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Angela Marques Filipe @angelaofthenorth.bsky.social · 1d

Want to do a PhD in social science at Durham? Are you interested in health and mental well-being? Or in environmental and planetary health? Our ESRC NINE DTP scholarships come w/ a range of pathways and perks: call now open for 2026-27! Get in touch.
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Prospective Students - NINE DTP

The competition for 2026-27 is open Tuition FeesHome fees (£5,006 in 2025-26) covered for all students. Additional support for international students facilitated through university agreements.StipendT...

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Hannah Brown @mamatommy.bsky.social · 29d

Coming soon! I'll be talking about a book project on Lassa fever that is close to completion, written with Annie Wilkinson and Alumdena Mari Saez. Under contract with Cornell UP

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134th KUASS: KYOTO UNIVERSITY AFRICAN STUDIES SEMINAR ｜京都大学アフリカ地域研究資料センター – The Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University –

京都大学アフリカ地域研究資料センターのサイト。アフリカ研究の学術雑誌 African Study Monographs などを紹介。

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Hannah Brown @mamatommy.bsky.social · Jul 23

London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Jul 23

‘For most of us rats inspire only revulsion. This might be one reason they have become such popular subjects for scientific experiments, it being easier to sacrifice animals if you’re not particularly fond of them in the first place.’

Jon Day on ‘rat city’ experiments:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Jon Day · The Beautiful Ones: The Rat in the Head

Those who keep them as pets know them to be clean, gregarious creatures with a highly developed social life, but for...

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Hannah Brown @mamatommy.bsky.social · Jul 22

FINALLY!! Keep the pressure on. How long must this continue? @teamlabouruk.bsky.social stand tall and stand up to this unforgivable violence

Starmer under pressure from cabinet to recognise Palestinian statehood | Gaza | The Guardian share.google/FsKgECzDBSuW...

Starmer under pressure from cabinet to recognise Palestinian statehood

Exclusive: Wes Streeting among ministers pushing for action after calling Israeli attacks on aid sites ‘intolerable’

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · Jun 29

"And we're going to stand up for Haiti because you taught the world about freedom and its time we return the favor"

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · Jun 29

Mamdani turned up at BAYO at Barclay Center yesterday and said he was going to fight to get Haiti off the travel ban and he said Haiti correctly

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Durham University @durham.ac.uk · Jun 6

We're showcasing some of our @erc.europa.eu projects, including work by Professor Hannah Brown & her team to deepen understanding of human-animal relations in evolving economic conditions. Read more: bit.ly/4dMQQkU
@britishacademy.bsky.social @durhamanthropology.bsky.social
@mamatommy.bsky.social

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Hannah Brown @mamatommy.bsky.social · Jun 6

Well look what just came up on my Google alert... www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...

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David Redmalm @davidredmalm.bsky.social · May 30

Human-animal studies online course fall 2025. Free to PhD students. Guest lecturers: Krithika Srinivasan and Kuai Shen. More info: www.facebook.com/animalsinsoc... Sign up now, limited group size!

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Hannah Brown @mamatommy.bsky.social · May 28

BBC News - Giant of African literature Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o dies aged 87
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o - a giant of African literature - dies aged 87

The Kenyan author sent shockwaves through African literature by refusing to write in English.

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Hannah Brown @mamatommy.bsky.social · May 19

Starving, multiply displaced people in tents are being bombed, 50 UK families own as much as half the population, and you have almost no chance of saving to buy a house (unless you inherit money, forget it). And somehow (a) this happened and (b) it's news... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Couple successfully sue council over school’s footballs landing in garden of £2m home

Mohamed and Marie-Anne Bakhaty say they could not use their swimming pool and had to cancel garden party

www.theguardian.com

Hannah Brown @mamatommy.bsky.social · May 8

@durhamanthropology.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social

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Hannah Brown @mamatommy.bsky.social · May 8

Our latest plug for the value of anthropological theory in applied contexts. Writing led by my colleague Andrea Kaiser Grolimund @swisstph.ch with collaboration from the Alive Africa project team. Funding: @erc.europa.eu Does One Health need an ontological turn? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Does One Health need an ontological turn?

One Health has gained global prominence in recent years. Alongside its emergence, there have been extensive social science critiques. In this contribution, we make the case for the value of recent ...

www.tandfonline.com

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Hannah Brown @mamatommy.bsky.social · May 2

Miserable

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · Apr 3

Hey you. Malignant narcissist. Name rhymes with Bump. See our @independentsage.bsky.social report on Diversity in Science. Evidence is all in there, should you wish to look. You’re welcome.

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How diversity makes science better – Independent SAGE

Independent SAGE: Independent scientific advice on the COVID-19 crisis, for the UK government and public.

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Hannah Brown @mamatommy.bsky.social · Mar 14

Weekend reading material just arrived! I hope it's going to be an interesting combo... Ordered second hand and from the wonderful bookshop.org who make a donation to my favourite local bookshop of course 😊

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Hannah Brown @mamatommy.bsky.social · Mar 3

Now sending money to a friend in a Kenya so that she can access HIV care and medication. It's like going back to the 2000s. The new reality of global public #unhealth

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Hannah Brown @mamatommy.bsky.social · Feb 28

Congratulations!

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Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · Feb 23

A very perilous development in the H5N1 flu panzootic has just been observed: "Bird flu confirmed in rats for first time" www.cbsnews.com/news/bird-fl...

Bird flu confirmed in rats for first time, USDA reports

The latest bird flu detections come as the U.S. Department of Agriculture is trying to rehire bird flu experts that were fired as part of DOGE cost-cutting efforts.

www.cbsnews.com

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Limn @limnpress.bsky.social · Feb 8

You can read the piece here: limn.press/article/the-...

The Tighty-Whities Test - Limn

Why are farmers burying underwear in their fields?

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Hannah Brown @mamatommy.bsky.social · Feb 17

We have a job opening @durhamanthropology.bsky.social
for an Anthropologist of data who can lead a large module on critical studies of data. Lovely department in a small but beautiful city in North East England. Please share widely.
durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

Assistant Professor in Anthropology of Data Science (Research %26 Education) (ANT_01)

Click the link provided to see the complete job description.

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Hannah Brown @mamatommy.bsky.social · Feb 4

I've learnt that using AI is better by Haiku. Here's today's artful contribution.

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Hannah Brown @mamatommy.bsky.social · Jan 29

Any academic marking student essays could have predicted this! Hard to prove though 😜

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Jan 29

Distillation is a common practice in the AI industry but the concern was that DeepSeek may be doing it to build its own rival model, which is a breach of OpenAI’s terms of service. Here’s why: www.ft.com/content/a0df...

Hannah Brown @mamatommy.bsky.social · Jan 29

We have great programmes in Medical Anthropology and Global and Planetary Health.... Come to our online open days to find out more!

Durham University Anthropology @durhamanthropology.bsky.social · Jan 21

📢Book now! Our PG online sessions will give you the opportunity to learn more about what Durham Anthropology has to offer for postgraduate study and student life.

📆10 & 11 February

👉 www.dur.ac.uk/visit-us/ope...

Hannah Brown @mamatommy.bsky.social · Jan 27

I'm so impressed you have a seminar playlist. At this point in January I just need a get out of bed playlist! Tips...?

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Angela Woods @literarti.bsky.social · Jan 16

Are you looking to connect into conversations across the medical humanities? Do you want to learn more about the latest concepts, writers, projects and people animating the field?

The Polyphony has arrived in BlueSky 🎉🦋🐟 Please join us & share widely @the-polyphony.bsky.social #MedHums

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