#fertility — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #fertility, aggregated by home.social.
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A summary of rapidly declining fertility rates: https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/below-replacement-fertility-world-population/
Noah Smith on why economists should freak out about it: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/economists-should-be-worried-about
Idrees Kahloon on why nobody should freak out about it: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/08/birth-rate-panic-overblown/688320/?gift=TCdGb93Qc4nVepj3DCKKPiReAjyBUrCdu5dRo-JTDsU&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
Olga Khazan on fertility differences between liberals and conservatives: https://www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/08/fertility-gap-conservative-liberal/688334/?gift=TCdGb93Qc4nVepj3DCKKPj6D4zwpTnyJSxzKGCZ8xZU&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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In #Lithuania, the conservative #opposition Homeland Union has submitted to #parliament a draft national agreement on #demographics for 2026-2040. Earlier, PM Mindaugas Sinkevicius proposed such a cross-party agreement as well. Lithuania's #fertility rate is 0.99 #children per woman.
https://viabaltica.fi/lithuania-conservatives-submit-deal-on-demographics/
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The world's first baby born from a frozen embryo arrived in 1984.
Most recent documented case: embryo stored 27 years. Healthy birth.
At -196°C, biological time stops completely. No ageing. No degradation. No DNA damage.
Here is what the science, UK regulation, and cryogenic engineering actually say about long-term embryo storage.
cryolab.co.uk/how-long-can-embryos-be-stored/
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Natalie Imbruglia left penniless and scared to go outside after career lows
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📰 "BmOrb2, a CPEB-family RNA-binding protein, specifically regulates late-stage eupyrene spermiogenesis and male fertility in Bombyx mori"
https://doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.ibmb.2026.104656
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42575255/
#DrosophilaMelanogaster
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🧑🧑🧒🧒 How has the UK changed in the past 25 years in terms of demographics?
CPC-CG member Professor Athina Vlachantoni, CPC-CG Director Professor Jane Falkingham CBE, and CPC-CG Co-Director Professor Maria Evandrou (University of Southampton) discuss in The Conversation.
Read the full article: https://theconversation.com/britains-quarter-century-shrinking-families-ethnic-tensions-and-queer-winners-and-losers-287411
#Demography #Population #Ageing #Migration #Fertility #Families #Households #LifeCourse #SocialScience #Gerontology #LifeExpectancy #PopulationChange #DemographicTrends #SocialPolicy
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In this issue of #ChangingPopulations, we report on findings that suggest declining fertility isn't simply the result of young people rejecting relationships and parenthood. Instead, economic and social barriers are making these goals harder to achieve - head to page 3
▶️ https://sway.cloud.microsoft/6PeRZlzYry4nhGtm?ref=Link
#demography #population #fertility #parenthood #relationships #youngpeople #housing #employment #financialsecurity #economics #socialscience #families #birthrates #populationtrends
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🗞️ Out now - the latest issue of our research magazine, Changing Populations
We explore some of the major #demographic challenges shaping contemporary society, from falling #fertility and #population #ageing to #migration, integration and #familychange
https://sway.cloud.microsoft/6PeRZlzYry4nhGtm?ref=Link
#demography #socialscience #socialpolicy #community #fertilitydecline #populationchange #brexit #languageskills #immigration
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Reproductive aging affects both parents—but differently. Eggs face chromosome-separation problems, while sperm accumulate more DNA-copying errors over time.
#ReproductiveHealth #Genetics #Fertility #Telehealth #PreconceptionCare
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#fertility : being fertile
- French: fertilité
- German: die Fruchtbarkeit
- Italian: fertilità
- Portuguese: fertilidade
- Spanish: fertilidad
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📰 "Digital Kennison: A bioinformatics pipeline for rapid mapping of sequences to the Drosophila melanogaster Y chromosome"
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.15.738766v1?rss=1
#DrosophilaMelanogaster
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📰 "Drosophila Nepl15 controls glycogen and lipid storage by modulating insulin signaling"
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.15.738827v1?rss=1
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: A new paper links the 2007 #iPhone launch to declining #US birth rates, finding 4.5-8% drops among 15-19 year olds in areas with early iPhone access.
The researchers suggest #smartphones may reduce in-person socializing while increasing access to #porn and birth control #information. Skeptics note that teen birth rates were already falling since the #1990s.
#birthrate #demographics #teens #technology #research #economics #middlebury #fertility #screentime #science #nber #statistics
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📰 "Fertility Gene Introns Harbor Transposable Elements that Shape Y-Loop Architecture"
https://doi.org/doi:10.64898/2026.07.08.737335
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42465510/
#Evolution
#Drosophila #Fertility #Genomics -
📰 "The novel HP1a interactor Clump/CG30403 safeguards transposon silencing and reproductive resilience in the Drosophila ovary"
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.15.738798v1?rss=1
#Drosophila #Behaviour #Fertility #Genomics -
📰 "Fertility Gene Introns Harbor Transposable Elements that Shape Y-Loop Architecture"
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.08.737335v1?rss=1
#Drosophila #Evolution
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Spermageddon: Is the World Really Facing a Male Reproductive Crisis?
https://1ban.news/spermageddon-male-fertility-crisis-evidence/
#1ban #spermageddon #male #fertility #crisis #science -
European Fertility Group Calls for Continent-Wide Limits on Sperm Donor Families
https://1ban.news/european-fertility-group-sperm-donor-family-limits-eshre/
#1ban #european #fertility #group #sperm #science -
A presentation at the July 8 annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology presented the results of a meta-analysis of longitudinal studies with over 118,000 participants that shows that average testosterone in men has declined by 54% between 1972 and 2019. This mimics the decline in sperm counts.
The conference presentation is not online.
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Softer ovaries extend the fertility window in rats — IL-11 blockade reduces stiffness, doubles conception
https://1ban.news/il-11-ovarian-stiffness-fertility-extended-window/
#1ban #ovarian #stiffness #fertility #extended #science -
📰 "A pesticide hijacks a neurohormonal circuit to block ovulation in insects"
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.30.735649v1?rss=1
#Drosophila #Fertility -
"Contrary to the widespread expectation that [declining birth rates] hamper economic growth, we find [they] are associated with higher growth in GDP per working-age adult ... and higher wage growth..., with no negative impact on aggregate GDP or earnings. We argue that [these changes] reflect the ...response of technology to the scarcity of younger workers"
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📰 "The impact of P-Element-induced hybrid dysgenesis on the male germline in Drosophila simulans"
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.28.735054v1?rss=1
#Evolution
#Drosophila #Fertility #Genomics
