Hosting Kosuke Imai, Harvard, Friday 3 May 2024, noon (EDT), on 'Does AI help humans make better decisions? A methodological framework for experimental evaluation'. All welcome!
Zoom: utoronto.zoom.us/j/84277066292
Signup: forms.gle/sXbEixoa1iJR4Q…
Details: rohanalexander.com/events-tdw.html

Our email chain made it to Gelman’s blog 😅

Had such a wonderful #PAA2024 and got to catch up with my MPIDR summer incubator friends. Duke Mwedzi presented our WP which is available online: dx.doi.org/10.4054/MPIDR-…

I had an amazing experience at my very first #PAA2024 . It was a pleasure to present my paper with Monica Alexander and Nicola Barban on estimating fertility from online genealogies.
PAA genpop

I miss vdilego so much this year but I do still have stickers!!! #PAA2024

Pretty excited about #PAA2024 ! Here's some info on talks/posters related to us here at U of T Statistical Sciences U of T Sociology! Topics: parental death, childlessness, online geneaologies, and (ofc) Bayesian methods. And I'll have some formal demography working group stickers! Come say hi!

Come and work with us - or tell your friends!

Sociology at Edinburgh School of Social & Political Science Edinburgh is hiring a permanent Lecturer in Computational Sociology

*Deadline 9th May*

Job post: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

The #PAA2024 medium and long run (projection) returns, thanks Evan Roberts 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️

Huge congrats to Ari Ari Decter-Frain, an absolute legend. It was a privilege to have him visit us in Toronto and to be on his committee with a bunch of superstars 🤩

After 11 years Monica and I have finally reunified our book collection previously spread across Canada, the US and Australia. A random sample if you want to know why we are the way we are. [Many, many, more pics incoming lol]

The first day consists of 3 overview tutorials: Bayesian demographic estimation by Monica Alexander, Bayesian graphical modeling by Maarten Marsman, and Modelling language change by Robin Ryder. Days 2 & 3 have 21 exciting research talks. Posters invited.

Very excited for the workshop on Bayesian Methods for the Social Sciences, which will be in Amsterdam this October! An awesome lineup of speakers, see here for info: bayesforshs2.sciencesconf.org

This relationship is so neat; congrats Annette Baudisch and José Manuel Aburto on this paper

New paper led by Michael Chong on estimating the timing of stillbirths (ante- versus intrapartum), combining a wide range of data sources (which are often only a partial or biased picture) academic.oup.com/jrsssc/advance…

Paper with the dream team José Manuel Aburto Alyson van Raalte ANUDemography has just been published in Demographic Research. We developed a decomposition method measuring subnational contributions to lifespan variation. Please go check it out!
demographic-research.org/articles/volum…

This was great! Here's the recording for those who missed it: youtube.com/watch?v=xPscZo…

This is starting in 50 mins!!!

The Formal Demography Working Group is meeting tomorrow (Wednesday) at 6pm ET!!! Tianyu Shen will be talking about healthy life expectancy and its decompositions.

“Epidemiologists are the OG data scientists”

Quote of the day goes to Monica Alexander at #SERmidyearTO

Is data science an essential component of modern epidemiology?! Such an awesome panel at @SERmidyearTO! Ft Laura Rosella Monica Alexander