Reposted by karimAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 25/08/2026Palestinian artist Sliman Mansour, giant of resistance art, dies aged 79 aje.news/2xzmvt 2404212
karim @sariahmed.bsky.social · 22/06/2026My latest in the @thenation.com with Marc Shi on the political economy of AI in healthcare. Not the "transformation" we're looking for, especially not for the poor majority. www.thenation.com/article/soci...thenation.comThe Last Thing US Healthcare Needs Is an AI TakeoverWe fear that healthcare will become even more financialized as our systems become more deeply entangled with the AI bubble and the speculative investments that accompany it. 000
Reposted by karimChris Morten @cmorten.bsky.social · 27/05/2026A horrifying new Ebola outbreak is underway. There's no approved vaccine for the new strain causing the outbreak. @sariahmed.bsky.social @mattherder.bsky.social Janice Graham & I published a paper last year on the history of J&J's Ebola vaccine—and why it divested in 2023 from new vaccine research. 042
karim @sariahmed.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Our work on the political economy of adenoviral vectors is among few papers connecting the financialization of drug development to the scientific history of ebola. Important context for thinking critically about which players are on the scene responding to the current outbreak. @cmorten.bsky.social 021
karim @sariahmed.bsky.social · 08/05/2026About 45 people at our inaugural Healthcare in Palestine interest group at @societygim.bsky.social 2026 with guests from Doctors Against Genocide, the Nonviolent Medicaid Army and ZinesforFalastin. Register at the link if you couldn't make this session but want to stay connected. 111
karim @sariahmed.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Healthcare in Palestine Interest Group dinner before our inaugural meeting at @societygim.bsky.social, join us for the IG today at 1pm. If you have a conflicting meeting, register to stay in touch. 011
karim @sariahmed.bsky.social · 06/05/2026I wrote with my brilliant friend Marc for the latest issue of the University of the Poor journal: "Global Capital, Healthcare, and the Fourth Industrial Revolution." This article is also available in Spanish. universityofthepoor.org/global-capit...universityofthepoor.orgGlobal Capital, Healthcare and the Fourth Industrial Revolution - University of the PoorLeer este artículo en español by Karim Sariahmed and Marc Shi The Nonviolent Medicaid Army (NVMA) has long held certain core understandings about the relationship between healthcare and global capital... 100
karim @sariahmed.bsky.social · 29/04/2026The inaugural meeting of the @societygim.bsky.social Healthcare in Palestine Interest Group is at the conference in DC this year. We're going to have dinner with some local leaders of Doctors Against Genocide, register here to join or stay in touch, all members welcome. forms.gle/G3qvQ6bqYiH8... 101
Reposted by karimMichael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 13/04/2026This is one of the worst things I have ever read and I study frontier genocide as a profession. 1406178
Reposted by karimAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 09/04/2026Israel strikes central Beirut without warning aje.news/ygb521 19235181
Reposted by karimelia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Israeli soldiers are detonating entire villages in South Lebanon while taking selfies. Ancient mosques, churches, cemeteries, schools, hospitals - all being obliterated by the genocidal regime www.instagram.com/reel/DWrg5xi... 1614211143
karim @sariahmed.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Our National call this week is on “Projects of Survival,” a legacy of the Black Panther Party. Changing the political economic status quo in this nation, inclusive of the war economy, requires us to unite the bottom, those with the most to gain and the least to lose. bit.ly/2026NVMANati... 010
karim @sariahmed.bsky.social · 10/02/2026New in @theprogressivemag.bsky.social. This network has been my organizing home for 12 years, link to an upcoming National Call is at the bottom. progressive.org/latest/the-n...progressive.orgThe Nonviolent Medicaid Army Is Living Martin Luther King Jr.’s ValuesThe NVMA is taking up the mantle of King’s vision to create a ‘nonviolent army of the poor.’ 132
Reposted by karimThe Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 03/02/2026Today, as Gaza continues to be stuck in a bloody limbo, we are turning our website over to Gaza and its people in an initiative we are calling “A Day for Gaza.” There will be no pieces published on our website today that do not come directly from Gaza.thenation.comA Day for GazaToday, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why. 11599340
karim @sariahmed.bsky.social · 02/02/2026socialist scientists: *minding their own business* otherwise reasonable science blogger: *3 part series on why RFK is basically a communist* 000
Reposted by karimlastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Can't now find it but there's a classic old tweet which said something like "Every time we're on the verge of achieving class consciousness in America a CIA sleeper agent activates and, their eyes glowing red, they just tweet out "John Brown was a white saviour"" and I think about it often. 413604652
Reposted by karimProPublica @propublica.org · 01/02/2026BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.propublica.orgTwo CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti ShootingThe two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym... 22673488817188
Reposted by karimMinnesotan Kaiju @whisperingpines.bsky.social · 07/01/2026It is now confirmed from multiple sources that ICE shot a legal observer dead on Portland in Minneapolis between 34th and 33rd street. The victim is dead 16345812192
karim @sariahmed.bsky.social · 11/12/2025Mary Bassett's firing is about many things, but Palestine is among the most prominent. Public health doesn't need to just "muscle up," and join the #resistance, it also needs to confront anti-Palestinian racism and imperialism. 010
karim @sariahmed.bsky.social · 10/12/2025The height of the activity of the National Union of the Homeless was during the housing takeovers in the 1990s - you can learn about them by watching the film Takeover (the PBS version - not the 2021 film by the same name featuring the also-awesome hospital takeovers by the Young Lords). 120
Reposted by karimNIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory @pctcollaboratory.bsky.social · 18/11/2025In a new analysis from the OPTIMUM trial, researchers studied the prevalence and co-occurrence of chronic overlapping #pain conditions among patients with chronic #LowBackPain. Learn more ➡️ duke.is/pctnews20251... 001
Reposted by karim404 Media @404media.co · 13/11/2025NEW: Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while also removing apps designed to warn communities about ICE officials. “Google wanted to ‘not be evil’ back in the day. Well, they're evil now."404media.coGoogle Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation EffortGoogle is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr... 3316361038
Reposted by karimmattherder.bsky.social @mattherder.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Great thread, summarizing our work on J&J's Advac and the perils of what we term 'platform thinking'! 022
Reposted by karimAdam R Houston @healthlawadamh.bsky.social · 23/10/2025This is a neat paper ⬇️. 💉 131
Reposted by karimChris Morten @cmorten.bsky.social · 21/10/2025New paper! Karim Sariahmed, Janice E. Graham, Matthew Herder & Christopher J. Morten, Public Sector Innovation and the Constraints of “Platform Thinking”: An Account of Johnson & Johnson’s Viral Vector Vaccines, 387 Social Science & Medicine 118687 (2025). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/sciencedirect.comPublic sector innovation and the constraints of ‘platform thinking’: An account of Johnson & Johnson's adenoviral vector vaccinesScholarship on political economy of vaccines in the COVID-19 era has focused on mRNA. Yet Johnson & Johnson's (J&J) vaccine based on recombinant adeno… 2145
karim @sariahmed.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Read our work in Social Science & Medicine on vectors, "platforms," and the political economy of vaccine development as it relates to J&J's adenoviral vector. Health research systems can be built to understand and solve public health problems, but that's not what we observed here unfortunately. 1/ 140
Reposted by karimmattherder.bsky.social @mattherder.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Just published in Social Science & Medicine! Led by @sariahmed.bsky.social + @cmorten.bsky.social we interrogate how 'platform thinking' constrains not only pharma companies like J&J but also science more broadly. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comPublic Sector Innovation and the Constraints of ‘Platform Thinking’: An Account of Johnson & Johnson’s Adenoviral Vector VaccinesScholarship on political economy of vaccines in the COVID-19 era has focused on mRNA. Yet Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J) vaccine based on recombinant adeno… 012
Reposted by karimCroakey Health Media @croakeynews.bsky.social · 06/10/2025When journalists, healthcare workers and children are targets, their stories must be recorded and witnessed www.croakey.org/when-journal...croakey.orgWhen journalists, healthcare workers and children are targets, their stories must be recorded and witnessed 034
Reposted by karimCristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 05/10/2025This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL... 33714364315474
Reposted by karimDemocracy Now! @democracynow.org · 06/10/2025Kieran Andrieu, a British Palestinian member of the Global Sumud Flotilla, now back in London, shares what happened when he and fellow activists were captured and imprisoned by Israel. 7219124
Reposted by karimTereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · 25/09/2025This is a very important empirical (!) study accounting for the mental health impact of genocide on health care workers in Gaza. Much respect to the researchers who conducted a survey under the hardest conditions, especially those in Gaza. These urgent testimonies warrant to be read and acted upon 022
Reposted by karimMelissa Sweet @melissasweetdr.bsky.social · 18/09/20252nd Annual Doctors Against Genocide Conference, this weekend, at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Theme: Genocide and Mass Atrocities as a Global Public Health Emergency www.instagram.com/p/DNlYz4dxrOL/instagram.comLogin • InstagramWelcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world. 001
karim @sariahmed.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Relevant data from an overlapping and larger sample collected with @msf.ca and the Palestinian MOH, which we didn't find during the latest revision. Reporting very high levels of stress, anxiety, and depression in mid to late 2024, nearly a year later. sciencepg.com/article/10.1...sciencepg.comPsychological Distress Among Healthcare Providers During the 2023–2025 Israel-Gaza ConflictHealthcare providers in conflict zones face profound psychological challenges that threaten both their well-being and capacity to deliver care. This study examines the mental health burden among 400 h... 000
karim @sariahmed.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Our work on the mental health of health workers in Gaza is now out in @plosglobalpublichealth.org. The findings are not surprising - health workers were being terrorized from the beginning of the genocide (data from December 2023- Jan 2024 peer review is slow). journals.plos.org/globalpublic...journals.plos.orgDisplacement, personal loss, and psychological strain among physicians and nurses working in Gaza, 2023–2024On January 26th 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) recognized plausible grounds for genocide being committed in Gaza by Israel. A hallmark of the violence has been unprecedented attacks on... 1128
Reposted by karimAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 10/09/2025Palestinian children in Gaza are seen collecting the remnants of dough prepared by their mother after an Israeli attack destroyed their tents. 8275186
Reposted by karimAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 09/09/2025Qatari PM Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani has condemned the Israeli strike on Doha as “state terrorism”, warning that Qatar will not tolerate violations of its sovereignty. 1723186
Reposted by karimelia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Nothing is more dangerous to Netanyahu than a ceasefire. He had 2 years to bomb Hamas in Doha and he chose to do so while they were meeting to discuss a ceasefire deal. 210063
karim @sariahmed.bsky.social · 09/09/2025The #Crozer8 were arrested during a sit-in demanding the re-opening of closed Crozer-Chester Hospital in Chester, PA. Hundreds of hospitals are threatened w/ the same. Part of the #NonviolentMedicaidArmy #NVMA National Day of Action for Medicaid. In the @inquirer.com web.archive.org/web/20250908...web.archive.orgEight protesters arrested after sit-in at shuttered Crozer-Chester Medical CenterPut People First PA!, an organization that advocates for Medicaid and hospital access, organized a rally at Crozer’s Upland campus to raise awareness about the need for hospital services in Delco. 010
Reposted by karimRoxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 06/09/2025It’s all an attitude of being fine with authoritarianism, just not in their preferred cities. High crime rates in Republican-led states isn’t a gotcha! It’s a tragedy and a canary in a coal mine about what systemic racism and poverty beget. Do better, y’all. Not one city should be occupied. 8940167
Reposted by karimOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15/03/2025one of the most baffling parts of this. I spent the last decade or so prepping to make the "first they came for ethnic studies" version of the Niemoller point to libs. while they did (see the CRT offensive and book bans) I absolutely did not think children's cancer researchers would be next in line 403836766
Reposted by karimSeye Abimbola @seyeabimbola.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Please read our new @lancetgh.bsky.social paper "Dignity-based practice in global health research: a framework of expectations" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... We analysed complaints on knowledge practices in global health to identify expectations that affirm the dignity of marginalised knowers. 0108
karim @sariahmed.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Please give generously to this relative of my research collaborator. #MedSky #PsychSky www.gofundme.com/f/help-abdul...gofundme.comDonate to Helping a Family That Lost Their Daughter in the War on Gaza, organized by Ibrahim AlwahidiAbdallah never imagined reaching this point and asking for he… Ibrahim Alwahidi needs your support for Helping a Family That Lost Their Daughter in the War on Gaza 021
karim @sariahmed.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Cool paper - not sure how well the MCQ-based design and the output metrics approximate clinical reasoning, but the fact is that we have plenty of researchers asking 'how can we put AI everywhere' and too few asking 'why are we putting AI everywhere?' #MedSky jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...jamanetwork.comFidelity of Medical Reasoning in Large Language ModelsThis cross-sectional study evaluates whether the performance of large language models on medical benchmarks reflects logical reasoning or pattern recognition. 011
karim @sariahmed.bsky.social · 25/08/2025Our organizing theory and practice as it relates to #Medicaid is grounded in the tradition of poverty abolition. You can read about it in the journal of the University of the Poor. Artwork by one of our members. universityofthepoor.org/the-nonviole...universityofthepoor.orgThe Nonviolent Medicaid Army: A Healthcare Revolution from Below - University of the PoorThe Nonviolent Medicaid Army: A Healthcare Revolution from Below By Nijmie Zakkiyyah Dzurinko, Karim Sariahmed, John Wessel-McCoy and Harrison Farina What We’re After: The Unity of the Poor The Univ... 000
Reposted by karimPaul Christine @pauljchristine.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Public health efforts are rightly focused on reducing opioid overdose deaths. We know relatively little about severe morbidity among overdose survivors. Our new paper in @journalgim.bsky.social provides the first national estimates of overdose-related hypoxic-ischemic brain injury rdcu.be/ezNUNrdcu.beNational Estimates of Opioid Overdose Hospitalizations Resulting in Hypoxic-ischemic Brain Injury 254
Reposted by karimChris Morten @cmorten.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Excited to announce an upcoming event w @nyuengelberg.org! My first back at @nyulaw.bsky.social! "Fixing a Broken System: The Path to Public Pharma in New York" 5:30-7 pm Thur Sep. 25, 2025 @ NYU Co-hosted w T1International & @racepowerpolicy.org! Zoom & IRL, free & open to all! Join us! 1106
karim @sariahmed.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Where is working class blue sky? I just want a place to share my research without the cheer leading. 000
karim @sariahmed.bsky.social · 11/08/2025New work laying foundations on somatic therapy for PTSD (and chronic pain?) in a primary care context. Really enjoyed conducting these interviews. Among our patients and staff, a body-first orientation to trauma resonates strongly. #MedSky #PsychSky pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.govThe Acceptability of Somatic Therapy for PTSD Among Patients at an Urban Safety Net Primary Care ClinicPosttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has higher prevalence in safety net settings, which also face structural barriers to the use of gold-standard, exposure-focused treatments. Somatic therapies (STs)... 011
Reposted by karimChris Morten @cmorten.bsky.social · 08/07/2025Must-read story from @jeneeninterlandi.bsky.social on Trump & RFK Jr's catastrophic assault on the FDA. I'm quoted briefly, echoing a warning @reshmagar.bsky.social, @drjoshs.bsky.social & other watchdogs reiterated for years: FDA's unnecessary, excessive secrecy fueled conspiracy theories. 298