26/02 I’m in Barcelona for a talk at the Design Museum on the technological history of reproduction via @katecrawford.bsky.social ‘s Calculating Empires. We’ll link Dolly with radio; IVF and the Internet and stop in 1929 with Eisenstein’s abortion film 🎥 www.dissenyhub.barcelona/ca/activitat...

It was wonderful to contribute this week to this celebration of filmmaker @pratibha.bsky.social work at the ICA London. A new book of essays by myself, Lola Olufemi, @alexispauline.bsky.social & more is available; “a gift for any artist”researcher and activist www.smingsming.com/products/our...

Here in Wales for a @bspsuk.bsky.social panel called “Public concern about low fertility: the 1920s and 2020s”. Packed hall and brilliant discussion!

Pretty fascinating study comparing mtDNA mutations in human blood, saliva and oocyte cells, showing how oocyte cells are the only ones that do not show an increase in mutations with age 👁 👁 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

It’s been just over a year of animation workshops, lab ethnographies and critical artistic research on the topic of reproductive crisis. Pleased to share a sneak research update via the DOROTHY fellowship blog. dorothy.ie/2025/06/10/d... @researchireland.ie @uccresearch.bsky.social

Great #repromob roundtable! Clinicians experience alongside critiques of the ownership structures of global clinic chains. Loved sharing my paper too on software fixes for fertility crisis. More reproductive mobilities presentations today 🌱

"Them, All" is a really special thing – check out the whole thing and some shrubby poems from me, too.

⚠️Issue # 5 now posted! ⚠️ Iona, Sam, QiP and noï share vital writing on erasure. Them, All is a podcast and online magazine for poetry and critical writing on reproduction, hosted by Systerserver. Read or listen here: them-all-magazine.com/projects.html them-all-magazine.com/podcast.html

Calling reproduction people in and beyond London! Get your tickets to #ReproSalon next Friday 30th 🌅 a shining annual event to discuss and think through in community all things repro, organised by @lucyvandewiel.bsky.social

Nice to see this mention of my work on facial matching algorithms for donor selection. Recommended new ethnographic scholarship on “enacting resemblance” in assisted reproduction in the Dutch context. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Really enjoyed this paper, especially the use of a scifi narrative at the end.

Looking forward to our panel today at the @sociologyireland.bsky.social . Thanks to colleagues for organising. I’ll be talking about the limited “biological mode” of hypothetical thinking and switch on/off policy solutions for dealing with declining fertility rates in Europe.

fellow DOROTHY MSCA colleague @fearoncassidy.bsky.social sums up this recent article on the soft eugenics of maga’s health market expansion, from her metabolic health research perspective.

“They do not know us, and can never name us” 🙏🏼 www.thenation.com/article/soci...

A little reminder that Francis Galton coined the term “co-relation” 😱 lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

Beautiful workshop! We talked about animation and the politics of the body + life and made some brilliant and funny films that give voice to the elements. Thanks to Hamaca in Barcelona for co-coordinating, loved sharing ongoing postdoc work. @researchireland.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social

Current right-wing + far right backlash against choice and sex/gender equality is worryingly reflected in key public health policy statement at this year’s 69th Commission on the Status of Women at the UN, which omits sexual and reproductive health commitments for the first time since 1995.

Excited to announce that ‘Networks of queer reproduction in Sappho magazine (1972-81)’ by Rebecca Close is out now 🌐✨ This piece is part of our special issue on Feminist Media in Transition for the Journal of Gender Studies Read it here! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🌟 New article on UK magazine Sappho and their 1970s proto-fertility clinic🌟 An infrastructural reading of breaking apart reproduction 🛠 looking back from Them, All magazine, hooked to Systerserver. Reflections on networks, imagination and scale. 👀 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The under-reported side of the fertility crisis: elderly life and care. “Family building” programs, however progressive, could also shift focus and attend to a necessary radical transformation of elderly life, including better wages for care workers. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This quote from The Uses of the Erotic (1978). Audre Lorde may have read the current media / techbro gathering around the fascist salute as a continuation of the “Euroamerican tradition where needs are fulfilled by certain proscribed erotic comings-together, whether religion…or mob violence…”

Spam for president! @grantamag.bsky.social I got to share a Ludd Gang issue with this legend. poetshardshipfunduk.com/about/

It was so fruitful to share this work on algorithms as fertility world fixed capital at the @histmat.bsky.social london and barcelona conferences and @uccresearch.bsky.social last year. The full article is now online open access here 🍑 🍒 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I thought I’d start putting together a list for people working within queer and trans Marxism. Please let me know if that’s you, so I can add you! go.bsky.app/6sdaeHP

Fertility crisis headlines continue to cite Total Fertility Rates (TFRs) + the second demographic transition. These are highly contested hypothesis and measures of decline that sneak in modern-colonial imaginations of nation state, immigration, gender and reproduction. www.ft.com/content/f0d2...

How does social and biological reproduction become the material of public governance and policy? Great that such questions are being anthologised anew for today’s repro-techno-world. New book affirming the value of comparative studies of policy. @hannahzagel.bsky.social @ralmeling.bsky.social

The classical theorizations of bourgeois political economy neglect spatio-temporality for the simple reason that their a-spatial theories of supply and demand equilibrium collapse when spatial differentiations and the qualities of place and location are introduced.

Algorithms rely on as much Artificial Ignorance as they do Intelligence… This is especially true when it comes to state’s broad embracing of AI as a solution in health care settings while ignoring the specific ecological and future health impacts of AI fixes.

The movement against sexuality, sex-gender and reproductive rights and equality initiatives is increasingly international. Looking forward to reading @nuriaalabao.bsky.social @ctxt.es on the global churches, banks, NGOs and politicians at the center of new networked forms of reproductive control.

“The medicine developed in the enclosed spaces of slavery was not just the darkside of Enlightenment but its epistemic & material condition of possibility” Huge congrats to 🌟 Dr. 🌟 Anyely Marín at iHC, Barcelona. Vital work in antiracist, postcolonial & decolonial history of science and medicine

As ‘the fertility crisis’ is picked up by Elon Musk and rightwing demography, it’s vital to address the many ways reproduction has been (re)imagined across lab and society. 🙏🏼 to @uccresearch.bsky.social @pregnancylossie.bsky.social colleagues who attended our workshop🔬🏡 www.ucc.ie/en/iss21/new...

🌟2 books on abolitionist care for the holiday season🌟 1. This just out from a fellow ReproSoc -er www.aup.nl/en/book/9789... 2. Great to attend @fullnommunism.bsky.social London launch of TransFemmeFutures earlier this year! out now @plutopress.bsky.social www.plutobooks.com/978074534940...

Great to be in Dublin this week with the DOROTHY program, affirming with colleagues that tackling public health crisis requires both biomedical fixes and a deeper understanding of the social and material factors that historically condition crisis management.