of several autoimmune conditions, lending hope for new treatments and vaccines

#Autoimmune disease study breakthrough

In @theipaper.com Helen Stagg discusses new US study which found Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), which causes glandular fever, is a trigger for #lupus as well as #MS, & how a vaccine could help prevent it.

inews.co.uk/news/autoimm...

Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out

1,600+ fossil fuel lobbyists at COP30, outnumbering every delegation except Brazil

This isn’t ‘dialogue’; it’s the industry responsible for the crisis hijacking the negotiations meant to stop it

If this doesn’t make you furious, you’re not paying attention

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I'm concerned about the health research community rushing to *require* patient/public involvement (PPI) for all methodological research.

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Oh i also didn’t notice! Should probably read: The share of working age adults from the 1971-1975 birth cohort reporting excellent health at age 40 = share from 1991-1995 cohort reporting same at age 30.

Yikes, what data & population is this?

LEdecomp: Decompose Life Expectancy by Age (and Cause) A set of all-cause and cause-specific life expectancy sensitivity and decomposition methods, including Arriaga (1984) &lt;<a href="https://doi.org/10.2307%2F2061029" target="_top">doi:10.2307/2061029<...

Over a dozen ways to decompose life expectancy, all in one (we hope) friendly interface. Please have a look at the LEdecomp R package cran.r-project.org/web/packages... See the function LEdecomp() for access to all of them. If we left something out, please shout! #rstats #demography #mortality

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

Berkeley Demography application deadline for Fall 2026 admission is Dec 1, 2025.

Read more here:
www.demog.berkeley.edu/graduate-adm...

Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology

LAST CALL! #Sociology Professorships in Copenhagen, Denmark!

We're hiring 2+ open-rank profs (Asst/Assoc/Full). Any area.

Deadline: this Saturday, Nov 15!

Join a leading European sociology department. Please repost!

jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

Earlier this week I came across a book with this dedication page (from 1938).

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New BMJ Research: Greenness and hospital admissions for cause specific mental disorders.

Study finds that local greenness was associated with a 7% reduction in hospital admissions for all cause mental disorders
#BMJClimate
www.bmj.com/content/391/...

At some point you might want to write your own geom_* for ggplot2. Here's an instruction booklet: evamaerey.github.io/ggplot2-exte... #rstats

The impact of population's educational composition on Healthy Life Years: An empirical illustration of 16 European countries Healthy Life Years (HLY) is a prominent summary indicator for evaluating and comparing the levels of population health status across Europe. Variation…

You can derive the other lifetable columns from ex. That’s ehat Sauerberg does here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📢 Job opening!
Join our Research Group on Population Data and Projections as a Postdoctoral Researcher
⏰ Full-time (40h/week), 1-year position
🔗 Infos & application: oeawnr.onlyfy.jobs/job/km5kybrq

The value of public R&D

Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term
www.gov.uk/government/p...

! New Paper Out!

In this paper - with Ernesto Amaral, Samantha Haussman and Guilherme Quaresma - we investigate, for Brazil, whether area level composition of workers by age, educational and formal-informal labor relations impact the wage levels of workers.

www.cepal.org/en/publicati...

4/11/2025 - DemoSoc Seminar: Measuring the Scale of Loss: Life Expectancy and Conflict Mortality in Gaza - Departament | Facultat de Ciències Polítiques i Socials - UPF

Measuring the Scale of Loss: Life Expectancy and Conflict Mortality in Gaza.
Enrique Acosta, Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics (CED)
Come join us: Next Tuesday 4.11 at noon. @demosocupf.bsky.social
www.upf.edu/web/politiqu...

YD2026 Call for Papers 17th Conference of Young Demographers4–6 February 2026, Prague (Wednesday–Friday)Call for Papers Dear friends and colleagues, On behalf of the Young Demographers, the Geographical Institute and the...

17th Conference of Young Demographers, 4–6 February 2026, Prague, Czech Republic
Deadline for submissions: 27 October 2025
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

IU Bloomington Sociology Location Bloomington Position Summary The Department of Sociology (https://sociology.indiana.edu/index.html) at Indiana University, Bloomington, invites applications for a tenure-track position at the level of Assistant Professor to begin in the fall of 2026 in the general area of sociology of medicine, health, and/or well-being broadly defined. We encourage applicants whose research in medicine, health, and/or well-being would complement department strengths in the areas of education, social psychology, political sociology, sociology of the family, sociology of inequality, stratification, and population. The tenure home for this position will be in the Department of Sociology. Ph.D. in Sociology is required at time of appointment. Applicants should apply online at https://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/30984 including a cover letter; CV; statements on research and/or teaching; up to three writing samples; and contact information for three letters of reference. Applications must be complete by November 16, 2025, to receive full consideration. Applications will be considered until the position is filled. Queries can be sent to Fabio Rojas (frojas@iu.edu), Department of Sociology Chair, or Jennifer Barber (jenbarb@iu.edu), Chair of the Search Committee. Indiana University is an equal opportunity employer and provider of ADA services and prohibits discrimination in hiring. See Indiana University Notice of Non-Discrimination here which includes contact information.

Oh hey, little update. Indiana University Department of Sociology is hiring this fall. Keeping you on your toes deadline is 11/16. We’re looking for an assistant professor specializing in sociology of medicine, health, and/or well-being broadly defined. indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/30984

Postdoctoral Researchers in Demography and Population Projections The Population Research Institute (PRI) at Väestöliitto – Family Federation of Finland and the University of Helsinki invite applications for three positions as Postdoctoral research fellow to study…

Up to 3 Post-docs: Pop. Projections for Migration Scenarios, Human Capital Dev & Sust. Integration

At@pophel.bsky.social, Population Research Inst, in collab w @mpidr.bsky.social & @iiasa.ac.at .https://www.vaestoliitto.fi/en/news/postdoctoral-researchers-in-demography-and-population-projections/

Demographers & sociologists assemble!

I'm looking for papers that use both Generation & Gender Survey and SHARE in the same paper. Don't care about topic, sub-sample, or design - just that it's empirical. Self-promotion is encouraged.

#sociology #demography

Postdoc at the Minnesota Population Center, @minnpop.bsky.social

Applications open now and being evaluated on a rolling basis. Pass on to demographers you know!

(This one requires folks to relocate to the Twin Cities, because it involves work in the restricted data center)

Job Offer: PhD Student Position
The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and the
@mpidr.bsky.social +
@imprs-phds.bsky.social
invite applications for a 4-year PhD position. The studentship is not limited to specific topics. Apply until November 17!
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61...