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Khameer Kidia 🏳️‍🌈 @globalhealing.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

While I was in the throes of writing Empire of Madness, a friend recommended I read Tastes Like War by Grace Cho. I picked it up and couldn’t stop until I was finished. This gorgeous memoir—an exploration of food, memory, mourning, war, and schizophrenia—changed the way I think about mental health.

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Khameer Kidia 🏳️‍🌈 @globalhealing.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

First book review of Empire of Madness is in from Kirkus: “An ambitious take on the diagnosis and treatment of mental health issues viewed through a cross-cultural lens.” www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

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Khameer Kidia 🏳️‍🌈 @globalhealing.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I wrote this essay at the end of the first Trump presidency. It feels even more urgent today than it did back then. lareviewofbooks.org/blog/essays/... @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social

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Khameer Kidia 🏳️‍🌈 @globalhealing.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I’ll be talking about my book, Empire of Madness, in the UMaine philosophy department today at 4pm. Join if you can!

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Reading them and writing them.

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David Brady @davebrady72.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Over lifetime, each additional year of union membership reduces the odds of mortality by 1.5%. Effects primarily occur between ages of 41 and 67. Nice work @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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The Mortality Implications of a Unionized Career

An emerging literature has documented a wide range of protections and benefits that union membership provides for health and wellbeing. However, this …

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Rochelle A. Burgess PhD @thewrittenro.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I’m in good company now @seyeabimbola.bsky.social

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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I missed this when it appeared last week. As @zekefaux.bsky.social writes, Trump's cryptocurrency "isn't very appealing as an investment.... but it's a good way to send money to the Trumps." So in case you were hoping to buy some influence...

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Trump’s Crypto Project Was a Bust Until Justin Sun Stepped In

Donald Trump’s crypto project, World Liberty Financial, was looking like a bust. The president-elect and his sons had been promoting its cryptocurrency for weeks, saying it would “make finance great a...

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Seye Abimbola @seyeabimbola.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

“Unfair knowledge practices easily beset our efforts to achieve health equity within & between countries. Enacted by people from a distance & from a position of power…” Please read our realist synthesis using pose & gaze to make sense of epistemic injustice. Here: academic.oup.com/heapol/artic...

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Seye Abimbola @seyeabimbola.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I'm happy to announce that my book, "The Foreign Gaze: Essays on Global Health", is now out! You can order the print copy and download the e-copy (open access) here: www.editions.ird.fr/produit/728/... The book comes with a playlist for your listening pleasure: open.spotify.com/playlist/5K5...

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Seye Abimbola @seyeabimbola.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

To mark the centenary of James Baldwin, I wrote a short essay for @TheLancet. On what he's taught me about responding to pushback. To beware of "strategic ignorance" and "the imaginary line of selective judgment". James Baldwin: ignorance, power, justice - www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The image is a screenshot of a 2-page article titled James Baldwin: ignorance, power, justice

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Kyle Swanson, MD, FAANS, FCNS @kiswanson.medsky.network · 12/11/2024

Looking for medical professionals to follow? Just added the 4th installment #medsky 🩺 Round 1 go.bsky.app/Qg2TA9p Round 2 go.bsky.app/9ziyYqt Round 3 go.bsky.app/9WQtZh6 Round 4 go.bsky.app/HRaNhEt I’ll keep adding to the 4th (until it maxes out at 150)

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 15/11/2024

#PsychSky - a global community of psychiatrists, psychologists, mental health professionals, people w lived experience, policy folks & anyone else interested in the brain - is growing! Follow starter packs I & II below. Just say if you want to be added 🧠 go.bsky.app/C36fgiD go.bsky.app/3UH1pKc

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Since the current Anthropology/Archaeology Starter Pack is full, I have started a second one focusing on active public communicators. Come see us on our accounts or on the Anthropology/Archaeology Feed! 🏺 go.bsky.app/3MxCYy5

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Updated Global Health starter pack #2! go.bsky.app/RScFWyt

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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Had a handful of homophobic/transphobic messages here today because I’ve created a Starter Pack supporting LGBTQIA+ writers. Please follow and share this pack to help keep Bluesky the positive place it promises to be. go.bsky.app/UD2Hf7W

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