Roberta Pala
@ropala4
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, @ Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, USyd // Feminist STS, social studies of science. Sardinian expat in Sydney.
Sydney, New South Wales
Joined August 2014
RT @culanth: Just published! Ten more essays on Palestine and what Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza demands of us all — read Anthropology….
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This is a continuation of the series, Anthropology in a Time of Genocide: On Nakba and Return, published on October 31. The essays in this series...
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RT @alison_phipps: Joined remarkable, gently thoughtful colleagues in Centre for Healthy Societies to give Healthy Societies lecture today….
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RT @JianniTien: My latest article, co-authored with @kennykatherine @BroomAlex has been published in @TheSocReview - we explore the biopoli….
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The lungs serve as a site of interchange between the bodily and environmental, an interface between the internal and external world, enacted through breath. We ...
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RT @FranceskAlbs: I keep on saying that Israel is writing a new page of genocide. This video, of settlers taking boats to watch the bombin….
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RT @Sydney_CHS: Another fabulous @SocSciWeek @Usyd_ssps online seminar done! A great discussion on social science approaches to the interse….
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RT @Sydney_CHS: Make sure to register for our second event for @SocSciWeek on New technologies in contemporary society, tomorrow (wed 11th)….
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RT @MichPeterie: Coming up TODAY for #SSW2024 and featuring three of our brilliant @Sydney_CHS postdocs - @JianniTien, @ropala4.and @Henrie….
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RT @kennykatherine: We're hiring! Come work with @MichPeterie @BroomAlex and team at the @Sydney_CHS on this ARC Linkage Project on childho….
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RT @Sydney_CHS: JOB ALERT: @Sydney_CHS is looking for a Postdoc Research Fellow/Research Fellow in Sociology (Level A/B) to work w/ @MichPe….
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I'm looking forward to hosting this event with my colleague @JianniTien. We have lined up 3 fantastic #STS scholars to talk about the unseen social dimensions of new science and tech: from waste drones to epigenetics to generative AI. Register here:
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Get tickets on Humanitix - New Technologies in Contemporary Society: Promise, Peril, or Something in Between?. Find event information.
Come along to our @Sydney_CHS @SocSciWeek online seminar (Wed 11 Sep, 12-1:30pm AEST) where three fabulous speakers will reflect on the role of technology in a rapidly changing world. Register here:
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RT @Lana_Tatour: My piece on the shrinking space for Palestine work. Our ability, as critical academics, to do our research, teaching &publ….
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This piece focuses on the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism and the campaigns to label Palestine scholarship, teaching, and activism on campuses as antisemitic...
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I had a wonderful time sharing our research at the ICS seminar today. Thank you for the invitation! I'm particularly grateful for the amazing questions and comments I received. A lot of food for thoughts for me! @Sydney_CHS.
Todays seminar ‘It takes a more-than-human village: parenting as microbial management’ is being presented by Roberta Pala with response from Annie Sandrussi. We love having speakers from other unis come join the seminar series. Thank you for joining us!
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RT @Sydney_CHS: In a new @SHIjournal paper @ropala4 & @kennykatherine explore how microbiome research reframes motherhood. .
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Recently there has been growing recognition of the productive and protective features of our microbial kin and the crucial role of 'commensal' microbes in supporting and sustaining health. Current...
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Excited to see our paper (co-authored w the amazing @kennykatherine) -on how microbiome research reframes motherhood as a form of micro(bial) management & the political stakes of caring for/with microbes - out & open access in @SHIjournal ! .@Sydney_CHS.
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Recently there has been growing recognition of the productive and protective features of our microbial kin and the crucial role of 'commensal' microbes in supporting and sustaining health. Current...
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RT @AbbyMartin: Israel commits one of its biggest child massacres 300 days after live-streaming genocide, because it knows it can with no c….
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RT @AdyThapliyal: @NewYorker “Students should choose their rhetoric more carefully,” says an essay that compares student slogans to nuclear….
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RT @__ellastreet__: They didn’t rename the hall after a combatant, or an anti-Zionist, or an anti-Israeli…. They named it after the five ye….
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RT @kirsty_howey: The bulldozers destroying habitat for endangered Gouldian Finches, black-footed tree rats and over 270 bird species at Bi….
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