Job posting for a doctoral position at the University of Rostock and the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research.
Large-scale bibliometric data project to analyze and forecast the migration of scientists.
Research project on scientific mobility with a survey on the motivations and context of researchers and skilled workers.
Apply now! The application deadline is April 15, 2026. For more information, visit www.demogr.mpg.de/go/jobs.
Job OfferβΌοΈDoctoral Student Position
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) / University of Rostock
Supervisors: Aliakbar Akbaritabar | Emilio Zagheni
πApply until April 15, 2026
https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_6122/jobs_fellowships_1910/doctoral_student_position_15039/
18.02.2026 14:02 β π 11 π 6 π¬ 0 π 0
Highly recommended to apply to this doctoral position to contribute to the future of @smdatabase.bsky.social !
#BiblioDemography
17.02.2026 15:24 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Come visit MPIDR in βοΈSummer 2026βοΈ
π£Call for Application for the "Population and Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program"
π
βοΈJune 8th β August 21st, 2026βοΈ
πΊοΈMPIDR in Rostock, Germany
Application Deadline: Jan 14, 2026
Apply here and learn more:
incubator.demogr.mpg.de
01.12.2025 15:22 β π 25 π 12 π¬ 0 π 1
tutorial screenshot: flow map shows migration of scientists on a world map
tutorial screenshot: positron is given priority over rstudio
scholarly migration database
This is the second year that Iβm teaching a short session on Open Science and Reproducibility with Quarto, GitHub, and R for students in the European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD) program (by @mpidr.bsky.social, @ined.bsky.social, @eaps.bsky.social). Materials: www.ekotov.pro/2025-EDSD-op...
24.10.2025 15:35 β π 13 π 7 π¬ 1 π 0
Public Zotero Group library: Scholarly Migration Database (SMD)
Have you been wondering where to find a comprehensive list of publications about the Scholarly Migration Database (SMD) using the SMD data or publications by its team and collabs? Or the ones citing SMD-related works?
Now, we have a public Zotero Group library to join
www.zotero.org/groups/59990...
22.05.2025 19:09 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
π study reveals global patterns of the migration of scientists shedding light on how researchers move both within and between countries.
A team of researchers @mpidr.bsky.social found large disparities in the appeal of various countries and regions to scientists.
www.demogr.mpg.de/go/migration...
14.05.2025 08:29 β π 15 π 5 π¬ 0 π 1
Very proud of this work by Faeze Ghorbanpour, @thiagomalaguth.bsky.social and me, which addresses the left censoring issues in migration research that uses digital trace data.
It will appear in the proceedings of #ICWSM2025, and Faeze is going to present it there.
Access:
doi.org/10.48550/arX...
12.05.2025 08:27 β π 5 π 3 π¬ 0 π 1
Hot off the press as population enthusiasts gather for #PAA2025...
New paper on global interrelationships between internal and international migration reveals novel patterns, inequalities and asymmetries.
Bonus item: a high-resolution database free to download...
11.04.2025 20:07 β π 24 π 7 π¬ 0 π 0
I am extremely happy to share. Just out in @pnas.org:
βGlobal subnational estimates of migration of scientists reveal large disparities in internal and international flowsβ
Open Access: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
with Maciej J. DaΕko, Xinyi Zhao, @ezagheni.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social #PAA2025
11.04.2025 18:31 β π 26 π 5 π¬ 1 π 1
Some subnational regions were disproportionately more attractive to receive scholars from both internal and international origins. Some regions were consistently sending scholars to both internal and international destinations: brain drain. Data on the @smdatabase.bsky.social doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
11.04.2025 18:31 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
I have arrived in Catania, and I am excited for tomorrow to deliver an invited talk on "Mobility, Migration, and Collaboration of Scholars" at the University of Catania.
A long shot, perhaps, but let me know if you are around here!
#BiblioDemography @smdatabase.bsky.social
12.02.2025 18:28 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
πFind the data publicly on Zenodo doi.org/10.5281/zeno... and all details on the website of the Scholarly Migration Database
scholarlymigration.org
βUse them to find the causes and consequences of the migration of scholars!β, says Tom Theile.π§΅4/5
29.10.2024 08:37 β π 4 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0
πRecommended readingπ
πMigration dataπΆπΆββοΈπΆββοΈ
Reliable migration data is notoriously hard to get. But very detailed longitudinal data about the mobility of almost all researchers publishing papers is hidden in big bibliometric databases like Scopus + OpenAlexπ§΅1/5
29.10.2024 08:34 β π 17 π 7 π¬ 2 π 0
A 1-day hybrid symposium dedicated to high-skilled and scientific mobility!
Please spread the word and join online or in Rostock!
@smdatabase.bsky.social
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...
01.10.2024 07:17 β π 2 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
π£Call for Registration!
Migration and Mobility Symposium @mpidr.bsky.social
An event to promote exchange & collaboration among scientists interested in scholarly #migration & scientific #mobility.
π
Oct 15, 2024
π8am-6pm CEST
π»Join online: www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...
#demography
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With one day focused on:
Using large-scale bibliometric data for demographic research; (e.g., family planning, migration research); [...] to trace internal and international scholarly migration worldwide.
More information here:
demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61...
#BiblioDemography
22.08.2024 19:24 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
We, @smdatabase.bsky.social's core team, are thrilled to share this publication alongside the updated version of the data.
"Bilateral flows and rates of international migration of scholars for 210 countries for the period 1998-2020"
Open Access:
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#BiblioDemography
25.07.2024 06:36 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Excited!
Paper w/ Tom Theile and @ezagheni.bsky.social on the Scholarly Migration Database is published in Nature Scientific Data
"Bilateral flows and rates of international migration of scholars for 210 countries for the period 1998-2020"
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
@mpidr.bsky.social #BiblioDemography
24.07.2024 16:07 β π 8 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
This happens tomorrow afternoon CET time. Looking forward to presenting @smdatabase.bsky.social, hearing the comments/suggestions of the attendees and panelists, learning about the other initiatives and meeting many of you on Zoom
@mpidr.bsky.social
IUSSP
@ezagheni.bsky.social
Tom Theile
06.03.2024 10:57 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 2
Just a reminder of the deadline for application on January 10.
Apply for the 2024 "Population and Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program" here:
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61...
One team works on "Network and Gender Dynamics on Mobility and Migration" @mpidr.bsky.social @ezagheni.bsky.social
05.01.2024 13:43 β π 11 π 11 π¬ 0 π 0
With one day dedicated to #BiblioDemography including the introduction of the Scholarly Migration Database!
07.12.2023 20:57 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Continued by showing the "new look" of the Scholarly Migration Database's Exploration page accessible here:
www.scholarlymigration.org/exploration....
#BiblioDemography
@smdatabase.bsky.social
@ezagheni.bsky.social
@mpidr.bsky.social
08.11.2023 15:07 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
@ezagheni.bsky.social speaking about "Global Migration of Scholars βTrends, Patterns with Economic Development, and Gender Inequalities" MPI_inno_comp and here describing the sub-national disparities in migration of scholars in Europe
doi.org/10.4054/MPID...
#BiblioDemography
@smdatabase.bsky.social
08.11.2023 15:01 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1
Associate Professor of Data Science and Informatics at the University of Oxford.
PhD Student at @mpidr.bsky.social & CPop @sdu.dk | Kinequalities Research Group | EDSD 22-23 | π§π·
family demography β’ kinship β’ intergenerational transfers
GESIS @gesis.org | Dept. DiCoDe, MPIDR @mpidr.bsky.social | DemoSocUPF @demosocupf.bsky.social #FirstGen
PhD student @mpidr.bsky.social | Master in Demography @cedeplar | EDSD 2023-24
Demographer & Historian | PhD Student at @mpidr.bsky.social (DCoDe Dep) and @SUDA_Sthlm | Microsimulation - Historical/Kinship Demography | EDSD 2020-2021
Research Fellow @casaucl.bsky.social @ UCL
Former PhD @geodatascience.bsky.social @ University of Liverpool ππ©π½βπ»
International Students, Human Mobility, Machine Learning, Spatial Data Science π
Web & Communications Officer @qmrg-rgs-ibg.bsky.social
Prof. Human #Mobility & #Migration β’ Geographic #DataScience β’ #Spatial #Inequality
ππ½ Lead @geodatascience.bsky.social & @qmrg-rgs-ibg.bsky.social
βοΈ Editor @region.bsky.social
π» Project: https://de-bias.github.io/debias/t
π www.franciscorowe.com
Applied statistician at @mpidr.bsky.social. I am passionate about using time-to-event models to study socio-demographic and medical outcomes. I might ask you about the time scale in your model :)
Assistant professor of Sociology at Tilburg University (NL), Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (D); Sociologist/Demographer with an interest in (mental)health inequalities | family | life course | gender | social policy
Social Demographer
PhD Student w/ @uofwa.bsky.social Sociology & @mpidr.bsky.social
Alum @lshtm.bsky.social
Diss on hospital segregation in the 1960s
Interested in how the rich stay rich and the poor poor. Sociologist at @sriucl.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk. He/him/his. http://perengzell.com Photo bomber @simoneschneider.bsky.social
Sociologist & Social Demographer
Doctoral Researcher @dynamics.bsky.social
Interested in gender inequalities, family dynamics, mental well-being, division of labour & more π
PhD student at Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research & University of Helsinki | working on family dynamics & health
Scientific data resource providing detailed #mortality and #population data.
We follow #opendata principles.
www.mortality.org
Assistant Professor @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social ERCOMER, ISS - International migration | Big data | Computational social science
Previously @mpidr.bsky.social @sns.it
PhD Student in Sociology @uofwa.bsky.social
ihsankahveci.com
Methodological Approaches and Tools in Migration Research - IMISCOE Standing Committee, discussing methods in the migration research community and beyond.
Website: https://tinyurl.com/y9v8n92e
The Network of Europe's Leading Demographic Research Centres: https://population-europe.eu
