Stefan Timmermans

I know who you’re referring to and this one pisses me off as well.

New! In "Medicalizing Maternity," grad student Colter Uscola covers Charlotte Abel and @stefantimmermans.bsky.social's #Sociology research on medical provision and surveillance in pregnancy care for those with psychiatric symptoms: contexts.org/articles/med...
@socprobsjournal.bsky.social

This is worth 3 minutes of your time. No one wants to eat at a restaurant that only serves bland chicken. (It’s not about chicken, or restaurants, tho)

Singing bowl performance

Tibetan Singing Bowls at the No King protest in Santa Monica

I am honored and thrilled to have The Last Human Job win this award. Thanks to ASA & the many who read/gave feedback along the way. This award is dedicated to all who do connective labor when it is under threat by data analytics & AI. Connecting is what makes us human! Let's preserve and protect it

Congratulations 🎉

Congratulations 🎉🍾

Vice HR director is worse

In my research I’ve been thinking obsessively about how we define “quality” in health care and education, so I was excited to talk to Rachel about how quality metrics are being deployed in child care policy debates

Co-authors at the Lukas book award

In holding pattern for 2 hours before landing

Nice to read before takeoff to Newark

It’s a good number to tell your insurance company

We are the Finalist 💃🏽🕺🏻 #bookaward #nonfiction journalism.columbia.edu/news/lukas-p...

I think I may have cracked the code for large lecture exams that set students up for success: two pages of notes so they have to study and then a handwritten exam consisting of 6 short essays in 75 minutes. I used to do take home essays but that no longer works.

The covers of two books are shown under the title "Geographies of Trauma" and the byline "by Stefano Bloch." The books are listed as: Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics: Mental Illness and Homelessness in Los Angeles, by Neil Gong. University of Chicago Press, 2024. And The Marvelous Ones: Drugs, Gang Violence, and Resistance in East Los Angeles, by Randol Contreras. University of California Press, 2024.

New book review! @stefanobloch.bsky.social's "Geographies of Trauma" explores the deep, unflinching humanity of 2 ethnographies: Neil Gong's "Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics" (@uchicagopress.bsky.social) & Randol Contreras's "The Marvelous Ones" (@ucpress.bsky.social)
tinyurl.com/BKSTrauma

Dolphins 🐬

Finalists announced for Lukas book prizes, which champion 'serious research and social concern.' Books on slavery, the justice system, poverty and gender identity are among this year’s finalists for J.

Our book is a finalist for the Lukas Book Award for a narrative on a topic of American political and social concern apnews.com/article/luka...

the Highland Gardens Hotel, which used to be the Landmark Motor Hotel; this was where Janis Joplin died of a heroin overdose in Room 105 while she recorded her final album Pearl in 1970

A LOS ANGELES MORBID LOCATION THREAD:

1. first we have the Highland Gardens Hotel, which used to be the Landmark Motor Hotel; this was where Janis Joplin died of a heroin overdose in Room 105 while she recorded her final album Pearl in 1970

Author just requested their name to be removed from published paper on trans health

Burawoy’s final lesson to us all is how he is being remembered. Yes he was a brilliant scholar, yes he shaped the discipline, but the outpouring is about who he was as a person, a gracious mentor, a kid human being, an advocate for justice.

May we all be as lucky.

Man with microphone

I had an influencer-provocateur-prankster interrupt my 300 students class with a song. He didn’t stay to hear about Durkheim’s book on Suicide

Americans Go Rogue in Response to a Broken Health Care System | Opinion From raw milk to vaccine skepticism to biohacking, many Americans are going rogue in their pursuit of health.

Check out my latest OpEd!

Americans are going rogue when it comes to their health. "It is not necessarily a rebellious spirit but an unreliable health care system that compels staunch individualism."

www.newsweek.com/americans-ar...

Psychiatric Gaslighting: The Surveillance of Mental Illness during Pregnancy Abstract. Women living with mental health symptoms face the dilemma of continuing psychotropic medication when pregnant or breastfeeding. Based on two year

New article with Charlotte Abel on psychiatric gaslighting academic.oup.com/socpro/advan...

Just got stuck for an hour in an elevator. It’s what nightmares are made of.

My biggest fear is that I will die alone, so if it is alright with you, I'd like you to come over to watch me eat this chicken I left out on the counter overnight.

Email from UCLA undergraduate student