Are researchers relying too heavily on the first-person vantage point?
Find out at 'Theorizing from Lived Experience: A Roundtable on Feminist and Queer Theory', a free @bsatheory.bsky.social online event, 21 April
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Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly:
- Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat)
- Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex)
- Humming (stimulates vagus nerve)
- Exercise (anything helps, outside even better)
- Impeachment and removal
Concluding thoughts by Panagiotis Pentaris, one of the editors of the book, who shared the story behind the beautiful cover photograph.
Eid Mubarak to all of my Muslim friends! 🌙
The third & final speaker is Lionel Obadia, speaking on the "digital decolonisation" of death. He spoke about problematising digital "lives" and "societies", and what these mean for those who are dead-alive online through the technologies of deadbots and griefbots.
Second speaker is Dr. George Gumisiriza, who wrote the chapter 'A Migrant Dies in Egypt: Jacob’s Spectacular Repatriation to His Family Tomb' is speaking on cultural, diasporic and ancestral death, experiences of necropolitics and belonging.
This is the third and final webinar to launch the book, Decolonising Death Studies (2026) www.routledge.com/Decolonising...
First speaker is Dr. Tamara Borovica, whose chapter looks at ecological grief and questions what counts as loss? Who or what is grievable?
Currently tuning into 'Mapping Deathways — Environmentally, Digitally, and through Repatriationscapes' hosted by @asdsdeath.bsky.social
You know what's better than those weird AI-generated portraits? Making your own through the HUNDREDS of fun little icon makers like this one that I used to make a floating cartoon head version of myself: picrew.me/en/image_mak...
Important thread providing more of the detail than I could be motivated to add.
The '10 studies' do not merit detailed analysis of everything they get wrong - & thread is just the tip of the iceberg in what they get wrong, but a useful starting point nevertheless.
Yesterday the NHS banned all under 18 prescriptions of HRT for trans young people.
This ban was justified by 10 new studies that largely stated NO EVIDENCE for under 18s HRT exists.
The study underpinning this played one particular trick.
Let's briefly look at how the NHS rigged the game 1/5
This looks fantastic! Keen to read it.
New edited available for pre-order! Doing Death Research: Interviews and Career Reflections with Death Studies Scholars
www.routledge.com/Doing-Death-...
Me watching the Matildas v Philippines game tonight:
I am now a Jeep Guy (I bought a very old secondhand Jeep) which means I am now having to reassess my finances because she (the Jeep) needs repairs
Thanks for tuning into 'Out of the Pan' on Sunday to hear me talk about my PhD research project! 🏳️⚧️📻
If you missed it, you can listen back or read the transcript here: www.3cr.org.au/outofthepan/...
Tune into 3CR Community Radio (855 AM) this Sunday 15th Feb at noon (12:00pm AEDT) to hear me chat with Sally Goldner on Out of the Pan about my PhD research project!
www.3cr.org.au
Very pleased to say that this was an excellent evening and I had a lot of fun. Also pleased to say that if you are hungry and tired, there's nothing stopping you from going home! Go home early, folks!
Trying to go on more weird "side quests" this year, and this evening i'm going to a medieval combat cage fight at the German club
🏳️⚧️ I'm looking to talk to people who identify as transgender and/or gender diverse (based in Australia) about what their expectations and desires are for palliative and end-of-life care! 🏳️⚧️
Please share amongst your networks or scan the QR code/follow the link: forms.office.com/r/pwRUj8R6Rt.
Sadly, YOTI / KWS / BlueSky did not tell me how old it thinks I am but it did ask me to do this!
Some very timely research being undertaken by UNSW Kirby Institute about the upcoming 2026 Census, I just completed the survey and you can too!
www.unsw.edu.au/research/cou...
smoldering coals 🌑
CALL: seminar funding for 2026
The Foundation is inviting submissions for its 2026 Undisciplining Seminar Series exploring who and what sociology is for.
Submit your proposal by 31 January for public events focusing on the transformative potential of sociological thinking.
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a good and necessary read for many
O, horrible, O, horrible, most horrible!
this month i've decided to leave google for good, and i also made a wikipedia account. feels nice to balance things out!
what's also pretty rad? compression socks
but i may have to invest in some actual flight ones and not some old surgery ones
