Anthony K J Smith
@anthonykjsmith.bsky.social
Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW Sydney and Lecturer at Curtin University. Researching HIV, PrEP, critical data studies, mpox, gender, sexuality. Sociologist & qualitative health researcher. A bit queer. He/him
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This new publication from a project I am involved with uses trans poetics (cárdenas) as a framework to think through the inclusion of trans people in the built environment of Australian mental health services. 🌈🎓
“I think a lot of spaces like that would be probably lacking”: trans poetics and the built environment of a South Australian mental health network
Too often approaches to the inclusion of trans people in mental health services fail to consider how the built environment impacts on sense of safety and being welcome within the space. Trans poeti...
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January 20, 2026 at 11:01 PM
This new publication from a project I am involved with uses trans poetics (cárdenas) as a framework to think through the inclusion of trans people in the built environment of Australian mental health services. 🌈🎓
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New paper! Drawing on the concept of desiring-assemblages, we asked ‘what can a body with PrEP do?’
Led by @anthonykjsmith.bsky.social in Sexualities:
The limits of promoting pleasure: Desiring-assemblages and #HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Led by @anthonykjsmith.bsky.social in Sexualities:
The limits of promoting pleasure: Desiring-assemblages and #HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
January 12, 2026 at 12:26 PM
New paper! Drawing on the concept of desiring-assemblages, we asked ‘what can a body with PrEP do?’
Led by @anthonykjsmith.bsky.social in Sexualities:
The limits of promoting pleasure: Desiring-assemblages and #HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Led by @anthonykjsmith.bsky.social in Sexualities:
The limits of promoting pleasure: Desiring-assemblages and #HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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📣 New paper in Social Science & Medicine!
Evidencing work: implementing HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis and
on-demand dosing in Australia
#sts #hiv #prep #evidence #expertise @martinxholt.bsky.social @anthonykjsmith.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
Evidencing work: implementing HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis and
on-demand dosing in Australia
#sts #hiv #prep #evidence #expertise @martinxholt.bsky.social @anthonykjsmith.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
December 19, 2025 at 12:46 PM
📣 New paper in Social Science & Medicine!
Evidencing work: implementing HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis and
on-demand dosing in Australia
#sts #hiv #prep #evidence #expertise @martinxholt.bsky.social @anthonykjsmith.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
Evidencing work: implementing HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis and
on-demand dosing in Australia
#sts #hiv #prep #evidence #expertise @martinxholt.bsky.social @anthonykjsmith.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
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No, MS Word, I do NOT want you to summarize the document I AM LITERALLY WRITING MYSELF. Why would I need that? God, I hate how intrusive this s--t is. I just want to make it go away and it appears that our institutional version of the software does not have any of the off switches for it.
November 12, 2025 at 2:52 PM
No, MS Word, I do NOT want you to summarize the document I AM LITERALLY WRITING MYSELF. Why would I need that? God, I hate how intrusive this s--t is. I just want to make it go away and it appears that our institutional version of the software does not have any of the off switches for it.
Our edited collection on temporalities of health, illness and care is now published with Palgrave Macmillan.
15 fantastic chapters from author teams around the world unpacking rich social theory of time in relation to studies of health and illness.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
15 fantastic chapters from author teams around the world unpacking rich social theory of time in relation to studies of health and illness.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
October 20, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Our edited collection on temporalities of health, illness and care is now published with Palgrave Macmillan.
15 fantastic chapters from author teams around the world unpacking rich social theory of time in relation to studies of health and illness.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
15 fantastic chapters from author teams around the world unpacking rich social theory of time in relation to studies of health and illness.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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I and many people are still boycotting and, to be frank, judge people who continue publishing in it. While I understand the publishing landscape is a tough one, I strongly encourage publishing elsewhere. If not on principle, just to avoid negative impressions.
Are people still boycotting Archives of Sexual Behavior?
The domain for the open letter seems to have lapsed, but this article covers it...
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The domain for the open letter seems to have lapsed, but this article covers it...
www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
Sexual Behavior Journal Under Fire Over Gender Dysphoria Paper
Critics blast paper about controversial theory, call for editor's removal
www.medpagetoday.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:20 AM
I and many people are still boycotting and, to be frank, judge people who continue publishing in it. While I understand the publishing landscape is a tough one, I strongly encourage publishing elsewhere. If not on principle, just to avoid negative impressions.
Are people still boycotting Archives of Sexual Behavior?
The domain for the open letter seems to have lapsed, but this article covers it...
www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
The domain for the open letter seems to have lapsed, but this article covers it...
www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
Sexual Behavior Journal Under Fire Over Gender Dysphoria Paper
Critics blast paper about controversial theory, call for editor's removal
www.medpagetoday.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Are people still boycotting Archives of Sexual Behavior?
The domain for the open letter seems to have lapsed, but this article covers it...
www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
The domain for the open letter seems to have lapsed, but this article covers it...
www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
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I think pash/pashing is one of the best australian/nz words. lets all agree to start using it more
October 10, 2025 at 5:22 AM
I think pash/pashing is one of the best australian/nz words. lets all agree to start using it more
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"Why would it bow to antidemocratic pressures by placing a professor on leave without their request, consent, or involvement? That any university would do this is beyond comprehension and is cause for alarm about the future of academic freedom in Canada."
What Happened to the University’s Commitment to Free Expression? Charley Kirk, uAlberta, and Me | Centre for Free Expression
I was shocked when the University of Alberta administration informed me, one of its law professors, that I was being placed on non-disciplinary leave for my social media comments in the wake of Charli...
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September 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
"Why would it bow to antidemocratic pressures by placing a professor on leave without their request, consent, or involvement? That any university would do this is beyond comprehension and is cause for alarm about the future of academic freedom in Canada."
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very direct evidence that video game piracy is important in the preservation of video games
September 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
very direct evidence that video game piracy is important in the preservation of video games
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New article in Social Theory & Health, co-authored with
@judegreen.bsky.social, open access.
In a nutshell we argue that that lived-experience research is not the same as qualitative sociology in health research. The difference exists and matters.
Read here: rdcu.be/evZ7F
@judegreen.bsky.social, open access.
In a nutshell we argue that that lived-experience research is not the same as qualitative sociology in health research. The difference exists and matters.
Read here: rdcu.be/evZ7F
July 14, 2025 at 11:31 AM
New article in Social Theory & Health, co-authored with
@judegreen.bsky.social, open access.
In a nutshell we argue that that lived-experience research is not the same as qualitative sociology in health research. The difference exists and matters.
Read here: rdcu.be/evZ7F
@judegreen.bsky.social, open access.
In a nutshell we argue that that lived-experience research is not the same as qualitative sociology in health research. The difference exists and matters.
Read here: rdcu.be/evZ7F
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Oh my fucking god.
It looks like Israel murdered eight Palestine Red Crescent Society workers, a UN employee, and five civil defense staff.
They crushed up and buried entire ambulances and civil defense vehicles in the fucking mass grave.
www.cnn.com/2025/03/31/m...
It looks like Israel murdered eight Palestine Red Crescent Society workers, a UN employee, and five civil defense staff.
They crushed up and buried entire ambulances and civil defense vehicles in the fucking mass grave.
www.cnn.com/2025/03/31/m...
Bodies of missing aid workers found in Gaza ‘mass grave’ following Israeli attacks | CNN
The bodies of more than a dozen aid workers have been recovered in southern Gaza from what a United Nations agency described as a “mass grave,” a week after they went missing following attacks by Isra...
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March 31, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Oh my fucking god.
It looks like Israel murdered eight Palestine Red Crescent Society workers, a UN employee, and five civil defense staff.
They crushed up and buried entire ambulances and civil defense vehicles in the fucking mass grave.
www.cnn.com/2025/03/31/m...
It looks like Israel murdered eight Palestine Red Crescent Society workers, a UN employee, and five civil defense staff.
They crushed up and buried entire ambulances and civil defense vehicles in the fucking mass grave.
www.cnn.com/2025/03/31/m...
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New (open access paper): #mpox #vaccination coverage among Australian gay and bisexual men and non-binary people. 42% fully vaxxed. Lower vax levels among bi+, overseas born and in suburban/regional areas. @anthonykjsmith.bsky.social @curtisxchan.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
Redirecting
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March 17, 2025 at 10:37 PM
New (open access paper): #mpox #vaccination coverage among Australian gay and bisexual men and non-binary people. 42% fully vaxxed. Lower vax levels among bi+, overseas born and in suburban/regional areas. @anthonykjsmith.bsky.social @curtisxchan.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
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This has RFK Jr's fingerprints all over it. I don't know what he really believes about HIV & AIDS, since he's all over the map, but at one point recently he suggested poppers were a more likely cause than the virus. 1/
www.fastcompany.com/91298370/fda...
www.fastcompany.com/91298370/fda...
The FDA is cracking down on 'poppers' producers
Double Scorpio, a popular brand of "poppers," has stopped operations after a search and seizure from the FDA, it said on Friday.
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March 15, 2025 at 3:48 AM
This has RFK Jr's fingerprints all over it. I don't know what he really believes about HIV & AIDS, since he's all over the map, but at one point recently he suggested poppers were a more likely cause than the virus. 1/
www.fastcompany.com/91298370/fda...
www.fastcompany.com/91298370/fda...
#OpenAccess in ANZ Journal of Survey. Pilot research to explore experiences of gay/bi men with anorectal surgery. We found poor experiences of aftercare related to sexual wellbeing / function, and opportunities for improvement to surgical education.
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March 5, 2025 at 7:26 AM
#OpenAccess in ANZ Journal of Survey. Pilot research to explore experiences of gay/bi men with anorectal surgery. We found poor experiences of aftercare related to sexual wellbeing / function, and opportunities for improvement to surgical education.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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The @austhistassoc.bsky.social statement on UA's new definition of antisemitism:
February 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
The @austhistassoc.bsky.social statement on UA's new definition of antisemitism:
New #OpenAccess publication from our team in HIV Medicine, led by very talented PhD Candidate Simin Yu, examining how country of birth & migration status shape HIV care engagement among gay and bisexual men living with HIV in Australia (2019-2022).
Read here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Read here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
February 27, 2025 at 7:46 AM
New #OpenAccess publication from our team in HIV Medicine, led by very talented PhD Candidate Simin Yu, examining how country of birth & migration status shape HIV care engagement among gay and bisexual men living with HIV in Australia (2019-2022).
Read here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Read here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Vibes-based methods
Something new from me: people are (still) using ‘vibes’ to talk about generative ambiguities and this says something interesting about social life and social research. Here I look across conceptual trends to consider why vibes are the vibe
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Something new from me: people are (still) using ‘vibes’ to talk about generative ambiguities and this says something interesting about social life and social research. Here I look across conceptual trends to consider why vibes are the vibe
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
January 20, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Vibes-based methods
Something new from me: people are (still) using ‘vibes’ to talk about generative ambiguities and this says something interesting about social life and social research. Here I look across conceptual trends to consider why vibes are the vibe
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Something new from me: people are (still) using ‘vibes’ to talk about generative ambiguities and this says something interesting about social life and social research. Here I look across conceptual trends to consider why vibes are the vibe
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Open access (no paywall) article in Social Science and Medicine, outlining 'the sociology of prescribing'. This is the sort of literature I wish I had access to in one place during my PhD. I outline sociological contributions to understanding drug prescribing.
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February 13, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Open access (no paywall) article in Social Science and Medicine, outlining 'the sociology of prescribing'. This is the sort of literature I wish I had access to in one place during my PhD. I outline sociological contributions to understanding drug prescribing.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Open access (no paywall) article in Social Science and Medicine www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We draw together 'anticipated stigma', 'patient work', and 'inclusivity labour' to explore how diverse priority populations of gay/bi men engage with health services.
We draw together 'anticipated stigma', 'patient work', and 'inclusivity labour' to explore how diverse priority populations of gay/bi men engage with health services.
January 30, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Open access (no paywall) article in Social Science and Medicine www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We draw together 'anticipated stigma', 'patient work', and 'inclusivity labour' to explore how diverse priority populations of gay/bi men engage with health services.
We draw together 'anticipated stigma', 'patient work', and 'inclusivity labour' to explore how diverse priority populations of gay/bi men engage with health services.
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Last week I updated my mega-post "What's wrong with the Cass Review?" with new links to analysis and evidence.
I have no illusions about the current political landscape. It will likely take years to undo Cass' act of sabotage. But I am in this fight for the long haul and hope you are too.
I have no illusions about the current political landscape. It will likely take years to undo Cass' act of sabotage. But I am in this fight for the long haul and hope you are too.
What’s wrong with the Cass Review? A round-up of commentary and evidence
[last updated 23/01/25] Wednesday 10 April 2024 saw the long-awaited publication of the final report of the Cass Review. This report was commissioned by NHS England, and provides a review of eviden…
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January 29, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Last week I updated my mega-post "What's wrong with the Cass Review?" with new links to analysis and evidence.
I have no illusions about the current political landscape. It will likely take years to undo Cass' act of sabotage. But I am in this fight for the long haul and hope you are too.
I have no illusions about the current political landscape. It will likely take years to undo Cass' act of sabotage. But I am in this fight for the long haul and hope you are too.
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I had the same realization a few weeks ago, and someone recommended the following code to disable copy/paste: community.qualtrics.com/custom-code-...
How Do I Disable Copying and Pasting? | XM Community
Hi,
How would I disable copying and pasting on Qualtrics surveys?
I tried to put this code
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function () {
//Disable full page
$('b...
community.qualtrics.com
December 20, 2024 at 2:27 AM
I had the same realization a few weeks ago, and someone recommended the following code to disable copy/paste: community.qualtrics.com/custom-code-...
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We did interviews with multiple people who refused to turn their camera on, responded with a delay, and even asked us to put the questions in the chat.
Super obvious they were using an LLM. But it shocked us. They thought they could get away with pretending to be a medic during a live interview!
Super obvious they were using an LLM. But it shocked us. They thought they could get away with pretending to be a medic during a live interview!
We’re collecting open-ended data on Prolific, and it has become clear to me that people are using chatGPT to answer the questions. This is so depressing. Like, is it really worth the time to copy and paste questions and answers instead of just…telling us what you think?
December 19, 2024 at 10:53 PM
We did interviews with multiple people who refused to turn their camera on, responded with a delay, and even asked us to put the questions in the chat.
Super obvious they were using an LLM. But it shocked us. They thought they could get away with pretending to be a medic during a live interview!
Super obvious they were using an LLM. But it shocked us. They thought they could get away with pretending to be a medic during a live interview!
Fab to have my achievements recognised with a promotion to Research Fellow / Lecturer.
Academia can be quite the hustle, but I genuinely love the people and community partners I work with and the sociological and applied health research we are able to do in HIV, sexual health, and LGBTQ+ health.
Academia can be quite the hustle, but I genuinely love the people and community partners I work with and the sociological and applied health research we are able to do in HIV, sexual health, and LGBTQ+ health.
December 6, 2024 at 6:02 AM
Fab to have my achievements recognised with a promotion to Research Fellow / Lecturer.
Academia can be quite the hustle, but I genuinely love the people and community partners I work with and the sociological and applied health research we are able to do in HIV, sexual health, and LGBTQ+ health.
Academia can be quite the hustle, but I genuinely love the people and community partners I work with and the sociological and applied health research we are able to do in HIV, sexual health, and LGBTQ+ health.