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
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
· Mar 28
Open Access publication out in History of Human Sciences!
'Making Contagion Social' is a parallel history of epidemiological modelling and the sociology of imitation. I read Gabriel Tarde's work through the lens of Ronald Ross' 'theory of happening' to contest
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
'Making Contagion Social' is a parallel history of epidemiological modelling and the sociology of imitation. I read Gabriel Tarde's work through the lens of Ronald Ross' 'theory of happening' to contest
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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."
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"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."
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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
www.theguardian.com
September 24, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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."
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"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."
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Very exciting new project funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social - Medicine without doctors, co-led by an incredible team at Edinburgh’s Usher, @engelmal.bsky.social
www.medicinewithoutdoctors.org
www.medicinewithoutdoctors.org
September 9, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Very exciting new project funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social - Medicine without doctors, co-led by an incredible team at Edinburgh’s Usher, @engelmal.bsky.social
www.medicinewithoutdoctors.org
www.medicinewithoutdoctors.org
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!
🚨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
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
August 26, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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!
Reposted by Lukas Engelmann
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
#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...
gh.bmj.com
June 23, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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
#pandemic #epidemiology #histstm #histmed #sts
@nam.edu @humanitiesau.bsky.social @acmedsci.bsky.social @apha.org
Reposted by Lukas Engelmann
New paper! What does it mean to be epistemically prepared for the next disease outbreak?
gh.bmj.com/content/10/6...
Led by @wombatscholar.bsky.social with @sonjavw.bsky.social @seyeabimbola.bsky.social @rachelankeny.bsky.social @engelmal.bsky.social @mstoove.bsky.social @cwaldby.bsky.social et al
gh.bmj.com/content/10/6...
Led by @wombatscholar.bsky.social with @sonjavw.bsky.social @seyeabimbola.bsky.social @rachelankeny.bsky.social @engelmal.bsky.social @mstoove.bsky.social @cwaldby.bsky.social et al
June 23, 2025 at 8:39 AM
New paper! What does it mean to be epistemically prepared for the next disease outbreak?
gh.bmj.com/content/10/6...
Led by @wombatscholar.bsky.social with @sonjavw.bsky.social @seyeabimbola.bsky.social @rachelankeny.bsky.social @engelmal.bsky.social @mstoove.bsky.social @cwaldby.bsky.social et al
gh.bmj.com/content/10/6...
Led by @wombatscholar.bsky.social with @sonjavw.bsky.social @seyeabimbola.bsky.social @rachelankeny.bsky.social @engelmal.bsky.social @mstoove.bsky.social @cwaldby.bsky.social et al
Stellar review of a breathtaking book. @katewomersley.com at her best!
Sending Second Life to all my friends who are/have been growing babies and raising them. My review of @amandahess.bsky.social’s brilliant first book, in @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/culture/book...
May 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Stellar review of a breathtaking book. @katewomersley.com at her best!
Reposted by Lukas Engelmann
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… 🧵
April 19, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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… 🧵
Reposted by Lukas Engelmann
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.
April 17, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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.
"research activity conducted by Universities is fantastically loss-making," Vivien Stern, @universities-uk.bsky.social on BBC4 today
Reckless choice of word to describe a public good, produced by public service institutions, charities and their workforce.
This is what got us into this mess.
Reckless choice of word to describe a public good, produced by public service institutions, charities and their workforce.
This is what got us into this mess.
April 11, 2025 at 7:39 AM
"research activity conducted by Universities is fantastically loss-making," Vivien Stern, @universities-uk.bsky.social on BBC4 today
Reckless choice of word to describe a public good, produced by public service institutions, charities and their workforce.
This is what got us into this mess.
Reckless choice of word to describe a public good, produced by public service institutions, charities and their workforce.
This is what got us into this mess.
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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…
signsjournal.org
April 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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.
Reposted by Lukas Engelmann
Open Access publication out in History of Human Sciences!
'Making Contagion Social' is a parallel history of epidemiological modelling and the sociology of imitation. I read Gabriel Tarde's work through the lens of Ronald Ross' 'theory of happening' to contest
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
'Making Contagion Social' is a parallel history of epidemiological modelling and the sociology of imitation. I read Gabriel Tarde's work through the lens of Ronald Ross' 'theory of happening' to contest
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
March 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Open Access publication out in History of Human Sciences!
'Making Contagion Social' is a parallel history of epidemiological modelling and the sociology of imitation. I read Gabriel Tarde's work through the lens of Ronald Ross' 'theory of happening' to contest
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
'Making Contagion Social' is a parallel history of epidemiological modelling and the sociology of imitation. I read Gabriel Tarde's work through the lens of Ronald Ross' 'theory of happening' to contest
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Open Access publication out in History of Human Sciences!
'Making Contagion Social' is a parallel history of epidemiological modelling and the sociology of imitation. I read Gabriel Tarde's work through the lens of Ronald Ross' 'theory of happening' to contest
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
'Making Contagion Social' is a parallel history of epidemiological modelling and the sociology of imitation. I read Gabriel Tarde's work through the lens of Ronald Ross' 'theory of happening' to contest
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
March 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Open Access publication out in History of Human Sciences!
'Making Contagion Social' is a parallel history of epidemiological modelling and the sociology of imitation. I read Gabriel Tarde's work through the lens of Ronald Ross' 'theory of happening' to contest
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
'Making Contagion Social' is a parallel history of epidemiological modelling and the sociology of imitation. I read Gabriel Tarde's work through the lens of Ronald Ross' 'theory of happening' to contest
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
🚨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...
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.
www.jobs.ac.uk
March 18, 2025 at 9:00 AM
🚨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...
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...
How might one go about to make organs "speak" differently?
Brilliant review by @katewomersley.com in this week's Observer of a stellar book by Gabriel Weston
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
Brilliant review by @katewomersley.com in this week's Observer of a stellar book by Gabriel Weston
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
Alive: An Alternative Anatomy by Gabriel Weston review – our bodies in an eye-opening new light
A surgeon (and TV host) encourages us to take a fresh look at our organs in a smart and forceful study
www.theguardian.com
March 17, 2025 at 11:03 AM
How might one go about to make organs "speak" differently?
Brilliant review by @katewomersley.com in this week's Observer of a stellar book by Gabriel Weston
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
Brilliant review by @katewomersley.com in this week's Observer of a stellar book by Gabriel Weston
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
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DEADLINE!!! Don't forget to submit your paper or panel proposal for #EAHMH25 in Berlin by March 10. It's going to be a fantastic conference with keynotes @historyelaine.bsky.social , Projit Mukharji and Birgit Nemec. More information and link to submission site at eahmh25.org #histmed #histSTM
EAHMH: Health Beyond Medicine
eahmh25.org
March 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
DEADLINE!!! Don't forget to submit your paper or panel proposal for #EAHMH25 in Berlin by March 10. It's going to be a fantastic conference with keynotes @historyelaine.bsky.social , Projit Mukharji and Birgit Nemec. More information and link to submission site at eahmh25.org #histmed #histSTM
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🚨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.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨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.
'We have not thought enough about that right wing thrill, that sense of exhilaration, that people get....they want to be free to hate, free to be irrational.'
February 1, 2025 at 10:47 AM
'We have not thought enough about that right wing thrill, that sense of exhilaration, that people get....they want to be free to hate, free to be irrational.'
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.
Unhinged executive order vandalism with terrifying implications for trust in epidemiological info.
January 29, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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.
Unhinged executive order vandalism with terrifying implications for trust in epidemiological info.
Reposted by Lukas Engelmann
January 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Cultural Histories of the Black Death.
Brilliant thread on what sounds like a fantastic lecture!
Brilliant thread on what sounds like a fantastic lecture!
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.
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.
January 28, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Cultural Histories of the Black Death.
Brilliant thread on what sounds like a fantastic lecture!
Brilliant thread on what sounds like a fantastic lecture!
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...
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...
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Shoah
Claude Lanzmann's epic documentary recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses - perpetrators as well as survivors.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 21, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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...
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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...
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 ...
www.pasteur.fr
January 16, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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...
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...
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
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
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...
The Semmelweis gambit: A red flag for defending bad science and quackery | Science-Based Medicine
Dr. Edward Livingston compares rejection of the Great Barrington Declaration to the reaction to Semmelweis. It's a deceptive comparison beloved of cranks.
sciencebasedmedicine.org
January 8, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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
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
Reposted by Lukas Engelmann
Call for Papers for the biannual conference organized by the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health in Berlin August 26-29, 2025. Submission is now open! #histmed hi.converia.de/frontend/ind...
Home – EAHMH 2025 Health Beyond Medicine
hi.converia.de
December 17, 2024 at 9:34 AM
Call for Papers for the biannual conference organized by the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health in Berlin August 26-29, 2025. Submission is now open! #histmed hi.converia.de/frontend/ind...