Please join FemQuant in January for our next seminar! It'll be given by Dr Hyojin Seo on: "Outsider Orbit: Segmentation of Employment Trajectories and Feminisation of Outsiders in South Korea" 📆 Wed 14 Jan 2026 at 8am (EST), 1pm (GMT), 2pm (CET) More info: femquant.wordpress.com/seminar-seri...

Call me old fashioned, but can't folks just stop citing papers they have not personally read?

This week Wednesday! Still time to sign up to join: femquant.wordpress.com/seminar-seri...

"Our findings support the claim that local government austerity cuts unequally restricted the right to have children amongst the most disadvantaged." This study highlights the negative impacts found for poorer households only and the disproportionate allocation of cuts to racially minoritized women.

Our new paper: Austerity as reproductive injustice: did local government spending cuts unequally impact births? led by Laura Sochas is out now OA in @sfjournal.bsky.social

Tomorrow 1/12 (12:30-1:30, ARB S1), Princess Banda of Oxford shares her research on The Crisis of Reproductive Necropolitics and Obstetric Racism in England's (Black) Maternal Health Landscape. Join us in person or online: www.gender.cam.ac.uk/Events/gende...

Retraction Watch has covered the problem of the “national IQ” database. Should be noted I’m far from alone in working to remove these publications. The spreadsheet of pubs which use NIQ - linked to in the article - was started by @kohngregory.bsky.social; a project also worked on by Cathryn Townsend

About to kick off a peer review workshop with our brilliant @sriucl.bsky.social PhD students right now. Thanks to my colleague Alina Pelikh for hosting and I wish something like this was available when I started out.

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...

***10 days left to apply*** Please share widely! 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 at Yale Details: www.renealmeling.com/gametic-poli...

*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...

📊 We're hiring a Senior Quantitative Manager! Can you turn data into creative, high-quality analysis and visualisation? Experienced with applied quantitative methods and using national survey datasets? Then we'd love to hear from you. Apply now: https://bit.ly/3LqTdzQ

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...

THIS WEDNESDAY NOV 12TH 8:30AM ET: Feminist AI - Frameworks, Practices, Refusals Join us for what promises to be a great transnational feminist dialogue around feminist approaches to AI. Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

📢 Now open: BSPS 2026 Call for sessions and strands. Come and join us in Canterbury. 8-10 September 2026: www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...

Check out this conference if you work on topics related to kinship structure and dynamics (within and beyond the household), caregiving, intergenerational processes, family bereavement, LGBTQ+ & chosen kinship, etc. @iussp.bsky.social Submit by 21 Jan 2026 👇 www.demogr.mpg.de/go/kinship-conference

Join us tonight for the online lecture series: „Border Regimes on the Move" - I will share a panel with Hans Kundnani (Eurowhiteness) & discuss how thinking racialisation from its ambiguities helps us to dismantle key myths about race. Details and registration here: uni-goettingen.de/en/694576.html

🚨Job alert!🚨 We are looking for a 🧮 quant postdoc researcher to join the AMAZING Jay Das-Munshi @jdasmunshi.bsky.social George Ploubidis @georgeploubidis.bsky.social & myself at @kingscsmh.bsky.social in collab with @clscohorts.bsky.social All info: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru... Closes 18 Nov!

🎉📃👑Yay & huge congrats to Susie Scott, Prof of Sociology at @sussex.ac.uk, named an SRO Sage Prize winner with co-author Nina Lockwood for 'Nested Narratives: Biographical Accounts of Unlived Experience Across Three Narrative Orders' said to be "remarkable for its intellectual innovation"....

Don’t be fooled by his handsomeness, he is effectively our landlord and he shows up quite regularly to collect rent. He just sits and stares at us through the kitchen window until we give him a few Dreamies

The worst!

We have a fantastic line-up of panel speakers - Christina Dragon, Fernanda Fortes de Lena, Onikepe Owolabi, and Kristopher Velasco - for our November FemQuant online event: Feminist Research and Data Activism in Political Turmoil. Sign up to join us on 5 Nov femquant.wordpress.com/seminar-seri...

Thank you to everyone who attended the FemQuant seminar earlier this week. A recording of Sarah Small’s presentation What is a Feminist Quantitative Method? Opportunities for Feminist Econometrics is now available to view

There's some good advice in this thread, but I'm going to offer another take on #6 here: The "best" (i.e. most prestigious) program you get into might not be the best fit for you, and you can still have a great career, even if you decide not to put status above everything else.

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14 puts the ”terrible twos” into perspective

Guess who made herself coffee for the commute this morning and then left it on the counter in the kitchen!!

'bout time. And yet, no doubt the still-to-be-announced 'new tapered system' will also be appalling and ultimately punitive 🙄😕

Also, let’s not forget that September 28th was firstly declared as #SafeAbortion day at the fifth Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Encuentro in 1990, acknowledging a) the Brazilian 1871 free womb law, and b) complications of unsafe abortions as top causes for regional women’s mortality

my faith in humanity is renewed

Our call for study participants is out - please share with anyone who may be interested in taking part! bsky.app/profile/seli...

Before I run off to eat lunch a few reflections on the @claremontcomms.bsky.social event today exploring how we create a society that values care. It's positive to see focus on the need to shift how we talk about care - in all it's forms to one that is universal. 🧵

Check out #GenTime research led by @gczching.bsky.social on adolescents' #timeuse in Japan, Korea, UK & Finland across 3 decades. Gender differences in time use emerge in adolescence. Girls already undertake twice as much domestic work as boys. @sociologyoxford.bsky.social

ICYMI: Our monthly seminars are back & we’re kicking off the term next week. Still time to sign up

Are you back from holidays and struggling to make time to write? Between catching up with colleagues, meetings, and simply remembering who you were, focusing on writing seems impossible. And that's when our FREE Bootcamp is coming 🙌🏼 #AcademicSky #ECRchat #AcWri #NewPI

🔎 The University of St Andrews research team led by Katherine Keenan and partner in the SOC-MISC project is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to work on analysing Scottish public data on miscarriages. More information in the link below : 👉 www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

Rachel Rosen and Eve Dickson from @sriucl.bsky.social introduce their book Bordering Social Reproduction, in conversation with Gargi Bhattacharyya and Shirin Rai. 25 Sep 2025, 18:00 – 19:30. Hybrid event. Book at www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...

Very pleased to announce the (nearly complete) list of our monthly events coming up this term! Sept: Invisible biases, unequal outcomes Oct: What is a feminist method Nov: Panel discussion - Feminist research & data in political turmoil. Details & sign up: femquant.wordpress.com/seminar-seri...

The thing about investing in public transit is that it *scales* — the more people use it, the better it gets. For everyone. Whereas the more cars there are, the *worse* everything about driving gets. Traffic. Parking. [Ever noticed that in just about every car ad it’s alone on the road? Yeah.]

This is unbelievable @ucu.org.uk How can you be threatening 100% deductions for ASOS that is working at home rather than in office? UCU policy is against disprop ASOS deductions ASOS deductions breach workers Art 11 rights You contradict UCU support for members’ cases against employer deductions

Latest @femquant.bsky.social newsletter is out - packed with events listings, opportunities, calls for papers & calls for participants

Researching inequalities among older adults? Interested in uncovering gender biases in quantitative research? Join us for a FemQuant seminar where @crowold.bsky.social will discuss Invisible Biases & Unequal Outcomes. 🗓️ 18 Sept 📍Online Check time in your time zone & register 👇

Why are so many journals/article aggregators trying to forcefeed me AI summaries of papers when the abstract is RIGHT THERE?

🚨 Fully funded PhD studentship available in Politics or Sociology at @astonuniversity.bsky.social! Find out more and apply: view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx...

So excited to announce that I have been awarded a €1.6M Starting Grant from @erc.europa.eu to study the impact of local violent crime on sexual and reproductive health. I'm so grateful to all who provided their support through this journey. Ads for 2 fully funded PhD studentships in comments 👇

We‘re delighted to welcome Dr. Zuzana Dančikova (back) to the department as our new LSE Fellow in Gender, Policy and Inequalities! 🥳 Find out more about Zuzana‘s research and work here: www.lse.ac.uk/gender/peopl...

Heya. I got a bit bored by people asking me how to navigate away from the cycles of exhaustion and exploitation that the academia seems exceptionally well inclined to produce. So I decided to run a workshop on it. An antiwork-antishop, in effect. Sign up below. janabacevic.net/against-acad...

Thanks to Karen Hao's brilliant book Empire of AI, I learned that potable water is the only type of water that can be used to cool data centers. Saltwater or wastewaster isn't useable.

Why the Left Should Not Care About Population Decline By Leslie Root 1. It's a fake problem based on long-run population projections that assume things will remain as they currently are 2. And things not remaining as they currently are is kind of our whole fucking deal

I am looking for a postdoc to join my ERC StG project DIVREP to work on global, quantitative analyses of fertility and reproductive behaviour. The post is based in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford. Let me know if you have any questions. More details below👇