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Selin Köksal
@selinkoksal.bsky.social
Assistant professor in demography at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine @psglshtm.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social | Social demography, fertility, reproductive experiences 🧐
What happens when abortion access becomes restricted even without a law officially passing?

With Francesco Billari and @aksoyundan.bsky.social, we investigated how incidence of abortion, miscarriage and stillbirth changed under the anti-abortion campaign in Turkey.
October 22, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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🚨 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 20, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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🔎 The University of St Andrews research team led by Katherine Keenan and partner in the SOC-MISC project is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to work on analysing Scottish public data on miscarriages.

More information in the link below :
👉 www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...
Post-doctoral Research Fellow – AR3162
Post-doctoral Research Fellow – AR3162, School of Geography and Sustainable Development, Salary: £38,249 - £45,413 per annum, Start: Earliest December 2025 (to be confirmed), Fixed term for 18 mont...
www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk
August 5, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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📢 The SOC-MISC project will be at #BSPS2025 in Swansea!

📅 3 Sept
🎤 @selinkoksal.bsky.social : miscarriage measurement & reporting in UK surveys
🎤 @mccompans.bsky.social : hospital-care seeking after a miscarriage in France

➡️ Full programme: www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...
Annual Conference
The British Society for Population Studies holds an annual conference in a different venue each September.
www.lse.ac.uk
August 27, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Thinking about a PhD? Don’t miss this opportunity from the amazing @psglshtm.bsky.social and @mpidr.bsky.social, apply by Sep 25! 👇
August 27, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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🗣️ Just two days left - send your applications for this exciting opportunity to work with José Manuel Aburto and be part of the interdisciplinary PSG team!
📢 Another exciting opportunity to join Mortality and Inequalities Research Group and work with José Manuel Aburto!

We're hiring a 3-year Research Fellow in Population Data Science. Apply by May 16!

🔗 Full details and application: jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
May 14, 2025 at 10:15 AM
It was amazing to be part of this insightful and stimulating workshop on miscarriage measurement. Huge thanks to the SOC-MISC team for organising it! Heading back to London with lots to reflect on 🧐
Many thanks to all the speakers @selinkoksal.bsky.social, @joestrong.bsky.social and @bethsully.bsky.social and participants (Katy, Hanna, @mccompans.bsky.social, Hélène, Anissa, @heinivaisanen.bsky.social) for the excellent discussions throughout the day! 7/7
May 13, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Planning a career in demographic research?🌍

This studentship scheme may be of interest if you're looking to study MSc Demography & Health or MSc Reproductive and Sexual Health Research @‌LSHTM this September.

Apply by 26 May 2025 👇

www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-a...
May 13, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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📢 Next in the London Universities Population Seminar Series (co-hosted with
@lshtmhistory.bsky.social)

🗓️ Thurs 15 May | 🕐 12:45–14:00
📍 LSHTM G24, Keppel St.

Dr. Rachell Sánchez-Rivera will talk about state-sponsored population control in 20th century Mexico

www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
State-sponsored population control programmes: A new ph(f)ace of eugenics in
In this seminar, Dr. Sánchez-Rivera discusses the changeover from eugenics to population control programs and capitalist ventures during the second half of the 20th Century in Mexico. Special
www.lshtm.ac.uk
May 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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May 2025 Newsletter with FemQuant response to the UK Supreme Court ruling. FemQuant will remain a collective by and for those interested in trans-inclusive Feminist Quantitative Science.
May 2025 Newsletter & Statement on UK Supreme Court Ruling
FemQuant response to the UK Supreme Court ruling In light of the recent UK Supreme Court ruling on gender, the FemQuant organising collective wishes to express its support and solidarity to tr…
femquant.wordpress.com
May 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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FINAL WEEK [deadline May 9th] to apply to this year's BSPS Demography Conference @bspsuk.bsky.social

Strands on:
💚 Fertility and Sexual and Reproductive Health
🧡 Critical Demography

Friendliest conference in town. Only 250 word abstract. Go go go!!!

tinyurl.com/ueuyb9xj
May 6, 2025 at 7:09 AM
4 more days to go! Don’t forget to submit your abstracts to the Fertility and SRH strand at #BSPS2025 (@bspsuk.bsky.social). @joestrong.bsky.social and I will be reading them with care 🧡
📢 Spread the word! The call for papers for #BSPS2025 is now open.

I’m co-organising the Fertility and Sexual & Reproductive Health strand with @joestrong.bsky.social and we can't wait to read your fascinating work.

📝 Submit your abstracts by May 9, 5 PM (BST).
Annual Conference
The British Society for Population Studies holds an annual conference in a different venue each September.
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May 5, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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📢 Another exciting opportunity to join Mortality and Inequalities Research Group and work with José Manuel Aburto!

We're hiring a 3-year Research Fellow in Population Data Science. Apply by May 16!

🔗 Full details and application: jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
April 25, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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In this article the korean professor says this. So well said.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
April 13, 2025 at 10:51 AM
What a way to kick off #PAA2025! Our paper with Riccardo Omenti and Orsola Torrisi offering a global perspective on violence and adolescent fertility received the poster award, so proud 🥇🏆
April 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
📢 Spread the word! The call for papers for #BSPS2025 is now open.

I’m co-organising the Fertility and Sexual & Reproductive Health strand with @joestrong.bsky.social and we can't wait to read your fascinating work.

📝 Submit your abstracts by May 9, 5 PM (BST).
Annual Conference
The British Society for Population Studies holds an annual conference in a different venue each September.
url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com
March 31, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Applications are open for the Basia Zaba Scholarship for the MSc in Demography and Health @lshtm.bsky.social @psglshtm.bsky.social! Find out more 👇
📢 Funding opportunity 📢

We’re accepting applications for the Basia Zaba Scholarship for the MSc in Demography & Health @lshtm.bsky.social 🎓

The scholarship covers full tuition fees for a UK home student
for the 2025-26 academic year. Deadline 26 March.

For more information 👉 tinyurl.com/3j7esk22
Basia Zaba Memorial Scholarship | LSHTM
This scholarship is for the MSc Demography & Health. Professor Basia Zaba (1949-2018) Basia started her long association with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) in 1975 when she
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March 6, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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📣Reminder! Join us tomorrow for an exciting London Universities Population Seminar!

We are hosting Joshua Wilde (@oxforddemsci.bsky.social) who will present his work on climate change and fertility.

More details below 👇
📢 Next in the London Universities Population Seminars!

We're excited to host Joshua Wilde (@oxforddemsci.bsky.social) presenting on #ClimateChange and #Fertility

📅 4 March | 12:45 GMT
📍 Manson Lecture Theatre, LSHTM
🔗 lshtm.zoom.us/j/98684293654

co-organized by @clscohorts.bsky.social and pop@LSE
March 3, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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📢 Next in the London Universities Population Seminars!

We're excited to host Joshua Wilde (@oxforddemsci.bsky.social) presenting on #ClimateChange and #Fertility

📅 4 March | 12:45 GMT
📍 Manson Lecture Theatre, LSHTM
🔗 lshtm.zoom.us/j/98684293654

co-organized by @clscohorts.bsky.social and pop@LSE
February 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Our two papers on abortion bans and fertility/infant mortality are now out.

In 14 states w/ abortion bans, fertility increased 1.7% and infant mortality increased 6%.

Key takeaway is that these impacts were disproportionately felt among those w/ greatest structural disadvantages.

Links below.
jama.com JAMA @jama.com · Feb 13
🧵 US states that implemented abortion bans saw higher than expected infant mortality rates, with larger increases among Black infants and those in southern states, according to this analysis of US national vital statistics data from 2012–2023.

ja.ma/4aVchPn

#MedSky
February 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Spread the word, we joined the Bluesky party 🥳
The Population Studies Group @lshtm.bsky.social is now on Bluesky! ☁️💙 Stay tuned for the latest population research, upcoming events, and more updates from the PSG team.
February 13, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Don't miss the next London Universities Population Seminar!

@mireilleleguen.bsky.social (UCLouvain) will discuss why men's contraceptive use remains understudied in demography.

📅 Feb 11 | 13.00-14.00 GMT
📍 LSE, Room CON 1.01, or join online
February 4, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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How did Romania’s abortion ban in 1966 shape the next generation’s family formation decisions? Find out in our next seminar by @selinkoksal.bsky.social on Wednesday 22 May ➡️ www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/lcds-se...

@leverhulme.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social
LCDS Seminar on Wednesday 22 May with Selin Köksal
How did Romania’s abortion ban in 1966 shape the next generation’s family formation decisions? Find out in our next LCDS Seminar on Wednesday 22 May by Selin Köksal, Associate Professor in Demography ...
www.demography.ox.ac.uk
May 8, 2024 at 1:30 PM
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📣An important announcement!

My #ERC project Social Inequalities in the Risk and Aftermath of #Miscarriage (SOC-MISC) now has an online presence. Follow us here and check the profile description to find the link to our website and more information about the project.
The "Social Inequalities in the Risk and Aftermath of Miscarriage" (SOC-MISC) project is the first comprehensive study of the patterns of social inequality in miscarriage and its outcomes, lead by @heinivaisanen.bsky.social.
 
 Find out more on soc-misc.site.ined.fr/en/ !
SOC-MISC
soc-misc.site.ined.fr
March 1, 2024 at 9:31 AM
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The "Social Inequalities in the Risk and Aftermath of Miscarriage" (SOC-MISC) project is the first comprehensive study of the patterns of social inequality in miscarriage and its outcomes, lead by @heinivaisanen.bsky.social.
 
 Find out more on soc-misc.site.ined.fr/en/ !
SOC-MISC
soc-misc.site.ined.fr
March 1, 2024 at 9:29 AM