Our article on investment feminism and women's health is out now in Signs! doi.org/10.1086/738995

You can check out the explainer blog post here: www.genderscilab.org/blog/investm...

Another fantastic video from GenderSci Lab... this time about sex disparities in adverse drug events. Great resource for teaching!

This week's cover @thelancet.com

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it.

Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

Our new research shows that hundreds of federal surveys removed questions about sexual orientation and gender identity since the start of the second Trump administration. Read the full report at: tinyurl.com/SOGIdata

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New Postdoctoral Research Associate positions at @Princeton's Office of Population Research!

Gender Inequities in Sports and ACL Injury Risk YouTube video by GenderSci Lab

As the 2026 Winter Olympics kick off with projected record-setting representation of women athletes, the GenderSci Lab is excited to share a new video we’ve created explaining how gendered social factors contribute to a higher risk of injury for women athletes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmLv...

Florida Introduces “Sanitized” Sociology Textbook The volume was created after a state review found that existing course materials violated a law prohibiting general education courses from teaching about systemic inequality. So far, at least two univ...

“the state-approved version doesn’t include chapters on media and technology, global inequality, race and ethnicity, social stratification, or gender, sex and sexuality.” State. Approved.

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Algorithmic futures for women’s health? YouTube video by GenderSci Lab

As explained in our short video, we found that these algorithms risk perpetuating “crude ontologies of sex and gender that undermine both scientific validity and health justice” (p. 1).

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TqL...

Check out this new research by GSL!!! It comes with a short video and blog-- great resource for teaching!

There's no better way to observe MLK Day than to go on the news and insist that the civil rights protesters objecting to police brutality are actually "paid agitators"

CDC awards $1.6 million for hepatitis B vaccine study, likely to controversial Danish researchers

“NIH is in crisis, grants are being terminated, labs are closing….but they found $1.6 million for an unsolicited proposal to study whether we should delay a vaccine we’ve been safely giving for 40 years, in a country where infants are at high risk of infection”

www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

Why So Many Organizations Stay White Understanding how race is historically and structurally built into the workplace

For a more realistic take on discrimination in the workplace, might I suggest my once again relevant articles.

'Brain scars': The hidden forms of sexism that harm women's health Subtle sexism that pervades everyday life often gets shrugged off. But research shows it can still have lasting psychological effects – including "thinning" parts of the brain.

www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Three maxims for countering sex essentialism in scientific research - Biology of Sex Differences To explain observed disparities in health outcomes between men and women, sex essentialist approaches assign causal primacy to sex-related biology. In this essay, we present three case studies to illu...

"Three maxims for countering sex essentialism in scientific research" --excellent work, and important insight, from the always amazing @genderscilab.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Hot off the press! See our new paper: “Three maxims for countering sex essentialism in scientific research” in the journal Biology of Sex Differences. We show how sex essentialism distorts research & propose 3 ways to avoid making these mistakes. (1/12) rdcu.be/eNcRM

“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas. Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.

NEW: ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.

Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.

Congrats to CPC Fellow and Assistant Professor of Sociology Lauren Valentino, who was selected for a Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar Fellowship for the 2026-27 academic year!

Research breakthroughs often come through collaborations − attacks on academic freedom threaten this vital work Academic freedom grew strongly after World War II, with greater university funding, protections and autonomy, yet global data now shows a decline.

Great article in the conversation by David Baker et al. on how US crackdown on academic freedom undermines global collaboration and scientific productivity: theconversation.com/research-bre...

Does women’s health need protecting? The administration thinks so. But what does this mean? Evidence-based assessment of first 30 days of changes to womenshealth[dot]gov with @pahoman.bsky.social in @lancetrh-americ.bsky.social

Commentary: Florida’s education commissioner just fired free thought Anastasios Kamoutsas’ removal of a sociology professor from a statewide committee is only the latest government attempt to limit the scope of education.

www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/09/c...

Image shows a screenshot of the first page of the article, State-Level Structural Sexism and Cardiovascular Disease Outcomes in the United States, published in Social Science & Medicine

Our new study shows that living in states with higher levels of structural sexism was associated with worse cardiovascular disease outcomes for both men and women, especially for diabetes and stroke.

@pahoman.bsky.social @deborascience.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Rewriting women's health: a content analysis of the Trump administration's revisions to womenshealth.gov In 2025, the Trump administration instituted rapid changes to the data and information available on US government websites. We conducted a content ana…

Turns out Trump's "Defending Women" executive order is not, in fact, about defending women's health. It has led to the removal of of a lot of crucial information about women's health. This just out in a peer reviewed article by Patricia Homan and Susan Short. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

In the absence of trustworthy federal health communication, researchers, clinicians, and advocates must fill the gap and get accurate info to the public wherever we can.

Federal health sites must share credible evidence-based info aligned with expert consensus, not politicized messaging that erases or distorts science.

Why it matters:
-U.S. maternal health outcomes are already in crisis.
-Disinformation from federal agencies compounds public mistrust.
-When science is replaced with ideology, population health suffers.

Our analysis shows that womenshealth[dot]gov was repurposed to promote gendered power inequalities and anti-LGBTQ+ narratives, rather than to improve health outcomes.

This shift undermines health for everyone.

In place of evidence-based info, new content promoted biological sex essentialism -- portraying women’s bodies as weak or in need of protection, and trans people as a “threat.”

This isn’t health communication. It’s ideology.

Between Jan-Feb 2025, key evidence-based info on maternal health, reproductive health, and social determinants of health was removed from womenshealth[dot]gov.

No credible health content was added.