Did you experience the COVID pandemic whilst pregnant, breastfeeding or caring for a baby? We need your help to shape research on how best to support people like you during the next big infection outbreak. See below ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

We are recruiting members of the public to help shape research on what it’s like to be pregnant, breastfeeding, or caring for a baby during an infection outbreak, like COVID. Read more about the project, who we are looking for, and how to apply here www.coproductioncollective.co.uk/news/help-sh...

Join us in December for our last event in 2025, an informal online Meet & Mingle. There's a loose structure, but in brief: we hang out for about an hour and chat about feminist quantsy stuff we're working on/ thinking about. More info + link to sign up: femquant.wordpress.com/seminar-seri...

Help & Care, @beyondreflectuk.bsky.social & Wessex Cancer Alliance, are launching a project to make breast & chest screening at University Hospital Southampton more accessible for disabled, ND, & trans+ people. And we need your help!

Our paper examining the impact of congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV) infection among families and caregivers is out today in the Journal of Health Services Research & Policy! @uclglobalhealth.bsky.social @mrcctu.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1355...

i looked at the methodology for this and it is a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and b. p-hacked

We can’t afford to weaken National Park protections ⚠️ But there are rumours that some in Westminster want to remove the Protected Landscapes duty - the only real power to secure action for nature We can't let 30 years of campaigning go down the drain www.cnp.org.uk/about/our-wo...

The Kenwood Ladies Pond Association, which is made up of regular pond swimmers, also supports inclusive gender policies www.klpa.uk/about-the-kl...

The City of London updated their gender identity policy in 2019 in response to a public survey that showed the majority were in favour of trans inclusion news.cityoflondon.gov.uk/city-adopts-...

A transphobic pressure group is trying to ban trans women from Hampstead women’s pond – it's time to fight back https://goodlawproject.org/petition/keep-hampstead-womens-pond-inclusive

📣🏳️‍⚧️ Call for Papers We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives. Details below. Please share.

refugees are being housed in hotel rooms that do not meet their basic needs: families are being housed in rooms with no cooking facilities, nowhere for children to play, frequent reports of mould, damp, vermin. if an MP can’t explain that to constituents what are we doing here.

I'm honoured to have been invited to speak alongside parent activists and social scientists at this brilliant event, 'A Decade of Zika' on 18th September @dukeghi.bsky.social @kelizaw.bsky.social more info and sign-up link: www.vitalfutures.org/adecadeofzika/

Congratulations to everyone receiving their A-Level results today! If you’re joining us this September, welcome to UCL. 💜 Got questions about Results Day, visit our website: www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-...

If you cannot go to the bathroom at work, you cannot go to work. If you cannot go to the bathroom at school, you cannot go to school. This effectively bans transgender people from a broad swath of public life in the UK

Update: we have received a response from the Met, which continues to threaten to arrest peaceful protesters. Read the Met's response: www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/op...

General call for #Science ScienceDirect AI feature is providing definitions. They aren't correct, often based of a misreading of the paper. If you've seen one please let @irisvanrooij.bsky.social know for the collection of idiocy.

We’re editing a book on reproductive justice in Latin America and invite extended abstracts (800 words) by Nov 30, 2025. More info: tinyurl.com/2298h4c5

All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.

We invite submissions for an edited book on reproductive justice in Latin America. We welcome extended abstracts of 800 words by November 30th, 2025. For more information: tinyurl.com/2298h4c5

But wait, there's more! On Tuesday 15th we invited our speakers back for a closed-door research sandpit 🏝️🪣🪏

I can't do justice to the richness and nuance of the contributions, but I have tried to sum up the main themes from the symposium below ⬇️ @ucl-ias.bsky.social

Our event is today - a research symposium exploring Indigenous people's health and wellbeing in the context of anthropogenic climate change, hosted at @ucl.ac.uk

Feminist Studies is seeking three new editorial collective members. Application forms online: forms.gle/1CuqBvkBQe1g...

Hey abortion friends, consider submitting a proposal for my edited collection 'Abortion Within and Beyond Medico-Legal Frameworks' 👇 call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/06/... #repro #abortion

Our commentary on reproductive genocide in Gaza has now been featured on the SRHM podcast so you can hear a conversation with Hala and me on Spotify and Apple Podcasts: open.spotify.com/episode/1QjF... podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n... Our commentary is here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Student antiracist activists working with Hannah Jones @uncomfiest.bsky.social& Anna Numa Hopkins in Warwick Sociology, have created an online archive of student-led #antiracist activism, to pass on experiences and knowledge to future generations in #HigherEducation : warwickantiracism.org

Such a great event, I really enjoyed hearing @eyatesd.bsky.social discuss her new book and can't wait to read it!

I'm looking for participants for my oral history on space and feminism! Please share with anybody you feel may have contacts and email me if you have any questions or would like to get involved: [email protected]

🏆 Chiara Chiavaroli from the @lseid.bsky.social has won the 2025 DSA Thesis Prize for her thesis on miscarriage and toxic risks, entitled: It Rains Miscarriages: A feminist investigation of toxic risks in the Bajo Cauca region (Colombia). Read more: www.devstud.org.uk/2025/06/06/d...

My first PhD paper is officially out in Social Science and Medicine!! It is called 'The unmothering of care: childhood disability, structural violence, and the politicisation of motherhood' and draws on ethnographic fieldwork with mothers raising disabled children in Barranquilla, Colombia

🚨 Event Alert! 📅Thursday, 3 July at 2pm BST Health-related Misinformation & Disinformation and impacts on health service utilisation Join in person ➡️ buff.ly/BhZZED9 Join on Zoom➡️ buff.ly/vbVGKE7 #GlobalHealth #HealthPolicy #UCL

Today I'm at the new UCL East campus for the first time ever, attending the GDI Hub roundtable on Disability Inclusive Solutions for the Climate Crisis #DisabilityRights #ClimateChange #Sustainability #DisasterRiskReduction

Are you part of an Organization of People with Disabilities (OPD/DPO) looking to make new connections and be more easily found by potential partners? ♿ 🌍 📍 Reach out to me to add your organization to the Global OPD Map, a tool supported by GDI Hub & AT2030 for launch within a year.

The decimation of life in Gaza is a reproductive genocide. It was a privilege to work with Hala Shoman on our commentary 'No justice in a genocide: sexual and reproductive health and rights in Gaza' in Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A recap from a fantastic day at our Intersections of Sociology with Crip Theory, Critical Disability Studies, and Mad Studies. #MadCrip2025 @cripmadsymposium.bsky.social autisticltd.co.uk/2025/06/20/e...

On #WorldRefugeeDay, we stand in solidarity with all refugees & reaffirm that … ‘HEALTH IS A HUMAN RIGHT’, not a privilege. Everyone deserves access to safe, dignified, culturally sensitive & affordable care. #HealthForAll 👉 bit.ly/4kQoVDu

📣We've extended our deadline for the National Call for Evidence (UK) on Temporary Accommodation & neurodivergent children's experiences - to 4 July 2025 www.sensorylivesproject.org/national-cal... 🇪🇸Survey also now in Spanish, thanks Indoamerican Refugee and Migrant Organisation for support.

a hill I will die on: a new job is “professional news”, not “personal news”, unless you’re also announcing that you’re going to marry your boss

Finally out! For the first time, The Lancet has published a critical paper on the science of Early Childhood Development (#ECD). As an interdisciplinary team of authors, we call on the ECD field move beyond the widespread use of deficit-based models. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Crowdsourcing: I'm looking for a reference to support the statement "RCTs are a cultural product". Any sociologists or philosophers of science know a good one? #philsci #healthpolicy THANKS!

Looking for a PhD fellowship in family demography? We are looking for candidates with a strong quantitative background and interest in men’s fertility and family participation. Reach out to Vegard or me if you have questions.

I was so chuffed to be invited to speak at @cripmadsymposium.bsky.social's event #MadCrip2025 today. I talked about all the ways that Latin American critical disability studies have informed my research with families of disabled children in Colombia.

Have you lived in temporary accommodation with a neurodivergent child? Or do you support families who do? Join the APPG on Households in Temporary Accommodation @sensory-lives-prj.bsky.social @sharedhealthgm.bsky.social & @autistica.org.uk call for evidence and share your experiences. Link in bio.

And the afternoon too! #MadCrip2025

Symposium schedule! #MadCrip2025 @fraedan.bsky.social @kmunday.bsky.social @robinskyer.bsky.social [Full alt text in first image]

Intersections of Sociology with Crip Theory and Critical Disability Studies and Mad Studies Tickets are here!!! 📣 📆 June 11th ⏰️ 9.30 - 4.30 💵 Free 3 amazing sessions, 2 unmissable keynote speakers, 1 amazing creative workshop, 2 BSL interpreters... #MadCrip www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

Tickets are now available for our free hybrid event. Get tickets here: www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

Final Call for UCL African Graduate Scholarship Applications! 🌍 The scholarship supports African nationals with strong academic and professional backgrounds who have an unconditional offer for the MSc in Global Health and Development at UCL. Deadline: 30th May Find out more: buff.ly/yTMkk4p

No problem at all. I decided to apply for PhD funding and incorporated ethnography because of this course! I'm now as excited again about research as I was when I was a young graduate :D All the best with your research, Rosamund, and thank you, and Jennie, again!