This might be the worst use of "social construct" I have seen, and believe me, the competition is fierce.

Dr Dean Burnett@drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 3d ago

Only just found out about this For the record, you don't get multiple genetic markers and one of the most effective medications known to science with 'social constructs' Channel 4, this is, in scientific parlance, an absolute fu*king disgrace that will genuinely endanger lives #c4 #ADHD

Exclusive: Some EU citizens in the UK have been contacted by the Home Office to say they were granted settlement status after Brexit "in error". If you know anyone this happened to contact me on lisa.ocarroll@theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

EU citizens in UK get letters telling them post-Brexit residency rights were given ‘in error’

After years of building lives in UK, potentially thousands of EU citizens could be told they have no right to remain

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One more great episode in Didier Fassin's excellent podcast series on Michel Foucault: on pastoral power

France Culture@franceculture.fr · 5d ago

On pense souvent la politique avec des rois, des États, des frontières. Foucault ajoute une autre figure : le pasteur. Celui qui connaît ses brebis, les dirige une par une, et transforme l’obéissance en affaire de salut. ➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/zZ9

My mother went to work when she was 10 yo, while I had the privilege of going to university and ended up (at least temporarily) in a very upper-class profession. The big question is: do we see the son of a surgeon or of a judge becoming a plumber? I have never seen one, and this is the problem.

I’m torn by the hard hat v graduation cap debate. Is it wrong that I want my kids to go to university? | Emma Brockes

As Andy Burnham intervenes, it’s clear that the shine is coming off higher education. But is society ready for this mindshift? Am I? asks Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

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L7 bassist Jennifer Finch has died at 59 following a battle with brain cancer. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Jennifer Finch, L7 Bassist, Dead at 59

Jennifer Finch, the longtime bassist for influential rock group L7, has died at age 59.

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Here's the link for anyone who wants to read the full interim report, the screenshots above are from the conclusion: www.gov.uk/government/p...

Independent review into mental health conditions, ADHD and autism: interim report

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On imagine la Méditerranée antique baignée d’azur. Mais chez Homère, elle prend d’autres teintes : le vin, la nuit, la violette. Ce n’est pas que les Grecs ne voyaient pas la mer. C’est qu’ils ne la regardaient pas avec nos mots. ➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/ble

"Taken together, these chapters make a strong case that attending to time, and to who controls it, opens up dimensions of health inequality that spatial or distributional analyses alone cannot capture" Very happy to read this review of our volume "The Chronopolitics of Life" by Alaz Kilicaslan.

The Chronopolitics of Life: Rethinking Temporalities in Health and Biomedicine Beyond the Life CourseBy N. Bühler, N. Graber, V. Boydell and C. Greco (eds.), London: UCL Press, 2025. 224 pp. £50.00 (hbk); £30.00 (pbk); open access (PDF). ISBN: 978‐1‐80‐008‐972‐3

Click on the article title to read more.

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"Taken together, these chapters make a strong case that attending to time, and to who controls it, opens up dimensions of health inequality that spatial or distributional analyses alone cannot capture" Very happy to read this review of our volume "The Chronopolitics of Life" by Alaz Kilicaslan.

The Chronopolitics of Life: Rethinking Temporalities in Health and Biomedicine Beyond the Life CourseBy N. Bühler, N. Graber, V. Boydell and C. Greco (eds.), London: UCL Press, 2025. 224 pp. £50.00 (hbk); £30.00 (pbk); open access (PDF). ISBN: 978‐1‐80‐008‐972‐3

Click on the article title to read more.

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'Privatising humanity', the latest book from Dr @kbayliss.bsky.social (@soasuni.bsky.social), is a critical examination of the privatisation paradigm. Listen to her latest interview about the book on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast on Spotify here: open.spotify.com/episode/0gZO... #booksky

Kate Bayliss, "Privatising Humanity: How Our Essential Human Needs Became Financial Assets" (Manchester UP, 2026)

New Books in Critical Theory · Episode

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Didier Fassin, Ainsi pensait Michel Foucault: Enquête sur une philosophie pour notre temps - La Découverte, September 2026 www.editionsladecouverte.fr/ainsi_pensai...

Un retour de Carlo Ginzburg sur son propre parcours dans le cadre d'une masterclasse de @franceculture.fr www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

Carlo Ginzburg : "Trouver ce qu'on cherche ne suffit pas, il faut chercher l'inattendu"

Et si l'histoire s'intéressait aux mythes et à l'imaginaire ? Au micro d'Aurélie Luneau, l'historien et philosophe Carlo Ginzburg, à l'origine de la "micro-histoire", raconte son parcours de recherche...

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Carlo Ginzburg has passed away - it is a very sad news, as he re-shaped historiography at large! Some of his work has been translated into many languages and influenced generations of scholars! www.ilpost.it/2026/06/17/c...

È morto lo storico Carlo Ginzburg

Fu uno degli studiosi italiani più tradotti e conosciuti all'estero, per i suoi lavori sulle classi subalterne medievali e moderne: aveva 87 anni

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L’artiste franco-iranienne Marjane Satrapi, autrice de la bande dessinée « Persepolis », est morte à l’âge de 56 ans

L’artiste franco-iranienne Marjane Satrapi, autrice de la bande dessinée « Persepolis », est morte à l’âge de 56 ans

Sa BD autobiographique, « Persepolis » (L’Association), l’a révélée au monde entier. Elle est « morte de tristesse un peu plus d’un an après le décès de Mattias Ripa, son mari et l’amour de sa vie », ont écrit ses proches dans un communiqué.

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"Children as young as five who are living legally in the UK are being told by the Home Office they must leave the country," and instead of protecting and supporting these children tomorrow, there will be a pearl-clutching article about low fertility rates... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Home Office sends letters to children as young as five saying they must leave UK

Children of those on care worker visas – who came legally before rule change – told to leave even if parents can stay

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C'est avec grand plaisir que nous annonçons la parution du dernier numéro d'Anthropologie&Santé qui présente une riche analyse des différentes collaborations entre chercheur.se.s en sciences humaines et sociales, patient.e.s et professionnel.le.s de la santé. Comme toujours, en #AccesOuvert 👇

32 | 2026 Collaborer pour quelles transformations de santé et de s...

Au croisement d’enjeux sociaux, professionnels, politiques et scientifiques, les expériences collaboratives se multiplient dans le champ de la santé. Ce numéro d’Anthropologie & Santé questionne l...

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"People want my life with premenstrual dysphoric disorder to be told as a neat arc. But chronic illnesses are more like messy, looping spirals" Refusing the illusion of closure has been one of my aims as an anthropologist. And a recurring topos of my rebuttal letters to reviewers across the years.

Illness narratives are broken – and they’re failing women like me | Emma Hardy

People want my life with premenstrual dysphoric disorder to be told as a neat arc. But chronic illnesses are more like messy, looping spirals – and realising that gave me hope

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Cinzia is too modest to include the link to the #openaccess version of her book Assemblages of Cancer: Experiences and contexts of breast cancer in the UK, France and Italy www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

We're excited to welcome @bschillace.brandyschillace.com back to Manchester. Join us on 18 May for a couple of events, one online, the other f2f: - Coming Out As Disabled - How Typical is Typical All welcome; attendance free; registration via the link below. blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2026/0...

Brandy Schillace Visit

Visiting Scholar: Brandy Schillace, 11–24 May 2026 Coming Out as Disabled. 18 May, 1-2pm How typical is typical? 18 May, 4-5:30pm

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As a speaker of an endangered language (no, it's not Italian) that I learned without even trying and remember better than any others I learned (the magic of childhood exposure), I can say that it's a part of you that disappears when you cannot share with anybody the words that define your reality.

What happens when we lose a language?

A staggering 44% of human languages are endangered – with culture, tradition and whole ways of understanding the world at stake

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Monday 11 May, from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. CET, we are organising a webinar to discuss our new edited volume, The Chronopolitics of Life. Come and join us! For more info and the event link, please visit this page: www.unil.ch/events/fr/17...

The Chronopolitics of Life ⎥ Rethinking temporalities in health and biomedicine beyond the life course

Webinar organisé par Nolwenn Bühler (Unil), Nils Graber (Humboldt University of Berlin), Victoria Boydell (University College London) et Cinzia Greco (University of Manchester) suite à la publication ...

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Our colleagues at @autismmanchester.bsky.social are organising a Café Autistic to foster conversations between the autistic and research communities. It will be on May 27 in the afternoon at the Contact Theatre in Manchester. More info here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cafe-autis...

Café Autistíque - 27th May 2026

A space where autism researchers can discuss their recent work with the public. In an inclusive space with tea and biscuits.

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"When we think of what it is that politicises people, it is not so much books or ideas but experience."

Des milliards de particules radioactives libérées, mais une population tenue à distance de l’information. Tchernobyl, c’est aussi l’histoire d’un récit contrôlé. ➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/1T9

I had missed this editorial digging up a topic debated and re-debated over 15 years ago. And interesting to see that in an article criticising social sciences, there is no mention of the reflections in these fields, about, for example, epistemic imposition and the situated nature of data.

The Guardian view on social science research: embracing uncertainty | Editorial

Editorial: Science rarely produces identical outcomes. Mistaking this for failure turns caution into an excuse for inaction

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For those reading Italian, there is a new open access special issue on migratory stratification looking at the composition of populations with migrant background, urban transformations, and differentiated legal statuses journals.openedition.org/qds/7288

98 - LXIX | 2025 Per una stratigrafia delle mobilità umane. Tempi,...

« Quaderni di sociologia » è una rivista quadrimestrale di sociologia generale

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"I like thinking before I speak.... I like listening, absorbing, considering. English is not my first language. I need to think a bit longer, not because I lack confidence, but because I want my words to mean something. Yet in academia, silence is often mistaken for weakness"

Letizia Letha Bonanno@letha-b.bsky.social · 4mo ago

“Too girly. Too emotional. Too soft-spoken in one room, too assertive in another. Too kind to be taken seriously, too sensitive to survive in academia.” Christina Kefala for “The anthropology that breaks your heart” series in @amethno.bsky.social

« Le Deuxième Sexe » entre dans la Pléiade à l’occasion du 40ᵉ anniversaire de la mort de Simone de Beauvoir

« Le Deuxième Sexe » entre dans la Pléiade à l’occasion du 40ᵉ anniversaire de la mort de Simone de Beauvoir

« Il est rare qu’un livre change la face des choses : “Le Deuxième Sexe” l’a fait. C’était en 1949 et son ferment continue d’agir », rappelle Gallimard, en annonçant la sortie dans sa prestigieuse collection.

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"A carefully crafted assemblage ethnography that should be essential reading not only for medical anthropologists and STS scholars but also oncologists, cancer care nurses, surgeons and health policy officials" I am very grateful for Ayo Wahlberg's thoughtful and generous review of my book.