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Steve Sturdy

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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 · 14/09/2026
Absolutely - the ME app and tracking space is huge, and doubtless spills over.
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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It originated in debates over ME/CFS. Based on claims that ME is a learned aversion to exertion, some docs prescribed graded exercise therapy, to push through the resistance. ME sufferers argued this exacerbated their condition, and they needed to pace themselves - stay within their limits.
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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It looks like he also funds various "freedom of speech" organisations too. So a bit of a hater all round.
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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Sorry what? Autistic people are anti-trans? He's the dishonest one here.
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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 · 27/08/2026
Just the tip of the iceberg.
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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
"Hesse nets" along with Duhem-Quine provided the logical foundation for SSK relativism, especially Bloor's work.
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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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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
m.youtube.com/watch?v=SSBW...
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Everybody Loves The Sunshine
YouTube video by Roy Ayers Ubiquity - Topic
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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Yep, the icing on the cake of more general doesntgiveafuckness.
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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Graduation ceremony two weeks ago for our School of Social and Political Science, one of the biggest and most lucrative in the University. To announce the graduands, the Principal (presiding) introduced the Head of the School of Social and Political Studies.
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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Colombian colleague just told me he and his compatriots will be cheering England.
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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
That caps all previous comments.
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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
A gender-affirming car?
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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I've used NotaBene for most of my academic career. An excellent package of sophisticated but transparent word processor, reference manager, and textbase.
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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Ha! Beat me to it.
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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
One of the greatest pleasures of my life was reading the Moomin books to my daughter. Sad when she learned to read for herself.
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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Senior management showing their contempt for all that is best about universities, particularly their staff. It's stupid, unnecessary, and unforgiveable.
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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Great topic - congratulations!
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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Shame you're not spending more time in Lyon - such a cool and interesting city.
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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Thanks Emily - so glad you found it worthwhile.
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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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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
That's not how much it costs for a baby to eat - that would be silly! It's how much it costs to eat a baby.
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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
I watched it a couple of years ago and it went down well. Reviews here www.imdb.com/title/tt0096...
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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The 1989 TV series is worth a watch too.
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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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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
He didn't attempt to determine their function - he just got to own them.
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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
AFAIK it was mostly stamp collecting - fish out mRNAs, reverse transcribe to cDNAs, sequence a short identifying tag, and patent them (with NIH approval).
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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
He might have pointed out that the UK has a constitutional monarchy - which somehow seems to confer more checks and balances than the US Constitution.
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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Indeed - far too easy to write a pubic engagement workpackage into a grant proposal.
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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
And, from a totally different place, Derek Jarman, Modern Nature.
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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Janice Galloway, This Is Not About Me, and All Made Up.
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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Off the point but - can people stop describing Usha Vance as "Hindi"? Hindi is a language; and also describes people whose first language is Hindi. Usha Vance's first language is English, while her parents' family language is Telugu. By religion she is Hindu, not Hindi.
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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
See also genomics for the past 25 years: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
The Fortunes of Genomic Medicine: A Quarter Century of Promise
Background The culmination of the Human Genome Project in the early 2000s came wreathed in promises of a revolution in medicine and healthcare. The ensuing quarter century has seen remarkable growth...
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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
With plenty of opportunity to repent in the morning.
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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Meanwhile, in Spain... rapture comes by the litre.
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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
I visited the USPS museum in DC some time ago. Got the impression from the attendants that Americans view the mail with something like the same kind of affection as Brits for the NHS - equally dear, and equally endangered nowadays.
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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
But more efficient of course. Of course?
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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Streaky
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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 · 15/03/2026
Used to smuggle cocaine by the Medellin cartel?
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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
The Wikipedia entry is not bad for describing the process. My partner's dad had a C19 hand press and spent happy days with a composing stick. A hugely skilled craft.
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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Should have been included ottermatically.
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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
And vice versa.
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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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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Marketed to/features slightly younger kids, but v engaging and of local (Alderley Edge) topographic interest: The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner. Dark teenage: The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks.
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