Media
Opinion Essays
Almeling, Rene and Adora Svitak. "Yes, There's Still Reason to be Worried about a National Abortion Ban." San Francisco Chronicle, November 15, 2022.
Almeling, Rene. "Women are bombarded with messages about reproductive health. Why not men?" Washington Post, June 16, 2021.
Almeling, Rene. "Beyond the Objectivity Myth." Public Books, December 15, 2020.
Rogers, Naomi, Stacey Bonet, and Rene Almeling. “Yale Needs Pandemic Plan for Working Parents.” Yale Daily News, December 1, 2020.
Almeling, Rene. “What if Men Thought about Their Sperm the Way Women Think about Their Eggs?” Elle Magazine, September 3, 2020.
Wood, Elisabeth Jean, Douglas Rogers, K. Sivaramakrishnan, and Rene Almeling. “Resuming Field Research in Pandemic Times.” Social Science Research Council Items: Insights from the Social Sciences, May 21, 2020.
Richardson, Sarah and Rene Almeling, “The CDC risks its credibility with new pregnancy guidelines,” Boston Globe, February 8, 2016.
Almeling, Rene, Joanna Radin, and Sarah Richardson, “Egg-freezing a better deal for companies than for women,” CNN.com, October 20, 2014.
Almeling, Rene. “The Unregulated Sperm Industry,” The New York Times, Sunday paper, December 1, 2013.
Almeling, Rene and Adora Svitak. "Yes, There's Still Reason to be Worried about a National Abortion Ban." San Francisco Chronicle, November 15, 2022.
Almeling, Rene. "Women are bombarded with messages about reproductive health. Why not men?" Washington Post, June 16, 2021.
Almeling, Rene. "Beyond the Objectivity Myth." Public Books, December 15, 2020.
Rogers, Naomi, Stacey Bonet, and Rene Almeling. “Yale Needs Pandemic Plan for Working Parents.” Yale Daily News, December 1, 2020.
Almeling, Rene. “What if Men Thought about Their Sperm the Way Women Think about Their Eggs?” Elle Magazine, September 3, 2020.
Wood, Elisabeth Jean, Douglas Rogers, K. Sivaramakrishnan, and Rene Almeling. “Resuming Field Research in Pandemic Times.” Social Science Research Council Items: Insights from the Social Sciences, May 21, 2020.
Richardson, Sarah and Rene Almeling, “The CDC risks its credibility with new pregnancy guidelines,” Boston Globe, February 8, 2016.
Almeling, Rene, Joanna Radin, and Sarah Richardson, “Egg-freezing a better deal for companies than for women,” CNN.com, October 20, 2014.
Almeling, Rene. “The Unregulated Sperm Industry,” The New York Times, Sunday paper, December 1, 2013.
Profiles and Q&As
- "The Future of Health," Wall Street Journal's Future of Everything Festival, May 17, 2022.
- Interviewed for "Biohacked: Family Secrets" podcast, 2022.
- Q&A on GUYnecology with Manuela Sanoja in El País, January 18, 2021
- Research on sperm donation featured in Vice Documentary "1 Sperm Donor, 17+ Kids, and a $5M Lawsuit," 2021.
- Q&A on GUYnecology with Laure Andrillon in Libération, December 11, 2020.
- Research on men's reproductive health profiled in "It's time to take the penis off the pedestal" Scientific American, 2020
- Research on egg freezing profiled in "The High-Rolling, Medically Questionable World Of Luxury Egg Freezing" Vice, 2019.
- Research on egg donation profiled in Katie O'Reilly's "Egged On: The Commodified Altruism of the Assisted-Reproduction Industry," Bitch Magazine, June 28, 2016.
- Egg donation research profiled in “Putting a Price on a Human Egg,” Wall Street Journal, July 26, 2015.
- Q&A on sperm banks in “Everything you wanted to know — and some things you didn’t — about sperm donation,” The Toronto Star, April 7, 2015.
- Radio interview on “Does the wrong sperm mean ‘wrongful birth’?” WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show, October 3, 2014.
- Sperm donation research profiled in “’Delivery Man’: 9 Sperm Donation Questions You’re Too Embarrassed to Ask,” TIME, November 22, 2013.
- Radio interview with Robin Young in “Baby Boom: What Happens When One Sperm Donor Has Dozens of Offspring?” National Public Radio’s Here and Now, September 29, 2011.
- Egg and sperm donation research profiled in “Sperm Donors Think ‘Father,’ Egg Donors Don’t Think ‘Mother,’” The Washington Post’s On Parenting Blog, September 28, 2011.
- Egg and sperm donation research profiled in “Why Sperm Donors Say They’re Parents and Egg Donors Don’t,” Jezebel, September 28, 2011.
- Q&A on Sex Cells in “Secrets of the Sperm Bank,” Salon, September 25, 2011.
- Q&A on Sex Cells in ”Rene Almeling’s Sex Cells Explores Marketing of Reproductive Donation," The Huffington Post, September 20, 2011.