Migration & Health, Urbanisation, Africa, Europe. Event History Analysis, Causality. Others: Paleoanthropology, Paragliding, SBK, Movies, Novels.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6278-0597
https://scholar.google.be/citations?user=THd_fY0AAAAJ&hl=fr&oi=ao
Philippe Bocquier
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Looking forward to... our bright future! 🤣
Know more about the Matthew effect, the Mathilda effect, and how AI may reinforce them and make inequalities in academia worse. 😔
Great paper, as usual with @lseimpactblog.bsky.social !
All Protocol Observed
Welcome to Issue 242 of The Continent.
The conventional explanation for South Africa’s recurring waves of xenophobic violence is now familiar: a stagnant economy, high unemployment, and migrants cast as convenient scapegoats. But that’s not the whole story.
bit.ly/242_TC
New: The Atlas, newspaper from the makers of @codastory.com and @thecontinent.org.
With nice photos too!
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MPIDR@EPC2026 Good Morning! Last day but we are still presenting. Join Christian Dudel, Elena Pojman, Henrik Schubert and Risto Conte Keivabu in their sessions. We hope to see you at the Closing and Award Ceremony!
https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events_6123/press_6175/mpidr_epc2026_15303
Old but goody.
Some DEMO members are attending CUDEP2026 in Bordeaux netx week
Valentin Bope will present joint research with @phbocquier.bsky.social on demographic vulnerability, political instability & changes in the burden of crisis-
related injury #mortality in sub-saharan Africa
📸 Throwback to #EPC2026
From presentations & posters to networking, & memorable moments around Bologna, last week was an inspiring experience for our team.
Thank you to organisers & @eaps.bsky.social who made this conference such a success.
Mali: RSF dénonce des «arrestations arbitraires» et l'«instrumentalisation» de la loi sur la cybercriminalité
This study of four cohorts of French schoolchildren shows that the gender gap in math (girls falling behind) begins essentially immediately as soon as kids start school. They use the natural variation in kids' ages at school start to show that it's school entry, not age, that triggers the change.
Philippe Bocquier
Philippe Bocquier
The Continent
Philippe Bocquier
Au Mali, après le placement sous mandat de dépôt des journalistes Chahana Takiou, lundi 8, et Abdrahamane Keita, mardi 9 juin, l'association Reporters sans frontières dénonce des « arrestations arbitraires ».
Boys and girls exhibit very similar maths scores upon school entry, but a gender gap in favour of boys becomes highly significant after 4 months of schooling, which increases with years of schooling,&...
Last day of #EPC2026 already, hope you enjoyed yesterday's party as much as DEMO members!
2 more things before you leave:
1️⃣Our colleague, Ilia, is presenting at 9:00 today on seasonal components of life expectancy (Room B)
2️⃣Give us your best caption for this group picture
Safe travels everyone!
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR)
👀ICYMI | "At the core of all these tools is a series of verbs: to surface, to rank, to summarise, and to recommend"
#AcademicSky #AIbias #MatthewEffect @jpooley.bsky.social
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
An unhealthy outlier...
ourworldindata.org/grapher/life...
AI research tools are trained on a literature that is structured by an unequal distribution of attention. Does their use simply recreate these biases ?
