New in PLOS Global Public Health: A 10‑year, 86‑country analysis shows how global media frame childlessness—often politicising, moralising, or pathologising it, but sometimes humanising it. A powerful look at how narratives shape stigma and reproductive justice. journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

This is it. This is the baseline assumption I think we should be working from. "we are up against an ideology that has given up not only on the premise and promise of liberal democracy but on the livability of our shared world [...] The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death.

The evidence of things not seen I wrote a short essay in @healthpromint.bsky.social to mark @ottawacharter40.bsky.social academic.oup.com/heapro/artic... Watch my chat with editor @docsamantha.bsky.social on YouTube youtu.be/79i7TgalSPw?... Or listen on Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/2AbP...

CFP: Falklands/Malvinas Conflict Conference 📅 16-17 April 2026 @OfficialUoM Supported by the SLAS Events Grants Scheme, this conference explores the conflict's histories, legacies & scholarship 44 years on. @fm44conference.bsky.social www.fm44conference.com

The arrest of Greta Thunberg for peacefully opposing genocide and supporting those on hunger strike is wrongful and disturbing. This is yet another shocking example of the UK’s broad terrorism laws being used to target those exercising their right to freedom of expression and assembly rights.

The Filton 24 are political prisoners, interned without trial. 8 are on hunger strike, at risk of death. They are not getting a hearing or adequate care. The British govt has done this before in Northern Ireland. It is again inhumane and a stain on the country. www.linkedin.com/posts/ugcPos...

Our first Special Issue is out now! It's on Reproductive Vulnerabilities: A Critical Perspective - Guest editors: Laura Sochas, Kaveri Qureshi, and Philip Kreager journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...

“Fame is a form of incomprehension, perhaps the worst.” — A passage from Borges came to mind: (“Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote,” tr. James E. Irby)

Powerful piece by @drrachelclarke.com on the COVID inquiry. Those who say it’s easy to be wise in hindsight are being utterly disingenuous. Many of us spoke out at the time, and it’s in the public record. @independentsage.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

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...