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Sebastian Kluesener
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To observe and detect.
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But mostly, I just think “my AI says its trending toward significance” belongs in the bad stats take hall of fame.
October 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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📢 Is Germany experiencing urban or suburban growth?

New paper out now: Contrasting long-standing and novel urban gradient classifications

✨ First article from my thesis, published Open Access in Applied Geography!

👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.ap...
September 26, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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“High-income contexts may be less supportive of continued childbearing for women with lower levels of education.”

New publication building on efforts made together with @demomapper.bsky.social and many others.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Economic Conditions, Education and Parity‐Specific Fertility: A Sub‐National Regional Study Across 15 Countries in Europe
There is a longstanding interest in the link between economic conditions and fertility levels. Most research measuring economic development has focused on national-level patterns and period total fer...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 12, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Smoothing god Giancarlo C. giving another smooth talk on smoothing in a non-parametric setting 🤩 #IPC2025 #Brisbane
July 16, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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𝗙𝗡𝗔-𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗱𝘂𝗶𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗸𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘂𝗺 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱

2 Tage Graduiertenkolloquium mit spannenden Vorträgen, und interessanten Gästen liegen hinter uns. Die vortragenden Nachwuchswissenschaftler:innen und Stipendiat:innen präsentierten ihre Forschungsergebnisse zu Fragen rund um die Alterssicherung. 👉🏻 rb.gy/rzr9ow
July 4, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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We are hiring a 3-year postdoc for the ERC-funded WEALTHTRAJECT project at DIW Berlin. More details here: www.diw.de/sixcms/detai...
DIW Berlin: Researcher (f/m/x)
www.diw.de
June 13, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Interested in doing a PhD on social inequalities in retirement transitions? Then join our team at the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB) in Wiesbaden, Germany 😀 We offer great research conditions and a thriving research environment: www.bib.bund.de/EN/Institute...
Job Vacancies
Job Vacancies at the Federal Institute for Population Research
www.bib.bund.de
May 21, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Wie lange erwarten wir zu leben?
In einem neuen Beitrag gehen Andreas Mergenthaler, Sebastian Klüsener (@demomapper.bsky.social) & ich dieser Frage auf den Grund.
Anhand einer Stichprobe der Bevölkerung 40 Jahre und älter (DEAS) finden wir, dass Frauen zur Unterschätzung der Lebensdauer neigen 1/4
Gender Gap bei selbst eingeschätzter Lebensdauer
Wie schätzen Menschen ihre persönlich erwartete Lebensdauer ein? Frauen und Männer unterscheiden sich in ihren Antworten – mit welchen Folgen? Mehr dazu in der neuen Ausgabe.
www.bib.bund.de
May 21, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Deadline is approaching!!! Submit your contribution until May 31 for the 2026 Issue of @vypr.bsky.social 👇
@fertdem.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social @demographyvienna.bsky.social
May 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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📄 Non‐Survival to Pension Age in Denmark and Sweden: A Sub‐National Investigation
#demography
🎉 this faithful companion of my last crazy years is finally published
🔗 PSP: doi.org/10.1002/psp....
🔓 preprint: doi.org/10.31219/osf...
🛠️ #rstats code: github.com/ikashnitsky/...
May 16, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Grace Wahba, "the mother of smoothing splines," won the International Prize (aka the Nobel) in Statistics #stats for her representer theorem.
youtu.be/8Ae_QzwwR_U?...

So well deserved! I guess, one could also give her the price again in two years for her work on Generalized Cross-Validation.
May 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Anomalies & data problems are found in the Hungarian EU SILC income data from around year 2017. It is very likely that the data was manipulated to decrease the poverty rate.

Annamaria Tatrai and Andras Gabos conducted a very thorough investigation of the issue: www.valaszonline.hu/2025/04/01/e...
April 3, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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6 PhD scholarships at University of Padova for candidates interested in the area of Statistical Sciences- included Demography
Start of activities: November 1st, 2025
Annual grant: 18,643.00 euros (gross)
The call is published (deadline May 13, 2025 - 1 pm CEST) at www.unipd.it/en/node/1053
PhD Programmes Calls and Admissions | Università di Padova
UniPD
www.unipd.it
April 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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🚨 Job alert - please share!

I'm looking for a doctoral researcher (3 years, 75%) to join my #ERC project #Loneliness across time and space (LOTIS) at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de, starting June 1 or later.

Details in thread 👇

#PsychSciSky
April 8, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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Did you get a chance to read the thread on our new @naturehumbehav.bsky.social paper on SES yet?

If not, don't worry, I have something better for you!

Check out this comic by the amazing @lizahaart.bsky.social

Complete comic: communities.springernature.com/posts/are-we...

Or in this thread 👇🏾
March 28, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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🚨 Come research singlehood with me! I’m hiring a 3-year Postdoc w/interest in Family Demography to start this Fall. Please share!

📍 Barcelona (@cedemografia.bsky.social)
🔎 ERC-funded project 'SINGLE'
📅 Deadline – April 24, 2025
🔗 More info: shorturl.at/400eo
#Postdoc #Demography
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March 25, 2025 at 8:07 AM
@cdudel.bsky.social in action 😀 Promoting our work on working life expectancy to demographers and statisticians at the DGD conference in Wiesbaden.
March 19, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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The @imprs-phds.bsky.social team worked hard to make it happen: We're happy & proud to announce that the International Max Planck Research School for Population, Health and Data Science has been made permanent by the
@maxplanck.de . IMPRS_PHDS Team, you rock!
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...
January 22, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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Fascinating article by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social on the concentration of high-paying jobs in the UK. But does the graphic show that the situation is even more extreme in France and Canada? on.ft.com/3OWo5H2
December 15, 2024 at 8:45 AM
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Radiating exuberant euphoria 🥳🎉🥂, I announce that our study with initial results from the #KINMATRIX survey has been published 👉 doi.org/10.1111/jomf.... KINMATRIX is a unique new source of ego-centric network data that offers unprecedented scope and detail in mapping family relations. #Demography
<em>Journal of Marriage and Family</em> | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library
Objective This study presents initial results from the KINMATRIX survey, a large-scale source of ego-centric network data offering an unprecedented level of scope and detail in mapping family relati...
doi.org
November 26, 2024 at 2:39 PM
Three more days to apply for the International Population Conference in Brisbane next July. If you work on innovative spatial research, consider to submit to our session: "Spatial demography: New data and emerging insights" 🙂

iussp.org/en/internati...
September 12, 2024 at 10:22 AM
Deadline extended: 3 more days to apply! At
@bib_bund we offer a ⭐️permanent senior research scientist position 🏆 to conduct research on population dynamics and its components (fertility, mortality, family change, employment, ...): bit.ly/bibpopdyn
August 9, 2024 at 2:09 PM
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Great question: "How big does a population need to be before demographers can ignore individual-level randomness in demographic events?"
Even better, a straightforward answer:
arxiv.org/html/2406.15...
How big does a population need to be before demographers can ignore individual-level randomness in demographic events?
arxiv.org
June 27, 2024 at 8:16 AM