New article alert! 🎉 So excited to share that this years-in-the-making piece has officially dropped in Historical Methods. (Link below)
S. Scott Graham
@sscottgraham.bsky.social
Rhetorician of science & medicine at UT-Austin. I write about health, ethics, conflicts of interest, AI & the history of anatomy museums (not all at the same time, obvs). Now mapping the world's medical museums → thecollectors.sscottgraham.com
My review of Kristin LaFollette's Rehumanizing People of the Past is now live at TCQ. Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Rehumanizing People of the Past: Bioarchaeology. Medical Museums and Archives, and the Human Remains Trade
Published in Technical Communication Quarterly (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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Because (a) Texas got age-walled on BlueSky, and (b) my current research has gotten more visually oriented, I'm pivoting most of my scholarly updates to insta. Follow me there if you'd like updates on my anatomy and pathology museums journey.
say what you will about AI, always-on voice recording and auto dictation has been a game changer for my workflows. Save post and close app. Yeah Footlong meatball sub on white. No veggies. Don't toast it. Ranch and barbecue sauce. Yeah, ranch and bargecue sauce. More. More. Little more please
There's a #MedRhet #RHM dissertation or three in Fauci's diary and its release commentary by Paul. www.cbsnews.com/news/anthony...
A few words on what motivated this paper. Our concern is that we may wake up one day and realize how much influence commercial actors using AI tools can have on health. This risk is greater because AI companies now have a substantial technological advantage over regulators -->
Itai Bavli@itaibavli.bsky.social · 2mo agoHow is AI changing the ways commercial actors influence health? Check out our new article published in BMJ: "Artificial intelligence as a new commercial determinant of health." We introduce the AI commercial determinants of health (AI-CDoH) framework 🧵 @bmj.com 1/9
Nothing in my entire career as made me as nervous as submitting to a history journal. There's just so much to know! I'm trilled this will see the light of day. (Thx to amazing coauthors @maddiebrueggs.bsky.social & @carleeabaker.bsky.social) Looking forward to sharing more soon...
Maybe I'm not overthinking, maybe I'm just regular thinking about stuff that’s overhappening
Agreed, but decades of COI research show disclosure alone is insufficient. It doesn't change the underlying relationship, and can backfire. Audiences may trust a transparent speaker more and scrutinize their data/arguments less. #bioethics #COI www.science.org/content/arti...
Philosophers call for their journals to require conflict of interest disclosures
A new petition urges greater transparency amid growing ties to AI and other companies
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There are so many no-good, terribly bad, wrong, AI-generated anatomical diagrams out there. Here's one I found on the website of an actual clinic in Minnesota. Yikes. Be careful out there.
Check out Progress in Research Integrity Defining and Managing Conflict of Interest (Barbara Redman, ed.) link.springer.com/book/10.1007... a lot of great work in this volume with a few highlights ⤵️
Progress in Research Integrity
This book addresses one of the most consequential but ill-defined constructs in research integrity – conflict of interest (COI).
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Forget my codebase- my biggest documentation debt is in teaching. Whenever I try to re-use a slide deck, I have this moment of "What did I even say last time?"
Man's Hilarious Confused Look
ALT: Man's Hilarious Confused Look
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📣New CFPs added for #histmed events in September📣 Call for proposals deadline July 2026 Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science (SAHMS) Virtual Student Conference The Difficulty of Empathy: Rethinking the Literary Arts and Healthcare Online Symposium
History of Medicines CFPs
If you wish to share your CFPs on the SSHM website please contact the Exec Sec, Dr Justine Pick admin@sshm.org Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science (SAHMS) Virtual Stud…
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Scoop: NIH is on a mission to enlist one million Americans to share their genetic data to help with health research through a precision medicine program called “All of Us.” What participants don’t know is that at one research site, Palantir stores the data. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Palantir has a hand in NIH's most ambitious health initiative
The defense tech firm's work with public health data has largely flown under the radar.
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Freshly out in @pnasnexus.org: "On the transmission of texts: Written cultures as complex systems" The first major publication of project @lostma.bsky.social , where we lay down our methodology for studying the transmission, evolution or disparition of texts. /1 #science 🧪
On the transmission of texts: Written cultures as complex systems
Abstract. Knowledge of past cultures relies heavily on surviving written material. Over the centuries, texts were copied, altered, and often lost, leaving
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Great article about advertising in 20th cent. patient org magazines. It's a fascinating how much of this parallels research on patient communities' 'new' digital homes (e.g. reddit, social media) - a lot of the same dynamics at work.
The Polyphony @the-polyphony.bsky.social · 3mo agoWhat do advertisements in twentieth-century patient organisation magazines reveal about medical consumerism and the globalisation of diabetes care? @andrewburchell.bsky.social tells us in the latest contribution to our Multilingual Medical Humanities project. thepolyphony.org/2026/06/29/c...
Check out Progress in Research Integrity Defining and Managing Conflict of Interest (Barbara Redman, ed.) link.springer.com/book/10.1007... a lot of great work in this volume with a few highlights ⤵️
Progress in Research Integrity
This book addresses one of the most consequential but ill-defined constructs in research integrity – conflict of interest (COI).
link.springer.com
A surprising number of anatomy museums are part of one academic lineage that runs from Pieter Pauw's 1597 museum at Leiden to collections on six continents. From teacher to student for four centuries. Some students and I have been mapping the whole lineage. 🧵 → thecollectors.sscottgraham.com
A surprising number of anatomy museums are part of one academic lineage that runs from Pieter Pauw's 1597 museum at Leiden to collections on six continents. From teacher to student for four centuries. Some students and I have been mapping the whole lineage. 🧵 → thecollectors.sscottgraham.com
When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.
Academic writing should be addressed neither to the public nor to other academics. It should be addressed to a single interlocutor with whom you have a petty rivalry and whose work you are trying to discredit
Wrote a little about the work the U.S. put into helping academics escape fascism during WWII and why we can't rely on that for our future www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
No One Is Coming to Save Us
The realization can either break you or liberate you.
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My fantastic department, the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at Upstate Medical University, is growing and hiring for two TT positions! careers.upstate.edu/jobs/associa... careers.upstate.edu/jobs/associa... #bioethics #MedicalHumanities #ClinicalEthics
Join Us Penguin Huddle
ALT: Join Us Penguin Huddle
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tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.
Science Magazine@science.org · 4mo agoThe White House today announced it plans to make major changes in how the U.S. government manages research funding. https://scim.ag/43HgW4s
Without question, the best two minutes on the internet. Take a break from the awful news cycle and enjoy this haircut and....feedback from the internet.
It Will Please the Crown 👑 (Medieval Barber Gone Wrong)
YouTube video by The Internet Sings
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Best moments in different kinds of research activities: Reading other scholars: "Woah woah, I'm understanding this in a whole new way!" Archival/historical work: "Hold on, wait a minute, WTF?!" DH + creative making stuff: "It worked!!!"
“When a parent declines a universally recommended vaccination for their child, there is not even a pretense that this is the choice the child “would make” …the ethical conflict is not between the principles of “beneficence” and “autonomy,” but rather between “beneficence” and “parental rights.”
‘Patient autonomy’ has nothing to do with childhood vaccine policies
Opinion: Vaccine policy it is not a matter of autonomy at all, because infants do not decline vaccination — their parents do.
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