Jessica Bishop-Royse, PhD

@jbishoproyse.bsky.social

Health Equity Researcher. PhD. Mom. Athlete. Lifter. Goalkeeper. Black Lives Matter

Academics might want to get this 𝐺𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑛 bit to their local CIO, president, & governing board members, while also pointing to what has happened at University of Exeter & Indiana University. Make the summer hot for your overlords. #academicsky www.bbc.com/news/article... jbhe.com/2026/06/indi...

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last mo.

‘You can’t make billions without hurting people’: Cory Doctorow on Elon Musk, the AI bubble and bosses’ cruel fantasies

"These findings [highlight] ... gender differences in the association between division of labor and sexual desire ... [and] how gendered patterns of behavior within relationships can uphold and reinforce broader gender inequities." [ full article paywalled ] #desire #gender #research #academicsky

Division of Household Labor and Sexual Desire: The Role of Gender and Benevolent Sexism

In romantic relationships between men and women, women tend to report lower sexual desire than men, which is often seen as an individual or relationship issue, rather than one explained by contextu...

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IMO, as a person who reviews manuscript submissions and their authors' responses), can we dispense with the formal niceties in response comments? I don't need to be thanked for every comment I make. Its tedious. I am re-reviewing a 32 page submission. And the response document is 16 pages. 😠

In his previous career as a goalkeeper, failure felt clear. Thinking that his sport taught him how to handle failure during his PhD, Javier Nion Fieira found his experiences in elite sport were easier to analyse and process than those in the lab: spklr.io/63325EKlXR #PhDSky #AcademicSky

What elite sport prepared me for in the lab — and what it didn’t

My career as a goalkeeper taught me how to handle failure during my PhD. Or so I thought.

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Yes. But not mentioned is the declining share of tenured and tenure track professors doing this work. The adjunctification in higher ed means there are fewer people who can be incentivized to do this work, because when you’re an adjunct no one cares if you can do research. slate.com/technology/2...

A Key Part of the Scientific Process Is Under Threat. The Solution Makes a Lot of Sense Once You Hear It.

The problem sounds like a good thing. It’s not.

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demoscapes.org is a visual atlas of demographic surfaces hosted at @mpidr.bsky.social. It is also my passion project growing out of my 2016 human mortality database explorer. Did you publish something containing Lexis surfaces? Consider reaching out and having your work featured on the site.

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Leah Abrams@leahrabrams.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Check out @jschoeley.com's very cool project: Demoscapes! It now features interactive Lexis surfaces based on our recent PNAS paper tracking cohort trends in major causes of death in the US. It's (to us data lovers) so fun! demoscapes.org/collections/...