Steve Sturdy

Robertson is consistently excellent. And the Land Lay Still is a fabulous wide-screen view of Scotland in the C20.

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Sturdy S. The commercial roots of the genomic commons.
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The relevant team!

I am quick at playing board games; I have nine skills; I forget runes slowly; the book is a preoccupation with me and also craftsmanship. I am able to glide on skis; I shoot and I row so that it makes a difference; I am able to understand both: harp-playing and poems. — Earl Rognvald of Orkney, trans. Judith Jesch.

Weirdly enough I was telling my first-years about "warrior ethos" last week.

Here's the skill set of a Top Viking, as set out by a dude who'd have gone through anyone using the phrase "warrior ethos" like a well-aimed axe.

Greg Dening, Mr Bligh's Bad Language - exquisitely written, sophisticated but accessible

Workhouses in England and Wales linked to transatlantic slave trade, study suggests Report highlights how British workhouses were funded and supported by those who profited from slave economy

See also the voluntary hospitals.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

My recollection is that it contains recipes like ball bearings in cream sauce - so I don't think it was intended as a serious culinary guide.

Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration

So @theturing.bsky.social has decided they no longer need Humanities (!) - so the The Alan Turing Institute’s Humanities and Data Science Interest Group are having one final event: "Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration" In person and online, Oxford, 25th Sept. Pls share!

5.Postdoctoral Fellow working on LGBTQ+ Health activism, based in the Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society, working with Dr Ingrid Young (she/her) & Dr Will Nutland (he/him) (The Love Tank). elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

4. Postdoctoral Fellow working on AI and Physician Associates, based in the Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society, working with Dr Nayha Sethi (she/her) and Professor Lukas Engelmann (he/him) elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

3. Postdoctoral Fellow working on socio-legal elements of AI, based in the Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society and working with Dr Nayha Sethi (she/her) elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

2.Postdoctoral Fellow working on Physician Associates, based in STIS and working with Professor Lukas Englemann (he/him) elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

1. Postdoctoral Fellow working on Abortion Care, based in Law and working with Dr Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra (she/her) elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Five fabulous five-year postdoc positions at University of Edinburgh, as part of the wonderful Medicine Without Doctors project (www.medicinewithoutdoctors.org)

As a rule, IDK - but this cuts close to home.

Described by Stephen King as the first horror movie he ever saw.

Deficits likely as overseas students ‘loss-making’ under levy Middle-tier universities on ‘wafer-thin margins’ face starkest financial challenges from government proposal, policy analysts suggest

Universities make a loss on home teaching. They make a loss on state-sponsored research. Now they will make a loss on international students. So there will be no activities at all that even break even. In those circs you cannot continue: the end.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/deficit...

Jeez! Every attempt at justification...

Delicious!

Long ago I stayed in the youth hostel on Cape Clear Island, and one of the residents came in with a bucketful of crab claws. They'd been out on a boat to help haul the nets. The crabs were hanging on the nets, and shed their claws when knocked off.

Centenary special issue of Annals of Human Genetics now out - including an essay by me on the promissory politics of genomic medicine
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Public health is not a business.

"healthcare business models"? NHS is not a business. Medicare/aid is not a business.

Trouble is, they're all paying silly money to the same consultants who say "Look at university X - they jumped off a cliff on our advice, and look how they're flying".

Postdoc in Public Engagement around Personalized Medicine (Let's Get Personal)

⏰ #histstm #medhums Postdoc ⏰
3-year position in Public Engagement at Medical Museion Copenhagen in a research project on personalized medicine
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Some amazing news amidst the doom and gloom of UK Higher Education

'Regulator mistakenly grants degree-awarding powers to rugby player'

www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ofs-mis...

Not sure about the scale or speed of this one, but yeah, happens every few years.

Comment: ‘Newborn genomes and the NHS Ten-Year Plan: visionary leap or overreach?’
Zeenat Beebeejaun discusses why these initiatives must be ‘built on a foundation of trust, transparency, and fairness’. www.progress.org.uk/newborn-geno...

#NHS #Genomics #DNA #Health #Genetics #newbornscreening

Pennyroyal features repeatedly.

It's an excellent book - deserves a very wide readership.