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That’s a wrap for my first AusSTS conference @aussts.bsky.social! Talked about COVID conspiracy theories in the Philippines—always fun!—and moving beyond thinking about them as mere ‘unscientific noise’. Naarm has been swell, but this weather is something else.

#AusSTS25 #signalsandnoises

Had a swell time at HOMSEA ‘25. Might just be my favorite conference yet—so much fascinating work from the historians of medicine. Of course, a trip to Yogyakarta would be incomplete without side quests to Borobudur (a bucket-list site for me since grade school) and Prambanan.

#histmed #histstm

Crossed ~the~ bridge. (during the afternoon of the massive police operation no less.)

Didn’t think we’d ever see the day.

Ok this was all sorts of brilliant.

My MA thesis won a thing! Thanks to the Association of Southeast Asian Studies (ASEAS), the UK-based group, though it appears they’re not on bluesky yet?

Climbed a mountain!

Category is a Filipino writer you’d recommend to someone looking to read Filipino writers.

Hands down my best read of 2024.

How close is a new bird flu (H5N1) pandemic? Probably not around the corner but getting uncomfortably closer.

You've probaly seen various headlines this year about bird flu and the potential for a new pandemic.

So I've written a new substack as a simple explainer on what a flu pandemic actually is, why bird flu and what's been going on over the last 3 years.

open.substack.com/pub/christin...

Apple TV+ adaptation ng novel!!

Hindi ka ba nanonood ng Pachinko?!

Congrats, Ross! (and see you?😊)

Bonjour!

Tokyo two weeks ago. JRR Tolkien could never.

The Life and Death of Modern Homosexuality | Ben Miller Those of us who inhabit today’s homosexual subjectivities will need to do more than assume that our cocksucking makes us radical.

I kinda went off in this one ngl thebaffler.com/latest/the-l...

Meanwhile, in the Western Visayas where I’m from, it is 🔥sweltering🔥 (there can be no in between i guess)

Have only been here a couple of days, but, judging by the latest one I just saw, these “starter packs” are starting to tell interesting stories of their own.🤔🤔

Finished a book! (that has almost nothing to do with my phd topic, but i digress)

If the news sites make a mass migration, that would probably be the end of Twitter for me.

Finally gave in; hello, blue app. Chartres was a dream last summer.