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Submit a poster for the inaugural Kinsey Institute Specialty Intensive and Symposium (KISIS)! 2025 theme is #Sex & #Aging.

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Faculty organization alleges IU violated policy in terminating Xiaofeng Wang IU terminated Wang the same day the FBI searched homes belonging to him.

U Bloomington’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors is alleging the university violated policy in terminating tenured professor Xiaofeng Wang.

Come learn more about this topic on April 4 at our Preventing Sexual Violence Research Symposium. Register at knsy.in/SES2025

The American Bar Association has grave concerns about today’s decision to immediately end most of the government-funded legal services program for unaccompanied children. This program provides legal representation to more than 26,000 migrant children, who are in or have been released from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement custody. Providing services to these children helps them navigate complex immigration court proceedings and allows them to understand their legal options, while also protecting them from being trafficked, abused, or exploited in the United States.

The ABA is concerned by the U.S. government's cutoff of legal services for unaccompanied children. Read the full statement here: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

Feasibility and Impact of School-Based Online Comprehensive Sexuality Education on Vocational High School Students: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial To assess the effect of an online comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) package for vocational high school students in China’s developed and less-developed regions, a parallel, unblinded, cluster...

Just published in #JSexResearch Feasibility and Impact of School-Based Online Comprehensive Sexuality Education on Vocational High School Students: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial
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Moving Toward a More Comprehensive Standard for Sex Education: A Latent Class Analysis and Examination of Young Adult Sexual Health While sex education has been linked to adolescent health, few studies have examined how comprehensiveness of school-based sex education may promote young adult sexual wellbeing. The current study u...

New article in #JSexResearch Moving Toward a More Comprehensive Standard for Sex Education: A Latent Class Analysis and Examination of Young Adult Sexual Health
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If you want to read more about defunding sex research in 2003, see this 2006 paper:
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What a year!

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Statement by UNFPA Executive Director on the United States Government funding cuts UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, notes with deep regret the termination of all funding agreements by the United States Government. These 48 grants, totalling approximat...

The United States’ termination of funding agreements with the United Nations Population Fund is deeply alarming and will have severe consequences for #ReproductiveHealth and rights globally.

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I wanna be known as one of the great over-thinkers of our time. Unless that's too weird. Is that weird? That's weird isn't it? Great now everything's ruined and everyone thinks I'm weird and...

Just published in #JSexResearch: The Sweet and the Salty: Women’s Definitions and Negotiations of Power in Sugar Relationships by Marion Scull
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What Gutting USAID Means for My Young Patients in Burundi “To my patients and their mothers, I offered apologies from the American people,” writes Dr. Jennifer Furin.

This is a gut-wrenching, beautifully written essay. A doctor must watch helplessly as children die because USAID's freeze on aid has limited access to nutritional supplements. time.com/7258248/us-f...

Just published in #JSexResearch
Identifying Barriers and Facilitators of Implementing a Sexual and Relationship Health Intervention within the Child Welfare System: A Mixed Methods Study
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Popular antidepressants don't appear to dull romantic love, study finds New research challenges fears that antidepressants dull passion. In a large international survey, young adults on these medications experienced the same intensity, obsession, and commitment of love as...

There has long been speculation that SSRIs might negatively affect the experience of love. However, research finds that people taking these meds report similar levels of love intensity, obsessive thoughts, commitment, and sex frequency as those not taking them. www.psypost.org/popular-anti...

Application deadline is THIS FRIDAY 2/7!

I am really frustrated that the press is discussing the destruction of USAID as something that has happened rather than an illegal action that will likely be undone in two weeks when courts tell the world that it was illegal.

Bookshop.org enters the e-book arena, giving indie stores a new way to compete with Amazon "Everything Amazon can do, we want to do as well or better," says CEO Andy Hunter on boosting indie sales digitally.

This is VERY good news. Love bookshop.org and all the stuff they do!

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I’m watching several shows that have weekly episodes and at first it was annoying but then I realized it was good to have something to look forward to each week and clearly reality isn’t going to be that thing so

Does anyone know how to unsubscribe from #menopause? I’m doing the free trial right now and I’m pretty confident I’m not interested in the full program.

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I bought a nursing pillow. For crochet.

I’m teaching two sessions in 2025! Online in February and in person at the @kinseyinstitute.bsky.social in May! Details and application at the link

I skip the #BobsBurgers Christmas episodes when I rewatch at other times of the year and it’s kind of a pain for 11 months but it makes December very exciting for me 🍔🎄

🚨 Applications are OPEN for our Human Sexuality Intensive. Hear from globally recognized experts, gain foundational knowledge, & earn a certificate from the Kinsey Institute. Online or in person options. More details & apply at knsy.in/intensive

Thanksgiving through New Year’s should just be a 35 day weekend

There's something quite sobering about the fact that 95% of all stars that will ever be born ... have already been born.

(I learned this from @astrokatie.com)