Diego Alburez
@demography.bsky.social
Social scientist leading the Kinship Inequalities Research Group at @mpidr.bsky.social & Associate Editor at journal "Demographic Research"; population ✧ kinship ✧ generations ✧ death ✧ inequality
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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
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
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
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🎉🎊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
✨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
September 4, 2025 at 10:24 AM
🎉🎊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
✨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
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📣 Job alert! 📣 2 fully funded PhD positions in sociology/demography in the ERC Starting Grant SeRO, which studies the impact of local violent crime on sexual and reproductive health in Mexico. Please share and apply!
PhD post 1: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
PhD post 2: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
PhD post 1: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
PhD post 2: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
September 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM
📣 Job alert! 📣 2 fully funded PhD positions in sociology/demography in the ERC Starting Grant SeRO, which studies the impact of local violent crime on sexual and reproductive health in Mexico. Please share and apply!
PhD post 1: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
PhD post 2: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
PhD post 1: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
PhD post 2: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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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...
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
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👇
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“If I live to 80, what percentage of my life will I have spent as someone’s sister? What percentage as no one’s sister?”
Liz Krieger on the “grief math” that’s preoccupied her ever since her brother’s death: https://theatln.tc/5jIeBQIz
Liz Krieger on the “grief math” that’s preoccupied her ever since her brother’s death: https://theatln.tc/5jIeBQIz
August 11, 2025 at 11:15 AM
“If I live to 80, what percentage of my life will I have spent as someone’s sister? What percentage as no one’s sister?”
Liz Krieger on the “grief math” that’s preoccupied her ever since her brother’s death: https://theatln.tc/5jIeBQIz
Liz Krieger on the “grief math” that’s preoccupied her ever since her brother’s death: https://theatln.tc/5jIeBQIz
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Great presentations by A Colasurdo, N Panichella and J Wu at Session 96, "Internal Migration as a Life Course Trajectory", organized by the IUSSP Panel on Lifetime Migration at #IPC2025.
Papers from this session—and others—will appear in a Special Issue of Comparative Population Studies in 2026.
Papers from this session—and others—will appear in a Special Issue of Comparative Population Studies in 2026.
July 16, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Great presentations by A Colasurdo, N Panichella and J Wu at Session 96, "Internal Migration as a Life Course Trajectory", organized by the IUSSP Panel on Lifetime Migration at #IPC2025.
Papers from this session—and others—will appear in a Special Issue of Comparative Population Studies in 2026.
Papers from this session—and others—will appear in a Special Issue of Comparative Population Studies in 2026.
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🆕📰Rapid Demographic Changes Reshape Family Structures: Accelerated demographic change is creating significant differences in the number of relatives between peers of similar ages shows a study by @shajiang.bsky.social et al. in @readdemography.bsky.social. www.demogr.mpg.de/go/rapidchange
July 2, 2025 at 8:52 AM
🆕📰Rapid Demographic Changes Reshape Family Structures: Accelerated demographic change is creating significant differences in the number of relatives between peers of similar ages shows a study by @shajiang.bsky.social et al. in @readdemography.bsky.social. www.demogr.mpg.de/go/rapidchange
I was happy to speak to @faith-hill.bsky.social about the rise of great-grandparenthood in the US and elsewhere. Check out her piece, which is delightful as always 👇
Even with people having children later, more families now include great-grandparents. It’s beautiful—but it also presents a new caretaking challenge, @faith-hill.bsky.social writes: https://theatln.tc/I5uOd3RN
July 3, 2025 at 7:43 AM
I was happy to speak to @faith-hill.bsky.social about the rise of great-grandparenthood in the US and elsewhere. Check out her piece, which is delightful as always 👇
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Today's the 2nd day of our symposium "Demographic & Health Consequences of Violence & Armed Conflict" where international scholars present research on the impact of armed conflict & violence on mortality, migration, fertility, the environment, & population health.
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...
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July 2, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Today's the 2nd day of our symposium "Demographic & Health Consequences of Violence & Armed Conflict" where international scholars present research on the impact of armed conflict & violence on mortality, migration, fertility, the environment, & population health.
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...
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🔦[SPOTLIGHT] Should you Claim Your #Pension Early or Wait? Retiring later increases the monthly pension amount in the US. @shajiang.bsky.social et al. have investigated whether this is optimal, given the uncertainties surrounding #LifeSpan. What they found:
www.demogr.mpg.de/go/USApension
www.demogr.mpg.de/go/USApension
June 25, 2025 at 8:16 AM
🔦[SPOTLIGHT] Should you Claim Your #Pension Early or Wait? Retiring later increases the monthly pension amount in the US. @shajiang.bsky.social et al. have investigated whether this is optimal, given the uncertainties surrounding #LifeSpan. What they found:
www.demogr.mpg.de/go/USApension
www.demogr.mpg.de/go/USApension
Congrats, @shajiang.bsky.social and colleagues for this important contribution to the study of kinship in demography! Tl;dr: The speed at which birth and death rates change in a population affects the degree to which individuals have living kin (and how old these relatives are).
In “Changing Demographic Rates Reshape Kinship Networks,” @shajiang.bsky.social W Zuo, Z Guo & S Tuljapurkar “explore how demographic transition, especially the speed of transition, affects the number & age of kin” & kin networks. @stanford.edu @mpidr.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
June 13, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Congrats, @shajiang.bsky.social and colleagues for this important contribution to the study of kinship in demography! Tl;dr: The speed at which birth and death rates change in a population affects the degree to which individuals have living kin (and how old these relatives are).
Some good news to brighten up your feed: Our #R package 📦 DemoKin for the demographic analysis of kinship has a new website with extensive documentation and literature 🎉🎈 @mpidr.bsky.social If you don't know it yet, why not check it out? ivanwilli.github.io/DemoKin/inde...
June 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Some good news to brighten up your feed: Our #R package 📦 DemoKin for the demographic analysis of kinship has a new website with extensive documentation and literature 🎉🎈 @mpidr.bsky.social If you don't know it yet, why not check it out? ivanwilli.github.io/DemoKin/inde...
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👓Recommended Reading📚Estimating Kinship Size of Older Adults in Europe With Models and Surveys
In a paper recently published in @readdemography.bsky.social, @demography.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social and his colleagues, @maikevd.bsky.social and @afcastr0t.bsky.social (CED), compared ... 🧵1/5
In a paper recently published in @readdemography.bsky.social, @demography.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social and his colleagues, @maikevd.bsky.social and @afcastr0t.bsky.social (CED), compared ... 🧵1/5
May 26, 2025 at 6:41 AM
👓Recommended Reading📚Estimating Kinship Size of Older Adults in Europe With Models and Surveys
In a paper recently published in @readdemography.bsky.social, @demography.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social and his colleagues, @maikevd.bsky.social and @afcastr0t.bsky.social (CED), compared ... 🧵1/5
In a paper recently published in @readdemography.bsky.social, @demography.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social and his colleagues, @maikevd.bsky.social and @afcastr0t.bsky.social (CED), compared ... 🧵1/5
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Ghanaian data shows weak support for the nuclear convergence hypothesis. Urbanisation hasn't led to the dominance of nuclear families—extended types persist.
www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...
@josephineabaafi.bsky.social @rebeccasear.bsky.social @anushe.bsky.social
www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...
@josephineabaafi.bsky.social @rebeccasear.bsky.social @anushe.bsky.social
May 21, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Ghanaian data shows weak support for the nuclear convergence hypothesis. Urbanisation hasn't led to the dominance of nuclear families—extended types persist.
www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...
@josephineabaafi.bsky.social @rebeccasear.bsky.social @anushe.bsky.social
www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...
@josephineabaafi.bsky.social @rebeccasear.bsky.social @anushe.bsky.social
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1/ A huge congrats to Dr. Antonino Polizzi @polizzan.bsky.social, who passed his DPhil viva for his thesis “The Causes and the Consequences of Growing Life Expectancy Shortfalls” on Friday, examined by Prof. @ridhikashyap.bsky.social & Dr. Iñaki Permanyer. @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social #demography
May 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM
1/ A huge congrats to Dr. Antonino Polizzi @polizzan.bsky.social, who passed his DPhil viva for his thesis “The Causes and the Consequences of Growing Life Expectancy Shortfalls” on Friday, examined by Prof. @ridhikashyap.bsky.social & Dr. Iñaki Permanyer. @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social #demography
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How do demographic trends shape kinship networks? This replication study compares Swedish & Dutch kinship networks, showing how fertility patterns & divorce rates impact family ties across generations. #Replication #Kinship #POPNET. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol... @bokanyie.bsky.social
May 7, 2025 at 5:58 AM
How do demographic trends shape kinship networks? This replication study compares Swedish & Dutch kinship networks, showing how fertility patterns & divorce rates impact family ties across generations. #Replication #Kinship #POPNET. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol... @bokanyie.bsky.social
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*JOB OPENING*: Researcher in Reproductive #Demography
Dr. Josh Wilde is recruiting a Post-doc to join his ERC-funded SEXRATIO project at @oxforddemsci.bsky.social, focused on links b/t maternal stress & sex-biased conception & fetal loss. Deadline May 9 (noon UK time).
www.demography.ox.ac.uk/jobs
Dr. Josh Wilde is recruiting a Post-doc to join his ERC-funded SEXRATIO project at @oxforddemsci.bsky.social, focused on links b/t maternal stress & sex-biased conception & fetal loss. Deadline May 9 (noon UK time).
www.demography.ox.ac.uk/jobs
Work with us
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April 21, 2025 at 10:18 PM
*JOB OPENING*: Researcher in Reproductive #Demography
Dr. Josh Wilde is recruiting a Post-doc to join his ERC-funded SEXRATIO project at @oxforddemsci.bsky.social, focused on links b/t maternal stress & sex-biased conception & fetal loss. Deadline May 9 (noon UK time).
www.demography.ox.ac.uk/jobs
Dr. Josh Wilde is recruiting a Post-doc to join his ERC-funded SEXRATIO project at @oxforddemsci.bsky.social, focused on links b/t maternal stress & sex-biased conception & fetal loss. Deadline May 9 (noon UK time).
www.demography.ox.ac.uk/jobs
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With a little delay we learned that @lpcalderonb.bsky.social, who could not attend #PAA2025, won a Best Poster Award! Her colleagues put up the poster and a note from Liliana and co-author @martinkolk.bsky.social jumped in to present the research. Congrats Liliana! @popassocamerica.bsky.social
April 30, 2025 at 9:46 AM
With a little delay we learned that @lpcalderonb.bsky.social, who could not attend #PAA2025, won a Best Poster Award! Her colleagues put up the poster and a note from Liliana and co-author @martinkolk.bsky.social jumped in to present the research. Congrats Liliana! @popassocamerica.bsky.social
Starting with #rayshader and I love it but find it frustrating that the first column of data consistently appears washed out or overly bright 🫠 Any advice on how to fill this edge with the column's colour (see below)? @tylermorganwall.bsky.social..? Full question: stackoverflow.com/questions/79...
April 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Starting with #rayshader and I love it but find it frustrating that the first column of data consistently appears washed out or overly bright 🫠 Any advice on how to fill this edge with the column's colour (see below)? @tylermorganwall.bsky.social..? Full question: stackoverflow.com/questions/79...
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In historical and conflict demography, it is common to estimate a large death toll as the discontinuity between two observed or projected population estimates. @hggaddy.bsky.social and @thegargiulian.bsky.social show why this method creates important problems for demographic and econometric work.
April 10, 2025 at 5:57 AM
In historical and conflict demography, it is common to estimate a large death toll as the discontinuity between two observed or projected population estimates. @hggaddy.bsky.social and @thegargiulian.bsky.social show why this method creates important problems for demographic and econometric work.
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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.
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April 3, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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.
On Monday next week, I'll present new evidence on how armed groups weaponise kinship as a strategy to maximise suffering, as part of the @hertieschool.bsky.social Social Policy Colloqium. Register for the event in Berlin (only in-person unfortunately) 👇 www.hertie-school.org/en/events/ev...
The social demography of war-related bereavement in Colombia, 1985–2018
<p>A presentation by <strong>Diego Alburez-Gutierrez (MPIDR Rostock). </strong>This event is part of the <i>Social Policy Research Colloquium</i>. For registration, and if you have any quest...
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April 2, 2025 at 8:33 AM
On Monday next week, I'll present new evidence on how armed groups weaponise kinship as a strategy to maximise suffering, as part of the @hertieschool.bsky.social Social Policy Colloqium. Register for the event in Berlin (only in-person unfortunately) 👇 www.hertie-school.org/en/events/ev...
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In Rostock today to talk about how academia is facilitating the resurgence of eugenic ideology 👇
💻Join online! 🎧
Süßmilch Lecture @mpidr.bsky.social
Eugenics, demography and academia: an ongoing relationship
🗣️ @rebeccasear.bsky.social, @brunelcce.bsky.social & @ehbea.bsky.social
📅March 25, 2025
🕒3 pm CET
✏️Sign up now:
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...
Süßmilch Lecture @mpidr.bsky.social
Eugenics, demography and academia: an ongoing relationship
🗣️ @rebeccasear.bsky.social, @brunelcce.bsky.social & @ehbea.bsky.social
📅March 25, 2025
🕒3 pm CET
✏️Sign up now:
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...
March 25, 2025 at 9:02 AM
In Rostock today to talk about how academia is facilitating the resurgence of eugenic ideology 👇
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Our (@stephzzhang.bsky.social @monjalexander.bsky.social @demography.bsky.social) working paper on the migrant mortality advantage among 18th and 19th century United Kingdom & Ireland emigrants has been updated -- spoiler, we find an advantage in this context too!
doi.org/10.4054/MPID...
doi.org/10.4054/MPID...
MPIDR - Publications
The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock is one of the leading demographic research centers in the world. At the MPIDR, researchers from all over the world investigate demo...
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March 24, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Our (@stephzzhang.bsky.social @monjalexander.bsky.social @demography.bsky.social) working paper on the migrant mortality advantage among 18th and 19th century United Kingdom & Ireland emigrants has been updated -- spoiler, we find an advantage in this context too!
doi.org/10.4054/MPID...
doi.org/10.4054/MPID...
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#Demographers! Run don't walk at the chance to work w/ the amazing José Manuel Aburto @lshtm.bsky.social.
3 year post working on mortality estimation & trends in life expectancy & lifespan inequality in low-& middle-income countries. Not to mention..LONDON!
jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
3 year post working on mortality estimation & trends in life expectancy & lifespan inequality in low-& middle-income countries. Not to mention..LONDON!
jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at LSHTM: Research Fellow
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...
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March 19, 2025 at 11:45 AM
#Demographers! Run don't walk at the chance to work w/ the amazing José Manuel Aburto @lshtm.bsky.social.
3 year post working on mortality estimation & trends in life expectancy & lifespan inequality in low-& middle-income countries. Not to mention..LONDON!
jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
3 year post working on mortality estimation & trends in life expectancy & lifespan inequality in low-& middle-income countries. Not to mention..LONDON!
jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...