Excellent to see our paper on sustainability, the climate crisis and the NHS published today, led brilliantly by Rita Issa, as part of the The BMJ Commission on the Future of the NHS
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Apply and join us here in Edinburgh for a full-time, open ended lectureship in hsitory of medicine.

Happy to field any questions for this job.

Applications are due on 26 April.

Terrific news. Congrats to both of you and to all of us 🎉

Thank you Lee, this means a lot.

.Dr Kate Womersley won our coveted Dr Elsie Inglis Award, one of 4 Global Women in Healthcare Awards, held in partnership with @rcpedin. Dr Womersley is recognised for her work to drive the adoption of a new minimum standard for inclusion of sex and gender in science.

History should not be rewritten.

Arguments against Pandemic Revisionism by Lukas Engelmann and Dora Vargha just out in the The Conversation

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COVID: there’s a strong current of pandemic revisionism in the mainstream media, and it’s dangerous theconversation.com/covid-theres-a…

👋Final reminder to send your exciting proposals to our epidemy panel at #EASST4S2024 in Amsterdam. We invite proposals to ask how research 𝗱𝗼𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 brings epidemics into focus.

Do data maketh an epidemic?

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Fantastic. Now do Edinburgh.

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Cllr Scott Arthur 🌍🌈🌹

📢3xJob Klaxon! Come work with our Dr Catherine Montgomery as one of three four-year postdocs for the ERC-selected, UKRI-funded study 'Data and the Healthcare Revolution' (DARE) at the UoEdinburgh, to conduct ethnographic research into data and care practices in biomedicine. 1/5

On medical misinformation, the contestable value of science, and the need for reproductive justice: brilliant Kate reviews the Blood by Jennifer Gunter in the Observer New Review.

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What a brilliant piece of writing (reviewing):

Kate on Cat Bohannon new book, 'plumbing the depths of what’s different – for better and for worse – about the female body' without falling for naive sex essentialism. 🙌

My social media channels show too many decolonial colleagues celebrating Hamas violence as Palestinian anticolonial resistance. They seem undisturbed or don't comment on the hostages, children and the elderly murdered, sexual violence, female corpses undressed, paraded, spat on.

On the other place.

Scathing, poignant, and important: Kate takes on the NHS (and how it is being wrecked by the tories) in her latest review of 3(!) books.

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Having benefited hugely from this wonderful research environment myself, I might be biased, but I highly recommend applying to this brilliant #histmed post doc job!

✨A most stellar review in the Observer New Review for a powerful book about the loss of sight by the ever-brilliant Kate Womersley✨

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“It would not be right to stand here and not acknowledge staff who have been fighting for not more than the bare minimum”. How can we thank you enough for this brave and moving oration at Edinburgh Graduation today. UCU Edinburgh @ucu Staff-Student Solidarity Network Edinburgh

Just one of many highlights from Amia Srinivasan’s excellent piece on cancel culture in @lrb.

With thanks to the stranger in Marseille airport who left their paper copy for me to find.

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