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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 · 1d
Joy to the Wordle. (And a very happy holiday.)

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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 5d
Ahem.
Movie poster for The Graduate.

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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 9d
A real penguin would have realised there was something fishy about it.

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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 14d
Something for the weekend - I'll be smiling till Monday.
joshsternberg.com Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 15d
Today in “Dudes Rock”:

A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.

Reposted by Alberto Corsín Jiménez, Florian Keusch, Steve Sturdy

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 15d
Today in “Dudes Rock”:

A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.

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Stuart Braithwaite @plasmatron.bsky.social · 21d
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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Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social · 22d
Huge congratulations to the wonderful Donna Haraway for winning the 2025 Erasmus Prize:
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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 23d
See also Scotland, where Scottish Labour is desperately trying show it's different from Westminster Labour, but being sidelined by WL on Scottish issues. The Holyrood elections in May will be interesting...

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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 23d
Scarcely a month after Labour lost a supposedly comfortable Welsh seat to Plaid too.

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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 27d
It wasn't just the policy makers who panicked. The SAGE modellers did too, when one of their less prominent members (who happened to have real-world experience of epidemics) pointed out the futility of modelling for herd immunity. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Domesticating models: On the contingency of Covid-19 modelling in UK media and policy - Lukas Engelmann, Catherine M Montgomery, Steve Sturdy, Cristina Moreno Lozano, 2023
Our article traces the representation of pandemic modelling in UK print media from the emergence of Covid-19 to the early stages of implementing the first UK-wi...
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Geoff Belknap @curatorgeoff.bsky.social · Nov 26
Are you a scholar in Games Studies, Museum Studies and/or Digital Humanities and want to help NMS develop research in Collecting Video Game Heritage? Come and apply to be an IASH Fellow at the University of Edinburgh!
Applications
Opens - Dec 25
Closes - April 26
www.iash.ed.ac.uk/iash-nationa...
IASH-National Museums Scotland Fellowship | IASH
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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · Nov 18
And Robert Fripp is Norwegian for Robert Freakout.

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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · Nov 17
There's likely a few spare kidneys among them too.

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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · Nov 13
There was a star danced, and under that was I born.

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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · Nov 13
JOB: inaugurated Chair in the History
of Technology at the rank of advanced assistant, associate, or full professor at UC Irvine
#histtech

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University of California - Irvine - History of Technology | H-Net
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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · Nov 10
I'm a professor giving a talk.

What on?

(Looking into camera): The use of biometrics for immigration control.

Are you trying to be funny sir? (I had to show him conference the programme.)

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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · Nov 8
Ontario is still deeply infused with Scottish presbyterianism.

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · Nov 6
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
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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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · Nov 5
There are important questions to ask about how organised crime networks are able to exploit migrants. Instead, the BBC - and now the Home Secretary - choose to dump on those being exploited.

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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · Oct 27
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
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
www.cam.ac.uk

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · Oct 22
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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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · Oct 20
the thing about the internet going down in 2025 is suddenly my students cant access: the reading lists, the readings, the (online) learning environment, the app they are obliged to use to log in to show they attended class

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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · Oct 20
A great job, application due November 17th. Please spread and help me with the right hashtags
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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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · Oct 15
See also Kafka, In the Penal Colony.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Oct 14
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.
Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...
Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research
observer.co.uk

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · Oct 14
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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 · Oct 12
Pivot!

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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · Oct 7
Robertson is consistently excellent. And the Land Lay Still is a fabulous wide-screen view of Scotland in the C20.

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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · Oct 6
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.
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · Oct 2
The relevant team!