Joint Venture Silicon Valley: The San Francisco Bay Area's population of adults aged 65+ has grown by 29% over the past decade. We're well on our way to crossing the threshold demographers use to define a “super-aged society.” You know, like South Korea and Japan. jointventure.org/news-and-med...
From Start-Up to Super-Aged: The Valley’s Most Inevitable Disruption
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November 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Joint Venture Silicon Valley: The San Francisco Bay Area's population of adults aged 65+ has grown by 29% over the past decade. We're well on our way to crossing the threshold demographers use to define a “super-aged society.” You know, like South Korea and Japan. jointventure.org/news-and-med...
Thank you @mpidr.bsky.social for inviting me to the workshop, "Climate Change, Environmental Hazards and Population Dynamics." I am learning so much from the new research led by environmental demographers in Europe.
November 11, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Thank you @mpidr.bsky.social for inviting me to the workshop, "Climate Change, Environmental Hazards and Population Dynamics." I am learning so much from the new research led by environmental demographers in Europe.
found the discussions of academic demographers like @karenguzzo.bsky.social very informative separating hype vs reality here.
November 10, 2025 at 7:19 PM
found the discussions of academic demographers like @karenguzzo.bsky.social very informative separating hype vs reality here.
and that is today's lunch and learn
Block by Block by Amanda Seligman
research on CPS website and via FOIA
interviews of CPS demographers
Block by Block by Amanda Seligman
research on CPS website and via FOIA
interviews of CPS demographers
November 8, 2025 at 8:32 PM
and that is today's lunch and learn
Block by Block by Amanda Seligman
research on CPS website and via FOIA
interviews of CPS demographers
Block by Block by Amanda Seligman
research on CPS website and via FOIA
interviews of CPS demographers
i have had a lot of tense conversations with cps officials about the facility usage formula + how it's used to close schools
from the perspective of the demographers at cps though, there isn't an issue if a school is not at capacity
we need a way to ensure there are enough course offerings which
from the perspective of the demographers at cps though, there isn't an issue if a school is not at capacity
we need a way to ensure there are enough course offerings which
there is a lot about what the white racial segregationist did in chicago in the 1960s and early 1970s that is coming back
magnet schools, for example, are a reflection of choice and that choice is mostly for students with private investment
selective enrollment schools are the same racist lineage
magnet schools, for example, are a reflection of choice and that choice is mostly for students with private investment
selective enrollment schools are the same racist lineage
November 8, 2025 at 7:55 PM
i have had a lot of tense conversations with cps officials about the facility usage formula + how it's used to close schools
from the perspective of the demographers at cps though, there isn't an issue if a school is not at capacity
we need a way to ensure there are enough course offerings which
from the perspective of the demographers at cps though, there isn't an issue if a school is not at capacity
we need a way to ensure there are enough course offerings which
I can’t believe the weight given to this generational bullshit. It’s silly. It evolves a huge amount of generalization. Demographers run amuck.
November 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I can’t believe the weight given to this generational bullshit. It’s silly. It evolves a huge amount of generalization. Demographers run amuck.
Douglas Coupland coined the usage and applied it to birth years 1960-78. Experientally, if you were in college or just entering the job market during the 1987 "Black Monday" stock market crash, you are NOT a Boomer, lazy-ass demographers be damned.
November 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Douglas Coupland coined the usage and applied it to birth years 1960-78. Experientally, if you were in college or just entering the job market during the 1987 "Black Monday" stock market crash, you are NOT a Boomer, lazy-ass demographers be damned.
Democracy has always been an individualist Utopianism which has allowed moneyed interests to merely use polling and deliberation to secure a phantasmatic consent! Isocracy is preferable to democracy anyway! And democracy just means rule by demographers and parliamentarian bureaucrats mostly
November 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Democracy has always been an individualist Utopianism which has allowed moneyed interests to merely use polling and deliberation to secure a phantasmatic consent! Isocracy is preferable to democracy anyway! And democracy just means rule by demographers and parliamentarian bureaucrats mostly
Yes well.. it's time Jewish and all other demographers, sociologists, anthropologists, etc. recognize that Jewish existence is a matter of national affiliation rather than religion. The religion of the Covenant is important to us. It is not who we are.
I would like to see polling results for New York Jews from a poll that didn’t treat “Jewish” and “None” as mutually exclusive religious identities.
November 8, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Yes well.. it's time Jewish and all other demographers, sociologists, anthropologists, etc. recognize that Jewish existence is a matter of national affiliation rather than religion. The religion of the Covenant is important to us. It is not who we are.
📖 New article online!
'Demographers as Desk Perpetrators? Population Experts and Serbia’s Kosovo Obsession in the 1980s and Thereafter', by Ulf Brunnbauer
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'Demographers as Desk Perpetrators? Population Experts and Serbia’s Kosovo Obsession in the 1980s and Thereafter', by Ulf Brunnbauer
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Demographers as Desk Perpetrators? Population Experts and Serbia’s Kosovo Obsession in the 1980s and Thereafter | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core
Demographers as Desk Perpetrators? Population Experts and Serbia’s Kosovo Obsession in the 1980s and Thereafter
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November 7, 2025 at 10:17 AM
📖 New article online!
'Demographers as Desk Perpetrators? Population Experts and Serbia’s Kosovo Obsession in the 1980s and Thereafter', by Ulf Brunnbauer
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'Demographers as Desk Perpetrators? Population Experts and Serbia’s Kosovo Obsession in the 1980s and Thereafter', by Ulf Brunnbauer
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Still often doesn't do a good job, and well it's a good reason why demographers need to start recognizing exactly what we are: an ethnicity and nationality born of and indigenous to the Levant.
November 5, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Still often doesn't do a good job, and well it's a good reason why demographers need to start recognizing exactly what we are: an ethnicity and nationality born of and indigenous to the Levant.
Demographers Predict Humans Will Go Extinct in 314 Years
Study Predicts Humans Will Go Extinct in 314 Years, Lets Discuss
YouTube video by Anton Petrov
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November 3, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Demographers Predict Humans Will Go Extinct in 314 Years
Historical lesson for demographers: keep it in perspective. Doesn't really matter how much Hitler was able to raise birth rates before he STARTED A WORLD WAR. Staying in your academic lane is one thing, being completely blind to the social context is another altogether.
Three future PAA presidents (Taeuber, Taeuber, Whelpton) and one ASA president (Hankins) wrote positive pieces in American Journal of Sociology in the 1930s about Hitler's pronatalist policies.
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November 2, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Historical lesson for demographers: keep it in perspective. Doesn't really matter how much Hitler was able to raise birth rates before he STARTED A WORLD WAR. Staying in your academic lane is one thing, being completely blind to the social context is another altogether.
Gen X was named after a book that described us as an unbranded, plain-label generation that didn't buy into corporatism the way our boomer parents did. It wasn't meant to be the first letter for idiot demographers to start a new naming convention. smh
November 2, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Gen X was named after a book that described us as an unbranded, plain-label generation that didn't buy into corporatism the way our boomer parents did. It wasn't meant to be the first letter for idiot demographers to start a new naming convention. smh
But then it reverted back to- whereas the US boom is 20 year. (basically all the other cohorts are just demographers working around the fact of the boom).
November 1, 2025 at 3:36 PM
But then it reverted back to- whereas the US boom is 20 year. (basically all the other cohorts are just demographers working around the fact of the boom).
“Demographers say more high-income countries would face population decline, if not for high rates of immigration.”
And yet here we are kidnapping and deporting immigrants who are actually keeping this country vibrant on so many levels.
And yet here we are kidnapping and deporting immigrants who are actually keeping this country vibrant on so many levels.
People are having fewer kids. Their choice is transforming the world's economy
Family size around the world is dropping. That choice by couples is triggering a population shift that's sending shock waves through economies.
www.npr.org
October 31, 2025 at 1:34 PM
“Demographers say more high-income countries would face population decline, if not for high rates of immigration.”
And yet here we are kidnapping and deporting immigrants who are actually keeping this country vibrant on so many levels.
And yet here we are kidnapping and deporting immigrants who are actually keeping this country vibrant on so many levels.
The Brown Population Studies & Training Center is accepting applications to our Global Fellows Program. The program is for early- & mid-career demographers. We are especially interested in applications from scholars from low & middle-income countries. Share & apply! pstc.brown.edu/programs-and...
Global Fellows Program in Demography
The PSTC has a long-standing tradition of hosting scholars, researchers, and practitioners from diverse corners of the globe.
pstc.brown.edu
October 31, 2025 at 12:44 PM
The Brown Population Studies & Training Center is accepting applications to our Global Fellows Program. The program is for early- & mid-career demographers. We are especially interested in applications from scholars from low & middle-income countries. Share & apply! pstc.brown.edu/programs-and...
My impression is that development economists, economist demographers, and (some) labor economists and economic historians overlap with quantitative sociology. But much of "mainstream" economics feels like a bunch of instrumental variables looking for a use case.
October 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
My impression is that development economists, economist demographers, and (some) labor economists and economic historians overlap with quantitative sociology. But much of "mainstream" economics feels like a bunch of instrumental variables looking for a use case.
And demographers from 50 years ago predicted this, this is not new information, but oh dear will the right wing nutters run with this.
If this is a shock to you, seriously you should have paid attention in high school, from the 1970's onwards, this was an obvious trend.
If this is a shock to you, seriously you should have paid attention in high school, from the 1970's onwards, this was an obvious trend.
The United Nations estimates that 6.2 million babies will be born this year across the continent of Europe, including Russia.
A greater number of babies are expected to be born in Nigeria alone - 7.6 million kids!
population.un.org/dataportal/d...
A greater number of babies are expected to be born in Nigeria alone - 7.6 million kids!
population.un.org/dataportal/d...
October 29, 2025 at 9:49 AM
And demographers from 50 years ago predicted this, this is not new information, but oh dear will the right wing nutters run with this.
If this is a shock to you, seriously you should have paid attention in high school, from the 1970's onwards, this was an obvious trend.
If this is a shock to you, seriously you should have paid attention in high school, from the 1970's onwards, this was an obvious trend.
The Hoover Institution was a beautiful setting, and the organizing team was fantastic. I’m already planning to join again next year. Hope to see more demographers and sociologists there!
October 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM
The Hoover Institution was a beautiful setting, and the organizing team was fantastic. I’m already planning to join again next year. Hope to see more demographers and sociologists there!
…Over the history of family demography's development, diverse moral frameworks emerged, coexisting to justify family demographers' work…
October 28, 2025 at 9:46 AM
…Over the history of family demography's development, diverse moral frameworks emerged, coexisting to justify family demographers' work…
I'm so glad you're doing this. And this figure is great. the **vibes** stuff seems so important. Reading mid-century US demographers on the US, it seems that they were hesitant to implement anti-natalist social changes 1/2
October 27, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I'm so glad you're doing this. And this figure is great. the **vibes** stuff seems so important. Reading mid-century US demographers on the US, it seems that they were hesitant to implement anti-natalist social changes 1/2
17th Conference of Young Demographers, 4–6 February 2026, Prague, Czech Republic
Deadline for submissions: 27 October 2025
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Deadline for submissions: 27 October 2025
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YD2026 Call for Papers
17th Conference of Young Demographers 4–6 February 2026, Prague (Wednesday–Friday) Call for Papers Dear friends and colleagues, On behalf of the Young Demographers, the Geographical Institute and the...
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October 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
17th Conference of Young Demographers, 4–6 February 2026, Prague, Czech Republic
Deadline for submissions: 27 October 2025
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Deadline for submissions: 27 October 2025
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Causal people are usually interested in causal effects and would want to adjust away what we would call that spurious association. So we would just call it confounding adjustment. Maybe more descriptive people like demographers have a word for adjusting for confounding when you don’t want to
October 24, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Causal people are usually interested in causal effects and would want to adjust away what we would call that spurious association. So we would just call it confounding adjustment. Maybe more descriptive people like demographers have a word for adjusting for confounding when you don’t want to