Disabled people aren’t “less than”. It’s not a moral failing. Most people will experience disability at some point. It’s a minority group you can join at any time. We need more accessibility, inclusion, accommodation and compassion. There’s no social justice without disability justice.

Public health shouldn’t be centred around individual behaviour change. It should be focused on changing the wider commercial, social, environmental & ultimately political determinants of health. Behaviour change will naturally come when healthy behaviours are facilitated by those structural changes.

To "accelerate high-impact, curiosity-led research and innovation, and to facilitate breakthroughs" - let me tell you my students using genAI are NOT curious and what it is accelerated so far is lying, cheating and data fabrication

It's hiring season at @iast.fr! - 2y research postdoc contract - Full autonomy, you are your own PI - Awesome multidisciplinary environment - All social and behavioral sciences welcome - Seed funding for projects and workshops - Gorgeous city in the south of France www.iast.fr/research-fel...

"Our study found that preference for two children was not significantly stronger than preference for zero, one, or three children when competing work, financial, and family demands were taken into account"

Queen

Covid-19 is a reproductive health issue (among other things). Please consider getting vaccinated, especially if pregnant, and use other layers of protection as well (masks, ventilation). Please fight to keep the vaccine accessible to all, and to increase access to populations that do not have it

📢 Call for submissions for European Population Conference 2026 (3–6 June, Bologna) is open! Organized by EAPS & University of Bologna. 💡 More information: www.eaps.nl/epc/european...

Report finds hundreds of Inuit women and girls were forcibly given contraception in Greenland: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e... #reproductivejustice

🎤 19 Sept | At the MAE Conference in Vienna, Hélène Malmanche presents the first qualitative results of the SOC-MISC project including lived experience, clinical vs. personal temporalities, and its long-term impact on parenthood and fertility trajectories 🔗 Program: mae.univie.ac.at/scientific-p...

Next month I am running a 4 half day training on designing survey questions surrounding sex, gender and sexuality for @instats.bsky.social . If your interested check it out here: instats.org/seminar/surv...

📢PLEASE NOTE: This event is now SOLD OUT in-person! If you have not already booked an in-person ticket you will not be able to attend 😦 But online tickets are still available 😃

🆕📄 Ethnic Disparities in Perinatal Mortality and Associated Factors: A Nationwide Cohort Study 🗣️ Laura Robinson, @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social, Sara Leitao 🔗 obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @bjog.bsky.social @npec-ucc.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social

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

Pregnancy Loss Associated with COVID-19 Infection: Associations with Detection of Viral RNA in Placental and Fetal Tissue Ansa Mehreen, Erica Price, Vivien Wang, Sunitha Suresh, Kathy Mangold, Linda Sabatini, John Lee, and Linda Ernst journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

RTFT what it feels like to be an identifiable immigrant in the UK right now. And why I would <never> vote Labour again. Legitimate concerns my arse.

"Hobbyist" is a truly breathtaking choice of phrase. It encapsulates a profound sense of contempt for the labour of academics in the UK, who already have to navigate an underfunded system dominated by precarity and overwork. "Knows the price of everything but the value of nothing" springs to mind

💬 Pregnancy loss may be hard to put into words. Researcher Shawn Forde (UBC) shares a moving graphic account of infertility and miscarriage, experienced with his partner. Read it for free and open access in Graphic Medicine Review: doi.org/10.7191/gmr....

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...

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Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

This may seem trivial but editorial choices matter and play a key role in agenda setting In particular, they create a sense that Reform is an inevitability and its rise is democratic, ignoring how skewed our current political system is I explore this here aurelmondon.medium.com/the-people-l...

September 2025 Events FemQuant—September Seminar: Invisible Biases, Unequal Outcomes: Uncovering Gender Biases in Quantitative Research on Older Adults September 18th, 2025 at 10:00 ET/15:00 GMT/16:00 CT: signup form here. Description: This presentation delineates gender-specific biases inherent…

Had the BEST time presenting our work “Sex and the Survey” at @bspsuk.bsky.social, on behalf of fab co-authors @heinivaisanen.bsky.social & Linh Nguyen We analyse surveys in France, Ghana, Senegal, and UK to answer the question ‘what if everything we knew about #SRHR was what we read in surveys?’

FemQuant seminars are back! Please join us on 18 September to hear about gender biases when researching older adults (more info below 👇) Follow FemQuant here or join our mailing list to receive information on our programme for the rest of the term! www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/weba...

This 🧵 is long so please bear with me. It is compiles evidence in a historical timeline on how effective #COVIDVaccines are. When a pandemic ends we quickly and easily forget the tools that got us out of it. So here is my labour day gift to you prompted by this headline.

Some cool PhD studentships open at Stockholm Sociology: AI/future of work (quant) su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Organized labor and care leave (quant/mixed) su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Violence and sexual health in Mexico (quant/qual) su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

This book is excellent and comes with a playlist!

✨20th anniversary of the European Doctoral School of Demography✨On this day 20 years ago(Sept 1, 2005) the EDSD opened its doors @mpidr.bsky.social for the 1st time. Today, we welcome the 21st cohort. We wish everyone a great year of study, research & networking! www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

Looking to do a PhD in demography, health, data science? Oxford Demography (LCDS) is recruiting to fill TWO positions! See Charlie's posts below for specifics. Come join us in the beautiful (albeit a bit rainy) Oxford!! 👩‍🏫📊🌦️

#MorningReads Sex is often used as a proxy for gender (in political surveys here), but this study shows it misses nuance—about a quarter of people don’t fit neatly. A finer measure of gender improves analysis and highlights the need for better survey design. #SOGIData

WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you. Apply by: 10 Oct www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Reactions to fertility rates in the UK and demands for "aggressive pro-family policies" tell you all you need to know about reactionaries and women's rights They only "care" about women and children when they can use them against their main enemies

We’re hiring! Join @utu.fi & INVEST Research Flagship Centre as a #SeniorResearcher ( #postdoc ) or #DoctoralResearcher in the #SHARELEAVE project on parental leave and social inequality. 🌍👶 🗓 Apply by Sept 22 at 4 pm (Finnish time) 👉 ats.talentadore.com/apply/erikoi... #hiring #openvacancies

Mifepristone is one of two drugs used in the most common medication abortion regimen. It's safe, effective & widely accepted. Guttmacher scientists are proud to sign onto a letter by @ansirh.bsky.social & @uclarepropolicy.bsky.social calling on the FDA to protect access to #MedicationAbortion.

📢 The SOC-MISC project will be at #BSPS2025 in Swansea! 📅 3 Sept 🎤 @selinkoksal.bsky.social : miscarriage measurement & reporting in UK surveys 🎤 @mccompans.bsky.social : hospital-care seeking after a miscarriage in France ➡️ Full programme: www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...

Call for applications: 12-month postdoctoral contract (Sciences Po - INED, TIERED Project) for a research project studying the mediating role of environmental risks in the relationship between migration status and health at birth in France (e.g., heat, pollution). www.sciencespo.fr/cris/files/P...

"We all have human rights. If some of us don’t have them, then none of us do. As soon as you start that divisive pulling apart you weaken the armour and the tools that we have for moving forward." Our CEO in the Herald yesterday: www.heraldscotland.com/news/2541309...

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👇

You still have one week to apply to work with us in the SOC-MISC project! See more info below about this postdoc position based at the University of St Andrews in Scotland

NEW Population Studies Working Paper! Andrea Verhulst, Julio E Romero Prieto & Michel Guillot. Modeling Age Patterns of Under-5 Mortality: A Comprehensive Model Life Table Approach for Low- and Middle-Income Countries READ THE PAPER: repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.50...

UK-based colleagues: here’s an opportunity to pay it forward and gain a lot of insight into how funding decisions are made - by making them

The far right hates being called far right, racist, transphobic etc even when they are doing exactly these things The mainstream media loves taking them at their word and centring their claims rather than providing expert analysis or listening to those at the sharp end I wonder who that serves...

An abbreviation (ABB) in a journal article (JA) or Grant Application (GA) is rarely worth the words it saves. Every ABB requires cognitive resources (CR) and at my age by the time I'm halfway through a JA or GA I no longer have the CR to remember what your ABB stood for.

🗞️ In @theguardian.com article on the current extreme #heatwaves in Europe @gasparrini.bsky.social at LSHTM comments on its impact of public health‬ and mortality rates, and the need for public health measures to tackle heatwaves Read more 🔽 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Really enjoyed talking to Lizzy McNeill on the BBC More or Less podcast about trends in abortion provision post Dobbs (along with @ushma.bsky.social !) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

We are looking for a postdoc to work for the @soc-misc.bsky.social project. The post is based at the University of At Andrews in Scotland and focuses on analysing administrative and census data on #miscarriage. Let me or Katy Keenan know if you have any questions. More info below 👇

Bocconi University in Milan is hiring in sociology at any level (open rank). Ideal candidate might focus on inequality, social policy, computational, labor markets, or similar. Happy to answer questions about my time there for anyone considering applying. More details: jobmarket.unibocconi.eu

A fantastic opportunity in our amazing department! Come and join us as Director of our Centre for Longitudinal Studies www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

The Journal of Family Issues (JFI) is seeking a new Editor. This is a great chance to revitalize JFI and help it expand its reach. Please share widely! #familysociology #sociology #familydemography journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/PD...