Technosleep is finally here! It was a pleasure & a privilege to work with Simon J Williams @RobertMeadows16 @ericl_hsu & Mike Greaney on this exciting project. We hope you like it!

My book review of E-cigs and the Comparative Politics of Harm Reduction- great book on where it all went right and wrong! @KylieMorphett @CoralGartner @AmyLFairchild

"The same set of evidence has produced startlingly different regulatory regimes." wp.me/p2MwSQ-gEo

'Many groups inadvertently reinforce stigma by emphasising the artificial line between ‘normal’ drinkers and the pathologised ‘alcoholic other’'- easier to point to those others who are drinking 'excessively' or 'have a problem' than see our own issues. Great new paper!

“Imagine Martin Luther King never had a dream but announced a 10 point plan from the Lincoln Memorial! We have to imagine the world we want and fight for it, even when we can’t see it.”

I wanted to know if doing all those online teaching videos during Covid-19 might help me create podcasts. Answer: hmmm, possibly. Great, concrete advice on how to podcast well in this workshop.

Also tackles the thorny issue of how we promote Open qualitative research, not just quantitative, beyond just depositing data-sets...

How can we move beyond the stigma of drug-using women in psychedelics? Thought-provoking new article 'Acid feminism: Gender, psychonautics and the politics of consciousness' Dymock, 2023 @alexdymock @TheSocReview @https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00380261231175731

I'm embracing my mad scientist era with this new publication. I cannot *believe* the reviewers and co-authors all let me keep this caption

'Stephen King is a master of his art: I stand in awe and try to learn' My brief review of 'On Writing' in Bedside Books for August 2023 thesociologicalreview.org/reviews/bedsid…

NEW: Boris Johnson wrote the word "bollocks" across a Dept of Health document on Long Covid, the Covid Inquiry has heard this afternoon. This and other extraordinary revelations about his handling of the pandemic, here The i Paper inews.co.uk/news/politics/…

'A convincing case for analysing future crises through the lens of shame' My review of Cooper et al's book thesociologicalreview.org/reviews/covid-… Fred Cooper Luna Dolezal Arthur Rose

Fab job with us at Uni of Exeter! University of Exeter Lecturer in the Anthropology or Sociology of Science jobs.ac.uk/job/DFS804/lec… date 26th February. Please circulate widely/send on to anyone interested!

Today’s publication day! I’m on my way down from #Stafford to Parliament to present a copy of our Birth Trauma Inquiry report in person to the Prime Minister with our recommendations on how to improve maternity care. Thankyou to everyone who gave us evidence 🙏#birthtraumainquiry

I have presented the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak with his copy of our Birth Trauma Inquiry report and I call on the Government to implement our recommendations in full so that all mums get the after care they need in 🇬🇧. #BirthTraumaInquiry

Funded Masters scholarships, with accessible entry requirements! Brilliant to see @wcceh create such vital, affordable, acessible entry points to academia for all. Please pass the word on to promising students interested in #medhumanities #medsociology #histmed #OneHealth etc.

Four research papers I wish my #GP had read before #prescribing #antidepressants By Stevie Lewis. International Institute for Psych Drug Withdrawal bjgp.org/content/71/708…

Our book of neuroscientists, clinicians, and psychologists talking about their personal experience of neurological disorder is out amazon.co.uk/Injured-Brains… From Narinder Kapur, me, Daniel Friedland and Steven Kemp. A few notes...

A very thoughtful paper on how administrative categories often differ from medical diagnostic ones.