Philippe Bocquier

No, this is not a galaxy up there, but a geological formation down here in the Sahara. Read @thecontinent.org

🚴 DEMO at the 24h Vélo de Louvain-la-Neuve! Our team took to the track on Wednesday! Students, PhDs, postdocs, administrative staff and professors all joined forces to represent our centre and enjoy this great community event. A big thank you to everyone who took part and cycled for DEMO! 💙

Had this idea in lockdown, half-built it, forgot about it, remembered it again, though might as well finish it.

With a couple of exciting recent new entries, now is a good time to introduce you to the PARA-MOR @para-mor-ukri.bsky.social Working Paper Series, hosted here by our very generous PI: wallace-demography.weebly.com/para-mor-wor... (1/8) @ukri.org @salforduni.bsky.social @uos-hcls.bsky.social

Do you want to understand more about how international migrants affect national estimates of Healthy Life Expectancy (HLE) in England & Wales? Why not read @mjwdemography.bsky.social's paper: (2/8)

At the peak of the HIV epidemic, AIDS caused more than half of all deaths in some countries. The HIV epidemic — which started in the early 1980s and progressed rapidly in the 1990s — has had lasting impacts that continue today. More than 800,000 people still die from HIV/AIDS every year.

Google Scholar offered me a little Birthday present: crossing a symbolic threshold... for what it's worth! 😜

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📢 Call for Papers Our colleague Risto Conte Keivabu is coordinating a Special Issue for Population Health Metrics, "Measuring Population Health in the Era of Climate Change" 📅 Deadline: 26 Feb 2027 ➡️ More details: link.springer.com/collections/...

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I see this repeatedly with my female colleagues. They do amazing work, often far exceeding that of their male peers, yet are neither celebrated nor promoted to the same degree. I feel morally injured just witnessing it. I cannot imagine what it feels like to experience it directly.

Excellent article qui a remporté le DemogCrazy Award de 2025: version historique de Mariés au premier regard, avec une louche de surréalisme belge dans un chaudron d'excellentes méthodes. Publié dans la Revue Quetelet.

Have you heard about the lobizones? No? Maybe it's because the decline in #fertility! Intrigued? Read the latest article in Quetelet Journal!

What and how to test the main hypotheses on #migration in relation to #health and other economic and social issues: #employment, #fertility... youtu.be/97ONfMIa5Xk

📢 New PhD opportunity in DEMO! Focus on #climate change, environmental exposures and population dynamics, with particular attention to health, #demographic outcomes and social inequalities. Further details: uclouvain.be/fr/instituts... Submit your application: surveys.uclouvain.be/index.php/91...

Here are the 30 busiest tourist cities within the EU. The chart shows two axis: "nights per resident" and "share from abroad". Data is from 2025.

📢New #LunchSeminar today! Yannick Van den Abbeel from the Federal Planning Bureau, will present a new approach to forecasting Belgian #mortality up to 2080. Join us to find out more! 📆 13/10 at 1 pm 🖥️ Join online: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/6fa893... See you there! 😊

Just learnt that Oded Stark died 8th August 2026. He was the father of New Economics of Labour Migration (NELM), one of the most impactful theory in #migration analysis. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oded_St...

So easy, blame the French! 😂

The light in this photo reminds me of Caravaggio's painting! 😊 Great work from a photo essay on Egypt.

Harvard researchers studied 718 companies and found AI coding agents increased lines of code by 30%, but no major increase in completed tasks or projects. Meanwhile, review time rose 49%. Generating code faster hasn’t translated into completing more work. The bottleneck has moved to code reviews.

Relive the last 1.8 billion years of our planet in just 60 seconds. Try to see how much your country moved around over time. Source: buff.ly/mPpFhoX

Halzen's alma mater, @uclouvain.bsky.social, is very proud! 👏

But only one would eat the other... 😆

I look at this graph, and I see the benefits of worldwide public health efforts and investments. It's hard not to wonder what this figure will look like in 10 years because of DOGE.

IUSSP-PAA Webinars on AI & Demography - Part 1 on OCT 16 with Ridhi Kashyap, Emilio Zagheni, Andrew Tatem, Matthew Hauer / Part 2 on OCT 22 with Evans Omondi, Isaac Maddow-Zimet,Tyler McCormick, Madeleine Short Fabic. Moderation V. Adjiwanou iussp.org/en/iussp-paa... #demography #populationstudies

📝 New article on Our World in Data: What impact will climate change have on malaria? Malaria is a very temperature- and rainfall-sensitive disease. This means it’s one whose distribution and severity could change a lot in a warming climate.

A VOIR ABSOLUMENT : Le film tiré du livre d'Emmanuelle Bernheim, disponible sur @artefr.bsky.social, sur la fin de vie et le suicide assisté. Film très fort, André Dussolier y est incroyable, et Sophie Marceau remarquable. Je vous conseille ! www.arte.tv/fr/videos/12...

The world faces two energy problems: hundreds of millions lack access to energy, and most of our energy still produces greenhouse gas emissions. The first energy problem of the world is the problem of energy poverty. People in very poor countries have very low emissions.

“Unia, Belgium’s independent centre for equal opportunities, plans to file a complaint against Nathan Cofnas, a US researcher at Ghent University, over remarks it believes repeatedly breached the country’s anti-racism law” www.brusselstimes.com/2341250/unia...

📢 The #LunchSeminar programme for this semester is here! We’re excited to announce a new series of presentations covering a wide range of topics in #demography and population studies. 🖥️ All seminars can be followed online: us02web.zoom.us/j/87199604242

#LunchSeminar is back! Kicking off with @giacomolanfiuti.bsky.social who will explore the limits of life expectancy. 🗣️ “Even if life expectancy may be slowly approaching a limit, the limits of longevity continue to be strongly broken.” Intrigued? Join us: 📆 06/10 at 1pm 🖥 Zoom: lnkd.in/gnaNuxZB

Even keeping the same % foreign-born, this map is more reliable: ourworldindata.org/grapher/migr...

This map is very misleading, there are a lot more south-south migration: ourworldindata.org/explorers/po...

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❗Big update on our French GIS data ❗All historical railways, stations, rivers, canals, all administrative units and population back to 1790s now available on Zenodo. 10.5281/zenodo.3727273. Check out the data papers (more to come soon) here: www.repository.cam.ac.uk/collections/...

Venez visiter #Dinant, très chouette petite ville, et son Jazz Festival ! #Belgium

Cela rappelle furieusement le cas de Jason Arday au Royaume Uni.

*I laughed at the automated correction, "cagnotte" = cannot 🤣

This map shows the "Francosphere". What share of the population is capable of holding a conversation in French?

youtu.be/97ONfMIa5Xk

Whatever you got used to while growing up I guess...

How political events become demographic: Toward a cumulative demography of conflict and violence doi.org/10.1111/padr... Paper in Population & Development Review by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow Mathis Ebbinghaus, Nuffield Alumna Liliana Andriano and Patrick Heuveline

📢NEW article in Quetelet Journal by Ignacio Pardo & Gonzalo De Armas, nominees for the DemogCrazy Award! The demographic decline of the werwolves! doi.org/10.14428/rqj...

📢NEW Article in Quetelet Journal by Mélanie Bourguignon, winner of the DemogCrazy Award! “Mariés au premier regard” ou comment le mariage permet d’échapper à ses obligations citoyennes. ojs.uclouvain.be/index.php/Qu...

En français (but with most slides in English), un long screencast (un cours entier) sur les théories de la #migration youtu.be/1UtvdAIasGE

youtu.be/z4gO7OvzcoI