The current REF system really encourages temporary staff to burn down their own careers - either you complete research because you need it for your CV, but an institution can claim any resulting outputs before making you redundant so you've nothing to take elsewhere, or...

The #WAU 2025 begins today @waucongress.bsky.social! Browse our #OpenAccess #Anthropology: bit.ly/3UgEPeI @heikedrotbohm.bsky.social @nasimaselim.bsky.social @rodima.bsky.social @carrierentschler.bsky.social @almiddlemiss.bsky.social @amandalubit.bsky.social @isbelb.bsky.social @olgault.bsky.social

After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results: - AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2% - ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1% - ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%

Please consider answering this government consultation re extending bereavement leave to all #pregnancyloss including #termination for foetal anomaly #TOPFA/ medical reasons #TFMR. Not perfect, but could support many people + reduce the cliff edge of viability threshold + reduce #abortion stigma.

UK | Open consultation - Make Work Pay: leave for bereavement including pregnancy loss www.gov.uk/government/c... Ping #PLRG_PLACESproject

At the UK Covid Inquiry this morning, Boris Johnson testified under oath that, when he was PM, he was '‘trying to avoid a significant number of casualties'...

Awesome public health news: Maldives becomes the first country to achieve ‘triple elimination’ of 1. mother-to-child transmission of HIV, 2. Syphilis and 3. Hepatitis B www.who.int/news/item/13...

'Use of unusual capitalisation or punctuation when writing your name does not change this'...

10/10 No notes, @dalupton.bsky.social!

Just had a manuscript submission (to a Springer Nature journal) bounced because I had not provided a 'State' in the address of my affiliation. 1) We don't have states in the UK 2) Why is this kind of utterly trivial time-wasting bullshit required before peer-review?

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

This is bonkers. The antiabortion movement has put a full court press on FDA to restrict mifepristone, and everyone is on edge that it will do so. So what does FDA do? It approves a new generic mifepristone without changing anything about the restrictions. Thank you RFK? ?!?!

This is a truly remarkable finding: 17 years after introduction of the HPV vaccine, there was a decreased prevalence of HPV infection (and therefore decreased cancer risk) in both vaccinated AND unvaccinated individuals. Cancer prevention through herd immunity!!!

Fabulous job for a death studies ECR in Manchester. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

The #ChildPenalty is the drop in #women’s paid work and earnings after having a child. The childcare stretches long beyond the hands-on care required for early-years to being "on call" for teenagers – Almudena Sevilla @lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social @cep-lse.bsky.social for @lsebr.bsky.social.

We have put together this FREE #ChapterSampler, bringing 12 key title extracts together in a curated #FertilityStudies collection: bit.ly/4mnhhAu incl. @drrobinhadley1.bsky.social @almiddlemiss.bsky.social @evafiks.bsky.social Check out our 35% #SALE on ALL #MedicalAnthropology: bit.ly/4nzR2aZ

HHS Secretary RFK Jr. opened an investigation into the safety of the abortion pill mifepristone, as the anti-abortion movement continues to push the administration to restrict access through lawsuits and policy.

It's alarming how many people need to hear this: racism is not the natural and inevitable response to the presence of (the wrong number of) racialised Others. It is a learned response, and as such it is contestable and replaceable. This is anti-racism 101. Entry level stuff.

New paper from the SIMCA project: Moral Regime of Midwifery Continuity of Carer Implementation in England. Discusses the consequences of a moral regime for an NHS maternity care intervention, & links evidence use to moral & truth regimes in healthcare. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

When a typo in your Google search leads to new and exciting philosophical positions

Please: if you have Indefinite Leave to Remain and are eligible for citizenship, apply now. In 2015, I went through a terrible divorce. I was on a marriage visa, and my ex reported me as illegally in the UK in order to get me deported. It was VERY scary. Your rights can disappear in a flash.

who knew?

Also the e-book version of my book Invisible Labours is always free! :)

Let me elaborate my disagreement with @zackpolanski.bsky.social in a 🧵. The scenes on our streets are not "the consequences of decades of austerity" but of centuries of racism propagated by the British ruling classes to rationalise the social order they have constructed at home and abroad.

Share your skills and experience with someone beginning their career in #deathstudies. We are still looking for mentors for the ASDS Early Career Mentoring scheme. Find out more and apply by 22 September. deathandsociety.org/mentoring/ @ddd17-2025.bsky.social

We hope you are able to join us for two new (free!) online events this autumn. The first is next Wednesday 17 September with Rolando Nooks from Compassionate Reprieve. Find out more and register here. deathandsociety.org/online-event... #deathstudies #criminialjustice #deathtech #grief

The Association for the Study of Death and Society @asdsdeath.bsky.social usefully record their online talk series, so my talk on: 'Death situated in life: Personhood, pregnancy loss, and the politics of death' is available here: deathandsociety.org/online-event...

Diana Wynne Jones is the best.

Child mortality used to be 50%. As recently as 1950, 25% of children died globally. Now it’s 4% globally, and 0.3% in some rich countries. A large part of that is better public health and vaccines. Republicans are trying to take us back to the past. ourworldindata.org/child-mortal...

If you have published anything, please consider doing this. The window is closing and you should get your details registered now for a chance at a settlement. The form works wherever in the world you are based.

With news of a reported settlement with Anthropic I went back to check the class action form and it now allows authors outside the US to input their address, so it may be worth adding your known pirated titles (from the LibGen pirate database) www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

More than 20 people have died on Wednesday in a torrential spell of monsoon rain in Pakistan, where downpours have swept away entire villages over the last week, killing more than 400. u.afp.com/SQuv

Slightly diminish a band: Orange Squash

Mood

Do you have experience of ✴️ HINDU ✴️ SIKH ✴️ MUSLIM ✴️ AFRO-CARIBBEAN ✴️ Or other UK minority funeral practices? It’s so important to recruit diverse interview samples for research studies, and at the moment I’m simply not getting that right. I’d love your help to do better.

This is on my desk waiting for August reading! :)

Do you work for a bereavement service? If so, pls take a look at this v. short survey for a project we are running to support the analysis of qualitative client feedback data. Open until 31 July. There'll also be a focus group on 17 Sept - see flyer. app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/cardiff/be...

Tomorrow ⬇️

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.

Mood for the days ahead.

Missed our conference opening plenary with @ericaborgstrom.bsky.social and @johnmacartney.bsky.social? You can now watch it here ⬇️ www.bath.ac.uk/campaigns/mo...

Stark stats from survey of UK research institutions: - 48% choosing not to bid for some funding/join collaborations - 44% reducing internal funding schemes - 41% restricting applications for certain funders/grants And these numbers have gone up quickly 1/4

Excellent points about the integrity basis of qualitative research and its poor fit with LLM "AI". Much also applies to the sort of standardised checklists of 'research quality' I'm currently filling in for publication...

Thank you to Carol Kingdon for a thoughtful review of Invisible Labours! and to @pregnancylossie.bsky.social for pointing it out. :)

I see that yet again nothing has been learned from the annual “putting mid-career funding deadlines in school holidays is not great, especially for women” debate.

👀 TODAY at 12 - lunchtime online talks: ‘Reproductive Politics & Pregnancy Loss'. Me, Ruth Graham, Ella Dyer, hosted by BSA Human Reproduction Study Group. forms.office.com/e/2tXXXj59cy @britsoci.bsky.social @bsaecf.bsky.social @spspa-uofexeter.bsky.social

What role do online algorithms play in women's experiences of grief and remembrance after miscarriage? Good question. Let's find out... #miscarriage #algorithms #socialmedia #onlinesafety

👀 THIS FRIDAY - lunchtime online talks: ‘Reproductive Politics & Pregnancy Loss'. Me, Ruth Graham, Ella Dyer, hosted by BSA Human Reproduction Study Group. Friday 20 June 2025, 12:00-13:00 (BST) forms.office.com/e/2tXXXj59cy @britsoci.bsky.social @bsaecf.bsky.social @spspa-uofexeter.bsky.social

Really exciting to finally have a hard copy of this thoughtful, rigorous and thought-provoking piece of scholarship. Highly recommended summer (or any other time of year!) reading for anyone interested in borders, migration and/or reproductive justice. Congratulations @drglonergan.bsky.social