Patrick Brown
@paddyrbrown.bsky.social
Social scientist (University of Amsterdam) researching risk, trust & medicine(s); also into riding bikes & what some would call music.
Editor of Health, Risk & Society
Dad
Editor of Health, Risk & Society
Dad
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The dismantling of US science continues. RFKJr fired the director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, basically for believing in the germ theory of disease.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/h...
Kennedy Fires N.I.H. Scientist Who Filed Whistle-Blower Complaint
www.nytimes.com
October 4, 2025 at 11:57 PM
The dismantling of US science continues. RFKJr fired the director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, basically for believing in the germ theory of disease.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/h...
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Great article on autism.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
Opinion | Autism Has Always Existed. We Haven’t Always Called It Autism.
www.nytimes.com
September 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Great article on autism.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
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Dit gaat niet (primair) over "populisme" maar over "nativisme" (xenofoob nationalisme) en zelfs "racisme".
BBB wendt het debat over het extreemrechtse geweld van afgelopen weekend aan om per motie alsnog het staatsnoodrecht te gebruiken voor invoering van een asielstop.
Zo worden de geweldplegers indirect nog beloond ook. We zijn in een periode van hyperpopulisme beland
Zo worden de geweldplegers indirect nog beloond ook. We zijn in een periode van hyperpopulisme beland
September 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Dit gaat niet (primair) over "populisme" maar over "nativisme" (xenofoob nationalisme) en zelfs "racisme".
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The Royal Parks has rejected Nigel Farage's claim that migrants are killing and eating swans from their grounds.
The RSPCA has also poured cold water on the claim, saying a video that has been circulating on social media was from 15 years ago
news.sky.com/story/royal-...
The RSPCA has also poured cold water on the claim, saying a video that has been circulating on social media was from 15 years ago
news.sky.com/story/royal-...
Royal Parks responds to Farage's claim that swans are being eaten by eastern Europeans in the UK
The Reform leader had accused migrants living in the UK of taking both carp and swans - a protected species - from ponds in Britain's Royal Parks and killing them.
news.sky.com
September 25, 2025 at 6:09 AM
The Royal Parks has rejected Nigel Farage's claim that migrants are killing and eating swans from their grounds.
The RSPCA has also poured cold water on the claim, saying a video that has been circulating on social media was from 15 years ago
news.sky.com/story/royal-...
The RSPCA has also poured cold water on the claim, saying a video that has been circulating on social media was from 15 years ago
news.sky.com/story/royal-...
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Incredible good news
Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Incredible good news
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UK officially recognises Palestine as a state
Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the UK - alongside Australia and Canada - was taking the step "in the face of growing horror" in the Middle East
news.sky.com/story/uk-off...
Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the UK - alongside Australia and Canada - was taking the step "in the face of growing horror" in the Middle East
news.sky.com/story/uk-off...
UK officially recognises Palestine as a state
Sir Keir Starmer said the UK - alongside Australia and Canada - was taking the step "in the face of growing horror" in the Middle East.
news.sky.com
September 21, 2025 at 3:12 PM
UK officially recognises Palestine as a state
Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the UK - alongside Australia and Canada - was taking the step "in the face of growing horror" in the Middle East
news.sky.com/story/uk-off...
Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the UK - alongside Australia and Canada - was taking the step "in the face of growing horror" in the Middle East
news.sky.com/story/uk-off...
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The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama.
His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful.
Now he is tweeting in support of me.
This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*.
Or used to work.
His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful.
Now he is tweeting in support of me.
This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*.
Or used to work.
September 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama.
His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful.
Now he is tweeting in support of me.
This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*.
Or used to work.
His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful.
Now he is tweeting in support of me.
This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*.
Or used to work.
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Ed Davey has written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join him in condemning Elon Musk's remarks yesterday
September 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Ed Davey has written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join him in condemning Elon Musk's remarks yesterday
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Brazilian institutions, notably the judiciary, rose to the challenge of defending democracy. The US failed to and now is descending into authoritarianism. Gift column in the Times.
Opinion | Brazil Just Succeeded Where the U.S. Failed
www.nytimes.com
September 12, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Brazilian institutions, notably the judiciary, rose to the challenge of defending democracy. The US failed to and now is descending into authoritarianism. Gift column in the Times.
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I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.
July 12, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.
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An important read on the epidemic of loneliness:
"In England today, local authorities spend nearly £330m less per year on parks and open spaces than a decade ago, which has led to the rapid deterioration of those spaces."
www.thersa.org/rsa-journal/...
"In England today, local authorities spend nearly £330m less per year on parks and open spaces than a decade ago, which has led to the rapid deterioration of those spaces."
www.thersa.org/rsa-journal/...
Trust fall
Discover how social capital is changing with technology. Trust expert Rachel Botsman discusses the importance of real-world connections.
www.thersa.org
July 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
An important read on the epidemic of loneliness:
"In England today, local authorities spend nearly £330m less per year on parks and open spaces than a decade ago, which has led to the rapid deterioration of those spaces."
www.thersa.org/rsa-journal/...
"In England today, local authorities spend nearly £330m less per year on parks and open spaces than a decade ago, which has led to the rapid deterioration of those spaces."
www.thersa.org/rsa-journal/...
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State organizations that advocate for disabled residents in New Jersey and Arkansas announced that they will have to limit their work after not receiving the full funds they are owed by the US federal government.
Disability protection groups in two states pause services after missing federal funds
"We are fighting for our very survival."
www.motherjones.com
April 28, 2025 at 12:26 PM
State organizations that advocate for disabled residents in New Jersey and Arkansas announced that they will have to limit their work after not receiving the full funds they are owed by the US federal government.
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Yikes. They froze the funding of 14 of 35 Alzheimer’s disease research centers?! amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/04/...
A pause in NIH funding leaves these Alzheimer’s studies in limbo: ‘This is alarming’ | CNN
Zahydie Burgos Ribot and her husband Francisco are working on completing their travel bucket list and spending quality time together before Francisco will no longer be able to travel and before his br...
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April 25, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Yikes. They froze the funding of 14 of 35 Alzheimer’s disease research centers?! amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/04/...
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At least 27 killed in Israeli bombing of shelter in Gaza City, rescuers say
At least 27 killed in Israeli bombing of shelter in Gaza City, rescuers say
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians flee from southern city of Rafah in one of war’s biggest mass displacements
An Israeli bombing of a school turned shelter in Gaza City has killed at least 27 people, rescuers said, and hundreds of thousands in the Rafah area are fleeing in one of the biggest mass displacements of the war amid Israel’s newly announced campaign to “divide up” the Gaza Strip.
Three missiles hit Dar al-Arqam school in the al-Tuffah neighbourhood on Thursday afternoon, the civil defence agency spokesperson Mahmoud Bassal said, killing several children and wounding 100 people. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
April 3, 2025 at 7:53 PM
At least 27 killed in Israeli bombing of shelter in Gaza City, rescuers say
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Britain is home to almost half of the world’s bluebells, found in ancient or semi-natural woodlands, flowering in April and May. 'Bluebell woods' by contemporary UK painter Susan Entwistle #WomensArt
April 3, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Britain is home to almost half of the world’s bluebells, found in ancient or semi-natural woodlands, flowering in April and May. 'Bluebell woods' by contemporary UK painter Susan Entwistle #WomensArt
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If the military academies are purging libraries of “The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr.,” “Einstein on Race and Racism,” and a biography on Jackie Robinson, how long will it be before they eliminate classes on the Geneva Conventions and military obligations under international laws of war?
March 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
If the military academies are purging libraries of “The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr.,” “Einstein on Race and Racism,” and a biography on Jackie Robinson, how long will it be before they eliminate classes on the Geneva Conventions and military obligations under international laws of war?
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Why aren’t you wearing a suit?
Have you said “Thank you” to Greenland and Denmark for allowing you to have a base on Greenland?
Have you said “Thank you” to Greenland and Denmark for allowing you to have a base on Greenland?
March 29, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Why aren’t you wearing a suit?
Have you said “Thank you” to Greenland and Denmark for allowing you to have a base on Greenland?
Have you said “Thank you” to Greenland and Denmark for allowing you to have a base on Greenland?
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One consequence of tolerating pseudoscience is that people die when its legitimatization becomes baked into our culture, health care systems, and institutions.
March 29, 2025 at 3:28 PM
One consequence of tolerating pseudoscience is that people die when its legitimatization becomes baked into our culture, health care systems, and institutions.
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✏️ « L’histoire ne se répète pas. Je ne pense pas que le nazisme soit en train de revenir, mais les analogies servent à comprendre la réalité et à adresser des signaux d’alerte. » - @oliviermannoni.bsky.social
« Il faut les prendre au mot »
« Il faut les prendre au mot »
ow.ly
March 28, 2025 at 8:02 AM
✏️ « L’histoire ne se répète pas. Je ne pense pas que le nazisme soit en train de revenir, mais les analogies servent à comprendre la réalité et à adresser des signaux d’alerte. » - @oliviermannoni.bsky.social
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Appropriate question. Poignant metaphor (Vichy on the Hudson).
And this is of course precisely the point, as it's laid out in think tank pieces: they want to destroy the universities.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
And this is of course precisely the point, as it's laid out in think tank pieces: they want to destroy the universities.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Does Columbia still merit the name of a university? | Rashid Khalidi
Columbia has long been run more as a business empire than as an educational institution. Now it’s acting like Vichy on the Hudson
www.theguardian.com
March 26, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Appropriate question. Poignant metaphor (Vichy on the Hudson).
And this is of course precisely the point, as it's laid out in think tank pieces: they want to destroy the universities.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
And this is of course precisely the point, as it's laid out in think tank pieces: they want to destroy the universities.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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What labor powers our clicks, likes & views? 📱
Prof. Ashley Mears (sociology) unveils the hidden economy of attention, in her inaugural lecture 'Attention! A New Labor Theory for an Old Commodity', tomorrow - 27 March at 16:30 CET.
🎥 Watch it live: hva-uva.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page...
Prof. Ashley Mears (sociology) unveils the hidden economy of attention, in her inaugural lecture 'Attention! A New Labor Theory for an Old Commodity', tomorrow - 27 March at 16:30 CET.
🎥 Watch it live: hva-uva.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page...
March 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
What labor powers our clicks, likes & views? 📱
Prof. Ashley Mears (sociology) unveils the hidden economy of attention, in her inaugural lecture 'Attention! A New Labor Theory for an Old Commodity', tomorrow - 27 March at 16:30 CET.
🎥 Watch it live: hva-uva.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page...
Prof. Ashley Mears (sociology) unveils the hidden economy of attention, in her inaugural lecture 'Attention! A New Labor Theory for an Old Commodity', tomorrow - 27 March at 16:30 CET.
🎥 Watch it live: hva-uva.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page...
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Thoughts on Signal gate, as someone who spent 19 yrs at CIA. I'm thinking of all the times I accidentally brought my phone into the office and had to not only immediately walk it across the massive parking lot to my car, but report myself to security. Do that too many times=real repercussions
March 26, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Thoughts on Signal gate, as someone who spent 19 yrs at CIA. I'm thinking of all the times I accidentally brought my phone into the office and had to not only immediately walk it across the massive parking lot to my car, but report myself to security. Do that too many times=real repercussions
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