Media
OpEds and Essays
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. “Should Sperm Banks Reveal the Number of Children Per Donor?“ Ozy, April 23, 2014.
Almeling, Rene. “The Unregulated Sperm Industry,” The New York Times, Sunday paper, December 1, 2013.
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. “Should Sperm Banks Reveal the Number of Children Per Donor?“ Ozy, April 23, 2014.
Almeling, Rene. “The Unregulated Sperm Industry,” The New York Times, Sunday paper, December 1, 2013.
Quoted
- Q&A on GUYnecology with Laure Andrillon in Libération, December 11, 2020.
- Quoted on history of home medical tests in "The FDA has authorized the first home COVID-19 self-testing kit," Salon, November 21, 2020.
- GUYnecology reviewed on Nursing Clio blog, October 14, 2020.
- GUYnecology reviewed in New Scientist, August 26, 2020.
- Quoted on sperm banks in Audible original podcast "Donor 9623," 2020.
- Quoted on egg freezing in "The High-Rolling, Medically Questionable World Of Luxury Egg Freezing" Vice, December 23, 2019.
- Quoted on history of sperm banks in "The Origins of the Sperm Bank," NPR's Morning Edition, November 22, 2019.
- Quoted on sperm donors in "Where Are All the Sperm Donors of Color?" Rewire.News, November 28, 2018.
- Quoted on sperm banks in "Peter Ellenstein, the anonymous sperm donor who discovered he has 23 kids," The Times of London, October 13, 2018.
- Quoted on the regulatory climate for assisted reproduction in the United States in "When Your Dreams of Motherhood Are Destroyed," Marie Claire, October 1, 2018.
- Quoted on sperm banks in "This Sperm Donor Didn't Think Much about His Side Gig - Until 20+ Children Surfaced," Los Angeles Magazine, September 10, 2018.
- Quoted on international market for sperm in "America's hottest export? Sperm," The Guardian, August 15, 2018.
- Quoted on egg freezing in "Women who freeze eggs to delay childbirth often feel regret," Reuters, May 25, 2018.
- Quoted on American market for egg and sperm donors in "Paying surrogates in Canada could present new problems for parents-to-be, experts say," CBC News, April 24, 2018.
- Interviewed on CBC's "On the Money" about the American market for egg donors, April 6, 2018.
- Quoted on sperm banks in "A Georgia sperm bank, a troubled donor, and the secretive business of babymaking," Atlanta Magazine, February 13, 2018.
- Quoted on devaluation of women's work in "The Health Repercussions of Being a Latina Nanny," Vice, February 12, 2018.
- Quoted on sperm donation in "The Business of Sperm Banks," The Economist, September 14, 2017.
- Survey research profiled in "Why Does IVF Feel Worse Than Donating Eggs?" Fatherly.com, August 18, 2017.
- Interviewed on Dutch national public television show Newshour about international regulations for sperm donation, August 12, 2017.
- Quoted on fertility research in "Egg freezing, so hot right now," CNET.com, May 22, 2017.
- Quoted on egg donation in "Global babies: Who benefits?" New Internationalist Magazine, April 2017.
- Quoted on fertility research in "Fertility Futility: Procedures Claimed to Boost IVF Success Lack Supporting Evidence," Newsweek, January 12, 2017.
- Research on egg donation detailed in Katie O'Reilly's "Egged On: The Commodified Altruism of the Assisted-Reproduction Industry," Bitch Magazine, June 28, 2016.
- Research on sperm donation mentioned in "A Sperm Donor Hid His Schizophrenia From the Cryobank—and It’s Far From the First Time," Slate, April 28, 2016.
- Research on men’s reproductive health mentioned in “Why men should also worry about waiting too long to have kids,” Washington Post Wonkblog, October 27, 2015.
- Research on eggs and sperm detailed in front-page article “Putting a Price on a Human Egg,” Wall Street Journal, July 26, 2015.
- Appeared in a segment on “How much is a woman’s egg worth? Federal lawsuit will look for an answer,” Legal Broadcast Network, July 31, 2015.
- Quoted in an Associated Press report on a sperm bank lawsuit, e.g. “Sperm bank sued after donor details emerge 7 years later,” Miami Herald, April 19, 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.
- Research on egg agencies mentioned in “High IQ Eggs Wanted,” Biopolitical Times, March 19, 2015.
- Commentary on corporate egg freezing policies featured in “Egg-freezing? Put flex time, daycare first,” The Globe and Mail, February 8, 2015.
- Quoted in article on egg freezing in China Business News, November 13, 2014.
- Research on eggs and sperm summarized in “Thinking of freezing your eggs? It’s not that simple,” Hindustan Times, November 9, 2014.
- Appeared on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show for a call-in segment on “Does the wrong sperm mean ‘wrongful birth’?” October 3, 2014.
- Research on sperm donation featured in ”Today’s Sperm Donor Isn’t a Broke 20-Something,” Daily Beast, September 20, 2014.
- Research on sperm banks featured in “Sperm Donation is a Huge Industry” HaberTurk (national Turkish newspaper), September 7, 2014.
- Interviewed on NPR’s “All Things Considered” for a story about women turning to online sperm donation sites, July 12, 2014.
- Research with Miranda Waggoner summarized in “Men’s Fertility Needs More Respect,” Yale Medicine Magazine, Spring 2014.
- Interviewed on the Japanese nightly news program “Today’s Close-Up” for a story about sperm donation, NHK, February 27, 2014.
- Radio interview with Virginia Prescott: “The Hazards of an Unregulated Sperm Industry” New Hampshire Public Radio’s Word of Mouth, December 10, 2013.
- New article with Miranda Waggoner on men and reproduction mentioned in “Men’s Fertility Should Be Scrutinized Too,” TIME Ideas, December 10, 2013.
- Research with Miranda Waggoner featured in “Hooray for This New Study That Says Women Shouldn’t Be the Only Ones Responsible for Making Healthy Babies,” Slate, December 3, 2013.
- Research on sperm donation featured in “Sperm Donation Gains Visibility through Pop Culture” Chicago Tribune’s RedEye, December 3, 2013.
- New article with Shana Gadarian on public opinion regarding genetic testing covered by Science Daily, CDC’s Genomics & Health Impact Update, NIH’s Medline Plus, and HHS’s Womenshealth.Gov, November 2013.
- Research on sperm donation featured in “’Delivery Man’: 9 Sperm Donation Questions You’re Too Embarrassed to Ask,” TIME, November 22, 2013.
- Research on egg and sperm donation discussed in “The Student Body, for Sale,” Chronicle of Higher Education, February 18, 2013.
- Research on egg donation mentioned in ”Beauty and Academic Qualifications: Earn up to $50,000 in Controversial Egg Market,” BBC Brasil, September 4, 2012.
- Research on sperm donation featured in “One Man Fathering 150 Children? Why Sperm Banks May Be Unethical,” Alternet, October 11, 2011.
- Research on the market for sperm mentioned in ”Get Your Free Sperm Here!" Freakonomics Blog, October 7, 2011.
- Podcast on Sex Cells: “A Conversation with Rene Almeling,” Yale University, October 3, 2011.
- Research on sperm donors mentioned in "You Got Your Sperm Where?“ Newsweek, October 2, 2011.
- 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.
- Interview on Sex Cells in “Sperm Donors Think ‘Father,’ Egg Donors Don’t Think ‘Mother,’” The Washington Post’s On Parenting Blog, September 28, 2011.
- Research on egg and sperm donation featured in “Why Sperm Donors Say They’re Parents and Egg Donors Don’t,” Jezebel, September 28, 2011.
- Interview on Sex Cells in “Secrets of the Sperm Bank,” Salon, September 25, 2011.
- Interview on Sex Cells in ”Rene Almeling’s Sex Cells Explores Marketing of Reproductive Donation," The Huffington Post, September 20, 2011.