Sebastian Kluesener

Smoothing god Giancarlo C. giving another smooth talk on smoothing in a non-parametric setting 🤩 #IPC2025 #Brisbane

𝗙𝗡𝗔-𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗱𝘂𝗶𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗸𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘂𝗺 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱

2 Tage Graduiertenkolloquium mit spannenden Vorträgen, und interessanten Gästen liegen hinter uns. Die vortragenden Nachwuchswissenschaftler:innen und Stipendiat:innen präsentierten ihre Forschungsergebnisse zu Fragen rund um die Alterssicherung. 👉🏻 rb.gy/rzr9ow

DIW Berlin: Researcher (f/m/x)

We are hiring a 3-year postdoc for the ERC-funded WEALTHTRAJECT project at DIW Berlin. More details here: www.diw.de/sixcms/detai...

Interested in doing a PhD on social inequalities in retirement transitions? Then join our team at the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB) in Wiesbaden, Germany 😀 We offer great research conditions and a thriving research environment: www.bib.bund.de/EN/Institute...

Gender Gap bei selbst eingeschätzter Lebensdauer Wie schätzen Menschen ihre persönlich erwartete Lebensdauer ein? Frauen und Männer unterscheiden sich in ihren Antworten – mit welchen Folgen? Mehr dazu in der neuen Ausgabe.

Wie lange erwarten wir zu leben?
In einem neuen Beitrag gehen Andreas Mergenthaler, Sebastian Klüsener (@demomapper.bsky.social) & ich dieser Frage auf den Grund.
Anhand einer Stichprobe der Bevölkerung 40 Jahre und älter (DEAS) finden wir, dass Frauen zur Unterschätzung der Lebensdauer neigen 1/4

Deadline is approaching!!! Submit your contribution until May 31 for the 2026 Issue of @vypr.bsky.social 👇
@fertdem.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social @demographyvienna.bsky.social

📄 Non‐Survival to Pension Age in Denmark and Sweden: A Sub‐National Investigation
#demography
🎉 this faithful companion of my last crazy years is finally published
🔗 PSP: doi.org/10.1002/psp....
🔓 preprint: doi.org/10.31219/osf...
🛠️ #rstats code: github.com/ikashnitsky/...

Foto of Grace Whaba.

Grace Wahba's award winning paper.

Grace Wahba, "the mother of smoothing splines," won the International Prize (aka the Nobel) in Statistics #stats for her representer theorem.
youtu.be/8Ae_QzwwR_U?...

So well deserved! I guess, one could also give her the price again in two years for her work on Generalized Cross-Validation.

Anomalies & data problems are found in the Hungarian EU SILC income data from around year 2017. It is very likely that the data was manipulated to decrease the poverty rate.

Annamaria Tatrai and Andras Gabos conducted a very thorough investigation of the issue: www.valaszonline.hu/2025/04/01/e...

6 PhD scholarships at University of Padova for candidates interested in the area of Statistical Sciences- included Demography
Start of activities: November 1st, 2025
Annual grant: 18,643.00 euros (gross)
The call is published (deadline May 13, 2025 - 1 pm CEST) at www.unipd.it/en/node/1053

Not sure whether German data allows such an analysis 🫠

🚨 Job alert - please share!

I'm looking for a doctoral researcher (3 years, 75%) to join my #ERC project #Loneliness across time and space (LOTIS) at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de, starting June 1 or later.

Details in thread 👇

#PsychSciSky

Did you get a chance to read the thread on our new @naturehumbehav.bsky.social paper on SES yet?

If not, don't worry, I have something better for you!

Check out this comic by the amazing @lizahaart.bsky.social

Complete comic: communities.springernature.com/posts/are-we...

Or in this thread 👇🏾

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

Postdoctoral Fellow (276000) | University of Oslo Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow (276000), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Friday, April 25, 2025

Open Postdoctoral position! - ERC Advanced Grant project HOMME

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/276000/postdoctoral-fellow

About the HOMME project www.sv.uio.no/psi/english/research/projects/homme

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🚨 Come research singlehood with me! I’m hiring a 3-year Postdoc w/interest in Family Demography to start this Fall. Please share!

📍 Barcelona (@cedemografia.bsky.social)
🔎 ERC-funded project 'SINGLE'
📅 Deadline – April 24, 2025
🔗 More info: shorturl.at/400eo
#Postdoc #Demography

@cdudel.bsky.social in action 😀 Promoting our work on working life expectancy to demographers and statisticians at the DGD conference in Wiesbaden.

The @imprs-phds.bsky.social team worked hard to make it happen: We're happy & proud to announce that the International Max Planck Research School for Population, Health and Data Science has been made permanent by the
@maxplanck.de . IMPRS_PHDS Team, you rock!
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

Fascinating article by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social on the concentration of high-paying jobs in the UK. But does the graphic show that the situation is even more extreme in France and Canada? on.ft.com/3OWo5H2

<em>Journal of Marriage and Family</em> | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library Objective This study presents initial results from the KINMATRIX survey, a large-scale source of ego-centric network data offering an unprecedented level of scope and detail in mapping family relati...

Radiating exuberant euphoria 🥳🎉🥂, I announce that our study with initial results from the #KINMATRIX survey has been published 👉 doi.org/10.1111/jomf.... KINMATRIX is a unique new source of ego-centric network data that offers unprecedented scope and detail in mapping family relations. #Demography

Three more days to apply for the International Population Conference in Brisbane next July. If you work on innovative spatial research, consider to submit to our session: "Spatial demography: New data and emerging insights" 🙂

iussp.org/en/internati...

For mothers this is possible for a number of countries (see long-term trends for France). For fathers, only few statistical offices collect information on paternal age at childbirth by parity. The longest of these time-series only go back to the early 1960s:
Norway: www.ssb.no/en/statbank/...

Deadline extended: 3 more days to apply! At
@bib_bund we offer a ⭐️permanent senior research scientist position 🏆 to conduct research on population dynamics and its components (fertility, mortality, family change, employment, ...): bit.ly/bibpopdyn

Great question: "How big does a population need to be before demographers can ignore individual-level randomness in demographic events?"
Even better, a straightforward answer:
arxiv.org/html/2406.15...

Mark the dates for the Nordic Demographic Symposium, 10-12 June 2025, 🤩 Hindsgavl Castle, Middelfart, DK. It's going to be three hyggelig days filled with high-quality #demography. The call for papers in in Jan'25 on our website (demografi.dk). Demography in getting back to Denmark😍

Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology The Swedish Institute for Social Research, SOFI, is part of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Stockholm University. The institute is an internationally leading research institute in the field of socia

We are seeking a postdoctoral researcher in sociology.
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

PhD Position on the Geography of Online Labour Platforms Are you excited to develop a geographical perspective on the emerging phenomenon of online labour platforms? Join our project as a PhD candidate!

❗️ One more week to apply for this fully funded PhD project on the geography of online labour platforms under the supervision of Deyu Li, Carolina Castaldi and myself:
www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #geography #platforms #gigeconomy

4 more days to apply! At @bib_bund we offer a ⭐️permanent senior research position⭐️to conduct research on population dynamics and its components (fertility, mortality, family change, employment, ...): bit.ly/bibpopdyn

Excited for our workshop on #Geodata and #SpatialAnalysis at @Gesis Mannheim from 01.07 - 03.07.2024! 🌍🗺️

Join us in Mannheim from 01.07 - 03.07.2024 if you're into spatial data and advanced #RStats techniques. 📊👩‍🎓👨‍🎓

training.gesis.org?site=pDetail...

Join our team at BiB 😀We offer a permanent ⭐️ research scientist position to conduct research on population dynamics and its components (fertility, mortality, family change, employment, etc.) bit.ly/bibpopdyn