Ugofilippo Basellini

In this piece in honour of Jim Vaupel I pull the veil from hidden heterogeneity. I show how the observed distribution of frailties changes in a cohort of newborns over the first month of life and quantify mortality selection and its impact on the age pattern of neonate mortality. Fully reproducible.

🚨 The end of an era for global health data — and a defining crossroads.

In Jan 2025, the DHS Program—the backbone of health & demographic data in 90+ countries—was terminated after US aid cuts of up to 84%.

Our researchers & global collaborators reflect on it in a recent pre-print🧵

Open call for Associate Editors at our journal!! To find out more about requirements and application procedures 👀 here www.demographic-research.org/files/Call_f...

#ROSW2025🔒🔓🔐 "The Workshop was an important step towards promoting #openscience practices in demographic research. In addition to the benefits for science & the general public, there are already many personal incentives (..) for adhering to open science practices."
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

Hey demographers! We're starting up the formal demography working group again! Next Friday 16 May at 11:30am ET @hggaddy.bsky.social will talk to us about challenges in estimating crisis mortality. Excited! Head to the website to sign up for Zoom details: formaldemography.github.io/working_group/

The MultiCause network meeting will be held October 16-17, 2025, at UPF in Barcelona. All topics related to multiple causes of death are welcome.

Submit your abstract by April 21:

More info: mcod.web.ined.fr/wiki/Accueil #mortality #mcod @cedemografia.bsky.social @ined-english.bsky.social

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.

Attending #IPC2025 in Brisbane and interested in #mortality #forecasting? Register for our hands-on workshop on “Advances in Mortality Forecasting” (11-12 July)
ipc2025.iussp.org/side-meeting...
@mpidr.bsky.social @ined.bsky.social

Group picture of a group of scientists in front of the MPIDR building.

🔓📊Yesterday the Rostock #OpenScience Workshop started @mpidr.bsky.social with a lot of ☀️☀️☀️. We welcome scientists from all over the 🌏 to discuss ideas of how we can make our research more #open. We start today with great energy⚡ & look forward to sharing our knowledge & learning from our guests.

I am hiring a PostDoc to work with me in my group Migration and Health Inequalities at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research! Come work with me! ⬇️

Blending Indigenous Knowledge and artificial intelligence to enable adaptation - WWF Arctic In 2021, PolArctic completed a pilot project in Sanikiluaq, Canada to develop the area’s potential for commercial inshore fishing.

www.arcticwwf.org/the-circle/s...

Partnerships, not parachutes: How Indigenous knowledge and citizen science can enhance climate research There are data gaps in climate science that satellites can’t fill—but there are alternatives, if the scientific community will accept them.

Thanks Ilya! I agree with Phil’s opinion, but I also see your concerns. Pros and cons should always be considered; let me share some successful examples of how citizen science and Indigenous Knowledge have contributed to scientific research:
thebulletin.org/2023/08/how-...

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

By Ugofilippo Basellini: "Open science practices in demographic research: an appraisal" (spoiler: In four top journals, open access to articles is ok, code not so much): osf.io/preprints/so...
#openscience #demography

Great reflection by Ugofilippo Basellini on open science practices in demographic research @ugobas.bsky.social . osf.io/preprints/so...

Muito obrigado, @vdilego.bsky.social 😊