Mary-Collier Wilks, PhD
@profmarycollier.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Sociology at UNC-Wilmington / author of Reimagining Aid: Foreign Donors, Women’s Health, and New Paths for Development in Cambodia / husky mom
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Via @thehill.com:
Approaching 1 year since the dismantling of USAID with devastating consequences: 700K+ deaths, loss of outbreak surveillance systems, and the end of ag. research that benefitted US farmers... all for <1% of the federal budget.
@thelastmileusaid.bsky.social | @altusaid.altgov.info
Approaching 1 year since the dismantling of USAID with devastating consequences: 700K+ deaths, loss of outbreak surveillance systems, and the end of ag. research that benefitted US farmers... all for <1% of the federal budget.
@thelastmileusaid.bsky.social | @altusaid.altgov.info
thehill.com
January 15, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Via @thehill.com:
Approaching 1 year since the dismantling of USAID with devastating consequences: 700K+ deaths, loss of outbreak surveillance systems, and the end of ag. research that benefitted US farmers... all for <1% of the federal budget.
@thelastmileusaid.bsky.social | @altusaid.altgov.info
Approaching 1 year since the dismantling of USAID with devastating consequences: 700K+ deaths, loss of outbreak surveillance systems, and the end of ag. research that benefitted US farmers... all for <1% of the federal budget.
@thelastmileusaid.bsky.social | @altusaid.altgov.info
Look forward to reading!
January 14, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Look forward to reading!
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There’s a big story everyone is missing—but this article hits on it.
We aren’t just seeing public health dismantled bc we’ve been taken over by conspiracy theorists and lunatics.
What we’re really seeing is the giant, predatory, underegulated wellness industry come to Washington.
We aren’t just seeing public health dismantled bc we’ve been taken over by conspiracy theorists and lunatics.
What we’re really seeing is the giant, predatory, underegulated wellness industry come to Washington.
FDA deletes warning on bogus autism therapies touted by RFK Jr.‘s allies
The agency used to warn of chelation, used by RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine ally David Geier.
arstechnica.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:30 AM
There’s a big story everyone is missing—but this article hits on it.
We aren’t just seeing public health dismantled bc we’ve been taken over by conspiracy theorists and lunatics.
What we’re really seeing is the giant, predatory, underegulated wellness industry come to Washington.
We aren’t just seeing public health dismantled bc we’ve been taken over by conspiracy theorists and lunatics.
What we’re really seeing is the giant, predatory, underegulated wellness industry come to Washington.
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I'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation
Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures".
Open panel submissions portal is open! ls!
Deadline: 2nd February 2026
www.4sonline.org/about_the_co...
Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures".
Open panel submissions portal is open! ls!
Deadline: 2nd February 2026
www.4sonline.org/about_the_co...
About the Conference
www.4sonline.org
January 14, 2026 at 4:12 PM
I'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation
Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures".
Open panel submissions portal is open! ls!
Deadline: 2nd February 2026
www.4sonline.org/about_the_co...
Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures".
Open panel submissions portal is open! ls!
Deadline: 2nd February 2026
www.4sonline.org/about_the_co...
Excited to have been interviewed about my book for the Feminist Development Newsletter and looking forward to seeing everyone at the #SocDev Conference in February!
January 14, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Excited to have been interviewed about my book for the Feminist Development Newsletter and looking forward to seeing everyone at the #SocDev Conference in February!
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I have the final version of a thing to review for publication approval and wow it is hard to concentrate given
[waves hands around wildly while thinking about recent events, bursts into tears, remembers I was writing a skeet, comes back to laptop]
all of this
[waves hands around wildly while thinking about recent events, bursts into tears, remembers I was writing a skeet, comes back to laptop]
all of this
January 8, 2026 at 9:49 PM
I have the final version of a thing to review for publication approval and wow it is hard to concentrate given
[waves hands around wildly while thinking about recent events, bursts into tears, remembers I was writing a skeet, comes back to laptop]
all of this
[waves hands around wildly while thinking about recent events, bursts into tears, remembers I was writing a skeet, comes back to laptop]
all of this
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NEW BOOK | Congratulations to @profmarycollier.bsky.social, our former postdoctoral fellow, on the publication of her @stanfordpress.bsky.social monograph, 'Reimagining Aid: Foreign Donors, Women’s Health, and New Paths for Development in Cambodia' 👏
Learn more and get your copy > buff.ly/F7EeHwO
Learn more and get your copy > buff.ly/F7EeHwO
January 6, 2026 at 5:45 PM
NEW BOOK | Congratulations to @profmarycollier.bsky.social, our former postdoctoral fellow, on the publication of her @stanfordpress.bsky.social monograph, 'Reimagining Aid: Foreign Donors, Women’s Health, and New Paths for Development in Cambodia' 👏
Learn more and get your copy > buff.ly/F7EeHwO
Learn more and get your copy > buff.ly/F7EeHwO
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So excited to get my copy of the new @stanfordpress.bsky.social book Reimagining Aid by @profmarycollier.bsky.social of the @uncwilmington.bsky.social Sociology Department. Go out and get your copy now! #sociology #socaf @asanews.bsky.social @gdp-center.bsky.social @cgdev.org
December 26, 2025 at 11:10 PM
So excited to get my copy of the new @stanfordpress.bsky.social book Reimagining Aid by @profmarycollier.bsky.social of the @uncwilmington.bsky.social Sociology Department. Go out and get your copy now! #sociology #socaf @asanews.bsky.social @gdp-center.bsky.social @cgdev.org
I'm sorry that happened to you on Christmas Eve or any day.
December 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I'm sorry that happened to you on Christmas Eve or any day.
My mom called the AC company because her heat was making a funny noise. When someone named Sarah answered, she asked if she was her friend Lauren's sister-in-law Sarah who works for the AC company. She immediately got the response "I'm your digital assistant Sarah."
December 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
My mom called the AC company because her heat was making a funny noise. When someone named Sarah answered, she asked if she was her friend Lauren's sister-in-law Sarah who works for the AC company. She immediately got the response "I'm your digital assistant Sarah."
It's an exciting day because I just found out my book's first author-meets-critic panel was accepted to the SocDev conference in February and I pre-ordered my Dong Phuong king cake before they sold out!!
a king cake with purple green and yellow frosting sits on a yellow surface
ALT: a king cake with purple green and yellow frosting sits on a yellow surface
media.tenor.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
It's an exciting day because I just found out my book's first author-meets-critic panel was accepted to the SocDev conference in February and I pre-ordered my Dong Phuong king cake before they sold out!!
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Audre Lorde spitting an absolute gem: "Coalitions don't happen between parts of wholes. They happen with wholes coming together. They happen with different people coming together, recognizing each other's differences. We cannot become each other in order to work together. We must become ourselves."
December 12, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Audre Lorde spitting an absolute gem: "Coalitions don't happen between parts of wholes. They happen with wholes coming together. They happen with different people coming together, recognizing each other's differences. We cannot become each other in order to work together. We must become ourselves."
This is so real!
December 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
This is so real!
December 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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It’s becoming increasingly clear that the best thing a parent can do for their son is to enroll him in co-ed activities and facilitate friendships with girls from the youngest age possible.
Patriarchy hurts boys. And nothing runs counter to patriarchy like teaching boys to genuinely value girls.
Patriarchy hurts boys. And nothing runs counter to patriarchy like teaching boys to genuinely value girls.
"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls."
time.com/7335723/auto...
time.com/7335723/auto...
The Real Way Schools are Failing Boys
“If we really want boys to succeed, we need to ensure that they know how to both beat—and lose— to girls."
time.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:39 PM
It’s becoming increasingly clear that the best thing a parent can do for their son is to enroll him in co-ed activities and facilitate friendships with girls from the youngest age possible.
Patriarchy hurts boys. And nothing runs counter to patriarchy like teaching boys to genuinely value girls.
Patriarchy hurts boys. And nothing runs counter to patriarchy like teaching boys to genuinely value girls.
I might be late to this party but if anyone is looking for a nice diversion over the holiday break, I just finished Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley. It touched on immigration, identity, colonization, time travel, climate disaster, and had a fun little romance. Would recommend!
December 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I might be late to this party but if anyone is looking for a nice diversion over the holiday break, I just finished Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley. It touched on immigration, identity, colonization, time travel, climate disaster, and had a fun little romance. Would recommend!
Nope! I barely have my phone number memorized...
December 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Nope! I barely have my phone number memorized...
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The burden of “successfully” raising children is increasingly individualized as we break down collective social goods, like public health and public education.
“New moms said the shifting health advice from the Trump administration has made an already seemingly endless number of decisions feel even more daunting”
Confusion, Anxiety for Parents as Vaccine Guidelines are Upended
www.nytimes.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The burden of “successfully” raising children is increasingly individualized as we break down collective social goods, like public health and public education.
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If women’s orgasms were “too complicated,” they wouldn’t show up so reliably in some situations and tank in others.
So what’s really getting in the way?
The orgasm gap isn’t inevitable. Here’s how we fix it.
👇
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hidd...
So what’s really getting in the way?
The orgasm gap isn’t inevitable. Here’s how we fix it.
👇
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hidd...
Stop Faking, Start Fixing: Rethinking the Orgasm Gap
Think women’s orgasms are elusive? Think again. The problem isn’t biology, but the cultural script around sex. Here’s how to stop faking and start fixing.
www.psychologytoday.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:57 PM
If women’s orgasms were “too complicated,” they wouldn’t show up so reliably in some situations and tank in others.
So what’s really getting in the way?
The orgasm gap isn’t inevitable. Here’s how we fix it.
👇
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hidd...
So what’s really getting in the way?
The orgasm gap isn’t inevitable. Here’s how we fix it.
👇
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hidd...
you'd think creating working printers would have come before the AI revolution...
November 24, 2025 at 7:49 PM
you'd think creating working printers would have come before the AI revolution...
Contacts are so expensive. I always end up wearing my monthly contacts wayyyy too long to try to the reduce cost.
November 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Contacts are so expensive. I always end up wearing my monthly contacts wayyyy too long to try to the reduce cost.
Even child naming practices are starting to show signs of politically polarization in the U.S. today - these sorts of unexpected studies are why I love sociology!
Baby names aren’t just personal choices; they reflect culture, geography, gender, identity, and as i've been investigating, politics too. I’ve been analyzing 50 years of U.S. baby naming to see how they map onto political polarization in the U.S.
Here’s what I found 🧵
Here’s what I found 🧵
November 24, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Even child naming practices are starting to show signs of politically polarization in the U.S. today - these sorts of unexpected studies are why I love sociology!
This is so interesting!!!
November 24, 2025 at 7:42 PM
This is so interesting!!!