A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

How can we call on this when we are still sending Israel weapons?!

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"When it comes to understanding what’s going on with our bodies, who can we trust?" asks @desiredpaths.bsky.social in this important feature on AFAB health care from our Spring 2025 issue. this.org/2025/05/05/v...

"When it comes to understanding what’s going on with our bodies, who can we trust?" Read my feature in @thismagazine.bsky.social, about online reproductive health education, medical advocacy & what second-gen feminists can teach us about fighting for equitable, safer care: this.org/2025/05/05/v...

It's almost the weekend, and we have a Friday Feature to share! In our upcoming Spring issue, @desiredpaths.bsky.social dives into the history of medical information-sharing amongst AFAB patients and asks "has the internet killed feminist health activism?" this.org/2025/05/05/v...

The conservative movement has turned against reality on every scientific issue of our time, from gun violence to climate change to epidemiology. If campuses are ideologically homogenous, it's not because academia has ostracized conservatives. It's because conservatives have ostracized academia.

I’m devastated, but I’m also angry. I’m angry because this is an attack on press freedom. If opportunities can be stripped from journalists simply because enough people repeat the same bad-faith narrative, how can anyone withstand the career impact of doing work that matters?

It was always going to get to criminalization. They were always going to start with someone who was marginalized, serving a marginalized community, so there wouldn't be an uproar. The frogwater is boiling hotter and hotter.

Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

🔬🧪🧬 SCIENTISTS! we are collecting stories from folks whose research has been disrupted by the Trump admin. Whether you’re a grad student, postdoc, faculty, we want to hear from you! ty to everyone who has already shared. my signal: caitlingilbert.24 thewashingtonpost.formstack.com/forms/scient...

there is still good in the world

my forthcoming essay collection, POST-MAN, is now available for pre-order from arsenal pulp press. it’s about gender & neurodivergence & shame & desire & friendship & loneliness. it’s me writing my heart out. check it out? arsenalpulp.com/Books/P/Post...

FEB. 19 | Are yo using social media to recruit research participants, engage partners w/lived & living experience, assess #PatientOrientedResearch priorities, or connect w/other health care professionals? You won’t want to miss this: www.child-bright.ca/event.../wha... @coffeeandresearch.bsky.social

Thrilled to be moderating a three-part workshop series on one of my favourite topics: accessible research communications! It all kicks off tomorrow @ 1 p.m. ET. The series is free and open to anyone with an interest in public scholarship! To register: www.child-bright.ca/event-listin...

Out now! “Dear Diary…”, @artistorian.bsky.social’s deep dive into the diary as a site for the reproduction of girlhood, is now available on notyrgirls. Read & subscribe: notyrgirls.beehiiv.com/p/dear-diary

After MONTHS of researching (and also procrastinating), I’ve finally finished the final draft for the next issue of notyrgirls, which is a newsletter I co-author with @desiredpaths.bsky.social - notyrgirls.beehiiv.com. It’s called “Dear Diary: Writing ourselves through fact & fiction.” Coming soon!

📣 New zine!! "A Librarian Against AI; or, I Think AI Should Leave" is a 40-page zine about why we should think twice about using & supporting generative AI. violetbfox.info/against-ai/ #noAI #zines

the universe conspires against me so that i can never make one of @nolore.bsky.social’s book launches. one day i will prevail. in the meantime, if you’re in mtl why don’t you attend so i can live vicariously through you 👇

finally decided to abandon the other site and the first thing i see upon logging back in here is this beauty... if ever i needed a sign this is the place to be! ty @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social for your public service