Congratulations Dr Alina Pelikh 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 I am so proud of you for this incredibly well deserved award!!

Such important and timely work, well done Katie Thompson !

Less than a week to submit your work for Alp-Pop 2025! Dondena Centre Arnstein Aassve Nicoletta Balbo

Excited to launch my European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant at @UCL! I will hire Predoc/RAs starting early 2025 and a PhD Student + Postdoc starting Autumn 2025. Experience with admin data, linked employer-employee data, causal inference are a plus. Sounds like you? Get in touch!

Last Call! Just one week left to sign up for our introduction to the core demographic and social science methods essential to interpreting digital trace data, and much more ... #poptwitter #SocialScience #demography #DigitalDemography #ComputationalDemography #Population #BigData

Just published in Journal of Public Economics: "Women’s economic empowerment and intimate partner violence" By Sanna Bergvall (Göteborgs universitet / University of Gothenburg) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Social stratification and mobility peeps: Submission is now open for the RC28 Spring Meeting in Milan, March 25-27. Deadline for submissions is Nov 7. rc28milan2025.com

Today it's exactly 10 years ago that I defended my PhD thesis on how genes influence behaviours, and how behaviours influence the genetic make-up of populations 🧬 Below a thread with some of my work on this topic 👇🏽

In “Effect of Social Origins on Educational Attainment,” L Anderson, Patrick Präg Eva Akimova 🇺🇦 & @cwsmonden find wide variation in sibling correlation, esp. under ↑ income inequality. Oxford DSPI CREST Sociology Purdue Department of Sociology Sociology at Oxford Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science ow.ly/cm8y50TAgk7

Yes folks we’re rolling

I believe the future of social sciences may lie in the environment, health and aging, and AI. I’ve been gradually shifting my focus to these areas, and recent job openings seem to reflect this trend. Grad students might want to keep these fields in mind as you plan your research.

Two-fifths of #millennials in England want children – or more children, if they are already parents – but only 1 in 4 are trying to conceive, finds new #NextStepsStudy research by @UCL researchers Dr Alina Pelikh Alice Goisis 1/2

🚨Job Offer🚨 Postdocs/Research Scientists in Digital and Computational Demography 📅 Deadline: Nov 25, 2024 MPIDR is recruiting highly qualified Post-Docs / Research Scientists to join the Department of Emilio Zagheni. Learn all: demogr.mpg.de/en/career_6122… #jobs #poptwitter

How couples met between 1930-2024

🤯Direct genetic effect GWASes render the genetic correlation between BMI and cognition to zero, and BMI and education close to 0. This questions a lot of other work linking cognition-BMI that has seemed very robust.

New working paper by CREST's Patrick Präg: "Dynamics of Later-Life Caregiving and Health. Insights From Biomarker Data and Cognitive Tests" now at SocArXiv! Link: doi.org/10.31235/osf.i…

3-year Postdoc in Sociology at Goethe University Frankfurt, in a project on Intergenerational Transmission of Work and Family Trajectories in Germany uni-frankfurt.de/48794784/FB03_…

Another incredible opportunity for a faculty position in (socio)genomics Purdue University careers.purdue.edu/job/Assistant-…

That’s it, I GOT IT!!! Uncovering the Roots of Harsh Parenting (HARSH) has been funded by European Research Council (ERC) #ERCCoG!! 🎉🎉🎉 This victory is for the 2 most amazing women in my life: my daughter and my mom—because where there’s a will, there’s a way. [1/n]

🆕Laura Silva Felix C. Tropf Tobias Wolfram explore how neighbourhood deprivation interacts with genes in shaping academic achievement! By boosting motivation, better neighbourhoods decreases the gap between individuals with high and low predisposition! #openaccess doi.org/10.1093/esr/jc…