Simon Fern
@simonfern.bsky.social
Sociology PhD candidate at Rice - writing on immigrant health/medical experiences in Spain. Also, collaborative work on food apartheid in the American south.
#migration studies, Medicine, #reproduction, care, #STS, #embodiment, coloniality, ANT.
#migration studies, Medicine, #reproduction, care, #STS, #embodiment, coloniality, ANT.
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Simon Fern
@simonfern.bsky.social
· Jan 28
The first article from my dissertation is out now in Social Science and Medicine. It's about immigrant patients' experiences with gynaecology and obstetrics in Spain. It's also my first solo-authored piece. Deeply grateful to the people whose testimonies inform this work.
doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
A local chapter of Food Not Bombs in Bacolod City (Negros island, Philippines) is providing relief through a community kitchen, medicine, and hygiene kits following the devastating impact of typhoon Tino.
You can donate via PayPal at: foodnotbombsasia@myyahoo.com
You can donate via PayPal at: foodnotbombsasia@myyahoo.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
A local chapter of Food Not Bombs in Bacolod City (Negros island, Philippines) is providing relief through a community kitchen, medicine, and hygiene kits following the devastating impact of typhoon Tino.
You can donate via PayPal at: foodnotbombsasia@myyahoo.com
You can donate via PayPal at: foodnotbombsasia@myyahoo.com
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If you have seen a pregnant, postpartum, or lactating woman in immigration custody, please let the Women's Refugee Commission know by submitting a report through the Detention Pregnancy Tracker.
detentionpregnancytracker.com
detentionpregnancytracker.com
Women's Refugee Commission
detentionpregnancytracker.com
October 7, 2025 at 5:09 AM
If you have seen a pregnant, postpartum, or lactating woman in immigration custody, please let the Women's Refugee Commission know by submitting a report through the Detention Pregnancy Tracker.
detentionpregnancytracker.com
detentionpregnancytracker.com
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🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨
October 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨
Lovely few days at the British Sociological Association's medical sociology conference. Wonderful range of presentations and such a supportive space.
I shared some recent work about experiences of care and bordering, based on interviews with immigrant mothers in Catalonia (Spain). #MedSoc25
I shared some recent work about experiences of care and bordering, based on interviews with immigrant mothers in Catalonia (Spain). #MedSoc25
September 12, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Lovely few days at the British Sociological Association's medical sociology conference. Wonderful range of presentations and such a supportive space.
I shared some recent work about experiences of care and bordering, based on interviews with immigrant mothers in Catalonia (Spain). #MedSoc25
I shared some recent work about experiences of care and bordering, based on interviews with immigrant mothers in Catalonia (Spain). #MedSoc25
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The Anthropology Brown Bag Calendar is up!
Join us this fall semester and listen to our favorite anthropologists in our favorite room, Sewall 570.
Links and descriptions will be provided before each meeting. Stay tuned! ✨
Join us this fall semester and listen to our favorite anthropologists in our favorite room, Sewall 570.
Links and descriptions will be provided before each meeting. Stay tuned! ✨
August 30, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The Anthropology Brown Bag Calendar is up!
Join us this fall semester and listen to our favorite anthropologists in our favorite room, Sewall 570.
Links and descriptions will be provided before each meeting. Stay tuned! ✨
Join us this fall semester and listen to our favorite anthropologists in our favorite room, Sewall 570.
Links and descriptions will be provided before each meeting. Stay tuned! ✨
I got my mum a wildlife camera for her 60th, and now I get to enjoy a live feed of our local hedgehogs crunching kibble.
August 28, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I got my mum a wildlife camera for her 60th, and now I get to enjoy a live feed of our local hedgehogs crunching kibble.
Some wisdom from a diss' interviewee: "I don't know, at the moment, like, just be nice or something. Because recently, I've been feeling like, being kind is really important. Even when somebody's mean towards you. I feel like the energy that being kind radiates is better. And, like, more positive."
August 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Some wisdom from a diss' interviewee: "I don't know, at the moment, like, just be nice or something. Because recently, I've been feeling like, being kind is really important. Even when somebody's mean towards you. I feel like the energy that being kind radiates is better. And, like, more positive."
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Call for applications: 12-month postdoctoral contract (Sciences Po - INED, TIERED Project) for a research project studying the mediating role of environmental risks in the relationship between migration status and health at birth in France (e.g., heat, pollution). www.sciencespo.fr/cris/files/P...
www.sciencespo.fr
August 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Call for applications: 12-month postdoctoral contract (Sciences Po - INED, TIERED Project) for a research project studying the mediating role of environmental risks in the relationship between migration status and health at birth in France (e.g., heat, pollution). www.sciencespo.fr/cris/files/P...
I <3 library - "walk around the stacks and grab whatever looks good" is a valid literature review strategy.
August 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I <3 library - "walk around the stacks and grab whatever looks good" is a valid literature review strategy.
Writing in the library atm, a new student and his grandma were looking around the reading room I'm in. They had got a bit lost and thought this was everything. I showed them to the central stacks and grandma's face lit up at the sight of all the books. I love libraries so much, they're magical.
August 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Writing in the library atm, a new student and his grandma were looking around the reading room I'm in. They had got a bit lost and thought this was everything. I showed them to the central stacks and grandma's face lit up at the sight of all the books. I love libraries so much, they're magical.
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🚨 Call for Papers for the 2026 IMISCOE Spring Conference
“Governing and Experiencing Migration in Contentious Times”
📅 16-18 March 2026 @ Liège, Belgium & Online
📢 Deadline: 5 September 2025, 23:59 CEST.
📍 More info & submission: www.imiscoe.org/events/2393-...
“Governing and Experiencing Migration in Contentious Times”
📅 16-18 March 2026 @ Liège, Belgium & Online
📢 Deadline: 5 September 2025, 23:59 CEST.
📍 More info & submission: www.imiscoe.org/events/2393-...
2026 IMISCOE Spring Conference - IMISCOE
IMISCOE is the largest European network of scholars in the area of migration and integration. The focus is on comparative research and joint research projects.
www.imiscoe.org
August 14, 2025 at 12:53 PM
🚨 Call for Papers for the 2026 IMISCOE Spring Conference
“Governing and Experiencing Migration in Contentious Times”
📅 16-18 March 2026 @ Liège, Belgium & Online
📢 Deadline: 5 September 2025, 23:59 CEST.
📍 More info & submission: www.imiscoe.org/events/2393-...
“Governing and Experiencing Migration in Contentious Times”
📅 16-18 March 2026 @ Liège, Belgium & Online
📢 Deadline: 5 September 2025, 23:59 CEST.
📍 More info & submission: www.imiscoe.org/events/2393-...
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🏆 SKAT #ASA2025 Awards! Congratulations to the following recipients:
Hacker-Mullins Student Paper Award
Xiaogao Zhou: “Care in transition: Global norms, transnational adaptation, and family-centered gender-affirming care in China”
🔗: doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
Hacker-Mullins Student Paper Award
Xiaogao Zhou: “Care in transition: Global norms, transnational adaptation, and family-centered gender-affirming care in China”
🔗: doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
August 12, 2025 at 11:08 PM
🏆 SKAT #ASA2025 Awards! Congratulations to the following recipients:
Hacker-Mullins Student Paper Award
Xiaogao Zhou: “Care in transition: Global norms, transnational adaptation, and family-centered gender-affirming care in China”
🔗: doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
Hacker-Mullins Student Paper Award
Xiaogao Zhou: “Care in transition: Global norms, transnational adaptation, and family-centered gender-affirming care in China”
🔗: doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
I committed to not overfilling my single underseat bag with hoarded books at the conference this year. I failed in that commitment. So here are the six books I picked up in Chicago, from #ASA2025 and @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social
August 13, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I committed to not overfilling my single underseat bag with hoarded books at the conference this year. I failed in that commitment. So here are the six books I picked up in Chicago, from #ASA2025 and @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social
If you're at the @asanews.bsky.social conference in Chicago and wondering what to do bright and early tomorrow, join us for this wonderful session! Five papers by a fantastic collection of scholars, all about food systems and inequality.
#sociology #ASA2025 #food
#sociology #ASA2025 #food
August 9, 2025 at 3:40 AM
If you're at the @asanews.bsky.social conference in Chicago and wondering what to do bright and early tomorrow, join us for this wonderful session! Five papers by a fantastic collection of scholars, all about food systems and inequality.
#sociology #ASA2025 #food
#sociology #ASA2025 #food
The Onion giving an unironically legit teardown of much food insecurity / obesity panic research.
Woman A Leading Authority On What Shouldn’t Be In Poor People’s Grocery Carts theonion.com/woman-a...
August 6, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The Onion giving an unironically legit teardown of much food insecurity / obesity panic research.
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The decimation of life in Gaza is a reproductive genocide. It was a privilege to work with Hala Shoman on our commentary 'No justice in a genocide: sexual and reproductive health and rights in Gaza' in Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
No justice in a genocide: sexual and reproductive health and rights in Gaza
Since October 2023, Gaza, Palestine, has been the site of a humanitarian crisis due to violence from Israel, with numerous violations currently undermining sexual and reproductive health and rights...
www.tandfonline.com
June 23, 2025 at 9:53 AM
The decimation of life in Gaza is a reproductive genocide. It was a privilege to work with Hala Shoman on our commentary 'No justice in a genocide: sexual and reproductive health and rights in Gaza' in Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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I am working on 'The Asian Mother and Baby Campaign' which ran from 1984-1986. I would love to interview any linkworkers who were employed by the campaign or any women who were supported by linkworkers. Please spread the word or get in touch if this is you! My email is saima.nasar@bristol.ac.uk
July 8, 2025 at 10:21 AM
I am working on 'The Asian Mother and Baby Campaign' which ran from 1984-1986. I would love to interview any linkworkers who were employed by the campaign or any women who were supported by linkworkers. Please spread the word or get in touch if this is you! My email is saima.nasar@bristol.ac.uk
My brother, @samfern.bsky.social , visited my medical sociology class to talk about his new children's book ('Where The Dead Live') about death and burial traditions across cultures. Great time chatting about writing, translating research for kids, + the importance of talking & learning about death.
July 1, 2025 at 6:57 PM
My brother, @samfern.bsky.social , visited my medical sociology class to talk about his new children's book ('Where The Dead Live') about death and burial traditions across cultures. Great time chatting about writing, translating research for kids, + the importance of talking & learning about death.
chips & writing by the lake 😎
June 28, 2025 at 8:09 PM
chips & writing by the lake 😎
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📑 New paper is out!
We are excited to announce the publication of our research in the European Journal of Public Health, on social patterns of #miscarriage reporting and risk in #France by @mccompans.bsky.social and @heinivaisanen.bsky.social
🔗 academic.oup.com/eurpub/advan...
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We are excited to announce the publication of our research in the European Journal of Public Health, on social patterns of #miscarriage reporting and risk in #France by @mccompans.bsky.social and @heinivaisanen.bsky.social
🔗 academic.oup.com/eurpub/advan...
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Social patterns of miscarriage reporting and risk: insights from survey data in France
Abstract. Miscarriages, which are spontaneous pregnancy losses before 20–28 weeks of gestation, affect approximately 15% of recognized pregnancies. Existin
academic.oup.com
June 27, 2025 at 8:28 AM
📑 New paper is out!
We are excited to announce the publication of our research in the European Journal of Public Health, on social patterns of #miscarriage reporting and risk in #France by @mccompans.bsky.social and @heinivaisanen.bsky.social
🔗 academic.oup.com/eurpub/advan...
1/4
We are excited to announce the publication of our research in the European Journal of Public Health, on social patterns of #miscarriage reporting and risk in #France by @mccompans.bsky.social and @heinivaisanen.bsky.social
🔗 academic.oup.com/eurpub/advan...
1/4
Just registered for this year's conferences. It is Wild expecting PhD students to fork out in advance for hotels, flights, membership, and registration and then await reimbursement months later.
It's a bizarrely imposed form of financial hardship just to participate in basic professional events.
It's a bizarrely imposed form of financial hardship just to participate in basic professional events.
June 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Just registered for this year's conferences. It is Wild expecting PhD students to fork out in advance for hotels, flights, membership, and registration and then await reimbursement months later.
It's a bizarrely imposed form of financial hardship just to participate in basic professional events.
It's a bizarrely imposed form of financial hardship just to participate in basic professional events.
Is me sending my dissertating bestie Very Good TikToks an act of care and the provision of relief, or am I sabotaging them and setting up additional barriers to success? Big questions as I hit the 'send' button on the dopamine app.
June 11, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Is me sending my dissertating bestie Very Good TikToks an act of care and the provision of relief, or am I sabotaging them and setting up additional barriers to success? Big questions as I hit the 'send' button on the dopamine app.
This little owl appeared right outside my window during my advisor meeting and I had to ask for a brief pause to snap it. I hear him at night and this was like a celeb spotting for me. So exciting.
June 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This little owl appeared right outside my window during my advisor meeting and I had to ask for a brief pause to snap it. I hear him at night and this was like a celeb spotting for me. So exciting.