Wheelchair user Julia Feinberg, who has spinal muscular atrophy, lives independently thanks to the 600 hours of help she gets each month to have someone assist with daily tasks. If Gov. Gavin Newsom gets his way, Feinberg risks losing the care that allows her to live an independent life.

Board Ouster Raises Further Concerns About NSF’s Future The White House axed all members of the board overseeing the National Science Foundation Friday, leaving the agency with no board, director or deputy director. It finally provided a reason Monday afternoon. https://bit.ly/4e7Q9VE

One of my pet peeves lately is people saying “X isn’t political” when they mean “X shouldn’t be partisan.” Lots of things that don’t need to be partisan are in fact political because they involve (what *should be* collective) decisions about how to distribute resources and power in society.

I’m excited to share my paper, “Evidence, Expertise, and Exploration: Politics of Knowledge in Gender Therapy,” published in The Sociological Quarterly! For those interested in constructions of expertise, boundary work, conversion therapy, trans studies, etc.: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

being a graduate student feels like there are sixty tabs running in my brain at all times but i currently have the processing capacity of a dusty 2008 ipod touch

A federally funded study on #trans #mentalhealth was abruptly terminated, despite being rated more highly than 96% of competing projects and being over half completed. #Psychology and sexual health professors explain the effects ripple through science and society: buff.ly/eFZCL4H