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Jessica
@jessicajhille.bsky.social
Assistant Director for Education at the Kinsey Institute; Nerdfighter; Dog mom; mostly on Instagram @jjhille
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If your work touches sex, relationships, or intimacy, you’ve probably been asked questions your formal training never covered. Want to build credible, research-driven knowledge? 🎓 Check out our 4-day Human Sexuality Intensive course. knsy.in/intensive
Submit a poster for the inaugural Kinsey Institute Specialty Intensive and Symposium (KISIS)! 2025 theme is #Sex & #Aging.
📢 Call for abstracts: present a research poster at our Sex & Aging Symposium. 📊 Qualitative, quantitative, & mixed-methods studies from any discipline that explore sex/aging are welcome. ⏰ Submission deadline May 23 🗓️ Symposium October 4 iu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
U Bloomington’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors is alleging the university violated policy in terminating tenured professor Xiaofeng Wang.
Faculty organization alleges IU violated policy in terminating Xiaofeng Wang
IU terminated Wang the same day the FBI searched homes belonging to him.
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Come learn more about this topic on April 4 at our Preventing Sexual Violence Research Symposium. Register at knsy.in/SES2025
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Just published: Navigating Consent During Alcohol-Involved Sex: A Qualitative Study Examining Alcohol Consumption and the Sexual Consent Communication Process Kristen Jozkowski @tiff-marcan.bsky.social @kinseyinstitute.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The ABA is concerned by the U.S. government's cutoff of legal services for unaccompanied children. Read the full statement here: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
Just published in #JSexResearch Feasibility and Impact of School-Based Online Comprehensive Sexuality Education on Vocational High School Students: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @drlaurawidman.bsky.social @kinseyinstitute.bsky.social @kuntang.bsky.social
Feasibility and Impact of School-Based Online Comprehensive Sexuality Education on Vocational High School Students: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial
To assess the effect of an online comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) package for vocational high school students in China’s developed and less-developed regions, a parallel, unblinded, cluster...
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New article in #JSexResearch Moving Toward a More Comprehensive Standard for Sex Education: A Latent Class Analysis and Examination of Young Adult Sexual Health @drlaurawidman.bsky.social @kinseyinstitute.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Moving Toward a More Comprehensive Standard for Sex Education: A Latent Class Analysis and Examination of Young Adult Sexual Health
While sex education has been linked to adolescent health, few studies have examined how comprehensiveness of school-based sex education may promote young adult sexual wellbeing. The current study u...
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If you want to read more about defunding sex research in 2003, see this 2006 paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The new attack on sexuality research: Morality and the politics of knowledge production - Sexuality Research and Social Policy
This article describes and analyzes recent attempts to construct moral panic about publicly funded sexuality research in the United States, including pressure to eliminate funding for research on sexu...
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As a reminder, sex researchers went through grant defunding for years psychologicalscience.org/observer/nih... One grant actually was defunded jstor.org/stable/2749760 Sex researchers have fought attempts at research defunding for decades...and we aren't going *anywhere*
What a year!
📚 Our 2024 Annual Report is LIVE. It includes research deep dives, highlights from our art exhibitions & acquisitions, a list of key publications/awards, news, & more. THANK YOU to all our amazing supporters, partners & collaborators over the last year 👏👏 kinseyinstitute.org/about/annual...
The United States’ termination of funding agreements with the United Nations Population Fund is deeply alarming and will have severe consequences for #ReproductiveHealth and rights globally.
Statement by UNFPA Executive Director on the United States Government funding cuts
UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, notes with deep regret the termination of all funding agreements by the United States Government. These 48 grants, totalling approximat...
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Hot off the presses from #JSR #JSexResearch #research #sex #themoreyouknow
Issue 3 of #JSexResearch is now online with contributions from @liamwignall.bsky.social @shaynagram.bsky.social @mcseto.bsky.social @kinseyinstitute.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/toc/hjsr20/6...
I wanna be known as one of the great over-thinkers of our time. Unless that's too weird. Is that weird? That's weird isn't it? Great now everything's ruined and everyone thinks I'm weird and...
Just published in #JSexResearch: The Sweet and the Salty: Women’s Definitions and Negotiations of Power in Sugar Relationships by Marion Scull @cudenver.bsky.social @kinseyinstitute.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
This is a gut-wrenching, beautifully written essay. A doctor must watch helplessly as children die because USAID's freeze on aid has limited access to nutritional supplements. time.com/7258248/us-f...
What Gutting USAID Means for My Young Patients in Burundi
“To my patients and their mothers, I offered apologies from the American people,” writes Dr. Jennifer Furin.
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Just published in #JSexResearch Identifying Barriers and Facilitators of Implementing a Sexual and Relationship Health Intervention within the Child Welfare System: A Mixed Methods Study @drlaurawidman.bsky.social @kinseyinstitute.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/
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There has long been speculation that SSRIs might negatively affect the experience of love. However, research finds that people taking these meds report similar levels of love intensity, obsessive thoughts, commitment, and sex frequency as those not taking them. www.psypost.org/popular-anti...
Popular antidepressants don't appear to dull romantic love, study finds
New research challenges fears that antidepressants dull passion. In a large international survey, young adults on these medications experienced the same intensity, obsession, and commitment of love as...
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Application deadline is THIS FRIDAY 2/7!
🗓️ Looking to expand your professional skill set in 2025? Considering a career change? Wanting to learn something new about sexuality, sexual health, relationship psychology, & more? 🚨 Spots are filling up for our certificate course. Learn more at knsy.in/intensive 👩💻 Past attendees say …
I am really frustrated that the press is discussing the destruction of USAID as something that has happened rather than an illegal action that will likely be undone in two weeks when courts tell the world that it was illegal.
This is VERY good news. Love bookshop.org and all the stuff they do! www.salon.com/2025/01/28/b...
Bookshop.org enters the e-book arena, giving indie stores a new way to compete with Amazon
"Everything Amazon can do, we want to do as well or better," says CEO Andy Hunter on boosting indie sales digitally.
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I’m watching several shows that have weekly episodes and at first it was annoying but then I realized it was good to have something to look forward to each week and clearly reality isn’t going to be that thing so
Does anyone know how to unsubscribe from #menopause? I’m doing the free trial right now and I’m pretty confident I’m not interested in the full program.
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💡 DYK? Emojis may influence relationship dynamics. We found: 🗣️ Emoji use is linked to traits that ↗️ communication & bonding 🧠 Higher EI was linked w/ more often sharing emojis w/ friends, esp for women ⛔ People with more avoidant attachment styles exchanged emojis less often 📖 knsy.in/emoji1
I’m teaching two sessions in 2025! Online in February and in person at the @kinseyinstitute.bsky.social in May! Details and application at the link
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I skip the #BobsBurgers Christmas episodes when I rewatch at other times of the year and it’s kind of a pain for 11 months but it makes December very exciting for me 🍔🎄
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