Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research. We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

This is such a loss. We need public media!

"The current anti-trans movement claims to defend women from trans people—but in practice it has begun to quietly dismantle the doctrinal edifice built to protect all women from discrimination." www.nybooks.com/articles/202... by @paisleycurrah.com

I reviewed @lalouverouge.bsky.social 's excellent Solidarity With Children in Blind Field Journal. Please check it out and give this important book a read! blindfieldjournal.com/2025/11/18/r...

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum was groped Tuesday by a man on the street who kissed her neck and touched her chest. “If they do this to the president," she said, "what must happen to all the young women women?" She's calling for new measures to end harassment www.latimes.com/world-nation...

*CALL FOR PAPERS* Due Dec 1 Gametic Politics: Eggs, Sperm, and Gender/Sex in the 21st Century A Workshop for Early-Career Researchers organized by Rene Almeling & Sarah Richardson April 16-17, 2026 at Yale University Details and application form here: www.renealmeling.com/gametic-poli...

"A government that demands that we not recognize the complexity of sex stops academic inquiry in its tracks."

“We can learn and adapt. We did so after the country shifted away from leaded gasoline and asbestos. Forever chemicals are no different, just the next line item in a long list of miracle materials that turned out to be more curse than cure.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Heteropessimism is having a pop culture moment. I wrote about it in my new paper out today in @culsoc.bsky.social ! Please give it a read: doi.org/10.1177/1749... Huge thanks to my advisor @ralmeling.bsky.social for reading dozens of drafts & supporting me in getting this from early stage to pub!