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Alexis Bedolla
@alexisbedolla.bsky.social
Sociologist of epidemiology | Decolonial and antiracist STS & HPS | Associated Prof. at UNAM | Inconforme | 🇵🇸
Primera defunción humana confirmada causada por H5N1 en México
April 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Sandra Harding (1935–2025) understood the need to question whose perspectives have shaped Western science, philosophy, and social studies of science. She also recognized the urgency of amplifying STS scholars from the Global South.
March 6, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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🔖[Book Review] in Tapuya Vol. 7

In Spectacles of Waste, Warwick Anderson examines the cultural politics of human 💩, which reviewer Alexis Bedolla praises for its fresh critique of colonial binaries and its call for an ecological reimagining of waste.

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February 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Rahmane Idrissa reviews the 720 pages long collection on French colonialism edited by Pierre Singaravélou "Colonisations: Notre histoire" @londonreview.bsky.social www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Rahmane Idrissa · The Time of the Whites: The Will to Colonise
The will to colonise has not disappeared. Colonisation may be gone from much of what used to be the French empire, but...
www.lrb.co.uk
February 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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A woman in Wyoming has been hospitalized with #H5N1 #birdflu, WY's health dept announced Friday. Likely exposure was to backyard poultry. Wyoming said #CDC confirmed the infection, though CDC did not add it to its H5 page today. Not clear if this is B3.13 or D1.1. health.wyo.gov/wyomings-fir...
Wyoming’s First Human Bird Flu Case Confirmed - Wyoming Department of Health
Wyoming’s first case of H5N1 avian influenza in a human has been confirmed in a Platte County older adult, according to the Wyoming Department of Health (WDH). The woman represents the third confirmed...
health.wyo.gov
February 15, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Excellent reflection on forensic facts in Mexico by the always brilliant @vivavivette.bsky.social culanth.org/fieldsights/...
Forensic Facts that Matter
(Spanish translation below) The smell of oil boiling inside a huge pot; the sound of a blender repetitively turning on and off; and the voice of ...
culanth.org
February 13, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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How do facts shape and reflect life in Latin America?

This cluster, featuring interdisciplinary essays, explores the social, political, and historical dynamics of facts, challenging crisis narratives and embracing their embedded nature.

🗺Read at doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2024.2421655
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January 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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It's important to know how people get the bird flu so that we learn how to prevent infections. @andrewpekosz.bsky.social has details on how the person in Louisiana was exposed to H5N1 🙏 publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/bird-fl...
January 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Mosquito-borne diseases are on the rise. Here’s how collecting mozzies in your backyard can help science
theconversation.com/mosquito-bor...
Mosquito-borne diseases are on the rise. Here’s how collecting mozzies in your backyard can help science
Summer is here and mosquitoes are ready to bite. Tracking them is important for staying on top of public health risks – and citizen scientists can help.
theconversation.com
January 13, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Welcome contribution on the history of public health from Latin American scholars.

The book is in Spanish and can be downloaded for free: onedrive.live.com?authkey=%21A...
January 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Lovely post on Feminist STS from the wonderful @maripittalima.bsky.social 🙌🏼

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January 8, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Great to see that Adam Reed's book "Animal People:
Moral Subjects in the Work of Animal Protection" has been published by @cornellupress.bsky.social - a major contribution to the anthropology of ethics and mutlispecies ethnography www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Animal People by Adam Reed | Paperback | Cornell University Press
Animal People introduces readers to the professionalized world of animal protection from the perspective of those who consider themselves to be "moderate" activists. Adam Reed explores the interrelati...
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu
January 8, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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New OnlineFirst article: "Between Decay and Maintenance: Tuberculosis Sanatoriums, Care Infrastructures and U.S. Health Policy Debates, 1945–1972" by Sydney Goggins @sydneygoggins.bsky.social #healthcare #infrastructure #space #scale #governance #healthpolicy journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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January 9, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Lovely post on Feminist STS from the wonderful @maripittalima.bsky.social 🙌🏼

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January 8, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Congratulations Prof. Anderson. Looking forward to read it.

Amazing cover!
We now have a cover for Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine (CUP 2025), eds. @ahlie.bsky.social, Jeremy Greene, and me. Many brilliant contributors give alternative genealogies and futures for social medicine - never so necessary, so urgent as now
#histstm #histsci #STS
January 8, 2025 at 9:10 PM
January 7, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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A person in Louisiana who became severely ill with bird flu in December has passed away from the infection, marking the first known bird flu death in the US 🧪
US reports first human death related to bird flu
A person in Louisiana who became severely ill with a bird flu virus known as H5N1 in December has passed away from the infection, marking the first known bird flu death in the US
www.newscientist.com
January 6, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Nuanced reporting about the HPAI H5N1 recent case in Louisiana. What is most worrying is the spread of the virus and its chances for reassortment during flu season

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/27/h...
Bird Flu Samples From Very Ill Patient Had ‘Concerning’ Mutations (Gift Article)
Tiny genetic alterations could help the bird flu virus enter cells in the upper respiratory tract, the C.D.C. said. But there is no sign that mutations are widespread in nature.
www.nytimes.com
December 28, 2024 at 4:21 PM
H5N1 case where the virus mutated to infect human cells in the upper respiratory tract.

Truly worrisome

www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/spo...
Genetic Sequences of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Viruses Identified in a Person in Louisiana
CDC has sequenced the influenza viruses in specimens collected from the patient in Louisiana who was
www.cdc.gov
December 27, 2024 at 3:25 AM
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✨ Acknowledging a Remarkable Year for Tapuya!

Volume 7 of Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society marks a year of collaboration, innovation, and impactful scholarship.
December 21, 2024 at 2:53 AM
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Deforestation & climate change are driving bat viruses into us.

Excellent reporting by @janeqiu.bsky.social @sciam.bsky.social and the photos are omg so cute www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
December 21, 2024 at 1:44 AM