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Gala Rexer

@galarexer.bsky.social

Feminist sociologist writing on reproductive & environmental injustice, bodies, racial capitalism Author of "Demographic Anxieties: Bodies, Borders, and Reproductive Injustice in Palestine/Israel" (2026, UC Press) galarexer.com

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The Philosopher@philosopher1923.bsky.social · 2w ago

Coming up: Mon Oct 5 ~ 2pm ET /7pm UK "Reproductive Injustice and Settler Colonialism" Gala Rexer with Andrea Becker How fertility treatment became a key site of investment for the Israeli state, and the politics of reproduction across settler-colonial states. www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...

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"Reproductive Injustice and Settler Colonialism": Gala Rexer in conversation with Andrea Becker – Zoom, Mon 5 Oct 2026 - What does it mean for Palestinian women to seek fertility treatment inside medi...

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The Philosopher@philosopher1923.bsky.social · 2w ago

#Philosophy #Reproduction #FertilityTreatment #IVF #Ethnography #Borders #Palestine #Israel #Colonialism #Medicine #Sociology @galarexer.bsky.social @andreabeckerphd.bsky.social Have a look at Gala Rexer's book, "Demographic Anxieties," and we'll see you on Monday! www.ucpress.edu/books/demogr...

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Dr Vanessa@hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 2w ago

Cannot tell you how much I hate this & how ashamed & angry I am that @ukri.org have taken this step. We KNOW this sort of gAI is socially biased, we KNOW it favours slopAI output over human-written. Our research landscape is falling apart due to underfunding, & they do this? it's *appalling*

John Stott@jpsastro.bsky.social · 2w ago

Had a UKRI funded grant proposal rejected at the "AI triage stage". "This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review." 🧪 #academicsky

I am writing to let you know that, unfortunately, your application was not successful. Review process As part of the initial triage of the 179 proposals submitted to this call, each was assessed using an AI-based review. Every proposal was read independently by several different AI models against the same seven criteria used to shape this call (including cyber security relevance, research quality and novelty, importance of the problem addressed, feasibility of the project plan, likely outputs and impact, value for money, and responsible research practice), with each model asked to give a score and a written justification with supporting quotations from the text. To guard against any one model's idiosyncrasies, we also ran a second, independent process in which different AI models debated the merits and weaknesses of each proposal before reaching a judgement, again against the same criteria. Scores from both processes were combined to produce an overall ranking. This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review. Projects selected for funding were drawn from those that progressed to the full human review stage. We recognise that AI-assisted assessment is a new and evolving part of the review process, and we are continuing to evaluate how well it aligns with the judgements of human reviewers on this call. We will soon produce a document detailing our method, so that others can build upon it and improve it. Feedback on your application Your application was not selected to progress beyond the AI triage stage. To provide transparency on the outcome of this assessment, we are sharing below the scores (out of 5) from each of the two AI review processes described above, together with the mean score across the two processes.
Gala Rexer@galarexer.bsky.social · 3w ago

Not even that far into this year's job market season, and I simply cannot understand how, in *this economy*, search committees come up with the excellent idea of asking for materials that are *completely* different from any other university/application form I've ever seen ☹️ xoxo, tired applicant

Durba Mitra@durba.bsky.social · 3w ago

UT Austin has barred students from studying WGS, even as it holds the archives of extraordinary feminists like Lugones. Harvard has demolished WGS, with essentially no experts left who can teach its vast feminist archives, from suffrage to Angela Davis and June Jordan at the Schlesinger Library 😞

Lisa Diedrich@lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 3w ago

This is happening as the Maria Lugones archive is inaugurated at UT-Austin: "This repository is a treasure trove of Lugones’s work & life. It contains her extensive research & writing on decolonial feminism, multiculturalism, anarchism, pedagogy, & resistance." liberalarts.utexas.edu/sca/events/m...

Gala Rexer@galarexer.bsky.social · 4w ago

"Sociology in the Times of Genocide" is out now, co-edited with @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social & Karis Campion for @thesociologicalreview.org. Articles on sociology’s limits & potential to deal with genocide, campus protests, transnational Palestine solidarity &more journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Gala Rexer@galarexer.bsky.social · 4w ago

"Sociology in the Times of Genocide" is out now, co-edited with @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social & Karis Campion for @thesociologicalreview.org. Articles on sociology’s limits & potential to deal with genocide, campus protests, transnational Palestine solidarity &more journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Onur Erdur@onurerdur.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It’s UK publication day! Today my book on the colonial roots of French theory is officially out with @politybooks.bsky.social. Thanks for the wonderful blurbs from @stuartelden.bsky.social, @juliango.bsky.social, Adam Rosenthal, and Joachim Whaley. (US publication date: October 6th)

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Onur Erdur@onurerdur.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Out in July! "School of the South: The Colonial Roots of French Theory". More details & pre-orders here: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b... @politybooks.bsky.social

Sumi Madhok@sumimadhok.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This looks terrific. It’s now on my ‘to read and teach’ list. Congratulations, @galarexer.bsky.social

Gala Rexer@galarexer.bsky.social · 4mo ago

“Demographic Anxieties” can now be preordered (pub date June 30)! It shows how the Israeli settler-colonial state and its borders shape Palestinian women’s reproductive freedom, but it is also an ethnography working through what it means to research Palestine as 1/2 www.ucpress.edu/books/demogr...

Naomi Klein@naomiaklein.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 3mo ago

NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

a chart showing google's rising energy consumption - huge, and rising faster than ever before