This is it. This is the baseline assumption I think we should be working from.
"we are up against an ideology that has given up not only on the premise and promise of liberal democracy but on the livability of our shared world [...] The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death.
The evidence of things not seen
I wrote a short essay in @healthpromint.bsky.social to mark @ottawacharter40.bsky.social academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...
Watch my chat with editor @docsamantha.bsky.social on YouTube youtu.be/79i7TgalSPw?...
Or listen on Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/2AbP...
CFP: Falklands/Malvinas Conflict Conference
📅 16-17 April 2026
@OfficialUoM
Supported by the SLAS Events Grants Scheme, this conference explores the conflict's histories, legacies & scholarship 44 years on.
@fm44conference.bsky.social
www.fm44conference.com
The arrest of Greta Thunberg for peacefully opposing genocide and supporting those on hunger strike is wrongful and disturbing.
This is yet another shocking example of the UK’s broad terrorism laws being used to target those exercising their right to freedom of expression and assembly rights.
The Filton 24 are political prisoners, interned without trial. 8 are on hunger strike, at risk of death. They are not getting a hearing or adequate care.
The British govt has done this before in Northern Ireland. It is again inhumane and a stain on the country.
www.linkedin.com/posts/ugcPos...
Our first Special Issue is out now! It's on Reproductive Vulnerabilities: A Critical Perspective - Guest editors: Laura Sochas, Kaveri Qureshi, and Philip Kreager
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“Fame is a form of incomprehension, perhaps the worst.”
— A passage from Borges came to mind:
(“Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote,” tr. James E. Irby)
Powerful piece by @drrachelclarke.com on the COVID inquiry. Those who say it’s easy to be wise in hindsight are being utterly disingenuous. Many of us spoke out at the time, and it’s in the public record.
@independentsage.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
I am not a lawyer, just a historian, but one fundamental problem with the political debate about the EU, especially in English publications is that the whole principle of the acquis communnitaire is not understood or taken seriously. The EU is a framework of rules, not an alliance.
How to conceptualise research environments for transdisciplinary work? How do researchers negotiate such spaces, and with which implications for knowledge produced? @rosetrappes.bsky.social and I answered by proposing the idea of "multiplex research environments"! See: rdcu.be/eN8ie #philsci
Call for papers - Special Issue of Social Science & Medicine
🔎 Overdiagnosis, Medicalization, and the Consequences of Too Much Medicine
Guest editors: Alexandra Ryborg Jønsson, Cindi SturtzSreetharan
📆 Submission deadline: 31 May 2026
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Good luck to Anita, but BBC reporting here that there is no international definition or agreed common symptoms is just wrong and perpetuates doubt and myths.
There is a WHO definition, and widely agreed pattern of common symptoms.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
New commentary published 'online first' from Paul Ward & Belinda Lunnay on drawing on sociology of hope in public health
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New 'online first' publication from Jenny Trinitapoli & Gertrude Finyiza on the value of listening in to 'population chatter': part of our forthcoming special issue on critical perspectives on #reproductive vulnerabilities
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New 'online first' publication from Uzair Amjad on male infertility in Pakistan - part of an exciting forthcoming special issue on critical perspectives on reproductive vulnerabilities!
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A conference on madness, health and creativity
This is complete madness. The utter waste of huge time, effort, hope. And those tiny %s increasingly given to those PIs with grants already and no time to manage them. Funding needs overhaul.
Why is research participation in free fall? Some thoughts, on @bsaecf.bsky.social @costoflivingblog.bsky.social Blog www.cost-ofliving.net/just-saying-...
Launching Voces y trayectorias, a new series of conversations on psychiatric deinstitutionalisation in South America.
🎙️ First session: Benedetto Saraceno
📅 Nov 27, 2–3 PM GMT
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Editors invite papers that engage in assessment and critique of Northern theoretical approaches OR offer fresh theoretical approaches from the Global South. Deadline Dec. 15! ow.ly/txyq50Wq9qz
📣Call for Articles
We invite submissions to the Special Collection on the 40th Anniversaries of the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion and @healthpromint.bsky.social . More info below! 👇
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Poster of the MPIWG Institute’s Colloquium. It features the titles of its five events below an image that shows a colorful mixture of liquids in red, orange, yellow, green, and violet.
Our Institute’s Colloquium Program 2025–26 is now available online! This year we will be "Rethinking Time in the History of Science" 🕰️⌚️
📍 MPIWG & Harnack-Haus
🔗 For the full program and information on registration, please check bit.ly/42Zq98m
#HistSci #DeepTime #Anthropology #ReligiousStudies
On Oct 29 I’ll be giving a seminar for
@kingscsmh.bsky.social
"Proximity and Incongruence: The social sciences in the era of lived experience"
As lived exp becomes central to health research and policy, this talk reflects on the distinctive role of qualitative sociology.
+ info: bit.ly/3VIinMg
UK sociologist of health? Next call for @fshi.bsky.social awards closes 30th october www.shifoundation.org.uk/schemes/
"Repair will require honesty around uncertainty and ignorance, compassion for those whose views are different, and a willingness to speak about uncomfortable dilemmas – even though such positions risk cooption by bad faith actors."
Very nice editorial on the latest num of @cphjournal.bsky.social
📆 Upcoming event: Supporting the mental health and wellbeing of forcibly displaced populations
The Refugee Mental Health in Place Network at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social are hosting a seminar with Dr Ross White to discuss his research on 22 October at 4pm.
Find out more here: bit.ly/3K4fm6m
The Commission concludes that Palestinians who were physically and mentally harmed by the Israeli security forces’ military operations will continue to suffer from long-term harm of such a serious nature that they will no longer be able to lead a normal and constructive life. For example, in relation to Palestinian children, in June 2024, UNICEF stated that “almost all of Gaza’s 1.2 million children need mental health and psychosocial support”, especially those who were exposed to repeated traumatic events, maimed, have lost parents and close family members, and children with disabilities.177 According to a report published by War Child in November 2024, almost half of 504 surveyed caregivers stated that their children think they (the children) would die during the current war, and other children have expressed their wish to die.178 Many Palestinians from Gaza told the Commission that they live in extreme and constant fear for their safety since 7 October 2023. Some of them said that their children could not think of anything but ways to survive from being attacked daily.
Sitting with, not skimming over, the words compiled in the UN Commission's report makes you howl, once again, with rage www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
Online first! New paper from @kat-lauber.bsky.social, Nason Maani, Olivia Brown & @rebeccaglover.bsky.social on the pros and cons of 'crisis' framings journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...
