Ian Timaeus
@iantimaeus.bsky.social
Confused squirrel; some-time professor of demography; LSHTM; methods, fertility, Africa; likes being outdoors, the Isle of Purbeck, sailing, family history, cricket, birds. 🇪🇺 🌹🍉
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Ian Timaeus
@iantimaeus.bsky.social
· Dec 5
"Cohen writes like he’s trying to explain complex theories to a confused squirrel: clear, engaging, with unexpected moments of levity. His posts are a delightful mix of academic rigor and casual wit." blueskyroast.com/roast/philip... Here is the actual confused squirrel:
I feel a new handle coming on!
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Tomorrow @farid-flici.bsky.social will talk about population ageing and social security sustainability in Algeria.
Join us! 👇
Join us! 👇
Join us next week to hear from @farid-flici.bsky.social on population ageing and social security sustainability in Algeria 🇩🇿
🗓 Wednesday, 22 October 2025
🕐 12:45–13:45 (BST)
📍 KS-LG19
💻 Zoom: lshtm.zoom.us/j/89990670777
ℹ️ More details: www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...
🗓 Wednesday, 22 October 2025
🕐 12:45–13:45 (BST)
📍 KS-LG19
💻 Zoom: lshtm.zoom.us/j/89990670777
ℹ️ More details: www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...
October 21, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Tomorrow @farid-flici.bsky.social will talk about population ageing and social security sustainability in Algeria.
Join us! 👇
Join us! 👇
There's lots for all demographers (OK, a few of you probably know it all already) to ponder on in this paper. #demography
Looks like my favorite paper on the age trajectory of happiness is finally out!!! So happy for the authors. Go check it out, it’s great.
September 29, 2025 at 7:57 PM
There's lots for all demographers (OK, a few of you probably know it all already) to ponder on in this paper. #demography
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Users of the Demographic and Health Surveys, please take the United Nations Statistics Division DHS impact survey (form.jotform.com/250913880478...) regarding recent cuts. Replies inform future planning and advocacy. All responses are confidential and presented only in aggregate.
Questionnaire on the use of the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) data
Please click the link to complete this form.
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April 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Users of the Demographic and Health Surveys, please take the United Nations Statistics Division DHS impact survey (form.jotform.com/250913880478...) regarding recent cuts. Replies inform future planning and advocacy. All responses are confidential and presented only in aggregate.
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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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📢 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
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 10:28 AM
📢 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
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
The Population Studies Group at LSHTM now has a Bluesky account! Feel free to follow us at Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/psgl...
#demography #population #populationstudies #lshtm
#demography #population #populationstudies #lshtm
bsky.app
February 12, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The Population Studies Group at LSHTM now has a Bluesky account! Feel free to follow us at Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/psgl...
#demography #population #populationstudies #lshtm
#demography #population #populationstudies #lshtm
After years of low-level hostilities and border incidents, war has broken out inside my phone as to whether Adobe or Microsoft get to display pdfs. My efforts at peace-keeping have been about as much use as those of the UN Security Council. Is this somehow to do with Trump?
January 11, 2025 at 8:50 AM
After years of low-level hostilities and border incidents, war has broken out inside my phone as to whether Adobe or Microsoft get to display pdfs. My efforts at peace-keeping have been about as much use as those of the UN Security Council. Is this somehow to do with Trump?
I feel a new handle coming on!
"Cohen writes like he’s trying to explain complex theories to a confused squirrel: clear, engaging, with unexpected moments of levity. His posts are a delightful mix of academic rigor and casual wit." blueskyroast.com/roast/philip... Here is the actual confused squirrel:
December 5, 2024 at 2:22 AM
I feel a new handle coming on!
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"looking at the broader picture of Israel’s military campaign and the cumulative impact of its policies and acts, genocidal intent is the only reasonable conclusion." www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Amnesty International concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza
Amnesty International’s research has found sufficient basis to conclude that Israel has committed and is continuing to commit genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip.
www.amnesty.org
December 5, 2024 at 1:54 AM
"looking at the broader picture of Israel’s military campaign and the cumulative impact of its policies and acts, genocidal intent is the only reasonable conclusion." www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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Quirky & cool! The (satirical) Ig Nobel was awarded for the first time to a demographer, Saul Justin Newman (UCL), for his study which debunked the media myth of extreme-old-age blue zones, revealing fundamental errors in the underlying data, i.e. clerical errors & signs of possible pension fraud.
UCL demographer’s work debunking ‘Blue Zone’ regions of exceptional lifespans wins Ig Nobel prize
A study by Dr Saul Justin Newman (Centre for Longitudinal Studies) has won the first-ever Ig Nobel award in Demography at this year’s 34th Ig Nobel Prizes. His work reveals fundamental flaws in the da...
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 1, 2024 at 4:13 PM
Quirky & cool! The (satirical) Ig Nobel was awarded for the first time to a demographer, Saul Justin Newman (UCL), for his study which debunked the media myth of extreme-old-age blue zones, revealing fundamental errors in the underlying data, i.e. clerical errors & signs of possible pension fraud.
New paper on estimating recent adult mortality from summary sibling histories with Bruno Masquelier, Ashira Menashe-Oren and Georges Reniers.
doi.org/10.1186/s129...
I'm delighted to be helping to develop this method further 23 years after my first paper on the subject.
doi.org/10.1186/s129...
I'm delighted to be helping to develop this method further 23 years after my first paper on the subject.
A new method for estimating recent adult mortality from summary sibling histories - Population Health Metrics
Background In low- and middle-income countries with limited death registration statistics, adult mortality rates are commonly estimated through sibling survival histories (SSH). In full SSH, responden...
doi.org
November 21, 2024 at 8:01 PM
New paper on estimating recent adult mortality from summary sibling histories with Bruno Masquelier, Ashira Menashe-Oren and Georges Reniers.
doi.org/10.1186/s129...
I'm delighted to be helping to develop this method further 23 years after my first paper on the subject.
doi.org/10.1186/s129...
I'm delighted to be helping to develop this method further 23 years after my first paper on the subject.
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Welcome to new Bluesky users. Here’s how we do things:
1. Always observe the Hambledon Protocol
2. No flisking
3. If someone tealights you, rink them without apology
4. I don’t mind them so much, but tissue-posts are generally frowned on
5. No questions
Good luck!
1. Always observe the Hambledon Protocol
2. No flisking
3. If someone tealights you, rink them without apology
4. I don’t mind them so much, but tissue-posts are generally frowned on
5. No questions
Good luck!
October 17, 2024 at 2:39 PM
Welcome to new Bluesky users. Here’s how we do things:
1. Always observe the Hambledon Protocol
2. No flisking
3. If someone tealights you, rink them without apology
4. I don’t mind them so much, but tissue-posts are generally frowned on
5. No questions
Good luck!
1. Always observe the Hambledon Protocol
2. No flisking
3. If someone tealights you, rink them without apology
4. I don’t mind them so much, but tissue-posts are generally frowned on
5. No questions
Good luck!
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Another great Campop blogpost: “Looking backwards in time can give the impression that family sizes in the past were larger than they actually were” www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2024/08...
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, CambridgeWhat a big family you have, Grandma! « Top of the Campops: 60 things you didn't know about family, marriage, work, and...
www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk
August 7, 2024 at 7:15 PM
Another great Campop blogpost: “Looking backwards in time can give the impression that family sizes in the past were larger than they actually were” www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2024/08...
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LSHTM is making some of its MSc level demography courses available as stand alone modules - on demographic methods & population studies. I am obviously biased but they’re great modules for those who want training in demography without signing up for a degree 😊 www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/course...
Intensive modules | LSHTM
Individual intensive modules are a great way to expand your knowledge and gain new skills whilst not requiring the same time commitment as a full master's programme.Our modules focus on a range of spe...
www.lshtm.ac.uk
August 15, 2024 at 6:51 PM
LSHTM is making some of its MSc level demography courses available as stand alone modules - on demographic methods & population studies. I am obviously biased but they’re great modules for those who want training in demography without signing up for a degree 😊 www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/course...
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The reduction of child mortality is one of the big achievements of our time.
But it is hard to celebrate something that is *not* happening.
So, for my new article, I turned things around. This is the main chart and takeaway.
Here is the article: ourworldindata.org/children-sav...
But it is hard to celebrate something that is *not* happening.
So, for my new article, I turned things around. This is the main chart and takeaway.
Here is the article: ourworldindata.org/children-sav...
April 29, 2024 at 10:20 PM
The reduction of child mortality is one of the big achievements of our time.
But it is hard to celebrate something that is *not* happening.
So, for my new article, I turned things around. This is the main chart and takeaway.
Here is the article: ourworldindata.org/children-sav...
But it is hard to celebrate something that is *not* happening.
So, for my new article, I turned things around. This is the main chart and takeaway.
Here is the article: ourworldindata.org/children-sav...
Did England and Wales conduct their last census in 2011? #demography
Out for the count: has Britain already conducted its last census?
Academics express unease over government ambition to replace once-a-decade snapshot with ‘other sources of data’
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2023 at 5:28 PM
Did England and Wales conduct their last census in 2011? #demography
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Africa has the fastest-growing, youngest population of any continent. By 2050, one in four people on the planet will be African — a development that will transform many African countries, experts say, and reshape their relationship with the world.
The World Is Becoming More African
Africa has the fastest growing, youngest population of any continent. By 2050, one in four people on the planet will be African. Early tremors of this seismic change are already registering around the...
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2023 at 8:02 AM
This post needs a #demography tag.
There's a nice demography clue in the Everyman crossword (in the Observer/Guardian) today: It's enumerated poorly? (13)
October 29, 2023 at 10:06 AM
There's a nice demography clue in the Everyman crossword (in the Observer/Guardian) today: It's enumerated poorly? (13)