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In a few years, Europe will be governed by right wing governments, and they will read your encrypted messages, prevent you from posting and reading ideas they disagree with and even jail you for wrongthink, and the current governments create the laws making that possible
Tom Theile retweeted
Our paper "Sleeping With the Enemy" is featured this weekend in the Süddeutsche Zeitung.
In hi article (how much opposition can love bear?), Sebastian Herrmann uses our study to make the point that political difference between partners has stopped being only a matter of taste.
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The Scholarly Migration Database 2.0 is now online!
Just in time for the European Population Conference 2026 in Bologna!
See the working paper here:
dx.doi.org/10.4054/MPIDR-WP-…
Access the data on Zenodo:
doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20487…
@MPIDRnews @TheileTom @ezagheni
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Our paper, “Accounting for Population Age Distribution in Forecasting Migration,” w Nathan Welch & Hana Ševčíková just published in Demography. Population age structure is important for migration, but current forecasts ignore it. We propose a new method for taking it into account
In “Accounting for Population Age Distribution in Forecasting Migration,” Nathan Welch, Hana Ševčíková & @AdrianRaftery1 propose a new approach “that incorporates population age structure changes into net migration forecasts." @UWStat read.dukeupress.edu/demograp…
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📣 Heads-up everyone interested in databases and scholarly migration! 📣
We have great news "loading..."!
scholarlymigration.org
Tune in and watch this space. More soon!
@theiletom.bsky.social @akbaritabar.bsky.social @ezagheni.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social
#BiblioDemography
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EVoC is a library designed specifically for fast clustering of high dimensional embedding vectors. It can produce high quality clusters extremely efficiently, and requires little to no hyperparameter tuning.
Better clustering than UMAP + HDBSCAN; faster clustering than KMeans.
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Know a master graduate looking for a funded doctoral position? Please share this!
Come work with @ezagheni and me at @MPIDRnews on topics related to migration of scholars and the highly-skilled.
More details:
demogr.mpg.de/en/career_6122…
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Join me as 3-year #postdoc to study the demography of Reproductive Ageing
-menopause 🩸infertility 💉older fathers 👨👧 and more -novel data sources from around the world
-wonderful research community @MPIDRnews
demogr.mpg.de/en/career_6122…
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Apply now for our five-day doctoral course on Topics in Digital and Computational Demography, which will take place in hybrid format from November 3-7, 2025.
Details: demogr.mpg.de/en/career_6122…
Application deadline is September 28, 2025.
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A team @MPIDRnews examined professional migration of men and women in 48 countries using data from LinkedIn. It found that, although men aspire to migrate more often than women, globally, as many women as men migrate for a job.
demogr.mpg.de/go/professiona…
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We're thrilled to have bright students from around the world join us this week for our hybrid course on Topics in Digital and Computational Demography, presented by our researchers @Akbaritabar, @ezagheni, @TheileTom, @kr_jisu and @ConteRisto!
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📂Find the data publicly on Zenodo doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11282… and all details on the website of the Scholarly Migration Database @SMDatabase scholarlymigration.org/
“Use them to find the causes and consequences of the migration of scholars!”, says @TheileTom 🧵4/5
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@Akbaritabar @TheileTom + @ezagheni put together a dataset that contains prepared migration data which is easy to work with.
Now the new version is released as replication materials for a peer reviewed article published in @Nature Scientific Data 🧵2/5
doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-0…
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📣Call for Registration! Migration and Mobility Symposium @MPIDRnews
An event to promote exchange & collaboration among scientists interested in scholarly #migration & scientific #mobility.
📅Oct 15, 🕗8am-6pm CEST
💻Join online: demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events…
#demography #poptwitter
Fine, fresh and free data is out!
Finally the related paper is published:
Excited!
Paper w/ @TheileTom @ezagheni on @SMDatabase is published in Nature Scientific Data @ScientificData
"Bilateral flows and rates of international migration of scholars for 210 countries for the period 1998-2020"
doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-0…
@MPIDRnews #BiblioDemography
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"Paths of A Million People: Extracting Life Trajectories from Wikipedia"
Paper: arxiv.org/html/2406.00032v1
Dataset (preview): anonymous.4open.science/r/wi…
ALT Figure 6: Life trajectories of H. Bruce Franklin, Karl Theodor Keim and John Henry Brown (from Zhang et al. 2024)
ALT "Figure 1: (a) Example of extracted triplets and their contexts, where green boxes represent correct trajectory information and red boxes represent incorrect one. (b) The distribution of different trajectory types (from Zhang et al. 2024)"
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📣Call for Papers‼️ @MPIDRnews invites submissions from researchers working on or interested in scholarly migration & mobility to attend a one-day symposium in Rostock on Oct 15, 2024. Learn all: demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events…
Or get in touch: @EbruSanliturk @TheileTom @Akbaritabar
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And here's the same search on @OpenAlex_org. (Took me 10 seconds, and here's the URL URL to reproduce it and see the actual articles: openalex.org/works?page=1&fi…)
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Excited to share our new project, long in the making. We analyzed 94,000 news headlines of the last 5 years.🌎Which countries do you think US media is most focused on?
Check it out!
1point21interactive.com/the-…