Hannah Brown

Coming your way next week! With @emilywebz.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk

@durhamimh.bsky.social

Lovely view of Durham cathedral from my temporary office at the IAS for our major project 'Interest in Cattle: value, risk and security in eastern and southern Africa' www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins... with Emily Webster @emilywebz.bsky.social, Justin Willis and Francis Masse

Prospective Students - NINE DTP The competition for 2026-27 is open Tuition FeesHome fees (£5,006 in 2025-26) covered for all students. Additional support for international students facilitated through university agreements.StipendT...

Want to do a PhD in social science at Durham? Are you interested in health and mental well-being? Or in environmental and planetary health? Our ESRC NINE DTP scholarships come w/ a range of pathways and perks: call now open for 2026-27! Get in touch.
www.ninedtp.ac.uk/the-application-process/

Coming soon! I'll be talking about a book project on Lassa fever that is close to completion, written with Annie Wilkinson and Alumdena Mari Saez. Under contract with Cornell UP

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Starmer under pressure from cabinet to recognise Palestinian statehood Exclusive: Wes Streeting among ministers pushing for action after calling Israeli attacks on aid sites ‘intolerable’

FINALLY!! Keep the pressure on. How long must this continue? @teamlabouruk.bsky.social stand tall and stand up to this unforgivable violence

Starmer under pressure from cabinet to recognise Palestinian statehood | Gaza | The Guardian share.google/FsKgECzDBSuW...

"And we're going to stand up for Haiti because you taught the world about freedom and its time we return the favor"

We're showcasing some of our @erc.europa.eu projects, including work by Professor Hannah Brown & her team to deepen understanding of human-animal relations in evolving economic conditions. Read more: bit.ly/4dMQQkU
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@mamatommy.bsky.social

Well look what just came up on my Google alert... www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...

Human-animal studies online course fall 2025. Free to PhD students. Guest lecturers: Krithika Srinivasan and Kuai Shen. More info: www.facebook.com/animalsinsoc... Sign up now, limited group size!

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o - a giant of African literature - dies aged 87 The Kenyan author sent shockwaves through African literature by refusing to write in English.

BBC News - Giant of African literature Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o dies aged 87
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Couple successfully sue council over school’s footballs landing in garden of £2m home Mohamed and Marie-Anne Bakhaty say they could not use their swimming pool and had to cancel garden party

Starving, multiply displaced people in tents are being bombed, 50 UK families own as much as half the population, and you have almost no chance of saving to buy a house (unless you inherit money, forget it). And somehow (a) this happened and (b) it's news... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

@durhamanthropology.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social

Does One Health need an ontological turn? One Health has gained global prominence in recent years. Alongside its emergence, there have been extensive social science critiques. In this contribution, we make the case for the value of recent ...

Our latest plug for the value of anthropological theory in applied contexts. Writing led by my colleague Andrea Kaiser Grolimund @swisstph.ch with collaboration from the Alive Africa project team. Funding: @erc.europa.eu Does One Health need an ontological turn? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Miserable

Hey you. Malignant narcissist. Name rhymes with Bump. See our @independentsage.bsky.social report on Diversity in Science. Evidence is all in there, should you wish to look. You’re welcome.

independentsage.org/report/how-d...

Weekend reading material just arrived! I hope it's going to be an interesting combo... Ordered second hand and from the wonderful bookshop.org who make a donation to my favourite local bookshop of course 😊

Now sending money to a friend in a Kenya so that she can access HIV care and medication. It's like going back to the 2000s. The new reality of global public #unhealth

Congratulations!

Bird flu confirmed in rats for first time, USDA reports The latest bird flu detections come as the U.S. Department of Agriculture is trying to rehire bird flu experts​ that were fired as part of DOGE cost-cutting efforts.

A very perilous development in the H5N1 flu panzootic has just been observed: "Bird flu confirmed in rats for first time" www.cbsnews.com/news/bird-fl...

The Tighty-Whities Test - Limn Why are farmers burying underwear in their fields?

You can read the piece here: limn.press/article/the-...

We have a job opening @durhamanthropology.bsky.social
for an Anthropologist of data who can lead a large module on critical studies of data. Lovely department in a small but beautiful city in North East England. Please share widely.
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I've learnt that using AI is better by Haiku. Here's today's artful contribution.

Any academic marking student essays could have predicted this! Hard to prove though 😜

We have great programmes in Medical Anthropology and Global and Planetary Health.... Come to our online open days to find out more!

I'm so impressed you have a seminar playlist. At this point in January I just need a get out of bed playlist! Tips...?

Are you looking to connect into conversations across the medical humanities? Do you want to learn more about the latest concepts, writers, projects and people animating the field?

The Polyphony has arrived in BlueSky 🎉🦋🐟 Please join us & share widely @the-polyphony.bsky.social #MedHums

📚📚📚 New Book Review! 📚📚📚

Amy Cox Hall reviews //Eating Besides Ourselves: Thresholds of foods & bodies// by @Heather Paxson & Marianne Elisabeth Lien, eds @DukePress 2023 #AnthroSky

Find it here on Early View: ⬇️
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Leeds teenager creates Venus de Milo sculpture out of snow The Bramhope Venus was created out of snow by 17-year-old Emily Bates in her Leeds back garden.

Comforting news story: Leeds teenager creates Venus de Milo sculpture out of snow www.bbc.com/news/article...

Congratulations! 👏🎊 Looks great, and what a beautiful cover.