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Max Soar

@maxsoar.bsky.social

165 followers 212 following 192 posts

interdisciplinary/undisciplined | STS, Political Economy, other stuff | Pākehā | he/him orcid.org/0000-0001-7509-7861

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Max Soar @maxsoar.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Far from an immutable reality, so-called biological sex is more a constant negotiation that defies the logic of simple binaries. Given this scientific complexity, Marcroft’s bill and its supporters’ claims about “biological reality” cannot go unquestioned. Their mobilisation of scientific terminology invokes not just the authority we commonly associate with the sciences, but also a uniquely privileged claim about what (and who) is or is not designated as natural. In doing so, the bill’s proponents join a long and sordid history – from race science to eugenics – of dehumanisation disguised as scientific classification.

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Max Soar @maxsoar.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

New from @courtneyaddison.bsky.social and I for SftP mag! The NZ govt's vandalism of research and science prefigures similar destruction in the US and is part of a broader effort in NZ to stifle political dissent. The only way out is to build our power as researchers. tinyurl.com/3ey2r65u/

The cover of Science for the People vol. 27 no. 2: The Political Economy of Science

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Max Soar @maxsoar.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

This might be the crowning achievement of my career. It's all downhill from here.

Screenshot from Google Scholar indicating I have been cited by precisely 69 other scholars.

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Max Soar @maxsoar.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Winston Peters' transphobia is back in the news, so here's our recently published (open access) research on recent moral panics about gender in Aotearoa. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

The title of the paper set on the colours of the trans flag: "Anti-vax, anti-mask, anti-gender: The transphobic turn of the “freedom movement” during COVID-19" by Max Soar, Sophie Beaumont & Alex Ker, set o

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Max Soar @maxsoar.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Bring back social and political consequences for being a straight up colossal liar.

Screenshot of news website with headline "Minister for Women says pay equity changes 'positive news for women'"

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Max Soar @maxsoar.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

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Max Soar @maxsoar.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

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Max Soar @maxsoar.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Some wise advice from a comrade.

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Max Soar @maxsoar.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Wanna know why reductive definitions of science are so easily pressed into service of right-wing, fascist and white-supremacist politics? (All labels we could productively hurl at Collins) Read my thesis! (Then give me a job) DM for full text openaccess.wgtn.ac.nz/articles/the...

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Max Soar @maxsoar.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

HM24 been a whirlwind so far

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Max Soar @maxsoar.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

I'll be in the market (eww) for research/academic/teaching roles soon. Please reach out if you know of anything that suits my skill set. Also, my thesis was recently published: tinyurl.com/y5bu8e56 Its under embargo. If you want the full-text just ask!

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Max Soar @maxsoar.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

Sign the open letter! Call to Action to Aotearoa New Zealand's Universities to Stand in Solidarity with Palestine. Taking a stand for Palestine is a necessary part of our role as academics. Not doing so is an abdication of responsibility. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Max Soar @maxsoar.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

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