Laura Leone

Quote from Jasmin Abdel Ghany: "Extreme heat is not only a major public health threat. Temperature fundamentally shapes human reproduction by influencing who is born and who is not born. Our findings show that temperature has measurable consequences for foetal survival and family planning behaviour, with implications for population composition and gender balance. Understanding these processes is essential for anticipating how the environment affects societies in a warming climate."

🌡️ New research published in @pnas.org finds that high temperatures may influence the sex ratio at birth.

Analysing 5+ million births, researchers show that exposure to temps above 20°C during pregnancy is linked to fewer boys being born 📊👶

🔗 www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/article/new-...

Call for applications: European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD) 2026-2027

To be held at @mpidr.bsky.social and @sghwarsaweu.bsky.social
Application deadline: 27 March 2026 at 12 PM (noon)
Program start: 1 September 2026
Scholarships are available
Details: eaps.nl/edsd/how-to-...

Beyond binary: a machine-learning classification of childhood COVID-19 vaccination intentions using behavioural data
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Paper in Population Health Metrics by C Chiavenna @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social student @lauraleone.bsky.social, P Pin, M Cucciniello and A Melegaro

Now out in QMMR (Notes from the Field): I reflect on my PhD fieldwork in informal camps of migrant farmworkers in Italy, and on how the slow work of building trust in a challenging field environment radically reshaped my research questions and methods
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Many thanks to everyone who took part in the 7th IMPRS-PHDS Academy at @mpidr.bsky.social, either in person or online, and helped to make it such a success. Big congratulations to Andrea Colasurdo, Chiara Micheletti and @lauraleone.bsky.social on winning the Best Poster Award!

It's great to see IMPRS-PHDS doctoral students, alumni, faculty members, and friends back at @mpidr.bsky.social for our 7th PHDS Academy and three days filled with research presentations, networking, and singing!

From a humble master’s thesis to a published article! Thanks to my amazing co-authors and thoughtful reviewers, I learned so much about how (not) to write a scientific paper 😅 Really happy to see it out at @genus.bsky.social!

Mapping inequities in global vaccine sentiment research Introduction Negative public sentiment towards vaccination (PSV) poses significant challenges to the effectiveness of immunisation programmes, with dramatic effects on morbidity and mortality for vacc...

🙌 Important insights on global vaccine sentiment research ➡️ identifying inequities towards more equitable and inclusive health research and policy. You can find this and much more in our new paper, "Mapping inequities in global vaccine sentiment research"!

🔗 gh.bmj.com/content/10/1...

Advancing coupled behavioural-epidemic models: An interdisciplinary framework for the collection of empirical data Infection control requires integrating behavioural dynamics into epidemic models. However, models often overlook behavioural complexity due to limited empirical data. We adopted an interdisciplinary a...

🚀 New preprint alert!

“Advancing coupled behavioural-epidemic models: An interdisciplinary framework for the collection of empirical data”

🔗 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

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When do people become parents—and in what unions? @aledinal.bsky.social studies the risks of first parenthood (15–50) by union status and parental class across cohorts. Read more: www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

#FamilyFormation #ReproducibleResearch

🎉🎊A week full of celebrations
✨Two ERC Starting Grants for the MPIDR✨
We are thrilled to announce that @marilianep.bsky.social and @ugobas.bsky.social have each been awarded with an ERC Starting Grant by the @erc.europa.eu. #ERCStG
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...
#ERCStartingGrant #longevity

#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

Thrilled to announce that our @cpsjournal.bsky.social paper with Juan Masullo on the political legacies of Italy’s antifascist resistance won the NEPS Medal 2025 for Best Publication in Peace Science! 🥳

Relationships are often built on shared values and beliefs, but what happens when political preferences create a divide?

@brunoarpino.bsky.social and I investigated how political (mis)match affects union dissolution in
@readdemography.bsky.social

read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

A team @mpidr.bsky.social examined professional migration of men and women in 48 countries using data from LinkedIn. It found that, although men aspire to migrate more often than women, globally, as many women as men migrate for a job.
www.demogr.mpg.de/go/professional-migration

As we commemorate the 80th #VEDay, we reflect on the lasting impact of the Italian antifascist resistance. Read our new piece on @theconversation.com , where we dive into findings from our @cpsjournal.bsky.social article and ongoing research on its local political legacies 👇

<em>Population and Development Review</em> | Population Council Journal | Wiley Online Library To mark the Population and Development Review's (PDR) 50th anniversary, we analyze its contributions to the landscape of population research. We examine the trajectory of research published in PDR an....

To mark 50 years of Population and Development Review, Prof @ridhikashyap.bsky.social & Dr @aasli.bsky.social analysed its research themes & authorship trends over the last half-century 📚🌎

Read now ⬇️
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Ever heard of the European Doctoral School of Demography? No? Here is your chance to learn about it first hand. At #PAA2025 Alex Sheridan, current participant, will be at the MPIDR booth #212 & inform about the program. Friday to Sunday: 10 am-12 pm. @eapsphd.bsky.social eaps.nl/page/europea...

“An Overlapping Cohorts Perspective of Lifespan Inequality”: Hector Pifarre i Arolas et al. introduce a new perspective "that fully incorporates cohort trajectories of all cohorts alive in the period of consideration.” @mpidr.bsky.social @pophel.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

Just published on APSR First View: "Without Roots: The Political Consequences of Collective Economic Shocks" by Simone Cremaschi @simonecremaschi.bsky.social, Nicola Bariletto, and Catherine De Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢Calling all aspiring demographers! Apply for next year’s EDSD here: eaps.nl/edsd/how-to-... and join us in Paris at INED! Deadline March 25 at noon

🚨New paper forthcoming @apsrjournal.bsky.social!🚨

How do economic shocks shape politics?

We study a plant disease epidemic in Italy🌱—finding it fueled far-right support

It’s not just economic loss but how shocks uproot communities and interact with perceptions of state neglect

shorturl.at/ntKyt

Say hello to the 2024 cohort! International Max Planck Research School for Population, Health and Data Science. We are having a lovely time here in Rostock 🇩🇪 @mpidr.bsky.social

https://shorturl.at/zQ8bJ

New paper published @ajpseditor.bsky.social

Showing that reduced access to public services fuelled far right support in 🇮🇹

Existing work on far right highlights globalization & migration grievances, what about people’s experiences with the state?

We use 🇮🇹 reform to find out

shorturl.at/zQ8bJ

💡💡💡We are delighted to welcome @imprs-phds.bsky.social students and their supervisors to the Annual Academy 2024 @mpidr.bsky.social. We're looking forward to two more days of student and faculty presentations, networking, and sharing future research endeavors. 🎓🎓🎓
#demography #phdlife #PhD

🚨 New paper 🚨 with @pstanig.bsky.social forthcoming at @thejop.bsky.social 🎉 about the political consequences of climate-related disasters 🌲💦⚠️

Pre-print 👉 osf.io/preprints/os...
Summary 🧵👇

Exciting first day at the IMMUNE workshop on human #behavior and the spread of infectious diseases 🦠👥. More to come tomorrow, both in person and online! covidcrisislab.unibocconi.eu/workshop-inf...