AusSTS | AusSTS 2026 Submit to AusSTS 2026: Antipodean Interruptions, 9-11 Nov at Victoria University of Wellington. Deadline: 3 April 2026. All career stages welcome.

AusSTS 2026 in Aotearoa! Deadline extended to April 10. aussts.org/aussts2026 #STS

Major conference catches illicit AI use — and rejects hundreds of papers The papers’ watermarks allowed organizers to detect use of large language models in peer review.

Watermarking submitted papers to detect reviews generated by AI. Next up, we need to ban offenders from future submissions. As a sometime Area Chair for various conferences, I found nothing more infuriating than AI reviews. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Natasha Cloud holds the rim of an outdoor basketball hoop while Mayor Mamdani stands beside her.

One person in this photo deserves a 20% WNBA revenue share and it’s not me.

Congratulations to the WNBPA on their historic labor agreement.

It‘s terrific y’all are covering the issue - and with such great experts on board!

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Testing for Athlete Citizenship Incidents of doping in sports are common in news headlines, despite regulatory efforts. How did doping become a crisis? What does a doping violation actually entail? Who gets punished for breaking the...

If interested, the link to the book is here. Lyndsay Parks Pieper’s Sex Testing provides a foundational history as well. www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/testing-for-...

Great to see this live soon after the IOC announcement. It’s part of a longer history of scientific testing being inappropriately used to help justify ideologies about gender, bodies, and ability. I wrote a book >10 years ago about it, and the pattern continues and reflects contemporary politics.

From Caster Semenya and Humans of Sport.

Image text relates to the list of nominees for the 2026 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize, which has been announced

The list of nominees for the 2026 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize has been announced. The prize is for the best first and sole-authored book within the discipline of Sociology
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Octavia Butler had all their numbers. This is from the new biography of her, Positive Obsession. By Susana M. Morris. bookshop.org/p/books/posi...

And it is a yes! Our TIG on Anthropology and Sport has been approved. We’re in business!!!

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Can't take any credit for this one but it's great seeing the newest piece from our lab group at @anuregnet.bsky.social in @theconversation.com. Jenna Imad Harb & Kirsty Anantharajah with the Super Bowl commentary many of us were waiting to read @nasssbsky.bsky.social @sociologyaustralia.bsky.social

ARC’s new schedule is at www.arc.gov.au/funding-rese...

It will now take A YEAR, or more, for researchers to know whether their grants are successful or not.

For example, early-career researchers are to submit DECRA proposals 11 March this year but they may not be announced 'til 9 March NEXT YEAR!

Addressing Gender Inequity in Australian Sports Leadership: A Postfeminist Policy Paradox - Jude Blacklock, Kathryn Henne, Kate Starre, Tate Morgan, 2026 Despite the growth in women's sport, decision-making positions in sports organizations remain dominated by men. This paper examines efforts to improve gend...

New co-authored article by Jude Blacklock, Kathryn Henne, Kate Starre and Tate Morgan examines the paradoxical features of gender equity initiatives, and why they often don’t work as stated. Read more 🔽
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🚨We're hiring! A tenure track position at McGill University in the area of #bioethics and / or philosophy of science, with a special focus on the ethics of medical technologies. Please share widely. #philsky #ethics #philsci philjobs.org/job/show/30402

Row over definition of ‘gender’ hangs over Cop30 plans to support women Advocates say conservative states’ push to define gender as ‘biological sex’ would backslide on decade-old language within the UN A row over the definition of the term “gender” threatens to bog down pivotal talks at the Cop30 climate summit. Before the UN talks in Brazil, hardline conservative states have pushed to define gender as “biological sex” over their concerns trans and non-binary people could be included in a major plan to ensure climate action addresses gender inequality and empowers women. Continue reading...

Row over definition of ‘gender’ hangs over Cop30 plans to support women

Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S. The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.

"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."

Good morning, #ASCriminology2025 attendees! Drop by our booth and check out our latest books in Criminology.

If you're busy with panels today, visit our ASC website and get 40% off all books we have on display: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/a...

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Violent Impacts by Kathryn Henne, Matt Ventresca - Paper Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

Made it to the American Society of Criminology annual meeting! I'll be discussing Violent Impacts, my
@ucpress.bsky.social book with Matt Ventresca, later today at 3:30pm. For those also here, our author-meets-critics session is in the Scarlet Oak Room (Level 2). www.ucpress.edu/books/violen...

Editors invite papers that engage in assessment and critique of Northern theoretical approaches OR offer fresh theoretical approaches from the Global South. Deadline Dec. 15! ow.ly/txyq50Wq9qz

Looking forward to the online launch of our @ucpress.bsky.social book, Violent Impacts: How Power and Inequality Shape the Concussion Crisis, on Wed, Oct 22nd at 4pm EST! (via zoom 🏎️)

It’s easy to register via 🔗 or QR code below: westernuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Traumatic Brain Injury is Much Bigger than a Sports “Concussion Crisis” Authors Kathryn Henne and Matt Ventresca explain the larger story of inequality behind today's concussion crisis—and why many more people experience brain injury without the same attention afforded at...

@ucpress.bsky.social has featured an editorial about my new book with Matt Ventresca. The piece, Traumatic Brain Injury is Much Bigger than a Sports “Concussion Crisis”, provides an overview of the issues we cover in Violent Impacts.

www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/t...

📚 Join us for the launch of @k8henne.bsky.social and Matt Ventresca’s new book, which examines the social and regulatory impacts of concussion crisis discourses and how certain bodies are central within these narratives while others are pushed to the margins. Learn more & register: lnkd.in/epuPSjJb

Someone finally wrote the data-center/electricity inflation story.

@nytimes.com #CPI
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Crashing #ASA2025 to see our new @ucpress.bsky.social book, Violent Impacts: How Power and Inequality Shape the Concussion Crisis, out in the world for the first time! Also open access!

City digital twins and the urban laboratory: The practice and politics of ‘sandbox urbanism’ City Digital Twins (CDTs) are digital platforms that combine urban data to support city monitoring through predictive simulations and the visualizatio…

Extremely stoked to share a recent publication of mine in the journal Cities! Based on research I conducted last year, I look at what happens when 'innovation' takes root as a policy priority for city governments, through the prism of 'digital twin' projects.

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Are you heading to @aussts.bsky.social #AusSTS25 #SignalsAndNoises in July in Melbourne? #STS

If so I hand-curated a Bluesky list of people I could find from the conference program:

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