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Lukas Engelmann

@engelmal.bsky.social
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Chancellor's Fellow at Uni of Edinburgh (STIS & CBSS) Author of 'Mapping AIDS' (CUP), co-author of 'Sulphuric Utopias' (MIT) PI at the Epidemy Lab (ERC): epidemy.org

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Dan Cohen @dancohen.org · 06/10/2026
On the 20th anniversary of Zotero's 1.0 release on October 5, 2006, I wrote a history of the collaboration and years it took to create the popular research tool now used by over 20 million people: newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...
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The Slow Formation of Durable Software
How a group of historians took years to imagine Zotero, the research application that would eventually be used by millions
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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Yes 📣 @katewomersley.com 📣 "This political theatre highlights a longstanding and harmful problem: pregnant women, and their babies, are routinely let down by partial, poor-quality and missing medical evidence." 👇👇👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Pregnant women deserve so much better than Trump’s theatre of scaremongering and shame | Kate Womersley
There is no credible evidence linking autism with maternal paracetamol use. But the US president’s ‘tough it out’ message could harm mothers and babies, says doctor Kate Womersley
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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 09/09/2025
Very exciting new project funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social - Medicine without doctors, co-led by an incredible team at Edinburgh’s Usher, @engelmal.bsky.social www.medicinewithoutdoctors.org
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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Massive opportunity to work with us in Edinburgh on Medicine without Doctors. 5 full-time postdocs each for 5 years starting in April 2026. Please share widely!
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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
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 @nam.edu @humanitiesau.bsky.social @acmedsci.bsky.social @apha.org
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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...
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Kari Lancaster @karilancaster.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
New paper! What does it mean to be epistemically prepared for the next disease outbreak? gh.bmj.com/content/10/6... Led by @wombatscholar.bsky.social with @sonjavw.bsky.social @seyeabimbola.bsky.social @rachelankeny.bsky.social @engelmal.bsky.social @mstoove.bsky.social @cwaldby.bsky.social et al
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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Stellar review of a breathtaking book. @katewomersley.com at her best!
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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
The White House has turned COVID.gov from a public health resource into a politically charged platform promoting the lab-leak theory and attacking specific scientists and the pandemic response in general. Let’s fact check its 5 headline claims… 🧵
The virus possesses a biological characteristic that is not found in nature.
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Data shows that all COVID-19 cases stem from a single introduction into humans. This runs contrary to previous pandemics where there were multiple spillover events.
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Wuhan is home to China’s foremost SARS research lab, which has a history of conducting gain-of-function research (gene altering and organism supercharging) at inadequate biosafety levels.
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Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) researchers were sick with COVID-like symptoms in the fall of 2019, months before COVID-19 was discovered at the wet market.
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By nearly all measures of science, if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have already surfaced. But it hasn’t.
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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 17/04/2025
This weekend will be the last issue of The Observer published on The Guardian website (I've written a piece on Sophie Gilbert's new book Girl on Girl). Many super talented journalists and editors I've worked with are leaving without clear prospects due to the transition to Tortoise. Sad times.
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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Agree to disagree. This is entirely in line with the language used by UUK up and down the country and fits also on to the rhetoric with which cuts in Edinburgh are rationalised. Its a good representation of a misguided management policy that imho will not help to resolve the funding crisis
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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
The issue is not that it might look on a spreadsheet like that but I contest that this a) could even be conceived to be severed from teaching and b) that research costs should be ever considered anything else but investment, and one that should be the sector's main expenditure.
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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
According to UUK, teaching seems to be a whole different kind of spreadsheet, not even a tab on the business calculations for the sector. Sigh.
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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
"research activity conducted by Universities is fantastically loss-making," Vivien Stern, @universities-uk.bsky.social on BBC4 today Reckless choice of word to describe a public good, produced by public service institutions, charities and their workforce. This is what got us into this mess.
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Sarah Bracke @antigonesdream.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
In March, Sandra Harding died. With colleagues from (then) Women's Studies at Utrecht University, where Harding's work was pivotal in PhD training & where I had the pleasure to organize a PhD workshop, together with María Puig de Bellacasa, with Sandra, we wrote this piece. Honoring the pioneers.
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In Memorium: Sandra Harding (1935-2025)
IN MEMORIAM: SANDRA HARDING (1935-2025) Rosi Braidotti, Sarah Bracke, and Iris van der Tuin   In the history of feminist theory, there is a before and an after Sandra Harding. She has structured th…
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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Open Access publication out in History of Human Sciences! 'Making Contagion Social' is a parallel history of epidemiological modelling and the sociology of imitation. I read Gabriel Tarde's work through the lens of Ronald Ross' 'theory of happening' to contest journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
...our modern distinction between susceptibility and suggestibility, infection and imitation, epidemiologies of the social (cf, Ross), and a 'sociology of the stars' (Tarde). Epidemic modelling took shape, I argue, as a theory of the social, at a time when contagion became a matter of biology.
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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Open Access publication out in History of Human Sciences! 'Making Contagion Social' is a parallel history of epidemiological modelling and the sociology of imitation. I read Gabriel Tarde's work through the lens of Ronald Ross' 'theory of happening' to contest journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
#STS #socmed @ingridkyoung.bsky.social @agomoni.bsky.social @cathm.bsky.social @stsucl.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social @4sonline.bsky.social @stsyorku.bsky.social @sthv.bsky.social ....
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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
🚨Job Klaxon🚨 Seeking a post-doc for 5.5 years (!) on our brand new @medicinewithoutdoctors.org project! The candidate will be working with @cathm.bsky.social and the wider team to lead on playful, design-based methodological collaboration. Deadline 31 March 2025 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMD146/p...
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Medicine without Doctors) at The University of Edinburgh
Explore an exciting academic career as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Medicine without Doctors). Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
How might one go about to make organs "speak" differently? Brilliant review by @katewomersley.com in this week's Observer of a stellar book by Gabriel Weston www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
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Alive: An Alternative Anatomy by Gabriel Weston review – our bodies in an eye-opening new light
A surgeon (and TV host) encourages us to take a fresh look at our organs in a smart and forceful study
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Dora Vargha @doravargha.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
DEADLINE!!! Don't forget to submit your paper or panel proposal for #EAHMH25 in Berlin by March 10. It's going to be a fantastic conference with keynotes @historyelaine.bsky.social , Projit Mukharji and Birgit Nemec. More information and link to submission site at eahmh25.org #histmed #histSTM
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EAHMH: Health Beyond Medicine
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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
'We have not thought enough about that right wing thrill, that sense of exhilaration, that people get....they want to be free to hate, free to be irrational.'
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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Story: www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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Under communications freeze, CDC updates some important health data but not others
One of the CDC's weekly health publications was not published on its regular schedule, and some data about flu and vaccinations wasn't updated.
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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
This morning I taught on the history of AIDS and its 'birth certificate' in the 1981 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. This week the #MMWR has not been published for the first time since 1952. Unhinged executive order vandalism with terrifying implications for trust in epidemiological info.
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STIS Edinburgh @stis-uoe.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Delighted to share our seminar programme for Spring 2025! #STS
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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Cultural Histories of the Black Death. Brilliant thread on what sounds like a fantastic lecture!
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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Lanzmann was clear: the only thing that can be documented are traces of forgetting, of hiding and of unremembering the Shoah. It is a masterpiece, invoking haunting images born out of testimonies about unthinkable violence; images that will never leave you. Watch this, watch it now. #neveragain
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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The most formative film I have ever watched. It was voluntary viewing in a seminar on the history of medicine in the third Reich. Gerhard Baader, the professor, put it on Saturday early am, all students who came stayed for the entire 9.5 hours. It is not a 'documentary' about the Shoah...
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Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr · 16/01/2025
The Institut Pasteur has decided to leave X (formerly Twitter) to join BlueSky! 🦋 The Institut Pasteur made this decision due to several serious issues observed on the X platform since its acquisition. Join us here to continue advocating for science. www.pasteur.fr/en/home/pres...
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Institut Pasteur decides to leave X
The Institut Pasteur, a research organization which for more than 130 years has been committed to tackling infectious diseases, sharing knowledge and defending science, has decided to leave X because ...
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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Quite the debate. You could either go for the veterinary story, which David Robertson has pursued a bit (doi.org/10.2105/AJPH...), but have a good look at @wombatscholar.bsky.social paper, anchoring this in the early 20th century moral panic about crowds: doi.org/10.2105/AJPH..., especially in:
Screenshot of titlepage of W. Trotter's 'Instincts of the herd in peace and war', published in 1916
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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The Semmelweis gambit. Read for bad history takes to deliver poor justification for crap science, stay for insane AIDS / COVID analogies. Thank you @gorskon.bsky.social , really enjoyed this! Will go straight into the #histmed teaching folder
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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Welcome to @bsky.app !
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Ketil Slagstad @slagstadk.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Call for Papers for the biannual conference organized by the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health in Berlin August 26-29, 2025. Submission is now open! #histmed hi.converia.de/frontend/ind...
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Home – EAHMH 2025 Health Beyond Medicine
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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
👀 @franziskazirker.bsky.social @svop.bsky.social
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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
And a warm welcome to the excellent Socialist Medicine project to @bsky.app Folks in #histSci #histMed, follow @socmederc.bsky.social, also for a fantastic hybrid seminar series in 2025.
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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Turns out our University isn't really in financial distress. Trust your union to crunch the numbers when the vice chancellor is just gesturing at opaque forecasts and models. #UCU www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/2eppzf7...
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Dire Financial Straits at UoE? NO! — UCU Edinburgh
Are things really as bad as they say? Find out the truth behind the numbers!
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STIS Edinburgh @stis-uoe.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Hello #STS #metascience #openscience at #bluesky. We have a starter pack with staff, students (past and present) that are part of the STIS community in Edinburgh. It's of course incomplete and boundaries will be porous. Leave a note below if you like to be added. go.bsky.app/N1RREbY
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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Welcome Edinburgh Infectious Disease Network to #IDSky! Follow: @uoe-eid.bsky.social
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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Hi, could you add Edinburgh Infectious Disease Network please @uoe-eid.bsky.social
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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Join us - come and work with us!
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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
The project starts in April 2025. If you like to keep up with the project, you can subscribe to our newsletter here: r1.dotdigital-pages.com/p/2MQP-8DU/mwd
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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Thanks Ketil, I really look forward to it!
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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
oh, very interesting. Lots to discuss!
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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Excited to announce our new Wellcome Discovery Grant, 'Medicine without Doctors. Reimagining Care and Voice through Play' Even more excited to work with 4 fantastic colleagues: @ingridkyoung.bsky.social @cathm.bsky.social @agomoni.bsky.social and Nayha Sethi. www.sps.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...
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SPS researchers to co-lead £4.7 million project on the future of medicine | School of Social and Political Sciencelogo
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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
please add me, thank you!
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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
add me please, thanks!
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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
please add me as well, thanks!
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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
happy to be added, thanks Merle for setting this up
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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
Tomorrow in Berlin and online 👇👇👇
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