Cover of my book 'Conceiving Histories', featuring one of Anna's illustrations of a naked lady riding a fish in front of a moon. Black and white with pink and white text.
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!
06.03.2026 16:01
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We're excited to announce the Spring 2026 PSA office hours! Come learn, ask questions, and connect with leading voices in philosophy of science!
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Registration at this link: www.philsci.org/psa_...
24.02.2026 20:04
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This two-day workshop brings together Mexican and UK scholars and practitioners to ask a fundamental questionβwhat, if anything, makes for good euthanasia legislation.
04.03.2026 13:56
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Women in Philosophy: Anna Golova on Self-Illness Ambiguity
YouTube video by The Philosophy Garden
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
25.02.2026 12:34
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π¨ New Episode π¨
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
04.03.2026 00:41
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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, wβshops that align with reproductive/infant psychology
Submit by: 31/03/26
More info: www.srip.org/submissions-for-conference
02.12.2025 09:42
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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. Iβm deeply grateful to everyone who supported me throughout this process.
#philsci #racism #health
20.02.2026 11:49
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One week left, send your abstracts!
01.03.2026 10:00
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My short article on βontological frictionβ is out now! Super grateful to @evasurawy.bsky.social for the incredible support
08.02.2026 05:23
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Gender and Ontological Friction in Endometriosis Diagnosis
Endometriosis often struggles to consolidate as a recognizable condition during biomedical encounters; in India, this unfolds at the interstice of biomedicine and gender-caste-class persistence. We...
My first empirical paper from my PhD is out! It examines biomedical ontology in womenβs reproductive health through endometriosis. I expand my concept of βontological frictionβ showing how symptoms move thru porous configurations w/o coordinating as βdiseaseβ.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
26.02.2026 08:51
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An elephant surrounded by trees with information to submit proposals for the 54th Annual Conference on South Asia. Proposals are due by April 6, 2026. Submission guidelines are available at southasia.wisc.edu
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
25.02.2026 19:52
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Call for papers: Motherhood Without Poverty: Working-Class Women and Global Struggles for Work, Family, and Reproductive Autonomy (1918β1939)
Deadline for submission: 10 November 2025.
Please share!
03.11.2025 08:42
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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/...
03.11.2025 11:04
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Microsoft Virtual Events Powered by Teams
Microsoft Virtual Events Powered by Teams
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
16.02.2026 17:26
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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 π§΅on what we found; please help us share!
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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
22.02.2026 18:55
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Green gradient cover with Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law title in white text and small light green square accent, volume 51 issue 2 April 2026.
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
21.02.2026 14:02
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blue background, american philosophical association central division 2026, book covers center titled arthur schopenhauer, unbecoming persons, get 30% off and free domestic shipping
white background, book cover top left titled data equals, book cover top right titled how to read hegel now, book cover bottom center titled sensing qualia
purple background, book cover top center titled robert bresson, book cover bottom left titled bacteria to AI, book cover bottom right titled the complete notebooks
#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
21.02.2026 15:31
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We decide together, but not equally: extended family influence on womenβs decision-making in India
This qualitative study examined the impact of extended family networks on womenβs autonomy in household decision-making in relation to marriage, reproduction, mobility, social visits, household exp...
We decide together, but not equally: extended family influence on womenβs 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"
21.02.2026 08:13
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2025 Canadian Philosophical Association Prize Winners
The Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA) is pleased to announce its 2025 prize winners
Happy to share that Iβve been awarded the Canadian Philosophical Associationβs Nontenured Faculty Essay Prize for my paper, βEngineering the Concept of Pain for Clinical Practice.β Many thanks to the CPA! www.acpcpa.ca/articles/202...
27.05.2025 18:36
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Womenβs pain and psychogenic diagnoses
Free version here: rdcu.be/e3mGZ
10.02.2026 23:44
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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...
19.02.2026 14:55
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Perceptions of Feminism as a Threat | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core
Perceptions of Feminism as a Threat
New publication in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social!
Who perceives feminism as a threat, and why do a lot of women perceive feminism as threatening?
With @evaanduiza.bsky.social, we explore these questions in the context of Spain.
We find: β¬οΈ
doi.org/10.1017/S174...
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European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS) 2026
The European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS) invites submissions to its 15th Conference at the University of Helsinki, 26-28 August 2026. blogs.helsinki.fi/enposshel/
Deadline for submission: 1 March, 2026
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