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Conservation groups call for 'science-based' approach to Alberta grizzly bear hunt proposal
Conservation groups say recent calls for the provincial government to legalize the hunting of threatened grizzly bears in Alberta aren't justified by science due to a lack of up-to-date population studies.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/grizzly-hunt-proposal-alberta-9.7160632?cmp=rss

Centre for Population Change Mar 13

🧑‍🏫 Join us next week on 19 March for our #CPCCGWebinar with Julia Behrman of @northwesternu.

Julia will discuss mapping the strength and character of the norm to have #children, drawing on evidence from the #US.

Join us online - register at: https://www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/event_calendar/956/CPC_CG_Webinar__Julia_Behrman

#fertilitydecline #demography #childbearing #populationchange #lowfertility #socialscience #reproductivebehaviour #USresearch #families #populationstudies

Centre for Population Change Feb 16

📑 A new paper by CPC-CG members introduces the first method that can predict how many relatives of any kind a person is likely to have at different points in their life, and how likely each outcome is:
https://www.demographic-research.org/articles/volume/54/9

#demography #kinship #mathematicaldemography #populationstudies #lifeCourse #mortality #fertility #probability #matrixalgebra #combinatorics #convolution #kin #familyStructure #analyticModel #populationResearch #population #family #familystructures #demographicforecasting

Science Newsroom - FSE - UG Nov 14

🍼More children, shorter #lifespan?

UG researcher Euan Young found clear evidence in #parishrecords from the Great Finnish Famine.📖

'Our findings suggest that under harsh conditions, reproductive effort certainly affects lifespan.’

Published in #ScienceAdvances

🧪 #SciComm #ScienceNewsroom
#reproduction #research #evolution #evolutionarybiology #biology #populationstudies #science #ScientistsOnMastodon
@universityofgroningen

Centre for Population Change Oct 20

THIS WEEK -#CPCCGWebinar on Thurs 23 Oct

Jiaxin Shi, Associate Professor of #SocialScience at The #HongKong University of #Science and #Technology presents 'Internal #migration and #longevity in the #US' - research using newly available #populationdata with over 12mn #death records for cohorts born between 1912-1930.