Making sense of snakebite: the place of biological toxins in social scientific analyses of toxicity - BioSocieties
Through an ethnographic study of snakebite governance in Kerala, India, this article argues that social scientific theories of toxicity elucidate the biosocial dimensions of snakebite envenomation (SB...
Pleased to share this paper for BioSocieties on snakebite in Kerala. I explore how social scientific theories of toxicity aid in conceiving of the structural vulnerabilities, diagnostic uncertainty, and multispecies health impacts that characterise snakebite's public health response.
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The New Reproductive Order
The transformative impact of new reproductive technologies over the past half centuryBoth fertility and infertility are commonly depicted as individual, biol...
“The New Reproductive Order” is out today! Edited by Sarah Franklin and Marcia C. Inhorn, this volume explores the transformative impact of new reproductive technologies over the past half century.
Groundbreaking and sophisticated, this collection of essays opens new horizons of scholarship.
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Image of participants in the webinar, Making Tech Work for Everyone. How can technologists better serve civil society? What kinds of training do they need, and how can they serve respectfully? How can civil society organizations benefit from technologists and critical tech perspectives?
Join University of Michigan's Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program on May 20th for a webinar addressing these questions, featuring alumni Trevor Odelberg, Divya Ramesh, Melvin Washington II, and Annabella Vidrio as well as Managing Director Molly Kleinman, and myself! We'll feature short presentations, audience Q&A, and breakout rooms to ensure robust conversation with participants.
How can technologists better serve civil society? What kinds of training do they need, and how can they serve respectfully? How can civil society organizations benefit from technologists and critical tech perspectives? Join us for our May 20th webinar! stpp.fordschool.umich.edu/event/2025/w...
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Death situated in life: personhood, pregnancy loss, and the politics of death. This talk explores how the examination of experiences of death in, and shortly after, pregnancy sheds light on many of the political issues implicated in death studies.
It draws on Aimee’s multi-sited ethnographic research about women’s experiences of second trimester pregnancy loss in England & collaborations with other researchers.
Aimee Middlemiss. Aimee is an interdisciplinary social scientist who draws on sociology, anthropology and STS to investigate the politics of reproduction and death. Book here: deathandsociety.org/online-events-series
We're looking forward to hearing from Aimee Middlemiss next Weds on personhood, pregnancy loss and the politics of death for the third in our series of free, online #deathstudies events.
Book here. deathandsociety.org/etn/death-si...
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My new book will be out in Spring:
It examines ecosyndemics through the lens of Planetary Health:
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Postdoc position for the ERC project ALTERBIOTIC
Postdoc position for the ERC project ALTERBIOTIC
🚨JOBS
Interested in #STS research on pharmaceutical innovation and microbial biopolitics?
2 position available @stsvienna.bsky.social to work with me on my @erc.europa.eu ERC Project #ALTERBIOTIC:
PhD: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/PhD-posi...
POSTDOC: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Postdoc-...
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*UPDATE*
We've had a great response, especially from early-career researchers. Thank you!
BUT we really also want to hear from researchers who are mid-career and professors.
Your perspectives on the ups and downs of an academic career will really help us refine our recommendations!
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Our Thanks to Founding Editor Professor Nikolas Rose
As BioSocieties reaches its twentieth year we write to mark a significant transition in our history. Professor Nikolas Rose, founding editor and global leader
After 20 yrs, @biosocieties.bsky.social founding editor and global thought leader, Prof @rose-nikolas.bsky.social, steps down from his active editorial role. We reflect on this significant transition in the journal's history and pay tribute to him. biosocieties.org/our-thanks-t...
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Medicine on a Larger Scale
Cambridge Core - History of Medicine - Medicine on a Larger Scale
Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine, eds @ahlie.bsky.social, Jeremy Greene, and me, will be available open access from @cambridgeup.bsky.social in May 2025. In a world of growing health inequity, radical social medicine has never been more urgent!
#histstm #histmed #sts
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Great news, the programme for our Forum next week is now live! Take a look here 👇
www.repro.cam.ac.uk/events/male-...
Not registered yet? There's still time, sign up on Eventbrite and we'll see you there!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-male-f...
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Welcome! BioSocieties is an international, interdisciplinary journal for social studies of life sciences. Founded 19 years ago, it is just as relevant today.
@biosocieties.bsky.social and @biosocieties on X, where we post our issue publications and repost when tagged.
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Author, Speaker, Peace Researcher: josef.muehlbauer@uni-graz.at
Assistant professor and medical anthropologist at University of Colorado Denver researching and writing on women's health, embodiment, kinship, and metabolic illness
Assistant Professor at University of Algarve, Portugal. Research interests: History of education for motherhood; history of early childhood education and of early childhood educators training.
A journal for leading-edge social science research on the new genetics & related biosciences. Publishes research on social aspects of new genetics like gene editing, genomics and proteomics and biosciences like stem cell research and neuroscience
Editorial Director • Transdisciplinary Social Science books team • Springer Nature • Acquires books in Geography and STS • Trail runner • Slightly cat obsessed • Views my own
RyC Senior Research Fellow @uocuniversitat.bsky.social in Barcelona
anthropology · STS · embodied plurality · uncommoning city-making · atmospheric care · intergenerational urban landscapes · ethnography as invention
tscriado.org · xcol.org
Gender Scholar
Researching (a)sexualities, health communication, masculinities, contraception/safer sex, repro health, climate crisis, IR, peace/conflict studies, utopias/dystopias, mental health, media, history,...
https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7802-2721
History Professor & Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, University of New Brunswick. Specializing in the social history of medicine, spatial humanities. Love to garden. 🪴🌸🌳 Striving to be a good scholar, mentor, friend out here under the blue skies.
Anthropologist on a mission to mix things up across healthcare, biosciences, migration & development. I study people, connect dots, and build bridges between disciplines. Happiest when cycling, swimming, hiking, or chasing ideas.
History of biomedicine. Genes and genomes. Value in/of healthcare.
Professor, Department of Social & Policy Sciences, University of Bath | Editor ST&HV @sthv.bsky.social | Honorary, Burnet Institute | STS, health, drugs, outbreak science, viral elimination, planetary change, evidence-making practices
Sociologist of higher ed inequalities & racism @ Michigan
Probably staring at data instead of writing, but at least there’s a stack of books & articles beside me.
More info: https://wcarsonbyrd.com
Birkbeck PhD student interested in surrogacy memoirs/ medical humanities; English teacher. I like books...
Lecturer and Director Reproduction Research Group, GHSM, King's College London. Egg freezing & financialisation of fertility. Author of Freezing Fertility (NYUPress, 2020). #ReproJustice #Abortion #ReproTech
A home for lifelong learners. Sharing exceptional ideas since 1916.
Researcher and Sociologist
THIS Institute, University of Cambridge
https://www.thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk/about/people/dr-robert-pralat/
Professor of Social Science at University College London | UCL Social Research Institute | Chair of Release | Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences | Interested in: drug policy, social science, critical theory, history | www.tobyseddon.com
feminist #abortion & reproductive (in)justice researcher, tennis fan, likes tea. co-runs @abortionbookclub.bsky.social. Lecturer in Global Health & Social Medicine @kings-sga.bsky.social.
she/her/dr/killjoy
📸@rishiereads_ 🌐rnandagiri.com
Assistant Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley. Medicine, Reproduction, Economy, Organizations, Family, Sexualities, Gender, Demography, STS. https://elizacbrown.com/
Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Theology, philosophy, ethics, politics, environmental humanities
Associate Director @LSRIOxford
Anglican Priest
https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/revd-dr-timothy-howles
