I'm excited to say I had the opportunity to write a policy brief, "Co-Creation Plus Cash" for the JHU Center on Global Poverty. Check it out here: sites.krieger.jhu.edu/cgp/policy-b...

If you're at the University of Iowa, I'll be giving my book talk here today at 2:30 in McBride Hall! events.uiowa.edu/event/37095

This week is my mid-West tour! I'll be doing a virtual book talk with Indiana University on Wednesday and I'll be at the University of Iowa in person for a book talk on Friday. events.uiowa.edu/event/37095

Thanks to my friend @drichardsonsoc.bsky.social, I'll be doing a virtual book talk next Wednesday with Indiana University Bloomington. Check out the registration link below!

At AAS in Vancouver, I got to see my new book, Reimagining Aid, which investigates how foreign aid in Southeast Asia is being transformed by our increasingly multipolar world, out at the press booth for the first time! @aparc.stanford.edu @stanfordpress.bsky.social @asianstudies.org

4/1/26 1 PM ET: Join @profmarycollier.bsky.social for a Zoom discussion of her new book Reimagining Aid. Hosted by Indiana University's Tobias Center and the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs.

If you're going to AAS in Vancouver this year and you're an early riser, please consider checking out our panel, "Global Health Imaginaries and Governance in Southeast Asia" on Saturday. Excited to be presenting on my book and attending AAS for the first time!

#MorningReads Book Review: Get It Out: On the Politics of Hysterectomy By Andréa Becker

Just out here trying to get the word out about my book 😅 classnotes.uvamagazine.org/person/mary-...

If you're in the Wilmington area, my colleague, @erin-michaels.bsky.social and I are having a book event this Friday!

Breaking, from me: An executive order from Oklahoma's governor directs most of the state's public colleges to "phase out tenure." #AcademicSky #HigherEd @chronicle.com www.chronicle.com/article/tenu...

I'm thrilled to share that my first book is now out!!! nyupress.org/978147982339... Many thanks to ‪@ilenekalish.bsky.social‬ & the whole team at ‪@nyupress.bsky.social‬ for helping me bring this into the world!

If you'll be at the Sociology of Development Conference or in the Princeton area this weekend, please come and check out my first ever author-meets-critics panel. It's on Saturday at 4pm! #SocDev #authormeetscritics

On Friday, I wrote about what SRH care access advocates should know about Heritage's new insidious plan for "saving" (read: breaking) the U.S. Today, @jessicavalenti.bsky.social published a piece that offers a great big picture look at the plan: jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...

Can't say I am shocked...

Emily Oster now writes that RFK Jr’s new dietary advice—which included eating more red meat, saturated fats, beef tallow & full fat dairy—is “fine and arguably positive advice well worth following” 👀 Half the advisers who shaped the advice have financial ties to the livestock or dairy industries 👀

New reading: @profmarycollier.bsky.social wrote about the closing of USAID on #AsiaNow. #ReadUP @asianstudies.org

The UNC Sociology department is hiring a Teaching Assistant or Associate Professor. The review of applications begins 2/26/26. To apply, visit unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/312....

Congratulations to @profmarycollier.bsky.social, APARC's 2021-22 Shorenstein Postdoctoral Fellow on Contemporary Asia, on the publication of her new book 👏

My first thought: they have funding forever now!!

New #AsiaNow post: Sociologist Mary-Collier Wilks @profmarycollier.bsky.social discusses how changes in aid funding from the United States and Europe has altered the situation on the ground and changed the landscape for practitioners in Southeast Asia.

Science personnel and funding gutted at astonishing scale in the US: www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Check out my @asianstudies.org blog on the consequences of the USAID closure for Southeast Asia. www.asianstudies.org/usaid-closur...

Out now! Reimagining Aid by Mary-Collier Wilks, PhD investigates the intricate interplay between aid donors from Japan and the United States, their competing priorities, and their impact on women's health initiatives in Cambodia. #ReadUP https://ow.ly/nbox50XZVr1#ReadUP

I can't believe this is the week that my book finally comes out into the world!! fsi.stanford.edu/publication/...

Everyone teaching IR and American right now.

Via @thehill.com: Approaching 1 year since the dismantling of USAID with devastating consequences: 700K+ deaths, loss of outbreak surveillance systems, and the end of ag. research that benefitted US farmers... all for <1% of the federal budget. @thelastmileusaid.bsky.social | @altusaid.altgov.info

There’s a big story everyone is missing—but this article hits on it. We aren’t just seeing public health dismantled bc we’ve been taken over by conspiracy theorists and lunatics. What we’re really seeing is the giant, predatory, underegulated wellness industry come to Washington.

I'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures". Open panel submissions portal is open! ls! Deadline: 2nd February 2026 www.4sonline.org/about_the_co...

Excited to have been interviewed about my book for the Feminist Development Newsletter and looking forward to seeing everyone at the #SocDev Conference in February!

I have the final version of a thing to review for publication approval and wow it is hard to concentrate given [waves hands around wildly while thinking about recent events, bursts into tears, remembers I was writing a skeet, comes back to laptop] all of this

NEW BOOK | Congratulations to @profmarycollier.bsky.social, our former postdoctoral fellow, on the publication of her @stanfordpress.bsky.social monograph, 'Reimagining Aid: Foreign Donors, Women’s Health, and New Paths for Development in Cambodia' 👏 Learn more and get your copy > buff.ly/F7EeHwO

So excited to get my copy of the new @stanfordpress.bsky.social book Reimagining Aid by @profmarycollier.bsky.social of the @uncwilmington.bsky.social Sociology Department. Go out and get your copy now! #sociology #socaf @asanews.bsky.social @gdp-center.bsky.social @cgdev.org

It's an exciting day because I just found out my book's first author-meets-critic panel was accepted to the SocDev conference in February and I pre-ordered my Dong Phuong king cake before they sold out!!

Audre Lorde spitting an absolute gem: "Coalitions don't happen between parts of wholes. They happen with wholes coming together. They happen with different people coming together, recognizing each other's differences. We cannot become each other in order to work together. We must become ourselves."

World's best grading assistant reporting for duty! ✍️🐺 #husky #dogsofbluesky #academicdogs

It’s becoming increasingly clear that the best thing a parent can do for their son is to enroll him in co-ed activities and facilitate friendships with girls from the youngest age possible. Patriarchy hurts boys. And nothing runs counter to patriarchy like teaching boys to genuinely value girls.

I might be late to this party but if anyone is looking for a nice diversion over the holiday break, I just finished Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley. It touched on immigration, identity, colonization, time travel, climate disaster, and had a fun little romance. Would recommend!

The burden of “successfully” raising children is increasingly individualized as we break down collective social goods, like public health and public education.

If women’s orgasms were “too complicated,” they wouldn’t show up so reliably in some situations and tank in others. So what’s really getting in the way? The orgasm gap isn’t inevitable. Here’s how we fix it. 👇 www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hidd...

Even child naming practices are starting to show signs of politically polarization in the U.S. today - these sorts of unexpected studies are why I love sociology!

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I'll be in D.C. for my book launch talk on Wednesday!

If you're a criminologist on the job market, consider coming to work with me! jobs.uncw.edu/postings/37753

If you're in the D.C.-area and interested in the uncertain future of foreign aid, I'll be giving a book launch lecture at American University on November 12th! www.eventbrite.com/e/sis-book-t...

Not me in the exact same boat...

"The Wish programme can empower women and give them a rare chance to make a decision about their body and life, he says. “That’s not something exotic. It’s not a luxury. It’s a necessity … if they make this cut, they are cutting a necessity.”" www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Need people to understand the difference between "this is a social construct" and "this is not real"

A new NBER working paper highlights the positive benefits of Chinese graduate students for American universities, students, and communities. www.nber.org/papers/w34391