Essay: Unawareness, or What We Do Not (Want to) Know An open access chapter in the book “Epidemiological Obfuscation” It asks the question: “Why do researchers do empirical social research that they have reason to know not to do?” Please download and read it: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...

Another paper showing that family poverty is more important than psychosocial adversities Parental socioeconomic resources and adverse childhood experiences as predictors of not in education, employment, or training: a Finnish register-based longitudinal study: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

¿Who can afford to have many children? In a global context of fertility decline, big families are becoming a class privilege and a status symbol www.ft.com/content/a402...

I am very pleased to share that our paper on gender privilege and vasectomy experiences of childless men in Chile has been published in Gender & Society doi.org/10.1177/0891... @socwomen.bsky.social

I am very happy to share that our paper on the impact of the climate crisis on reproductive justice has been published in Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Defending my dissertation on April 17th!

Recognizing Endo: How Gender and Recognition Shape Experiences of Endometriosis Interview (in Swedish) about the project: www.su.se/enheter/inst...

Reframing rights, culture, and health: unpacking global dynamics in the sexuality education literature www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A permanent settlement on Mars or elsewhere wouldn’t last long if we can’t have kids there. An excerpt from "Becoming Martian" explains the research conducted around human reproduction in the cosmos. Read via @literaryhub.bsky.social:

Visa restrictions: A structural determinant of global health that must be confronted head-on @luchuobain.bsky.social @ckyobutungi.bsky.social & team via @plosglobalpublichealth.org journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

Good article in @techpolicypress.bsky.social with quotes from Martha Kenney, @gleemie.bsky.social & Brian Dolber on why paying Open AI millions for Chat GPT is a disaster for @calstate.bsky.social. www.techpolicy.press/how-cal-stat...

New CfP in Qualitative Research in Psychology: 🔮 "The Future of Rigorous Qualitative Research" We're inviting papers that address the big question: What does the *future* of good, quality, rigorous qual research look like? 📄 Deadline Sept 2026 💬 Happy to answer Qs docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Papers invited for an open panel on critical metascience at the 2026 meeting of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology Convenors: @jackstilgoe.bsky.social @noortjem.bsky.social @ismaelrafols.bsky.social Tommaso Ciarli @cianooo.bsky.social #STS

From the Archive: Thomas Lemke, 'An Alternative Model of Politics? Prospects and Problems of Jane Bennett’s Vital Materialism' - discusses basic arguments and important achievements of Jane Bennett’s vital materialism. (2018) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Dignity-based practice in global health research: a framework of expectations - The Lancet Global Health @lancetgh.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

It was nice to see @lancetgh.bsky.social editors wrote an editorial in the issue of the journal featuring our article. They committed to being "mindful of these expectations in all work that we evaluate". Restoring dignity to the marginalised as sovereign knowers: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

"(...) I propose the idea of glitching academia as a feminist method of interruption and resistance – a way of exposing and subverting the normative and often exclusionary structures of academic knowledge production." Virginia Musso #FR140 journals.sagepub.com/share/JXVCW8...

This is a great list of techniques for getting real information out of a Google search and avoiding AI slop and paid results. (One thing not included is that if you add "-ai" to a search, you block the AI summary) cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

Harerimana Ismail of Uganda is a community health worker who checks on kids with HIV. He lost his salary after the Trump administration's aid cuts but he keeps doing his job. n.pr/3PPoNJy

🚨 Public health scholars! 🚨 JHPPL is seeking proposals for an upcoming special issue on "Community Organizing, Power, and Politics," edited by @povertyscholar.bsky.social, Megan Reynolds, and @sarahgollust.bsky.social! Proposals due May 15! Submission guidelines: read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/pages/...

My first empirical paper from my PhD is out! It examines biomedical ontology in women’s reproductive health through endometriosis. I expand my concept of “ontological friction” showing how symptoms move thru porous configurations w/o coordinating as “disease”. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This is what happens when socialism runs wild! Just kidding – Vattenfall is 100% owned by the Swedish state, and honestly, this is a pretty great use of my tax money.

Motherhood in Sonagachhi: Sex work, belonging and the fraught intimacies of community By Mahima Mukherjee #sexwork #migration #motherhood #FR143: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

Thrilled that Anna Burel's illustrations in my @mitpress.bsky.social book 'Conceiving Histories' are shortlisted for the @vamuseum.bsky.social Illustration Awards 2026 in the Adult Factual category. Adults like pictures too!

Kristin D. Hussey and Hannah Star Rogers draw on Science and Technology Studies (STS) to think through how the ‘lab’ is being employed across the medical humanities. thepolyphony.org/2026/03/05/l...

We're excited to announce the Spring 2026 PSA office hours! Come learn, ask questions, and connect with leading voices in philosophy of science! Details in the 🧵 Registration at this link: www.philsci.org/psa_...

This two-day workshop brings together Mexican and UK scholars and practitioners to ask a fundamental question—what, if anything, makes for good euthanasia legislation.

UOI DPhil student Anna Golova recently gave a fantastic Women in Philosophy lecture at the Royal Institute of Philosophy, on Self-Illness Ambiguity. You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tYa... @triphilosophy.bsky.social #ethics #mentalhealth #personality #ambiguity #womeninethics

No country in the world has reached full legal equality for women and girls | UN Women – Headquarters www.unwomen.org/en/news-stor...

🚨 New Episode 🚨 This week on @reprosfightback.bsky.social I talk to the amazing @cbpolis.bsky.social at @guttmacher.org on why fertility awareness-based methods of family planning must be grounded in evidence and reproductive justice. It was a great conversation and I learned a lot. #podcast

TIL about a large number of operators/tools that can be used to make Google searches much more focused and productive 🧪 #philsci cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

Call for abstracts now open for our 46th annual conference, 15-16th Sept 2026 at the University of Chester We welcome submissions for oral/poster presentation, symposia, w’shops that align with reproductive/infant psychology Submit by: 31/03/26 More info: www.srip.org/submissions-for-conference

My new paper is out! lnkd.in/d7QhdqVD Publishing on racism against people racialised as Eastern Europeans and its impact on health is not easy. I’m deeply grateful to everyone who supported me throughout this process. #philsci #racism #health

One week left, send your abstracts!

My short article on ‘ontological friction’ is out now! Super grateful to @evasurawy.bsky.social for the incredible support

My first empirical paper from my PhD is out! It examines biomedical ontology in women’s reproductive health through endometriosis. I expand my concept of “ontological friction” showing how symptoms move thru porous configurations w/o coordinating as “disease”. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The 54th Annual Conference on South Asia is accepting submissions! Symposium proposals due March 1 and all other proposals due April 5. Full details and registration info at southasiaconference.wisc.edu

Call for papers: Motherhood Without Poverty: Working-Class Women and Global Struggles for Work, Family, and Reproductive Autonomy (1918–1939) Deadline for submission: 10 November 2025. Please share!

So cool that our "gender bullshit" got us the QUEST Award. If you want to read about our "embarrassing" effort to include a "0.0000 minority" into our "skew[ed]" and "biased" fetch study of which we obvesuvly had "already know[n] the results", you can do so here journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🤓 New on our blog Denise Wong discusses Shame in Contemporary You-Narration, exploring second-person storytelling, shame, temporality, and narrative experimentation across literature and media.

For our February reading group we will be discussing Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation by Sophie Lewis. This is an informal get together. You don't need to have read the piece. When: 25th February 11am-12pm Where: Teams (online) Register here: shorturl.at/kjKoj

After 2 years of work, our special issue in @contraceptionjl.bsky.social on "Emergency of FemTech in the SRH Landscape" is out! It includes 14 papers on fertility tracking, contraception, and abortion in the digital age, plus our summary Editorial. A 🧵on what we found; please help us share! 1/8

A careful, quietly devastating review of research on involuntary outpatient treatment. Coercion is being oversold as a way of addressing serious mental illness, and its harms (forcing patients to accept useless or harmful meds & therapies, disempowerment, social disruption, etc) are being downplayed

The Weekly Read is "Public Health Under Siege," the introduction to a special issue of @jhppl.bsky.social (51:2) edited by Jonathan Oberlander and Sarah E. Gollust. Read it for free: buff.ly/wEHKRqJ Buy this issue and use code SAVE30 at checkout for a 30% discount: buff.ly/bGLjJc6

#APAC2026 may be ending, but our virtual exhibit is still open! Browse our virtual exhibit and get 30% off & free shipping using code EX58274: bit.ly/UCPAPAC

We decide together, but not equally: extended family influence on women’s decision-making in India: "the nuclearisation of family structures likely reconfigures the influence of extended kin, with relational ties continuing to shape decision-making across domains"

Happy to share that I’ve been awarded the Canadian Philosophical Association’s Nontenured Faculty Essay Prize for my paper, “Engineering the Concept of Pain for Clinical Practice.” Many thanks to the CPA! www.acpcpa.ca/articles/202...

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One of the textbooks I use when I teach my "Qualitative Data Analysis and Interpretation" Masters/PhD-level course is the Bryman and Burgess edited volume, "Analyzing Qualitative Data". I found a #Free2DownloadAndRead copy here: www.gmu.ac.ir/Dorsapax/use...