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

Columbia University would rather risk their students being murdered by NYPD than divest from genocide

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

This morning I saw a father wave the corpse of his beheaded baby. Last week I saw a baby pulled out of his already dead and pregnant mom. Last month I saw a child carrying the remnants of his brother in a backpack. These are Israel’s actions. There’s no going back.

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

My piece on the shrinking space for Palestine work. Our ability, as critical academics, to do our research, teaching &public engagement is an ongoing battle, one that engages key human rights concerns. Academic freedom is the bare minimum, not the end goal tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

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 Henrietta Byrne. 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 The Sociological Review Foundation - 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

“Rather than saying ‘I’m sorry you’ve got cancer’, it’s always ‘Did you smoke?’. The amount of times I’ve been asked that question.” – Kim Jianni (Janny) Tien Dr Katherine Kenny and Alex Broom Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies on lung cancer, responsibility and shame. #OpenAccess buff.ly/3XVOclB

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.

Princeton chose not to include my responses to their Qs about the #MacFellow award in this announcement—What it was like when I got the call? What the award means to me? What I’m working on now?—bc I asked them to accurately recount my response to Q1 or to not quote me at all. 1/