***Version française en dessous*** We, colleagues of Nathan Cofnas - supported by many colleagues internationally - want to respond to the negative and incorrect framing of Ghent University’s decisio...

The world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and foreign influence at...

This seminar explores the intersections between reproductive politics, networks and production of knowledge from a historical, sociological and...

Ireland lags behind in the total number of data centres and is likely to continue to fall behind if the cost of electricity is not brought down

This paper argues for a paradigm shift in demography, moving beyond the alarmist and deterministic narratives fixated on “lowest-low fertility (LLF)” (total fertility rate ≤ 1.3). Initially a useful ...

Human oocyte mtDNA mutations do not increase with age and are selected against changes to minimize functional consequences.

My research is all about the role of images in creating knowledge about reproductive biology, and how time-lapse microscopy specifically has historically shaped how we

Scholars writing about selecting gamete donors have emphasized the importance of resemblance when choosing a donor. However, while they have thoroughly researched the question of why prospective pa...

Even the self-described feminists celebrating the Supreme Court’s attempt to banish trans people from womanhood will pay a heavy price.

In the second essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series, Aubrey Clayton excavates the troubling correlation between the birth of statistical methods and the history of eugenics.

In 1978 the London Evening News ran a series of ‘exposés’ on the UK lesbian organization and magazine Sappho and their Artificial Insemination by Donor (A.I.D) network. This article situates the Sa...

In 1978 the London Evening News ran a series of ‘exposés’ on the UK lesbian organization and magazine Sappho and their Artificial Insemination by Donor (A.I.D) network. This article situates the Sa...

A demographic change is unfolding, and many of us can expect a long life. It’s time to provide the support needed

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This article reads the uptake of facial-matching algorithms by fertility clinics in Spain through the lens of ‘the fertility fix’: a software fix to the social reconfiguration of kinship and a fixe...

Steep decline in fertility will ‘change face of societies’ and affect growth prospects, says OECD

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Reproductive injustice is an urgent global problem. We are faced with the increased criminalization of abortion, higher maternal and neonatal mortality rates for people of color, and more and more res...