This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
Respiratory death rates from seasonal flu in older adults. World map showing estimated annual respiratory flu deaths per 100,000 people among adults aged 65+, average for the period 2002 to 2011. Highest rates are concentrated across much of sub-Saharan Africa, parts of South America (notably the southern cone), and South and Southeast Asia; lowest rates occur across Western Europe, North America, Russia, and Australia. Legend shows values from 0 to 90 per 100,000 in 10-unit increments; hatched areas indicate no data for some countries. Data source: Global Pandemic Mortality Project II (2019). License: CC BY. Note: Estimates do not include deaths from other complications of the flu, for example cardiovascular disease. Averages exclude the 2009 Swine flu pandemic.
Seasonal flu kills about 700,000 people each year across the world—
(This Data Insight was written by @eortizospina.bsky.social.)
Seasonal influenza is sometimes seen as a mild illness, but it remains a major cause of death.
It's a tragedy that one of the world's most trusted scientific institutions has been pushed into the service of pure ideology. RFK et al should not be entitled to use its name as cover for their insanity. Give them their own centre for Denial & Double Speak (DDS). tinyurl.com/2twj6jh3
Decolonising Plant Knowledge Term Card. 15 October, Decolonising Plant Knowledge: Thinking around ‘Rau’. 22 October, Plant knowledge in plantation economies. 12 November, Reclaiming indigenous history from Amazonian soil and palaeobotany. 19 November, Toxicity, plant animacy and blurred categories.
🌱 Join us for the first event by the 'Decolonising Plant Knowledge' research network on 15 October
This interdisciplinary seminar series explores aspects of Rau as a crucible of creative epistemic frictions between botanical narratives and colonised plant worlds
2-5pm, Pembroke College, CB2 1RF
Where to start for histories of epidemics? You might go to my essay on Epidemics for the new Oxford Bibliography of the History of Medicine, edited by Jacalyn Duffin. tinyurl.com/38pyddtc
Very pleased to see my review of John Green's 'Everything is Tuberculosis' published in the TLS. www.the-tls.com/science-tech...
Nigel Farage says abortion laws are “utterly ludicrous.”
MPs are watching.
We have days to show them: the public backs abortion rights.
Join me and sign the petition now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...
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Thanks to editor in chief, Jacalyn Duffin, for overseeing this new Oxford Bibliographies medical history collection. I was pleased to offer a starting point for research into the history of rehabilitation and disability. @oxfordunipress.bsky.social
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Exciting! Angela - will the lecture be available remotely?
Thanks Robert. If only the publisher would make it so via accessibke pricing!
Enjoyed reading ‘Modern Flu’ by @mcbresalier.bsky.social Review out in @isisjournal.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1086/735752
Very much appreciate your generous and, as always, insightful review! Glad that this out.
in the fabulous anthology *Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine*, edited by Warwick Anderson, Jeremy A. Greene, and Ann Kweim Lie. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025). The whole volume is #OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1017/9781...
Very pleased to be part of the editorial board for this exciting and valuable archival resource on the global history of epidemics, that taps into the wonderful collections of the @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy www.globalhistoryofepidemics.amdigital.co.uk
Congratulations Gareth!
Another CHSTM event for your diaries: Rethinking Neurodevelopment - From WHO Policies to Neurodiversity and Care. Workshop, 17 June 2025. Organised by Dr Cinzia Greco @cinziag.bsky.social and Dr Bonnie Evans
blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...
It was a pleasure to return to an old stopping ground to give the Health & Society Annual Lecture on my research on epistemic injustice and selective TB vaccination. Great discussion with colleagues and PhDs. Big thanks to Kenton Kroker for inviting & hosting. events.yorku.ca/events/healt...
Great opportunity for a medical humamities postdoc to work with Laura Seymour on the significance and signification of neurodivergence in early modern Europe on a new Wellcome Trust grant @swanseauni.bsky.social www.swansea.ac.uk/jobs-at-swan...
Senior Lecturer in Applied Humanities
Birmingham Newman University #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMD310/s...
POSTDOC ALERT! Postdoc in the history of modern medicine or public health at Wisconsin: details at the link below. 2 years, excellent conditions. #Skystorians #HistMed #medhum please repost widely!
mhb.wisc.edu/2025/02/25/p...
Episode 131 on "Pandemic Ends" is now up. Lee and I talked to Erica Charters about how pandemics end, Covid's "end," the large project she ran on the topic, and the place of endemic diseases in this discourse. Give it a listen: infectioushistorians.com/2024/12/19/p... (or via iTunes, Spotify, etc.).
I have run out of patience with the apparent silence of most US science institutions (and not just US) in the face of Trump & Musk's rampage. There are of so many facets of that, but in this column for @chemistryworld.com I talk about the assaults on inclusion.
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/scie...
Photograph of a warehouse in Kinshasa where unboxed tuberculosis medications are going undistributed due to the stop work order by the Trump Administration.
Just received this photo from a friend of a warehouse in Kinshasa. These are tuberculosis medications--ALREADY PAID FOR--that aren't being distributed due to the Trump Administration's stop work order.
TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)
Encouraged to see the Lancet editors speaking out, hoping US based medical & mental health journals will follow.
Looks great. What's the date?
EAHMH 2025 will be in Berlin in August 26-29, with a dedicated workshop for early career researchers. See the call and link to the submission site here: socialistmedicine.com/cfp-eahmh-20...
Episode 129 on "Modern Flu" is up. Lee and I chatted with @mcbresalier.bsky.social about how the 1918 pandemic shaped medical knowledge of the flu and how the flu was discovered. Plus we talk a lot about the flu shot! Listen: infectioushistorians.com/2024/10/10/m... or via iTunes, Spotify, etc.
Very pleased to share this great discussion about my book with the Infectious Historians podcast. infectioushistorians.com/2024/10/10/m...
⏰ Please share far and wide, #foodhistory and #foodstudies friends: The CFP for the Amsterdam Food Symposium 2025 is out ⏰
This is a very special year, as it coincides with the 750th anniv. of Amsterdam and an exhibition on the history of food in Amsterdam.
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