Sam Miles
@sam-miles.bsky.social
Reader in Medical Sociology at Barts & the London @qmul.ac.uk; former social scientist @LSHTM.bsky.social & @KCL. Researching queer lives, technology, sexual health, youth, education.
Brilliant writing by Sirin Kale & Lucy Osborne @theguardian.com on Free Birth Society. A sobering case study of how social media influencers target vulnerable people let down by health systems: www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int... #health #pregnancy #tech
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Brilliant writing by Sirin Kale & Lucy Osborne @theguardian.com on Free Birth Society. A sobering case study of how social media influencers target vulnerable people let down by health systems: www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int... #health #pregnancy #tech
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QMUL’s Whitechapel medical campus @qmul.bsky.social giving Mediterranean vibes in today’s sunshine 😎
September 24, 2025 at 6:18 PM
QMUL’s Whitechapel medical campus @qmul.bsky.social giving Mediterranean vibes in today’s sunshine 😎
I was invited by my colleague Dr Stephen Hibbs @qmul-wiph.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social to speak on 'Thinking In Between' #podcast. He asked me to bring three 'ideas' to our recording: books or theories, thinkers or methods. Find out what I chose, & listen for free: open.spotify.com/episode/3qVJ...
Helen Bamber, Legacies, and "From the Horse's Mouth" (Sam Miles)
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August 29, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I was invited by my colleague Dr Stephen Hibbs @qmul-wiph.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social to speak on 'Thinking In Between' #podcast. He asked me to bring three 'ideas' to our recording: books or theories, thinkers or methods. Find out what I chose, & listen for free: open.spotify.com/episode/3qVJ...
I’m never not-astounded by the Bridgerton splendour of Barts @bharchives.bsky.social. It’s so beautiful - and still a working hospital (with our very own @qmul students), centuries on!
June 4, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I’m never not-astounded by the Bridgerton splendour of Barts @bharchives.bsky.social. It’s so beautiful - and still a working hospital (with our very own @qmul students), centuries on!
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Bezos and Sánchez off to pick up climate award on yacht that all by itself has the annual carbon footprint as 1,250 Europeans or 72,000 Africans, all for work on the Bezos Climate Fund that aimed to be self-serving for Amazon but ended up not even doing that. louispisano.substack.com/p/the-bezos-...
The Bezos Cannes-tastrophe
Starring Jeff Bezos as himself, Lauren Sánchez as an environmentalist, and Cannes as the end-stage symptom of elite delusion.
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May 23, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Bezos and Sánchez off to pick up climate award on yacht that all by itself has the annual carbon footprint as 1,250 Europeans or 72,000 Africans, all for work on the Bezos Climate Fund that aimed to be self-serving for Amazon but ended up not even doing that. louispisano.substack.com/p/the-bezos-...
I made this video from my @ucu.org.uk update on current cuts & redundancies in UK higher education. Universities generate *four times* the economic output of the entire farming sector (House of Lords & Universities UK 2024) and are in crisis- not that you’d know it from Government or media.
May 23, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I made this video from my @ucu.org.uk update on current cuts & redundancies in UK higher education. Universities generate *four times* the economic output of the entire farming sector (House of Lords & Universities UK 2024) and are in crisis- not that you’d know it from Government or media.
I'm excited to publish entries on 'Space' and 'Nightlife' for the Encyclopaedia of Queer Studies (2025).
In a political climate reducing trans people to legislative 'gotchas', it's even more important we support queer communities. I have some free PDFs of each entry, DM if interested #LGBT #research
In a political climate reducing trans people to legislative 'gotchas', it's even more important we support queer communities. I have some free PDFs of each entry, DM if interested #LGBT #research
May 22, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Mile End campus @qmul.ac.uk looking dreamy in the sun
May 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Mile End campus @qmul.ac.uk looking dreamy in the sun
Blimey, Gail’s is opening in Hackney Central in the old town hall-> coral betting shop-> taproom. Urbanists & urban geographers across London swiftly updating their PowerPoint opening lecture slide 🤪
May 19, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Blimey, Gail’s is opening in Hackney Central in the old town hall-> coral betting shop-> taproom. Urbanists & urban geographers across London swiftly updating their PowerPoint opening lecture slide 🤪
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The inappropriate internal design of most Anglosphere universities will destroy a huge share of them in the end. Governments should step in and call a halt, else they'll see billions poured down the drain. The worst thing? They're not even aware of this. pardoguerra.org/2025/05/14/t...
The midification of higher education
By now, faculty, staff, and administrators across US higher education are waking up to the realization that this crisis is definitional: however we come out of this mess, it will be permanently and…
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May 14, 2025 at 7:16 PM
The inappropriate internal design of most Anglosphere universities will destroy a huge share of them in the end. Governments should step in and call a halt, else they'll see billions poured down the drain. The worst thing? They're not even aware of this. pardoguerra.org/2025/05/14/t...
V.excited to see the new @sohotheatre.bsky.social Walthamstow for my first comedy gig in ages. This venue has been a long time coming 🤩
May 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
V.excited to see the new @sohotheatre.bsky.social Walthamstow for my first comedy gig in ages. This venue has been a long time coming 🤩
Today as my colleagues sadly enter redundancy negotiations, I'm sharing an excellent 2024 article @gsoh31.bsky.social @prospectmagazine.co.uk on university decline & the seeming disinterest of UK government to help www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...
@qmul.ac.uk @qmucu.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
@qmul.ac.uk @qmucu.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
Crash course
The UK’s universities are among the best in the world. So why do many appear close to collapse?
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
May 6, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Today as my colleagues sadly enter redundancy negotiations, I'm sharing an excellent 2024 article @gsoh31.bsky.social @prospectmagazine.co.uk on university decline & the seeming disinterest of UK government to help www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...
@qmul.ac.uk @qmucu.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
@qmul.ac.uk @qmucu.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
Daily Ma*l having a totally normal Monday, I see 🧐
April 28, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Daily Ma*l having a totally normal Monday, I see 🧐
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We are now approaching 4,000 formally announced university redundancies in the UK since January alone. The real situation is far worse than that, and will also accelerate going forwards. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-univ...
UK university redundancies: latest updates
As higher education institutions shed thousands of jobs, we track developments and bring together latest analysis with resources for affected staff and students
www.timeshighereducation.com
April 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM
We are now approaching 4,000 formally announced university redundancies in the UK since January alone. The real situation is far worse than that, and will also accelerate going forwards. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-univ...
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Farage's numbers look false, skewed or spun
Of the 16% (10.6m) people born abroad, 6/10 had arrived before 2011 [so he can't claim 7m new registrations since 2015]
- about 4/10 of those born abroad are UK citizens
+ non-citizens on visas pay £1035/year NHS surcharge. NHS net gain on £ now
Of the 16% (10.6m) people born abroad, 6/10 had arrived before 2011 [so he can't claim 7m new registrations since 2015]
- about 4/10 of those born abroad are UK citizens
+ non-citizens on visas pay £1035/year NHS surcharge. NHS net gain on £ now
Farage:
"7.2 million foreign-born people have registered with GPs in the last 10 years... All I'm doing here is giving you cold hard facts".
Well here's another cold hard fact - 40.6% of GPs in England and Wales are foreign born.
The NHS would completely collapse without workers from abroad.
"7.2 million foreign-born people have registered with GPs in the last 10 years... All I'm doing here is giving you cold hard facts".
Well here's another cold hard fact - 40.6% of GPs in England and Wales are foreign born.
The NHS would completely collapse without workers from abroad.
April 25, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Farage's numbers look false, skewed or spun
Of the 16% (10.6m) people born abroad, 6/10 had arrived before 2011 [so he can't claim 7m new registrations since 2015]
- about 4/10 of those born abroad are UK citizens
+ non-citizens on visas pay £1035/year NHS surcharge. NHS net gain on £ now
Of the 16% (10.6m) people born abroad, 6/10 had arrived before 2011 [so he can't claim 7m new registrations since 2015]
- about 4/10 of those born abroad are UK citizens
+ non-citizens on visas pay £1035/year NHS surcharge. NHS net gain on £ now
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The cherry tree in my garden gets better every year 🤩
April 5, 2025 at 7:59 PM
The cherry tree in my garden gets better every year 🤩
Bart’s hospital Pathology museum looking beyootiful today in chilly sunshine. All set for @qmul.ac.uk 5th year exams. What a space to do them!
March 14, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Bart’s hospital Pathology museum looking beyootiful today in chilly sunshine. All set for @qmul.ac.uk 5th year exams. What a space to do them!
Name a better east London art deco 😋
March 13, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Name a better east London art deco 😋
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When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”
To repeat: "A country so stupid it actively trashes one of things it's good at and famous for."
Today's university slashing and burning is Edinburgh, where about 10% of the budget will be cut. There'll be another case every single day until UK govts actually do something. A country so stupid it actively trashes one of things it's good at and famous for.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
February 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”
Great article featuring a #virology legend @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social for @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/science/2025... #covid #health #research #vaccine
Virologist Wendy Barclay: ‘Wild avian viruses are mixing up their genetics all the time. It’s like viral sex on steroids’
The British scientist on the risk of humans contracting bird flu, how people would cope with new lockdowns and being asked to pour the tea because she is a woman
www.theguardian.com
February 20, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Great article featuring a #virology legend @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social for @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/science/2025... #covid #health #research #vaccine
I invited UCL’s Dr Emily Nicholls to come and give a talk to some of our @qmul.ac.uk first-year medics on HIV in the past, present & future. She was brilliant, as usual! #LGBTQ #HIV #MedEd #uni
January 31, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I invited UCL’s Dr Emily Nicholls to come and give a talk to some of our @qmul.ac.uk first-year medics on HIV in the past, present & future. She was brilliant, as usual! #LGBTQ #HIV #MedEd #uni
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Universities announcing job losses and/ or course closures in just the last two weeks:
*Cardiff
*University of the Creative Arts
*Dundee
*Durham
*Kent
*Lancaster
*Newcastle
*Open University
*Reading
*University of the West of England
*Cardiff
*University of the Creative Arts
*Dundee
*Durham
*Kent
*Lancaster
*Newcastle
*Open University
*Reading
*University of the West of England
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January 31, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Universities announcing job losses and/ or course closures in just the last two weeks:
*Cardiff
*University of the Creative Arts
*Dundee
*Durham
*Kent
*Lancaster
*Newcastle
*Open University
*Reading
*University of the West of England
*Cardiff
*University of the Creative Arts
*Dundee
*Durham
*Kent
*Lancaster
*Newcastle
*Open University
*Reading
*University of the West of England