Tessa Moll

Lordy... where do I begin.

So considering the author of the op-ed was a co-author on a paper comparing pain levels by racial groups in the US, then I would venture that yes, he surely does need his humanities colleagues.

Submitted abstracts will be selected to appear in an interdisciplinary OA special issue in the South African Journal of Science! sajs.co.za 🙌 Deadline: August 18th. Early career scholars accepted can request travel support to our writeshop in Cape Town!
#hps #phibio #microbiome #philsci 🦠

Congrats @thaophan.bsky.social!!!

Science, Technology, & Human Values STS School

Check out the call for applications for the 2026 STHV STS School in Seoul!! Wish this existed when I was a graduate student/early career researcher!! #STS

www.sthvschool.org

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3-year research fellowship at Edinburgh! A great opportunity for folks working at the intersection of medical sociology, STS and socio-legal studies. International applicants are welcome! #STS

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNY639/r...

We got great news! @ishpssb2025.bsky.social gave us funding to support early career travel to our event in October! Deadline for abstract submission is extended until Aug 18. Don't miss this chance! #phibio #hps #microbiome #philsci 🦠

If you're a researcher (particularly early-career) that focuses on health, join us for the @hsrcza.bsky.social 'Winning at Wellcome' workshop 16-17 Sept

Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Our confirmed speakers for the workshop "The Human Diversity Dilemma" include Jantina de Vries, Marina Joubert ‪@marinajoubert.bsky.social‬, Phila Msimang @msimang.bsky.social‬, Tessa Moll @tessamuldvarp.bsky.social Evodia Setati. Check our exciting program! 👇🦠 💗 #philbio

Revolutionary Demand For Happiness Writing Residency! For more information see below and here:

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*story*

That NYTimes storu comes to you courtesy of a researcher (of race and IQ no less) in this godawful club www.theguardian.com/world/2024/o...

Save the date! Interdisciplinary Workshop:
The Human Diversity Dilemma: Navigating the Intersection of Microbiomes, Ethics, and Society in Africa
#hpbio #histbio #philbio 🌱🐋
Check the Call for Abstracts for our special issue on our website: perspectivesrace.wixsite.com/the-human-di...

If you are interested in the history of racial classification in South Africa -- or a visual depiction of how categories shifted historically, driven by political, economic, and social interests, we have an infographic for you.

Find it here: figshare.com/articles/fig...

Når arven fra Sydafrikas apartheid møder MAGA-bevægelsen, når offermentaliten nye højder Mens alle andre flygtninge afvises, bliver en ikkeforfulgt minoritet nu hentet til USA i privatfly. Det er umuligt at se andre årsager til denne forskelsbehandling end afrikaanernes hvide hudfarve

Worth running through the translator!

www.information.dk/debat/2025/0...

It's not *done-done* (cause lord knows I have many many rounds of edits in my future), but I just sent off my book manuscript to my editor. This calls for a beer.

Making the Liberal Media: How Conservatives Built a Movement Against the Press Amazon.com: Making the Liberal Media: How Conservatives Built a Movement Against the Press eBook : Bauer, A. J.: Kindle Store

You can now pre-order my book *Making the Liberal Media* on Amazon!

Hate Amazon? Tell your local bookstore you'd like to order a copy. It goes on sale Nov. 18.

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What is America’s pro-natalism movement really about? | Moira Donegan

"The pro-natalist movement, for all its proponents’ insistence on the supposed demographic emergency facing the United States, is not really interested in making parenting easier or less burdensome for women," writes Guardian US columnist Moira Donegan.

Teaching colleagues, what's the current state on the debate about students using AI for writing assignments? Are we letting it go when we suspect it's the case? Are we checking (and with what systems)?

I teach so intermittently that I haven't been confronted yet....

It's that season once again 🍂 ☀️ ❄️ 🌱 so please spread the word: Science, Technology, & Human Values are pleased to announce that we are taking proposals for Special Issues of the journal 📬 ⏰ The call closes 21 June 2025 - and you can find details in the form: forms.gle/6uYdQim9J1z5...

Over-looked spaces: theorizing surveillance care in reproductive health At the 2022 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Seattle, WA, we organized a session called “Landscapes of Surveillance Care in Reproductive Health.” This introduction to o...

New article just dropped with @adriennestrong.bsky.social

Exciting PhD positions at LMU Munich to work with a community in Namibia or Malaysia on the impact of changing environments on childhood.

www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/about_rcc/jo...

The NIH page for applied research on ELSI (Ethical Legal and Social Implications) of genomics is no longer grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

A colleague confirmed with the NIH program officer: it's gone.

“Orchestrated assault”: New tsunami of NIH grant cuts hits South Africa hard Agency moves to terminate nearly 1000 awards, including programs involving “DEI”

Devastating www.science.org/content/arti...

"The discourse of history ‘works’ by claiming that certain phenomena belong to the past; this is an insistence that it is no longer present, that it is ‘dead’. In declaring the past dead, and in differentiating it from the present, historical discourse actively exorcizes that past and its ghosts."

Elon Musk's Starlink must comply with local BEE laws, says Parly comms committee This after the US company told the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) that it should reconsider its rules that require a 30% shareholding by 'historically disadvantaged' grou...

What utter nonsense. Between my SA life and Danish family, I cannot escape news of this insane administration.

Also, I think the animosity to South Africa is more likely a result of Musk's Starlink problems: www.ewn.co.za/2025/01/31/e...

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Chappell Roan is going to get me through this manuscript writing

My 2-year-old’s Danish speaking has exceeded mine… 🤨