Steve Sturdy
@stevesturdy.bsky.social
History of biomedicine. Genes and genomes. Value in/of healthcare.
Joy to the Wordle. (And a very happy holiday.)
December 25, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Joy to the Wordle. (And a very happy holiday.)
A real penguin would have realised there was something fishy about it.
December 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM
A real penguin would have realised there was something fishy about it.
See also Scotland, where Scottish Labour is desperately trying show it's different from Westminster Labour, but being sidelined by WL on Scottish issues. The Holyrood elections in May will be interesting...
December 3, 2025 at 5:11 PM
See also Scotland, where Scottish Labour is desperately trying show it's different from Westminster Labour, but being sidelined by WL on Scottish issues. The Holyrood elections in May will be interesting...
Scarcely a month after Labour lost a supposedly comfortable Welsh seat to Plaid too.
December 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Scarcely a month after Labour lost a supposedly comfortable Welsh seat to Plaid too.
It wasn't just the policy makers who panicked. The SAGE modellers did too, when one of their less prominent members (who happened to have real-world experience of epidemics) pointed out the futility of modelling for herd immunity. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Domesticating models: On the contingency of Covid-19 modelling in UK media and policy - Lukas Engelmann, Catherine M Montgomery, Steve Sturdy, Cristina Moreno Lozano, 2023
Our article traces the representation of pandemic modelling in UK print media from the emergence of Covid-19 to the early stages of implementing the first UK-wi...
journals.sagepub.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:42 AM
It wasn't just the policy makers who panicked. The SAGE modellers did too, when one of their less prominent members (who happened to have real-world experience of epidemics) pointed out the futility of modelling for herd immunity. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
And Robert Fripp is Norwegian for Robert Freakout.
November 18, 2025 at 11:42 AM
And Robert Fripp is Norwegian for Robert Freakout.
There's likely a few spare kidneys among them too.
November 17, 2025 at 12:30 PM
There's likely a few spare kidneys among them too.
There was a star danced, and under that was I born.
November 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
There was a star danced, and under that was I born.
I'm a professor giving a talk.
What on?
(Looking into camera): The use of biometrics for immigration control.
Are you trying to be funny sir? (I had to show him conference the programme.)
What on?
(Looking into camera): The use of biometrics for immigration control.
Are you trying to be funny sir? (I had to show him conference the programme.)
November 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I'm a professor giving a talk.
What on?
(Looking into camera): The use of biometrics for immigration control.
Are you trying to be funny sir? (I had to show him conference the programme.)
What on?
(Looking into camera): The use of biometrics for immigration control.
Are you trying to be funny sir? (I had to show him conference the programme.)
Ontario is still deeply infused with Scottish presbyterianism.
November 8, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Ontario is still deeply infused with Scottish presbyterianism.
There are important questions to ask about how organised crime networks are able to exploit migrants. Instead, the BBC - and now the Home Secretary - choose to dump on those being exploited.
November 5, 2025 at 11:37 AM
There are important questions to ask about how organised crime networks are able to exploit migrants. Instead, the BBC - and now the Home Secretary - choose to dump on those being exploited.
See also Kafka, In the Penal Colony.
October 15, 2025 at 12:28 PM
See also Kafka, In the Penal Colony.