My article "Paul B. Preciado's queer hospital: healthcare architectures for pleasure, transformation and subversion" is now out in Senses & Society. This will be part of a Special Issue on "Senses and Health/Care Environments". Huge thanks to the editors! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Can't make it to Manchester this Friday for our conference on dating apps, risk and intimacy? You can now attend online and learn more about our findings: eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-atten…

New publication! Our v. own Jane Macnaughton & Kristin Zeiler CMHB_LiU explore the need for radically interdisciplinary health research in their latest article 'Re-imagining illness through post-COVID 19 condition.' Read here (subscribing institutions) 👉 thelancet.com/journals/lance…

I want to be more optimistic about #HIV vaccine & cure, but having covered both, I'm afraid I can't be. Still, treatment that keeps people healthy w/near-normal life expectancy & ~100% effective prevention tools is better than we have for most diseases. 1/ nature.com/articles/d4158…

This is an astonishing graphic, demonstrating the huge impact HIV treatment has had in preventing AIDS and deaths since 1996 - a scientific medical success that deserves celebration. Note though that more people died of AIDS related illness last year (630k) than in 1990. 1/2

Very pleased to finally be able to hold this in my hands! Jamie Hakim James Cummings !

Not surprising but reassuring. Tracing >1000 contacts of 113 air travelers with mpox did not find any cases of transmission, indicating that airborne transmission is not a significant risk factor. cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/7…

did you know that there is a vaccine that can prevent gonorrhoea? it was recommended by the JCVI in the UK last year but still isn't available on the NHS. you can read all about it - including how to access it privately - on The Love Tank's new page: queerhealth.info/menb

It's one week 'til the free Hormonal Rebellion event at Royal Society of Edinburgh Curious festival. Sign up to the wait list for this sold out event to be in line for the hottest ticket since Oasis: edin.ac/3YU2R2F - Friday 13 September - 5.30pm - 7pm - The Royal Society Of Edinburgh

Durham Institute for Medical Humanities are running a survey to include medical humanities research institutions, centres or units in an accessible database and interactive map - deadline 30 Sept #histmed #histSTM

Organising a conference or workshop on the history of medicine in 2025? Deadline for applications - Tuesday 1 October. Typical awards are from £500 up to maximum of £1,500 [Applicants must be members of the Society] #histmed #histSTM sshm.org/conference-fun…

Join me and Dr Emily Jay Nicholls on Wednesday 2 October for the next BSA Medsoc London Study Group event! With a wonderful panel (including Dr Shema Tariq (she/her) Julia Bailey Kyle Ring) we will explore life at the intersection of medicine and social sciences - eventbrite.co.uk/myevent?eid=10…

We have a PhD scholarship available for a student (sociology/gender studies/anthro/STS) interested in studying the role of cosmeceutical drugs in contemporary experiences of health, gender and ageing. More info below and please get in touch if you have any questions. Please R/T!

Fantastic new MA in Global Medical and Health Humanities Lancaster University School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University ! Excited to see how interdisciplinary health research and teaching can approach key challenges in queer and LGBTQIA+ healthcare also! lancaster.ac.uk/study/postgrad…

VACANCY: Lecturer in Sociology University of Manchester Sociology department 3 yrs, start Jan 2025 Teaching: inequalities, with a focus on ethnicity and ‘race’ and on mental health, and core methods/theory. Apply by 16 Sept 2024. Pls share 🙏🏿 jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?…

Fun snapshot of Sexual Health Futures in Scotland ongoing arts-based health workshops in Edinburgh and Glasgow - exploring imagined futures of sexual health in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Why is Grindr so fucking expensive? And when did cruising become a paid utility? Page 154 of my analog cruising manual

Exciting news! Gilead Sciences has announced PURPOSE 2 trial interim results. 99.9% of cisgender men & gender-diverse people in the #lenacapavir group did not acquire #HIV. These results further strengthen the promise of lenacapavir for HIV prevention: gilead.com/news-and-press…

The news many of us have been waiting for! Excellent results for Gilead Sciences twice-yearly lenacapavir PrEP, as previously seen in African women, also hold for gay men. Just 2 new #HIV cases among 2000+ participants. gilead.com/news-and-press…

Next week Queer Minds Scotland (LGBTQ+ mental health and wellbeing network) will meet to plan our next 6 months of events, activities and projects. Join us to decide in Edinburgh: bit.ly/EdinburghQM Or Glasgow: bit.ly/GlasgowQM