NHS England's new trans segregation regime for hospitals will kill people. We know this because there are real examples of how NHS "corridor care" is *already* killing people. But you can help - Trans Legal Clinic are fundraising legal action for a trans woman who died. Please donate and/or share!

Justice For Joelle | Trans Legal Clinic

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This makes my blood boil.

Rebecca Sear@rebeccasear.bsky.social · 3d ago

The Committee for Academic Freedom has launched an investigation into Professor Arday’s hiring, and appointed Steven Pinker - listed as a referee on the CV of Arday’s accuser - to the panel. Because Cambridge should not have the freedom to decide its own appointments?

📣Job Offer: 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰/𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗜𝗻𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽 📅Apply until Nov 17, 2026 🌐https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_6122/jobs_fellowships_1910/postdoc_research_scientist_in_the_kinship_inequalities_research_group_15802 Diego Alburez | #Postdoc #Joboffer #Kinship

Journals are a scam (we all know it). While authors & reviewers provide free labour, journals charge exorbitant rates for open access/hide behind paywalls. They should at least be respectful of our time when requesting our free labour. We need a better system. #AbolishJournals #JournalShame

WHW & ADT's Abortomat is upending how #abortion care has been thought of & is the result of decades of feminist organising & science-making. @luberropizzarossa.bsky.social & I write on Abortomat & "feminist abortion commons" for @kings-sga.bsky.social: kingsglobalaffairs.substack.com/p/polands-ab...

Poland's Abortion Pill Locker Is What Feminist Innovation Looks Like

Behind the brightly painted Abortomat lies a decades-long history of feminist activists building the technologies, infrastructures and networks that make abortion care possible.

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Have you ever wondered what would happen if one compared miscarriage data from healthcare records to survey data at the individual level? If yes, the article that you are looking for is below 👇 Fresh off the press by @soc-misc.bsky.social

SOC-MISC@soc-misc.bsky.social · 6d ago

📢 New publication from SOC-MISC "Measuring miscarriages: a comparison of self-reported and healthcare register data in Finland" in Population Health Metrics! On average, more miscarriages are found in self-reports than registers. More info below (link & thread) 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Panicked headlines about a “fertility crisis” are not being driven by experts who understand fertility trends 👇 Next time you see such a headline, worth thinking about whose interests “demographic collapse” narratives serve

Philip N Cohen@philipncohen.com · last wk.

Is America in a demographic crisis? Demographers don’t think so. I conducted a survey of U.S. demographers, and this is what I found: 3%: “The low birth rate is a demographic crisis” 25%: "serious concern” 53%: "should be monitored, but no intervention necessary” 20% :“not a problem at all.”

📣 Join our ERC LEARN Research Team at CRIS/Sciences Po, Paris, to investigate how major disruptive events affect children's educational development. Apply by 3 December: ⭐️Doctoral Researcher / PhD candidate drive.google.com/file/d/1DT8i... ⭐️Postdoctoral Researcher drive.google.com/file/d/1AiRo...

We're on Bluesky, put the link in your post. Put the link in your post. Put. The. Link. In. Your. Post. Links in posts aren't buried or de-prioritized here. This is one of the last platforms you don't have to make interested users do detective work to find the link. Just put it in the post.

UNC Sociology is hiring an OPEN-RANK position for a Population Health and Aging scholar! We are especially interested in more advanced and senior scholars. Full position details, qualifications, and application instructions are available at: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/325...

Our first seminar of the autumn term is coming up next week. There is still time to sign up to join us!

FemQuant@femquant.bsky.social · last mo.

It's September and we're kicking off another term of monthly #FemQuantSeminars! Join us online on 29 Sept for a presentation by @signesvallfors.bsky.social on Exposure to Local Violent Crime and Abortion, Miscarriage, and Stillbirth in Mexico. Info & sign-up: femquant.wordpress.com/seminar-seri...

Aujourd'hui, c'est la Journée de Visibilité Bi ! Quelles sont tes revendications ?

literally thousands of jobs in higher education were cut *last year alone* and there's been almost no media coverage and no government action

Willard Foxton@willardfoxton.bsky.social · 4w ago

I think it's absolutely mad that today there's a *national news story* about 400 oil platform workers losing their jobs, and the government being blamed. 25% of the UK TV industry lost their jobs in the last 4 years and we never hear a peep about it! Some jobs are 'real jobs' I guess.

Uuden aborttilain tarkoitus oli poistaa 1970-luvun lain indikaatioperusteisuus ja lääkäreiden teoreettinen portinvartijuus abortin myöntämisen taustalta. Pidän periaatteellisena ongelmana, että ne palautuvat nyt toimenpidemaksun kautta osaksi aborttia, vaikka se ei olisi ollut tarkoituksena. 5/5

It continues to amaze me, despite all the geopolitics and crises, that Global North countries still see themselves as "leaders" in global health, human rights, international law, and morals

🚨 Job alert 🚨 Come and join me and @paul-kindermann.net researching European process preferences. 3-year postdoc @sotonpolitics.bsky.social with travel and training budget. Potentially of interest to those attending #EPOP2026. Details at: jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... #polisky

Job Opportunity at the University of Southampton: Research Fellow - Political Process Preferences in Europe (PoPPiE) project

We are delighted to welcome applications for the position of Research Fellow within a new ERC-funded research group on Political Process Preferences in Europe (PoPPiE): Rethinking Conceptual, Ontologi...

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I am very much looking forward to the next FemQuant seminar by Signe Svallfors on exposure to violent crime and pregnancy outcomes. More information and the sign up link below 👇

FemQuant@femquant.bsky.social · last mo.

It's September and we're kicking off another term of monthly #FemQuantSeminars! Join us online on 29 Sept for a presentation by @signesvallfors.bsky.social on Exposure to Local Violent Crime and Abortion, Miscarriage, and Stillbirth in Mexico. Info & sign-up: femquant.wordpress.com/seminar-seri...

See our FemQuant term card for the upcoming academic year here: https://femquant.wordpress.com/seminar-series/ Our next seminar is on Sept 29 (Exposure to Local Violent Crime and Abortion, Miscarriage, and Stillbirth in Mexico, Dr. Signe Svallfors). Details and registration link on our website!

September 2027 Newsletter and Term Card

Hi all, Welcome back to the FemQuant newsletter for the fall! The following newsletter has most (but not all!) of our planned events for this academic year. Please note that our first event will be taking place in less than two weeks on zoom with Dr. Signe Svallfors! As always, please feel free to contribute to our FemQuant newsletter by responding via this…

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"Ectopic pregnancy deaths have nearly doubled. It's worse in states with abortion bans." - ProPublica Abortion bans are deadly. As a global reproductive healthcare charity, we've seen this around the world 💔 https://www.propublica.org/article/ectopic-pregnancy-deaths-doubled-analysis

Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.

With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, raises questions about the role of abortion bans.

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I am very much looking forward to the next FemQuant seminar by Signe Svallfors on exposure to violent crime and pregnancy outcomes. More information and the sign up link below 👇

FemQuant@femquant.bsky.social · last mo.

It's September and we're kicking off another term of monthly #FemQuantSeminars! Join us online on 29 Sept for a presentation by @signesvallfors.bsky.social on Exposure to Local Violent Crime and Abortion, Miscarriage, and Stillbirth in Mexico. Info & sign-up: femquant.wordpress.com/seminar-seri...

It's September and we're kicking off another term of monthly #FemQuantSeminars! Join us online on 29 Sept for a presentation by @signesvallfors.bsky.social on Exposure to Local Violent Crime and Abortion, Miscarriage, and Stillbirth in Mexico. Info & sign-up: femquant.wordpress.com/seminar-seri...

Come learn about reproductive process models, demographic data, and more in Boulder or online Nov. 11-13. Apply to join me, @lesja.bsky.social, and legend Jane Menken, with talks from others working in this area. Being wrong about birthrates is easy. But being right isn't *too* hard and we'll help!

Reproductive Demography Workshop

Workshop dates: Wednesday, November 11th - Friday, November 13th, 2026 The Colorado Fertility Project and CUPC are pleased to announce a workshop for graduate students and early-career researchers wh...

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One more week left to apply for a 3-year postdoc in Demography (deadline: Sept 16, 12:00 midday UK time). Join me at the Sociology Department in Oxford to study global fertility change as part of the DIVREP project! 👇

Sociology at Oxford@sociologyoxford.bsky.social · 3mo ago

💡 Job alert! 💡 We're seeking a Postdoc Researcher to join the most comprehensive global study of the patterns & determinants of growing within-country disparities in reproductive behaviour 🌏 Full-time for 3 years, working with Dr @ewabatyra.bsky.social. Apply ➡️ my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Co-organising (with Wendy Sigle and Sarah Walters) a new strand at the @bspsuk.bsky.social conference this year on the Politics of Demography, to encourage more discussions among demographers about the political implications of their work, and about the politics of producing demographic knowledge

if it took you 5 seconds of contemplation to think of an alternative you should take at least another 5-10 to at least consider the possibility that it at least crossed the minds of 1 or 2 of the people who dedicate their lives and research careers to dealing with the problems we post about on here

"Merz has made the mistake of trying to push what was a popular centre-right party under Angela Merkel much further to the right in an attempt to win over disgruntled voters." This never works. And seemingly politicians never learn. theconversation.com/even-if-it-d...

Even if it doesn’t form government, the far-right AfD has shaken Germany’s political establishment to the core

Voters in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt punished the major parties for their handling of the cost-of-living crisis.

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The World Endometriosis Organization is conducting a global survey on experiences with endometriosis and access to care. The survey takes about 10–15 minutes. SURVEY: www.surveymonkey.com/r/P53BM8M?fb...

A SOC-MISC team member, Jairo Loja Torres will present results on intergenerational transmission of #miscarriage risk using BCS70 data in the @bspsuk.bsky.social annual conference on Wed 9 Sep at 2pm. Please do join us there! See the full programme here: www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...

Annual Conference

The British Society for Population Studies holds an annual conference in a different venue each September.

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This is a fascinating study by @tboeggild.bsky.social and @m-b-petersen.bsky.social - it suggests political discontent is a wicked problem, but also fundamentally about inequality.

Jay Van Bavel, PhD@jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 2mo ago

People think we should be giving far less help to the rich and far more help to the mentally ill, poor, elderly, sick, young, retired, and socially disadvantaged in society. Our failure to do so is driving social discontent and conflict in society: osf.io/preprints/ps...

📣EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT📣 Pregnancy Endings by the Feminist Miscarriage Project is coming to the Vagina Museum in London from 2 September – 31 December 2026. See the exhibit for free five days a week, Wednesday to Sunday.

Opening Celebration - The Feminist Miscarriage Project presents Pregnancy Endings Tickets - London - OutSavvy

“… this new exhibition expands the frame by bringing stories of all pregnancy endings together, inviting solidarity across experiences — including miscarriage, abortion, birth and more — that are…

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