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Professor Melinda Mills
@melindacmills.bsky.social
Professor Demography & Population Health, University of Oxford & Director, Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science
www.melindacmills.com
Really excited to have Bill around as our guest to help us strategise for the future! @leverhulme.ac.uk @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
So proud of the incredible @jasminabdelghany.bsky.social & it was an honour to serve as PhD supervisor!
Was sorry I was away for this important milestone but glad you are sticking around @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social
Can’t wait to see what this talent does next!
1/ HUGE congratulations to @jasminabdelghany.bsky.social for passing her DPhil viva w/ no corrections with her dissertation "The impact of in-utero exposure to ambient temperature on maternal health, infant health, and population composition." @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social @oxpop.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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The UNED inequality and social demography seminar is back, with @ramina-sotoudeh.bsky.social @l-sage.bsky.social @melindacmills.bsky.social @mariavaalavuo.bsky.social @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social @nicolettabalbo and @danieloesch

If you are Madrid, come along!

👇the program for this academic year
October 13, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Join our first @oxforddemsci.bsky.social seminar of the term!
Who said causality couldn’t be fun?
nonparametric. multiply robust. semiparametrically efficient.
💥the Avengers lineup of causal estimators

Felix Elwert, 8 Oct, 2pm
📍 Butler Room, @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social
Nonparametric Causal Decomposition of Group Differences
w/metrics-and-models.github.io
🔗 demography.ox.ac.uk/news/upcoming-…
October 1, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Looking forward to those applications!
thinking about your next academic home? 🏡✨

imagine: an office where people actually show up, hang out, and do brilliant research on #Demography in Oxford!

that’s us 👋

#EarlyCareerResearchers #ResearchFellowships See below 👇

📅 deadline: 15 Dec 2025
🔗 www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/call-ex...
October 1, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I was already excited to have this superstar join us at Oxford & @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social but - famous award aside (congratulations of course) - I am excited that I finally have someone to talk about baseball with!l (besides @ridhikashyap.bsky.social of course!). Go @bluejays.com !
I'm truly honored to receive this year's Kershaw Award. I came into the policy research world almost by accident after a failed stint in the Australian Baseball League. To have my work recognized like this is a testament to the wonderful mentors and colleagues I've learned from these past 10 years.
Along with our partner, Mathmatica, we are pleased to announce Zachary Parolin as the 2025 David N. Kershaw Award winner. We look forward to recognizing Zach at #2025APPAM. Read more: https://ow.ly/izM550X57Bv
October 1, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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🚀 Ready to dive into the future of social science research?

Join us on November 4 at Royal Jaarbeurs, Utrecht, for cutting-edge insights on computational social sciences.

🎤 Keynotes: @mercecrosas.bsky.social & @melindacmills.bsky.social

Register and check the programme 👉 edu.nl/men7n
September 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Loved hosting @essgn.bsky.social in Oxford including @dr-appie.bsky.social & family (& the rest of the ESSGN family as well) - read the post and links below to hear about this great event
September 17, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Just 2 more weeks left to apply for the ODISSEI Conference 2025!

📣 Keynotes: @melindacmills.bsky.social and @mercecrosas.bsky.social

Submit your abstracts (max 300 words) by June 27
June 11, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I’m deeply honoured to have received an Honorary Doctorate from the @eui-eu.bsky.social in Florence this week 👇
June 15, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Reposted by Professor Melinda Mills
Full crowd today at the @eui-eu.bsky.social Professor @melindacmills.bsky.social of Demography at @ox.ac.uk is giving an honorary talk, which examines the systemic and institutional barriers that interdisciplinary researchers face.
June 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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🚫 Fertility fallacies busted!
Our Director @melindacmills.bsky.social joined @lbc.co.uk to challenge myths:
1️⃣ Young ppl aren’t choosing fewer kids
2️⃣ Pronatalist policies won’t fix it
📉 Incentives ≠ long-term fertility boost
Read the full @unfpa.org report: tinyurl.com/bdd3evsr
#Policy #Demography
The fertility fallacy: Five things you didn’t know about global fertility rates
UNITED NATIONS, New York – “Do you want kids?” Every day, people around the world ask themselves, and others, this question. But it also begs another: “Do you feel able to have children
unfpa.org
June 10, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Every few years these pronatalist policies re-emerge (sort of like Godzilla) & every few years I say the same thing… #demography
June 2, 2025 at 9:11 PM
How does becoming a parent shape #employment in France and Germany?
Andreas Filser @filsa.bsky.social @iabnews.bsky.social shares new findings using rich administrative data.

🗓 June 3 | 🕒 3–4:30pm
📍 @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Oxford
Hosted by @oxforddemsci.bsky.social

tinyurl.com/3d3cwu2d
Dr Andreas Filser gives LCDS Seminar on Parenthood and employment in France and Germany – insights from administrative data
Dr Andreas Filser, researcher at the Research Data Centre of the Institute for Employment Research (FDZ-IAB), will give a talk on Parenthood and employment in France and Germany – insights from admini...
www.demography.ox.ac.uk
May 28, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Congratulations to our @oxforddemsci.bsky.social superstar ⭐️ @polizzan.bsky.social on completion of his PhD!
Great thread below about his research with @drjenndowd.bsky.social @andreatilstra.bsky.social & more… @leverhulme.ac.uk @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social
@mpidr.bsky.social
1/ A huge congrats to Dr. Antonino Polizzi @polizzan.bsky.social, who passed his DPhil viva for his thesis “The Causes and the Consequences of Growing Life Expectancy Shortfalls” on Friday, examined by Prof. @ridhikashyap.bsky.social & Dr. Iñaki Permanyer. @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social #demography
May 21, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Congratulations @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social on your impressive PhD & supervisor @fabriberna.bsky.social (don’t worry - he didn’t wear the football shirt during the defense 😆)
Sorry I couldn’t join in person!
@gaiaghirardi.bsky.social defended her PhD yesterday at the EUI.
An outstanding thesis and a fantastic defense, so proud of you, Gaia!!
Here pre-defence with the Bologna ultras supervisor and post with the committee @juhoharkonen.bsky.social @melindacmills.bsky.social (zoom) and Nicola Barban
May 20, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Looking forward to this upcoming talk @oxforddemsci.bsky.social
Electronic Health Records for 20% of the Catalan population studying multimorbidity & mortality

#Demography #Morbidity #HealthInequality #EHR #ElectronicHealthRecords #DigitalHealth
Join us 15 May for seminar by Iñaki Permanyer, CED @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social
Multimorbidity & mortality in random sample of 20% of Catalan population using Electronic Health Records….
Over 10 years!
Across socioeconomic groups!
@leverhulme.ac.uk @oxpop.bsky.social
May 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Still time to apply for this position & looking for creative talent to join us in Oxford!
Learn more about our programme here: www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/digital-pand...
And our @oxforddemsci.bsky.social #interdisciplinary #demography centre & other #jobs here: www.demography.ox.ac.uk
May 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
🚨 Postdoc Digital Pandemic Preparedness
📍 Oxford @oxforddemsci.bsky.social
💼 £38.6K–£46.9K | 3 yrs
📅 Deadline: 16 May 2025

Use digital, real-world data to future-proof pandemic response.

🔗 Apply: tinyurl.com/ydvfanap
📣 Boost or tag! 1/2

#Postdoc #DigitalHealth #AcademicJobs #NowHiring
Work with us
tinyurl.com
May 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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"Science is an investment.

We will put forward a new 500 million package for 2025-2027 to support the best and the brightest researchers and scientists from Europe and around the world."

— President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu at the ‘Choose Europe for Science' event at La Sorbonne 🇫🇷
May 5, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Great kick off today at #PAA2025
Come & visit our booth in Salon 1

Pick up some info on the 5 #jobs
we are advertising - join us in Oxford!!

Get an #InDataWeTrust button or tattoo (and no we don’t have an in person tattoo artist…it is temporary!)
April 11, 2025 at 12:50 AM
REPOST #jobs @oxforddemsci.bsky.social
👨‍💻Senior Research Fellow Associate/Professor
👩‍💻Senior Researcher Geospatial Health
📲Postdoc Digital Pandemic Preparedness
👶Postdoc Reproductive Demography
🤖 Programmer AI
See: www.demography.ox.ac.uk/jobs
#Demography #Epidemiology #Health #Population
April 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Check out the Comicbook🦸‍♀️version of our new @naturehumbehav.bsky.social article on genetic & environmental influences

Awesome artwork by @lizahaart.bsky.social
Full comic here: communities.springernature.com/posts/are-we...

Loving the cartoon version of @dr-appie.bsky.social
Are we born to succeed or are we made to succeed?
Genes and society shape each other. This comic, based on our Nature Human Behaviour article, shows how social inequality leaves genetic traces — and how social structures and genetics are linked acros...
communities.springernature.com
March 30, 2025 at 4:42 PM