Come at 2pm to hear from editors of JHSB, SHI, and SSM talk about how to get published in medical sociology journals. Bring your questions! @jofhsb.bsky.social

🎉Congratulations to the 2025 ASA Section on Medical Sociology Award Winners!🎉 We are proud to honor this year's outstanding scholars for their impactful research, service, and dedication to advancing the discipline! 🥳 #ASA2025 #MedSoc #ReimaginingHealth

Happy Sunday 🎉 Here is our session schedule for the day. Use #MedSoc #ASAChicago or #ReimaginingHealth to show us your conference highlights!

Hey, #medsoc "Mentor of the Month" friends, don't miss this exciting presentation from one of our lovely mentors, Dr. Courtney Boen (@courtneyboen.bsky.social)! If you ask me, catching this talk is a great way to start your Monday! 😄 #ASA2025 #ReimaginingHealth

On Sunday, I have the pleasure of presiding over the session on Racialized Health Injustice (also at 8am 😅). Really looking forward to this one. Truly an amazing set of papers! Hope to see you (w all the caffeine ☕️) there! #ASA2025

Come by my session tomorrow morning at #ASA2025 in @asamedsoc.bsky.social on what I call 'clinical outcomes governance' with some very cool looking papers!

You won't want to miss our reception tonight sponsored by the Sociology of Health and Illness Foundation ✨ This location is .8 miles from the Hyatt Regency. Anyone who would like to arrange to share a ride or walk over together should meet up in the Hyatt lobby at 6pm, departing 6:15 at the latest.

Good morning, ASA Medical Sociology Section! Here is the daily schedule of sessions, including the section awards ceremony and a reception you don't want to miss! Don't forget to use #MedSoc #ASAChicago or #ReimaginingHealth to show us your conference highlights!

Afternoon Schedule: 2-3:30 Roundtables East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago, Floor: Ballroom Level/Gold, Grand Ballroom A 4:30-5:30 Awards Ceremony and Reeder Address West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago, Floor: Ballroom Level/Gold, Regency D 6:30PM-8:30 Reception: Hawksmoor, 500 North LaSalle Drive

This social media committee LOVES celebrating the section members who make Medical Sociology the wonderful section it is! This #ASA2025, we will be sharing highlights, updates, and photos from the Annual Meeting 🥰 Keep an eye out for our account on upcoming sessions, reminders, and good news!

👋🏽 Gentle reminder: Join us tomorrow for the Welcome Reception hosted by the ASA sections on Medical Sociology and Mental Health, along with our wonderful sponsor, the Sociology of Health & Illness! 📆 Saturday, August 9 🕡 6:30 - 8:30 PM 📍 #ASA2025 in Chicago (Check the agenda for location details!)

Have something you'd like featured on our Bluesky profile? Fill out our Google Form to share your session highlights, photos, or announcements with us, and we'll post them on our account! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #MedSoc #ASAChicago #ReimaginingHealth

📢 New platform, same great section: ASA Medical Sociology is officially on Bluesky! Follow along for section activities, publications, and member highlights: @asamedsoc. We’re excited to build community in new spaces! #MedSoc #ASA2025

The Medical Sociology section of ASA has a new account up & running so we can bring you live coverage of #ASA2025! Please follow and share! @asamedsoc.bsky.social

The Medical Sociology section of ASA has a new account up & running so we can bring you live coverage of #ASA2025! Please follow and share! @asamedsoc.bsky.social

As the Chair of the Medical Sociology section of ASA, I’m excited for next week’s meeting in Chicago —follow our new account for live coverage! @asamedsoc.bsky.social

After sending a misleading & partisan press release to millions, Social Security issued a new release on service "improvements" under the new Commissioner, whom it lavishes w/praise. But SSA deleted most metrics last month, allowing them to cherry pick data. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

This is where we are, America. One of my old colleagues at the University of Arizona Cancer Center has set up a GoFundMe to help fund breast cancer research in the wake of massive cuts to NIH grants.

I’m happy to share my new (100% free) Substack newsletter, “I’m Not Gaslighting You!” open.substack.com/pub/spencerk I’ll be writing about health, illness, healthcare, why our systems gaslight us, and how you can resist.

New meaning to the word unqualified and incompetent.

Happy to be talking with Cosmopolitan magazine about medical gaslighting—why it happens and how we can resist. It’s unfortunate we still need these conversations about healthcare inequality, but it’s so necessary. www.cosmopolitan.com/health-fitne...

“The results revealed that researchers who received renewals without a funding gap were less likely to switch research topics and investigate a wide array of subjects than were those in the control group, and they produced papers featuring newer or more unconventional combinations of ideas”

As we point out in Science, the Trump proposal to convert NIH program officer jobs into political appointments (Schedule F) will mean, that instead of actual scientific experts, people like "Big Balls" will choose how to direct NIH funds. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This year I’m the Chair of the ASA Medical Sociology section, and we want everyone to feel welcome—hope to see you in Chicago in August! @asamedsoc.bsky.social

"Show me your budget and I'll tell you what you value"

A great read. I'm a broken record about on the point that *companies generally love this arrangement*. It allows them to offload dreaded long-term costs (employing smart people who do basic research, which often takes years or decades to monetize) to universities and the federal government.

Most work-a-day private sector scientists understand that we don't just arrive fully formed at the steps of a company that does chemistry R&D& manufacturing, ready for day 1 of the job. Training is long & involved. Why aren't CEOs and investors screaming about this?

The trope that universities are "dependent" on the federal government fundamentally misunderstands how vital this partnership has been for the US. The private sector can't replace it. If we kill it, we're all worse off. From @donmoyn.bsky.social and me: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/are-univer...

Here's a copy of an NSF grant termination notice that went out today. "NSF is issuing this termination to protect the interests of the government pursuant...on the basis that they no longer effectuate the program goals or agency priorities." Not subject to appeal. #HigherEd #AcademicSky

Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale

Update: The House just passed the Republican voter suppression measure that threatens voting access for millions of Americans, including 69 million women whose married names don't match their birth certificates. Make sure your senators know you expect them to stand against it.

Madison. Richmond. Raleigh. Portland. Absolutely enormous crowd sizes at these Hands Off! protests of Trump and Musk at more than 1,500 locations across America.

I guess a whole city whose existence is pegged to functioning universities is mad!

Hands off Madison, Wisconsin

DOGE is trying to layer on administrative burden to prevent disabled people and older adults from accessing Social Security benefits to which they’re entitled. People in rural communities will be hit especially hard. Field offices are already overwhelmed.

Just signed an executive order declaring my mortgage paid in full.

I know there is a lot happening in the world right now, but for those of you planning to attend #ASA2025, please consider your submitting your work to our @asadisability.bsky.social sessions. We need to highlight our work & find community now more than ever. Deadline 02/26. #Sociology #Disability