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Angela Cassidy

@angecass.bsky.social
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Undisciplined scholar. Researching science, society+policy; humans-animals-environments; #OneHealth #microbes #STS #HistSTM #scicomm. Author, 'Vermin, Victims and Disease: British Debates over Badgers and Bovine TB'

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 13h
A thread in 20 photographs, telling the story of the long and fraught road of a novel that came back from the dead...
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 16h
They are under investigation for possible misconduct (www.science.org/content/arti...)
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Controversial Danish vaccine research group faces new allegations
Researchers say they couldn’t find complete data for 10 trials that together enrolled tens of thousands of children in Guinea-Bissau
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Laura Watts @laurawatts.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
4S is Solarpunk #ShortFilm Did you miss this at #4SToronto? Short film made for Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) 40th Anniversary celebrations. I was asked to make film set in 2076, looking back at 4S and Science & Technology Studies #STS and what they could become… […]
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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 11/10/2026
Well now we know why Spider-Noir was actually cancelled.
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I'd like to see a lot more heat - naming and shaming - on the Danish researchers here. the USians involved are a lost cause, but I hope we are still able to resist this grossness spreading in Europe.
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Lisounours @lise-l.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière
Image de deux cerfs allongés devant des rouleaux de foin
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette have been quietly incorporating AI tools into their publishing processes without public disclosures or author consent” 😨😨😨
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Adrian Currie @adrian-currie.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The Science of Lost Worlds is out! OA! illustrations by the magnificent Jim Robins, audiobook feat the amazing Boo Jackson as Prof Ichthy. Delicious paleontological #philsci for your reading/listening pleasure. So many people helped me make this - much greatful ucp.manifoldapp.org/projects/978...
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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
As expected, the Prime Minister's promise to sort out the mess of funding for Jodrell actually meant nothing - it seems the government would like it to be some sort of heritage theme park when you can go and see where we used to do science. 🔭
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Dr Joanne Norcup @drjn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Day 10 of the UCU workers' strike at the University of Edinburgh, over major job cuts, worsening terms & conditions, and the continued financial mismanagement of the senior leadership. Scenes from the picket lines reveal how we continue to fight. In this image, members of our UCUE leadership ...
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If you care about the British Library, consider applying to join the Board! apply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk/roles/9596?n...
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Appointment details – British Library up to x7 Board Members – Apply for a public appointment – GOV.UK
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Dr Eleanor Shaw @eleanorshaw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Request: Do you know of any oral history projects with relevance to covid-19? Context: I'm doing a mapping exercise for my new job at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social on covid commemoration. I have a pretty solid list but I know there are more out there! Please share!
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 07/10/2026
Yes this! Also who's out here writing a book so EXACTLY INTERCHANGEABLE with another author's book that a reader would, in theory, only buy one of the two? Nobody! Books books books delicious books Nothing more delicious than a book I want ALL writers to write more books for me
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🚨 ALERT 🚨: All of Stuart Hall's notebooks have been digitized and are freely available to browse and read??? stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...
Stuart Hall notebook: NOTES ON THE REPRODUCTION OF IDEOLOGIES AND THE MEDIA (Orange notebook, "Summit Students Pad")Stuart Hall notebook page with headline: "Problems for a Marxist Theory of the Media" and a series of bulletpoints. Lined notebook paper with black handwriting.
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Angela Cassidy @angecass.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Just twigged this means you have New Job, and with awesome @britishlibrary.bsky.social Congratulations!
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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A lot of excitement on here about the article in Science summarising the discoveries of @alistairsponsel.bsky.social and Brian Sutton, just published in the Journal of the History of Biology. Some people have asked, so here is what I think they show, and what are the implications:
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Photograph 49 is the Key to Understanding the History of Rosalind Franklin’s DNA Photograph 51 - Journal of the History of Biology
This essay, co-authored by a historian of science and an X-ray crystallographer, sheds new light on Rosalind Franklin’s Photograph 51. We refute the infamous claim that, unlike James Watson, Franklin ...
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Nathan Nelson @nathannelson.co.uk · 06/10/2026
It's easy enough to walk past Devon hedge banks covered in moss and forget that they were made by people, until the moss parts and you see the stone-facing peeping out like exposed bones.
Mature beech tree with a thick, moss-covered trunk and a long, mossy limb reaching out to the right, rooted in a moss-covered bank faced with stone with scattered ferns and fallen copper leaves. Misty fields, a wire fence and a wooden gate rail fade into the pale fog behind.
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#skystorians #histSTM
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University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the badgers, for today is their special day! To celebrate National Badger Day, here is an illustration of a badger from the book 'Animated Nature' (1828) by Georges-Louis Leclerc. 📷 Reserve 590 BUF #NationalBadgerDay #BadgerDay #RareBooks
Cropped image from a book, showing a colour illustration of a badger standing on a patch of grass, painted in shades of black, white and green.
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Matthew Kavanagh @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Responders should be able to swarm a place when its first few infections appear, tracing contacts, engaging communities before transmission takes off… “Putting out small fires isn’t possible, you end up with massive fires everywhere” @jasongale.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Ebola Spreads ‘Like Wildfire’ as Health Workers Battle Exhaustion
Experts in the Democratic Republic of Congo are struggling to keep up as the virus spreads to new areas, stretching the human and financial resources available to fight it.
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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Second week on strike with UCU Edinburgh. We will be on strike for five weeks - taking out the entire first half of term, up to the first assessments - but we could be back in the classroom tomorrow if management withdrew the threat of compulsory redundancies.
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Angela Cassidy @angecass.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oh brilliant, thankyou!
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Angela Cassidy @angecass.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Looks like Edinburgh have pulled that resource, do you know of another good one?
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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
i wrote about this last year www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-in-p...
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‘Doing the Readings’
Dr Will Pooley (Associate Professor in Modern History), University of Bristol The students, we often grumble, don’t read the secondary readings we set for class. Every year, we find ourselves press…
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Nathaniel Comfort @nccomfort.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Most histories take the double helix as the obvious goal of xrc on DNA fibers. If we want to honor Franklin, we need to stop trying to explain her work as almost getting the double helix. We need to understand her on her own terms. The Sponsel and Sutton paper takes us a good step in that direction
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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
'The University of Nottingham has confirmed that it will close its music and languages departments as it presses ahead with more than 500 job cuts despite widespread opposition from staff and students.' A blight on East Midlands and UK higher education.
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Nottingham confirms course closures with hundreds of jobs affected
Languages and music departments to close despite strikes and protests but university insists it has addressed staff concerns in revised plans
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Max Planck Institute for the History of Science @mpiwg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#CfA: The MPIWG is offering First Research Article #Fellowships for 📑 doctoral students based at Asian, African, or Latin American institutions, to publish their first English article on 📚 history of science, technology, and medicine, or #STS 🗓️ Deadline: Jan 15, 2027 🔗 tinyurl.com/mu5tend3
Green and white text on a dark green background which features botanical or anatomical drawings. The text reads: "Become a fellow. First Research Article Fellowship Program. Deadline: January 15, 2027".
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Gregg Mitman @greggmitman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Outbreak risk is "critically a question about inequality, about who is most likely to get sick, and why, and who can access healthcare, diagnostics and treatment at the point when they’re most needed.”
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Far From A Hospital, Even A Deadly Outbreak May Go Undetected
New research on 58,319 infection records finds the geography of emerging disease tracks healthcare access more than deforestation or climate change
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Angela Marques Filipe @angelaofthenorth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As an academic, occasional archival researcher, and Library Rep, I'm delighted to read this. My semi-reg reminder that Libraries are the last bastions of non-commercial social interaction offering safe "third spaces", respite from sensory overload/co-work, warmth to unhoused folk. 💜 your library!
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Jose A. Cañada @joseacanada.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Happy to announce a 3-year #postdoc opening in our research group on Aquatic #STS at the University of @oulu.fi Position is linked to the amazing SAFIRE interdisciplinary research programme. Get in touch if you have any question! Deadline 15.10.26. oulunyliopisto.varbi.com/what:job/job...
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Science and Technology Studies (STS) and aquatic restoration in the Nordic and Arctic regions
We are looking to hire highly motivated Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Department of Anthropology, in the History, Culture and Communications Unit at the Faculty of Humanities, the University of
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British Society for the Philosophy of Science @thebsps.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Another exciting announcement for BSPS Open: they've released their fifth book, The Science of Lost Worlds by Adrian Currie! Get your OA copy here: press.ucalgary.ca/books/978177... BSPS Open is our monograph series. If you're writing a phil sci monograph, get in touch! www.thebsps.org/bsps-open/
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Science of Lost Worlds
Adrian Mitchell Currie and the fantastical professor Ichthyosaurus explore the epistemology of the historical sciences with a focus on strategic perspectivalism.
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 05/10/2026
UCU members at Edinburgh uni are on strike today. Over 400 film and TV professionals, including Alan Cumming, Hugh Bonneville and Michelle Dockery, back their call to reinstate three creative programmes. Cuts are hitting universities across the UK: educationitsours.org.uk/map/
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A statement from the head of the @boell.de Foundation, the political foundation behind the German Green Party. 👇
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It's that time of year again when we need to remind National Trust members that Restore Trust is a dark-money funded right-wing astroturfing entryist outfit. Please vote, and vote for literally anyone else.
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Exciting job for #envhum postdocs! Project "Tolerating Urban Animals. Techno-moral perspectives on killing and caring for other species" (U Copenhagen) is looking for 2 postdocs to work on use of technologies for managing undomesticated/feral urban animals in 🇩🇰🇸🇪🇳🇴. employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...
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Two Postdoctoral positions in Ethnology at the Saxo Institute, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Big election today and a real crisis decision for Brazil. And the world.
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What to know about Brazil's election pitting Lula against Flávio Bolsonaro
Polls suggest the election will be a closely run contest between the left-wing incumbent and his right-wing rival.
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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 02/10/2026
talked about this before and again, i'm speaking as a third generation journeyman trades worker, but working in trades is not something that any of the people who write these pieces, or honestly most of you, respect at all. It's perceived as something you do when all the "good" options are gone.
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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 02/10/2026
sorry i get fired up about this but like once a month the "why doesn't everyone become [trade]" conversation picks up despite very few of you actually knowing what it feels like to be one (also i would love if someone who actually knows what it's like to work like that wrote about it.)
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Universities cannot expect researchers to take risks if they are repeatedly at risk of redundancy while losing professional services support, grappling with the gratuitous vagaries of home and international student number swings and both teaching and assessing in an age of unregulated AI.
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We're delighted to share that Guy Baxter (Head of Archive Services) will become our new Director from the end of October. Guy succeeds Kate Arnold-Forster, whose retirement concludes an exceptional career. merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-views/g…
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Leadership changes: Guy Baxter becomes our new Director
Guy Baxter becomes the new Director of the University of Reading's Museums and Collections, as Kate Arnold-Forster and Isabel Hughes depart.
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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Lovely story here for those who need one. 🐿️
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Matheus Duarte @alvesduarte.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My research team is organising a reading group once a month on the history and anthropology of human and animal health. If you would like to join, send me a message The meetings will be hybrid, online and at the Dep of Global Health and Social Medicine, King's College London.
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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yesterday, the Secretary to the University of Edinburgh emailed all staff (many on strike) about UoE's Dignity and Respect policy: "offensive and personal attacks are never acceptable". Meanwhile, a student received this response from THE PRINCIPAL to their email supporting the strike.
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Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Doctor Who has described the BBC's new AI-generated director general as "pretty good", and suggested that the technology now enabled the creation of content "at the standard of an unimaginative man who spent years working at McKinsey then Google".
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Becca Harrison @beccaeharrison.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If I were running a university where staff spent weeks and weeks of time putting grant proposals together only for UKRI to feed them into LLMs without informed consent—effectively theft of the time and work—I’d be taking serious action to defend those staff. But I’m not running a university, so
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Angela Cassidy @angecass.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Oh Sophia, I'm so sorry. Remember #TerryAndJuneland well. Take care x
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