Michael Ashworth
@michaelashworth.bsky.social
Sociolegal academic at Newcastle Law School. Interested in medical regulation, medical pluralism, and talking about methodology. ENG/PT. 🏳️🌈
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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One of the best parts of this job is having kind and brilliant colleagues send you their fabulous work in the post for you to enjoy. Muito obrigado pelo livro, Pedro!
November 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
One of the best parts of this job is having kind and brilliant colleagues send you their fabulous work in the post for you to enjoy. Muito obrigado pelo livro, Pedro!
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Join us on the 22nd October 2025 from 1-2pm UK time for this talk by Professor Susan Marks (LSE) on: 'If the World Is a Family, What Kind of Family Is It?' This event will be held online and in person and all are welcome. To register, please go to: www.ncl.ac.uk/law/events/i...
October 9, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Join us on the 22nd October 2025 from 1-2pm UK time for this talk by Professor Susan Marks (LSE) on: 'If the World Is a Family, What Kind of Family Is It?' This event will be held online and in person and all are welcome. To register, please go to: www.ncl.ac.uk/law/events/i...
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Thank you to the excellent panelists, panel chairs, and attendees for making this symposium possible, we couldn’t have done any of it without you.
September 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Thank you to the excellent panelists, panel chairs, and attendees for making this symposium possible, we couldn’t have done any of it without you.
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September 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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São Paulo, here I come! 🇧🇷
July 30, 2025 at 7:27 AM
São Paulo, here I come! 🇧🇷
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How many Britons believe in supernatural creatures or phenomenon?
Hypnotism: 60% say definitely/probably real
Karma: 38%
Ghosts: 38%
Telepathy: 30%
Reiki: 30%
Astrology: 23%
Witches: 21%
Speaking to dead: 20%
Magic: 19%
Crystal healing: 17%
Loch Ness monster: 12%
Vampires: 8%
Werewolves: 8%
Hypnotism: 60% say definitely/probably real
Karma: 38%
Ghosts: 38%
Telepathy: 30%
Reiki: 30%
Astrology: 23%
Witches: 21%
Speaking to dead: 20%
Magic: 19%
Crystal healing: 17%
Loch Ness monster: 12%
Vampires: 8%
Werewolves: 8%
July 22, 2025 at 9:47 AM
How many Britons believe in supernatural creatures or phenomenon?
Hypnotism: 60% say definitely/probably real
Karma: 38%
Ghosts: 38%
Telepathy: 30%
Reiki: 30%
Astrology: 23%
Witches: 21%
Speaking to dead: 20%
Magic: 19%
Crystal healing: 17%
Loch Ness monster: 12%
Vampires: 8%
Werewolves: 8%
Hypnotism: 60% say definitely/probably real
Karma: 38%
Ghosts: 38%
Telepathy: 30%
Reiki: 30%
Astrology: 23%
Witches: 21%
Speaking to dead: 20%
Magic: 19%
Crystal healing: 17%
Loch Ness monster: 12%
Vampires: 8%
Werewolves: 8%
🚨You have just 1 week left (deadline 7 July) to get your abstracts in for Newcastle Law School's 2-day methodologies symposium, celebrating a whole gamut of methods, methodologies, and approaches, with fabulous keynotes! 👀
Full details on our webpage: www.ncl.ac.uk/law/events/i...
Full details on our webpage: www.ncl.ac.uk/law/events/i...
June 30, 2025 at 10:27 AM
🚨You have just 1 week left (deadline 7 July) to get your abstracts in for Newcastle Law School's 2-day methodologies symposium, celebrating a whole gamut of methods, methodologies, and approaches, with fabulous keynotes! 👀
Full details on our webpage: www.ncl.ac.uk/law/events/i...
Full details on our webpage: www.ncl.ac.uk/law/events/i...
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Call for papers! We're hosting a symposium exploring legal methods and methodologies in September and the call for abstracts is now open. We're excited that @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social & Prof Linda Mulcahy will be joining us as keynotes! How to submit and event details in the link
Methodologies Symposium 'Law is but let me explain it once more' - Newcastle Law School - Newcastle University
Exploring diverse, plural, interdisciplinary, critical, decolonial, anti-colonial and socio-legal methodologies alongside doctrinal and mainstream approaches.
www.ncl.ac.uk
June 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Call for papers! We're hosting a symposium exploring legal methods and methodologies in September and the call for abstracts is now open. We're excited that @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social & Prof Linda Mulcahy will be joining us as keynotes! How to submit and event details in the link
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Call for papers for a major two-day conference on Legal Methodologies exploring the nature of the discipline, with really important keynote speakers. Any abstracts, if you are interested in participating, to be emailed to law.research@ncl.ac.uk by 7 July.
June 12, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Call for papers for a major two-day conference on Legal Methodologies exploring the nature of the discipline, with really important keynote speakers. Any abstracts, if you are interested in participating, to be emailed to law.research@ncl.ac.uk by 7 July.
Our inaugural workshop for SMI, a LatAm/European ECR socio-legal network, is days away - and we couldn't be more thrilled! Generously funded by @slsauk.bsky.social 's International Collaboration Grant and Max Plank Law, and supported by Universidad de O'Higgins, Chile.
www.ncl.ac.uk/law/research...
www.ncl.ac.uk/law/research...
Socio-legal Methodological Interrogations (SMI)
Socio-legal Methodological Interrogations: a LatAm-European ECR Network is funded by the SLSA International Collaboration Grant and Max Planck Law, and supported by Universidad de O'Higgins, Chile.
www.ncl.ac.uk
April 10, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Our inaugural workshop for SMI, a LatAm/European ECR socio-legal network, is days away - and we couldn't be more thrilled! Generously funded by @slsauk.bsky.social 's International Collaboration Grant and Max Plank Law, and supported by Universidad de O'Higgins, Chile.
www.ncl.ac.uk/law/research...
www.ncl.ac.uk/law/research...
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Interest in the anti-parasitic drug Ivermectin is resurging as conservative influencers promote it — and spread misinformation about it.
Why the Right Still Embraces Ivermectin
Five years after the pandemic began, interest in the anti-parasitic drug is rising again as right-wing influencers promote it — and spread misinformation about it.
www.nytimes.com
April 1, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Interest in the anti-parasitic drug Ivermectin is resurging as conservative influencers promote it — and spread misinformation about it.
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Begging public health leaders to understand the basic fundamentals of misinformation.
According to a former editor of JAMA, we need more studies on whether or not vaccines cause autism.
What mistakes does he make?
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What mistakes does he make?
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March 9, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Begging public health leaders to understand the basic fundamentals of misinformation.
My latest article appeared in print last month in Social & Legal Studies 🗣️. It builds on insights from decentred regulation scholarship to reconceptualise British newspaper coverage of CAM as a form of decentred, 'everyday' healthcare regulation: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
January 22, 2025 at 12:25 PM
My latest article appeared in print last month in Social & Legal Studies 🗣️. It builds on insights from decentred regulation scholarship to reconceptualise British newspaper coverage of CAM as a form of decentred, 'everyday' healthcare regulation: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
New article co-authored with the wonderful Emilie Cloatre
in Social Theory & Health, where we use homeopathy's defunding from the public health systems of 🏴 and 🇫🇷 to explore the unpredictability of law and regulation as techniques of governmentality: doi.org/10.1057/s412...
in Social Theory & Health, where we use homeopathy's defunding from the public health systems of 🏴 and 🇫🇷 to explore the unpredictability of law and regulation as techniques of governmentality: doi.org/10.1057/s412...
August 27, 2024 at 9:13 AM
New article co-authored with the wonderful Emilie Cloatre
in Social Theory & Health, where we use homeopathy's defunding from the public health systems of 🏴 and 🇫🇷 to explore the unpredictability of law and regulation as techniques of governmentality: doi.org/10.1057/s412...
in Social Theory & Health, where we use homeopathy's defunding from the public health systems of 🏴 and 🇫🇷 to explore the unpredictability of law and regulation as techniques of governmentality: doi.org/10.1057/s412...