'An Australian nurse's account of six weeks treating bombing victims in a Gaza hospital as missiles came closer' abc.net.au/news/2024-04-0…

Very disappointing to see the government step away from its commitment to open a second injecting room in the CBD after the report from Ken Lay confirmed “broad support for an injecting room in the city.”

health.vic.gov.au/proposed-medic…

🚨🚨 Send your abstracts to our 'Thinking with drugs' workshop!. Can interdisciplinary research on drugs generate new insights in a time of global change? CFP closes 10 May: tasa.org.au/docs.ashx?id=1…
org Fay Dennis, Kari Lancaster, Kiran Pienaar & Renae Fomiatti

CFP 'Thinking with drugs' workshop Sociology, Goldsmiths 22-23 July. Can interdisciplinary research on drugs generate new insights in a time of global change? May interest scholars working in #STS , #sociology , #Anthro & history of science. CFP closes 10 May: tasa.org.au/docs.ashx?id=1…

Hi friends, I'm throwing my hat in the ring for #4SCouncil this year! It's been almost 10 years since my first 4S meeting in Denver as a baby PhD student. I've gained so much from this extraordinary network of scholars/friends/peers... 🧵

Wonderful to see this collection out in the world! Thanks Jaime Garcia-Iglesias, Maurice Nagington 🏳️‍🌈💃☮️ & Peter Aggleton for inviting us to contribute. Our chapter (with dxmurphy) is titled “Thinking with HIV in pandemic times: A diffractive reading of COVID & mpox”: taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-ed…

Our final publication from GLaD’s hepatitis C post-cure project is now online and available on open access with Sociology of Health and Illness Journal. Read an abridged version of troubling complaint mechanisms for people who (have a history of) hepatitis C, informed by Sara Ahmed bit.ly/3xs2bWp.

We have recently completed a project investigating women’s perspectives on take-home #naloxone . Our latest blog explores some of our findings and outputs. rb.gy/jfy3pr

1/2 Announcing the Rainbow Realities report: bringing together health and wellbeing data from six major LGBTQA+ studies, to provide critical insights into health, mental health, income, housing, discrimination, family, affirmation, intersections and more: buff.ly/3xoWtEZ

Hi all, one of our articles published online in 2022 is now in the journal's current volume. If you missed it back then, here are some free versions to view (or HMU for a PDF). Dr Sophie Bekir-Robinson GeoDrew

tandfonline.com/eprint/HN5VXHQ…

Save-the-date for #AusSTS2024 !! This year's conference will be at ANU in Canberra, 18th - 20th November, co-hosted with the good folks at TopEndSTS. Stay tuned for the CFP!

I'd encourage anyone seeing this to read Isabelle Stengers' afterword for Kim Hendrickx’s 'Health Without Bodies' (in her words, 'a superb example of what the ‘coming of age’ of the #STS field may mean')!

It's a wonderful read, and is free to access here: link.springer.com/content/pdf/bb…

New job alert 🚨 We’re looking to hire a post-doc to work with us on our ARC project on care transitions TASA Brendan Churchill Louisa Smith Iva Strnadova UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture

external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/5227…

Thanks to those who submitted an abstract to our #EASST2024 #4S panel on the technopolitics of (health)care. We’re awaiting instructions from the organizers before selecting papers & appreciate your patience. ~Convenors: Fay Dennis, Renae Fomiatti, Adrian Farrugia, Michael Savic

'You’ll get over it'. 'Give it time'. These are common cultural refrains in the face of loss. But what if grief doesn’t play by the rules?

In the The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand today, Alex Broom & I challenge cultural assumptions about what grief is & how it unfolds.

theconversation.com/we-talked-to-d…

Pleased that my article 'Speculative Machines and Us: More-than-human intuition and the algorithmic condition' has been published in the latest issue of Cultural Studies - Published by Routledge 🤖✨🧐tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Those working in pandemic #sociology , #HIV , cultural #heritage & the politics of archives, come along to the next ARCSHS public seminar. Dr Marika Cifor (@UofWA) examines how we reckon with histories of HIV/AIDS amidst the ongoing HIV pandemic: latrobe.edu.au/events/all/vir…

Alcohol is used at home to decelerate. In public settings, it enables people to become enlivened.

With Gabriel Caluzzi, Megan Cook, Robin Room & Sarah Callinan CAPRAustralia, La Trobe University, TASA, SubstanceUse@gcu

protect-au.mimecast.com/s/O1jyCMwv0QU8…

Only a few days until submissions close for #EASST2024 ! Scholars working in STS and healthcare should consider submitting to our panel on the technopolitics of care.

Read the DruGS team's latest article, drawn from Gemma Nourse's PhD thesis on performance and image-enhancing drugs (PIEDs). It examines health promotion materials on PIEDs, arguing that conceptions of health and masculinity are being refigured through men's use of these drugs.