On World Population Day, and every day, listen to demographers, not demographic doom-mongers

Why we must focus on human rights, not population targets

Happy diamond anniversary to the journal Population Studies!

Solving the evolutionary puzzle of twinning

Not all twins are identical, and that’s been an evolutionary puzzle until now

What makes a good or a bad peer review? Tips for excelling at reviewing

Following on from a previous post on ‘Tips for good practice in peer review’, this post gives some further thoughts [...]

Grandmothers and public health: unlocking the potential of older women to improve maternal and child health

In May, we organised a workshop at LSHTM aimed at raising the awareness of the importance of grandmothers in improving [...]

Tips for good practice in peer review

For peer review week, I co-wrote a post for the Royal Society with tips for good practice in peer review

Girls Who Grow Up Without Their Father Start Their Periods Earlier, Or Do They?

There is a curious finding well known in some academic disciplines: girls who grow up in households without a father [...]