Tim Riffe

Another way to use Kitagawa decomposition in demography:-) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📢 The #REVES2027 Call for Papers is OPEN! 🔗 reves2027.wordpress.com Join us in #Bilbao to discuss ageing, #longevity, and #health, with a focus on #HealthExpectancy and policy impact! 📆 18 May 2027 | Workshop 📆 19–21 May 2027 | Conference 📌 Submit by 18 December 2026 #demography #mortality

Applications are open for 4 DPhil projects in Demographic Science for 2027 entry Topics include demographic forecasting, conflict related mortality, multimorbidity and LLM safety in population health research. 📅 Deadline: 1 Dec 2026 @oxpop.bsky.social #Demography #PopulationHealth #DPhil

Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment. Here’s what experts say you need to know.

Big news! 🎉 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚜 1.0.0 for #Rstats is out. It’s a big number and it feels like a big step. I wrote a blog on the challenges of interpreting statistical models, SPEED, cool new features, the future, and a 5 year package development and writing odyssey. arelbundock.com/posts/margin...

Undergrads often find Sociology classes depressing b/c there's so much emphasis on inequality & how people's lives are influenced by factors outside of their control. But I think Sociology is the ultimate discipline of hope and optimism - we believe no group is inherently "less-than." 1/5

📞 Calling academics in Sociology, Social Policy or Demography Join us in Oxford as a Sociology Group Visitor in 2027 to 2028 Applications are now open 📆 Deadline: Mon 28 Sept ✍️ Find out more and apply at: www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/our-research... #nuffsky

Interesting: the difficulty “older” women have conceiving may be exaggerated because of selection effects Rethinking age-specific fecundability: Selection bias can generate apparent rapid decline with age austriaca.at?arp=0x0041dd...

📣📣📣Cornell Population Center is hiring for its next Rhodes Postdoctoral Fellow The fellowship is competitive and provides ample time for pursuing independent and collaborative research. Welcome applications from all scholars interested in population research. Please share widely!

Job Alert! We now have another position in computational social science. In the context of an interdisciplinary method center, we offer a 4+1 year 100% postdoc position with no teaching! If you have any questions, send me a PM. uol.de/en/job/postd...

Yep. Yesterday JSTOR was unreachable. Aaron Swartz was hounded to death for far less.

I wonder if students today would be less likely to lean on AI for writing assignments if schools had made sure they could touch-type (at least 60wpm) before having them submit all their assignments online. 1/🧵

New episode of HARD DRUGS! GLP1 drugs have transformed obesity & diabetes, help treat heart disease, kidney disease and sleep apnea. They're far from the only drug with multiple uses. But sometimes, it takes several decades - and public funding - to learn about new uses.

State- and county-level Preston curves show that economic growth in the 2010s no longer translated into broad gains in life expectancy, from Ritikaa Khanna, Rourke O'Brien, Andrew C. Stokes, @atheendar.bsky.social, and Elizabeth Wrigley-Field www.nber.org/papers/w35470

C'mon. Surely one of you wants to keep our health stats alive!

If he had to pay $1 million for each death, he'd still have 300 billion left over.

‼️📑 Publicamos artículo en Atención Primaria Analizamos los factores organizacionales e interpersonales que condicionan la atención a la población racializada en Espana. Link👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.ap...

For the celebration, w/ @larabister.bsky.social & @bastianelli-e.bsky.social we did some fascinating analysis of career trajectories of all 351 individuals who went through EDSD. The results are still to be wrapped up into a paper, stay tuned 🐟

The R package 'geovizr' is now available on CRAN 🥳 It allows users to create vector-based, interactive, and zoomable thematic maps directly from R. #rstats #rspatial #maps #cartography #dataviz #webmapping Explanations, examples, and documentation are available here: riatelab.github.io/geovizr

Only 9.9% of top Sociology articles from 2019-2024 provided replication packages. And ≈ half of those with replication packages could not be verified due to missing or incomplete materials. www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...

Some personal news: My sabbatical ended last week, just as I landed a deal for the book I've been working on for these 12 months. The Cradle Will Fall is now about half done (just need one more sabbatical) and will be edited by @rlevay.bsky.social at @princetonupress.bsky.social. I'm thrilled!

Thank you @akbaritabar.bsky.social and @jschoeley.com for an excellent workshop and thanks to all participants!

I've been appointed Professor in Economic, Social and Demographic History at Radboud University in the Netherlands, and will start on September 1st. I'm really excited to return to the Netherlands and work on questions about inequality in the long run. www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...

📢 #episky #mortality #opendata #HMD The weekly deaths series #STMF was just updated at mortality.org/Data/STMF ✅ New data for 32 countries ✅ Full data for 2025 for 34 countries To further explore the data, check out the excess visualization toolkit 👇 mpidr.shinyapps.io/stmortality/

This is so cool. This atlas has Lexis plots on how various things have changed over time in different age groups – mortality rates, fertility rates, number of parents and siblings. And you can reach out to Jonas to add your own plots too. I'd like to see Lexis plots for absolutely everything.

Mindel Sheps b #OTD 1913 (d 13 Jan 1973) ASA Fellow 1970. Physician, political healthcare activist, biostatistics professor, advisor to WHO, she made substantial contributions to mathematical demography but is best known for her highly influential NEJM 1958 paper on the asymmetry of relative risk.

Congratulations to the data wizards at @ourworldindata.org who created this elegant tool so you can adjust fertility, mortality & migration rates for any country to see the impact on population sizes & age structures. This is really, really great!! Check it out!! Excellent tool, terrific write up.

We are recruiting for a PhD student who will be studying jointly between Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and University of St Andrews, More information are attached. @phrg-standrews.bsky.social @cpc-cg.bsky.social @bspsuk.bsky.social

What is the main reason for premature male mortality in Mexico? @ikashnitsky.phd and Aburto answered this question in 2019 for every Mexican state, every year since 1990 and all ages from 15 to 50. Their rich results are available on demoscapes. demoscapes.org/collections/...

Max Planck Research Group on Reproductive Ageing, led by D. Susie Lee 이수지, is starting today! It will investigate indicators of female & male reproductive ageing: https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events_6123/news_press_releases_4630/news/new_max_planck_research_group_on_reproductive_ageing_14854

Exiting news 🎉 We @timriffe1.bsky.social @opik-ikerketa.bsky.social @ehu.eus will be organizing and hosting the 38th REVES conference on #healthexpectancy in #Bilbao! Save the date for #REVES2027 @reves-network.bsky.social 📆 18-21 may 2027 📍 Bizkaia Aretoa in Bilbao, Spain

📣One more #tenuretrack Assistant Professor job going at TCD Sociology! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQY837/a... Closing date: April 20 @tcdsociology.bsky.social @isa-rc28.bsky.social @eaps.bsky.social

I see quite a few demographers with exploited works that are owed part of the Anthropic settlement. Too many for me to give individual heads-ups to. Worth your time if you’re one of them.

📣Pre-Conference EPC Workshop: Demographic Microsimulation in R using SOCSIM – Modelling Population and Kinship Dynamics 📅June 03, 2026 🗺️Bologna #EPC2026 Learn all: www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even... @eaps.bsky.social @eapsphd.bsky.social

Ok: 1 like = 1 demographic fact* * may include estimates, generalizations, dataviz, or unsubstantiated claims

🚨PhDs in demography, sociology, public health, biomedical science.... Check out this exciting postdoc opportunity to work in the new and growing area of "medical demography" with Dr. Marcus Ebeling! www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61...

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

1/ Has life expectancy fully recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic? In a new pre-print, we find that 31 of 34 high-income countries had still not returned to their expected life expectancy trajectories five years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... #demography

Weaponizing Kinship: Four out of ten Colombians have lost a family member in the conflict 🇨🇴 Enrique Acosta, Diego Alburez, Maria Gargiulo, & Catalina Torres quantified how many Colombians have ever lost at least a family member to conflict-related violence. www.demogr.mpg.de/go/weaponkinship

Paper by E Acosta, @demography.bsky.social, @thegargiulian.bsky.social & C Torres first from PDR special issue I guest edited w/ L Andriano & M Ebbinghaus, Social and Demographic Consequences of Political Conflict and Violence, to be available on early view onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨New paper out in Demographic Research🚨 and my first foray into demographic methods. It develops a new method to quantify how specific subpopulations drive demographic gaps. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol... @demresjournal.bsky.social @pophel.bsky.social #demography #methods

An excellent resource!

New post! It may seem ambitious to ask for individual patient data from clinical trials to be shared, anonymized, for use by other researchers. But the history of medicine shows us that clinical trials have already undergone a series of transformations that once seemed equally bold:

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

📈 New preprint on life expectancy trajectories in high-income countries since 2020. 📉 Joint work with a great team from @mpidr.bsky.social @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @psglshtm.bsky.social @camunicampop.bsky.social Link below. 👇