Ugofilippo Basellini

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

In “...Educational Expansion to Trends in Life Expectancy & Lifespan Variation,”
@jdzazueta.bsky.social @ugobas.bsky.social @ezagheni.bsky.social et al. show how expansion contributes to ↑ expectancy and ↓ variation. @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

Fertility, birth, reproduction: Connecting formal demographic frameworks The conventional framework of fertility research conceptualizes childbirth from the mother’s perspective. From her perspective, birth is an uncertain and potentially recurring event. In contrast, t...

✍️ Just out: Annette Baudisch & I delve into the formal demography of fertility, birth, & reproduction timing. 👶 We use methods from mortality research to summarize when in the parental life course children are born. 📆 1/n
doi.org/10.1080/0032...
@sdu.dk @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social

HMDHFDplus updated to account for minor web design update of @hmdatabase.bsky.social . If you started experiencing funny behavior when using the package to read HMD data from the web, just reinstall; it's already on CRAN. #rstats #demography #mortality

Grazie mille, Angela 🥰

Thank you so much, Matt!! 🥰

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Thank you, Brendan!

Grazie mille, Stefano!!

Thank you Carl!

Grazie mille Margherita :)

Grazie Bruno!

Grazie mille, Luca!!

Extremely grateful to be given this opportunity – and even more so for sharing this journey with the amazing @marilianep.bsky.social

Mentoring & advising doctoral researchers is at the very heart of the PHDS School. We are much indebted to PHDS faculty for their invaluable services in mentoring predocs as well as to Thomas Koch for leading a two-day workshop on "Supervising Doctoral Researchers" @mpidr.bsky.social. Thank you all!

📢 Call for submissions for European Population Conference 2026 (3–6 June, Bologna) is open! Organized by EAPS & University of Bologna.

💡 More information: www.eaps.nl/epc/european...

Group Pic of the EDSD cohort 2025. A very diverse group of young people standing at a waterside surrounded by green bushes. There is a litte ferry on the water in the background and you can see the other side of the river Warnow.

✨20th anniversary of the European Doctoral School of Demography✨On this day 20 years ago(Sept 1, 2005) the EDSD opened its doors @mpidr.bsky.social for the 1st time. Today, we welcome the 21st cohort. We wish everyone a great year of study, research & networking! www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

🚨Open Positions!🚨
Postdoc/Research Scientist Positions
Migration | Population Dynamics | Computational Demography
Application Deadline: Oct 10, 2025
See job description here:
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61...
#Postdoc #Jobs
@ezagheni.bsky.social @perrottadaniela.bsky.social @ugobas.bsky.social

Apply now for our five-day doctoral course on Topics in Digital and Computational Demography, which will take place in hybrid format from November 3-7, 2025.

Details: www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61...

Application deadline is September 28, 2025.

#LifeExpectancy rose rapidly in the first half of the 20th century. But will those born between 1939 and 2000 benefit from these rapid gains in #longevity? A recent study suggests that none of these #generations will reach 100 years of age on average. 1/2 www.demogr.mpg.de/go/LifeExpectancy2025

I am looking for a postdoc to join my ERC StG project DIVREP to work on global, quantitative analyses of fertility and reproductive behaviour. The post is based in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford. Let me know if you have any questions. More details below👇

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.