Beautiful work! "[...] these organizations rely on voluntary work and usually have a limited number of members - and it is crucial to not encourage junior researchers’ tendencies to work themselves to exhaustion."Global Young Academy SAYAS AcademyofScienceSA nature.com/articles/d4158…

This is a great piece on the work & impact of young academies, and I'm extremely happy to be part of both our National De Jonge Akademie & our local Young Academy Groningen. It brought me so much joy & insight into different levels of academy functioning. 🤩🤩 nature.com/articles/d4158…

👇On Young Academies: "These organizations can also promote successful, diverse role models and increase the visibility of research done by under-represented groups to make science more inclusive and more attractive to the public". Global Young Academy shows the way this can be done!

More on the importance of Young Academies: "Most early-career researchers are in a much more precarious position than were previous generations ... By organizing and collaborating on a larger scale, young researchers are making themselves heard." Global Young Academy @MaastrichtYA 🌿

Very happy to share this interview with Kalindi Vora (Kalindi Vora @[email protected]) for Somatosphere 's #WritingLife series. We discuss her book 𝐿𝑖𝑓𝑒 𝑆𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡, labor markets, and writing with and across multiple methods of inquiry incl. ethnographic, literary analysis, and #feministSTS.

If you haven't already, check out the Somatosphere's #WritingLife series, which offers generative reflections by diverse scholars on the complexities and varieties of (academic) writing practices. somatosphere.net/series/writing…

Another window into writers' working spaces ... Kalindi Vora @[email protected]: "Like me, I know many people who write while we’re sitting in the car waiting to pick someone up from a sports practice or on an airplane flying to an event. I find the in-between spaces an excellent place to write":

An external analysis of 15 years of stories finds men are quoted more than twice as often as women in nature's journalism. Very sobering results but great to see that they are keeping track and draw important lessons! nature.com/articles/d4158…

„biographies about women who meet Wikipedia’s criteria for inclusion are more frequently considered non-notable and nominated for deletion compared to men’s biographies.“ wikiwomeninred Dr Jess Wade liked it here once Anna Harris

Lots of great new updates, projects and videos from the Global Young Academy this month 👇

📣Introducing the GYA Blog, which spotlights timely and impactful output from the GYA community! The first entry is titled “Addressing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on early-career researchers“, and was written by GYA members and alumni. 👇👇👇 globalyoungacademy.net/addressing-the…

🏆 CONGRATS Anna Harris @noemie_soula & Kaisu Koski (Lab4Living) & Anne van Veen for Clinical Dinner: a live performance of surgery training through the experience of home cooking, for example by baking derma bread. tinyurl.com/33r8v5tw

"Tangled, tangy, microbial threads" - Anna, Anna Harris, has recently published this article in the journal Multimodality & Society, in a special issue edited by Cristina Moretti on creative methods for studying sensate memory. makingclinicalsense.com journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

So happy to share that Anna Harris, Kaisu Koski, Noemie Soula and Anne van Veen were one of the recipients of the 4S Making and Doing Awards 2021 for their video and live surgery lesson "Clinical Dinner: A Virtual Citizen Surgery Training Session" 4sonline.org/what-is-4s/4s-…

Good news for Anna Harris as co-applicant of a successful grant for the project “SensesSquared: Becoming through the senses: towards artistic ways of being in the world”, led by Hans Van Regenmortel. It explores sensory interventions in primary schools. fasos.maastrichtuniversity.nl/weekly/anna-ha…

Are you curious about working with ethnographic methods? Check out the video on the UM Ethnography Group, an intra-faculty group of researchers working with different ethnographic methods maastrichtuniversity.bbvms.com/view/default_v… with English subtitles maastrichtuniversity.bbvms.com/view/default_v… with Dutch subtitles

"Writing Life" focuses on the craft of writing in the social studies of medicine. We invite scholars to reflect, in conversation with each other, on navigating and nurturing their craft. Please contact Anna Harris Anna Harris or Denielle Elliott @of_anthropology to contribute!

I love this interview! It's about style, sorcery and more. A perfect way to kick off a third series of Writing Life.

"Have you ever taken a walk inside your article?" Opening words of another beautiful conversation between writers in Writing Life ...

We are deeply distressed by Russia’s military attacks on Ukraine, and call on academic institutions around the world to open their doors to fleeing students, researchers, and academics, and to uphold collaborations with Russian scholars Read our Statement: globalyoungacademy.net/global-young-a…