The union for academic and academic-related staff at the University of Edinburgh
UK trade union for academics, lecturers, trainers, researchers and professional services staff in further education, higher education, prison education, and adult and community education.
Senior Lecturer at University of Exeter, Geography. More than human health, material practices of science and data, interdisciplinarity, air, atmospheres, pollution, exposure, breathing.
Science & Culture//Art-Science//Informal Science Learning // Vicious ginger// Previously @WHOI & @EdinburghUni// Currently Trinity College Dublin
Sociologist of Medicine, Embodiment and Technology|University of Edinburgh|From everyday cyborgs to disability, illness and pain.
Edinburgh-based researcher looking at data and healthcare.
Formerly history of genetics; genomics; evolution; children; animals; race; minds; brains; psychology /iatry /oanalysis; madness; neurodiversity; disability; bioethics; reproductive technology.
The massage is the message
Historical and cultural theories about maths and science theories. Fields Medal killjoy. Scotland enjoyer. formerly @mbarany on birdsite and intermittently @mjb@mathstodon.xyz on fediverse
We are the Engineering Life group of STS researchers at the University of Edinburgh -- Jane Calvert, Reuben Message, Rob Smith & Sophie Stone
Social studies and philosophy of biology. Organisms and their biosocialities. Multispecies worlds, holobionts, interdisciplinarity, art-science. Science, Technology and Innovation Studies (STIS), University of Edinburgh. #sts #hpbio
STS, drug policy, harm reduction, digital health interventions |
Lecturer @Technical University of Munich |
Editor of @dhspolicy.bsky.social |
Associate Editor @Harm Reduction Journal
Sociologist of Science and Mystery. Reader at Cardiff University. Enjoy talking sports and politics too.
Using data to put child health at the heart of housing policy
Paediatric Infectious Disease and Data Science
Wellcome Early Career Fellow
https://tinyurl.com/3k8kywff
https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/persons/olivia-swann
PhD student @ Uni of Edinburgh, STIS | Ethnography of infectious disease modelling | More-than-human health & Ecology
Anthropologist working in STS and thinking about data, care, learning and knowing in health systems
Soc of Work + Platform Labor | U of Edinburgh | Created MSc Digital Sociology | @jcultecon + Platforms & Society | CAHSS Digital Lead | Critical Data Studies @ EFI
Writing: Enchanted Entrepreneurs: Media, Work, and Meaning in the Spiritual Marketplace
British Academy Postdoc @STIS University of Edinburgh | Researching knowledge, power & tech | co-run ai-ethics.org
Sociologist of science, technology and medicine; scuba diver.
We are The Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute. We're strengthening the evidence base for healthcare improvement.
Based at the University of Cambridge and made possible by the Health Foundation.
thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk
Knows a lot about Ada Lovelace's science. University of Edinburgh and Wadham College Oxford and Oxford Maths.
Social science researcher in Edinburgh.
I look at (and try to write about): medical records, databases, bureaucracy, and clinical knowledge.
Proud COO at Care Opinion CIC I Independent non-profit careopinion.org.uk
@careopinion.org.uk
Economic & medical historian on https://www.epidemy.sps.ed.ac.uk/ at the University of Edinburgh.
Author of: https://uclpress.co.uk/book/between-feast-and-famine/
Editor of: https://intellectbooks.com/making-sense-of-medicine
Author.
Prof of Math Bio and Public Engagement.
Member of Independent Sage since October 2020.
@Kit_Yates_Maths on twitter
Books -
Math(s) of Life and Death
How to Expect the Unexpected
Get them here: https://tinyurl.com/37rx2yuv
He/Him
Chief Executive Officer at Care Opinion
careopinion.org.uk
Proud ex-CEO at Care Opinion CIC. 40+ years hanging around the NHS as doctor, academic, nursing assistant, patient, relative + hospital porter.
careopinion.org.uk
Generally angry. Bioethicist. Academic. Writer. Theatre and Dance
photo credit:Chris Scott
Our objectives are to promote and improve social scientific research, education and scholarship in the field of the sociology of health and illness.
https://www.shifoundation.org.uk
Mostly retired qualitative health services researcher, linguist, europhile, cat lover. Other animals welcome.
Mostly in Oxford, occasionally in Aberdeen
I block if you have no bio or posts
She/her
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8109-1930
The King's Fund is an independent charity working to improve people's health. Our vision is a world where everyone can live a healthy life. https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/
Prof of Public Engagement in Science, Uni of Birmingham; anatomist, author, broadcaster; vice President of Humanists UK. All views my own.
Director @thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk @uniofcam.bsky.social. I study how to improve and innovate in healthcare quality and safety. Views: Own
STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society.
Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society
Professor of Communication, Cornell
https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
Sociologist and Social Policy scholar. Admires trees.
Prof, Arts, Design & Architecture, UNSW Sydney, Australia. Clean air/COVID safety advocate/activist/researcher. Other health and digital media research too. Personal blog: https://simplysociology.wordpress.com/
Sociologist at the University of York, UK. The sociology of health and illness, sociology of gender, sociology of organisations and professions. Views are my own.
University of Calgary professor - political economy of health. Animal lover (except the occasional human)
Sociologist: philosophy, theory, politics, health & sport. #sociology #health
Emeritus Professor of Sociology, UCL
Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences, UK
New: ‘The Sociological Theory of Margaret Archer’ (Routledge, 2026)
www.grahamscambler.com
Social scientist. Co-Director Centre for Healthcare Innovation, Policy & Management, University of Leicester School of Business. Editor-in-Chief Journal of Health Services Research & Policy https://journals.sagepub.com/home/HSR
Former member of the Women’s League of Health and Beauty
We want people to be able to share their experiences of health and care in ways which are safe, simple, and lead to learning and change.
Care Opinion CIC (non-profit) | https://www.careopinion.org.uk
Professor of Medical Sociology at KCL, interested in health, disability, social theory, oral health and lots of other things.
#OpenAccess & #OpenInfrastructure advocate. Professor in #STS at Lancaster University. Managing Director at Open Book Collective. Trustee/Editor at Mattering Press. Heading up the @copim.bluesky.social Open Book Futures project
News from King's College London | King’s is a multi-faculty research-led institution & one of the top 10 UK universities in the world | Contact: comms@kcl.ac.uk
Associate Professor in Digital Technology, University of Sussex
Chief Executive at Picker. Interested in health policy, person centred care, and in understanding, measuring, and improving patient and staff experiences. All views are my own, reposts are not endorsements.
probably typing with a cat on my shoulder | Professor of Public Policy & Health @uofgussp University of Glasgow | Editor, Sociology of Health & Illness | Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences | author 'How Britain Loves the NHS' @policypress
We are an independent charitable organisation working to build a healthier UK.
www.health.org.uk
ST&HV is a journal that publishes cutting-edge research and debate in the field of Science and Technology Studies http://journals.sagepub.com/home/sth
Science and Technology Studies journal exploring how (arte)facts, processes, products shape & are shaped by society, since 1987!
Website: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/csac20
Understanding the past, present and future of science and tech. Subscribe to our newsletter - https://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/sts-newsletter
Critical histories of science and medicine, science studies, postcolonial endeavours. New book on modern excrementalities: Spectacles of Waste (Polity). Writing mostly on disease ecologies and planetary health now. Living on Wangal country.
Sociologist of technology and science, empirical philosopher, creative methods
Prof in Philosophy and History of Science & Technology, Technical University of Munich | scientific director Ethical Data Initiative & Public Science Lab | http://opensciencestudies.eu | President ISHPSSB | loves almost all forms of life
Science studies scholar: #credibility of sci, #trust #collaboration #integrity #food #STS #reform, @ Maastricht University
Also: @bart@akademieNL.social
Science & tech politics/policy incl patents. Author: next book on politics of inclusive innovation/tech for equity. #STS scholar. Prof & Director, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, U of Michigan. Expert Voices columnist, Science. shobitap.org
Ontario Research Chair in Science Policy
Obsessed with assets & assetization + into science & technology studies, political economy, economic sociology: https://keanbirch.net/
We are the Centre for the History of Science, Technology & Medicine (CHSTM) at the University of Manchester. Follow us for updates about seminars, events, research, teaching. Currently posting: @ctimmermann.bsky.social
https://www.chstm.manchester.ac.uk
We are 4S, an international, nonprofit association focused on the social studies of science, technology and medicine (#STS). Next Annual meeting October 7-10, 2026.
Co-director: https://www.ucc.ie/en/future-humanities/radicalhumanitieslaboratory/
Professor in Science and Technology Studies, UCL @stsucl.bsky.social. Science policy, responsible innovation, emerging technologies. Book https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-32320-2. Responsible AI UK (www.rai.ac.uk)
Prof in Human Geography at University of Exeter researching spaces of science & technology, human & animal health, research involvement & responsibility. Currently works on animal research & its replacements. Unexpected interest in chronic pain & FND.
STS and Medical Anthropology, cyborgs, care, feminist theories of tech, faculty NYU Tandon, BISR faculty, she/her
CYBORG: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547550/cyborg/
Food Allergy Advocacy: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517910563/food-allergy-advoca
DEI hire. Prof of Primary Care, Uni of Oxford. Researching digital health/ inequities, covid prevention (masks/ air quality). Wild swimmer. Mum to Rob (marine bio) & Al (doc). She/her. https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=QDCqsJwAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Associate Professor, Div of Science, Technology and Society, Chalmers Uni of Technology, STS researcher.
Sociologist of sexual health. Chancellor's Fellow at University of Edinburgh. 🇪🇸🏳️🌈🏴 he/him
anthropology, algorithms, attention | he/him | The conversation is characterized by Nick's use of language, but the content of the discussion remains unknown.
Professor of #DigitalCultures at Maastricht University
#STS
Most of my research is about digital technologies- in #healthcare and what they mean for the production of knowledge
The UK’s largest public funder of research. Our mission is to advance knowledge, improve lives and drive growth.
#FundedByYou
Also autoposting to @news.ukri.org, @funding.ukri.org, @blogs.ukri.org and @events.ukri.org. Topic specific feeds coming soon!
Sociologist of Science, CWTS, Leiden University.
Senior research fellow, Research on Research Institute.
Professor of public health, community participation, equity, sexual and reproductive health and rights, knowledge coproduction
A/Prof #Sociology, durham.ac.uk/staff/angela-m-filipe; visiting scholar U. Edinburgh. Global #ethnography + social #history of concepts, conditions & climates of #mental health: #ADHD, #vulnerability, #ecoanxiety.
My own views; skeets del. weekly.
"Marxist diversity, equity, and inclusion bureaucrat"
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/cristian-montenegro
Professor of Public Health Policy at the University of Strathclyde. Co-Director of the Centre for Health Policy & Co-Lead of SHERU (the Scottish Health Equity Research Unit). Interested in research, advocacy and policy to reduce inequalities.
Anyone been abducted?
Medical sociologist and ethnographer @UCLA. Sunrise over sunset. Dog is Belgian shepherd named Theo.
News and expert comment from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) one of the world's leading #PublicHealth universities. https://linktr.ee/lshtm
Prof Operational Research , @UCL_CORU, passionate about health care, women in STEMs, defending liberal democracy (!). Member of @independentsage, posts personal. https://www.trumpactiontracker.info/
Professor of Health Policy & Practice, University of Oxford; studying technology-in-use and sustainability (sometimes both together); #AcademicSky
Professor of Medical Sociology, Nuffield Department of Primary Health Care, Oxford
Educational charity. Peer-reviewed sociology journal, public sociology magazine, podcasts, Connected Sociologies teaching resources, ECR opportunities.
https://www.thesociologicalreview.org
The Journal of Critical Public Health (JCPH) is devoted to disseminating critically engaged research in public health, health promotion & related fields. Diamond Open Access.
journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jcph/
Cdn settler in Scotland. Carer. Immigrant.
Sociologist researching social cultural & ethical issues in HIV, sexual health, LGBTQ health, biotech & chronic illness. Reader @UofEdinburgh
She/her
www.disabilityfutures.uk medicinewithoutdoctors.org
Founded 1969. News & highlights from the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh https://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/
#arts #humanities #socialscience #academicsky
PhD, science & technology studies, University of Edinburgh | Researching hospitals, healthcare professions, collective healthcare, AMR & antibiotics | https://cmorenolozano.wordpress.com/
Social scientist | Critical public health | Communities
Edinburgh | Cambridge | Moomin Valley
She/her
Sociologist interested in health policy and inclusive involvement...and cycling. Current associate editor of Journal of Critical Public Health, a diamond open access publication https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jcph/index
Lecturer in Digital Work, UoStirling.
Researching AI/internet/digital media & expectations/expertise. Hype+Metaphors.
Friends: BRAID UK, UoE STIS, AI Ethics & Society, Data Civics, The New Real.
AE: Technology Analysis and Strategic Management.
It/ve/vem👾
Freelance Qualitative & Health Services Research Consultant based in Scotland (former academic Medical Sociologist). Health experiences and evaluating health/ social care interventions & services| Website: https://rosaleenobrienresearch.com
London, UK. Sociologist at University of Exeter. Medical sociology; critical public health; academic publishing; methods, esp qualitative; mobility & transport; equity. Co-editor Journal of Critical Public Health. And here for random stuff.
The BSA funded blog about the politics, economics & sociology of health, medicine, and healthcare
http://cost-ofliving.net
Indigenous/Cultural Astronomy, Science & Technology Studies, Documentary Filmmaker
Lecturer in Science, Technology, and Innovation Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Author of The Matter of Facts https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262043885/the-matter-of-facts/
Lecturer in Science & Technology Studies @ Edinburgh
Biology, Politics, Funding, Governance, Morethanhuman etc.
Our group is engineeringlife.bsky.social
Edinburgh STS, part of @engineeringlife.bsky.social.
Social/political dimensions of engineering biology and advanced therapeutics. Also norms/conventions of places where science gets made. Bio-AI curious. Always here for the Oxford comma.
Science, Technology, and Innovation Studies (STIS) at the University of Edinburgh.
https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/science-technology-and-innovation-studies
Undisciplined scholar. Researching science, society+policy; humans-animals-environments; #OneHealth #microbes #STS #HistSTM #scicomm.
Author, 'Vermin, Victims and Disease: British Debates over Badgers and Bovine TB'
