🆕 #Environment, #Society & Changing #Climates Study Group @britsoci.bsky.social Our new name bridges the climate change focus with the #EnvSoc stream, foregrounding climate justice as a question of social justice, collective struggles, living environments, and planetary futures. (1/2)

News of Andrew Lakoff’s passing are heartbreaking. Huge contribution to advancing STS and Anthropology, their dialogues, and the social studies of pharmaceuticals and preparedness. It’s extremely rare to meet someone that smart and inspiring who’s also approachable, kind, and genuinely chill.

Maya Joint closes out Serena Williams 6-3, 6⁶-7⁸, 6-3 We weren't sure what to expect from Serena with not playing for 4 years but that was honestly a good match, she'll be playing doubles with Venus in a few days.

EdCMA 2026 Annual Lecture by the wonderful Orkideh Behrouzan (SOAS): “The Social Body, Chronic Violence, and the Right to an Ordinary Life: Lessons from Iran“; thinking across poetry, ethnography, and slow analysis, on death, dignity, and dance as meaning making. @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social

Last webinar in our series before we break for summer! please register online and join us: free and all welcome!

Durham Institute for Medical Humanities@durhamimh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

On Monday 1 June, Join anthropologist @tscriado.bsky.social & @angelaofthenorth.bsky.social for an online talk exploring urban habitability, collective experimentation, and the politics of shade in a warming world. 🕒️ 3-4pm BST Book for free here 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/probing-in...

Is there a critical study on the politics of marketing colourism in the publishing industry and spec on the colour-coding of book covers? the preponderance of orange and lilac covers in African studies and Black feminist writer sections is astounding.

Every now and then I am reminded of the sheer brilliance of Susan Leigh Star: a solid, luminescent thinker that combined feminist pragmatist approaches to scientific issues with unparalleled depth and range of analysis, and clarity of writing. Timeless! #sociology #STS

Swear to the goddess that I just crossed paths with Brad Pitt. Last year, it was Shirley Manson and no believed me.

New OA article: "Mapping the social studies of ADHD: From medicalization theory to neurodiversity in the digital age, and future directions". Reviewing 30y of scholarship, its shifts (global, decolonial, digital) and futures, entering the 'social studies of ADHD' journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🌍 How can we rethink urban life in an age of extreme heat? Join us for this online talk with anthropologist Tomás Criado @tscriado.bsky.social, joined by Angela Marques Filipe @angelaofthenorth.bsky.social, exploring new ways of imagining future cities. 📆 Monday 1 June, 3pm-4pm (BST) Book here👇

Probing in the dark: Inhabiting a field of shades

Join us for an instalment of the Weather, Climate, and Health Research Theme's online talk series.

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Work is relentless, but one gets to do the pink carpet walk 💕🌸 and list 10 pink-themed songs

What a specimen! #tinyjoys

Looking fwd to thinking with and welcoming @martinsavransky.bsky.social on our *Weather, Climate and Health* series, 11 May! We have a stellar line-up and I'm adding a few more speakers, as we continue gearing toward Climate Affects, Politics, Atmospheres, and more in 2026/27. Watch this space.

Durham Institute for Medical Humanities@durhamimh.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Join us for an instalment of the Weather, Climate, and Health Research Theme's online talk series, with Dr Martin Savransky. On 11 May 5–6pm, Martin will be giving a talk titled "Losing Ground: Planetary Instability and a Life Tenacious". Book your free ticket: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/losing-gro...

Looking fwd to thinking with and welcoming @martinsavransky.bsky.social on our *Weather, Climate and Health* series, 11 May! We have a stellar line-up and I'm adding a few more speakers, as we continue gearing toward Climate Affects, Politics, Atmospheres, and more in 2026/27. Watch this space.

Durham Institute for Medical Humanities@durhamimh.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Join us for an instalment of the Weather, Climate, and Health Research Theme's online talk series, with Dr Martin Savransky. On 11 May 5–6pm, Martin will be giving a talk titled "Losing Ground: Planetary Instability and a Life Tenacious". Book your free ticket: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/losing-gro...

#britsoc26 Special Event tomorrow! 🌆 Climate Affects and Liveable Futures in an Age of Planetary Crisis 🗓️ 10 April 2026 🕒 15:15 - 16:45 📍 University Place, R4.213 📘 Panel + SI/Ed. Vol. Workshop Join us in-person or virtually, if you must head home early! www.britsoc.co.uk/media/27155/...

Our brilliant colleagues Kevin Gillan and Vanessa May @uomsociology.bsky.social will be launching their new ed vol, Interrogating the Global Social Challenges @brisunipress.bsky.social at #BSA2026. FYI #sociology, on Vanessa's behalf (all deets and invite via link below).

Book Launch: Interrogating the Global Social Challenges

Book launch: Interrogating the Global Social Challenges 6.45-8.45pm Wednesday 8th April 2026 International Anthony Burgess Centre Manchester

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The BSA celebrates its 75th anniversary during the #britsoc2026 annual conference, held at the University of Manchester, 8-10 April. I'm excited to be attending as one of the new co-convenors of the Climate study group and organiser of a Special Event, 10 April (15:15, R4.213) @britsoci.bsky.social

🐦‍⬛ 🐕‍🦺🐄🐴 Our Multispecies Mutualisms post doc roles are now also on jobs.ac.uk 🐦‍⬛ 🐕‍🦺🐄🐴 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQS438/4...

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Rosaleen Duffy@rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 5mo ago

1/ Calling all ECRs - we have 4x3 year post docs on Multispecies Mutualisms working with us at Sheffield. Don't want to read through all the stuff to work out if its right for you? Here is a short video explainer 🎥 digitalmedia.sheffield.ac.uk/media/Multis...

Registration for our new Masters in Public Environmental Humanities is still open for Nordic students (either citizens or did bachelors in a Nordic country). Please pass along this great tuition-free study opportunity! www.uis.no/en/studies/t... #envhum #envhist #ecocrit

Pleased to be chairing this online event with Benoit Dillet tomorrow, on occasion of their new book release. Free registration below:

Durham Institute for Medical Humanities@durhamimh.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Join the conversation on the hidden social impacts of the energy transition. Discover solutions, insights, and strategies to overcome challenges and build a fairer energy future. 📆 Tues 17 March 5–6pm, online Reserve your spot for this online talk today: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/overcoming...

On Mothers’ Day and Oscar’s night, the award goes to… all academic mums with toddlers out there.

Good god.

ProPublica@propublica.org · 5mo ago

NEW: They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth. Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care. By @amyyurkanin.bsky.social

We are organising a pre-conference workshop on Values in science in the rest of the world in Helsinki in August, just before ENPOSS 2026. Please consider submitting an abstract!

Join us for another online seminar in the Weather, Climate & Health IMH theme series. Dr @benoitdillet.bsky.social (Bath) will talk on "Overcoming the sad affects of the energy transition" (w/ Sophia Hatzisavvidou), further marking their new book ("Transition Imaginaries"). Free registration ⬇️

Overcoming the sad affects of the energy transition

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This Thursday (05.03) at noon, we will be chairing a guest seminar by @johnmacartney.bsky.social (Warwick), in our Durham Health & Social Theory* research group lunchtime series. He will talk on end-of-life research and “On permeant ethnography: Reflections of a sociologist in a medical school”.

Join us for another online seminar in the Weather, Climate & Health IMH theme series. Dr @benoitdillet.bsky.social (Bath) will talk on "Overcoming the sad affects of the energy transition" (w/ Sophia Hatzisavvidou), further marking their new book ("Transition Imaginaries"). Free registration ⬇️

Overcoming the sad affects of the energy transition

Join us for an instalment of the Weather, Climate, and Health Research Theme's online talk series.

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Call for Abstracts for EASST2026 conference which takes place in September, in beautiful Krakow, will close on 9 March 2026 [23:59 CET]. Please submit your abstracts to our panel below welcoming submissions on topics across #STS #environmental #climate #socialscience #affect #planetary thinking.

CB266: Reimagining ecoanxiety, climate affects and planetary futures: What does it ask of STS?

Following a planetary turn in social thought, we ask: if navigating chanigng climates affects our everyday lives, how do these affects shape, in turn, how we

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🧧Xin Nian Kuai Le! 新年快乐 🌙 Ramadan (Eve) Mubarak! 🎉 E um bom Carnaval galera! To all students, colleagues, and friends celebrating, in the UK and around the world.

Interested in the intersections of #medhum and #envhum? Join us for another instalment of our Weather, Climate, and Health Research Theme's online talk series with our wonderful colleague @drhick.bsky.social (Newcastle University). All details and registration (free) via link below.

Intersections in Medical and Environmental Humanities

An online talk by Dr Clare Hickman about Air, Weather and Multispecies Encounters in the British Tuberculosis Sanatoria.

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Philosophy of medicine international online reading group is back Feb 11! We will be reading "The New Modern Medicine: Disease, Evidence, and Epidemiological Medicine" by Jonathan Fuller academic.oup.com/book/61541?l... Join the group here: groups.google.com/g/philmed-rg/ Please share widely!