@monjalexander.bsky.social
Associate professor in statistics and sociology at the University of Toronto. Demographer from Australia. https://www.monicaalexander.com/ https://formaldemography.github.io/working_group/ @tpn-uoft.bsky.social
Looking forward to having @kazumi-t.bsky.social at the upcoming UofT Flash Session!
Join us on on February 24 for our next event in the TPN speaker series! Find out interesting research insights from several excellent speakers from across the University of Toronto.
Nice to see this one out!
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Continuing with our speakers for the upcoming UofT flash session we are happy to announce Melissa Milkie!
Join us on on February 24 for our next event in the TPN speaker series! Find out interesting research insights from several excellent speakers from across the University of Toronto.
Fellow #demographers - coming to #PAA2026 ? π€
π« Please save the date for the Feminist Demography Pre-Conference Workshop!
Wednesday 5/6/2026
9-5pm CST in-person at PAA!
Flash talks! A moderated panel discussion! And a social hour to connect with fellow feminist demography colleagues!
Job opening for postdoctoral researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic-Epidemiology.
The Medical Demography research group explains its goals for studying disease progression and its effects on health and the population.
We are looking for a PhD in demography, sociology, epidemiology, or related fields with experience in quantitative health data analysis.
Apply now: The application deadline is March 22, 2026. For more information, visit www.demogr.mpg.de/go/jobs.
π’Job OfferβΌοΈNew Max Planck Research Group on Medical Demography
Marcus Ebeling will lead the team starting on 1 July 2026. The research group will be based at the MPIDR in Rostock. Read an interview with Marcus on his future research here: www.demogr.mpg.de/go/rgmd (including link to job) #postdoc
Come and join us for our next event in the TPN speaker series!
On February 24 we'll be hosting a multi-disciplinary UofT flash session with several excellent speakers from across the university.
Here is a first look at one of our presenters Shari Eli!
Big congratulations to Rohan Alexander & Tim Hatton for their article βThe making of a nation: Who voted for Australian federation?' which has won the 2025 Sir Timothy Coghlan award for best paper in the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review!
06.02.2026 11:21 β π 11 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0This was a very cool talk, Chiara gave a great overview of bivariate health-death distributions. The recording is here for those interested: www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0Jl...
05.02.2026 18:36 β π 7 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0The Formal Demography Working Group is happening today at 10am ET!
05.02.2026 13:16 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The Formal Demography Working Group is meeting next Thursday 5 Feb at 10am ET (4pm CET)! Chiara Micheletti will present work on CVD incidence and survival inequalities in Finland.
Sign up for Zoom Link! formaldemography.github.io/working_group/
Yesterday was the official kick off of the Toronto Population Network speaker series. We want to thank @lucampesando.bsky.social for the excellent presentation on the Dynamics of School Expansion and Inter-Caste Marriage in India.
Come join us Feb 24th for the second event in the series!
Promotional poster for Luca's talk
The first @tpn-uoft.bsky.social pop seminar is tomorrow! If you're in Toronto come along and see @lucampesando.bsky.social ! 11am in Sociology dept (level 17, 700 University Ave).
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Poster showing speakers for the TPN seminar series
The Toronto Population Network @tpn-uoft.bsky.social Seminar Series is happening this semester, with a great line-up, including @lucampesando.bsky.social, Orsola Torrisi, @mdhayward.bsky.social, and @jnobles.bsky.social! Starts next Tuesday. If you're in Toronto please come along!
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This semester I'm teaching demographic methods to sociology grad students and having a whale of a time. Here are the materials if people are interested (will be updated throughout the semester): github.com/MJAlexander/...
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Call for papers: joint conference of the Canadian Population Society and the Association des dΓ©mographes du QuΓ©bec; to be held in Ottawa on May 25-28: event.fourwaves.com/cps-adq-2026...
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Ana Elisa Lopez, @rohanalexander.bsky.social and my paper, "Prompting the Professoriate: A Qualitative Study of Instructor Perspectives on LLMs in Data Science Education" is now available (the "Just Accepted" version) from Harvard Data Science Review: hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/xv4hxs7u...
13.01.2026 22:30 β π 7 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0This one might be of interest to demographers! On Wednesday Amy Mann will talk about her work (w/ me and @mathewkiang.com) on metrics for measuring the quality of cause of death data. We find huge variation in quality across the US.
12.01.2026 19:42 β π 11 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0What's the best Beethoven and why is it the 7th Symphony
12.01.2026 18:00 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 2 π 1A short reflection on my childhood piano teacher, who taught me to read music, and as a consequence, indirectly taught me to love data analysis: www.monicaalexander.com/posts/2025-1...
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ISBA Community:
The deadline to propose a contributed talk for the 2026 ISBA World Meeting is next Friday, November 21. Proposals may be submitted using this form: forms.gle/dVTUrdEuVF6g...
See the call below for details π
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
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Wednesday 12 November 2025, noon (EST) Georgia Channing, Hugging Face "AI for Scientific Discovery is a Social Problem" Georgia Channing is the ML for Science Lead at Hugging Face and a DPhil candidate at the University of Oxford. Her academic background is in machine learning, and her research has spanned neural architecture search, protein classification, deepfake audio detection, and hyperspectral imaging. She holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Tennessee and a Masters degree from the University of Oxford. She works now on building tools and methods to advance scientific achievement. Wednesday 19 November 2025, noon (EST) Mellissa Meisels, Yale "Strategic Campaign Attention to Abortion Before and After Dobbs" Mellissa Meisels is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Yale University, where she is also affiliated with the Institution for Social and Policy Studies and Center for the Study of American Politics. Her research centers on the U.S. Congress, money in politics, electoral campaigns, and political organizations. Much of this work investigates the strategic choices of candidates and financial contributors in congressional campaigns, with an emphasis on primary elections. To do so, she employs original data, natural language processing, causal inference tools, experiments, and structural estimation of formal models. Her research is forthcoming and published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, and Political Science Research and Methods. Wednesday 26 November 2025, noon (EST) Christopher Barrie, New York University "Reasoning models and synthetic data generation" Christopher Barrie is an Assistant Professor of Sociology, at New York University as well as Core Faculty at CSMaP and a Research Fellow at the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford.
There are three Toronto Data Workshop online talks coming up 12, 19, and 26 November, noon EST. This first is this Wednesday at noon on Zoom: utoronto.zoom.us/j/4784708970. All welcome.
11.11.2025 14:15 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Amazing and heartwarming to see a packed crowd of people last week eager to grow the demography community at UofT and Canada more broadly π«Ά
Huge thanks to all our guest speakers, the support of @uoftsociology.bsky.social and to my fellow co-leads @leafiaye.bsky.social and @joannapepin.bsky.social
Wow we were not close at the CI at all lol
10.11.2025 18:58 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0One of the recommendations: @rohanalexander.bsky.social βs book
10.11.2025 00:49 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0hope to see your work, especially in the realm of caregiving and/or LGBTQ+ kinship!
07.11.2025 15:50 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Look what we're up to @uoftsociology.bsky.social!
10.10.2025 14:26 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0We are building a new pop center at UofT and will hold our first mini-conference on Nov 6 - come join us!!
Exhibit 1: amazing speaker line-up - featuring friends around the world to discuss why demography/pop center matters! π€
Exhibit 2: the iconic castle where this conference will take place π° β¨
The Toronto Population Network is holding a conference on 6 November at Hart House at UofT. Keynote from @ridhikashyap.bsky.social! If you're in Toronto come along and help us build the community of demographers and population researchers here! Registration: www.eventbrite.com/e/toronto-po...
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