I am not a lawyer, just a historian, but one fundamental problem with the political debate about the EU, especially in English publications is that the whole principle of the acquis communnitaire is not understood or taken seriously. The EU is a framework of rules, not an alliance.

How to conceptualise research environments for transdisciplinary work? How do researchers negotiate such spaces, and with which implications for knowledge produced? @rosetrappes.bsky.social and I answered by proposing the idea of "multiplex research environments"! See: rdcu.be/eN8ie #philsci

Call for papers - Special Issue of Social Science & Medicine 🔎 Overdiagnosis, Medicalization, and the Consequences of Too Much Medicine Guest editors: Alexandra Ryborg Jønsson, Cindi SturtzSreetharan 📆 Submission deadline: 31 May 2026 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Good luck to Anita, but BBC reporting here that there is no international definition or agreed common symptoms is just wrong and perpetuates doubt and myths. There is a WHO definition, and widely agreed pattern of common symptoms. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

New commentary published 'online first' from Paul Ward & Belinda Lunnay on drawing on sociology of hope in public health journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...

New 'online first' publication from Jenny Trinitapoli & Gertrude Finyiza on the value of listening in to 'population chatter': part of our forthcoming special issue on critical perspectives on #reproductive vulnerabilities journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...

New 'online first' publication from Uzair Amjad on male infertility in Pakistan - part of an exciting forthcoming special issue on critical perspectives on reproductive vulnerabilities! journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...

A conference on madness, health and creativity

This is complete madness. The utter waste of huge time, effort, hope. And those tiny %s increasingly given to those PIs with grants already and no time to manage them. Funding needs overhaul.

Why is research participation in free fall? Some thoughts, on @bsaecf.bsky.social @costoflivingblog.bsky.social Blog www.cost-ofliving.net/just-saying-...

Launching Voces y trayectorias, a new series of conversations on psychiatric deinstitutionalisation in South America. 🎙️ First session: Benedetto Saraceno 📅 Nov 27, 2–3 PM GMT www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/voces-y-tr...

Editors invite papers that engage in assessment and critique of Northern theoretical approaches OR offer fresh theoretical approaches from the Global South. Deadline Dec. 15! ow.ly/txyq50Wq9qz

📣Call for Articles We invite submissions to the Special Collection on the 40th Anniversaries of the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion and @healthpromint.bsky.social . More info below! 👇 academic.oup.com/heapro/pages...

Our Institute’s Colloquium Program 2025–26 is now available online! This year we will be "Rethinking Time in the History of Science" 🕰️⌚️ 📍 MPIWG & Harnack-Haus 🔗 For the full program and information on registration, please check bit.ly/42Zq98m #HistSci #DeepTime #Anthropology #ReligiousStudies

On Oct 29 I’ll be giving a seminar for @kingscsmh.bsky.social "Proximity and Incongruence: The social sciences in the era of lived experience" As lived exp becomes central to health research and policy, this talk reflects on the distinctive role of qualitative sociology. + info: bit.ly/3VIinMg

UK sociologist of health? Next call for @fshi.bsky.social awards closes 30th october www.shifoundation.org.uk/schemes/

"Repair will require honesty around uncertainty and ignorance, compassion for those whose views are different, and a willingness to speak about uncomfortable dilemmas – even though such positions risk cooption by bad faith actors." Very nice editorial on the latest num of @cphjournal.bsky.social

📆 Upcoming event: Supporting the mental health and wellbeing of forcibly displaced populations The Refugee Mental Health in Place Network at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social are hosting a seminar with Dr Ross White to discuss his research on 22 October at 4pm. Find out more here: bit.ly/3K4fm6m

Sitting with, not skimming over, the words compiled in the UN Commission's report makes you howl, once again, with rage www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

Online first! New paper from @kat-lauber.bsky.social, Nason Maani, Olivia Brown & @rebeccaglover.bsky.social on the pros and cons of 'crisis' framings journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...

Latest issue now out! Editorial here from editors @judegreen.bsky.social & @lindsaymclaren.bsky.social journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...

Journal of Critical Public Health. Vol. 2 No. 2 (2025) "Unionization Rates and Health in Canadian Provinces, 2000–2020" Anupam Das, Ian Hudson &Mark Hudson doi.org/10.55016/ojs...

Journal of Critical Public Health. Vol. 2 No. 2 (2025) Are Place-Based Approaches to Reducing Health Inequalities a Highway to Success or a Policy Dead-End? Gerry McCartney & Jennie Popay journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...

Journal of Critical Public Health. Vol. 2 No. 2 (2025) Critical Metabolism: Towards a Metabolic Justice? Stephen Hinchliffe et al journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...

Massive opportunity to work with us in Edinburgh on Medicine without Doctors. 5 full-time postdocs each for 5 years starting in April 2026. Please share widely!

🧵New blog: BELONGINGS Workshop organised by the Refugee Mental Health & Place Network The CSMH-supported project explored how creative methods can challenge anti-immigration narratives & foster pathways of belonging & improved mental health with people seeking asylum & refugees. 🔗 bit.ly/3Ijbo9k

🚨JOB KLAXON🚨 We are recruiting five 5-year postdoctoral fellows to work with us. Each post will be attached to a specific case study on the project (Abortion Care, AI, Physician Associates and/or LGBTQ+ Health Activism). At:University of Edinburgh Starting: April 2026 Deadline: 2 October 2025

📣 Job Klaxon: come work with me at UCL on the Information in Society Programme! 🔹 Lecturer (Teaching) Publishing, Knowledge Production, Platforms and Society 🔹 Full time, open ended contract 🔹 London 🔹 £54,931 Closes 8 September. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

We are pleased to announce that the Journal of Critical Public Health is now included in the Directory of Open Access Journals! #DOAJ @doaj.bsky.social

Congratulations to the editors of diamond OA Theory & Social Inquiry on their 1st issue - exciting to see so many excellent journals escaping coporate control! www.theoryandsocialinquiry.org/issue/1706/i...

📢 Awesome job opportunity here, on a brilliant project with a super team 👇

El 18 de agosto, a las 11:00, haremos un seminario de lanzamiento en Chile para el proyecto Transitions sobre desinstitucionalización psiquiátrica en América del Sur. saludpublica.uchile.cl/agenda/23025...

Job Opening at the Chair of Philosophy and History of Science and Technology at TUM! Research Fellow for 3 years (renewable). Preferably philosopher w interest in plant, crop & agricultural research (& their history and social studies) All details: www.sts.sot.tum.de/en/sts/arbei... #philsci #sts

Our commentary on commercial influences on patient & public involvement is out today @healthpromint.bsky.social as part of special issue on the #CDoH. We hope to stimulate discussion & debate (& hopefully meaningful action) in this area academic.oup.com/heapro/artic... @jameslarkin13.bsky.social

New paper published this week! Long COVID barely registers in health systems in the Global South. Our review finds an erasure of infection-associated chronic conditions in Brazil, calls for a global step-change @patientled.bsky.social @elaveling.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New article in Social Theory & Health, co-authored with @judegreen.bsky.social, open access. In a nutshell we argue that that lived-experience research is not the same as qualitative sociology in health research. The difference exists and matters. Read here: rdcu.be/evZ7F

Happy to see this out in one of my fave journals - led by @crismontenegro.bsky.social We unpack distinct contributions of PPIE & qual sociology, suggest why they are at times conflated, and why they shouldn't be.

We started working on this in 2021 and there is *finally* a physical copy of the book in my hand. It feels great that other people can now read all the great work that's in this collection. It is available as a free e-book and in paperback: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/recalibratin...

It's a busy time on @d-liveability.bsky.social! We are hiring a 12 month #postdoc Research Fellow to contribute to #qualitative analysis of suicide prevention policies + parliamentary debates: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

It's that time again. Sounding the Exeter #academicjob klaxon! 3yr Research Fellow post with a focus on environmental-social-health inequalities, working with my excellent colleague Rebecca Lynch in Egenis. Come and join us! #sts #sustainability #medsoc #anthropology

Brilliant job on the social science of Health and Climate, three year post-doc, hybrid opportunity, come at work at #Egenis, University of Exeter: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

Only one week to go till the TRANSITIONS launch! Transitions: The Ethics and Politics of Psychiatric Deinstitutionalisation in South America A @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded research initiative led by @crismontenegro.bsky.social from our Department of Global Health and Social Medicine.

There has been no meaningful increase in the number of people with an #ADHD diagnosis globally since 2020, despite a surge in awareness and media stories about the condition. Find out more ⬇️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/gaps-in... @alexfmartin.bsky.social | @nihr-hprfa-orb.bsky.social

Next Saturday, 14 June, is the 8th anniversary of Grenfell. It is hard to fathom. Everybody is welcome at the silent walks, come if you can, to show solidarity and demand change 💚

One million excess deaths were linked to deprivation between 2009 and 2020, Michael Marmot told a Royal College of Physicians conference. Marmot calculated 148 000 can be directly linked to austerity measures introduced by the coalition government in 2010 www.bmj.com/content/389/...

Deadline approaching! SRO’s special issue, Towards a Sociology of Dignity, welcomes contributions that engage with dignity as a contested concept, particularly in post-conflict settings. Find the full Call below. Deadline: 12 June 2025. www.britsoc.co.uk/opportunitie...

Date: Wed 25 June 2025 Time: 4:30 PM (UK time) Location: King’s College London, Strand Campus, Macadam Building (Room MB4.2), with the possibility of joining online. www.kcl.ac.uk/events/proje...