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Fernanda Fortes de Lena
@ferfortes.bsky.social
Demographer | LGBTQ+ researcher | Activist |
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Global sequence analysis (1995–2023) of LGB+ rights across 193 countries identifies six distinct paths and suggests that first democratic transition is associated with when and how rights spread - by @lisadevries.bsky.social & @annakarmann.bsky.social

🔗 genus.springeropen.com/articles/10....
October 27, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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New article out in @sociusjournal.bsky.social.

It shows how closely linked motherhood penalties 🤰📉 and gender inequalities 👨‍💼💰👩‍💼 are by studying many local labour markets.

Thread 👇

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
October 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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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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Soon to open offer for a *funded* PhD to study child poverty dynamics at @demosocupf.bsky.social @upf.edu If you have an interest in quantitative methods, social policy and child poverty this may be for you! Feel free to reach out for enquiries
August 18, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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👋 A huge welcome to @ewabatyra.bsky.social, who has just joined us as Associate Professor in Social Demography!

Ewa's research lies at the intersection of demography, sociology, international development and social policy 🌏

www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/people/ewa-b...
Ewa Batyra
www.sociology.ox.ac.uk
July 24, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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🚨 New paper out in @plosone.org w/ @lenacwt.bsky.social & Michaela Kreyenfeld!

How does women’s economic independence shape their risk of physical IPV during separation in Germany? We find that mothers with low education who are unemployed face the highest risk.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Women’s economic independence and physical intimate partner violence (IPV) during separation
A growing number of studies have addressed the issue of intimate partner violence (IPV). While some studies have shown that women’s economic independence reduces the risk of physical IPV, the empirica...
journals.plos.org
June 23, 2025 at 6:03 AM
🌈 New Publication !!!
I'm excited to share our latest article, “A Marriage Premium for Whom? Sexual Identity, Relationship Status and Earnings”, co-authored with Diederik Boertien:
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/jomf...
You can find some of the main results in the thread.
doi.org
June 20, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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📢 Job opportunity! 📢

I am recruiting a 2-year postdoc to join me at @clscohorts.bsky.social to work on a SUPER exciting project on the quantitative study of intersectional inequalities in youth mental health across time and place!

See www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... for more info and how to apply!
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
June 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Hei Oslo! Lenge siden! 👋

Come to our session at Oslo Pride House!

𝗥𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗯𝗼𝘄 𝗠𝘆𝘁𝗵𝘀, 𝗙𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗼𝗿 𝗙𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻? 𝗔 𝗗𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗤𝘂𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗼𝗽𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 🌈🎓
📅 25th of June
⏰ 14:00 - 15:00
📍 Legenes Hus – Christiania Torv 5, Oslo
🔗 www.oslopride.no/events/ph25-...

@ferfortes.bsky.social @cedemografia.bsky.social
June 16, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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#FreshOut The Household Pulse Survey’s two-step gender measure offers rare insight into noncisgender populations (n=668K+). Findings show socioeconomics gaps compared to cisgender peers & key diffs w/in noncis groups. #Demo #soci #SOGIData #reallyjustgi
Demographic Differences in Responses to a Two-Step Gender Identity Measure
Article: Demographic Differences in Responses to a Two-Step Gender Identity Measure | Sociological Science | Posted May 6, 2025
sociologicalscience.com
May 6, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Just wanted to advertise a little webinar on SOGISC data that Ill be part of thanks to the American Statistical Association and their LGBTQ+ Advocacy Committee. Check us out.
amstat.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
April 16, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Come join us in Barcelona for our course in Autumn! If you can't make it in person you can participate online. I recommend it to all that are interested in studying LGBTQ population with a demographic perspective.
April 15, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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New pub! How do people view parental leave? It depends on gender and partner: mothers with husbands and single parents are viewed more favorably for taking longer leaves than fathers with wives, mothers with wives, and fathers with husbands
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
<em>Journal of Marriage and Family</em> | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library
Objective This study examines perceptions of paid leave-taking itself and variations in these perceptions by parent gender, sexual orientation, and marital status. Background Previous research lar...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Check out my new paper with the fantastic @andreatilstra.bsky.social. We examine 🚬 and 🍷 behaviour around separation & divorce 💔 Surprising results, particularly for women... full paper here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
@tcdsociology.bsky.social @tcdssp.bsky.social #Demography #Sociology
March 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I just found out that the DHS Survey Design : Collecting Diverse Gender and Sexuality Data is no longer available in the DHS website. You can download it here: we.tl/t-4f3p6uaj9L Spread the word. The link will expire in a couple of days. Send me a DM and I can share it with you as well.
DHSM28.pdf
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we.tl
February 3, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.

HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻

archive.org/details/2025...
February 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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“A group of researchers and students at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is gathered today for a data preservation marathon, scraping and downloading data related to health equity from U.S. government agency websites before they disappear.”
Researchers rush to preserve federal health databases before they disappear from government websites
Journalists have long relied on federal health data for their reporting. We include several tips that they can use to help researchers preserve the data.
journalistsresource.org
February 1, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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1 Postdoc (3 years) in my ERC DIGINEQ project!

At Centre for Demographic Studies & Dept. of Sociology, Autonomous University of Barcelona

"Adolescent Well-Being; Social/Digital Inequalities; Computational Social Science"

Deadline: December 3

Apply & share!! ❤️‍🔥🔝

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKO526/p...
Postdoctoral Researcher in Adolescent Well-Being, Social Inequalities, Digital Media and Computational Methods at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Apply now for the Postdoctoral Researcher in Adolescent Well-Being, Social Inequalities, Digital Media and Computational Methods role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. V...
www.jobs.ac.uk
November 18, 2024 at 10:27 AM
So here to see if the sky is actually blue on this side of the fence.
October 3, 2023 at 1:28 PM