Jill Wieber Lens @jillwieberlens.bsky.social · 10/10/2026One homecoming bouquet made and I’m thinking of ditching the law professor gig. 020
Reposted by Jill Wieber LensDavid S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Whoa - CNN reports that Rs are discussing giving up on Miller-Meeks (IA-01), Kean (NJ-07), and Harding (NE-02). If true, I think I spy 🌊 forming… (Bear in mind: Rs have lots of $$, so pulling means both that these battlegrounds must really be hopeless, and that they need $$ in MANY other races) 813736
Reposted by Jill Wieber LensAshley M. London @alondon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026A faculty meeting story. 0134
Jill Wieber Lens @jillwieberlens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Can confirm that Hawkeyes is often shortened to Hawks. 020
Reposted by Jill Wieber LensManisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Academic here, yeah I know it’s September still! 535984
Jill Wieber Lens @jillwieberlens.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Perhaps the Iowa defense is as good as the Iowa offense is bad… And the Iowa defense is really good. 000
Reposted by Jill Wieber LensDr. Daniel Grossman @drdgrossman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026A new analysis shows that nearly 35% of U.S. counties have zero birth centers, zero hospitals providing labor and delivery services, and zero obstetric clinicians. It is difficult to overstate how alarming these findings are.time.comMore Than One Third of U.S. Counties Are Maternity Care DesertsA new March of Dimes report finds that one-third of counties in the U.S. don't have access to ob-gyn providers or labor and delivery units. 013
Reposted by Jill Wieber LensSands - baby loss charity @sandscharity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The UK Government has confirmed that families in England, Wales and Scotland who experience a miscarriage or pregnancy loss before 24 weeks will be legally entitled to time off work. Read our response ➡️ sands.org.uk/pregnancy-loss-bereavement-leave #BabyLoss #PregnancyLoss 025
Reposted by Jill Wieber LensIrish News 🇮🇪 @news-flows-ir.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Rural Ireland Thinks: Over 80% support workplace leave for women who have had abortions More than four in five respondents to the Irish Examiner's Rural Ireland survey support extending new workplace leave entitlements for early pregnancy loss to women who have had abortions irishexaminer.comRural Ireland Thinks: Over 80% support workplace leave for women who have had abortionsMore than four in five respondents to the Irish Examiner's Rural Ireland survey support extending new workplace leave entitlements for early pregnancy loss to women who have had abortions 045
Reposted by Jill Wieber LensSahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, who's running for Senate, says the Iran war "needs to be brought to a successful and immediate end." A messaging pivot: Hinson voted NO six times on House resolutions directing Trump to end the Iran war — including as recently as last week. 96886296
Jill Wieber Lens @jillwieberlens.bsky.social · 16/09/2026So excited to visit SLU tomorrow! (Even with the apparent heat wave!!) 030
Reposted by Jill Wieber LensKate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026PREGNANCY INTERRUPTED, reviewed in The New Yorker: "There are a seemingly infinite number of ways that pregnancy can be misunderstood, mislabelled, or oversimplified, whether because of deceptively binary tests or cultural narratives that tell us pregnancy is a linear experience.”newyorker.comThe Unsettling Ambiguity of Early PregnancyBinary tests offer an illusion of certainty, but pregnancy is a nonlinear experience, and confirming one is a process of slowly ruling out all other possibilities. 04212
Jill Wieber Lens @jillwieberlens.bsky.social · 14/09/2026It's amazing how much access to health care improves when you cross state lines. (This post is about kid covid vaccines, but you can take it however you want to.) 030
Jill Wieber Lens @jillwieberlens.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The way the voice sneers when it says “liberal” in the josh turek attack ads—you’d think they were saying “serial killer”… 001
Jill Wieber Lens @jillwieberlens.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Pleased to share that my new piece, "Men & Wrongful Death for Abortion" is forthcoming in Texas A&M Law Review and up on SSRN. A brief thread 1/ papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 140
Jill Wieber Lens @jillwieberlens.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I HATE that they took the other scores off the bottom of the games. I’d like to be able to know the scores in other games without getting on my phone or changing the channel off what I’m watching. 120
Jill Wieber Lens @jillwieberlens.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Current me: Mindlessly accepting meeting invitations and appointments. Future me: Wtf. 020
Reposted by Jill Wieber LensPrinceton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Obstetric care has long been dehumanizing to pregnant people. Read more in this excerpt from Pregnancy Interrupted by @kateclancy.bsky.social in @autonomynews.co: www.autonomynews.co/in-the-name-...autonomynews.coIn the Name of Saving the BabyObstetric care has dehumanized pregnant people throughout history, as biological anthropologist Kate Clancy examines in her new book. 0179
Jill Wieber Lens @jillwieberlens.bsky.social · 31/08/2026This AI "Lena Dunham" that keeps emailing me really, really liked my book. 000
Jill Wieber Lens @jillwieberlens.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Teaching intro to law to new students on orientation, a first for me. And officially saying goodbye to the best season, summer in a college town… 020
Reposted by Jill Wieber LensPregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · 14/08/2026🎯 We need a full-spectrum approach to pregnancy endings, here’s why Victoria Browne and Susie Kilshaw @miscarriageproject.bsky.social @thenewfeminist.bsky.social thenewfeminist.co.uk/2026/06/we-n...thenewfeminist.co.ukWe need a full-spectrum approach to pregnancy endings, here's why - The New FeministThe way our culture thinks about pregnancy endings, both through abortion and miscarriage, needs a rethink - framing the complexity involved. 162
Jill Wieber Lens @jillwieberlens.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Can't wait to read! Congrats, @kateclancy.bsky.social!!! 121
Jill Wieber Lens @jillwieberlens.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Oh, so now they care about potential causes of miscarriage. (Also, it isn’t; covid vaccine doesn’t cause miscarriage. But studies showed COVID did increase risk of stillbirth.) 051
Reposted by Jill Wieber Lensebony ❤️🔥 @stillgotscars.swifties.social · 01/08/2026happy salt air and the rust on your door month to all those who celebrate 03110
Reposted by Jill Wieber LensKate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 01/08/2026My book's official pub date is August 25 but someone told me they just got a shipping notification from Bookshop 👀👀👀bookshop.orgPregnancy Interrupted: The Science and Stories of How Pregnancies Really EndA compassionate, evidence-based look at pregnancy loss--how and why it happens, and why the assurances of the medical industry don't reflect the reality One of the most prevalent myths about human pre... 02712
Jill Wieber Lens @jillwieberlens.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Nope. No, no, no, no, no. There's no fun. 000
Reposted by Jill Wieber LensAnn Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 28/07/2026my moment has come www.wsj.com/style/beauty...wsj.comA Completely Smooth Forehead Is Out. ‘Strategic Wrinkles’ Are In.Dermatologists say clients are increasingly asking for treatments that help preserve fine lines and facial expression. 4492
Reposted by Jill Wieber LensStrictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 22/07/2026"Can't Take My Eyes Off of You"- Lauryn Hill #FunFact It's the first hidden track to ever receive a Grammy nomination. 558366
Jill Wieber Lens @jillwieberlens.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Was anyone else scarred as a child by that horrible eye puff test at the eye doctor? 000
Reposted by Jill Wieber LensKelcie Moseley-Morris @kelciemmorris.bsky.social · 13/07/2026BREAKING from my inbox: The initiative to restore access to abortion, protect contraception and access to fertility treatments like IVF has officially qualified for the ballot in Idaho in November. 713046
Reposted by Jill Wieber LensMichael D. Green, PhD @michaeldgreen.phd · 01/07/2026Man this is terrible. Again how do we proceed when this is the reality for many? www.medscape.com/viewarticle/... 16665243
Reposted by Jill Wieber LensBecca Rea-Tucker @beccareatucker.bsky.social · 23/06/2026On the eve of the 4th anniversary of Roe falling it’s important to understand that miscarriage care is abortion care. You cannot ensure access to miscarriage care without ensuring access to abortion care *because it is the same care* 12312
Jill Wieber Lens @jillwieberlens.bsky.social · 23/06/2026And, of course, I’m currently in Paris for the first time. And the rental lacks a/c… 000
Reposted by Jill Wieber LensKim Krawiec @kimkrawiec.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Women shut out of fertility treatment are turning to social media for sperm. One BBC team paid £100 for a sample that arrived chilled, packed beside frozen tomato passata. My new post on the shadow market for sperm — new in form, ancient in function: buff.ly/B4pgWTXkimberlydkrawiec.substack.comThe Shadow Market for SpermOutside the licensed system, reproductive exchange doesn’t disappear — it just proceeds without the safeguards. 035
Jill Wieber Lens @jillwieberlens.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Happy 9th birthday to my sweet Caleb. #endstillbirth 160
Reposted by Jill Wieber LensRob Sand @robsandia.bsky.social · 19/06/2026BREAKING: According to the Reynolds Administration figures, 78% of Iowa’s private school students would have been there even without vouchers this year. So the cost to taxpayers for each kid in private school BECAUSE of vouchers? Over $37k. bit.ly/4vOB1SGcbs2iowa.comSand says 80% of ESA funds went to students already expected to be in private schoolsIowa Auditor Rob Sand released a new report examining the impact of Iowa’s education savings accounts program, also known as ESAs.Sand, who is also running for 14016
Reposted by Jill Wieber Lensashlee, mph @avs.bsky.social · 15/06/2026hi all! i am about 30 people away from being able to close out this survey. if you believe you may be eligible, you can take the screener at go.uic.edu/leavestudy if not, reposting in your TL and sharing the recruitment flyer among your networks would be tremendously appreciated! 005
Reposted by Jill Wieber LensPregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Pregnancy After Loss Clinic helps moms who’ve experienced a stillbirth plan for another child www.uclahealth.org/news/article...uclahealth.orgPregnancy After Loss Clinic helps moms who’ve experienced a stillbirth plan for another childPregnancy After Loss Clinic helps moms who’ve experienced a stillbirth plan for another child. 001
Reposted by Jill Wieber LensLaura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social · 29/05/2026A wild day in the GOP race for Iowa governor. Public poll showed Feenstra sinking, Lahn rising (consistent with private polling). Establishment hit the panic button, got Trump to endorse Randy Feenstra, finally. Minutes later Zach Lahn announced he has Turning Point USA's support. 4196
Reposted by Jill Wieber LensLyz @lyz.bsky.social · 28/05/2026This story involves an Iowa tshirt company, a basketball star, a Boston Globe reporter, online trolls who piss on walls, a lot of toxic masculinity and a lot of insight into the state of men. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...rollingstone.comOnline Trolls Harassed Her Six-Year-Old. That Was Only the BeginningHow one woman tried to unmask college sports fans who trolled her six-year-old daughter because of a photo with Iowa State basketball star Audi Crooks 1313841
Jill Wieber Lens @jillwieberlens.bsky.social · 26/05/2026My doctor saved my son's life with an emergency c-section in this same hospital. For for this woman, they just left her -- just waited for her to almost die for 5 days, even though there was no way this baby was going to survive, before sending her out of state. This is horrific. 131
Jill Wieber Lens @jillwieberlens.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Well, look at that. Planned "early" birth can be good for both mom and baby. Love this quote -- "A common misconception is that by waiting longer, mum and baby are gaining more time, but often what you are doing is just delaying an inevitable emergency birth, when both may be in a worse condition" 110