Sam Miles

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QMUL’s Whitechapel medical campus @qmul.bsky.social giving Mediterranean vibes in today’s sunshine 😎

I touch on the human rights work of @helenbamber.bsky.social; legacy of children's writer David Rees and his fight with #HIV; and finally what I learn from patients and @england.nhs.uk Barts students @qmulfmd.bsky.social in co-produced research, via wisdom from former @lshtm.bsky.social colleagues.

Helen Bamber, Legacies, and "From the Horse's Mouth" (Sam Miles)

I was invited by my colleague Dr Stephen Hibbs @qmul-wiph.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social to speak on 'Thinking In Between' #podcast. He asked me to bring three 'ideas' to our recording: books or theories, thinkers or methods. Find out what I chose, & listen for free: open.spotify.com/episode/3qVJ...

I’m never not-astounded by the Bridgerton splendour of Barts @bharchives.bsky.social. It’s so beautiful - and still a working hospital (with our very own @qmul students), centuries on!

The Bezos Cannes-tastrophe Starring Jeff Bezos as himself, Lauren Sánchez as an environmentalist, and Cannes as the end-stage symptom of elite delusion.

Bezos and Sánchez off to pick up climate award on yacht that all by itself has the annual carbon footprint as 1,250 Europeans or 72,000 Africans, all for work on the Bezos Climate Fund that aimed to be self-serving for Amazon but ended up not even doing that. louispisano.substack.com/p/the-bezos-...

I made this video from my @ucu.org.uk update on current cuts & redundancies in UK higher education. Universities generate *four times* the economic output of the entire farming sector (House of Lords & Universities UK 2024) and are in crisis- not that you’d know it from Government or media.

I'm excited to publish entries on 'Space' and 'Nightlife' for the Encyclopaedia of Queer Studies (2025).
In a political climate reducing trans people to legislative 'gotchas', it's even more important we support queer communities. I have some free PDFs of each entry, DM if interested #LGBT #research

Mile End campus @qmul.ac.uk looking dreamy in the sun

Blimey, Gail’s is opening in Hackney Central in the old town hall-> coral betting shop-> taproom. Urbanists & urban geographers across London swiftly updating their PowerPoint opening lecture slide 🤪

The midification of higher education By now, faculty, staff, and administrators across US higher education are waking up to the realization that this crisis is definitional: however we come out of this mess, it will be permanently and…

The inappropriate internal design of most Anglosphere universities will destroy a huge share of them in the end. Governments should step in and call a halt, else they'll see billions poured down the drain. The worst thing? They're not even aware of this. pardoguerra.org/2025/05/14/t...

V.excited to see the new @sohotheatre.bsky.social Walthamstow for my first comedy gig in ages. This venue has been a long time coming 🤩

Crash course The UK’s universities are among the best in the world. So why do many appear close to collapse?

Today as my colleagues sadly enter redundancy negotiations, I'm sharing an excellent 2024 article @gsoh31.bsky.social @prospectmagazine.co.uk on university decline & the seeming disinterest of UK government to help www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...
@qmul.ac.uk @qmucu.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

Daily Ma*l having a totally normal Monday, I see 🧐

UK university redundancies: latest updates As higher education institutions shed thousands of jobs, we track developments and bring together latest analysis with resources for affected staff and students

We are now approaching 4,000 formally announced university redundancies in the UK since January alone. The real situation is far worse than that, and will also accelerate going forwards. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-univ...

Farage's numbers look false, skewed or spun

Of the 16% (10.6m) people born abroad, 6/10 had arrived before 2011 [so he can't claim 7m new registrations since 2015]

- about 4/10 of those born abroad are UK citizens
+ non-citizens on visas pay £1035/year NHS surcharge. NHS net gain on £ now

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The cherry tree in my garden gets better every year 🤩

Bart’s hospital Pathology museum looking beyootiful today in chilly sunshine. All set for @qmul.ac.uk 5th year exams. What a space to do them!

Name a better east London art deco 😋

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When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”

Virologist Wendy Barclay: ‘Wild avian viruses are mixing up their genetics all the time. It’s like viral sex on steroids’ The British scientist on the risk of humans contracting bird flu, how people would cope with new lockdowns and being asked to pour the tea because she is a woman

Great article featuring a #virology legend @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social for @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/science/2025... #covid #health #research #vaccine

I invited UCL’s Dr Emily Nicholls to come and give a talk to some of our @qmul.ac.uk first-year medics on HIV in the past, present & future. She was brilliant, as usual! #LGBTQ #HIV #MedEd #uni

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Universities announcing job losses and/ or course closures in just the last two weeks:
*Cardiff
*University of the Creative Arts
*Dundee
*Durham
*Kent
*Lancaster
*Newcastle
*Open University
*Reading
*University of the West of England

Finally some sun! It feels like a million years. Now: to sunbathe.

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How Lagging Vaccination Could Lead to a Polio Resurgence In its original form, the virus survives in just two countries. But a type linked to an oral vaccine used in other nations has already turned up in the West.

How Lagging Vaccination Could Lead to a Polio Resurgence

In @nytimes.com times David Heymann discusses dangers of
#polio resurgence in US if #vaccine rates drop or jab is made less accessible by incoming administration.💉 #PublicHealth

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/h...

A moment that changed me: I tasted honey so sublime, I gave up my career to keep bees When a neighbour let me see inside his hive, it set me on a path to an extraordinary life second act

What a lovely @theguardian.com article on the beauty of beekeeping for a dreary January evening. Someone take my laptop before I buy a large wooden hive: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Awful news - fatality at Stratford High St/Carpenters Rd, 2pm yesterday (Monday 13 January)

A man in 20s cycling, killed at known dangerous junction in collision involving driver manoeuvring HGV.

More from us as we find out more @newhamcyclists.bsky.social

Our thoughts with friends and family.