Seye Abimbola
@seyeabimbola.bsky.social
Writer, Teacher, Researcher | on Epistemic Practices in Health Systems and Global Health | @sydney.edu.au | Views expressed here are my own.
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Seye Abimbola
@seyeabimbola.bsky.social
· Nov 18
I'm happy to announce that my book, "The Foreign Gaze: Essays on Global Health", is now out!
You can order the print copy and download the e-copy (open access) here: www.editions.ird.fr/produit/728/...
The book comes with a playlist for your listening pleasure: open.spotify.com/playlist/5K5...
You can order the print copy and download the e-copy (open access) here: www.editions.ird.fr/produit/728/...
The book comes with a playlist for your listening pleasure: open.spotify.com/playlist/5K5...
Reposted by Seye Abimbola
The epistemic/belief/political system that created eugenics created Watson's racist & sexist genetics fundamentalism.
It also created "apolitical" population health science.
It's time to reckon with all else it's done to taint the practice & substance of academic/scientific inquiry.
It's a lot!
It also created "apolitical" population health science.
It's time to reckon with all else it's done to taint the practice & substance of academic/scientific inquiry.
It's a lot!
I wrote an Opinion piece for @thelancet.com about James Watson. It's not an obituary - Georgina Ferry did that for them - but offers some thoughts on the problematic aspects of Watson's history.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
James D Watson: a cautionary tale
There was always going to be a complex reckoning in the obituaries of James D Watson
(1928–2025), the American geneticist who co-discovered the structure of DNA. For many
years, Watson was one of the ...
www.thelancet.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The epistemic/belief/political system that created eugenics created Watson's racist & sexist genetics fundamentalism.
It also created "apolitical" population health science.
It's time to reckon with all else it's done to taint the practice & substance of academic/scientific inquiry.
It's a lot!
It also created "apolitical" population health science.
It's time to reckon with all else it's done to taint the practice & substance of academic/scientific inquiry.
It's a lot!
The epistemic/belief/political system that created eugenics created Watson's racist & sexist genetics fundamentalism.
It also created "apolitical" population health science.
It's time to reckon with all else it's done to taint the practice & substance of academic/scientific inquiry.
It's a lot!
It also created "apolitical" population health science.
It's time to reckon with all else it's done to taint the practice & substance of academic/scientific inquiry.
It's a lot!
I wrote an Opinion piece for @thelancet.com about James Watson. It's not an obituary - Georgina Ferry did that for them - but offers some thoughts on the problematic aspects of Watson's history.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
James D Watson: a cautionary tale
There was always going to be a complex reckoning in the obituaries of James D Watson
(1928–2025), the American geneticist who co-discovered the structure of DNA. For many
years, Watson was one of the ...
www.thelancet.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The epistemic/belief/political system that created eugenics created Watson's racist & sexist genetics fundamentalism.
It also created "apolitical" population health science.
It's time to reckon with all else it's done to taint the practice & substance of academic/scientific inquiry.
It's a lot!
It also created "apolitical" population health science.
It's time to reckon with all else it's done to taint the practice & substance of academic/scientific inquiry.
It's a lot!
Reposted by Seye Abimbola
As of today, you can pre-order my book from the Routledge page, and for today only it's 25% off:
Epistemic Injustice: An Introduction
Epistemic injustice is one of the most important yet complex subjects to have emerged in philosophy in recent years. It refers to the idea that a person can be wronged when they are not properly belie...
www.routledge.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:58 AM
As of today, you can pre-order my book from the Routledge page, and for today only it's 25% off:
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@seyeabimbola.bsky.social Help Matea get to the final round with a like and sharing this post!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=puAG...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=puAG...
Matea, Physics, Ecuador, South/Central America Region: Breakthrough Junior Challenge Popular Vote
YouTube video by Breakthrough
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November 25, 2025 at 3:08 PM
@seyeabimbola.bsky.social Help Matea get to the final round with a like and sharing this post!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=puAG...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=puAG...
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You can now preview the book, which means you can look and search inside, and I think read the acknowledgements (the most personal part of it by far) and the preface - there's a 'preview book' button below the cover:
Epistemic Injustice: An Introduction
Epistemic injustice is one of the most important yet complex subjects to have emerged in philosophy in recent years. It refers to the idea that a person can be wronged when they are not properly belie...
www.routledge.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:24 PM
You can now preview the book, which means you can look and search inside, and I think read the acknowledgements (the most personal part of it by far) and the preface - there's a 'preview book' button below the cover:
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And autism was never something to be so terrified of that you avoid vaccines for preventable childhood diseases that could disable or kill you and others
The inherent ableism of this strain of anti-vaccinationism has always been acute
The inherent ableism of this strain of anti-vaccinationism has always been acute
November 20, 2025 at 12:24 PM
And autism was never something to be so terrified of that you avoid vaccines for preventable childhood diseases that could disable or kill you and others
The inherent ableism of this strain of anti-vaccinationism has always been acute
The inherent ableism of this strain of anti-vaccinationism has always been acute
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“there is something wilful about indifference. It is never by chance. It is either willed by the individual or eased by the institutions that structure their practices”
Epistemic dignity
I wrote an essay on this important book for @thelancet.com: Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians, edited by Courtney Thompson & Kylie Smith
Please read the review here www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The book is available here www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
I wrote an essay on this important book for @thelancet.com: Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians, edited by Courtney Thompson & Kylie Smith
Please read the review here www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The book is available here www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
November 16, 2025 at 10:23 AM
“there is something wilful about indifference. It is never by chance. It is either willed by the individual or eased by the institutions that structure their practices”
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@seyeabimbola 's The Foreign Gaze: Essays on #GlobalHealth is one of our recommended reads this month.
And it comes with its own playlist (we approve).
#BlackHistoryMonth2025 #publichealth
www.amazon.co.uk/Foreign-Gaze...
And it comes with its own playlist (we approve).
#BlackHistoryMonth2025 #publichealth
www.amazon.co.uk/Foreign-Gaze...
October 9, 2025 at 10:44 AM
@seyeabimbola 's The Foreign Gaze: Essays on #GlobalHealth is one of our recommended reads this month.
And it comes with its own playlist (we approve).
#BlackHistoryMonth2025 #publichealth
www.amazon.co.uk/Foreign-Gaze...
And it comes with its own playlist (we approve).
#BlackHistoryMonth2025 #publichealth
www.amazon.co.uk/Foreign-Gaze...
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A short while ago, Dr Janani Shanthosh and I had an engaging conversation about The Foreign Gaze, which she's now beautifully captured in text and audio.
It's the first in her series of interviews titled On Theory.
Please read, listen, and follow the series.
Here goes ontheory.com/interviews/s...
It's the first in her series of interviews titled On Theory.
Please read, listen, and follow the series.
Here goes ontheory.com/interviews/s...
Seye Abimbola | On Theory
Seye Abimbola wants us to stop mistaking prestige for insight – and inclusion for equity.
At a bustling restaurant tucked into a leafy corner of the University of Sydney, Associate Professor Seye Abim...
ontheory.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:05 PM
A short while ago, Dr Janani Shanthosh and I had an engaging conversation about The Foreign Gaze, which she's now beautifully captured in text and audio.
It's the first in her series of interviews titled On Theory.
Please read, listen, and follow the series.
Here goes ontheory.com/interviews/s...
It's the first in her series of interviews titled On Theory.
Please read, listen, and follow the series.
Here goes ontheory.com/interviews/s...
Reposted by Seye Abimbola
I did both history & ethics as part of my MPH but the classes were a tiny % of overall student intake.
Those subjects provided vital context & Qs for everything else I learned.
Moving beyond the ☑️ or "minimalist, procedural, institution-protecting ethics of ethics committees or peer review" ...👇
Those subjects provided vital context & Qs for everything else I learned.
Moving beyond the ☑️ or "minimalist, procedural, institution-protecting ethics of ethics committees or peer review" ...👇
Epistemic dignity
I wrote an essay on this important book for @thelancet.com: Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians, edited by Courtney Thompson & Kylie Smith
Please read the review here www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The book is available here www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
I wrote an essay on this important book for @thelancet.com: Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians, edited by Courtney Thompson & Kylie Smith
Please read the review here www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The book is available here www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
November 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I did both history & ethics as part of my MPH but the classes were a tiny % of overall student intake.
Those subjects provided vital context & Qs for everything else I learned.
Moving beyond the ☑️ or "minimalist, procedural, institution-protecting ethics of ethics committees or peer review" ...👇
Those subjects provided vital context & Qs for everything else I learned.
Moving beyond the ☑️ or "minimalist, procedural, institution-protecting ethics of ethics committees or peer review" ...👇
Reposted by Seye Abimbola
Epistemic dignity
I wrote an essay on this important book for @thelancet.com: Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians, edited by Courtney Thompson & Kylie Smith
Please read the review here www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The book is available here www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
I wrote an essay on this important book for @thelancet.com: Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians, edited by Courtney Thompson & Kylie Smith
Please read the review here www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The book is available here www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
November 7, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Epistemic dignity
I wrote an essay on this important book for @thelancet.com: Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians, edited by Courtney Thompson & Kylie Smith
Please read the review here www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The book is available here www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
I wrote an essay on this important book for @thelancet.com: Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians, edited by Courtney Thompson & Kylie Smith
Please read the review here www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The book is available here www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
Epistemic dignity
I wrote an essay on this important book for @thelancet.com: Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians, edited by Courtney Thompson & Kylie Smith
Please read the review here www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The book is available here www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
I wrote an essay on this important book for @thelancet.com: Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians, edited by Courtney Thompson & Kylie Smith
Please read the review here www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The book is available here www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
November 7, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Epistemic dignity
I wrote an essay on this important book for @thelancet.com: Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians, edited by Courtney Thompson & Kylie Smith
Please read the review here www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The book is available here www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
I wrote an essay on this important book for @thelancet.com: Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians, edited by Courtney Thompson & Kylie Smith
Please read the review here www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The book is available here www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
Epistemic dignity
I wrote an essay on this important book for @TheLancet: "Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians" (edited by Courtney Thompson & Kylie Smith).
Please read the review here www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The book is available here www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
I wrote an essay on this important book for @TheLancet: "Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians" (edited by Courtney Thompson & Kylie Smith).
Please read the review here www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The book is available here www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
November 7, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Epistemic dignity
I wrote an essay on this important book for @TheLancet: "Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians" (edited by Courtney Thompson & Kylie Smith).
Please read the review here www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The book is available here www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
I wrote an essay on this important book for @TheLancet: "Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians" (edited by Courtney Thompson & Kylie Smith).
Please read the review here www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The book is available here www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
Reposted by Seye Abimbola
“I think oftentimes when people talk about this history, they usually focus on cis gay men . . . But there is a really exciting new, newish field of study, of scholars who are uncovering stories of people who were lesbians, bisexual, transgender and those really untold stories.”
Holocaust Researcher Says Up to 1/3 of Imprisoned LGBTQ+ People Reported by Friends and Family
A new exhibit at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center aims to shed light on the diversity of LGBTQ+ Holocaust stories.
www.them.us
November 3, 2025 at 10:32 PM
“I think oftentimes when people talk about this history, they usually focus on cis gay men . . . But there is a really exciting new, newish field of study, of scholars who are uncovering stories of people who were lesbians, bisexual, transgender and those really untold stories.”
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Power, inequity, and the work of solidarity.
During the 2025 Global Health Solidarity Open Forum, Seye Abimbola named the hard truths: power imbalances, inequities, and injustices often block real solidarity and keep communities at the margins.
Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ril...
During the 2025 Global Health Solidarity Open Forum, Seye Abimbola named the hard truths: power imbalances, inequities, and injustices often block real solidarity and keep communities at the margins.
Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ril...
Solidarity in Global Health: Responding to Funding Cuts in Research | 2025 GH-Solidarity Open Forum
YouTube video by Solidarity in Global Health Project
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October 1, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Power, inequity, and the work of solidarity.
During the 2025 Global Health Solidarity Open Forum, Seye Abimbola named the hard truths: power imbalances, inequities, and injustices often block real solidarity and keep communities at the margins.
Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ril...
During the 2025 Global Health Solidarity Open Forum, Seye Abimbola named the hard truths: power imbalances, inequities, and injustices often block real solidarity and keep communities at the margins.
Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ril...
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@seyeabimbola.bsky.social‘s work majorly inspires the next gathering of the RUTA Association for Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern European, Baltic, Caucasus, Central and Northern Asian Studies in Global Conversation, scrutinising gaze beyond the global North/South binary
bsky.app/profile/asso...
bsky.app/profile/asso...
Our 2026 RUTA conference will be exploring the role of embodied knowledges and knowledges rooted in the places we conduct research about. We will discuss how the making of knowledge, art and cultural heritage changes when it is grounded in places and communities and which possibilities this opens
November 2, 2025 at 1:35 PM
@seyeabimbola.bsky.social‘s work majorly inspires the next gathering of the RUTA Association for Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern European, Baltic, Caucasus, Central and Northern Asian Studies in Global Conversation, scrutinising gaze beyond the global North/South binary
bsky.app/profile/asso...
bsky.app/profile/asso...
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On the power and injustice of the foreign gaze: “But it is also about power – the kind that distances people. That foreign audience might be a powerful policymaker, a set of academics, or a philanthropist. The question is always: who is looking, from where, and what gets distorted in the process?”
“The more proximate you are to people’s lived realities, and the more embedded you are, the less distanced by class you are, the more you see. The higher you go…the higher your propensity to not be very useful.”
@seyeabimbola.bsky.social
www.ontheory.com/interviews/s...
@seyeabimbola.bsky.social
www.ontheory.com/interviews/s...
Seye Abimbola | On Theory
Seye Abimbola wants us to stop mistaking prestige for insight – and inclusion for equity.
At a bustling restaurant tucked into a leafy corner of the University of Sydney, Associate Professor Seye Abim...
www.ontheory.com
November 2, 2025 at 1:04 PM
On the power and injustice of the foreign gaze: “But it is also about power – the kind that distances people. That foreign audience might be a powerful policymaker, a set of academics, or a philanthropist. The question is always: who is looking, from where, and what gets distorted in the process?”
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(this is true of politics and journalism too)
“The more proximate you are to people’s lived realities, and the more embedded you are, the less distanced by class you are, the more you see. The higher you go…the higher your propensity to not be very useful.”
@seyeabimbola.bsky.social
www.ontheory.com/interviews/s...
@seyeabimbola.bsky.social
www.ontheory.com/interviews/s...
Seye Abimbola | On Theory
Seye Abimbola wants us to stop mistaking prestige for insight – and inclusion for equity.
At a bustling restaurant tucked into a leafy corner of the University of Sydney, Associate Professor Seye Abim...
www.ontheory.com
November 2, 2025 at 1:28 PM
(this is true of politics and journalism too)
Reposted by Seye Abimbola
Love this - and agree with it too!! 👇
“The more proximate you are to people’s lived realities, and the more embedded you are, the less distanced by class you are, the more you see. The higher you go…the higher your propensity to not be very useful.”
@seyeabimbola.bsky.social
www.ontheory.com/interviews/s...
@seyeabimbola.bsky.social
www.ontheory.com/interviews/s...
Seye Abimbola | On Theory
Seye Abimbola wants us to stop mistaking prestige for insight – and inclusion for equity.
At a bustling restaurant tucked into a leafy corner of the University of Sydney, Associate Professor Seye Abim...
www.ontheory.com
November 2, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Love this - and agree with it too!! 👇
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“At twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, my heroes were people who had been jailed, exiled, or killed for speaking out. I understood very early that to be a human being is to fight.”
Going to have to read this book. Suspect the principles also apply to any hierarchical organisation.
Going to have to read this book. Suspect the principles also apply to any hierarchical organisation.
“The more proximate you are to people’s lived realities, and the more embedded you are, the less distanced by class you are, the more you see. The higher you go…the higher your propensity to not be very useful.”
@seyeabimbola.bsky.social
www.ontheory.com/interviews/s...
@seyeabimbola.bsky.social
www.ontheory.com/interviews/s...
Seye Abimbola | On Theory
Seye Abimbola wants us to stop mistaking prestige for insight – and inclusion for equity.
At a bustling restaurant tucked into a leafy corner of the University of Sydney, Associate Professor Seye Abim...
www.ontheory.com
November 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM
“At twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, my heroes were people who had been jailed, exiled, or killed for speaking out. I understood very early that to be a human being is to fight.”
Going to have to read this book. Suspect the principles also apply to any hierarchical organisation.
Going to have to read this book. Suspect the principles also apply to any hierarchical organisation.
Reposted by Seye Abimbola
Great editorial from the lancet Global Health :
"Restoring dignity to the marginalised as sovereign knowers"
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
"Restoring dignity to the marginalised as sovereign knowers"
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Restoring dignity to the marginalised as sovereign knowers
Power imbalances persist in research, prioritising the experience and knowledge of
those with social, political, and economic power while silencing or misrepresenting
others. This dynamic—which is int...
www.thelancet.com
August 27, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Great editorial from the lancet Global Health :
"Restoring dignity to the marginalised as sovereign knowers"
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
"Restoring dignity to the marginalised as sovereign knowers"
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Reposted by Seye Abimbola
“The more proximate you are to people’s lived realities, and the more embedded you are, the less distanced by class you are, the more you see. The higher you go…the higher your propensity to not be very useful.”
@seyeabimbola.bsky.social
www.ontheory.com/interviews/s...
@seyeabimbola.bsky.social
www.ontheory.com/interviews/s...
Seye Abimbola | On Theory
Seye Abimbola wants us to stop mistaking prestige for insight – and inclusion for equity.
At a bustling restaurant tucked into a leafy corner of the University of Sydney, Associate Professor Seye Abim...
www.ontheory.com
November 1, 2025 at 8:25 PM
“The more proximate you are to people’s lived realities, and the more embedded you are, the less distanced by class you are, the more you see. The higher you go…the higher your propensity to not be very useful.”
@seyeabimbola.bsky.social
www.ontheory.com/interviews/s...
@seyeabimbola.bsky.social
www.ontheory.com/interviews/s...
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🎙️In 'Revisiting resilience in health systems research' podcast, Sophie Witter, @sushilbaral.bsky.social, @seyeabimbola.bsky.social & @kimozano.bsky.social talk resilience
What are the concepts?
Who is expected to be resilient?
How are communities involved?
www.rebuildconsortium.com/resources/re...
What are the concepts?
Who is expected to be resilient?
How are communities involved?
www.rebuildconsortium.com/resources/re...
October 30, 2025 at 12:03 PM
🎙️In 'Revisiting resilience in health systems research' podcast, Sophie Witter, @sushilbaral.bsky.social, @seyeabimbola.bsky.social & @kimozano.bsky.social talk resilience
What are the concepts?
Who is expected to be resilient?
How are communities involved?
www.rebuildconsortium.com/resources/re...
What are the concepts?
Who is expected to be resilient?
How are communities involved?
www.rebuildconsortium.com/resources/re...
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On further reflection, handing operation of our Universities over to a professional administrative class with no personal investment in the educational mission of the university or the creation and maintenance of knowledge might have been somewhat in error.
October 31, 2025 at 4:42 PM
On further reflection, handing operation of our Universities over to a professional administrative class with no personal investment in the educational mission of the university or the creation and maintenance of knowledge might have been somewhat in error.