Ina Hallström

Very excited to share that my second dissertation article has been published in 𝘍𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘺 𝘘𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘺! 💫🥳🎉 It focuses on epistemic injustice and recognition in the context of endometriosis (endo), a gendered chronic illness affecting millions worldwide. ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/fp...

“Every unhappy nation is unique. But the mood overlap between countries such as Hungary and Serbia, both of which have recently thrown out rightwing populists in corruption-dominated elections, and today’s America is striking.” My column as.ft.com/r/c8ced69e-f...

Ny forskning! Vi visar att sjukas och funktionshindrades protester mot nedskärningar försvåras och hindras av en berättigad rädsla för att Försäkringskassan ska tolka politiskt engagemang som arbetsförmåga, vilket gör att man förlorar sin ersättning. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Yes. Fur farms are cruel, dangerous and carry actual catastrophic risk. Sweden closed its last mink farms in 2025 (the last fur farms remaining), with the state providing shutdown support. 23 (out of 27) EU member states have banned fur farming.

The Wikipedia community has built a tool that makes it possible to embed our interactive Our World in Data charts right in any Wikipedia page. I have always admired Wikipedia and all the people contributing to it. And I'm very happy that our work now can get used this way!

Major differences in transgender care across Swedish clinics. Gothenburg stands out; no other clinic rejects referrals as often. Former employees and patients believe people are being denied care for reasons that conflict with established guidelines.

More educated municipalities moved towards Lula, less educated towards Bolsonaro, compared with 2022

Brazil will get more attention either way it goes, but this is truly an incredible victory for the student protesters. We ran this in March 2025, which explained the movement's strengths but seemed overly optimist in the months that followed. 18 months later, they succeeded. Gen Z strikes again.

Incredible gender difference in voting intention in Brazil.

Anna Maria van Schurman was the first female university student in Europe. She was known for her expertise in philosophy, medicine, theology, and at least 14 languages. She was an author, poet, painter, and academic. In her dissertation, she made a logical case for women’s right to study.

Social democracy became obsolete when it stopped being reformist. Reformism used to mean radical social transformation through mass organizing and policy feedback. Now 'reforms' mean caving to capital's demands. Read Adam Przeworski on how social democracy lost its political language:

"Nicholls and Osler both point to several traits of modern LLMs that may cause us to see them as 'quasi-others,' or agents capable of occupying the social roles other people play when it comes to giving feedback on our beliefs."

Like, this just happened today! Researchers say a 10% reduction is substantial, and this is 42%. What a time to be alive. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Hard to not think of... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I wrote a new paper. It reconstructs the argument behind Marx’s discussion of the value form in the first chapter of Capital. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“Discovering the Women at the Heart of Philosophy.” My guest blog entry in a series on historical German women philosophers for the Genealogies of Modernity project: genealogiesofmodernity.org/journal/2020...

BREAKING: The hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau "will not move forward," the lead researcher says. “The solution is clear here: Take the money and vaccinate as many kids as you can,” @pauloffit.bsky.social told me: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

On Foucault's time in Uppsala as a French lecturer: He complained more about the darkness of the Swedish winter than about the snow. When a friend asked how many students were in his class, he replied with dark humor that the number was impressive but sadly declined in winter, when suicides rose.

There is something really lovely about someone critically engaging with your work and finding a better version of what you wanted to say. My collaborator Jelle Bruineberg just published "Attention and The Relevance Problem" in PPR a couple of days ago, and I find myself agreeing with his critiques

Why do people with ME claim to know more about the medical aspects of their disease than their doctors? Because the mechanisms that usually ensure doctors' knowledge fail in the case of ME, and sick people have created mechanisms of knowledge production and dissemination to pick up the slack.

Can humans detect algorithmic bias? Not really 🧪🧵 In my new paper with Kristy Hamilton & @jacobtfisher.online even when an algorithm approved women for loans at half the rate of men, people did not do a good job of detecting it. 🔗 authors.elsevier.com/a/1ny4s2f%7E...

Self-Portrait (1892) by Finnish painter Olga Gummerus-Ehrström

”Innan jag somnar funderar jag på varför jag känner mig mer omhändertagen här än på det svenska nattåget. Det handlar inte om personalen, utan att jag upplever en större omsorg om att jag ska ha det bra från tågbolaget, ja hela samhället.” www.dn.se/sverige/finl...

From July 2026 - Democratic Satisfaction and the Public Sphere - https://cup.org/4yP5gv2 "This article identifies three features of national public spheres – pluralism, information, and respect..." - @agustingoenaga.bsky.social #OpenAccess

My new research is out. "Long Covid perspectives" addresses the recognition of #LongCovid as disease entity and patient-led advocacy movement, the paradigm shifts driven by LC advocacy-research, and challenges ahead (Perego 2026, preprint 2023) www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Swedish princess cake, but make it ice cream! 🌹

The old East–West divide is fading. Berlin’s electoral map is now clearly structured by a center–periphery divide: inside the S-Bahn Ring—the circular urban rail line surrounding central Berlin—the left camp dominates. Support for the right bloc rises with distance from the center. (1/2)

Antikvariat August, Stockholm