Sophie Moullin

But young women do not earn more than in the previous generation. As mothers, they may be, but they are also spending a lot more and more reliant on work outsourced in public and private sectors, and partners’ pay has stagnated. Young women now are also less likely to be mothers.

Fatigue, Brain Fog And A Racing Heart — What Doctors Are Learning About Post-COVID Neurodivergence Doctors at the RSM meeting discussed how certain traits — such as joint hypermobility or sensitivity to standing — may be more common in patients with long COVID, neurodivergence, or unexplained chron...

Relatedly, Covid — the actual virus, not the pandemic experience- probably directly, increased symptoms of neurodiversity, and related mental health problems - www.forbes.com/sites/drnanc...

This point is actually key to understanding psychiatric power- over psychologizing, even socializing, the biological as well as vice versa! see Nikolas Rose in Neuro

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“Psychiatry has a legacy of implementing drastic procedures, like lobotomies, that later come to seem like folly. But it also has a history of proffering psychological theory for illnesses that are not yet understood on a biological level.” 💯@thenewyorker.bsky.social www.newyorker.com

I mean, if Butler had even read Goffman…

* Social hierarchy preservation syndrome * is particularly noteworthy. I can confidently say I’ve never suffered from it 😆

Related: because if a typo and the algo, I was reminded of Christine Delphy: discouraged by Bourdieu who told her “no one researches women”, and now shunned because she saw that gender/feminism was fundamentally an economic issue.

#Delphi is one of the most interesting AI developments sociologically. But most current sociologists can’t engage with it because their theory of the self, identity and mind, is no different from Delphi’s business pitch.

YouTube video by Richard Pink Imagine diagnosing neurotypicals 🤣 #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #adhd #autism

This is not only funny, but a good intro into how cultures turn #neurodiversity into a #neurodisability - #autism #adhd youtube.com/shorts/SG8Vq...

If you prosecute parents, you may be subject to judicial review.

Parents of neurodiverse children are prepared to pursue legal recourse against governments that repeatedly fail to provide inclusive education—breaching the CRPD, Human Rights Act, and Education and Training Act 2020.

Yeah, and I wonder if the complexity story might ironically actually be easier for people to understand… 🤔

Yes. Marae achieved one of the highest vaccination rates among ethnic minorities in the world, within weeks. And they did so basically by allowing enough time for people to talk through their concerns. (See Raerino 2024).

Another story from @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social about why we can't just implore or even educate people to "follow the science" whether of climate change, or vaccines. (mocking those who don't doesn't work either, see USA).

I've long thought that the dominant - progressive - policy narrative, and social statistical analysis, of 'health inequalities' is wrong. This lovely little story by @drannamatheson.bsky.social helps articulate why.

The ideas that built us A new book from one of New Zealand's most celebrated social historians looks at the ideas that built our nation - and concludes that neither Maori nor Europeans remained unchanged following their earl...

Olssen reminds us that the English settlers, not only the Irish and Scots, had been colonized at home, as industrialisation way layered on top of a feudal aristocracy. Not to excuse, but to understand the politics then and now: www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

Yes, I meant would there be any formal grounds for revoking it, and thinking maybe it could be a symbol of an alternative international stance for the Greens, even Labour.

Would this be grounds for a Minister of Internal Affairs to revoke his citizenship?

The Origins of an Experimental Society: New Zealand, 1769–1860 The history of New Zealand explained through powerful beliefs and the people who held them.

This is a new, must read social-intellectual #history: a history of ideas as they were developed and practiced by ordinary settler-colonialists and by
Māori - The Origins of an Experimental Society: New Zealand, 1769–1860 aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz/the-origins-...

Brilliant, Charlotte! Can’t wait to read.

New Zealand's Parliament Suspends Maori Lawmakers Over Haka Protest The harsh penalty was handed down to three members of the opposition who said they were voicing their community's displeasure with proposed legislation.

We made the New York Times for being racist (photojournalist Hagen Hopkins must be stoked though)

Probably ~80% of those hating on Ardern’s COVID strategy in late 2021 were in the highest risk category
for Covid hospitalization/death.

To understand #adifferentkindofpower, start with this brief 2019 biography which I got for my boys:

Ardern’s stylized US Ivy and talk show appearances miss the whole point: that — in the right political system and culture — you can be a genuine, dorkish, imperfect ordinary human female - and be a political leader.

We didn't. This was orchestrated.

New Zealand’s Parliament Suspends Maori Lawmakers Over Haka Protest

Remember the last time happenings in NZ parliament got global attention? When a waiata (a Maori love song) broke out as same sex marriage equality passed.

The haka could and should have been similarly celebrated as an example of how politics can be different.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/w...

AI multiplier on the enormous extracted value created by grant-funded postdocs. DOGE take note.

Rutger Bregman Wants to Save Elites From Their Wasted Lives

He ends by recommending Peter Theil as a read; I’d recommend Anand Giridharadas… and some deeper history of social movements… back. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/m...

I recently read what I thought was a very fresh, timely piece on the role of universities/academics in the time of AI by Joanna… and then realized it was posted in 2018, back when she was struggling to get senior folks at Princeton to take AI seriously.

Is that really not a spoof?!

Still, that’s 8 powerful dudes who may well have never got over a rejection from Harvard, Princeton, Yale…or Stanford…