Mimmi Lounela

Yes, I am no where near adulthood. That is how cross-sectional population averages work, right? Hint: age, period, cohort.

Congrats again @anatra.bsky.social! <33 Such a great researcher with a great thesis project, really enjoyed the discussion yesterday and was very impressed!

Research takes me to places!

Researchers to explore how violent crime affects health - Department of Sociology If I had five years and generous resources, what would I most like to do? That is what Signe Svallfors was thinking before deciding to apply for the ERC starting grant. The dream project would be to f...

A new research project about sexual and reproductive outcomes of violent crime in Mexico is recruiting two PhD students. The project is lead by Signe Svallfors who has received the five year starting grant from European Research Council.

www.su.se/department-o...

@signesvallfors.bsky.social

Bologna is calling

Immigrant–native pay gap driven by lack of access to high-paying jobs - Nature Data from nine European and North American countries reveal that the disparity in earnings between immigrants and natives is largely a result of segregation of immigrant workers into lower-paying jobs.

Nature research paper: Immigrant–native pay gap driven by lack of access to high-paying jobs

go.nature.com/40ripuF

Syntyvyys | Onko tässä lääke lapsikatoon? Kymmenien tuhansien eurojen kannustin, jos ensimmäisen lapsen saa alle 30-vuotiaana Torstaina julkaistussa väestöpoliittisessa selvityksessä esitetään 20 ehdotusta lapsitoiveiden tukemiseksi. Listalla on muun muassa kannustin, jos ensimmäisen lapsen saa ennen 30 vuoden ikää.

Happy that Anna Rotkirch is now promoting this perspective after lobbying for a baby bonus last year: www.hs.fi/politiikka/a...

Changing the perspective on low birth rates: why simplistic solutions won’t work Stuart Gietel-Basten , Anna Rotkirch , and Tomáš Sobotka argue that policies responding to population decline and ageing should enable reproductive choice and maximise the potential of all citizens ...

Swedish government: take notes.

The University of Florence offers 4 positions within the PhD in Life Course Research!

🔹 3 open positions on topics such as social demography, family formation, fertility, union dissolution, ageing & wellbeing
🔹 1 thematic position on reproductive health & low fertility

Come join us in Florence! 👇👇

Our Deputy Director @drjenndowd.bluesky.social
gave the Keynote Lecture today at the 23rd Nordic Demographic Symposium

Has progress stalled? Reflecting on the uncertain future of #mortality in high income countries

👉more: www.demography.ox.ac.uk/people/jenni...

✍️Substack: jenndowd.substack.com

Why is mortality progress stalling in the US and the UK?
@drjenndowd.bsky.social is giving a keynote overview at Nordic Demographic Symposium 🇩🇰 @demografi.dk

I am personally deviating from the norm, but only because I was off pretty much the whole month of april. So, only a displacement of vacation (nod to @jschoeley.com)!

@drjenndowd.bsky.social offering valuable insights at the #NDS2025! Warning to all the U.S. researchers: next week is midsummer, the official onset of the annual summer vacation. So you will have to wait until september with any US/Nordic comparative collabs!

Our star @mimmilou.bsky.social fast and efficient at the flash session #Popdays2025 @suda-sthlm.bsky.social

Auguri gaiaaaa <333

Thank you for a phenomenal conference, until next time! Now time for a phenomenal nap #PAA2025 @popassocamerica.bsky.social

Wake up wake up Washington! Sunday morning offer not to miss: Interesting and surely a brilliant presentation by one and only @mimmilou.bsky.social

If you missed this giant poster today, I have another one about the operationalisation of employment instability tomorrow 8:30 am at #PAA @popassocamerica.bsky.social !! Come and say hi!

Following a great panel discussion about the future of #DHS at @popassocamerica.bsky.social annual meeting. The global scientific community is not giving up!

Self-help books often cite population studies as evidence that you can change your life with one simple trick. X will improve your health. Y will make you more successful. But there's a crucial catch...

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“The Demography of Sweden’s Transgender Population”: @martinkolk.bsky.social @ylvamoberg.bsky.social et al study transitions over 1973-2020, “a period of...legal advances, ↑ social acceptance & more accommodating HC system.” @stockholm-uni.bsky.social @sofi.su.se read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

Foto minha, no Congresso, com um punho em riste e segurando uma placa escrito "Rua Marielle Franco" com a outra mão.

MARIELLE E ANDERSON PRESENTES!

Realizamos, aqui na Câmara, nossa sessão solene em memória de Marielle Franco e Anderson Gomes, executados em 14 de março de 2018.

Estamos aqui pelo fim da violência política de gênero e em defesa da vida de quem vive para defender nossos direitos. +👇🏽

Today marks 7 years since the ambushed and brutal murder of Marielle Franco, a Black LGBTIQA+ and human rights activist and city councilor for Rio de Janeiro, and her driver Anderson Gomes. Read more about the lengthy road to justice: #MarielleVive #JustiçaPorMarielleEAnderson rioonwatch.org?p=80148

The word inequality crossed out in red

When INEQUALITY is on the list of verboten words, we need to work harder to make the value of our work known.

Please follow @asa-ipm.bsky.social, the new account of the Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility section of
@asanews.bsky.social, which will help share the latest work on social inequality

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📣 Out on #FirstView 📣

In "Gender Equality and Armed Conflict" @signesvallfors.bsky.social argues that scholars should abandon total fertility rate as an indicator of gender equality for a measure that better captures women's status in society.

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🌟Available #OpenAccess🌟

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A demographic assessment of the impact of the war in the Gaza Strip on the mortality of children and their parents in 2023 - Population Health Metrics Background Following Hamas’s 7 October attack, Israel launched extensive aerial bombardments in the Gaza Strip, followed by a large-scale ground invasion. During the first 3 months of the conflict, up...

Our study estimates excess deaths in children and parental loss due to the war in Gaza in 2023. From Oct 8 to Dec 31, 2023, 8120 children <18 were killed due to the conflict, 15127 children lost a father, and 9886 children lost a mother -in 3 months
pophealthmetrics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

New study says children of immigrants in Sweden at high risk of being overqualified for their jobs - Radio Sweden A new study suggests that the children of immigrants face challenges in the labor market and are at a higher risk for overqualification than those with ...

New study says children of immigrants in Sweden at high risk of being overqualified for their jobs. @wooseongkim.bsky.social talks about his recent doctoral thesis on Radio Sweden.

www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/new-...

🚨 NEW RESEARCH ALERT! 🚨
Do labor market disadvantages, such as unemployment and overqualification, affect children of immigrants born in the destination country (the second generation) in the same way as they affect the majority native population?

authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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NDS'25 got 188 submissions

We were elated to see A LOT of submissions to NDS'25. On the plus side, the conference will be packed with amazing #demography talks. On the downside, we had a hard time selecting the talks that out small&cozy conference can accommodate. Notices of acceptance will be sent out early next week 🙌