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“Both labour under the apparent eugenicist belief that a man of superior intelligence has a duty to spread his seed widely—Durov has fathered 100 children by sperm donation while Musk uses more traditional methods such as impregnating his employees” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Happy #InternationalPrimateDay 🐒🦍🦧 Today we celebrate #primates and raise awareness about their conservation status. Please consider donating to a primate conservation organisation to help protect primates and their habitats 🌿

One of the more depressing things re-engaging on social media is the undercurrent of pseudo-scientific racism which continues to pop up with exciting data rich plots, often lots of maths and just lots of class A bullshit justifying tired anti-woke (but just ol' fashioned racist)

“It stains your brain” - a teenage boy says he couldn’t escape violence and misogyny on social media. An ex-insider tells me why. For BBC Panorama, I’ve been investigating algorithms’ impact on kids. Can We Live Without Our Phones? BBC One 8PM & iPlayer. bbc.com/news/articles/…

Poignant analysis on why the right is so obsessed with motherhood, and what's wrong with the way society treats mothers and non-mothers alike - from Nesrine Malik theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

📣Call for Papers‼️ Gender Inequalities, Fertility, and the Future of Family Demography: Intersectionality in an Era of Family Complexity 🗺️ MPIDR 📅 March 19–21, 2025 Submission Deadline: October 18, 2024 demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events… #CallForPapers #poptwitter #socialscience

Could you help shape the future of UK fertility treatment? Our National Patient Survey is now live and is an opportunity for patients who have experienced fertility treatment in the last 5 years to share their feedback. Complete the survey: bit.ly/HFEA-NationalP… #NPS2024

I wrote about some of the comments/questions on last week's post about the fundamental genetic differences between IQ and height.

Come work with us Economic and Social Research Council Connecting Generations #poptwitter #ResearchFellow in #Family #Demography examining the complexity of #intergenerational relationships. Based UoS Social Statistics and Demography with Ann Berrington. Apply by 27 September📩 ▶️jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r…

My book, Marriage, A History, just got banned by a Florida school board. Have you read a banned book today? news-press.com/story/opinion/…

Are you interested in studying how environmental change shapes life history tradeoffs? Then check out our new paper in Journal of Animal Ecology, co-first authored with Louis Bliard, where we present and apply a novel method for evolutionary demographic research. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

1/3 Who is winning the culture war? This survey suggests that, despite the best efforts of right wing politicians, think tanks and media, their ethno-nationalism is losing ground to a more ‘civic’ (antiracist) identity theguardian.com/society/articl…

We unveiled a plaque in the heart of our campus, the Quad, now renamed as Benjamin Zephaniah Square. Forever honouring the life & legacy of the late Prof Professor Benjamin Zephaniah the prolific poet, writer, performer, humanist, activist, and Prof of Creative Writing. bit.ly/3X7aQa9

The Cambridge Working Paper Series in Economic and Social History has been relaunched! It is the ideal venue to circulate in-progress research & collect feedback. There is a light-touch internal review procedure. Head here for details: econsoc.hist.cam.ac.uk/working_papers #twitterstorians

New job opportunity - 2 yr research fellow in Family Demography. Please pass on to your networks.

In 2021, MPIDR hosted a conference on "Pandemic Babies? The Covid-19 Pandemic and its Impact on Fertility and Family Dynamics." A special issue of Population and Development Review was now published based on this conference: demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events… Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science Population Council

Eugenics is in vogue once again. g a b y explains how the right-wing culture wars are helping push it to the mainstream. thebaffler.com/salvos/live-fr…

CAMPOP blog #12: Ying Dai explains how Chinese genealogies are fundamentally different to European/N American ones, and how they reveal the startling speed of economic change in China campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2024/09/0…

At last! A rather technical paper on using simulation to compare how you can get different conclusions from different analyses of a dataset - nothing new to trials people, but it still needs saying - applied to a reading intervention journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/25… #DeclareDesign