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Let’s stop asking why women aren’t having children and ask, for once: why aren’t men? | Rhiannon Lucy Coslett On the whole, men I’ve spoken to – like women – want children. But a host of issues, from housing to mental health, is getting in the way, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Great to speak to @theguardian.com's Rhiannon Cosslett about men, children, and fertility

tl;dr: I think any notion of a fertility 'crisis' is a load of inflammatory, unscientific nonsense 1/3

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Can ChatGPT help science writers?

Tl;dr = No.

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Woman's Hour - 28/08/2025 - BBC Sounds Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.

📻 @bernicerunsonboba.bsky.social also joined Anita Rani on BBC Woman's Hour this morning to discuss the latest #ONS #fertility release, drawing on #ESRC funded #Generations and #Gender Survey findings for possible causes - listen from 01:05 @uosmedia.bsky.social @uossocstatdemo.bsky.social

Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce get engaged in a flower garden

While marriage is on everyone's mind, check out my new qualitative paper on marriage and cohabitation in the Philippines - the only Asian country with large scale uptake of nonmarital cohabitation. Open access article on Genus

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Flexible hours ‘trap’ mothers into doing more parenting Women are still far more likely than fathers to stay at home with ill children and do the school run, a study has found

🗞️🗞️“Fathers contribute to #childcare but mothers — even those who work outside the home — are much more likely to handle the difficult jobs that get in the way of a regular working day and need to be done at a specific time," says @bernicerunsonboba.bsky.social in yesterday's @thetimes.com