Yes 📣 @katewomersley.com 📣 "This political theatre highlights a longstanding and harmful problem: pregnant women, and their babies, are routinely let down by partial, poor-quality and missing medical evidence." 👇👇👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Very exciting new project funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social - Medicine without doctors, co-led by an incredible team at Edinburgh’s Usher, @engelmal.bsky.social www.medicinewithoutdoctors.org

Massive opportunity to work with us in Edinburgh on Medicine without Doctors. 5 full-time postdocs each for 5 years starting in April 2026. Please share widely!

In BMJ Global Health, open access: epistemic preparedness. We argue for the social sciences and the humanities - expanding the category of expert - in preparing for the next pandemic! #pandemic #epidemiology #histstm #histmed #sts @nam.edu @humanitiesau.bsky.social @acmedsci.bsky.social @apha.org

New paper! What does it mean to be epistemically prepared for the next disease outbreak? gh.bmj.com/content/10/6... Led by @wombatscholar.bsky.social with @sonjavw.bsky.social @seyeabimbola.bsky.social @rachelankeny.bsky.social @engelmal.bsky.social @mstoove.bsky.social @cwaldby.bsky.social et al

Stellar review of a breathtaking book. @katewomersley.com at her best!

The White House has turned COVID.gov from a public health resource into a politically charged platform promoting the lab-leak theory and attacking specific scientists and the pandemic response in general. Let’s fact check its 5 headline claims… 🧵

This weekend will be the last issue of The Observer published on The Guardian website (I've written a piece on Sophie Gilbert's new book Girl on Girl). Many super talented journalists and editors I've worked with are leaving without clear prospects due to the transition to Tortoise. Sad times.

"research activity conducted by Universities is fantastically loss-making," Vivien Stern, @universities-uk.bsky.social on BBC4 today Reckless choice of word to describe a public good, produced by public service institutions, charities and their workforce. This is what got us into this mess.

In March, Sandra Harding died. With colleagues from (then) Women's Studies at Utrecht University, where Harding's work was pivotal in PhD training & where I had the pleasure to organize a PhD workshop, together with María Puig de Bellacasa, with Sandra, we wrote this piece. Honoring the pioneers.

Open Access publication out in History of Human Sciences! 'Making Contagion Social' is a parallel history of epidemiological modelling and the sociology of imitation. I read Gabriel Tarde's work through the lens of Ronald Ross' 'theory of happening' to contest journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Open Access publication out in History of Human Sciences! 'Making Contagion Social' is a parallel history of epidemiological modelling and the sociology of imitation. I read Gabriel Tarde's work through the lens of Ronald Ross' 'theory of happening' to contest journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🚨Job Klaxon🚨 Seeking a post-doc for 5.5 years (!) on our brand new @medicinewithoutdoctors.org project! The candidate will be working with @cathm.bsky.social and the wider team to lead on playful, design-based methodological collaboration. Deadline 31 March 2025 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMD146/p...

How might one go about to make organs "speak" differently? Brilliant review by @katewomersley.com in this week's Observer of a stellar book by Gabriel Weston www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

DEADLINE!!! Don't forget to submit your paper or panel proposal for #EAHMH25 in Berlin by March 10. It's going to be a fantastic conference with keynotes @historyelaine.bsky.social , Projit Mukharji and Birgit Nemec. More information and link to submission site at eahmh25.org #histmed #histSTM

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

'We have not thought enough about that right wing thrill, that sense of exhilaration, that people get....they want to be free to hate, free to be irrational.'

This morning I taught on the history of AIDS and its 'birth certificate' in the 1981 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. This week the #MMWR has not been published for the first time since 1952. Unhinged executive order vandalism with terrifying implications for trust in epidemiological info.

Delighted to share our seminar programme for Spring 2025! #STS

Cultural Histories of the Black Death. Brilliant thread on what sounds like a fantastic lecture!

The most formative film I have ever watched. It was voluntary viewing in a seminar on the history of medicine in the third Reich. Gerhard Baader, the professor, put it on Saturday early am, all students who came stayed for the entire 9.5 hours. It is not a 'documentary' about the Shoah...

The Institut Pasteur has decided to leave X (formerly Twitter) to join BlueSky! 🦋 The Institut Pasteur made this decision due to several serious issues observed on the X platform since its acquisition. Join us here to continue advocating for science. www.pasteur.fr/en/home/pres...

The Semmelweis gambit. Read for bad history takes to deliver poor justification for crap science, stay for insane AIDS / COVID analogies. Thank you @gorskon.bsky.social , really enjoyed this! Will go straight into the #histmed teaching folder

Welcome to @bsky.app !

Call for Papers for the biannual conference organized by the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health in Berlin August 26-29, 2025. Submission is now open! #histmed hi.converia.de/frontend/ind...

👀 @franziskazirker.bsky.social @svop.bsky.social

And a warm welcome to the excellent Socialist Medicine project to @bsky.app Folks in #histSci #histMed, follow @socmederc.bsky.social, also for a fantastic hybrid seminar series in 2025.

Turns out our University isn't really in financial distress. Trust your union to crunch the numbers when the vice chancellor is just gesturing at opaque forecasts and models. #UCU www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/2eppzf7...

Hello #STS #metascience #openscience at #bluesky. We have a starter pack with staff, students (past and present) that are part of the STIS community in Edinburgh. It's of course incomplete and boundaries will be porous. Leave a note below if you like to be added. go.bsky.app/N1RREbY

Welcome Edinburgh Infectious Disease Network to #IDSky! Follow: @uoe-eid.bsky.social

Join us - come and work with us!

Excited to announce our new Wellcome Discovery Grant, 'Medicine without Doctors. Reimagining Care and Voice through Play' Even more excited to work with 4 fantastic colleagues: @ingridkyoung.bsky.social @cathm.bsky.social @agomoni.bsky.social and Nayha Sethi. www.sps.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...

Tomorrow in Berlin and online 👇👇👇

We made another thing! Here is a pretty great 'HPS Starter Pack' so you too can follow all the awesome history, philosophy and social studies of science (and #metasci #histSTM #philsci #philsky #hps #histsci 🧪) accounts on Bluesky. Please share widely #academicsky :)

Looking forward to speaking about 'well-stirred' societies and the politics of epidemic modelling next week on Thursday in Berlin. Thanks to the fabulous Socialist Medicine project for the invite. Seminar is fully hybrid ⬇️ socialistmedicine.com/october-24-l...

Reposting this 2-year postdoc announcement, with clarification that visa sponsorship may be available if needed - so not limited to Australians and Kiwis. Looking for medical anthropologists, STSers, or the like, to work with me and @sonjavw.bsky.social #anthro #STS #histSTM

What a brilliant piece of writing (reviewing): @bykatewomersley.bsky.social on Cat Bohannon's new book, which is "plumbing the depths of what’s different – for better and for worse – about the female body" without falling for naive sex essentialism. www.theguardian.com/books/2023/o...

Paul Feyerabend, not a fan of conferences. From a 1974 letter written to Imre Lakatos (in "For and Against Method") 🧪

The notebooks of the 19th-century geologist and environmental scientist Charles Lyell are being digitised by Edinburgh University! You can access them here: www.ed.ac.uk/information-... #histsci

This fantastic collection of bibliographic essays is not just a narrative guide to scholarship about past epidemics but a collective reckoning with the limitations of #histmed #histsci in the face of a pandemic. All #openaccess and highly recommended. www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/isis/202...

Post-doctoral researcher (30-month contract) on my ERC funded Data Stories project at Maynooth University examining housing & planning data and telling data stories working with stakeholders and artists. Closing date 25th Sept. Details: universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...

So without hashtags, how would go Bout to do conference posts on blusky? Asking for #EAHMH23

Well, hello bluesky! This seems nice. Now, how do I find all the STS, histmed and histsci folks? And also everyone epidemics and epidemiology?