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Tania M. Jenkins
@taniamjenkins.bsky.social
Sociologist. Ethnographer. UNC-Chapel Hill. Author of “Doctors’ Orders” (CUP, 2020). Interested in medicine, professions, mental health. Views are my own, not my employers’. taniajenkins.com
Who says graduate school is all work and no play? Preparing for an epic graduate qualitative methods analysis lecture… h/t @mdesoucey.bsky.social for sharing this great assignment idea!
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October 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Media alert: My research on professional culture and physician burnout was just cited in this Medscape article about how medicine can be unhealthy for doctors: www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

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Unlearning Medicine’s Unhealthy ‘Hidden Curriculum’
Many doctors adopt damaging lifestyle ‘survival skills’ during residency and keep them for years. Here’s how to spot — and finally break — habits of self-neglect.
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August 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
So Your Doctor Is a DO. Does That Matter? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/w...
So Your Doctor Is a DO. Does That Matter?
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July 13, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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8 PhD scholarships in Sociology and Social Research - University of Trento - deadline 15th May www.unitn.it/en/phd/socio...
[SRS] Sociology and Social Research | Università degli Studi di TrentoGroup
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April 16, 2025 at 12:06 PM
RIP Robert Zussman (1948-2024), sociologist and ethnographer

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February 27, 2025 at 5:53 PM
After five years of work on a paper, including three years under review at three different journals, the magic words have finally arrived: Accepted!
February 18, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Calling all sociologists of medicine: please consider submitting abstracts to the ASA med soc Section Session "Is there a Doctor in the House: Updating the Medical Sociology Agenda around Doctoring." Looking forward to vigorous debate about the state of the field! Reminder: ASA deadline 2/26 11:59PM
February 17, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Super proud that I was able to reach F6 last night during my voice lesson! #vocalrange #whistlerange
January 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
“His head was bent in sorrow, green scales fell like rain…” RIP Peter ♥️

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Peter Yarrow, the Peter of Peter, Paul and Mary, Dies at 86
The folk trio he formed with Noel Paul Stookey and Mary Travers became a pop phenomenon, scoring hits like “If I Had a Hammer” and “Puff the Magic Dragon.”
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January 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Cat Clinging To Side Of Christmas Tree Admits That Was Extent Of Plan
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December 23, 2024 at 8:07 PM
Happy space heater season to all who celebrate
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December 9, 2024 at 7:17 PM
Even Drs dont know how much healthcare costs—and it angers them too: “I should be able to tell my patient in the E.R. if his hospital stay will definitely be paid for. I know exactly how much of my dog’s care will be covered;why can’t I know the same for my patients?”
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Opinion | What Doctors Like Myself Know About Americans’ Health Care Anger (Gift Article)
As a doctor, I’ve been on both sides of frustrating health care debacles.
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December 8, 2024 at 12:13 PM
Anyone else feel like December is a prime writing month? The craziness of the semester subsides, campus becomes still, and suddenly, time opens up for all the writing that didn't/couldn't happen in the previous months. I love December.
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December 4, 2024 at 5:38 PM
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All books on the Columbia University Press website are 50%-70% off today! One day only! bit.ly/4eU8kuB @columbiaup.bsky.social
December 2, 2024 at 11:43 AM
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Reminder: you don’t have to be good at something to enjoy it, you don’t have to get better at it, you don’t have to monetize it, and it doesn’t have to be useful.
December 1, 2024 at 8:27 PM
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2 weeks ago I woke up with tinnitus and hearing loss in my right ear

Saw ENT that day and diagnosed with acute sensorineural hearing loss

Prednisone 60 mg daily and my hearing is back to normal

If you wake up with acute hearing loss in one ear you should get it checked out asap
November 30, 2024 at 4:45 PM
Seasonal allergies in late November will never not be weird to this Canuck 🤧
November 26, 2024 at 12:36 PM
Quebec moves forward with allowing advanced requests for medically-assisted dying for patients with Alzheimer's disease. Finally, individuals can take back some agency over this god-awful disease.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Quebec moves ahead with allowing advanced requests for assisted dying | CBC News
Starting next week, the province will begin accepting requests for medically assisted dying before a person's condition, such as Alzheimer's, renders them incapable of giving consent.
www.cbc.ca
November 17, 2024 at 3:48 PM
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This skeet is for the Sociology folks!
Sociology has officially arrived. In an effort to re-live the early days of academic twixxer we now have a 3 volume starter pack(s) posted below. Feel free to add any areas of interest starter packs to this feed too and reqs to be added! Here We Go!
November 14, 2024 at 5:29 PM
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I made a Sociology Starter Pack. Its just a start, so let me know if you want to be added.
go.bsky.app/QqTLQau
September 15, 2024 at 5:54 PM
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The Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology at FSC is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor (Fall 2025). I’m co-chairing the search w/ my wonderful colleague Dr. Shan Siddiqui. We'd especially love apps from social work PhDs. Deadline Nov. 30th. farmingdale.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...
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November 15, 2024 at 9:14 PM
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I feel like we need a little Friday Evening welcome party to all the new souls at Bluesky (& I’m still trying to catch up). It’s been a heck of a week, but we’re here and that’s a great start!
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November 15, 2024 at 11:45 PM
New pub alert! This piece theoretically bridges two classical areas of medical sociology -- countervailing powers and the stress model -- to better empirically understand physician distress journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
October 21, 2024 at 1:36 PM
Deadline for early consideration is tomorrow! Be sure to apply / spread the word about these two jobs at the assistant OR associate level at UNC-CH in gender, sexuality, or migration!
We've got two jobs!

Carolina Sociology is hiring at the Assistant or Associate levels with a focus on gender, sexualities and migration. Some HR hiccups slowed down the job posting but not the deadline, so we start review in ten days.

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Open Rank
This Assistant/Associate Professor position will teach graduate and undergraduate courses, conduct research in the field of Sociology while continuing their own research, participate in departmental s...
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September 24, 2024 at 12:39 PM