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Fully funded PhD-position at Bielefeld University, Philosophy of the Biomedical Sciences), deadline Oct 30, 2025
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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.

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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.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

Amia Srinivasan wrote an essay review in LRB in the earlier days. Characteristically sharp! www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...

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).

very cool that the same chuds screaming about “unqualified DEI hires” are giving ignorant 23-year-olds the power to destroy federal agencies

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.