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 · 08/05/2026docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...docs.google.comSGIM Healthcare in Palestine (HiP) Interest Group, 2026We are excited to connect further with folks at the SGIM Annual Meeting this year, where for the first time we have an official interest group space! Please see below for some opportunities to connect... 000
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 · 06/05/2026The beautiful artwork throughout the issue is by the brilliant working class artist and organizer Anita Knisely-Durham. 000
karim @sariahmed.bsky.social · 06/05/2026@cmorten.bsky.social @mattherder.bsky.social @mbarber.bsky.social 100
karim @sariahmed.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Read the whole issue to learn about the collapse of the "international rules based order," the lessons we can draw from the deep well of indigenous knowledges in the Americas and beyond, and so much more. universityofthepoor.org/new-conditio...universityofthepoor.orgNew Conditions, New Possibilities for the Poor and Dispossessed Working Class - University of the PoorIssue short description 100
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 · 29/04/2026Corrected link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...docs.google.comSGIM Healthcare in Palestine (HiP) Interest Group, 2026We are excited to connect further with folks at the SGIM Annual Meeting this year, where for the first time we have an official interest group space! Please see below for some opportunities to connect... 000
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... 1614211141
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 · 10/02/2026whoops that link was to the Saturday School from this past weekend on the economic crisis. Here's upcoming national call on community care, Feb 27th at 7pm EST bit.ly/2026NVMANati...bit.lyWelcome! You are invited to join a meeting: NVMA Monthly National Call. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.Register here for the Nonviolent Medicaid Army monthly National Calls! We meet every fourth Thursday, January-October, at 7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific 000
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. 413601650
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... 22633487917180
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 16345792186
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 · 10/12/20252. The NUH was revived around 2010, and has been growing since. Attend this People's Hearing tonight to hear some unflinching testimonies from people organizing on the frontline of the war on poor people in the US. bit.ly/PeoplesHearingNUHbit.lyThe People's Hearing - National Union of the HomelessWe are putting the human right violators and the poverty-producing system they serve on trial! 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... 3316351037
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 @cmorten.bsky.social's great thread for a walk through the work. I have more to say about how American pragmatism shapes our environments for thinking and studying; it's manifest in the story we tell here about public and private science. That made it all the more refreshing to work on this! 2/ 020
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... 33684362115469
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 · 11/09/2025I hope others will use the means at your disposal to break the ghastly silence which has been so pervasive throughout the medical community. #MedSky #PsychSky @madhupai.bsky.social @seyeabimbola.bsky.social @terezahendl.bsky.social @mbarber.bsky.social 020
karim @sariahmed.bsky.social · 11/09/2025The notion of "conflict and health" common in health services literature falls apart in the context of genocide. An attack on your person is different from an attack meant to, in Albanese's words, "ostentatiously" violate every aspect of Palestinian life and dignity. 100
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. 8274186
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