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The bulldozers destroying habitat for endangered Gouldian Finches, black-footed tree rats and over 270 bird species at Binybara/Lee Point. This is a place beloved by thousands of people across Darwin. Its loss is a failure of our environment laws, and deeply upsetting.

They didn’t rename the hall after a combatant, or an anti-Zionist, or an anti-Israeli…. They named it after the five year old who died alone and terrified, because Israel killed her family and the paramedics trying to reach her. Powerful witness and beautiful resistance

The New Yorker “Students should choose their rhetoric more carefully,” says an essay that compares student slogans to nuclear weapons in the first sentence.

Israel commits one of its biggest child massacres 300 days after live-streaming genocide, because it knows it can with no consequences. The world will never be able to make up for what it has allowed to the Palestinians

Excited to see our paper (co-authored w the amazing Dr Katherine Kenny) -on how microbiome research reframes motherhood as a form of micro(bial) management & the political stakes of caring for/with microbes - out & open access in Sociology of Health and Illness Journal ! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies

In a new Sociology of Health and Illness Journal paper Roberta Pala & Dr Katherine Kenny explore how microbiome research reframes motherhood. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… Drawing on advice for Australian parents, the paper analyses messaging about securing the future-child's health by managing the maternal microbiome

I had a wonderful time sharing our research at the ICS seminar today. Thank you for the invitation! I'm particularly grateful for the amazing questions and comments I received. A lot of food for thoughts for me! Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies

I'm looking forward to hosting this event with my colleague Jianni (Janny) Tien. We have lined up 3 fantastic #STS scholars to talk about the unseen social dimensions of new science and tech: from waste drones to epigenetics to generative AI. Register here: rb.gy/xw2tft

JOB ALERT: Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies is looking for a Postdoc Research Fellow/Research Fellow in Sociology (Level A/B) to work w/ Dr Michelle Peterie on the impacts of immigration detention & deportation on children & families. bit.ly/3ySljhF

We're hiring! Come work with Dr Michelle Peterie Alex Broom and team at the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies on this ARC Linkage Project on childhood immigration detention. Details 👇but do reach out with any questions.

Make sure to register for our second event for Social Sciences Week Australia on New technologies in contemporary society, tomorrow (wed 11th) at 12pm!

Coming up TODAY for #SSW2024 and featuring three of our brilliant Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies postdocs - Jianni (Janny) Tien, Roberta Pala and @Henriettaroseb. Really excited to see these ECR superstars in full swing! There's still time to register if you haven't yet 👇 SSPS

Another fabulous Social Sciences Week Australia SSPS online seminar done! A great discussion on social science approaches to the intersections of new technologies, science, and society.

My latest article, co-authored with Dr Katherine Kenny Alex Broom has been published in @TheSocReview - we explore the biopolitics of lung cancer in the era of precision medicine, arguing for a feminist transcorporeality of breath. Online + open access here: tinyurl.com/mptbndd7

I keep on saying that Israel is writing a new page of genocide. This video, of settlers taking boats to watch the bombing of Gaza, is disgusting beyond what decent human body and mind can tolerate.

Joined remarkable, gently thoughtful colleagues in Centre for Healthy Societies to give Healthy Societies lecture today strengthening the work between University of Glasgow and University of Sydney with UofG Unesco RIELA 🧡 in joint lecture with Saba Vasefi, songs and joyful jacarandas. #NewScots

Just published! Ten more essays on Palestine and what Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza demands of us all — read Anthropology in a Time of Genocide now, here: culanth.org/fieldsights/se…