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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · 16d

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."

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Pregnant women deserve so much better than Trump’s theatre of scaremongering and shame | Kate Womersley

There is no credible evidence linking autism with maternal paracetamol use. But the US president’s ‘tough it out’ message could harm mothers and babies, says doctor Kate Womersley

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · Sep 9

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

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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · Aug 26

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!

Medicine without Doctors @medicinewithoutdoctors.org · Aug 26

🚨JOB KLAXON🚨

We are recruiting five 5-year postdoctoral fellows to work with us. Each post will be attached to a specific case study on the project (Abortion Care, AI, Physician Associates and/or LGBTQ+ Health Activism).

At:University of Edinburgh
Starting: April 2026
Deadline: 2 October 2025

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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · Jun 23

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

Epistemic preparedness

Preparedness strategies for emergent infectious diseases have focused on microbial surveillance, medical stockpiling and healthcare infrastructure resilience. But what does it mean to be epistemically...

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Kari Lancaster @karilancaster.bsky.social · Jun 23

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

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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · May 9

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

Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · May 9

Sending Second Life to all my friends who are/have been growing babies and raising them. My review of @amandahess.bsky.social’s brilliant first book, in @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/culture/book...

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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · Apr 19

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… 🧵

The virus possesses a biological characteristic that is not found in nature.
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Data shows that all COVID-19 cases stem from a single introduction into humans. This runs contrary to previous pandemics where there were multiple spillover events.
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Wuhan is home to China’s foremost SARS research lab, which has a history of conducting gain-of-function research (gene altering and organism supercharging) at inadequate biosafety levels.
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Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) researchers were sick with COVID-like symptoms in the fall of 2019, months before COVID-19 was discovered at the wet market.
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By nearly all measures of science, if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have already surfaced. But it hasn’t.

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · Apr 17

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.

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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · Apr 11

Agree to disagree. This is entirely in line with the language used by UUK up and down the country and fits also on to the rhetoric with which cuts in Edinburgh are rationalised. Its a good representation of a misguided management policy that imho will not help to resolve the funding crisis

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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · Apr 11

The issue is not that it might look on a spreadsheet like that but I contest that this a) could even be conceived to be severed from teaching and b) that research costs should be ever considered anything else but investment, and one that should be the sector's main expenditure.

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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · Apr 11

According to UUK, teaching seems to be a whole different kind of spreadsheet, not even a tab on the business calculations for the sector. Sigh.

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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · Apr 11

"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.

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Sarah Bracke @antigonesdream.bsky.social · Apr 10

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.

In Memorium: Sandra Harding (1935-2025)

IN MEMORIAM: SANDRA HARDING (1935-2025) Rosi Braidotti, Sarah Bracke, and Iris van der Tuin In the history of feminist theory, there is a before and an after Sandra Harding. She has structured th…

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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · Mar 28

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/...

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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · Mar 28

...our modern distinction between susceptibility and suggestibility, infection and imitation, epidemiologies of the social (cf, Ross), and a 'sociology of the stars' (Tarde). Epidemic modelling took shape, I argue, as a theory of the social, at a time when contagion became a matter of biology.

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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · Mar 28

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/...

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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · Mar 18

#STS #socmed @ingridkyoung.bsky.social @agomoni.bsky.social @cathm.bsky.social @stsucl.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social @4sonline.bsky.social @stsyorku.bsky.social @sthv.bsky.social ....

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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · Mar 18

🚨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...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Medicine without Doctors) at The University of Edinburgh

Explore an exciting academic career as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Medicine without Doctors). Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · Mar 17

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...

Alive: An Alternative Anatomy by Gabriel Weston review – our bodies in an eye-opening new light

A surgeon (and TV host) encourages us to take a fresh look at our organs in a smart and forceful study

www.theguardian.com

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Dora Vargha @doravargha.bsky.social · Mar 5

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

EAHMH: Health Beyond Medicine

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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · Feb 4

🚨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.

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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · Feb 1

'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.'

mass ave curmudgeon @massavecurmudgeon.bsky.social · Jan 24

Free to hate-delivers the votes

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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · Jan 29

Story: www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Under communications freeze, CDC updates some important health data but not others

One of the CDC's weekly health publications was not published on its regular schedule, and some data about flu and vaccinations wasn't updated.

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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · Jan 29

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.

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STIS Edinburgh @stis-uoe.bsky.social · Jan 28

Delighted to share our seminar programme for Spring 2025!

#STS

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