Tiziana Leone (she/her) 🍉🏳️🌈
@tizianaleone.bsky.social
#European. Prof of health and int dev. Health demographer and woodworker wannabe. Huge fan of cross-tabs #womenshealth #lifecourse #conflict
@LSE_ID @LSEGlobalHealth @pop_lse @LSEMiddleEast
@LSE_ID @LSEGlobalHealth @pop_lse @LSEMiddleEast
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Just a reminder to sign up for this webinar on IPUMS International on Wednesday!
Curious about using census microdata in your research? 📊
Join us for a webinar on IPUMS International, the world’s leading repository of harmonized census data.
🗓️ 12 Nov 2025 | 🕒 15:15–16:30 UK | 💻 Zoom
Register: forms.gle/oqTDNU4Zpn2s...
Hosted by the LSE Historical Economic Demography Group.
Join us for a webinar on IPUMS International, the world’s leading repository of harmonized census data.
🗓️ 12 Nov 2025 | 🕒 15:15–16:30 UK | 💻 Zoom
Register: forms.gle/oqTDNU4Zpn2s...
Hosted by the LSE Historical Economic Demography Group.
Register for IPUMs International Online Session
Please use this form to register for the IPUMs International Session hosted by the Historical Economic Demography Group at LSE.
The session will be on Zoom from 15:15-16:30 UK Time on 12 November 202...
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November 10, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Just a reminder to sign up for this webinar on IPUMS International on Wednesday!
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"“Normal” testosterone levels are largely based on studies from high-income populations that do not account for diverse ecological conditions known to influence physiology. This study highlights complex relationships that exist among age, adiposity & testosterone patterns in subsistence populations"
Salivary Testosterone, Age, and Adiposity Associations Among Shuar Males in Amazonian Ecuador Challenge Assumptions of “Normal” Testosterone Patterns
Objectives
Adult male testosterone concentrations in high income countries often decrease with age and adiposity, a pattern typically viewed as “normal.” However, testosterone is expected to be adap.....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:16 AM
"“Normal” testosterone levels are largely based on studies from high-income populations that do not account for diverse ecological conditions known to influence physiology. This study highlights complex relationships that exist among age, adiposity & testosterone patterns in subsistence populations"
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Humanitarian agencies have been urged to ‘localise’, shifting power to local actors and addressing North/South imbalances. But what does local really mean? Dr Myfanwy James explores this question for the LSE ID Blog
blogs.lse.ac.uk/internationa...
blogs.lse.ac.uk/internationa...
The politics of local humanitarian recruitment in DRC - LSE International Development
There have been growing calls over the last decade for humanitarian agencies to ‘localise’— to address unjust and unequal power relations in the contemporary system by transferring power to local pers...
blogs.lse.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Humanitarian agencies have been urged to ‘localise’, shifting power to local actors and addressing North/South imbalances. But what does local really mean? Dr Myfanwy James explores this question for the LSE ID Blog
blogs.lse.ac.uk/internationa...
blogs.lse.ac.uk/internationa...
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Measles is back
Whooping cough is back
Now, diphtheria is staging a return with large outbreaks now in Somalia, Sudan, Yemen and Chad — countries with civil wars or large populations of refugees where vaccination coverage is low...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/h... @stephanienolen.bsky.social
Whooping cough is back
Now, diphtheria is staging a return with large outbreaks now in Somalia, Sudan, Yemen and Chad — countries with civil wars or large populations of refugees where vaccination coverage is low...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/h... @stephanienolen.bsky.social
Diphtheria, a Once Vanquished Killer of Children, Is Resurgent
www.nytimes.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Measles is back
Whooping cough is back
Now, diphtheria is staging a return with large outbreaks now in Somalia, Sudan, Yemen and Chad — countries with civil wars or large populations of refugees where vaccination coverage is low...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/h... @stephanienolen.bsky.social
Whooping cough is back
Now, diphtheria is staging a return with large outbreaks now in Somalia, Sudan, Yemen and Chad — countries with civil wars or large populations of refugees where vaccination coverage is low...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/h... @stephanienolen.bsky.social
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Join us for the London Universities Population Seminar on 28 October at noon UK time at LSE. Prof Karen Glaser (Kings) will present 'Changes in mental and physical health among adults aged 50 – 69 in England: Implications for economic inactivity'. The seminar will be in-person and online.
October 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Join us for the London Universities Population Seminar on 28 October at noon UK time at LSE. Prof Karen Glaser (Kings) will present 'Changes in mental and physical health among adults aged 50 – 69 in England: Implications for economic inactivity'. The seminar will be in-person and online.
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"We should be more preoccupied with things that might actually wipe us out tomorrow rather than stressing about something that we can’t address, we don’t fully understand and isn’t an acute problem yet. Time to stop worrying about birth rates and start worrying about the state of the world instead"
Demographic doom-mongering isn’t helping on.ft.com/47fPFaP | opinion
Demographic doom-mongering isn’t helping
Frankly, I doubt that the human race is going to become the first species in recorded history that chooses to go extinct
on.ft.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:47 AM
"We should be more preoccupied with things that might actually wipe us out tomorrow rather than stressing about something that we can’t address, we don’t fully understand and isn’t an acute problem yet. Time to stop worrying about birth rates and start worrying about the state of the world instead"
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This is not good news for women's rights. They said Roe wouldn't fall. They said, oh no, not for miscarriages. They said mife was safe. And here we are, far down the slippery slope.
RFK Jr: "When my uncle was president, the fertility rate in this country was 3.5%. Today it is 1.6%. The replacement rate -- in other words the amount of fertility you need to keep your population even -- is 2.1%. We are below replacement. That is a national security threat to our country."
October 16, 2025 at 8:30 PM
This is not good news for women's rights. They said Roe wouldn't fall. They said, oh no, not for miscarriages. They said mife was safe. And here we are, far down the slippery slope.
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Kindle has chosen Sick of It to be part of their 99p deal for October!
Given the first book I published back in 2010 was about £80 this is a much better deal. And cheaper than a whippy.
Given the first book I published back in 2010 was about £80 this is a much better deal. And cheaper than a whippy.
October 2, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Kindle has chosen Sick of It to be part of their 99p deal for October!
Given the first book I published back in 2010 was about £80 this is a much better deal. And cheaper than a whippy.
Given the first book I published back in 2010 was about £80 this is a much better deal. And cheaper than a whippy.
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Only a few days left to register for our annual #student careers panel & reception!
This is an opportunity to hear insights from panellists covering diverse fields of academia & research, the charity sector, law & consultancy in/around the #MiddleEast.
www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-...
This is an opportunity to hear insights from panellists covering diverse fields of academia & research, the charity sector, law & consultancy in/around the #MiddleEast.
www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-...
September 29, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Only a few days left to register for our annual #student careers panel & reception!
This is an opportunity to hear insights from panellists covering diverse fields of academia & research, the charity sector, law & consultancy in/around the #MiddleEast.
www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-...
This is an opportunity to hear insights from panellists covering diverse fields of academia & research, the charity sector, law & consultancy in/around the #MiddleEast.
www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-...
I am struggling to keep up with all the lecture material *rump is giving us at the moment.
📣BREAKING: The US blocked a landmark #UN declaration on #NCDs, objecting to language on gender, taxes, and UN “overreach.”
💪But 130+ countries still back it — with goals to cut tobacco use, expand hypertension control, and provide mental health access to 150M more people by 2030.
📖⬇️ & 🙏🔁
💪But 130+ countries still back it — with goals to cut tobacco use, expand hypertension control, and provide mental health access to 150M more people by 2030.
📖⬇️ & 🙏🔁
BREAKING: UN Declaration On Noncommunicable Diseases Fails To Win Approval After US Foils Consensus - Health Policy Watch
NEW YORK CITY - A painstakingly negotiated Political Declaration on Noncommunicable Diseases with overwhelming support from UN member states failed to win
healthpolicy-watch.news
September 26, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I am struggling to keep up with all the lecture material *rump is giving us at the moment.
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We’re honoured to host Francia Elena Márquez Mina, Colombia’s first Black woman Vice President, for a special #BlackHistoryMonth event at LSE. ✊🏾🌍
🎟️ Free & open to the public. Register via link in bio
📅 Tue 14 Oct, 7.15–8.45pm
🎟️ Free & open to the public. Register via link in bio
📅 Tue 14 Oct, 7.15–8.45pm
September 26, 2025 at 11:17 AM
We’re honoured to host Francia Elena Márquez Mina, Colombia’s first Black woman Vice President, for a special #BlackHistoryMonth event at LSE. ✊🏾🌍
🎟️ Free & open to the public. Register via link in bio
📅 Tue 14 Oct, 7.15–8.45pm
🎟️ Free & open to the public. Register via link in bio
📅 Tue 14 Oct, 7.15–8.45pm
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LSE and @bspsuk.bsky.social are hosting a workshop on "Being an academic in population studies" on 3 November! It'll be a nice mix of methods training and career advice with great talks by @ericbschneider.bsky.social, Wendy Sigle, José Manuel Aburto, and others!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/being-an-a...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/being-an-a...
September 26, 2025 at 11:29 AM
LSE and @bspsuk.bsky.social are hosting a workshop on "Being an academic in population studies" on 3 November! It'll be a nice mix of methods training and career advice with great talks by @ericbschneider.bsky.social, Wendy Sigle, José Manuel Aburto, and others!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/being-an-a...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/being-an-a...
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Interested in exploring a #MiddleEast related career?
Join us next Thurs 2 October for our annual student careers panel featuring Eyad Hamid (SLDP), @tizianaleone.bsky.social (@lseid.bsky.social) & @cwoodcraft.bsky.social (@jbs.cam.ac.uk), followed by a reception.
www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-...
Join us next Thurs 2 October for our annual student careers panel featuring Eyad Hamid (SLDP), @tizianaleone.bsky.social (@lseid.bsky.social) & @cwoodcraft.bsky.social (@jbs.cam.ac.uk), followed by a reception.
www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-...
September 19, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Interested in exploring a #MiddleEast related career?
Join us next Thurs 2 October for our annual student careers panel featuring Eyad Hamid (SLDP), @tizianaleone.bsky.social (@lseid.bsky.social) & @cwoodcraft.bsky.social (@jbs.cam.ac.uk), followed by a reception.
www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-...
Join us next Thurs 2 October for our annual student careers panel featuring Eyad Hamid (SLDP), @tizianaleone.bsky.social (@lseid.bsky.social) & @cwoodcraft.bsky.social (@jbs.cam.ac.uk), followed by a reception.
www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-...
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Sad (but not surprised) to read the latest Global Health 50/50 report, amidst turmoil in global health, erosion of democracy, withdrawal from multi-lateralism, aid cuts, attacks on science, DEI, human rights
@kentbuse.bsky.social @jocalynclark.bsky.social
global5050.org/2025-report/
@kentbuse.bsky.social @jocalynclark.bsky.social
global5050.org/2025-report/
September 15, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Sad (but not surprised) to read the latest Global Health 50/50 report, amidst turmoil in global health, erosion of democracy, withdrawal from multi-lateralism, aid cuts, attacks on science, DEI, human rights
@kentbuse.bsky.social @jocalynclark.bsky.social
global5050.org/2025-report/
@kentbuse.bsky.social @jocalynclark.bsky.social
global5050.org/2025-report/
"we advance data-linked explanatory analysis – to demonstrate how nested qualitative life history interviews with survey participants can be used to account for population patterns in studies using person-centered techniques to classify health behaviors"
www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...
www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...
Demographic Research - Unpacking the black box of latent class analysis using qualitative life history interviews: A data-linked explanatory approach examining sexual behavior in rural South Africa (V...
Volume 53 - Article 13 | Pages 343–372
www.demographic-research.org
September 15, 2025 at 7:36 AM
"we advance data-linked explanatory analysis – to demonstrate how nested qualitative life history interviews with survey participants can be used to account for population patterns in studies using person-centered techniques to classify health behaviors"
www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...
www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...
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We have updated our editorial policy for retrospective health database studies to strengthen scientific rigor and editorial integrity.
🔗 Read more here: plos.io/4g8Jbi8
🔗 Read more here: plos.io/4g8Jbi8
Updates to PLOS retrospective health database editorial policy - The Official PLOS Blog
Learn more about PLOS revised editorial guidelines for research using publicly accessible health and social science databases.
theplosblog.plos.org
September 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
We have updated our editorial policy for retrospective health database studies to strengthen scientific rigor and editorial integrity.
🔗 Read more here: plos.io/4g8Jbi8
🔗 Read more here: plos.io/4g8Jbi8
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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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“The rise in high-fronted SUVs poses a clear and growing threat to public safety, especially for children,” states the report. “With no benefit to society, it’s time for lawmakers at all levels to act.” Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com.
Cap SUV/truck hood heights. And ban unsafe designs.
Cap SUV/truck hood heights. And ban unsafe designs.
EU Must Cap SUV Hood Heights Urges Report. Crash Test Body Says Not As Simple As That
Higher fronts on cars significantly increase the death rate when pedestrians and cyclists are struck, says new report. EuroNCAP says more complex than that.
www.forbes.com
September 2, 2025 at 6:01 PM
“The rise in high-fronted SUVs poses a clear and growing threat to public safety, especially for children,” states the report. “With no benefit to society, it’s time for lawmakers at all levels to act.” Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com.
Cap SUV/truck hood heights. And ban unsafe designs.
Cap SUV/truck hood heights. And ban unsafe designs.
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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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📢 Interested in excess mortality methods, and want a challenge? I'm organising the "One Epidemic, Many Estimates" (1EME) project! Register *now* as a many analyst team (submissions due 15 March 2026), and then join us at LSE for a workshop on 21-22 May 2026! (1/n)
www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-His...
www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-His...
One Epidemic, Many Estimates (1EME)
One Epidemic, Many Estimates (1EME)
www.lse.ac.uk
August 27, 2025 at 8:54 AM
📢 Interested in excess mortality methods, and want a challenge? I'm organising the "One Epidemic, Many Estimates" (1EME) project! Register *now* as a many analyst team (submissions due 15 March 2026), and then join us at LSE for a workshop on 21-22 May 2026! (1/n)
www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-His...
www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-His...
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“What name do we give to a policy environment that suppresses the arrival of new life?”
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Is Gaza still a place for newborn life?
10 months after a warning that Gaza's maternal and neonatal health sector was sliding
from crisis towards collapse,1 fresh field reports reveal an even starker picture.
In the first 6 months of 2025, ...
www.thelancet.com
August 20, 2025 at 7:44 AM
“What name do we give to a policy environment that suppresses the arrival of new life?”
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Burning contraceptives? Why? Why not use it in communities that need them??
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/w...
As Trump Administration Plans to Burn Contraceptives, Europeans Are Alarmed
www.nytimes.com
August 8, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Burning contraceptives? Why? Why not use it in communities that need them??
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/w...
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We are looking for a postdoc to work for the @soc-misc.bsky.social project. The post is based at the University of At Andrews in Scotland and focuses on analysing administrative and census data on #miscarriage. Let me or Katy Keenan know if you have any questions. More info below 👇
🔎 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/...
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 6, 2025 at 4:33 AM
We are looking for a postdoc to work for the @soc-misc.bsky.social project. The post is based at the University of At Andrews in Scotland and focuses on analysing administrative and census data on #miscarriage. Let me or Katy Keenan know if you have any questions. More info below 👇
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"We prefer to die by airstrike. But not to watch our families die slowly from hunger."
The conclusion to The Foreign Gaze started and ended in Gaza; with hunger, malnutrition, and starvation on my mind; with famine on my mind.
It's very painful to watch my fears of Israel and its allies fulfilled.
The conclusion to The Foreign Gaze started and ended in Gaza; with hunger, malnutrition, and starvation on my mind; with famine on my mind.
It's very painful to watch my fears of Israel and its allies fulfilled.
July 21, 2025 at 1:08 PM
"We prefer to die by airstrike. But not to watch our families die slowly from hunger."
The conclusion to The Foreign Gaze started and ended in Gaza; with hunger, malnutrition, and starvation on my mind; with famine on my mind.
It's very painful to watch my fears of Israel and its allies fulfilled.
The conclusion to The Foreign Gaze started and ended in Gaza; with hunger, malnutrition, and starvation on my mind; with famine on my mind.
It's very painful to watch my fears of Israel and its allies fulfilled.