We are excited to have Ashwin Kotwal, MD, present at #GrandRounds this Thursday, May 16th. Dr. Kotwal will discuss: 'Loneliness & Social Isolation Among Older Adults: Applications to Cognitive Impairment'. Ashwin Kotwal

12 p.m. - 1 p.m. (CST)
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Abortion bans have disastrous consequences for health care access overall.

For the second year in a row, medical residents are avoiding states with abortion bans.
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Abstract submissions now open for the #IFACONF2025 ! Share your insights, research, and ideas. Make a meaningful contribution to the global conversation on ageing – submit your abstract today! Visit ifaconf.ngo for details. #AgeingConference #CallForAbstracts

From #Identities with #OpenAccess :

Les Back explores the relationship between the ideas & identities of great sociologists & their musical lives, showing how #music can provide a hinterland for sociological imagination.

Les Back T&F Social Sciences and Humanities

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How did structural racism and sexism shape health-related activity limitation during the first year of #COVID -19?

Konrad Franco Caitlin Patler, PhD Dr. Whitney Pirtle examine in the latest issue of #JHSB . Open access: bit.ly/3wl8uuY

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UC Berkeley
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📢HOW TO ABOLISH PRISONS!📢
Oakland: Join us this Fri 5/17 for a special event to discuss Rachel Herzing's & Justin Piché, PhD's new book 'How to Abolish Prisons' (@haymarketbooks). We'll be discussing our exciting CURB campaign to close 10 CA prisons! bit.ly/abolishprisons…

Slivers and footnotes: recognising wives and women in sociology.

Join Ros Edwards 🕯🌱 and Val Gillies in Episode 5 #ThanksforTyping as they talk to Lebogang Mokwena and John Goodwin about the impact on sociology today of women’s contributions in the past.

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New paper from Chris Gilleard and Paul Higgs in Journal of Global Ageing Policy Press 'Globalisation and the value of Ulrich Beck’s concept of ‘cosmopolitanisation’ in orienting a new sociology of later life' #Ageing #Globalization #Sociology #gerotwitter doi.org/10.1332/297672…

Diversity & Inclusion Research is commissioning a special issue.

The submission window opens on 1 August 2024

🔗Find out more... ow.ly/fbaZ50RBwhR

Is BURNOUT about more than overwork exhaustion? How does its history tie in with capitalism and care? And how can we approach individual healing when society has its pathologies? h nn h pr ct r Verso Books joins #UncommonSense – TUNE IN! Out now buff.ly/368mOtt

New paper Journal of Global Ageing (the 1st issue!)
Charts expansion of Anglo-American #dementia economy to majority world
Echoing racialisation & colonialism
⬆️exporting moralities⬆️
⬇️importing resources⬇️
Raises questions for global(ising) gerontology
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🚨NEW PUB 🚨 Caregiver Experiences of Racialization While Accessing Early Intervention (EI) Services for their Children - Jessa N. Culver, Susanne P. Martin Herz, Adriana Guzman, Javier Aguayo, Jyothi Marbin, Kenya Martinez, Jen James at UCSF School of Nursing journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02…

Very compelling study on the impact of Anti-Asian Hate on the Health of Older Asian Individuals. jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…

The Institute of Human Geography’s First Marxist Geography Workshop, 11-12 October 2024, The People’s Forum, Manhattan, New York, US

The Institute of Human Geography along with Capitalism Nature Socialism Capitalism Nature Socialism are soliciting applications to participate in the first…

Seems like so much great social reproduction scholarship recently !

Some highlights below (and add your own?):

'Urbanizing social reproduction: (Re)thinking the politics of care in capitalist urban development' by Faranak Miraftab and Efadul Huq 😍
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📢Upcoming webinar from the RGS-IBG Urban Geography Research Group (UGRG):

Join the group on Thursday 30 May for the next webinar in the Global Urban Geographies series, with Hyun Bang Shin 신현방 (@LSEGeography).

More details and sign up link.👇

Congrats to our wonderful sociology graduates celebrating their new degrees this month, including our Medical Sociology and Sociology undergraduate majors and minors (see Tapasya Katta, pictured below), our Sociology MA students, and our Medical Sociology PhD students!

Announcing the winners of the Gender, Place and Culture Annual International Conference Award for New and Emerging Scholars of 2024!
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Drs. Rebecca Brown (Rebecca Brown) and Francesca Nicosia (@Fran_Nicosia) published a study in PLOS ONE titled, “Improving measurement of functional status among older adults in primary care: A pilot study.” Co-authors include Drs. Kathy Fung and Kara Zamora. journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

Excited to be spending the next 2 days at the AMA as a JAMA editorial fellow.