This is dystopian… and not just because they’re dressed like a scene from the handmaids tale.

These are mostly children.

This is where Liam Ramos is being held.

They’re screaming “let us out” and protesting the brutal conditions.

These kids are braver than every ICE thug holding them hostages

The killers of Renee Good and Alex Pretti were not new recruits but seasoned agents of Border Patrol. Thousands of migrants die every year due to official policies like Prevention through Deterrence. How many more are murdered by BP directly, unwitnessed and without video footage? Abolish it all.

Statement from the family of Alex Pretti.

New research in 'Sexuality & Culture' examines benevolent and hostile sexism, sexual satisfaction, and sexual compatibility in early romantic relationships. bit.ly/4qtVaek <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:c2ouw4f3t35myu7rhagk7zpe" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky-mention">@jacquelinengunning.bsky.social <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ou6n63jwzj52wump7cv4s3et" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky-mention">@elizabethahintz.bsky.social #SocialPsyc #ResearchPublishing

Please share: Participants wanted for doctoral research on South Asian women's experiences of pelvic pain - conducted by my student Mahira Budhraja.

Study info in English: uwe.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

And in Hindi: uwe.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

🚨Our 1st pub. of 2026 is out in Sexuality & Culture, "Assessing the role of ambivalent sexism on the associations between individual characteristics and sexual well-being in new romantic relationships" by myself, R. Tucker, A. Denes, and J. N. Gunning. Read it here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Now published…

We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research - Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine, 2025

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🎊🚨 Our (Kristina Scharp, Sandra Vera Zambrano) co-edited special issue of @journal-of-comm.bsky.social on #Qualitative Theorizing and Methodological Advancements is available now (Volume 75, Issue 4): academic.oup.com/joc/issue/75/4 !

For anyone on the Communication job market this year S. Rutherford McEwan has put together an excellent spreadsheet for 2025-2026 openings. Highly recommend checking it out (whether you're applying or hiring):

docs.getgrist.com/rHppfvPrMDQd...

#commsky #academicsky #communication

Calling BIPOC artists navigating chronic illness and/or neurodiversity… 1/2 #research #commsky

New publication in @healthcommj.bsky.social examining how/why patients with contested illness disengage & reengage in (health)care-seeking, both within & outside of biomedical models of care. #LymeDisease www.tandfonline.com/eprint/7JWIT...

New pre-proof @ Social Science & Medicine w/ @jacquelinengunning.bsky.social, Sarah N. Boateng, and Lili R. Romann, "Credibility Work in Disenfranchising Patient-Clinician Conversations for Mono/Multiracial Women of Color with Autoimmune Disease in the U.S." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

An international graduate student at Tufts University was taken into federal custody on Tuesday outside an off-campus apartment building, the university’s president said. The university was told that the student’s visa had been terminated. nyti.ms/4hRzPq1

Survey Seeking: Black, Hispanic or Latina, & White women who gave birth for the first time in 2023 or 2024. Please share! #childbirth #women #survey

I love one of the reasons Braun & Clarke provided (written as a footnote) as to why they use the term "phase" rather than "step" in their six phase approach to doing reflexive thematic analysis:

"Steps and stairs are also one of the ways our physical environments are made inaccessible for many"

I feel so grateful (and proud!) for our research to have received a Top Paper Award at #NCA2024 from the Health Communication Division. This article was a beautiful collaboration with Drs. Megan Cardwell and Mackensie Minniear. Read here: doi.org/10.1080/1041... #CRT #artsbasedmethods #commsky