In 2023, papers denying motherhood’s role in the gender wage gap went viral. I called out their flawed assumptions then, and newer results have proven me right. www.writingruxandrabio.com/p/of-course-...

Plus remote or hybrid work. It’s a game changer for us mums who also work outside the home.

Many women face a choice between career advancement and motherhood. But emerging technologies could allow women to have it all. All in this piece on how the gender pay gap arises & fertility tech 🧵 worksinprogress.co/issue/fertil...

A+ piece by @ruxandrabio.bsky.social. IMHO she is one of the sharpest writers about bio today! worksinprogress.co/issue/fertil...

Worth a read. I was excited to support this workshop by @ruxandrabio.bsky.social and Willy alongside @ifp.bsky.social, and eager to help more of these reform ideas get traction in 2025.

Balanced piece by David Wallace-Wells in NYT on the discovery of Ozempic, etc., based on Jeff Flier’s oral history from over the summer. (And as a bonus, it cites @ruxandrabio.bsky.social & Willy Chertman’s great new piece on “clinical trial abundance” too!). www.nytimes.com/2024/12/25/o...

Can preset rules inoculate us against misinformation? Contrary to some, I believe not. I discuss this & the risks of using 'scientific evidence' for top-down information control in my post "Misinformation studies &The Road to Mental Serfdom" www.writingruxandrabio.com/p/the-road-t...

Is egg freezing the future when it comes to extending the female reproductive window? In this piece, I look at the scientific evidence for the potential of this procedure in the preservation of female fertility: www.writingruxandrabio.com/p/is-egg-fre...

It's not quite Follow Friday yet, but what the hell, here's a short list of people who joined bsky recently and who tend to discover interesting things. Follow them — connect the nodes! @marcwatkins.bsky.social @ruxandrabio.bsky.social @dasmiq.bsky.social

Did aristocratic women play an outsized role in the spread of Christianity in the Late Roman Empire? The consensus view is Yes. But Michele Salzman says No. I had fun writing this piece analysing her arguments: www.writingruxandrabio.com/p/did-aristo...

Some things are cultural: female babies were left to die of exposure in Ancient Roman times. This would be unconceivable today! In this piece I reply to comments on my previous post abt the role of aristocratic women in the spread of Christianity open.substack.com/pub/ruxandra...

Did aristocratic women play an outsized role in the spread of Christianity in the Late Roman Empire? The consensus view is Yes. But Michele Salzman says No. I had fun writing this piece analysing her arguments: open.substack.com/pub/ruxandra...

I can post selfies here without feeling cringe

We need to get bowser on BlueSky

Has this person lived in the real world ? 😭

Maybe I can use Bluesky for shitposting and twitter for interacting with professional ppl. I hope the 2 worlds don’t merge

Countries that use “recriprocal kinship” (mother calling her kid “mom”). To be clear, in Romania this can only be done in a specific noun case (vocative), which is used to address ppl. Eg “please mom, do this”