Whatever I find interesting, mainly related to demography, statistics, computers, sports. Enjoy!
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At the Annual Meeting of the German Demographic Society: Andreas Edel of @PopulationEU @MPIDRnews remembering Jim Vaupel. Sorely missed!
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📣We are hiring
Science Communication Editor
🤰We are offering a parental leave replacement until November 30, 2024 with challenging communication assignments at the forefront of demographic research.
📅Apply until February, 20!
demogr.mpg.de/en/career_6122…
Watched less than 9min so far but I am deeply impressed: youtu.be/jvPPXbo87ds
The Continuity of Splines by @FreyaHolmer Can't wait to see the rest! Wow... hard to tell whether the production value is better than the content or vice versa. As usual: discovered @hackernews 👍
Extremely useful. Thanks, @theHauer and @kbguzzo Liked and retweeted so I can find easily again in the future. #PublicBookmark 😀
I shared a list of Sociology/Demography journals that accept Research Notes. @kbguzzo suggested I create an editable google sheet. Here it is! docs.google.com/spreadsheets…
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I shared a list of Sociology/Demography journals that accept Research Notes. @kbguzzo suggested I create an editable google sheet. Here it is! docs.google.com/spreadsheets…
Exciting news, at least for all (?) of us using Emacs. Emacs 29 will soon be released with native access to SQLite databases & much more. Give it a try instead of using different programs for #rstats, LaTeX documents, ...
blog.phundrak.com/emacs-29-w…
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#Emacs
Interesting.... it probably does not make much of a difference but why not more recent data (instead of until 2012 or 2014)?
Check out our new study on maternal age and the risk of low birth weight and preterm delivery! 👇🏾 @alice_goisis @BarclayKieron
World Champion! Twice! Not me, not soccer. But for my buddy from high school who is raising pigeons.
🕊
donau-ries-aktuell.de/gesell…
Question at news.ycombinator.com
Do you recall any book or course that made a topic finally click?
Too many good reading suggestions for me to remember, so I use this tweet as a public bookmark for myself.
And maybe others will also find it useful.
news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
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Time to celebrate!
Our Director Mikko Myrskylä won a 14 Million Euro @ERC_Research Synergy Grant.
Together with Siri Eldevik Haberg @Folkehelseinstand and Cecilia Ramlau-Hansen @AarhusUni he leads the BIOSFER project.
👉 demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events…
Anyone experience with the Nara package for R #rstat in my bubble/ corner of the internet?
boilingsteam.com/the-r-progr…
In case people are not aware of it: The 2022 Revision of the World Population Prospects were released today! Thank you, @Patrick_Gerland, @AdrianRaftery1 , Hana, ... and all the others. Looking forward to use the data and read about the methodological advances. Thank you!
The UN’s 2022 World Population Prospects #WPP2022 just released: population.un.org/wpp led by @Patrick_Gerland: World population to exceed 8B on November 15, India to overtake China in 2023. Probabilistic projections using our @UW group’s methods bayespop.csss.washington.edu…
New President of the Konzil @unirostock Congratulations, Boris Hage, Professor of Experimental Quantum Optics!
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Congratulazioni a Francesco Billari @FCBillari, nominato rettore dell'Università Bocconi per il biennio 2022-24. Entrerà in carica a novembre viasarfatti25.unibocconi.it/…
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We are happy to announce the creation of the EAPS parent network! #parentpop
Visit the webpage at: eaps.nl/page/parent-network
Or come meet us at the @EAPS_pop booth at #EPC2022 on July 1, 12:30-13:30.
Dear Fellow R Users, my goal is: Plot the city districts of Munich. Any experience plotting maps based on WMS and/or WFS data? Such as those found here: opendata.muenchen.de/dataset…
#RStats #poptwitter #GIS #R Thank you!
I guess I need to check this out: statistics.zone/
'The Probability and Statistics Cookbook' by Matthias Valentin (no twitter?). Thanks to news.ycombinator.com for linking to it.
Students at @unirostock organized an outdoor BBQ with some fun events. Unbeknownst to me, a group of current MSc Demography students picked a surprising name for their team. I hope I can regard it as a positive reflection of my teaching and mentoring. In any case: Thank you!
