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/...

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.