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Recent posts by Historians of Health, Medicine & Disability Network community members. Updated hourly.
elia ayoub
ayoub.bsky.socialIsrael called the UK an Islamic republic and it made absolutely no difference to UK-Israel relations. It's not even part of 'the discourse'. At this point Israel can just boast of how many citizens of 'allied' nations it can kill because any Israeli politician knows nothing will happen.
Dr Vanessa
hpsvanessa.bsky.socialI have spent more than a third of my working hours this month on teaching (note for Americans, this is supposed to be our peak research break period). And yet I have had a minor breakthrough in 'what the next paper could be' (spoiler: hist of fats+gender but PLOT TWIST the gender is masculinity)
Maaike
maaikeverbruggen.bsky.socialI want to give a shoutout to Osprey ~15 years ago my parents gifted me an Osprey backpack. Currently the straps on the outside (so not a structural element) are disintegrating. Osprey offers a 30 year warranty even without proof of purchase, and replaced my very well-used backpack for free.
Chris Bertram
crookedfootball.bsky.socialGood that the FSU is finally getting some scrutiny. Noting that Arif Ahmed, the OFS "free speech czar" (and formerly EHRC commissioner) was involved with the FSU and is also an associate of Vance's friend and Reform "theologian" James Orr. Burnham needs to take the foxes out of the henhouse.
Dr Vanessa
hpsvanessa.bsky.social"Not all views are worthy of debate or protection on the grounds of freedom of speech. The College would not associate itself with an astronomer who believed that the sun orbited the earth, or a medic who believed that scrofula could be cured by the touch of a king." we need to say this more.
Dr Vanessa
hpsvanessa.bsky.socialIt's #DigitalFriday ! This is my routine appeal to #skystorians and all other academics prepping for teaching to share any software, hardware, online resources (primary, secondary, teaching tools, blogs) tips and tricks that they've found useful this week! #AcademicSky 🗃️(pls boost to relevant feeds)
Dr Vanessa
hpsvanessa.bsky.socialif you spend time in the countryside it is v obvious that the more 'natural' the landscape the better it has coped with the heat - our local bog/wetland seems almost unaffected. These spaces do have resilience which is wiped out by human action (e.g. fireworks, agri run off in stressed rivers etc)
Carsten Timmermann
ctimmermann.bsky.socialI'm going to discuss this excellent but demanding article in a perhaps slightly obscure journal with students today. Let's see what they make of it. Hannah Landecker, ‘How the Social Gets Under the Skin: From the Social as Signal to Society as a Metabolic Milieu’. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Thinking Person's Guide to Autism
thinkingautism.comOn being an autistic 'picky' eater: "I want desperately to like a food—to be able to order anything at random, or to just eat whatever is put in front of me without hesitation. But for me, food is almost always a relentlessly overpowering experience." At TPGA: thinkingautismguide.com/2018/09/reth...
I think the current class basis of the left is educated professionals in an alliance with urban care and service sector workers (broad enough to include public transportation workers fwiw). So "are people who work with spreadsheets a lot annoying?" is actually quite a good wedge issue for us.
Dr. Damien P. Williams is just… so tired.
wolven.blacksky.appThe most crucial part in each "AI Winter," & the thing that I genuinely think cannot come soon enough, is when we as a culture remember that we're able to disambiguate the term "AI" & we go back to actually descriptively naming the process(es) we mean. Really can't wait for that to come around again
Kris Inwood
kris-inwood.bsky.socialFascinating visit to the Legislative Assembly chamber of the Northwest Territories & visits to the territorial museum & archives at the www.pwnhc.ca/en, before tomorrow's joint meeting of the Canadian Network for Economic History and the Indigenous Economics Study Group. economichistory.ca
🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️🌈
nuclearanthro.bsky.socialOh good it is time for evening meds and I am experiencing some intense dread and fear in part b/c I tend to decompensate late in day and also b/c Work And Research And Situational Awareness and uh wow things are really really fucked up even if the Trump Regime fell tomorrow. And getting worse.
