Amy L Stone
@amylstone1.bsky.social
Trinity U prof, Austinite, author, researcher, queer af. They/them
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So excited about our inaugural issue. Writing this intro with @amylstone1.bsky.social was so refreshing. Check out our intro and the other articles at journals.sagepub.com/home/SNS. Super inspiring 🤩
June 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
So excited about our inaugural issue. Writing this intro with @amylstone1.bsky.social was so refreshing. Check out our intro and the other articles at journals.sagepub.com/home/SNS. Super inspiring 🤩
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"Our calculations suggest that the proposed budgetary cuts to the NIH will create a social cost that is 16 times greater than the savings that the administration is attempting to achieve."
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Cutting the NIH—The $8 Trillion Health Care Catastrophe
This JAMA Forum discusses the recent budget cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH), the effects of these cuts on scientific research and health of individuals in the US, and the prospects for cha...
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May 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
"Our calculations suggest that the proposed budgetary cuts to the NIH will create a social cost that is 16 times greater than the savings that the administration is attempting to achieve."
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Them: “This one’s different!”
Their dating history:
Their dating history:
May 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Them: “This one’s different!”
Their dating history:
Their dating history:
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Then, Jennifer Denbow addresses the advances of #reproductive #technology in these dystopian times. How is a "tech fix" not always a real fix of social problems.
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May 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Then, Jennifer Denbow addresses the advances of #reproductive #technology in these dystopian times. How is a "tech fix" not always a real fix of social problems.
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Then, stef shuster, Grant Bunn, and Celeste Campo-Castillo address how false information is used against sexual and gender minorities in the contemporary US and what we can do about it. #LGBTQ #Misinformation
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May 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Then, stef shuster, Grant Bunn, and Celeste Campo-Castillo address how false information is used against sexual and gender minorities in the contemporary US and what we can do about it. #LGBTQ #Misinformation
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Then, Alan Santinele Martino, Thomas Tri, Rachell Trung, and Oscar E. Hughes explore how to center #disabled people as experts in their own sexual lives and desire in #research and conversations about #sexuality. @alansmartino.bsky.social
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May 8, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Then, Alan Santinele Martino, Thomas Tri, Rachell Trung, and Oscar E. Hughes explore how to center #disabled people as experts in their own sexual lives and desire in #research and conversations about #sexuality. @alansmartino.bsky.social
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First, Brandon Robinson turns to the dating and sex lives of #trans women and #femmes to learn about trans sex and pleasure with an emphasis on #t4t relationships. @brandonrobinson.bsky.social
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May 8, 2025 at 3:29 PM
First, Brandon Robinson turns to the dating and sex lives of #trans women and #femmes to learn about trans sex and pleasure with an emphasis on #t4t relationships. @brandonrobinson.bsky.social
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How can we write about #race and the #body without centering whiteness? In this article, Cristina Khan and Salvador Vidal-Ortiz provide critical insight into how to write about racialized #embodiment and eroticism.
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May 12, 2025 at 11:45 PM
How can we write about #race and the #body without centering whiteness? In this article, Cristina Khan and Salvador Vidal-Ortiz provide critical insight into how to write about racialized #embodiment and eroticism.
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How should the #sociology of #sexuality incorporate #race into research in meaningful ways? And how should we also focus on pleasure, joy, and desire? Check out this work by Terrell J.A. Winder and Kendall Ota.
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May 12, 2025 at 11:54 PM
How should the #sociology of #sexuality incorporate #race into research in meaningful ways? And how should we also focus on pleasure, joy, and desire? Check out this work by Terrell J.A. Winder and Kendall Ota.
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With the news of NSF divisions being abolished and more grants terminated, we urge our community to continue communicating with Congress to #SupportNSF and #SaveNSF. Scripts and tools you can use: shorturl.at/i7WfU
MediaToolSupportNSF.docx
Letter to scientists and organizations whose progress depends on NSF: We are facing an unprecedented political attack on science. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has begun directing NSF...
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May 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
With the news of NSF divisions being abolished and more grants terminated, we urge our community to continue communicating with Congress to #SupportNSF and #SaveNSF. Scripts and tools you can use: shorturl.at/i7WfU
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Trying to make sense of these political times? Check out these new articles from Sex & Sexualities about #sex #reproduction, #technology, and #LGBTQ misinformation. All are free or open access! 🧵
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May 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Trying to make sense of these political times? Check out these new articles from Sex & Sexualities about #sex #reproduction, #technology, and #LGBTQ misinformation. All are free or open access! 🧵
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Check out the first issue of the new American Sociological Association (@ASAnews ) journal, Sex & Sexualities, where we consider questions about #pleasure, #sexualcomfort, #t4t, #disability, and #methods.
All articles are free or open access!!
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All articles are free or open access!!
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May 8, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Check out the first issue of the new American Sociological Association (@ASAnews ) journal, Sex & Sexualities, where we consider questions about #pleasure, #sexualcomfort, #t4t, #disability, and #methods.
All articles are free or open access!!
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All articles are free or open access!!
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Want to avoid reinforcing compulsory sexuality in your research? Catch up on asexualities and aromanticism research with Megan Carroll and Maya Wenzel in the newest ASA journal, Sex & Sexualities. #asexual
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New Dimensions, New Directions: Asexualities and Aromanticism in the 21st Century - Megan Carroll, Maya Wenzel, 2025
This article offers an overview of the state of the field for asexualities and aromanticism and suggests new directions for research. Our goal is to inspire fem...
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May 6, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Want to avoid reinforcing compulsory sexuality in your research? Catch up on asexualities and aromanticism research with Megan Carroll and Maya Wenzel in the newest ASA journal, Sex & Sexualities. #asexual
@mcsociology.bsky.social @acefeministmaya.bsky.social
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How is sexual normativity a key logic that undergirds the legal, political, and social processes that shape migration and cross-border mobility? Read all about it in Juhwan Seo's article in the new @ASAnews journal, Sex & Sexualities.
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May 6, 2025 at 12:50 AM
How is sexual normativity a key logic that undergirds the legal, political, and social processes that shape migration and cross-border mobility? Read all about it in Juhwan Seo's article in the new @ASAnews journal, Sex & Sexualities.
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Even the scholarship that weaves sexuality with race, class, or/and gender tends to operate disconnected from questions of the body. Read more about racialized embodiment in this work by Cristina Khan and Salvador Vidal-Ortiz.
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May 6, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Even the scholarship that weaves sexuality with race, class, or/and gender tends to operate disconnected from questions of the body. Read more about racialized embodiment in this work by Cristina Khan and Salvador Vidal-Ortiz.
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What might the future of sex look like? Futurologists and sexologists are quick to embrace sex tech as the final frontier of pleasure, but sociologist @kenhanson.bsky.social argues we need to examine our past first to figure out where we're going.
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Whither A Sociology of Sex Toys? Contested Histories, Current Trends, and Potential Futures - Kenneth R. Hanson, Whitney E. Brooks, 2025
While being part of many people’s sexual lives, sex toys are rarely the focus of sociological research. To better understand the role sex toys might play in the...
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May 6, 2025 at 1:04 AM
What might the future of sex look like? Futurologists and sexologists are quick to embrace sex tech as the final frontier of pleasure, but sociologist @kenhanson.bsky.social argues we need to examine our past first to figure out where we're going.
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“The time has come to think about sex. To some,
sexuality may seem to be an unimportant topic,
a frivolous diversion from the more critical
problems...But sexuality should be treated with
special respect in times of great social stress.” Gayle Rubin 1984. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
sexuality may seem to be an unimportant topic,
a frivolous diversion from the more critical
problems...But sexuality should be treated with
special respect in times of great social stress.” Gayle Rubin 1984. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
April 29, 2025 at 9:09 PM
“The time has come to think about sex. To some,
sexuality may seem to be an unimportant topic,
a frivolous diversion from the more critical
problems...But sexuality should be treated with
special respect in times of great social stress.” Gayle Rubin 1984. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
sexuality may seem to be an unimportant topic,
a frivolous diversion from the more critical
problems...But sexuality should be treated with
special respect in times of great social stress.” Gayle Rubin 1984. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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“Leave it to academics to ruin sex! Too often,
sociologists either ignore actual sex or, when sex
is actually present, they discuss it in a clinical
way... where we would
legitimately expect to see some discussion of
actual sex, it is absent.” Angela Jones, 2018
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sociologists either ignore actual sex or, when sex
is actually present, they discuss it in a clinical
way... where we would
legitimately expect to see some discussion of
actual sex, it is absent.” Angela Jones, 2018
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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April 29, 2025 at 9:12 PM
“Leave it to academics to ruin sex! Too often,
sociologists either ignore actual sex or, when sex
is actually present, they discuss it in a clinical
way... where we would
legitimately expect to see some discussion of
actual sex, it is absent.” Angela Jones, 2018
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
sociologists either ignore actual sex or, when sex
is actually present, they discuss it in a clinical
way... where we would
legitimately expect to see some discussion of
actual sex, it is absent.” Angela Jones, 2018
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Check out the new @asanews.bsky.social journal, Sex & Sexualities, for the open access introduction by editors @drklittlej.bsky.social and @amylstone1.bsky.social about #sex, #sexuality, #sociology, #reproduction and the history of the study of sex in sociology. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
April 29, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Check out the new @asanews.bsky.social journal, Sex & Sexualities, for the open access introduction by editors @drklittlej.bsky.social and @amylstone1.bsky.social about #sex, #sexuality, #sociology, #reproduction and the history of the study of sex in sociology. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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"The NIH budget has not increased in more than 20 years despite research being more expensive to conduct. This is a necessary data point for policymakers to consider as they determine funding priorities." 🧪
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NIH Funding Has Stagnated Since 2003
This Viewpoint explores how funding has changed at the National Institutes of Health over time and discusses how continued investment is necessary to maintain the current level of biomedical research.
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April 23, 2025 at 2:55 AM
"The NIH budget has not increased in more than 20 years despite research being more expensive to conduct. This is a necessary data point for policymakers to consider as they determine funding priorities." 🧪
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Check out this excellent introduction to the inaugural issue of @sexandsexualities.bsky.social, edited by Krystale Littlejohn and @amylstone1.bsky.social. This piece provides a great history of the sociology of sexualities and a beautiful vision for the future. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Nurturing a Sociology of Sex and Sexualities - Krystale E. Littlejohn, Amy L. Stone, 2025
Sex and sexuality are integral to social life. Sexuality intersects with major institutions such as family, law, religion, media, and education. Social norms re...
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April 22, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Check out this excellent introduction to the inaugural issue of @sexandsexualities.bsky.social, edited by Krystale Littlejohn and @amylstone1.bsky.social. This piece provides a great history of the sociology of sexualities and a beautiful vision for the future. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Read the first article from the ASA Sex & Sexualities Section's new journal, in which editors Krystale E. Littlejohn @drklittlej.bsky.social, U of Oregon, & Amy L. Stone @amylstone1.bsky.social, Trinity University, consider the importance of nurturing a sociology of sex & sexualities. bit.ly/3EyV56r
April 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Read the first article from the ASA Sex & Sexualities Section's new journal, in which editors Krystale E. Littlejohn @drklittlej.bsky.social, U of Oregon, & Amy L. Stone @amylstone1.bsky.social, Trinity University, consider the importance of nurturing a sociology of sex & sexualities. bit.ly/3EyV56r
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Thank you to @npr.org for taking the time to talk with me ( @thesavir.bsky.social ) and other experts on these continued attacks on the nation’s public health infrastructure and workforce.
Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.
With CDC injury prevention team gutted, 'we will not know what is killing us'
Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.
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April 21, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Thank you to @npr.org for taking the time to talk with me ( @thesavir.bsky.social ) and other experts on these continued attacks on the nation’s public health infrastructure and workforce.
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“Older Black Americans are twice as likely as white patients to develop [dementia]. Just as it is not illegal to research breast cancer in women, Mezuk said, it should not be illegal to research dementia in Black and lower-income white Americans.”
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NIH terminates $13 million grant on dementia
A $12.9 million grant for a study on dementia risks among at-risk U.S. populations was terminated by the National Institutes of Health.
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April 22, 2025 at 12:15 AM
“Older Black Americans are twice as likely as white patients to develop [dementia]. Just as it is not illegal to research breast cancer in women, Mezuk said, it should not be illegal to research dementia in Black and lower-income white Americans.”
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April 22, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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