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Cinzia Greco

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Medical Anthropology& Humanities, Research Fellow, Univ of Manchester, CHSTM | Medical uncertainty| Autism| Gender (https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/cinzia.greco) Editor Anthropologie&Santé (https://journals.openedition.org/anthropologiesante/)

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Cinzia Greco @cinziag.bsky.social · Mar 23

My first monograph, Assemblages of Cancer. Experiences and contexts of #breastcancer in the UK, France and Italy, published by MUP
@manchesterup.bsky.social, is out.

If you are interested in having a look, the book is also available in open access here www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

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Cinzia Greco @cinziag.bsky.social · 3h

I have seen Isabel Allende in some of the many lists, and the 13-year-old me who fell in love with The House of the Spirits would be so happy.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3h

Nobel prize in literature 2025 is announced – live

Follow along as the next winner of the world’s most prestigious literature prize is announced in Stockholm As the 2025 Nobel prize in literature approaches, betting markets are pointing to a tight race. Chinese avant garde writer Can Xue and Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai are currently joint favourites, both with 10/1 odds. Can Xue, age 72, remains a perennial contender – she was also heavily tipped last year – and her experimental, boundary-pushing style has kept her in the spotlight. Krasznahorkai, aged 71, is likewise gaining traction, with his dystopian, melancholic novels enjoying recent translation awards. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 1d

Now open access: BJRL back archive, including special issue on ‘Medical History in Manchester: Health and Healing in an Industrial City, 1750–2005’. Check it out.

Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 1d

This week, Professor Carsten Timmermann writes on Bulletin 87:1, ‘Medical History in Manchester: Health and Healing in an Industrial City, 1750–2005’.

Read the blog post: bit.ly/3KYQL39

BJRL Goes Open Access: Professor Carsten Timmermann on Manchester's Medical History - Manchester University Press

BJRL 87:1 is now Open Access on Manchesterhive.

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Media 🇮🇹 @mediasit.skyfleet.blue · 5d

Un operaio è morto nel Salento. Costruiva la vasca per l'acqua piovana

Un operaio è morto nel Salento. Costruiva la vasca per l'acqua piovana - Notizie - Ansa.it

Un operaio di 58 anni è morto in un incidente sul lavoro a Corsano, in provincia di Lecce, mentre era impegnato, per conto di una ditta edile incaricata dal Comune, nella realizzazione di una vasca per la raccolta delle acque piovane. (ANSA)

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Cinzia Greco @cinziag.bsky.social · 7d

I have noticed a resurfacing of controversial, old-fashioned psychological labels, such as personality disorder or, as in this case, narcissism, and they are often used to blame parents - or let's be honest, mothers. These are for mental health what ultra-processed foods are for nutrition: very bad.

The peacock parent problem: how to survive being raised by a narcissist

Psychotherapist Kathleen Saxton has written a book about growing up with a mother or father who is grandiose, entitled, exploitative and lacking in empathy. She discusses how to recognise the signs – ...

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Cinzia Greco @cinziag.bsky.social · 7d

To be honest, I have been in meetings like that, just longer...

(P.S.: To me, it's wonderful to see that what LLM is reproducing are standard Anglo-American communication practices).

Halloween name @bootsmcgoot.bsky.social · 8d

"i just use it to generate ideas"

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 9d

Lisbon for 3-9 months anyone?
gulbenkian.pt/en/bolsas-li...

Fellowships Gulbenkian Institute for Advanced Study

Apply for a research opportunity at the GIAS in Lisbon. Submit your application for the academic year 2026/27.

gulbenkian.pt

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Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social · 11d

4/ Skin colour, accent, name or whatever are used by some employers (and landlords) to judge whether to carry out a check. Foreigners face checks but so too do ethnic minority Brits. Existing system is a recipe for discrimination.

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Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social · 11d

1/ There’s quite a lot of misunderstanding by good journalists about how right to work checks operate. It’s not illegal to work without having provided proof of your right, as James goes on to say later in the thread. And employers are not under a legal duty to conduct checks: ID is not mandatory.

James Ball @jamesrball.com · 12d

Not sure day one of the latest ID card rollout went very well at all, not least because the government couldn’t answer the absolute core question about why they’re being introduced.

The case is that digital ID will be required for anyone to get work. The problem is ID is already mandatory. 🧵

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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 13d

4) Generalised digital IDs have downsides and some upsides. Dematerialising the compulsory ID of most non-citizens in the UK had very little upside and made people vulnerable. That one would have been the policy to actually complain about

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Cinzia Greco @cinziag.bsky.social · 13d

In the UK, the highest level of identity theft is reported (almost 40%), compared to other EU countries, where it is significantly lower and usually does not have the same devastating impact due to the existence of more robust systems to verify identity.
And this is just one reason.

Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 13d

Think about what you mean by ‘ID cards work fine in Europe’. What do they work for? When do you use them? How?

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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 13d

The biggest losers of this are undocumented migrants, who will see even less spaces in society they are not excluded for, but I am sadly confident that this government too sees this as a plus.

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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 13d

I do not think there is ultimately a valid reason for digital ID, but I can see some for a mandatory ID (as long as it is free or almost free of costs, and there are extensive resources to get more vulnerable populations on the system)

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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 13d

3) the pilot EU Settled Status was probably digital mostly to cut on costs. The UK probably would have the resources to put in infrastructures for routine in-person registration and the production of physical IDs as most European countries, but it would cost and take more time

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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 13d

2) with the dematerialisation of almost all migration statuses (a much worse idea IMO), ID for all could normalise the procedures non-citizens go through, and if both groups are on the same digital platform it might make checkers more lenient of temporary server issues

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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 13d

That said: 1) having undocumented (no passport or driving license) citizens in an age of extensive private ID checks is a major factor of exclusion, even without bad policies such as the Hostile Environment or voter ID to make things worse

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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 13d

With the government moving to introduce mandatory digital ID, I will repeat myself: digital ID is the worst of both worlds, as it keeps the dimension of government control while leaving people without a physical document to autonomously prove their rights www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The vulnerability of in-between statuses: ID and migration controls in the cases of the ‘Windrush generation’ scandal and Brexit

In this article, I argue that identity documents (ID) and migration statuses are both tools of population control and subjectivities that individuals have an interest in holding. I use documentary ...

www.tandfonline.com

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Cinzia Greco @cinziag.bsky.social · 17d

Wow! Considering that paracetamol (acetaminophen) is basically the only drug the pregnant woman can take, I think that if we follow this reasoning, basically everyone should be autistic.

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 17d

Trump administration set to tie use of acetaminophen during pregnancy to autism.

The announcement will also promote a medication called leucovorin as a treatment for autism.

(Leucovorin is currently used to treat folate deficiency.)

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Trump administration set to tie Tylenol to autism risk, officials say

The Trump administration plans to tie Tylenol to autism risk while touting another drug, leucovorin, as a potential autism treatment.

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Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social · 18d

“A demonstration of the toxic melding of the inchoateness of popular discontent, the inability of the left to speak to working-class grievances and the venomous malevolence of the far right that shapes so much of politics.” My ‪@theobserveruk.bsky.social column: observer.co.uk/news/columni...

‘No one listens to us’: the working-class despair fuellin...

Under the racist chants at last week’s rally lies a deep sense of political betrayal

observer.co.uk

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Cinzia Greco @cinziag.bsky.social · 19d

And who protects migrant women? Nobody, because migrant women cease to be women. Normative and mainstream ideas of femininity no longer apply to us. That's why the violence and abuse against us is completely invisible to british politics and feminism (and feminists). We simply don't exist.

‘Go-to trope’: how the far right is exploiting violence against women and girls

From Tommy Robinson to Reform UK, nationalist figures are weaponising women’s safety to push anti-migrant fears

www.theguardian.com

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Cinzia Greco @cinziag.bsky.social · 19d

I closed mine a while ago, mostly because I couldn't bear the amount of spam emails it generated.
I think that the best alternative, if you are looking for one, is the French archive HAL.
Here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_(op...
and here hal.science

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Cinzia Greco @cinziag.bsky.social · 20d

It's interesting how therapy is often viewed as a magic black box, whose only problem is availability. But a bad therapist or a bad treatment (and given limited regulation in the UK, these are real risks) can cause irreparable damage.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Cost of private psychology soars in UK as practitioners turn away clients

Prices have risen by 34% since 2022, with 29% of psychologists refusing new patients

www.theguardian.com

Cinzia Greco @cinziag.bsky.social · 23d

But it will trickle down? Won't it?

UK public has paid £200bn to shareholders of key industries since privatisation – study

Analysis reveals ‘privatisation premium’ of £250 per household per year paid to owners of water, rail, bus, energy and mail services since 2010

www.theguardian.com

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Cinzia Greco @cinziag.bsky.social · 25d

People saying "oh, 100.000 isn't a huge number" honestly scare me. They are just looking for an excuse to toss this aside and go on with their protected lives, while leaving us alone with all this.

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Cinzia Greco @cinziag.bsky.social · 25d

It's interesting that today's rally has been called a "migrant march" while I think that migrants in London (and elsewhere) are stuck in their houses and possibly away from windows.

Cinzia Greco @cinziag.bsky.social · 27d

This has been in the making for a long time. Shortly after the Brexit referendum, I was insulted b/c I was having a non-English conversation (in a phone call). Nobody around cared.
When I set foot abroad, I sigh in relief and I realise how unsafe I feel (and I am) in the UK as a migrant woman.

Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 27d

I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/