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I'm an associate prof at UC Berkeley, where I study demography, social networks, and quantitative methodology.

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CausNetS: Toward a Causal Network Science A NetSci 2026 Satellite

⚙️ Working at the intersection of causality and networks?

We're organizing a satellite event at @netsciconf.bsky.social in Boston on June 1st. The focus is networks science and causal inference.

Submit your work by March 10th!

causnets.github.io

18.02.2026 00:06 👍 49 🔁 21 💬 1 📌 0
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Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and identify new research partners across academic fields? Apply to one of the 2026 Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science (described in yellow in the attached map) here: sicss.io/locations

03.03.2026 15:01 👍 31 🔁 30 💬 0 📌 0

Reminder that we are accepting applications for our Annual Workshop on Formal Demography (June 1-5, 2026).

This year's special topic: The Demography of Population Decline and Aging

Grant support will fund air travel and lodging for accepted trainees.

Make sure to apply by March 1st!

17.02.2026 18:18 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 2
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New Postdoctoral Research Associate positions at @Princeton's Office of Population Research!

17.02.2026 18:08 👍 22 🔁 28 💬 1 📌 0
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Annual Workshop on Formal Demography - Population Sciences The 12th Annual Workshop on Formal Demography will be held in person at UC Berkeley from June 1 – 5, 2026, with funding from Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Develop...

For anyone interested in demography methods, applications are now open for the @berkeleypopcenter.bsky.social workshop. populationsciences.berkeley.edu/population-c...

I attended as a student once upon a time. It is a fabulous experience!

@harvardpopcenter.bsky.social @popassocamerica.bsky.social

10.02.2026 13:31 👍 13 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
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We're now accepting applications for our Annual Workshop on Formal Demography, taking place in-person at UC Berkeley on June 1-5, 2026. Deadline to apply: March 1.

See more information on the workshop and how to apply here: populationsciences.berkeley.edu/wp-content/u...

Please share widely!

27.01.2026 20:13 👍 13 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 3
Call for Abstracts: Workshop on Determinants of Adult Mortality, Morbidity, and Healthy Aging in LMICs - Population Sciences The Workshop on Determinants of Adult Mortality, Morbidity, and Healthy Aging in LMICs is co-sponsored by the NIA-supported UC Berkeley Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging-CEDA (William Do...

Call for Abstracts: Workshop on Determinants of Adult Mortality, Morbidity, and Healthy Aging in LMICs. Sponsors: UC Berkeley Center on Economics and Demography of Aging & USC/UCLA Center on Biodemography and Population Health

Deadline: Dec 15 2025

populationsciences.berkeley.edu/conferences/...

04.12.2025 17:36 👍 5 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
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Estimating death rates in complex humanitarian emergencies using the network survival method Abstract. Reliable estimates of death rates in complex humanitarian emergencies are critical for assessing the severity of a crisis and for effectively all

Our new paper develops and tests a network-based method for estimating death rates in complex humanitarian emergencies.

Joint w/ @dennisfeehan.bsky.social and team from Geneva-based NGO @impact-initiatives.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/aje/advance-...

19.11.2025 05:16 👍 20 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 0
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Assistant Professor – Global History of Technology - Department of History University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

Job at UC-Berkeley: Asst. Prof. in Global History of Technology, apps due 10/10 (so soon). #history #histSTM #histsci #histphilsci

aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05065

30.09.2025 14:23 👍 12 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 3

📣 Job alert! *Assistant Prof in Computational Social Science*. We're a friendly department, with sharp students, at a great institution, in a lovely city. We have real strengths in computational social science & are looking for a colleague to build this further. Share and reach out with quesions!

18.09.2025 15:50 👍 21 🔁 26 💬 0 📌 1
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One Epidemic, Many Estimates (1EME) One Epidemic, Many Estimates (1EME)

📢 Interested in excess mortality methods, and want a challenge? I'm organising the "One Epidemic, Many Estimates" (1EME) project! Register *now* as a many analyst team (submissions due 15 March 2026), and then join us at LSE for a workshop on 21-22 May 2026! (1/n)

www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-His...

27.08.2025 08:54 👍 65 🔁 46 💬 3 📌 10
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New job ad: Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Dartmouth College apply.interfolio.com/172357

Please share with your networks. I am the search chair and happy to answer questions!

21.08.2025 18:50 👍 178 🔁 168 💬 2 📌 8

Job alert! Join us at @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social as a postdoctoral fellow to work on your own research for three years. #sociology

20.08.2025 09:22 👍 46 🔁 54 💬 1 📌 1
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Assistant/Associate/Full Professor - Climate Equity and Environmental Justice - Rausser College of Natural Resources University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

Berkeley Sociology is also participating in a cross-campus search in Climate Equity and Environmental Justice - open rank. Assistant Professor candidates for this position should also apply for our open field junior search to be considered for both. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04842

28.07.2025 16:34 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Assistant Professor - Open Field - Sociology University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

Berkeley Sociology is hiring faculty! Sept 1 application deadline. Two positions: (1) open area junior search. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05013, (2) associate or full professor in Anti-Black Racism and Social Inclusion aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05012 Please help spread the word!

25.07.2025 03:51 👍 77 🔁 59 💬 1 📌 2

Congrats, Johan!

01.07.2025 18:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Starting to look like I might not be able to work at Harvard anymore due to recent funding cuts. If you know of any open statistical consulting positions that support remote work or are NYC-based, please reach out! 😅

04.06.2025 19:02 👍 152 🔁 96 💬 11 📌 7

A great two weeks at UCLA! Come join us!

26.04.2025 03:36 👍 9 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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*JOB OPENING*

Come join me and the Digital Gender Gaps team @sociologyoxford.bsky.social @oxforddemsci.bsky.social. We study digital gender inequalities and their consequences w/ social media, geospatial, and population data.

tinyurl.com/postdoc-oxf

Apply by 9 May, noon (UK)

14.04.2025 15:46 👍 55 🔁 34 💬 0 📌 2
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Join our next Brownbag this Wednesday, 4/16 at noon, to hear Magali Barbieri (UC Researcher in Demography at UC Berkeley) present her project, “Multi-morbidity and the US Disadvantage in Life Expectancy.”

Attend in-person at 310 Social Sciences or via Zoom (ID: 985 2901 0198 Passcode: DEMOG_BB).

14.04.2025 15:44 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

We are hiring an education researcher to join the @capolicylab.bsky.social and @berkeleycshe.bsky.social teams. You'll work on projects using administrative data relating to California higher education. Here's more information: capolicylab.org/careers/rese...

09.04.2025 15:54 👍 20 🔁 25 💬 1 📌 0

Among these is one working with me -- if you have a background in literary/cultural theory and are interested in the ways in which computational methods, including LLMs, are able to provide support for empirical sensemaking about literature, media and culture, please get in touch!

21.03.2025 17:13 👍 24 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0
Basia Zaba Memorial Scholarship | LSHTM This scholarship is for the MSc Demography & Health. Professor Basia Zaba (1949-2018) Basia started her long association with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) in 1975 when she

📢 Funding opportunity 📢

We’re accepting applications for the Basia Zaba Scholarship for the MSc in Demography & Health @lshtm.bsky.social 🎓

The scholarship covers full tuition fees for a UK home student
for the 2025-26 academic year. Deadline 26 March.

For more information 👉 tinyurl.com/3j7esk22

06.03.2025 10:28 👍 3 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 2
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Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and launch interdisciplinary research projects? We are so excited to announce there will be *26* Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science this year! Apply to one of them here: sicss.io/locations

24.02.2025 14:27 👍 146 🔁 91 💬 3 📌 15
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We are now accepting applications for our Annual Workshop on Formal Demography, taking place in-person at UC Berkeley on June 2-6, 2025. Deadline to apply is March 10.

See more information on the workshop and how to apply here: populationsciences.berkeley.edu/wp-content/u...

Please share widely!

19.02.2025 21:25 👍 19 🔁 21 💬 0 📌 2
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Postdoctoral Scholar Employee - Demography University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

The Department of Demography at the University of California, Berkeley, invites applications for a Postdoctoral Scholar position in the research group of Prof. Ayesha Mahmud.
For more info, visit: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04716

12.12.2024 13:53 👍 21 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 1
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Young Scientists Summer Program in the POPJUS Program The Population and Just Societies Program (POPJUS) focuses on major societal challenges and delivers insights into current and future population sizes, structures, and distributions that are fundament...

Are you a PhD student interested in population studies and would like to spend the summer in beautiful Vienna?

Check out the Young Scientists Summer Program International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis!

YSSP in the Population and Just Societies Program ⬇️
iiasa.ac.at/young-scient...

06.12.2024 08:33 👍 4 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 1
Graduate Program - Department of Demography Graduate Program UC Berkeley Demography offers three graduate degree tracks independently and in conjunction with the department of Sociology. Ph.D. in Demography The doctoral program is intended to p...

@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social is accepting applications for Fall 2025 for the PhD program in Demography AND the Graduate Group in Sociology & Demography. Seeking a diverse and strong cohort; applications DUE 12/17/2024.

Learn more about the program:
www.demog.berkeley.edu/graduate-pro...

04.12.2024 20:46 👍 28 🔁 21 💬 1 📌 2
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@caseybreen.bsky.social, in “Longevity Benefits of Homeownership,” finds life expectancy differs btw homeowners & renters, presenting “compelling evidence that owning a home in early adulthood has a causal effect on later-life mortality.” @oxforddemsci.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

04.12.2024 17:50 👍 25 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 2