Click here to listen to a *phenomenal* interview from Marsha Wittink on med-psych units, patient perspectives, and the health humanities. Co-hosted with our med student and hist med PhD Michael Healey Second episode of the this season of "In the Same Vein" now live! open.spotify.com/episode/7EZO...

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

We are hiring! Prospective PhD students in environmental history, history of science, history of technology and STS interested in the climate and environmental impacts of AI look here. Please share in your networks. #envhist #histsci #AI #anthropcoene

#Job #PhilSci #HPS Fully funded PhD-position at Bielefeld University, Philosophy of the Biomedical Sciences), deadline Oct 30, 2025 Job ad: uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/451... On the program: blogs.uni-bielefeld.de/blog/isosnew...

Curious policy for a store where the average pharmacy pickup time seems to exceed 30 minutes…

Thanks to @renfro.bsky.social for a wonderful discussion of his new book THE LIFE AND DEATH OF RYAN WHITE (@uncpress.bsky.social) at the Corner Society for the History of Medicine & Rochester Academy of Medicine!

Excited to be giving Grand Rounds at URMC on Sep 9! I'll be discussing the evolving tools doctors have used to grapple with information overload in medicine: from pocket guide to artificial intelligence. Come by the Class of 62 Auditorium if you're in Rochester, or tune in via Zoom if you're not.

Just Code, just published!!! Open Access of full book is now freely available, see link below, made possible by @sloanfoundation.bsky.social grant to CBI! Am so honored to partner w Con & work alongside 19 stellar, fellow interdisciplinary authors on this book! #histtech cse.umn.edu/cbi/just-cod...

New York Times story with profiles of researchers whose grants were terminated. [Gift Link] www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said." It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy. I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

I increasingly believe that having that much money distorts one's human interactions such that billionaires are in a constant state of progressive moral decay. The option to avoid this fate by philanthropically disposing of your gross excess assets is permanently available yet rarely exercised.

When I say "technology" I mean the textual means by which experimentalists create virtual witnessing (h/t Steven Shapin).

When I say “technology” I mean the codex

Well, everyone, I've found it: the academic paper with the worst pun title possible. The search can finally end. This cannot be beat.

Our first Corner Society lecture is taking place on Wednesday, September 10, at 5:30 pm at the Rochester Academy of Medicine! @renfro.bsky.social will be giving a talk titled "Ryan White, Hemophilia, and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic" You can register here: www.raom.org/event-6257176

The new Corner Society schedule is live! I'm so pleased to be able to welcome exciting history of medicine scholars to Rochester during this academic year. Even if you're not in Rochester, each of these lectures will be available via Zoom (with free registration).

Friends don't let friends wear white-soled dress shoes. This fad cannot die out soon enough.

in which disciplines is the all-lower-case-email most prevalent?

Can someone tell him that by "War on Cancer" we don't mean a war on its behalf?

As a historian of injuries and product safety, this one feels personal. The CPSC can’t do its job without independent commissioners. Let’s review some of the cases that led to the establishment of the agency in the first place:

With bad-faith political attacks on science and medicine mounting, the editors-in-chief of @nejm.org and @jama.com team up in @washingtonpost.com to defend the importance--and independence--of medical journals. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Everyone who thinks that AI will provide magic answers to all our medical problems should read Andrew Lea’s excellent book. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

The liberal justices may as well self-immolate on the Supreme Court steps at this point.

Always in awe of the self restraint of New Yorker staff writers who forgo their cartoon rendering as a profile pic.

I'll be giving an online book launch talk for the military medicine group Friends of Millbank on July 25! 1:30 pm EST; 5:30 pm BST. You can register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Nice to see Segregated Species on display at #BSHS2025

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Once you understand that "communist" and "socialist" in modern political discourse means "a moderate Republican circa 1977" it's much easier to understand

If you're a student or trainee interested in science communication, media production, and journalism, consider working with me as a communications fellow! We are putting together an exciting new podcast on digital health. www.nature.com/npjdigitalme...

I heard this morning that my informatics colleague Dr. Atul Butte passed after a battle with cancer. He was a giant in the field & inspired many of us over his distinguished career. He was a passionate champion of the power of big data & his impact on our field is immeasurable. RIP Atul & thanks.

The head of HHS said he’d preserve ACIP. Then he fired the entire committee. Now a new panel -- with mostly unclear expertise in clinical trials, vaccines, and ID -- is in place. Time for high alert for changes that could seriously affect public health. #IDSky blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...

More needs to be made of the distinction between trust and trustworthiness. Lower levels of trust in vaccines and ACIP are more likely a function of attempts to actively undermine trust from the likes of RFK Jr and company, not the trustworthiness of ACIP.

Stumbled upon (and purchased!) LAB DOG by @bolman.bsky.social at the @mitpress.bsky.social bookstore. Excited to dig in! cc @uchicagopress.bsky.social

the administration suffered a 96 percent loss rate in the courts in May. Trump is losing these cases for a simple reason: They’re breaking the damn law. They’re invoking old and obscure laws and insisting that they confer upon them the authority to do things they don’t have the authority to do.

Saying that the Trump administration seeks to "reshape" American science and biomedicine is a bit like saying that the Death Star sought to reshape Alderaan. The word you're looking for is destruction.

Damn... I wonder why scientists wouldn't want to come to the US to compete at the highest levels for highly-restricted funding that then gets pulled surreptitiously for some imagined reason or no reason at all, all while being vilified by the federal government for their work? A mystery! 🤔

"I swore I’d never give Harvard money — Trump changed my mind." 💯. Exact same here. www.slowboring.com/p/trumps-tar...

As the quality of health advice becomes more politicized and arbitrary, and less science-based Americans are going to have to turn to state health officials (some of them) or other countries for good advice.

Good morning! We’re hiring an editorial assistant (hybrid.) Books books books books books! jobs.jhu.edu/job/Baltimor...

Since Harvard’s founding, its international students have spoken a great many languages, each of which would have apt and colorful expressions for telling the Trump administration where to get off with this blatantly prejudicial statement www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer, on the day of the Leviathan workshop, outside the UCL room where Simon had is PhD viva many years ago (1980s). Steven was one examiner, Roy Porter the other.

An easily overlooked consequence of research funding cancellations: completed research these days requires hundreds to several thousand dollars to be published due to publication fees from journals. Without support for these fees many pieces of scientific work will be near invisible.

A young Jay Bhattacharya built his career doing NIH-funded research under Alan Garber. Now, while his former mentor defends American biomedicine and free inquiry, Bhattacharya signs his name to their destruction. Depraved and hollow.

This is devastatingly sad news. Great scholar. Great guy.

There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university. University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.

in the fabulous anthology *Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine*, edited by Warwick Anderson, Jeremy A. Greene, and Ann Kweim Lie. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025). The whole volume is #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1017/9781...

With NIH director Jayanta Bhattacharya dismissing my reporting as "false" and "spreading rumors" hours before releasing a policy that confirmed said "rumors," I feel compelled to respond. Here's an inside look into how this story was reported. It was a weird one. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Let's make courage contagious in America. "When one person helps in a situation, others follow,’’ says Ervin Staub, an emeritus psychology professor at UMass. “Not always, but often.’’ #CourageIsContagious #UniteInAdvance edition.pagesuite.com/popovers/dyn...