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Lukas Engelmann

@engelmal.bsky.social

Chancellor's Fellow at Uni of Edinburgh (STIS & CBSS) Author of 'Mapping AIDS' (CUP), co-author of 'Sulphuric Utopias' (MIT) PI at the Epidemy Lab (ERC): http://epidemy.org

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Lukas Engelmann@engelmal.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Yes 📣 @katewomersley.com 📣 "This political theatre highlights a longstanding and harmful problem: pregnant women, and their babies, are routinely let down by partial, poor-quality and missing medical evidence." 👇👇👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Pregnant women deserve so much better than Trump’s theatre of scaremongering and shame | Kate Womersley

There is no credible evidence linking autism with maternal paracetamol use. But the US president’s ‘tough it out’ message could harm mothers and babies, says doctor Kate Womersley

theguardian.com

Lukas Engelmann@engelmal.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Massive opportunity to work with us in Edinburgh on Medicine without Doctors. 5 full-time postdocs each for 5 years starting in April 2026. Please share widely!

Medicine without Doctors@medicinewithoutdoctors.org · 11mo ago

🚨JOB KLAXON🚨 We are recruiting five 5-year postdoctoral fellows to work with us. Each post will be attached to a specific case study on the project (Abortion Care, AI, Physician Associates and/or LGBTQ+ Health Activism). At:University of Edinburgh Starting: April 2026 Deadline: 2 October 2025

Warwick Anderson@wombatscholar.bsky.social · last yr.

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

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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Adam Kucharski@adamjkucharski.bsky.social · last yr.

The White House has turned COVID.gov from a public health resource into a politically charged platform promoting the lab-leak theory and attacking specific scientists and the pandemic response in general. Let’s fact check its 5 headline claims… 🧵

The virus possesses a biological characteristic that is not found in nature. 2. Data shows that all COVID-19 cases stem from a single introduction into humans. This runs contrary to previous pandemics where there were multiple spillover events. 3. Wuhan is home to China’s foremost SARS research lab, which has a history of conducting gain-of-function research (gene altering and organism supercharging) at inadequate biosafety levels. 4. Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) researchers were sick with COVID-like symptoms in the fall of 2019, months before COVID-19 was discovered at the wet market. 5. By nearly all measures of science, if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have already surfaced. But it hasn’t.
Dr Kate Womersley@katewomersley.com · last yr.

This weekend will be the last issue of The Observer published on The Guardian website (I've written a piece on Sophie Gilbert's new book Girl on Girl). Many super talented journalists and editors I've worked with are leaving without clear prospects due to the transition to Tortoise. Sad times.

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Sarah Bracke@antigonesdream.bsky.social · last yr.

In March, Sandra Harding died. With colleagues from (then) Women's Studies at Utrecht University, where Harding's work was pivotal in PhD training & where I had the pleasure to organize a PhD workshop, together with María Puig de Bellacasa, with Sandra, we wrote this piece. Honoring the pioneers.

In Memorium: Sandra Harding (1935-2025)

IN MEMORIAM: SANDRA HARDING (1935-2025) Rosi Braidotti, Sarah Bracke, and Iris van der Tuin   In the history of feminist theory, there is a before and an after Sandra Harding. She has structured th…

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Lukas Engelmann@engelmal.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨Job Klaxon🚨 Seeking a post-doc for 5.5 years (!) on our brand new @medicinewithoutdoctors.org project! The candidate will be working with @cathm.bsky.social and the wider team to lead on playful, design-based methodological collaboration. Deadline 31 March 2025 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMD146/p...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Medicine without Doctors) at The University of Edinburgh

Explore an exciting academic career as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Medicine without Doctors). Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

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Darby Saxbe@darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

list of banned keywords
Lukas Engelmann@engelmal.bsky.social · 2y ago

This morning I taught on the history of AIDS and its 'birth certificate' in the 1981 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. This week the #MMWR has not been published for the first time since 1952. Unhinged executive order vandalism with terrifying implications for trust in epidemiological info.

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Lukas Engelmann@engelmal.bsky.social · 2y ago

Cultural Histories of the Black Death. Brilliant thread on what sounds like a fantastic lecture!

Dr. Black's Medieval Remedies@winstonblack.bsky.social · 2y ago

A few highlights from my upcoming lecture on "Playing with Plague": Authors, artists, and audiences have been reimagining the Black Death for nearly seven centuries in popular media. Boccaccio wrote his "Decameron" in 1353 soon after plague left Florence and it was "rebooted" on Netflix in 2024.

Lukas Engelmann@engelmal.bsky.social · 2y ago

The most formative film I have ever watched. It was voluntary viewing in a seminar on the history of medicine in the third Reich. Gerhard Baader, the professor, put it on Saturday early am, all students who came stayed for the entire 9.5 hours. It is not a 'documentary' about the Shoah...

Robin Baker@robinalexbaker.bsky.social · 2y ago

SHOAH (1985) - Claude Lanzmann's remarkable 9.5 hour documentary about the Holocaust - is now on the BBC iPlayer. It's the first time it's been on the BBC for a decade. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research@pasteur.fr · 2y ago

The Institut Pasteur has decided to leave X (formerly Twitter) to join BlueSky! 🦋 The Institut Pasteur made this decision due to several serious issues observed on the X platform since its acquisition. Join us here to continue advocating for science. www.pasteur.fr/en/home/pres...

Institut Pasteur decides to leave X

The Institut Pasteur, a research organization which for more than 130 years has been committed to tackling infectious diseases, sharing knowledge and defending science, has decided to leave X because ...

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Lukas Engelmann@engelmal.bsky.social · 2y ago

The Semmelweis gambit. Read for bad history takes to deliver poor justification for crap science, stay for insane AIDS / COVID analogies. Thank you @gorskon.bsky.social , really enjoyed this! Will go straight into the #histmed teaching folder

David Gorski, MD, PhD@gorskon.bsky.social · 2y ago

Whoever you see someone invoke Ignaz Semmelweis to defend an "unconventional" scientific idea, you can be pretty sure that the idea is quackery, pseudoscience, crankery, or just bad science. In this case, it's defenders of the Great Barrington Declaration. sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-semmelwe...