If you're an early career researcher using population studies data to look at digital tech and social media use among children and teens the next @closer-uk.bsky.social Emerging Longitudinal Scholars Symposium is for you! closer.ac.uk/news-opinion...

@abortionbookclub.bsky.social is back on the 15th! We’re (re)reading The Incendiaries by RO Kwon- sign up & come along for pro-abo chats (& we don’t even require you to have read the book!) www.otherabortionstories.space/2026

I wrote a book about migrant women's experiences of pregnancy and maternity care in England. And the e-book is open access! bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/borders-citi...

Demography of menopause @bspsuk.bsky.social 2026! The strand on "Women's health: Beyond maternal mortality" will host a special session on #menopause. Submit your works 👇until April 17 (5pm UK time) Call for papers: www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...

Some thoughts about the emerging "back to analog" trend in teaching. I admit I'm somewhat intrigued by some of these ideas, and I add my own questions on how we can explore this in a way that includes a robust rather than cursory engagement w/accessibility beyondthescope.substack.com/p/the-analog...

I wrote a post about the extremely unexpected award I received recently, and the context in which I received it. From the stress, exhaustion, and overwhelm of academia, to the power and joy of social movements and coming together with other women.

Working on a powerpoint slide deck about abortion in NJ. I tried the "designer" option, and it suggested a background photo of an infant. This is definitely new and suggests some strong bias in the AI behind it.

New harmonized fertility data across four British longitudinal cohort studies (1946–90) show consistency with national statistics – opening up new possibilities for cross-generation research on fertility & family life in Britain. @clscohorts.bsky.social www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

Resist the temptation to address society-wide problems with individual solutions. At best, they isolate and exhaust everyone who cares until many of them abandon the cause. At worst, they reinforce the very problem we wanted to solve.

When billionaires warn that “civilization” will end if women have fewer children, we should ask: Whose civilization? Our guests Nandita Bajaj and @michelebgoodwin.bsky.social connect Musk-style panic to white nationalism, eugenics, and patriarchal control.

📢 Call for Papers: Special Issue of Frontiers focusing on feminist quantitative research methods. Editors invite papers that examine the connections between feminist research, quantitative methods, intersectionality, and epistemology. Deadline for extended abstract: 15 March 2026.

The latest FemQuant Newsletter is out now!

📣 Registration for our Feminist Demography pre-conference workshop at #PAA2026 is now live! 🔎 Learn more: www.feministdemography.org/event-list 📝 Register: tinyurl.com/ktsh4b3s 🎤 Submit a flash talk: tinyurl.com/z3napf3a Please share widely!

Do I know anyone who is a) going to RGS this year and 2) would agree be on a panel for my book Borders, Citizenship, and Pregnancy? You would get my undying gratitude, and a free copy of my book! Please share! #AcademicSky @isameier.bsky.social @jonnydarling.bsky.social @bordercrim.bsky.social

Coming up next week and there’s still time to sign up to join the conversation!

85k before the weekend folks for the excellent @nionwomen.bsky.social? You might have questions or concerns about sharing spaces, but hopefully you’ll look at what’s happening in the world (hello USA 🇺🇸) and conclude there is a more compassionate way. Sign and share here: notinourname.org.uk

Reflexivity and Positionality Statements in Quantitative Research "Choices about research questions, data sources, analytical techniques, and interpretation are all influenced by researchers’ epistemological commitments, their lived experiences..." By @maddipow.bsky.social & @scordoban.bsky.social

Join us for a conversation with @feministdemography.bsky.social on 3 March 2026. Online, free and open to all. More info and link to sign up: femquant.wordpress.com/seminar-seri...

Thanks to everyone who joined us last week for @honoratabogusz.bsky.social's #FemQuantSeminar presentation and discussion on the Deroutinization of Labor and Second Birth in West Germany! For anyone who missed it, or might want to watch the presentation again, the recording is now available!

For the second year, BSPS @bspsuk.bsky.social will host a session on queer demography! It focuses on LGBTQIA+ populations, experiences, and demographic processes (e.g. dating, families, health). Questions? Contact @mortenkthomsen.bsky.social or me. Please share! www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...

Explore queerness, migration & heritage with Imogen Patel in a Design Your Own Identity Postcard workshop. Define how you wish to be seen — send the postcard to yourself or someone else. 📍 Part of our Queer Migration Stories pop-up at the Royal Maritime Museum’s Fierce Queens evening.

We very intentionally launched S.A.F.E. on Valentine's Day because we know that helping people access safe abortions is an act of radical compassion and love. Happy birthday to us!

Destination: Love 💌 🗺️ People migrate for many reasons — safety, family, and new beginnings. Today, we’re sharing a few story discs shared by visitors that remind us how often love is the lead. Swipe to read. #Valentines

Happening today! The link to attend has just been emailed out to all who had signed up - if you've not received it please check your spam/ junk filter

Yesterday, SEI hosted David Davies for the launch of his new monograph ‚The Regulation of Gender Stereotypes in Advertising‘: www.routledge.com/The-Regulati...

Coming up this week- Join us! The zoom link will be emailed out on the day of the event to everyone who has signed up in advance. More information and link to sign up here: femquant.wordpress.com/seminar-seri...

This is our most-watched FREE class. All to boost your scientific writing and change the way you manage your time 🎊 Click at the 📸 to sign in and watch the replay buff.ly/Jqgzf2f #AcademicSky #ECRchat #WomeninSTEM #AcWri #Postdoc #NewPI

This talk is next week and there is still time to sign up!

Happening March 3rd! Our next installment in the Critical Quantitative Methodologies Series will feature @bakerdphd.bsky.social. The talk is entitled: "Examining the Higher Education Policy Discourse through 75 Years of Congressional Hearing Testimony". Register at: vcu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

This Wednesday!! Come along 😊

Call for participants! Please share widely. Details comments. Thank you!

Join us 12 February for the next FemQuant seminar when we will be joined by @honoratabogusz.bsky.social who will present her paper on Deroutinization of Labor and Second Birth in West Germany: The Moderating Role of Childcare. Full details and link to sign up: femquant.wordpress.com/seminar-seri...

Today! 👇

Birth rates are never a problem. They can be symptoms of problems, but the signal is always indirect and muted by the fact that people have kids and don’t have kids for many different reasons!

Updated term card for FemQuant events this spring! And there is still time to sign up to join us for the first event tomorrow! Full details and links to sign up here: femquant.wordpress.com/seminar-seri...

I am so excited to be part of this event on the Global Politics of Abortion with the fabulous Dr Nayla Luz Vacarezza, Sarah of Ad’iyah Collective, Prof Sophie Harman & Dr Sydney Calkin 28th January. Be there! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/global-pol... @qmulsse.bsky.social @profsophieharman.bsky.social

Check out the exciting online events we've got lined up for Spring 2026 - and join us next week for our first research seminar of the year! Still firming up details for an even in May, so keep an eye out for updates! More info + links to sign up to attend: femquant.wordpress.com/seminar-seri...

Happy New Year 🎉 💡A reminder to start 2026 with the next FemQuant seminar on Wed 14 Jan given by Dr Hyojin Seo on "Outsider Orbit: Segmentation of Employment Trajectories and Feminisation of Outsiders in South Korea" Please register using the link below to receive the Zoom link on the day 👇

January 2026 Newsletter Happy new year! Below is the January newsletter. We are currently in the process of solidifying the Spring 2026 term card of FemQuant events, but we have started adding sign-up links for the events we do have on the books! Keep your eyes peeled for more seminars and further…

❄️ Freezing cold outside? Perfect timing to submit your work for our Family Diversity & Health summer workshop in Berlin ☀️ 📅 June 29–30, 2026 📍 Hertie School, Berlin 🫶 No participation fees 🏨 1 hotel night covered 📨 1-page abstracts due: Jan 31, 2026

Did you publish a sociological book about families in 2024 or 2025? You should nominate it for the ASA Goode Book Award! I'm on the committee and looking forward to reading nominated books 🤓

I’m paying adult child to tutor teen child. Adult child has said payment for helping sibling is not actually necessary. But it’s work, and I think should be compensated as such. The teen feels hard done by for not also getting paid

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.