Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

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“I think a lot of spaces like that would be probably lacking”: trans poetics and the built environment of a South Australian mental health network Too often approaches to the inclusion of trans people in mental health services fail to consider how the built environment impacts on sense of safety and being welcome within the space. Trans poeti...

This new publication from a project I am involved with uses trans poetics (cárdenas) as a framework to think through the inclusion of trans people in the built environment of Australian mental health services. 🌈🎓

New paper! Drawing on the concept of desiring-assemblages, we asked ‘what can a body with PrEP do?’

Led by @anthonykjsmith.bsky.social in Sexualities:

The limits of promoting pleasure: Desiring-assemblages and #HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

📣 New paper in Social Science & Medicine!

Evidencing work: implementing HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis and
on-demand dosing in Australia

#sts #hiv #prep #evidence #expertise @martinxholt.bsky.social @anthonykjsmith.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1016/j.so...

Fuck yeah!

No, MS Word, I do NOT want you to summarize the document I AM LITERALLY WRITING MYSELF. Why would I need that? God, I hate how intrusive this s--t is. I just want to make it go away and it appears that our institutional version of the software does not have any of the off switches for it.

Our edited collection on temporalities of health, illness and care is now published with Palgrave Macmillan.

15 fantastic chapters from author teams around the world unpacking rich social theory of time in relation to studies of health and illness.

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Thank you, definitely agree!

I and many people are still boycotting and, to be frank, judge people who continue publishing in it. While I understand the publishing landscape is a tough one, I strongly encourage publishing elsewhere. If not on principle, just to avoid negative impressions.

Sexual Behavior Journal Under Fire Over Gender Dysphoria Paper Critics blast paper about controversial theory, call for editor's removal

Are people still boycotting Archives of Sexual Behavior?

The domain for the open letter seems to have lapsed, but this article covers it...

www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

I think pash/pashing is one of the best australian/nz words. lets all agree to start using it more

What Happened to the University’s Commitment to Free Expression? Charley Kirk, uAlberta, and Me | Centre for Free Expression I was shocked when the University of Alberta administration informed me, one of its law professors, that I was being placed on non-disciplinary leave for my social media comments in the wake of Charli...

"Why would it bow to antidemocratic pressures by placing a professor on leave without their request, consent, or involvement? That any university would do this is beyond comprehension and is cause for alarm about the future of academic freedom in Canada."

very direct evidence that video game piracy is important in the preservation of video games

Omg I think this like every day

Legit tho! I guess I’ll just have to take generic white guy A names.

I just got Alex as a reply in an email! Wtf

Even without an unusual name spelling. I have had people *reply* to my email with ‘Hi Andrew’ a concerning number of times!

New article in Social Theory & Health, co-authored with
@judegreen.bsky.social, open access.

In a nutshell we argue that that lived-experience research is not the same as qualitative sociology in health research. The difference exists and matters.

Read here: rdcu.be/evZ7F

Aw yeah that’s heaps cool eh, I’m hell keen m8

Nah judge me

I did it yesterday actually… but it was a meeting with 6 people, not 5!

Yeah and I’ll do it to you too, m8

Bodies of missing aid workers found in Gaza ‘mass grave’ following Israeli attacks | CNN The bodies of more than a dozen aid workers have been recovered in southern Gaza from what a United Nations agency described as a “mass grave,” a week after they went missing following attacks by Isra...

Oh my fucking god.

It looks like Israel murdered eight Palestine Red Crescent Society workers, a UN employee, and five civil defense staff.

They crushed up and buried entire ambulances and civil defense vehicles in the fucking mass grave.

www.cnn.com/2025/03/31/m...

New (open access paper): #mpox #vaccination coverage among Australian gay and bisexual men and non-binary people. 42% fully vaxxed. Lower vax levels among bi+, overseas born and in suburban/regional areas. @anthonykjsmith.bsky.social @curtisxchan.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.va...

The FDA is cracking down on 'poppers' producers Double Scorpio, a popular brand of "poppers," has stopped operations after a search and seizure from the FDA, it said on Friday.

This has RFK Jr's fingerprints all over it. I don't know what he really believes about HIV & AIDS, since he's all over the map, but at one point recently he suggested poppers were a more likely cause than the virus. 1/
www.fastcompany.com/91298370/fda...

Idk Ben pretty hot take, eh

#OpenAccess in ANZ Journal of Survey. Pilot research to explore experiences of gay/bi men with anorectal surgery. We found poor experiences of aftercare related to sexual wellbeing / function, and opportunities for improvement to surgical education.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The @austhistassoc.bsky.social statement on UA's new definition of antisemitism: