Aashish Gupta
aashishg.bsky.social
Aashish Gupta
@aashishg.bsky.social
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Check out this conference if you work on topics related to kinship structure and dynamics (within and beyond the household), caregiving, intergenerational processes, family bereavement, LGBTQ+ & chosen kinship, etc. @iussp.bsky.social Submit by 21 Jan 2026 👇 www.demogr.mpg.de/go/kinship-conference
November 6, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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The Graduate Group in Demography at the University of Pennsylvania is now accepting applications for its PhD program in Demography. We look forward to recruiting a strong and diverse cohort for Fall 2026!

➡️ Applications are due December 15, 2025 ⬅️

Learn More:
Prospective Students | Graduate Group in Demography
demog.pop.upenn.edu
September 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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In “Widow & Widower Mortality in India,” Megan Reed et al. employ IHDS data & find no higher mortality risk for widows or widowers aged 60+ relative to married individuals, but among those aged 25-59, the risk was 50% and 40% greater among widowers & widows, resp. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
August 5, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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@jacalazans.bsky.social, Carol Tomás and I are the editors of Revista Brasileira de Estudos de Populacao (www.rebep.org.br), a peer-reviewed, open-access journal that publishes population related papers in Portuguese, Spanish, and English. Rebep has just turned 40 years old in 2024.
Revista Brasileira de Estudos de População
REBEP - Revista Brasileira de Estudos de População
www.rebep.org.br
September 5, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Another job alert! Join us @sociologyoxford.bsky.social as a postdoc on @ewabatyra.bsky.social's ERC project. A great three-year position to work in the area of fertility and reproductive behaviour. www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/event/postdo...
August 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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📢 Job vacancy 📢
📍 Sociology Department at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
👩‍🎓 Assistant Professor specialized in migration/integration/polarization/stratification
⏰ Until 29th of September
☑️Teaching in Dutch is required
📃 More info at www.uu.nl/organisatie/...
Universitair docent sociologie
Wil jij studenten inspireren en vernieuwend onderwijs geven? Versterk ons team als universitair docent met expertise in migratie en/of sociale stratificatie.
www.uu.nl
September 1, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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As we enter September, you may see posts with news of jobs, promotions, grants, fellowships, and the like. That’s great! We should celebrate with colleagues, especially in an industry where rejection is the modal outcome. 1/n
September 1, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Looking to do a PhD in demography, health, data science? Oxford Demography (LCDS) is recruiting to fill TWO positions! See Charlie's posts below for specifics.

Come join us in the beautiful (albeit a bit rainy) Oxford!! 👩‍🏫📊🌦️
🚨It's that exciting time of year!🚨

Our team has got TWO open DPhil (PhD) positions in #datascience + #health here at @oxforddemsci.bsky.social for 2026🎉! See for details:

1️⃣ 👉 crahal.com/HDS_2026.html
2️⃣ 👉 crahal.com/pophealth_2026.html

Please share and help us to find our future teammates ❤️!
September 1, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you.

Apply by: 10 Oct

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
September 1, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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📢 Interested in excess mortality methods, and want a challenge? I'm organising the "One Epidemic, Many Estimates" (1EME) project! Register *now* as a many analyst team (submissions due 15 March 2026), and then join us at LSE for a workshop on 21-22 May 2026! (1/n)

www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-His...
One Epidemic, Many Estimates (1EME)
One Epidemic, Many Estimates (1EME)
www.lse.ac.uk
August 27, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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🗣️Exciting PhD opportunity!

Join @lshtm.bsky.social PSG and @mpidr.bsky.social as a PhD student/Research Assistant on an 3-year project leading to a funded PhD. The role focuses on developing cutting-edge methods to model health & mortality in low-income countries.
jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at LSHTM: Research Assistant
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is one of the world’s leading public health universities. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working i...
jobs.lshtm.ac.uk
August 27, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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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👇
🚨 New Job Alert! 🚨

Join Dr @ewabatyra.bsky.social as a Postdoc Researcher in Demography!

Contribute to a global study on disparities in reproductive behaviour, focusing on childbearing age & fertility levels 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦

Apply now 👉 www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/event/postdo...
August 25, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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"To this day, there has been no government recognition of the extent to which the pandemic hit India. It remains to be seen whether this will change now that such a clear story has emerged from the government’s own data." - @aashishg.bsky.social and Murad Banaji
www.theindiaforum.in/health/will-...
Will the Government Finally Acknowledge the Scale of India’s Covid-19 Tragedy?
Newly released 2021 government mortality data shows 3 million excess death registrations in India during Covid-19, suggesting over 4 million total excess deaths. The pandemic’s real impact then was fa...
www.theindiaforum.in
July 14, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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Newly released 2021 government mortality data shows 3 mn excess death registrations in India during Covid, suggesting over 4 mn total excess deaths. The pandemic’s real impact was far greater than the official estimate.
www.theindiaforum.in/health/will-...
Will the Government Finally Acknowledge the Scale of India’s Covid-19 Tragedy?
Newly released 2021 government mortality data shows 3 million excess death registrations in India during Covid-19, suggesting over 4 million total excess deaths. The pandemic’s real impact then was fa...
www.theindiaforum.in
July 11, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Our new editorial in Bulletin of the WHO about ongoing initiative to improve the measurement of adult mortality in low-and-middle-income countries, where major data gaps have recently been compounded by US decision to end support for Demographic & Health Surveys

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
July 9, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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How can we grow our food in a way that respects our environment?

Our Rice Tastes of Spring with its earthy illustrations celebrates the importance of traditional farming while capturing the spirit of Adivasi communities.

Story and research: @anumeha.bsky.social
June 27, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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The biggest project I've worked on for the last chunk of years was just published. It asks, how big are US Black-white lifespan differences?

This might seem like a narrow question. I hope to convince you by the end that there are answers you didn't anticipate. And I hope some of them will move you.
Three Ways of Looking at Black–White Mortality Differences in the United States | Annual Reviews
Everyone agrees that US Black deaths happen earlier than white deaths on average, but it is surprisingly challenging to find the best ways to summarize, quantify, and compare this gap. This review arg...
www.annualreviews.org
April 30, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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My colleague Martin Dribe is looking for a doctoral candidate interested in demographic inequality in his Wallenberg Scholar project ‘Unequal Lives: Socioeconomic Stratification, Life-Course, and Demography from Preindustrial Society to the Welfare State’. lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Doctoral student in Economic History – Demographic Inequality
The Department of Economic History is a research-intensive department that employs about 100 people: researchers, teachers, technical/administrative staff, and Ph.D. candidates. The department has a l
lu.varbi.com
April 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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I'm looking for 1-2 doctoral candidates in my ERC-funded project "Relative Health: Long-Run Inequalities in Health and Survival Between Families and Across Generations". These are 4-year, fully funded positions at Lund University. More info: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Doctoral student in Economic History – Inequalities in health and survival
The Department of Economic History is a research-intensive department that employs about 100 people: researchers, teachers, technical/administrative staff, and Ph.D. candidates. The department has a l
lu.varbi.com
April 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM
March 28, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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In “Mortality by Cause of Death in Brazil,” @fernandofernandes.bsky.social, @cassiomturra.bsky.social, G Franca & M Castro quantify “the different & paradoxical ways the COVID-19 pandemic indirectly impacted other causes of death…in 2020 & 2021.” @hsph.harvard.edu read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
March 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Great job opportunity: 3-year research fellow in José Manuel Aburto's Mortality and Inequalities Research Group at LSHTM: jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
March 20, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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📑 JOB VACANCY - #ResearchFellow post within the ESRC-funded Connecting Generations programme.

Examining fuller #workinglives and #care for later life individuals in the UK and internationally

📨Apply by 11 April: jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

@bspsuk.bsky.social @britishgerontology.bsky.social
March 20, 2025 at 9:47 AM