🆕 New preprint!
We know surprisingly little about how people navigate care after pregnancy loss. We explore this using French national health insurance records.
🔗Link to the preprint: doi.org/10.31235/osf...
Key findings below 👇
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📢 New preprint alert: #Miscarriage reporting in longitudinal and cross-sectional surveys in #GreatBritain!
We compare miscarriage questions and prevalence estimates in British cohort, panel & cross-sectional surveys.
More info below 👇
osf.io/preprints/so...
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Happy New Year everyone 🎉
📢 We are glad to announce that the first newsletter of the SOC-MISC project has just been published.
📖 Please read it and subscribe here to never miss updates on our #miscarriage research : soc-misc.site.ined.fr/en/about/soc... The newsletter will be published twice a year.
Bonne année à tous 🎉
📢 Nous sommes heureux d'annoncer que la première newsletter du projet SOC-MISC vient d'être publiée.
📖 Nous vous invitons à la lire et à vous abonner ici pour ne manquer aucune actualité concernant nos recherches sur les #FaussesCouches : soc-misc.site.ined.fr/fr/a-propos/...
Grateful for the Women's and Couples' Health Symposium organized by PEPR! Love seeing my work illustrated by Anne Bernardi's amazing live drawings 🎨
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📢 Call for Papers: "Studying Pregnancy Losses"
We're excited to announce a session at the @eshms.bsky.social Biennial Conference 2026 in Hamburg
📧 eshms.eu/wp-content/u...
🗓️ Deadline: 15 February 2026
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✉️ The SOC-MISC project launches a newsletter!
Find out about the latest activities and results of SOC-MISC twice a year. The first letter will be sent in December 2025. Please subscribe here to get the newsletter in your inbox as soon as it is published: soc-misc.site.ined.fr/en/about/soc...
📣New pre-print from SOC-MISC: Measuring miscarriages: A comparison of self-reported and healthcare register data in Finland.
More info below 👇🧵
Read full paper here: osf.io/preprints/so...
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🎉 New research out with @fertdem.bsky.social and @vegardskirbekk.bsky.social !
💡 Time to ART birth decreased since the 2000s, and is shorter for those in their late 30s — likely reflecting improved treatment efficiency and faster access to care.
👉 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41152834/
It is the International Miscarriage day today 🎗️. SOC-MISC project works to better understand social inequalities in the risks and consequences of #miscarriage to improve miscarriage care and experiences for everyone. Stay informed of our results here, or on our website 👉 soc-misc.site.ined.fr/en/
📍Aujourd'hui à la #FFER2025 à Strasbourg, deux membres de l'équipe présentent leurs recherches:
▶️ Hélène Malmanche : Prise en charge des nouveaux publics en AMP
▶️ MC Compans : Aspects socio-démographiques de la fausse couche
📋 Programme : ffer-strasbourg2025.com/upload/progr...
📢 The SOC-MISC project will be at #BSPS2025 in Swansea!
📅 3 Sept
🎤 @selinkoksal.bsky.social : miscarriage measurement & reporting in UK surveys
🎤 @mccompans.bsky.social : hospital-care seeking after a miscarriage in France
➡️ Full programme: www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...
🔎 The University of St Andrews research team led by Katherine Keenan and partner in the SOC-MISC project is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to work on analysing Scottish public data on miscarriages.
More information in the link below :
👉 www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...
This presentation focuses on the health inequalities:
❤️🩹 what value do caregivers place on a miscarriage?
💊 what kind of care is offered?
🫂 what support is available outside the medical community?
💼 how is the impact on professional life managed?
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#AFSToulouse2025
"Une fausse couche c'est commun, mais c'est jamais banal", résultats préliminaires de l'étude FISO : Fausses couches et inégalités sociales. Auteures de la présentation : Hélène Malmanche, MC Compans, Heini Väisänen, membres de l'Institut national d'études démographiques.
ENG |🔎 Today Hélène Malmanche presents the preliminary results of the qualitative part of the @soc-misc.bsky.social project at the AFS congress in Toulouse, carried out among those with a miscarriage in the last five years in mainland France.
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#AFSToulouse2025
A photo of Heini Vaisanen standing next to her poster presentation at ESHRE conference.
In addition, @heinivaisanen.bsky.social presented a poster 'Social inequalities in (recurrent) miscarriage risk among Finnish mothers' with preliminary results finding discrepancies in #miscarriage risk in Finland by income, but less so by education or migrant status using administrative data
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A photo of MC Compans giving a talk at ESHRE conference with the speaker on the left and the title slide of her presentation on the screen behind her on the right.
Yesterday, @mccompans.bsky.social presented on 'Miscarriage prevalence and factors: a multi-source approach in France', discussing the +/- of using surveys, administrative, and qualitative data to study #miscarriage. Triangulation is key and the right data source depends on research questions
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The SOC-MISC team pictured at the ESHRE conference: Heini Vaisanen, MC Compans and Hélène Malmanche standing in front of the ESHRE stand smiling.
The SOC-MISC team is currently attending the @eshre.bsky.social annual conference in Paris. We were able to present some of our research (see thread 🧵👇) and learn a lot from others. We commend the organisers for an interesting and thought provoking event!
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📑 New paper is out!
We are excited to announce the publication of our research in the European Journal of Public Health, on social patterns of #miscarriage reporting and risk in #France by @mccompans.bsky.social and @heinivaisanen.bsky.social
🔗 academic.oup.com/eurpub/advan...
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📊 @heinivaisanen.bsky.social - "Social inequalities in (recurrent) miscarriage risk among Finnish mothers" (poster)
See abstract here: www.ined.fr/fichier/rte/...
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📅 July 1: @mccompans.bsky.social - "Miscarriage prevalence and factors: a multi-source approach in France"
See abstract here: www.ined.fr/fichier/rte/...
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📅 June 29: Hélène Malmanche - "Perspectives and experiences with direct-to-consumer DNA-testing" (precongress course)
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👥 Next week, the SOC-MISC team will present at the @eshre.bsky.social Annual Meeting in Paris.
Come find us! Full programme: www.eshre.eu/ESHRE2025/Pr...
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Elle aborde des défis souvent invisibles dans le monde professionnel : parcours d’infertilité, expérience d’une fausse couche...
👉 À lire ici: www.unedic.org/actualites/t...
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🔍 À l’occasion de la publication des résultats de l’enquête « Le travail en transition » de l’Unédic, mettant en lumière les difficultés rencontrées pour concilier emploi et vie familiale, @mccompans.bsky.social,membre de SOC-MISC, contextualise le report du désir d’enfant.
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Deadline is approaching!!! Submit your contribution until May 31 for the 2026 Issue of @vypr.bsky.social 👇
@fertdem.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social @demographyvienna.bsky.social
📖New Publication: "The Diffusion of Late Fertility Across European Regions (2006–2018)"! New insights from #IngridSetz et al. on how spatial diffusion has shaped the rise in late fertility across Europe.
🔗Read now: tinyurl.com/588xsece
#PopulationSpaceandPlace
The SOC-MISC project is hosting a workshop on miscarriage measurement in surveys and administrative data today. We are looking forward to discussing with our invited speakers Beth Sully, Joe Strong and Selin Köksal.
Follow this thread for updates throughout the day 👇
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🚨 New publication out!
Together with M.C. Compans and Eva Beaujouan @fertdem.bsky.social, we explore how late transitions to adulthood relate to the use and outcomes of assisted reproduction.
Curious? Have a look! 📄✨
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Affiche de participation à l'étude FISO représentant des silhouettes de personnes, et comportant des bulles d'information avec différents textes : L'institut national d'études démographiques mène une étude sur le vécu des fausses couches et leurs suites. Vous avez vécu une fausse couche dans les cinq dernières années ? Votre témoignage nous intéresse. Vous pouvez contacter l'équipe de recherche à enquetesocmisc@ined.fr ou au 01 56 06 21 27.
Toutes les infos sur l'étude et comment y participer sont à retrouver ici 👉 soc-misc.site.ined.fr/fr/participer/
