Steve Sturdy

Authority: Essays on Being Right by Andrea Long Chu review – scorching hot takes The Pulitzer-winning critic has some choice words for the likes of Zadie Smith, Hanya Yanagihara and Bret Easton Ellis

Yanagihara's A Little Life as Munchausen by proxy. Thank you Andrea Long Chu. share.google/nhPEBFyJVdTc...

Wellcome-funded 'Between Deception and Dissent' project is recruiting a postdoc working at the interface of medical STS and socio-legal studies, supervised by Martyn Pickersgill @ Edinburgh #STS www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNY639/r...

Check out the Curfew micropub for something to wash it down.

You doing a Lowry?

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Fabulous job (STS/sociolegal studies of medical disinformation) in a wonderfully collegial, intellectually stimulating research center:
Research Fellow at The University of Edinburgh share.google/yRbrFbrn4DyT...

I'd love to know what you make of it.

The Fortunes of Genomic Medicine: A Quarter Century of Promise Background The culmination of the Human Genome Project in the early 2000s came wreathed in promises of a revolution in medicine and healthcare. The ensuing quarter century has seen remarkable growth...

(Ignore the banner re African populations.)
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Excellent - I'll be in fine company.

This is very nice. Will it be in the centenary SI of Annals?

The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh also had exceptional links with slavery, including owning a plantation for a period. NHS Lothian Charity has done some impressive and thoughtful work with the Health Board on this shameful history: org.nhslothian.scot/aboutus/atla...

Review of Race and History | The University of Edinburgh The academically-led review explores historic racial and colonial injustices, including enslavement, linked to the University as well as reassessing current policies and procedures.

Full report and appendices here: Review of Race and History | The University of Edinburgh share.google/O56DYUEhVgAa...

Just in case anyone was in any doubt.

***Job Opportunity in History***

Assistant Professor, Science, Technology, and Society, Harvey Mudd College

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UK higher education - who needs academics when you've got brand consultants?

Delighted to have this e-pub, in advance of the forthcoming centenary special issue of Annals of Human Genetics.

Writing History Articles: A Workshop for PhD students and ECRs

Writing History Articles: A Workshop for PhD students and ECRs - @hisjournalha.bsky.social is organising this event on 19 September for those looking for support with preparing their first journal articles for publication. Do think of applying!

www.history.org.uk/higher-ed/re...

Excellent. Timely indeed, and a fine line-up of speakers. One for the diary.

Definition of a rare disease is <1 in 2000, ultra-rare <1 in 50000. Definition of a common post-vaccine abnormality = 1 in 37000 - well on the way to ultra-rare.

Lovely thread for 5.15 on Friday.

A clearly AI-generated "vintage travel poster" of Edinburgh, showing something vaguely like a famous Edinburgh landmark but totally different.

A clearly AI-generated "vintage travel poster" of Edinburgh, showing something vaguely like a famous Edinburgh landmark but totally different.

A clearly AI-generated "vintage travel poster" of Edinburgh, showing something vaguely like a famous Edinburgh landmark but totally different.

A clearly AI-generated "vintage travel poster" of Edinburgh, showing something vaguely like a famous Edinburgh landmark but totally different.

I'm the kind of person who semi-regularly trawls ebay looking for old books, pamphlets or ephemera related to Edinburgh history, so I'm absolutely *thrilled* that my searches are increasingly drowned by AI-generated gibberish "Vintage Travel Posters" selling at £19.99-29.99 a copy.

No social scientists?

Just as importantly, it found no increase for surrounding roads, where there has been a negligible increase in traffic levels, despite concerns about displacement
Increase road capacity and you increase traffic, decrease capacity and you decrease traffic overall

See also: death by satnav.

Bezos wedding guest takes us through her extravagant goodie bag from the wedding 💗

Genetic Determinism in the Genetics Curriculum - Science & Education Twenty-first-century biology rejects genetic determinism, yet an exaggerated view of the power of genes in the making of bodies and minds remains a problem. What accounts for such tenacity? This artic...

Genetic Determinism in the Genetics Curriculum | Science & Education share.google/MJHXYSskP8jG... - reflects on this

Stats from a dying web A startling statistic from Google’s antitrust trial raises fears that a long-predicted decline has now begun

“Multiple analyses have now found that Google’s AI overviews have resulted in declines of 70 to 80 percent in the click-through rates to the web pages from which they derive their information. That’s 70 to 80 percent fewer visits to web pages”

My mum used that phrase constantly when we were kids, despite her Irish descent.

Epistemic preparedness Preparedness strategies for emergent infectious diseases have focused on microbial surveillance, medical stockpiling and healthcare infrastructure resilience. But what does it mean to be epistemically...

In BMJ Global Health, open access: epistemic preparedness. We argue for the social sciences and the humanities - expanding the category of expert - in preparing for the next pandemic!

#pandemic #epidemiology #histstm #histmed #sts
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It's that time again. Sounding the Exeter #academicjob klaxon! 3yr Research Fellow post with a focus on environmental-social-health inequalities, working with my excellent colleague Rebecca Lynch in Egenis. Come and join us! #sts #sustainability #medsoc #anthropology

The Anglican cathedral is pretty impressive too, in a very different way - an interesting exercise in 'compare and contrast'.