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Steve Sturdy

@stevesturdy.bsky.social
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History of biomedicine. Genes and genomes. Value in/of healthcare.

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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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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A chance to revisit a classic. books.google.co.uk/books/about/...
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Mind, Brain, and Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century
This is a reissue of a book published by the Clarendon Press in 1970 with a new introduction to take account of recent developments in the history of 19th century neuroscience. The author examines ide...
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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Larry's contribution to the purge of Starmer loyalists?
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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
The kind you find in a second hand store.
A packet of raspberry beignets.
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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
He was very good in Thunderbirds.
Photo of the Scott Tracy puppet from the 1960s TV series Thunderbirds.
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Aeon Magazine @aeon.co · 13/04/2026
It is surprising how so few of the many histories of eugenics centre the voices of disabled people. Uncovering these perspectives contradicts all previous narratives of eugenics in interwar Britain
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Why did disabled people support eugenics in the 1930s? | Aeon Essays
In the story of eugenics, disabled people are often depicted as passive victims. But for some it seemed an opportunity
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
I have zero time for any notion of what Scotland is or could be or should be that doesn't have plenty space for this.
Dhol drummer and piper, low-angle view.Dhol drummer and piper; Pride flag in the background.
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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Bluesky hive: Can anyone recommend any studies on eugenics and disability in France during the first half of the C20? Especially anything on neo-Lamarkianism and puericulture.
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James Mittra @jmittra.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Great work by @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social on UoE's latest financial report. Depressing that a university doing pretty damn well financially (no deficit) compared to most of the sector choosing to destroy itself, and staff are all just sitting helplessly in the backseat of a slow motion car crash.
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Depreciating the University of Edinburgh into the Ground — UCU Edinburgh
There are four key takeaways from the University of Edinburgh’s 2024-25 annual report, which this post explores: The University continues to make a sizeable surplus. What financial pressures exi...
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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Hats off to whoever did this (and the beautiful model).
One of those captcha things. This one says ‘select all images with bicycles. Click verify once there are none left’. There are 9 squares  - 4 contain photos of bicycle seats, with the remaining 5 showing the beautiful head and face of a grey greyhound with a white stripe going from the top of their head to the tip of their nose.
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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Something for the weekend - I'll be smiling till Monday.
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Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Huge congratulations to the wonderful Donna Haraway for winning the 2025 Erasmus Prize: erasmusprijs.org/en/laureates...
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Stuart Braithwaite @plasmatron.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Can all the folk who just got reminded that they’ve listened to a tonne of music on streaming this year, have a look at the music they heard and buy some on bandcamp today? 🫡🙏🏼
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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
An exciting opportunity to do some important groundwork for a growing museological interest in video games at the National Museum of Scotland.
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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
JOB: inaugurated Chair in the History of Technology at the rank of advanced assistant, associate, or full professor at UC Irvine #histtech networks.h-net.org/jobs/69257/u...
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University of California - Irvine - History of Technology | H-Net
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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
We're hiring in history of science at UW Madison! TT Assistant Professorship with a focus on water. Joint appointment between the History and Integrated Liberal Studies depts, and part of a university-wide hiring cluster on earth/sustainability science. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/profess... #STS #HSMT
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Professor of History - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...
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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
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Assistant Professor Social Studies of Medicine
This is a joint post 65% Sociology, 35% HPS. The Departments of Sociology and History and Philosophy of Science are looking to recruit an Assistant Professor in the Social Studies of Medicine in a
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Nelson's Victory crew included a Brazilian and a Russian, 2 Indians, 2 Swiss, 2 Portuguese, 3 Danes and 3 Norwegian sailors. There were 3 Germans, 4 Italians, 6 Swedes, 7 Dutchmen, 9 West Indians and an African, as well as 21 Americans, 63 Irish, 64 Scots, 441 English.... oh, and 3 French men, too.
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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Feeling super old as I remember that the entire reason the internet was invented was to create a distributed network that could resist single points of failure.
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
A great job, application due November 17th. Please spread and help me with the right hashtags
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Assistant Professor Social Studies of Medicine
This is a joint post 65% Sociology, 35% HPS. The Departments of Sociology and History and Philosophy of Science are looking to recruit an Assistant Professor in the Social Studies of Medicine in a
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research. Reposts welcomed.
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Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...
Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...
Cartoon of a plesiosaur. Seen from the side, the top line of its shape is echoed in ripples up the page, reminiscent of the artwork for the Joy Division album Unknown Pleasure. Caption: Unknown Plesiosaurs
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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Now with added volume, issue, and page numbers. Sturdy S. The commercial roots of the genomic commons. Soc Stud Sci. 2025 Oct; 55(5):655-682. doi: 10.1177/03063127241310122. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Weirdly enough I was telling my first-years about "warrior ethos" last week. Here's the skill set of a Top Viking, as set out by a dude who'd have gone through anyone using the phrase "warrior ethos" like a well-aimed axe.
I am quick at playing board games;
I have nine skills;
I forget runes slowly;
the book is a preoccupation with me and also craftsmanship.
I am able to glide on skis;
I shoot and I row so that it makes a difference;
I am able to understand both:
harp-playing and poems.
— Earl Rognvald of Orkney, trans. Judith Jesch.
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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
See also the voluntary hospitals. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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Workhouses in England and Wales linked to transatlantic slave trade, study suggests
Report highlights how British workhouses were funded and supported by those who profited from slave economy
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
So @theturing.bsky.social has decided they no longer need Humanities (!) - so the The Alan Turing Institute’s Humanities and Data Science Interest Group are having one final event: "Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration" In person and online, Oxford, 25th Sept. Pls share!
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Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration
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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Five fabulous five-year postdoc positions at University of Edinburgh, as part of the wonderful Medicine Without Doctors project (www.medicinewithoutdoctors.org)
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Medicine without Doctors
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Universities make a loss on home teaching. They make a loss on state-sponsored research. Now they will make a loss on international students. So there will be no activities at all that even break even. In those circs you cannot continue: the end. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/deficit...
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Deficits likely as overseas students ‘loss-making’ under levy
Middle-tier universities on ‘wafer-thin margins’ face starkest financial challenges from government proposal, policy analysts suggest
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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Jeez! Every attempt at justification...
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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Centenary special issue of Annals of Human Genetics now out - including an essay by me on the promissory politics of genomic medicine doi.org/10.1111/ahg....
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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
⏰ #histstm #medhums Postdoc ⏰ 3-year position in Public Engagement at Medical Museion Copenhagen in a research project on personalized medicine employment.ku.dk/all-vacancie...
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Postdoc in Public Engagement around Personalized Medicine (Let's Get Personal)
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Willem van Schaik @wvschaik.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Some amazing news amidst the doom and gloom of UK Higher Education 'Regulator mistakenly grants degree-awarding powers to rugby player' www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ofs-mis...
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Progress Educational Trust (PET) @pet-bionews.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Comment: ‘Newborn genomes and the NHS Ten-Year Plan: visionary leap or overreach?’ Zeenat Beebeejaun discusses why these initiatives must be ‘built on a foundation of trust, transparency, and fairness’. www.progress.org.uk/newborn-geno... #NHS #Genomics #DNA #Health #Genetics #newbornscreening
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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Yanagihara's A Little Life as Munchausen by proxy. Thank you Andrea Long Chu. share.google/nhPEBFyJVdTc...
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Authority: Essays on Being Right by Andrea Long Chu review – scorching hot takes
The Pulitzer-winning critic has some choice words for the likes of Zadie Smith, Hanya Yanagihara and Bret Easton Ellis
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Timothy Neale @tdneale.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Wellcome-funded 'Between Deception and Dissent' project is recruiting a postdoc working at the interface of medical STS and socio-legal studies, supervised by Martyn Pickersgill @ Edinburgh #STS www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNY639/r...
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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Fabulous job (STS/sociolegal studies of medical disinformation) in a wonderfully collegial, intellectually stimulating research center: Research Fellow at The University of Edinburgh share.google/yRbrFbrn4DyT...
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Research Fellow at The University of Edinburgh
Explore an exciting academic career as a Research Fellow. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
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Ellen Stewart @profellenstu.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh also had exceptional links with slavery, including owning a plantation for a period. NHS Lothian Charity has done some impressive and thoughtful work with the Health Board on this shameful history: org.nhslothian.scot/aboutus/atla...
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Atlantic Slavery and the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh – About Us
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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Just in case anyone was in any doubt.
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Nathan Ellstrand @nellstra.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
***Job Opportunity in History*** Assistant Professor, Science, Technology, and Society, Harvey Mudd College 19/ networks.h-net.org/jobs/68862/h...
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Harvey Mudd College - Assistant Professor, Science, Technology, and Society | H-Net
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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
UK higher education - who needs academics when you've got brand consultants?
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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Delighted to have this e-pub, in advance of the forthcoming centenary special issue of Annals of Human Genetics.
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Sasha Handley @sashahandley.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Writing History Articles: A Workshop for PhD students and ECRs - @hisjournalha.bsky.social is organising this event on 19 September for those looking for support with preparing their first journal articles for publication. Do think of applying! www.history.org.uk/higher-ed/re...
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Writing History Articles: A Workshop for PhD students and ECRs
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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Lovely thread for 5.15 on Friday.
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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 07/07/2025
I'm the kind of person who semi-regularly trawls ebay looking for old books, pamphlets or ephemera related to Edinburgh history, so I'm absolutely *thrilled* that my searches are increasingly drowned by AI-generated gibberish "Vintage Travel Posters" selling at £19.99-29.99 a copy.
A clearly AI-generated "vintage travel poster" of Edinburgh, showing something vaguely like a famous Edinburgh landmark but totally different.A clearly AI-generated "vintage travel poster" of Edinburgh, showing something vaguely like a famous Edinburgh landmark but totally different.A clearly AI-generated "vintage travel poster" of Edinburgh, showing something vaguely like a famous Edinburgh landmark but totally different.A clearly AI-generated "vintage travel poster" of Edinburgh, showing something vaguely like a famous Edinburgh landmark but totally different.
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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Just as importantly, it found no increase for surrounding roads, where there has been a negligible increase in traffic levels, despite concerns about displacement Increase road capacity and you increase traffic, decrease capacity and you decrease traffic overall
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Rosie Holt @rosieisaholt.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Bezos wedding guest takes us through her extravagant goodie bag from the wedding 💗
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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
“Multiple analyses have now found that Google’s AI overviews have resulted in declines of 70 to 80 percent in the click-through rates to the web pages from which they derive their information. That’s 70 to 80 percent fewer visits to web pages”
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Stats from a dying web
A startling statistic from Google’s antitrust trial raises fears that a long-predicted decline has now begun
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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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Angela Cassidy @angecass.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
It's that time again. Sounding the Exeter #academicjob klaxon! 3yr Research Fellow post with a focus on environmental-social-health inequalities, working with my excellent colleague Rebecca Lynch in Egenis. Come and join us! #sts #sustainability #medsoc #anthropology
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