Matthew Wolf-Meyer (a bald, middle aged white guy with glasses) holds aloft a copy of Mapping Medical Anthropology for the 21st Century. He's standing in front of a window with blue skies behind him.

We're about a month away from the official release of Mapping Medical Anthropology for the 21st Century, which was an effort made better by so many friends being involved, esp. @eraikhel.bsky.social and Junko Kitanaka, who did so much work to make this volume from @rutgersupress.bsky.social happen.

View our fantastic December Special Issue: Reconceptualising Toxicity and Environmental Justice at link.springer.com/journal/4129...

BioSocieties BioSocieties is a journal dedicated to research on the interrelationship between the life sciences and societyExplores how biotechnology, biomedicine, and ...

Excellent and important special issue of @biosocieties.bsky.social just out! Have a look:

"Reconceptualising Toxicity and Environmental Justice", guest edited by Raffaele Ippolito, Anna Lora‑Wainwright, Beth Greenhough & Maaret Jokela‑Pansini

link.springer.com/journal/4129...

Looking for sociologists & STS scholars (science & technology studies) to join us for 2 yrs of fully funded research at RWTH, one of Europe’s top technical universities.

Deadline: Oct 5, 2025 | Start latest Mar 2026

www.rwth-aachen.de/go/id/botjje...

Making sense of snakebite: the place of biological toxins in social scientific analyses of toxicity - BioSocieties Through an ethnographic study of snakebite governance in Kerala, India, this article argues that social scientific theories of toxicity elucidate the biosocial dimensions of snakebite envenomation (SB...

Pleased to share this paper for BioSocieties on snakebite in Kerala. I explore how social scientific theories of toxicity aid in conceiving of the structural vulnerabilities, diagnostic uncertainty, and multispecies health impacts that characterise snakebite's public health response.

The New Reproductive Order The transformative impact of new reproductive technologies over the past half centuryBoth fertility and infertility are commonly depicted as individual, biol...

“The New Reproductive Order” is out today! Edited by Sarah Franklin and Marcia C. Inhorn, this volume explores the transformative impact of new reproductive technologies over the past half century.

Groundbreaking and sophisticated, this collection of essays opens new horizons of scholarship.

Doing Bodies in YouTube Videos about Contested Illnesses - Irene Groenevelt, Sanneke de Haan, Jenny Slatman, 2022 This article is based on an online ethnographic study of Dutch women who use YouTube as a medium to document their contested illness experiences. During 13 mont...

ICYMI: 'Doing Bodies in YouTube Videos about Contested Illnesses'; Irene Groenevelt, Sanneke de Haan and Jenny Slatman research Dutch women who use YouTube as a medium to document their contested illness experiences. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Image of participants in the webinar, Making Tech Work for Everyone. How can technologists better serve civil society? What kinds of training do they need, and how can they serve respectfully? How can civil society organizations benefit from technologists and critical tech perspectives? Join University of Michigan's Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program on May 20th for a webinar addressing these questions, featuring alumni Trevor Odelberg, Divya Ramesh, Melvin Washington II, and Annabella Vidrio as well as Managing Director Molly Kleinman, and myself! We'll feature short presentations, audience Q&A, and breakout rooms to ensure robust conversation with participants.

How can technologists better serve civil society? What kinds of training do they need, and how can they serve respectfully? How can civil society organizations benefit from technologists and critical tech perspectives? Join us for our May 20th webinar! stpp.fordschool.umich.edu/event/2025/w...

ASDS logo. Death situated in life: personhood, pregnancy loss, and the politics of death. This talk explores how the examination of experiences of death in, and shortly after, pregnancy sheds light on many of the political issues implicated in death studies. It draws on Aimee’s multi-sited ethnographic research about women’s experiences of second trimester pregnancy loss in England & collaborations with other researchers. Aimee Middlemiss. Aimee is an interdisciplinary social scientist who draws on sociology, anthropology and STS to investigate the politics of reproduction and death. Book here: deathandsociety.org/online-events-series

We're looking forward to hearing from Aimee Middlemiss next Weds on personhood, pregnancy loss and the politics of death for the third in our series of free, online #deathstudies events.

Book here. deathandsociety.org/etn/death-si...

My new book will be out in Spring:
It examines ecosyndemics through the lens of Planetary Health:

🚨JOBS
Interested in #STS research on pharmaceutical innovation and microbial biopolitics?

2 position available @stsvienna.bsky.social to work with me on my @erc.europa.eu ERC Project #ALTERBIOTIC:

PhD: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/PhD-posi...

POSTDOC: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Postdoc-...

*UPDATE*
We've had a great response, especially from early-career researchers. Thank you!

BUT we really also want to hear from researchers who are mid-career and professors.

Your perspectives on the ups and downs of an academic career will really help us refine our recommendations!

Our Thanks to Founding Editor Professor Nikolas Rose As BioSocieties reaches its twentieth year we write to mark a significant transition in our history. Professor Nikolas Rose, founding editor and global leader

After 20 yrs, @biosocieties.bsky.social founding editor and global thought leader, Prof @rose-nikolas.bsky.social, steps down from his active editorial role. We reflect on this significant transition in the journal's history and pay tribute to him. biosocieties.org/our-thanks-t...

The New Reproductive Order: Technology, Fertility, and Social Change around the Globe [Open Access] The transformative impact of new reproductive technologies over the past half centuryBoth fertility and infertility are commonly depicted as individual, biological, and choice dependent ...

Must read, open access, couldn't be more timely! "The New Reproductive Order: Technology, Fertility, and Social Change around the Globe" edited by Sarah Franklin and Marcia Inhorn
opensquare.nyupress.org/books/978147...

Medicine on a Larger Scale Cambridge Core - History of Medicine - Medicine on a Larger Scale

Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine, eds @ahlie.bsky.social, Jeremy Greene, and me, will be available open access from @cambridgeup.bsky.social in May 2025. In a world of growing health inequity, radical social medicine has never been more urgent!
#histstm #histmed #sts

Great news, the programme for our Forum next week is now live! Take a look here 👇
www.repro.cam.ac.uk/events/male-...
Not registered yet? There's still time, sign up on Eventbrite and we'll see you there!
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Welcome! BioSocieties is an international, interdisciplinary journal for social studies of life sciences. Founded 19 years ago, it is just as relevant today.

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