Over a dozen ways to decompose life expectancy, all in one (we hope) friendly interface. Please have a look at the LEdecomp R package cran.r-project.org/web/packages... See the function LEdecomp() for access to all of them. If we left something out, please shout! #rstats #demography #mortality

Check out this conference if you work on topics related to kinship structure and dynamics (within and beyond the household), caregiving, intergenerational processes, family bereavement, LGBTQ+ & chosen kinship, etc. @iussp.bsky.social Submit by 21 Jan 2026 👇 www.demogr.mpg.de/go/kinship-conference

Measuring the Scale of Loss: Life Expectancy and Conflict Mortality in Gaza.
Enrique Acosta, Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics (CED)
Come join us: Next Tuesday 4.11 at noon. @demosocupf.bsky.social
www.upf.edu/web/politiqu...

3 full-time positions on Probabilistic Migration Modeling at University of @helsinki.fi in collaboration with @mpidr.bsky.social and Mikko Myrskylä.

DM me if you want to know more, as I'm part of the project. Definitely DM me if you heard of conformal prediction

www.vaestoliitto.fi/en/news/post...

Up to 3 Post-docs: Pop. Projections for Migration Scenarios, Human Capital Dev & Sust. Integration

At@pophel.bsky.social, Population Research Inst, in collab w @mpidr.bsky.social & @iiasa.ac.at .https://www.vaestoliitto.fi/en/news/postdoctoral-researchers-in-demography-and-population-projections/

Job Offer: PhD Student Position
The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and the
@mpidr.bsky.social +
@imprs-phds.bsky.social
invite applications for a 4-year PhD position. The studentship is not limited to specific topics. Apply until November 17!
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61...

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We are looking forward to the #HMD symposium next week 🎉

📢 Papers from #REVES2026 with a focus on new methods for analyzing healthy life expectancy and inequalities will be great candidates for the @genus.bsky.social Healthy Life Expectancy collection by @cosmostrozza.bsky.social & @timriffe1.bsky.social !
🔗 tinyurl.com/HLEgenus
📌01/06/2026
#demography

🎉🎊A week full of celebrations
✨Two ERC Starting Grants for the MPIDR✨
We are thrilled to announce that @marilianep.bsky.social and @ugobas.bsky.social have each been awarded with an ERC Starting Grant by the @erc.europa.eu. #ERCStG
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...
#ERCStartingGrant #longevity

The next Formal Demography Working Group is Thursday September 11 at 10am ET! @phbocquier.bsky.social will present on identifying small-area diffusion of mortality transitions using non-linear modelling. Sign up details on our website! formaldemography.github.io/working_group/

Health demographers 📣
Calling for submissions to our w. @timriffe1.bsky.social
Healthy Life Expectancy methodology collection on @genus.bsky.social! We're seeking innovative approaches to statistical modelling and empirical analysis of health inequalities 📈
📆 Submission deadline: 01/06/26
🔗 Link 👇

bootstrapping & Horiuchi-decomposing multistate models of late drove me to write this efficient occupancy time calculator. It avoids matrix inversion, is state-space-flexible, and is faster and more memory efficient than alternatives tested thus far: github.com/timriffe/msc...

There is an exact procedure to abridge a single-age lifetable, but is there a method to graduate an abridged one that 1. Matches lx and ex in abridged ages 2. Is fully transitive (e.g. mx-ax-qx identity and others) 3. Is reasonably smooth 4. Has standard-looking ax values (close to .5 exc tails)?

Some good news to brighten up your feed: Our #R package 📦 DemoKin for the demographic analysis of kinship has a new website with extensive documentation and literature 🎉🎈 @mpidr.bsky.social If you don't know it yet, why not check it out? ivanwilli.github.io/DemoKin/inde...

Hey demographers! We're starting up the formal demography working group again! Next Friday 16 May at 11:30am ET @hggaddy.bsky.social will talk to us about challenges in estimating crisis mortality. Excited! Head to the website to sign up for Zoom details: formaldemography.github.io/working_group/

With a little delay we learned that @lpcalderonb.bsky.social, who could not attend #PAA2025, won a Best Poster Award! Her colleagues put up the poster and a note from Liliana and co-author @martinkolk.bsky.social jumped in to present the research. Congrats Liliana! @popassocamerica.bsky.social