Toktam Paykani

Word of the day is ‘forswunk’ (13th century): exhausted from too much work. I like to think that ‘foreswunk’ is to be exhausted before you even begin.

02.05.2025 06:35 — 👍 1644    🔁 289    💬 34    📌 30

A screenshot of a table from a paper titled "Changing Minds: How Academic Fields Shape Political Attitudes" placed along side a screenshot of a table titled "Labor Market Outcomes of College Graduates by Major."

Interesting correlation between undergrad majors, political ideology, and salary.

Business and economics majors become more conservative and make more money.

Humanities majors tend to be liberal and make less money.

11.05.2025 14:56 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Critical Theory and Health This is another longish blog adapted from a piece on critical theory and health that I contributed to Bill Cokcerham’s Encyclopaedia of Medical Sociology. Critical theory, I suggested, serves as an…

www.grahamscambler.com/critical-the...

08.04.2025 17:52 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Did you know?

Stigma and discrimination prevent migrants from seeking tuberculosis treatment.

Let's break down these barriers to health care and #EndTB.

24.03.2025 09:07 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Take home messages from the implementation of the primary health care measurement and improvement (PHCMI) initiative in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) | Primary Health Care Research & ... Take home messages from the implementation of the primary health care measurement and improvement (PHCMI) initiative in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) - Volume 26

Take-home messages #PHC: increase workforce, distribute them equitably, expand training, improve health information systems, and inform the public. Health systems should rely on PHC as the backbone.

@awadmataria.bsky.social @whoemro.bsky.social

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24.03.2025 07:50 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Really excellent, important report on industry influence on universities, and capture of academia - of wide relevance.

03.03.2025 22:18 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

Happy #Nowruz! Today marks the arrival of spring and the ancient Persian New Year, celebrated for millennia across Iran, the Middle East, the Caucasus, and Central Asia.

May this new year bring everyone renewal, joy, and peace.

عید همگی مبارک🌺

20.03.2025 16:10 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Capital buys power to make policy.

18.03.2025 09:41 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Before you define fiction, check your metaphysical assumptions | Aeon Essays What distinguishes fiction from nonfiction? The answer to this perennial question relies on how we understand reality itself

Can fiction reveal deeper truths about life? Hannah H. Kim’s Aeon essay explores how imaginary stories help us understand emotions, values, and the human condition in ways reality sometimes can't.

https://aeon.co/essays/before-you-define-fiction-check-your-m…

31.01.2025 09:00 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Interesting article on what call 'the survival of the ideas that fit', showing the influence of the 'politics of familiarity', not just on use of evidence in policy-making, but on what knowledge is even considered to *be* reliable evidence.

10.02.2025 18:12 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you, and good luck with the event. I'll watch the recording later.
The irony is that even the WHO, with its mission of Global Health Equity, uses this platform despite its systematic exclusion of users.

07.02.2025 12:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Due to U.S. sanctions, Iran is not on the list of countries, and we cannot register :(

05.02.2025 06:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0