Mimmi Lounela
@mimmilou.bsky.social
PhD student at the Department of Sociology, Demography Unit (SUDA) at Stockholm University. Researching migrants and how employment uncertainty affects their life courses (and maybe health, too). But also a professional procrastinator.
Yes, I am no where near adulthood. That is how cross-sectional population averages work, right? Hint: age, period, cohort.
I finally got some time to flesh out my rant about these headlines...
TL;DR: age differences ≠ aging
jenndowd.substack.com/p/does-adole... #demography #episky #medsky #neurosky
TL;DR: age differences ≠ aging
jenndowd.substack.com/p/does-adole... #demography #episky #medsky #neurosky
Does adolescence really last until age 32?
Those “turning points” in brain aging aren’t quite what you think
jenndowd.substack.com
December 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Yes, I am no where near adulthood. That is how cross-sectional population averages work, right? Hint: age, period, cohort.
Congrats again @anatra.bsky.social! <33 Such a great researcher with a great thesis project, really enjoyed the discussion yesterday and was very impressed!
Yesterday, @anatra.bsky.social had her half-time seminar for her PhD! Half-baked doctor! I am very proud and looking forward to the coming years 🥳
November 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Congrats again @anatra.bsky.social! <33 Such a great researcher with a great thesis project, really enjoyed the discussion yesterday and was very impressed!
Research takes me to places!
November 21, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Research takes me to places!
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A new research project about sexual and reproductive outcomes of violent crime in Mexico is recruiting two PhD students. The project is lead by Signe Svallfors who has received the five year starting grant from European Research Council.
www.su.se/department-o...
@signesvallfors.bsky.social
www.su.se/department-o...
@signesvallfors.bsky.social
Researchers to explore how violent crime affects health - Department of Sociology
If I had five years and generous resources, what would I most like to do? That is what Signe Svallfors was thinking before deciding to apply for the ERC starting grant. The dream project would be to f...
www.su.se
September 5, 2025 at 10:17 AM
A new research project about sexual and reproductive outcomes of violent crime in Mexico is recruiting two PhD students. The project is lead by Signe Svallfors who has received the five year starting grant from European Research Council.
www.su.se/department-o...
@signesvallfors.bsky.social
www.su.se/department-o...
@signesvallfors.bsky.social
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Bologna is calling
EAPS.nl |
Call for Submissions
EAPS.nl
www.eaps.nl
September 5, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Bologna is calling
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Nature research paper: Immigrant–native pay gap driven by lack of access to high-paying jobs
go.nature.com/40ripuF
go.nature.com/40ripuF
Immigrant–native pay gap driven by lack of access to high-paying jobs - Nature
Data from nine European and North American countries reveal that the disparity in earnings between immigrants and natives is largely a result of segregation of immigrant workers into lower-paying jobs.
go.nature.com
July 23, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Nature research paper: Immigrant–native pay gap driven by lack of access to high-paying jobs
go.nature.com/40ripuF
go.nature.com/40ripuF
Swedish government: take notes.
Changing the perspective on low birth rates: why simplistic solutions won’t work
Stuart Gietel-Basten , Anna Rotkirch , and Tomáš Sobotka argue that policies responding to population decline and ageing should enable reproductive choice and maximise the potential of all citizens
...
www.bmj.com
July 23, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Swedish government: take notes.
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The University of Florence offers 4 positions within the PhD in Life Course Research!
🔹 3 open positions on topics such as social demography, family formation, fertility, union dissolution, ageing & wellbeing
🔹 1 thematic position on reproductive health & low fertility
Come join us in Florence! 👇👇
🔹 3 open positions on topics such as social demography, family formation, fertility, union dissolution, ageing & wellbeing
🔹 1 thematic position on reproductive health & low fertility
Come join us in Florence! 👇👇
📢 Applications open for the National PhD Program in Life Course Research!
👉 12 fully funded positions in Demography and Social Statistics, promoting an interdisciplinary approach to studying life courses.
🗓 Deadline: August 7
📍 More info: www.phd-lcr.com
📄 To apply: www.unifi.it/sites/defaul...
👉 12 fully funded positions in Demography and Social Statistics, promoting an interdisciplinary approach to studying life courses.
🗓 Deadline: August 7
📍 More info: www.phd-lcr.com
📄 To apply: www.unifi.it/sites/defaul...
The PhD program in Life Course Research will train a new generation of highly skilled scholars relying on an evidence-based approach, with a strong emphasis on quantitative methods and data analysis.
www.phd-lcr.com
July 16, 2025 at 11:17 AM
The University of Florence offers 4 positions within the PhD in Life Course Research!
🔹 3 open positions on topics such as social demography, family formation, fertility, union dissolution, ageing & wellbeing
🔹 1 thematic position on reproductive health & low fertility
Come join us in Florence! 👇👇
🔹 3 open positions on topics such as social demography, family formation, fertility, union dissolution, ageing & wellbeing
🔹 1 thematic position on reproductive health & low fertility
Come join us in Florence! 👇👇
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Our Deputy Director @drjenndowd.bluesky.social
gave the Keynote Lecture today at the 23rd Nordic Demographic Symposium
Has progress stalled? Reflecting on the uncertain future of #mortality in high income countries
👉more: www.demography.ox.ac.uk/people/jenni...
✍️Substack: jenndowd.substack.com
gave the Keynote Lecture today at the 23rd Nordic Demographic Symposium
Has progress stalled? Reflecting on the uncertain future of #mortality in high income countries
👉more: www.demography.ox.ac.uk/people/jenni...
✍️Substack: jenndowd.substack.com
June 11, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Our Deputy Director @drjenndowd.bluesky.social
gave the Keynote Lecture today at the 23rd Nordic Demographic Symposium
Has progress stalled? Reflecting on the uncertain future of #mortality in high income countries
👉more: www.demography.ox.ac.uk/people/jenni...
✍️Substack: jenndowd.substack.com
gave the Keynote Lecture today at the 23rd Nordic Demographic Symposium
Has progress stalled? Reflecting on the uncertain future of #mortality in high income countries
👉more: www.demography.ox.ac.uk/people/jenni...
✍️Substack: jenndowd.substack.com
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Why is mortality progress stalling in the US and the UK?
@drjenndowd.bsky.social is giving a keynote overview at Nordic Demographic Symposium 🇩🇰 @demografi.dk
@drjenndowd.bsky.social is giving a keynote overview at Nordic Demographic Symposium 🇩🇰 @demografi.dk
June 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Why is mortality progress stalling in the US and the UK?
@drjenndowd.bsky.social is giving a keynote overview at Nordic Demographic Symposium 🇩🇰 @demografi.dk
@drjenndowd.bsky.social is giving a keynote overview at Nordic Demographic Symposium 🇩🇰 @demografi.dk
@drjenndowd.bsky.social offering valuable insights at the #NDS2025! Warning to all the U.S. researchers: next week is midsummer, the official onset of the annual summer vacation. So you will have to wait until september with any US/Nordic comparative collabs!
June 11, 2025 at 12:27 PM
@drjenndowd.bsky.social offering valuable insights at the #NDS2025! Warning to all the U.S. researchers: next week is midsummer, the official onset of the annual summer vacation. So you will have to wait until september with any US/Nordic comparative collabs!
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Our star @mimmilou.bsky.social fast and efficient at the flash session #Popdays2025 @suda-sthlm.bsky.social
June 6, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Our star @mimmilou.bsky.social fast and efficient at the flash session #Popdays2025 @suda-sthlm.bsky.social
Thank you for a phenomenal conference, until next time! Now time for a phenomenal nap #PAA2025 @popassocamerica.bsky.social
April 13, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Thank you for a phenomenal conference, until next time! Now time for a phenomenal nap #PAA2025 @popassocamerica.bsky.social
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Wake up wake up Washington! Sunday morning offer not to miss: Interesting and surely a brilliant presentation by one and only @mimmilou.bsky.social
If you missed this giant poster today, I have another one about the operationalisation of employment instability tomorrow 8:30 am at #PAA @popassocamerica.bsky.social !! Come and say hi!
It would be unforgivable to miss the largest poster of the conference—so step by the poster session happening now to say hi to @mimmilou.bsky.social and me, and chat about our work on employment uncertainty among migrants!
April 12, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Wake up wake up Washington! Sunday morning offer not to miss: Interesting and surely a brilliant presentation by one and only @mimmilou.bsky.social
If you missed this giant poster today, I have another one about the operationalisation of employment instability tomorrow 8:30 am at #PAA @popassocamerica.bsky.social !! Come and say hi!
It would be unforgivable to miss the largest poster of the conference—so step by the poster session happening now to say hi to @mimmilou.bsky.social and me, and chat about our work on employment uncertainty among migrants!
April 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
If you missed this giant poster today, I have another one about the operationalisation of employment instability tomorrow 8:30 am at #PAA @popassocamerica.bsky.social !! Come and say hi!
Following a great panel discussion about the future of #DHS at @popassocamerica.bsky.social annual meeting. The global scientific community is not giving up!
April 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Following a great panel discussion about the future of #DHS at @popassocamerica.bsky.social annual meeting. The global scientific community is not giving up!
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Self-help books often cite population studies as evidence that you can change your life with one simple trick. X will improve your health. Y will make you more successful. But there's a crucial catch...
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March 16, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Self-help books often cite population studies as evidence that you can change your life with one simple trick. X will improve your health. Y will make you more successful. But there's a crucial catch...
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“The Demography of Sweden’s Transgender Population”: @martinkolk.bsky.social @ylvamoberg.bsky.social et al study transitions over 1973-2020, “a period of...legal advances, ↑ social acceptance & more accommodating HC system.” @stockholm-uni.bsky.social @sofi.su.se read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
March 17, 2025 at 1:14 PM
“The Demography of Sweden’s Transgender Population”: @martinkolk.bsky.social @ylvamoberg.bsky.social et al study transitions over 1973-2020, “a period of...legal advances, ↑ social acceptance & more accommodating HC system.” @stockholm-uni.bsky.social @sofi.su.se read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
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MARIELLE E ANDERSON PRESENTES!
Realizamos, aqui na Câmara, nossa sessão solene em memória de Marielle Franco e Anderson Gomes, executados em 14 de março de 2018.
Estamos aqui pelo fim da violência política de gênero e em defesa da vida de quem vive para defender nossos direitos. +👇🏽
Realizamos, aqui na Câmara, nossa sessão solene em memória de Marielle Franco e Anderson Gomes, executados em 14 de março de 2018.
Estamos aqui pelo fim da violência política de gênero e em defesa da vida de quem vive para defender nossos direitos. +👇🏽
March 12, 2025 at 8:51 PM
MARIELLE E ANDERSON PRESENTES!
Realizamos, aqui na Câmara, nossa sessão solene em memória de Marielle Franco e Anderson Gomes, executados em 14 de março de 2018.
Estamos aqui pelo fim da violência política de gênero e em defesa da vida de quem vive para defender nossos direitos. +👇🏽
Realizamos, aqui na Câmara, nossa sessão solene em memória de Marielle Franco e Anderson Gomes, executados em 14 de março de 2018.
Estamos aqui pelo fim da violência política de gênero e em defesa da vida de quem vive para defender nossos direitos. +👇🏽
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Today marks 7 years since the ambushed and brutal murder of Marielle Franco, a Black LGBTIQA+ and human rights activist and city councilor for Rio de Janeiro, and her driver Anderson Gomes. Read more about the lengthy road to justice: #MarielleVive #JustiçaPorMarielleEAnderson rioonwatch.org?p=80148
Marielle Franco’s Assassins Convicted: ‘Justice is Slow, Blind, Stupid, Unfair, Wrong, and Crooked. But It Always Comes,’ Says Judge – RioOnWatch
rioonwatch.org
March 14, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Today marks 7 years since the ambushed and brutal murder of Marielle Franco, a Black LGBTIQA+ and human rights activist and city councilor for Rio de Janeiro, and her driver Anderson Gomes. Read more about the lengthy road to justice: #MarielleVive #JustiçaPorMarielleEAnderson rioonwatch.org?p=80148
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When INEQUALITY is on the list of verboten words, we need to work harder to make the value of our work known.
Please follow @asa-ipm.bsky.social, the new account of the Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility section of
@asanews.bsky.social, which will help share the latest work on social inequality
Please follow @asa-ipm.bsky.social, the new account of the Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility section of
@asanews.bsky.social, which will help share the latest work on social inequality
March 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
When INEQUALITY is on the list of verboten words, we need to work harder to make the value of our work known.
Please follow @asa-ipm.bsky.social, the new account of the Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility section of
@asanews.bsky.social, which will help share the latest work on social inequality
Please follow @asa-ipm.bsky.social, the new account of the Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility section of
@asanews.bsky.social, which will help share the latest work on social inequality
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Over the past week, grants that researchers had through NIH to study LGBTQ+ health have been canceled, researchers told via email their work conflicted with “agency priorities.”
PAA member and Vanderbilt LGBTQ+ Policy Lab Tara McKay quoted:
rollcall.com/2025/03/07/a...
PAA member and Vanderbilt LGBTQ+ Policy Lab Tara McKay quoted:
rollcall.com/2025/03/07/a...
After Trump’s inauguration, a dramatic halt to LGBTQ+ research - Roll Call
The Trump administration has dramatically dialed back research into LGBTQ+ health, and researchers say the impact has been dramatic.
rollcall.com
March 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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📣 Out on #FirstView 📣
In "Gender Equality and Armed Conflict" @signesvallfors.bsky.social argues that scholars should abandon total fertility rate as an indicator of gender equality for a measure that better captures women's status in society.
gendersky
🌟Available #OpenAccess🌟
buff.ly/41jm39E
In "Gender Equality and Armed Conflict" @signesvallfors.bsky.social argues that scholars should abandon total fertility rate as an indicator of gender equality for a measure that better captures women's status in society.
gendersky
🌟Available #OpenAccess🌟
buff.ly/41jm39E
March 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
📣 Out on #FirstView 📣
In "Gender Equality and Armed Conflict" @signesvallfors.bsky.social argues that scholars should abandon total fertility rate as an indicator of gender equality for a measure that better captures women's status in society.
gendersky
🌟Available #OpenAccess🌟
buff.ly/41jm39E
In "Gender Equality and Armed Conflict" @signesvallfors.bsky.social argues that scholars should abandon total fertility rate as an indicator of gender equality for a measure that better captures women's status in society.
gendersky
🌟Available #OpenAccess🌟
buff.ly/41jm39E
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Our study estimates excess deaths in children and parental loss due to the war in Gaza in 2023. From Oct 8 to Dec 31, 2023, 8120 children <18 were killed due to the conflict, 15127 children lost a father, and 9886 children lost a mother -in 3 months
pophealthmetrics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
pophealthmetrics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
A demographic assessment of the impact of the war in the Gaza Strip on the mortality of children and their parents in 2023 - Population Health Metrics
Background Following Hamas’s 7 October attack, Israel launched extensive aerial bombardments in the Gaza Strip, followed by a large-scale ground invasion. During the first 3 months of the conflict, up...
pophealthmetrics.biomedcentral.com
March 4, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Our study estimates excess deaths in children and parental loss due to the war in Gaza in 2023. From Oct 8 to Dec 31, 2023, 8120 children <18 were killed due to the conflict, 15127 children lost a father, and 9886 children lost a mother -in 3 months
pophealthmetrics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
pophealthmetrics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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New study says children of immigrants in Sweden at high risk of being overqualified for their jobs. @wooseongkim.bsky.social talks about his recent doctoral thesis on Radio Sweden.
www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/new-...
www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/new-...
New study says children of immigrants in Sweden at high risk of being overqualified for their jobs - Radio Sweden
A new study suggests that the children of immigrants face challenges in the labor market and are at a higher risk for overqualification than those with ...
www.sverigesradio.se
March 4, 2025 at 12:22 PM
New study says children of immigrants in Sweden at high risk of being overqualified for their jobs. @wooseongkim.bsky.social talks about his recent doctoral thesis on Radio Sweden.
www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/new-...
www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/new-...