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Annie James

@arb0re1um

Health Psychology PhD-c @ChristUniversity. Feminist STS, (feminist new materialisms), & women’s reproductive health and psychology in South India. She/they, I do: πŸ‘©πŸ»β€πŸŒΎπŸŒΈπŸ§—πŸ»β€β™€οΈπŸ‹πŸ»πŸ¦œ

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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.

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 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Between the Lab and the Clinic: Perspectives from Medical Humanities and Science and Technology Studies (STS) Kristin D. Hussey and Hannah Star Rogers draw on Science and Technology Studies (STS) to think through how the β€˜lab’ is being employed across the medical humanities.

Kristin D. Hussey and Hannah Star Rogers draw on Science and Technology Studies (STS) to think through how the β€˜lab’ is being employed across the medical humanities.

thepolyphony.org/2026/03/05/l...

05.03.2026 12:21 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

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_...

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

04.03.2026 13:56 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Women in Philosophy: Anna Golova on Self-Illness Ambiguity
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 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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No country in the world has reached full legal equality for women and girls | UN Women – Headquarters From protection against gender-based violence to equal pay, women and girls remain unequal under the law, as impunity for violations of their rights persists worldwide, said UN Women.

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

05.03.2026 14:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

🚨 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

04.03.2026 00:41 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It. 40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.

TIL about a large number of operators/tools that can be used to make Google searches much more focused and productive
πŸ§ͺ #philsci

cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

03.03.2026 20:04 πŸ‘ 53 πŸ” 23 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 4
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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, w’shops that align with reproductive/infant psychology

Submit by: 31/03/26

More info: www.srip.org/submissions-for-conference

02.12.2025 09:42 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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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. I’m deeply grateful to everyone who supported me throughout this process.

#philsci #racism #health

20.02.2026 11:49 πŸ‘ 61 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 4

One week left, send your abstracts!

01.03.2026 10:00 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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

08.02.2026 05:23 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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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 women’s reproductive health through endometriosis. I expand my concept of β€œontological friction” showing how symptoms move thru porous configurations w/o coordinating as β€œdisease”.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

26.02.2026 08:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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

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 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

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!

03.11.2025 08:42 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Shame in Contemporary You-Narration: Q&A with the author - Edinburgh University Press Blog Denise Wong discusses Shame in Contemporary You-Narration, exploring second-person storytelling, shame, temporality, and narrative experimentation across literature and media.

πŸ€“ 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.

24.02.2026 13:24 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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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 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2

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

24.02.2026 13:31 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 4

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 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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.

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 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
blue background, american philosophical association central division 2026, book covers center titled arthur schopenhauer, unbecoming persons, get 30% off and free domestic shipping

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#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

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We decide together, but not equally: extended family influence on women’s decision-making in India This qualitative study examined the impact of extended family networks on women’s 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 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"

21.02.2026 08:13 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
2025 Canadian Philosophical Association Prize Winners The Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA) is pleased to announce its 2025 prize winners

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

27.05.2025 18:36 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Women’s pain and psychogenic diagnoses

Free version here: rdcu.be/e3mGZ

10.02.2026 23:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Women’s pain and psychogenic diagnoses - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy Healthcare providers often rely on the following sort of concerning reasoning when encountering patients with difficult-to-explain symptoms: in the absence of evidence for a physical cause, the sympto...

Our paper about women's pain and psychogenic diagnoses is now out: doi.org/10.1007/s110...

10.02.2026 23:43 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
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: ⬇️
doi.org/10.1017/S174...

16.02.2026 16:06 πŸ‘ 108 πŸ” 42 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 5
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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