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Cinzia Greco

@cinziag.bsky.social
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Medical Anthropology& Humanities, Research Fellow, Univ of Manchester, CHSTM | Medical uncertainty| Mental health (research.manchester.ac.uk/en/person…) Editor Anthropologie&Santé (journals.openedition.org/anthropolo…)

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Cinzia Greco @cinziag.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
After Covid, we (should) know that if there is a real major breakdown, a couple of canned beans and toilet rolls will do nothing. You need modern agriculture with an irrigation system, water reservoirs, and trains that can run when it's 28° and -10°. In short, you need infrastructure.
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Cinzia Greco @cinziag.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
In recent years, I have learned, to my surprise, that many believe that the dominance of English is simply a practical matter, with politics playing no role. Well, it's not. edition.cnn.com/2026/08/24/b...
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French has become a sticking point in the Canada-US trade dispute. Here’s why | CNN Business
As a trade war between the United States and Canada looms following the collapse of talks last week, a key issue has emerged: French language laws.
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Cinzia Greco @cinziag.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"Habitar un cuerpo discapacitado —humano y más-que-humano— puede llevar a un devenir político a través de caminos distintos." A very interesting (and fully #openaccess) special issue that will certainly interest anyone working on new directions in mental health, neurodiversity, disability and more.
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Número 57Número 57 – Revista Tabula Rasa
Tabula Rasa es una revista científica del área de las ciencias sociales con una periodicidad trimestral, dedicada principalmente a las disciplinas de la Antropología, Historia, Sociología, Trabajo Soc...
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Cinzia Greco @cinziag.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The well-researched and well-argued piece that the British press should have written but was incapable of doing, preferring sensationalism and gossip over analysis.
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ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 26/08/2026
«L’enjeu est considérable. Comme l’écrit Jafari Sinclaire Allen dans The Nation : « Il s’agit d’un mouvement transatlantique visant à mettre fin à la production indépendante de savoir sur la race et le pouvoir — et à décider, des deux côtés de l’Atlantique, qui est autorisé à produire ce savoir. »»
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Comment un réseau d’élite a chassé Jason Arday
Le racisme scientifique est une pseudoscience qui abreuve la propagande d'extrême-droite, dont masculiniste. Longtemps relégué aux marges, il s’installe dans les universités et cherche à imposer ses …
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Cinzia Greco @cinziag.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I haven't watched this documentary yet. I will, even though it seems worse than I suspected. However, just some considerations: - Disability, like illness, doesn't exist in a vacuum; it interacts with the society we live in. This doesn't mean it's invented. That's the social model of disability 1(2
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History of Anthropology Review @histanthro.org · 16/03/2026
Call for Contributions: Anthropology’s Lost Library (ALL) While anthropology has produced a vast body of published work, far more remains unpublished. Begun in 2025, Anthropology’s Lost Library (ALL) will soon be offering a digital home for anthropological writings that were intended for scholarly…
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Call for Contributions: Anthropology’s Lost Library (ALL)
While anthropology has produced a vast body of published work, far more remains unpublished. Begun in 2025, Anthropology’s Lost Library (ALL) will soon be offering a digital home for anthropological writings that were intended for scholarly and public consumption but were never completed—essays, books, and articles; theses and dissertation chapters; grant applications, journalistic pieces, and op-eds. Though ALL is still taking shape, the repository will be designed both to offer a stable and searchable home for these works and also to contribute broadly to the study of anthropology and its histories by documenting the reasons why these works were never ultimately published.
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Libération @liberation.fr · 09/08/2026
Le bateau, retrouvé par des plongeurs italiens dans l’ouest de la Sicile, a été qualifié par le ministre italien de la Culture, Alessandro Giuli, comme «l’une des plus importantes découvertes récentes en archéologie sous-marine». ➡️ l.liberation.fr/TeG
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il Post @ilpost.it · 06/08/2026
È morto Francesco Guccini
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È morto Francesco Guccini
Era uno dei più noti e influenti cantautori italiani, aveva 86 anni
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Cinzia Greco @cinziag.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
This might be the worst use of "social construct" I have seen, and believe me, the competition is fierce.
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Lisa O’Carroll @lisaocarroll.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Exclusive: Some EU citizens in the UK have been contacted by the Home Office to say they were granted settlement status after Brexit "in error". If you know anyone this happened to contact me on lisa.ocarroll@theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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EU citizens in UK get letters telling them post-Brexit residency rights were given ‘in error’
After years of building lives in UK, potentially thousands of EU citizens could be told they have no right to remain
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Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
One more great episode in Didier Fassin's excellent podcast series on Michel Foucault: on pastoral power
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Cinzia Greco @cinziag.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
My mother went to work when she was 10 yo, while I had the privilege of going to university and ended up (at least temporarily) in a very upper-class profession. The big question is: do we see the son of a surgeon or of a judge becoming a plumber? I have never seen one, and this is the problem.
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I’m torn by the hard hat v graduation cap debate. Is it wrong that I want my kids to go to university? | Emma Brockes
As Andy Burnham intervenes, it’s clear that the shine is coming off higher education. But is society ready for this mindshift? Am I? asks Guardian columnist Emma Brockes
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 19/07/2026
L7 bassist Jennifer Finch has died at 59 following a battle with brain cancer. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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Jennifer Finch, L7 Bassist, Dead at 59
Jennifer Finch, the longtime bassist for influential rock group L7, has died at age 59.
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Rosie (she/her) @airfriedrosie.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Here's the link for anyone who wants to read the full interim report, the screenshots above are from the conclusion: www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Independent review into mental health conditions, ADHD and autism: interim report
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France Culture @franceculture.fr · 14/07/2026
On imagine la Méditerranée antique baignée d’azur. Mais chez Homère, elle prend d’autres teintes : le vin, la nuit, la violette. Ce n’est pas que les Grecs ne voyaient pas la mer. C’est qu’ils ne la regardaient pas avec nos mots. ➡️ l.franceculture.fr/ble
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Cinzia Greco @cinziag.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
"Taken together, these chapters make a strong case that attending to time, and to who controls it, opens up dimensions of health inequality that spatial or distributional analyses alone cannot capture" Very happy to read this review of our volume "The Chronopolitics of Life" by Alaz Kilicaslan.
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The Chronopolitics of Life: Rethinking Temporalities in Health and Biomedicine Beyond the Life CourseBy N. Bühler, N. Graber, V. Boydell and C. Greco (eds.), London: UCL Press, 2025. 224 pp. £50.00 (hbk); £30.00 (pbk); open access (PDF). ISBN: 978‐1‐80‐008‐972‐3
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Cinzia Greco @cinziag.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
"Taken together, these chapters make a strong case that attending to time, and to who controls it, opens up dimensions of health inequality that spatial or distributional analyses alone cannot capture" Very happy to read this review of our volume "The Chronopolitics of Life" by Alaz Kilicaslan.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
The Chronopolitics of Life: Rethinking Temporalities in Health and Biomedicine Beyond the Life CourseBy N. Bühler, N. Graber, V. Boydell and C. Greco (eds.), London: UCL Press, 2025. 224 pp. £50.00 (hbk); £30.00 (pbk); open access (PDF). ISBN: 978‐1‐80‐008‐972‐3
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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
'Privatising humanity', the latest book from Dr @kbayliss.bsky.social (@soasuni.bsky.social), is a critical examination of the privatisation paradigm. Listen to her latest interview about the book on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast on Spotify here: open.spotify.com/episode/0gZO... #booksky
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Kate Bayliss, "Privatising Humanity: How Our Essential Human Needs Became Financial Assets" (Manchester UP, 2026)
New Books in Critical Theory · Episode
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Didier Fassin, Ainsi pensait Michel Foucault: Enquête sur une philosophie pour notre temps - La Découverte, September 2026 www.editionsladecouverte.fr/ainsi_pensai...
Cover of book with photograph of Foucault - tightly cropped image of head, coloured in blue/black
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Mickaël Wilmart @mickaelwilmart.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Un retour de Carlo Ginzburg sur son propre parcours dans le cadre d'une masterclasse de @franceculture.fr www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
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Carlo Ginzburg : "Trouver ce qu'on cherche ne suffit pas, il faut chercher l'inattendu"
Et si l'histoire s'intéressait aux mythes et à l'imaginaire ? Au micro d'Aurélie Luneau, l'historien et philosophe Carlo Ginzburg, à l'origine de la "micro-histoire", raconte son parcours de recherche...
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Fabrizio Baldassarri @fabribald.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Carlo Ginzburg has passed away - it is a very sad news, as he re-shaped historiography at large! Some of his work has been translated into many languages and influenced generations of scholars! www.ilpost.it/2026/06/17/c...
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È morto lo storico Carlo Ginzburg
Fu uno degli studiosi italiani più tradotti e conosciuti all'estero, per i suoi lavori sulle classi subalterne medievali e moderne: aveva 87 anni
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 04/06/2026
L’artiste franco-iranienne Marjane Satrapi, autrice de la bande dessinée « Persepolis », est morte à l’âge de 56 ans
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L’artiste franco-iranienne Marjane Satrapi, autrice de la bande dessinée « Persepolis », est morte à l’âge de 56 ans
Sa BD autobiographique, « Persepolis » (L’Association), l’a révélée au monde entier. Elle est « morte de tristesse un peu plus d’un an après le décès de Mattias Ripa, son mari et l’amour de sa vie », ont écrit ses proches dans un communiqué.
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Cinzia Greco @cinziag.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
"Children as young as five who are living legally in the UK are being told by the Home Office they must leave the country," and instead of protecting and supporting these children tomorrow, there will be a pearl-clutching article about low fertility rates... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Home Office sends letters to children as young as five saying they must leave UK
Children of those on care worker visas – who came legally before rule change – told to leave even if parents can stay
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Cinzia Greco @cinziag.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
C'est avec grand plaisir que nous annonçons la parution du dernier numéro d'Anthropologie&Santé qui présente une riche analyse des différentes collaborations entre chercheur.se.s en sciences humaines et sociales, patient.e.s et professionnel.le.s de la santé. Comme toujours, en #AccesOuvert 👇
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32 | 2026 Collaborer pour quelles transformations de santé et de s...
Au croisement d’enjeux sociaux, professionnels, politiques et scientifiques, les expériences collaboratives se multiplient dans le champ de la santé. Ce numéro d’Anthropologie & Santé questionne l...
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Cinzia Greco @cinziag.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
"People want my life with premenstrual dysphoric disorder to be told as a neat arc. But chronic illnesses are more like messy, looping spirals" Refusing the illusion of closure has been one of my aims as an anthropologist. And a recurring topos of my rebuttal letters to reviewers across the years.
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Illness narratives are broken – and they’re failing women like me | Emma Hardy
People want my life with premenstrual dysphoric disorder to be told as a neat arc. But chronic illnesses are more like messy, looping spirals – and realising that gave me hope
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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Cinzia is too modest to include the link to the #openaccess version of her book Assemblages of Cancer: Experiences and contexts of breast cancer in the UK, France and Italy www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
Cover of Cinzia Greco's book, incorporating an reproduction of Watercolour by Richard Tennant Cooper, showing a giant claw piercing the breast of a sleeping naked woman, while another naked woman swoops down and stabs the claw with a knife. Image credit: Wellcome Collection, CC BY 4.0.
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MancHSTM @manchstm.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
We're excited to welcome @bschillace.brandyschillace.com back to Manchester. Join us on 18 May for a couple of events, one online, the other f2f: - Coming Out As Disabled - How Typical is Typical All welcome; attendance free; registration via the link below. blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2026/0...
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Brandy Schillace Visit
Visiting Scholar: Brandy Schillace, 11–24 May 2026 Coming Out as Disabled. 18 May, 1-2pm How typical is typical? 18 May, 4-5:30pm
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Cinzia Greco @cinziag.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
As a speaker of an endangered language (no, it's not Italian) that I learned without even trying and remember better than any others I learned (the magic of childhood exposure), I can say that it's a part of you that disappears when you cannot share with anybody the words that define your reality.
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What happens when we lose a language?
A staggering 44% of human languages are endangered – with culture, tradition and whole ways of understanding the world at stake
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Cinzia Greco @cinziag.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Monday 11 May, from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. CET, we are organising a webinar to discuss our new edited volume, The Chronopolitics of Life. Come and join us! For more info and the event link, please visit this page: www.unil.ch/events/fr/17...
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The Chronopolitics of Life ⎥ Rethinking temporalities in health and biomedicine beyond the life course
Webinar organisé par Nolwenn Bühler (Unil), Nils Graber (Humboldt University of Berlin), Victoria Boydell (University College London) et Cinzia Greco (University of Manchester) suite à la publication ...
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Cinzia Greco @cinziag.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Our colleagues at @autismmanchester.bsky.social are organising a Café Autistic to foster conversations between the autistic and research communities. It will be on May 27 in the afternoon at the Contact Theatre in Manchester. More info here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cafe-autis...
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Café Autistíque - 27th May 2026
A space where autism researchers can discuss their recent work with the public. In an inclusive space with tea and biscuits.
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Cinzia Greco @cinziag.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
"When we think of what it is that politicises people, it is not so much books or ideas but experience."
A screenshot of a document from the archive of Redstoockings feminist movement.
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France Culture @franceculture.fr · 26/04/2026
Des milliards de particules radioactives libérées, mais une population tenue à distance de l’information. Tchernobyl, c’est aussi l’histoire d’un récit contrôlé. ➡️ l.franceculture.fr/1T9
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Cinzia Greco @cinziag.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I had missed this editorial digging up a topic debated and re-debated over 15 years ago. And interesting to see that in an article criticising social sciences, there is no mention of the reflections in these fields, about, for example, epistemic imposition and the situated nature of data.
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The Guardian view on social science research: embracing uncertainty | Editorial
Editorial: Science rarely produces identical outcomes. Mistaking this for failure turns caution into an excuse for inaction
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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
For those reading Italian, there is a new open access special issue on migratory stratification looking at the composition of populations with migrant background, urban transformations, and differentiated legal statuses journals.openedition.org/qds/7288
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98 - LXIX | 2025 Per una stratigrafia delle mobilità umane. Tempi,...
« Quaderni di sociologia » è una rivista quadrimestrale di sociologia generale
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Cinzia Greco @cinziag.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
"I like thinking before I speak.... I like listening, absorbing, considering. English is not my first language. I need to think a bit longer, not because I lack confidence, but because I want my words to mean something. Yet in academia, silence is often mistaken for weakness"
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 26/03/2026
« Le Deuxième Sexe » entre dans la Pléiade à l’occasion du 40ᵉ anniversaire de la mort de Simone de Beauvoir
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« Le Deuxième Sexe » entre dans la Pléiade à l’occasion du 40ᵉ anniversaire de la mort de Simone de Beauvoir
« Il est rare qu’un livre change la face des choses : “Le Deuxième Sexe” l’a fait. C’était en 1949 et son ferment continue d’agir », rappelle Gallimard, en annonçant la sortie dans sa prestigieuse collection.
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Cinzia Greco @cinziag.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
"A carefully crafted assemblage ethnography that should be essential reading not only for medical anthropologists and STS scholars but also oncologists, cancer care nurses, surgeons and health policy officials" I am very grateful for Ayo Wahlberg's thoughtful and generous review of my book.
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Cinzia Greco @cinziag.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
That beautiful landscape is in so many family pictures... It's like seeing the memories of your childhood reduced to dust. But I am sure that the Adriatic will reshape its beauty. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
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Italy’s famous Lovers’ Arch collapses into the sea on Valentine’s Day
Rock structure which served as backdrop to countless proposals disappears into the Adriatic after violent storm
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Cinzia Greco @cinziag.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Interesting article on Somatosphere about two open-access French journals: Revue Anthropologie des Connaissances (RAC) and Anthropologie & Santé (A&S)! somatosphere.net/in-the-journ...
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In the Journals – a French selection
The website of Somatosphere
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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Genuinely, if you live in the UK you should so the consultation just to find out some of the unbelievable details of what's being proposed. Even with their spin and obfuscation it's shocking
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Amelia Shevenell @ashevenell.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.
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Cinzia Greco @cinziag.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Autism can be seen as a compelling example for examining how scientific objectivity is constructed, especially in a context where nearly all gender stereotypes—such as bad mothers, empathic women versus logical men, and hormonal differences—have been used to explain its supposed gender differences.
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Females as likely to be autistic as males but boys more likely to be diagnosed, study says
By age 20 diagnosis rates almost equal, research finds, challenging assumptions of gender discrepancy
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Meg Fereday is recruiting participants @meg-fereday.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Still seeking participants for my PhD research on neuroqueer youth digital resistance practices! (ERGO: 103967) Know someone who’d be interested? All info is at linktr.ee/nqresearch.s..., or email me with any questions at ✉️nqresearch@soton.ac.uk
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Neuroqueering Online - Study | Instagram, TikTok | Linktree
PhD research project (ERGO: 103967) - participants needed!
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Do rich people just send emails all day every day?? If I were obscenely wealthy I would never open another email in my life
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Julián Macías @julianmacias.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
El científico español Mariano Barbacid ha encontrado la cura del cáncer de páncreas. "Si no se investiga no se avanza". El Premio Nóbel ya tiene dueño.
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Cinzia Greco @cinziag.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
"Psychopolitics tends to reduce large social phenomena to simple personal causalities. It is reductionist, although in a tortuously indirect manner". Against Psychopolitics, Michael Parenti (1933-2026). Written in 1993, it says a lot about our times. read.dukeupress.edu/nps/article-...
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Against Psychopolitics
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Cinzia Greco @cinziag.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
"This bargain no longer works" Since apparently we are in an era of political "candour", it might be worth repeating that the bargain worked for a handful of countries and that it was based on a savage (post)colonial exploitation of the majority of the world. This time, someone might actually listen
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Cinzia Greco @cinziag.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
CHSTM and the Division of Medical Education at UoM are organising/have organised a few interesting events on neurodiversity. Have a look here: blogs.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/blog/2025/12...
Division of Medical Education

Events and Initiatives to Discuss Autism and ADHD Diagnoses in Context (for Staff and Students) 

Colleagues in the Division of Medical Education have been involved in a series of events exploring the history of autism and ADHD diagnoses, and related topics concerning the study of neurodevelopment, developmental psychology, and neurodiversity. In June 2025, CHSTM, together with the network Autism@Manchester, hosted the interdisciplinary workshop “Rethinking Neurodevelopment: From WHO Policies to Neurodiversity and Care”, with three speakers, Dr Anna Stenning (University of Southampton), Dr Bonnie Evans and Dr Cinzia Greco (both SMS). The workshop was an opportunity to rethink neurodevelopmental conditions, their historical and contemporary transformations, and to explore the future direction of research in the field.

Growing interest in, and diagnosis of, conditions such as autism and ADHD has generated new and sometimes controversial debates. The workshop was an occasion to discuss the history of autism, and the role of international agencies, such as the WHO, in defining this diagnosis, and how other personal identities, such as gender, can influence the experience of autistic people.

Dr Erin Beeston (a CHSTM alumna now working with Autism@Manchester) requested support from Dr Greco and Dr Evans to organise an “Autism student journal club”, an ongoing initiative for neurodivergent students to discuss research on the topic and connect with other students with similar experiences.

On 16th October, Dr Bonnie Evans and Professor Jonathan Green spoke at a new CHSTM seminar series on Mind, History and Society, bringing together historians and doctors to support understanding healthcare practices. Dr Evans discussed how the history of child development studies within social and political context can help to explain changes in the meaning of the autism diagnosis over time, and why these historical changes are vital to interpreting epidemi…
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