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Jaime Garcia Iglesias @jgarciaiglesias.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks!!

Jaime Garcia Iglesias @jgarciaiglesias.bsky.social · 5d

I’m delighted to share that I’ve been elected to the Editorial Board of Sociology of Health & Illness alongside Dino Numerato. Thank you so much for those who voted--so excited for this new chapter!

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Jaime Garcia Iglesias @jgarciaiglesias.bsky.social · 6d

What a pleasure to listen to @oliverescobar.bsky.social and Nuria Capdevila-Argüelles today talk about the future of Spanish democracy at the Spanish Film Festival in Edinburgh!

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Jaime Garcia Iglesias @jgarciaiglesias.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks so much to Edgar Rodriguez-Dorans for such a generous review in Sexualities of my book The Eroticising of HIV: Viral Fantasies with Palgrave.

doi.org/10.1177/1363...

Jaime Garcia Iglesias @jgarciaiglesias.bsky.social · 9d

We have a fantastic opportunity for health professionals (including allied ones) to undertake a funded PhD at Edinburgh.

If anybody is keen on working on sexual health/social aspects, do DM me, very happy to chat!

elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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Jaime Garcia Iglesias @jgarciaiglesias.bsky.social · 13d

Delighted that our poster on conducting rapid research during the mpox outbreak has been shortlisted for the Usher Showcase

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Jaime Garcia Iglesias @jgarciaiglesias.bsky.social · 26d

And that’s a wrap for @bsa-medsoc.bsky.social 2025 presenting on fear and gay men during COVID!

Thanks to Sally Brown for the pic!

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Jaime Garcia Iglesias @jgarciaiglesias.bsky.social · 27d

😍What a pleasure it’s been share the floor with @gmthomas.bsky.social
@oliwilliams.bsky.social
@amychandler.bsky.social and Jen Remnant talking about stigma at @bsa-medsoc.bsky.social

Check out the book Recalibrating Stigma: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/recalibratin...

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Maurice Nagington @nagingtonuom.bsky.social · 28d

It was amazing to work with a brilliant collection of authors & my fellow co-editors. Fully agree it's a strong set of books. My personal favourite (after our own of course 👀) is @susannahrfox.bsky.social Rebel Health, I already have it lined up for my module in May '26. Good luck everyone!

Jaime Garcia Iglesias @jgarciaiglesias.bsky.social · 28d

What an honour to have our book on HIV and COVID nominated for the Foundation of Sociology of Health and Illness with such amazing books including the fab Selling Immunity!

@bsa-medsoc.bsky.social @nagingtonuom.bsky.social

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Jaime Garcia Iglesias @jgarciaiglesias.bsky.social · 28d

What an honour to have our book on HIV and COVID nominated for the Foundation of Sociology of Health and Illness with such amazing books including the fab Selling Immunity!

@bsa-medsoc.bsky.social @nagingtonuom.bsky.social

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Jaime Garcia Iglesias @jgarciaiglesias.bsky.social · Sep 8

Amazing review on @nagingtonuom.bsky.social’s The Moral Lessons of Chemsex boom in the LA REVIEW OF BOOKS! @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

lareviewofbooks.org/article/crui...

Cruising as Moral Practice | Los Angeles Review of Books

Jordan Osserman reads two recent queer theory books exploring the form and chemistry of sex.

lareviewofbooks.org

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Jaime Garcia Iglesias @jgarciaiglesias.bsky.social · Sep 5

Very excited to be at @bsa-medsoc.bsky.social in @northumbriauni.bsky.social next week to talk about HIV, COVID-19 and gay men's experiences of fear. Spoiler: socio-economic factors are the biggest predictor of fear!

@uoe-eid.bsky.social

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Jaime Garcia Iglesias @jgarciaiglesias.bsky.social · Sep 4

We've just published the protocol for our Viral Memories project, exploring how gay men mobilised their memories of HIV to navigate COVID-19.

Check it out open access in the International Journal of Qualitative Methods: doi.org/10.1177/1609...

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Jaime Garcia Iglesias @jgarciaiglesias.bsky.social · Sep 1

Today we held the end-of-award event for our Viral Memories project, including a fantastic keynote by Peter Aggleton and a roundtable!

We’re so thankful to everyone who came to hear about our project!

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Jaime Garcia Iglesias @jgarciaiglesias.bsky.social · Aug 31

🎓🏳️‍🌈🦠Are you a registered health professional seeking funding for a PhD in a topic related to: sexual health, sociology of health, qualitative or mixed methods?

🫶I'd be supportive of applicants to the upcoming @ukri.org opportunity in January call!

👉DMs open!

@bma.org.uk @bashhuk.bsky.social

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Jaime Garcia Iglesias @jgarciaiglesias.bsky.social · Aug 31

⭐️I am standing for election for the Sociology of Health and Illness Editorial Board: forms.gle/1srTUELeV3mm....

Read candidate statements: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/as...

✅You need to be subscribed to Medical Sociology mailing list, register: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-j...

#medsoc

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Jaime Garcia Iglesias @jgarciaiglesias.bsky.social · Jul 3

🚩Interested in how #imposter participants are identified and prevented? And what this might mean for inclusion?

💙Our new paper in @SocresOnline
is available: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This was funded by Medical Research Scotland. @britsoci.bsky.social @socresonline.bsky.social

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Jaime Garcia Iglesias @jgarciaiglesias.bsky.social · Jun 25

We're delighted to announce that Prof Peter Aggleton will be delivering keynote reflections at our Viral Memories September event.

Peter will talk about matters 'left undone' in relation to HIV and COVID-19 including lessons long unlearned!

Register: eventbrite.co.uk/e/viral-memo...

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Oli Williams @oliwilliams.bsky.social · Jun 18

We started working on this in 2021 and there is *finally* a physical copy of the book in my hand. It feels great that other people can now read all the great work that's in this collection.

It is available as a free e-book and in paperback:

bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/recalibratin...

A copy of the book 'Recalibrating Stigma: sociologies of health and illness' edited by Gareth M. Thomas, Oli Williams, Tanisha Spratt, and Amy Chandler. The front cover of the book depicts a person out at night, lit by the light from a lamppost and looking at posters pasted onto a brick wall that are in the style of the 'WANTED' posters famously associated with the Wild West era of American history. The word 'UNWANTED' has replaced the word 'WANTED'.

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Jaime Garcia Iglesias @jgarciaiglesias.bsky.social · Jun 12

#MedSky Are you a registered healthcare professional seeking a PhD in something related to HIV, sexual health, or social sciences/qual methods?

I'd be happy to support applicants going to the UKRI Predoctoral Clinical Research Training Fellowships: www.ukri.org/opportunity/...

Send a DM.

Predoctoral clinical research training fellowship

Apply for funding to undertake a PhD.

www.ukri.org

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Jaime Garcia Iglesias @jgarciaiglesias.bsky.social · May 28

Full authors:

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Jaime Garcia Iglesias @jgarciaiglesias.bsky.social · May 28

Delighted to have this correspondence accepted in
@naturemedicine.bsky.social @nature.com
about creative methods to address #AMR.

Link here (sadly behind paywall): doi.org/10.1038/s415...

This is based on the musical about Alexander Fleming: Lifeline lifelinemusical.com

@uoe-eid.bsky.social

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Jaime Garcia Iglesias @jgarciaiglesias.bsky.social · May 8

Curious about how HIV was remembered during COVID?

Join us on September 1, in Edinburgh, to hear more: eventbrite.co.uk/e/viral-memo...

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Jaime Garcia Iglesias @jgarciaiglesias.bsky.social · May 6

Concerned about #imposter participants?

In our latest paper in @IJQMonline, we discuss the epistemic implications of imposters and suggest a new terminology: "suspected participants"

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
@bsa-medsoc.bsky.social @britsoci.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social

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Jaime Garcia Iglesias @jgarciaiglesias.bsky.social · Apr 30

For Paul, the difference between #COVID and #HIV is being supported or not by friends. What do you think?

Come to our event on September 1, in Edinburgh, to hear more: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/viral-memo...

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