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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

📣 Save the date! Feminist Demography Pre-PAA Workshop hosted by @feministdemography.bsky.social 🗓️ Wed, May 6, 2026 | 9am–5pm CST 📍 America’s Center, St. Louis ✨ Flash talks, panel discussion, community building, social hour, and more Everyone is welcome! Registration info coming soon

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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

In this analysis, we look at contraceptive use dynamics across 55 countries using DHS data. We pay special attention to young people and the way that their contraceptive use patterns differ from those of older women. Use, discontinuation, and method mix all really differ! 2/4

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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Every once in while I'm reminded that this dystopian Disney short on population control from 1968 exists www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2Dk...

Animation frame of Donald Duck painting a picture of multiplying people on a canvas

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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

There's lots I love about this paper, but one thing I hope people will especially appreciate is the Venn diagram in Figure 1. We use this figure to try to tease apart the points of ideological overlap and divergence between different camps in the family planning field 12/n

Venn diagram from Figure 1 from the article "Thirty years of ‘strange bedmates’: The ICPD and the nexus of population control, feminism, and family planning."

This multi-colored blue, yellow, purple, red and black diagram shows the points of ideological divergence and overlap between three camps: the anti-choice/pro-life camp, the population and development camp, and the reproductive rights camp.

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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

One year for Halloween we went as a broad contraceptive method mix

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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Reading an article by Alan Guttmacher (yes, that Guttmacher) where he lists the four possible indications for sterilization: "First of all, eugenic; second, therapeutic; third, socio-economic; and fourth, population control." Whoopsie... link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

The coolest postdoc I know is now accepting applications: 🧪🔬THE WITTIG POSTDOC IN FEMINIST BIOLOGY🧪🔬 Our interdisciplinary program @ UW Madison seeks to train the next generation of feminist scientists/scholars of science Please share widely and read more here: crgw.gws.wisc.edu/scholarships...

Purple and white flyer that contains the the following information:

One of the only opportunities of its kind, the Wittig Postdoctoral Fellows Program in Feminist Science offers a fellowship at the intersection of biological/biomedical sciences and feminist science studies. We aim to train the next generation of feminist scientists/feminist science scholars and cultivate an interdisciplinary community of thinkers, practitioners, and advocates. UW Madison has a distinguished history of excellence in these areas and continues to be a dynamic site of research and teaching in feminist science scholarship.

Applicants with a new or recent PhD are invited to apply for this two year, fully funded position. We welcome scholars working at the intersection of feminist scholarship and the sciences, including the life sciences, public health, history of science, science and technology studies, or medicine. Fellows will conduct original research mentored by a UW faculty member.

This research can be feminist topics within existing research programs in the life sciences (e.g., studies of sex and the variability of sex), implementing feminist methodologies in life science research, or historical, philosophical, artistic, and feminist engagements in life science research. Successful applicants will be paired with a mentor among the UW faculty who has agreed to provide guidance during the fellowship period. For a range of examples of stellar candidates, we’ve included some sample profiles below. The postdoc will also take primary responsibility for planning and executing a feminist science one-day conference.

The Wittig postdoc is administered through the Center for Research on Gender & Women (CRGW). For further information, contact the Director of the Center for Research on Gender and Women (CRGW), Christine Garlough, clgarlough@wisc.edu.

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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Will you please spare a thought for this poor dog? He has nothing soft to sleep on :(

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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I truly don’t understand what people think pointing out the hypocrisy is going to do. They are hypocrites and they don’t care! We need a new rhetorical move!

Screenshot of a Bluesky post highlighting that Trump was in favor of his own lame duck appointees being confirm, but opposed to Biden’s

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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

I’ll be eager to see what your research says & I’m fully convinced that femicide is an important public health/political issue! This isn’t my specific area of expertise so maybe I’m missing something, but it looks like the CDC attributed 2% of MM to homicide in 2020? www.cdc.gov/maternal-mor...

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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

I’ll be joining some of the smartest people I know to talk about the growing pronatalist population panic Join us! Register here: cuboulder.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV… (And thanks to @UW_CDE for co-sponsoring!)

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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

I’ll be joining some of the smartest people I know to talk about the growing pronatalist population panic Join us! Register here: cuboulder.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... (And thanks to @cdeuw.bsky.social for co-sponsoring!)

Flyer advertising a webinar called "Demographers Respond to Rising Pronatalism" featuring Amanda Stevenson, me, and Leigh Senderowicz and moderated by Jessica Pieklo. The webinar is on Wednesday, October 30 at 11:30 Mountain Time and I will be in costume.* It is sponsored by the University of Colorado Population Center and the University of Wisconsin Center for Demography and Ecology.

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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 05/10/2024

Hey @Delta there a long line of people waiting for customer service at the A gates in Seattle and nobody here. Help!

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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

There are 18 authors listed in this volume. 6 are men named John (plus an addition Jean).

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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

There are 18 authors listed in this volume. 6 are men named John (plus an addition Jean).

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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

Applications are now open for the Wittig Postdoc in Feminist Biology here @UWMadison This unique postdoc will provide two years of support for an emerging feminist scientist and is hosted by @uwcrgw More info here: go.wisc.edu/v402l5 Please share widely!!

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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

Applications are now open for the Wittig Postdoc in Feminist Biology here at UW Madison. This unique postdoc is hosted by the Center for Research on Gender and Women and will provide two years of support for an emerging feminist scientist More info here: go.wisc.edu/v402l5 Please share widely!!

Applications open for the Wittig Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Link: https://go.wisc.edu/v402l5

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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Sky-high CO2 and absolutely sweltering temps on my @Delta flight This isn’t during boarding or deplaning — we’re at cruising altitude! What’s up with the air quality, @Delta?

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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 02/08/2023

As you can see here in the (tentative! not yet finalized!) revisions to Figure 3 in the paper, demand-side unmet need continues to account for the majority of unmet need across countries, but the results are a bit less overwhelming than we originally reported

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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 22/05/2023

I’m at a conference today at the Gates Foundation and there are ~200 of us in this room Looks like excellent air quality is possible even in crowded indoor spaces when there’s the resources and desire to protect the health of the occupants

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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 01/05/2023

Exciting news! Please share widely! The Health Disparities Research Scholars T32 grant @UWMadison was just refunded by the NIH & is recruiting for up to 4 new postdocs for the fall This was a WONDERFUL postdoc for me & I'm happy to answer any...

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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 17/04/2023

Am I the only person who reads "ScholarOne" like "scholar-oney" (rhymes with baloney)???

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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 14/04/2023

Another day, another crazy high co2 reading in the session room at #PAA2023 I hope the wonderful folks @PopAssocAmerica are taking note and working to improve indoor air quality for future conferences

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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 13/04/2023

So glad to be at #PAA2023 but concerned to see high CO2 levels in the session rooms Would love to see a greater emphasis on ventilation and indoor air quality to help keep us all safe

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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 11/04/2023

I’ll also be presenting! I use data from @PM4Action to explore facility-level barriers to implant removal in six African countries. Turns out a lot of faculties can put them in but far fewer can take them out!

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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 11/04/2023

And Stephanie Chung rounds thing so out looking at the ways that providers (mis)deploy medical contraindications to create barriers to contraceptive choice. Saturday morning at 10:30, session 239!

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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 11/04/2023

Next, @nasokol presents our findings on barriers to implant removal at our two research sites in Burkina Faso, showing how obstacles to contraceptive autonomy don’t just manifest at the time of method provision Session 183, Friday at 1:30 look

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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 11/04/2023

First, in session 143 on Friday morning @ 9:30, @bwbullington will be sharing some of our thorniest measurement work: how to capture informed contraceptive choice We explore how researcher-ascribed measures align with person-centered measures and have lots of lessons to share!

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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 12/12/2022

And our results kind of blew us away Counseling on every single non-IUD method went down with the PPIUD program. Counseling on: condoms ↓22 % points ; pills ↓19 % points ; implants ↓10 % points ; FABM ↓20 % points ; etc. Across the board.

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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 12/12/2022

Women reported that their providers had told them that the PPIUD was the best method, that it didn't have any side effects at all, and other stories that strongly suggested that the PPIUD program was creating a bias in contraceptive counseling toward this single method.

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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 12/12/2022

But when an intervention is narrowly tailored to focus on a specific outcome of interest, and then evaluation is too, we can miss A LOT of things that really matter to us Think about the blind spots we have and what we miss when we only look for outcomes were were hoping for!

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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 12/12/2022

So what are the outcome metrics we use to evaluate vertical programs? It's pretty simple! What was the program designed to achieve and how many of that thing did it do? For example if a program was designed to prevent HIV transmission, how many new cases of HIV did it prevent?

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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 12/12/2022

Vertical programs are really popular among global health donors and NGOs because they allow for the targeting of specific priority areas and for shorter timelines And, because they're so much narrower in scope, it's also much easier to tell if they're working!

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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 12/12/2022

The paper is entitled "The effect of a postpartum intrauterine device programme on choice of contraceptive method in Tanzania: a secondary analysis of a cluster-randomized trial" And that's a mouthful for...

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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 12/12/2022

Sometimes a title wildly undersells how cool a paper is, and that's really the case with our new article, out now @HPP_LSHTM Look past the boring title to find a sharp critique of how #FamilyPlanning programs are designed and...

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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 12/12/2022

Gareth Southgate’s French counterpart: Jeannette Bonjour

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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 28/11/2022

We look at service delivery data from Burkina Faso, the DRC, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria & Uganda, and what we find is concerning. Necessary supplies were missing in 17%-44% of facilities. 16%-42% of facilities were unable to remove a deeply-placed implant.

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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 28/11/2022

It's commonly acknowledged that removing implants is harder than putting them in to begin with, so making sure we're not putting in a bunch of methods that we won't be able to take out later is super important!!

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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 23/11/2022

An ode to my N95 respirator, which I wore at all times at the recent #ICFP2022 in Thailand So grateful to be able to see dear friends and participate in conference activities while reducing my risk of contracting Covid!

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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 21/11/2022

Boarded but delayed on an @AmericanAir flight, so sitting here in this metal tube with no ventilation/filtration. CO2 above 3100 ppm and still climbing.

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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 17/11/2022

Standing room only today for our session on contraceptive coercion, ethics and choice today @ICFP2022

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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 14/11/2022

I love page proof day! Our forthcoming study is cursed with the most boring name possible but is by far one of the coolest and most important papers I've ever contributed to. Full paper/thread coming soon so keep your eyes out!

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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 29/10/2022

Remembering the time our couple’s costume was a broad contraceptive method mix

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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 20/10/2022

Does every new generation of professors bemoan the fact that students don’t seem to want to read, or is something special going on here related to the pandemic? Or am I entering the “kids today” phase of life?

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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 14/08/2022

Flew on @AmericanAir yesterday and saw the highest CO2 reading I’ve recorded so far - 3346ppm! It was hot and humid and just an absolute sweat box in that metal tube. Can we PLEASE get some ventilation/filtration during boarding and deplaning????

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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 09/06/2022

Timeline cleanser: someone just got a haircut and looks very handsome

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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 03/06/2022

I will never get over the fact that Wisconsin charges me a HYBRID SURCHARGE to register my 19 year old Prius in the state. Makes me mad every single year.

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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 09/04/2022

If you’re looking for an RA, the incredible Al Kolenda speaks French with a Professional French Masters in International Development, has research experience and just knocked it out of the park presenting at #PAA2022! Let me know if you’d like to get in touch with Al

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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 01/04/2022

There aren’t words to express my gratitude to the mentors, teachers, friends, and loved ones who got me here. Extra special thanks to those who wrote *endless* letters of rec for me this job market season: @Jenny_A_Higgins @je_nobles @maggiemcconnell @mjroseman & @JocelynViterna

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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 01/04/2022

Lingering April snow is the perfect backdrop for me to gratefully share that I’ve accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies and Obstetrics & Gynecology @UWMadison Can’t wait to contribute to @UW_GndrWomenSt & @WiscObGyn in this new role!

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