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Gabriel Flynn @gabrielflynn.bsky.social · 1d

pro writing tip: always start the day by addressing a minor administrative task so that you’re in a bad mood when you begin your actual work

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SOC-MISC @soc-misc.bsky.social · 2d

🏁 End of fieldwork for the qualitative study on miscarriages and social Inequalities within the SOC-MISC project (FISO study)!

🙏 Huge thanks to the 41 women who shared their stories with us!

#Miscarriage #HealthInequality #FISO #Research #ReproHealth

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SOC-MISC @soc-misc.bsky.social · 2d

🏁 Fin de la collecte pour l’enquête FISO (Fausses couches et Inégalités SOciales), volet qualitatif du projet SOC-MISC.
🙏 Merci aux 41 participantes pour leur confiance ! Et maintenant place à l'analyse 🔍

#FausseCouche #recherche #santé #inégalités

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FemQuant @femquant.bsky.social · 2d

This month's FemQuant seminar will be with Feminist Economist Dr. Sarah F. Small who asks: "What is a feminist quantitative method?".
📆 Monday 20 October 2025
More info: femquant.wordpress.com/seminar-seri...

Seminar details with photo of the speaker. What is a feminist quantitative method? Opportunities for feminist econometrics. Dr. Sarah F. Small, University of Utah. Monday 20 October 2025, 10:00 EDT/ 15:00 BST/ 16:00 CEST.

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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 3d

If you’re apprehensive that what you say or do now could come to haunt you in a more authoritarian environment in the future then this is your absolute cue that you absolutely must say or do something now.

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Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · 7d

This #BlackHistoryMonth we've teamed up with UCL's Sarah Parker Redmond Centre to bring you a series of events exploring reproductive justice. Join us at the Vagina Museum or at UCL www.vaginamuseum.co.uk/events/event...

Vagina Museum events — Vagina Museum

What's on at the Vagina Museum: our programme includes comedy nights, bingo, pub quiz, curator talks, director talks, feminism, art history, science.

www.vaginamuseum.co.uk

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Dr Kirstie Ken English (they/them) @kenglish.bsky.social · 7d

Very excited about this (& chuffed about my logo making skills 😂)

Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 7d

We're starting a new 'ArtsLab' (research network) in trans studies at Glasgow! It's very exciting and I hope that in time we can become a real centre for research in this field. Find out more - including details of our upcoming launch event - on our website: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/art...

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Abby Vesoulis @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social · 8d

What happens when a miscarriage is treated like a crime?
That’s not a hypothetical anymore. It’s happening in the U.S. right now. 🧵 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

When miscarriages become crimes

412 women faced criminal charges for pregnancy outcomes. This is what fetal personhood looks like.

www.motherjones.com

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 8d

important article highlighting the continuing benefit to both mother and newborn of vaccinating pregnant women against Covid.

The US under RFK Jr just stopped recommending vax for pregnant women. The UK has withdrawn vax for pregnant women too - I think both are very stupid decisions.

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 8d

Excited to co-author this study led by @nathanlo.bsky.social @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social on the devastating consequences of not vaccinating pregnant women vs Covid

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Modeling the Health Impact of Discontinuing COVID-19 Vaccination During Pregnancy in the US

This decision analytical model study estimates the number of avertable COVID-19 hospitalizations in US infants younger than 6 months and pregnant persons with vaccinations during pregnancy.

jamanetwork.com

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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 8d

Can we all just shout about how despicable it is to scapegoat migrants for everything? Can we just stop being too polite or shy about it? Can we condemn it at work, with friends, family, on SM, everywhere? Can we just not keep calm & carry on until it’s too late?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Stop blaming migrants and tackle UK’s real problems, 100 charities tell home secretary

A letter warns Shabana Mahmood that ‘targeting refugees will do nothing to tackle’ problems with housing and the NHS

www.theguardian.com

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Heini Väisänen @heinivaisanen.bsky.social · 8d

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Heini Väisänen @heinivaisanen.bsky.social · 8d

Sorry demographers, we're no longer needed

Leslie R😈😈t @lesja.bsky.social · 9d

oh okay osf.io/preprints/so...

Studies that predict species extinction have focused on a range of flora and fauna but in regard to Homo sapiens there are, with one notable exception, no predictive studies, only considerations of possible ways this may occur. The exception believes extinction of Homo sapiens will happen in 10,000 years. We agree that extinction will happen, but we disagree on the timing. The world population is currently 8.1 billion, Given the decline in fertility between 2019 and 2024 and employing a probabilistic forecasting method in conjunction with 66% confidence intervals, we find: by 2139 the world population will be between 1.55 billion and 1.81 billion; by 2239, it will be between 4.95 million and 5.84 million and by 2339 there will be no humans.

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Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 9d

Demography is neither vibes nor physics but that seems too hard for like everyone to understand?

Leslie R😈😈t @lesja.bsky.social · 9d

oh okay osf.io/preprints/so...

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Dr. Genevieve Eastabrook, MD FRCSC (she/her) @placentadoc.bsky.social · 15d

Here is a list of therapies which prevent adverse fetal/childhood outcomes:
Preconception folic acid
Low-dose ASA for preeclampsia prevention
Vaccines: TDaP, influenza, COVID, RSV
Antibiotics for GBS prophylaxis
Rh immune globulin for Rh- pregnant people

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Dr. Genevieve Eastabrook, MD FRCSC (she/her) @placentadoc.bsky.social · 15d

As a Maternal Fetal Medicine specialist, here are a list of exposures with conclusive evidence for adverse fetal & childhood outcomes:
Alcohol
Tobacco
Cannabis
Maternal suicide
Maternal homicide
Viruses (CMV, influenza, COVID, HIV, HepB&C)
Bacteria (syphilis, listeria)
Parasites (toxo)

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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 12d

One of the most painful aspects of this saga is the message that we -as law abiding tax paying immigrants and children of immigrants propping up various UK public and private sectors- are fair game to be left felt feeling fearful, unvalued, unsafe & rejected by this whole rhetoric. Who cares?

Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 12d

The success of the far right is not only measured in votes and seats but in its impact on rhetoric, policy and ideology. The fact that a (nominally) social democratic head of government with a huge majority choses to say and do this is maybe the biggest success of the far right in Europe yet.

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Heini Väisänen @heinivaisanen.bsky.social · 14d

This feminist miscarriage project looks excellent!

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SOC-MISC @soc-misc.bsky.social · 14d

📍Aujourd'hui à la #FFER2025 à Strasbourg, deux membres de l'équipe présentent leurs recherches:

▶️ Hélène Malmanche : Prise en charge des nouveaux publics en AMP

▶️ MC Compans : Aspects socio-démographiques de la fausse couche

📋 Programme : ffer-strasbourg2025.com/upload/progr...

ffer-strasbourg2025.com

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Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 15d

Keeping your family alive used to be an endless stream of boiling, scrubbing, tending to the sick, wondering, worrying, grieving the losses. It was so hard. The grueling care work involved in having a family eclipsed other spheres of life for the vast majority of women. That's the aim here.

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Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 15d

The pronatalists aren't stupid. They know they can't get us to have more babies by just nudging us a little. It's going to take real muscle.

Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 16d

But if pregnancy is all-consuming, painful, and may happen at any time, then it's much harder to do other things with your life, too. Women's spheres narrow. And that's what they are aiming for: circumscription of women's lives. (Really all our lives.)

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thickamus prime @0hbetave.bsky.social · 15d

Go update your LinkedIn settings.

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FemQuant @femquant.bsky.social · 15d

Thank you to everyone who attended last week’s FemQuant seminar! If you missed it, you can watch the recording of the presentation by @crowold.bsky.social here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=L8WK...

FemQuant Seminar: Invisible Biases, Unequal Outcomes

YouTube video by FemQuant

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Nicolas Berrod @nicolasberrod.bsky.social · 15d

❗️ L'Agence européenne des médicaments maintient et réaffirme sa position : "aucune preuve que la prise de #paracétamol pendant la grossesse provoque l'autisme chez l'enfant" et ce médicament "peut toujours être utilisé pour traiter douleur ou fièvre chez la femme enceinte".

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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 15d

Being anti vaccines for babies is one of the surest signs of a declining civilisation. There could be no clearer evidence on childhood vaccination saving lives and preserving health and yet we’re being distracted by debating this issue.

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Eurosurveillance journal @eurosurveillance.org · 15d

Looking at the #evidence

#Vaccination is not only an act of self-protection but also one of #solidarity

Without widespread vaccination, many diseases that are now rare thanks to #vaccines, could return

#VaccinesWork #UnitedInProtection #IDSky #EpiSky #MedSky

Eurosurveillance journal @eurosurveillance.org · Jul 11

'The more people are vaccinated against diphtheria the easier it is to stop outbreaks and to prevent future ones.'

Report on the first #outbreak of respiratory #diphtheria caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae with local transmission in Germany in 40 years

#EpiSky #IDSky #MedSky #PublicHealth 🦠🧪

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