Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim
@yoelitlalim.bsky.social
Eurasian transmissions of knowledge
MIT Global Humanities
https://comparativeglobalhumanities.mit.edu/pillars/healing-arts-and-human-well-being/
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/reorienting-histories-of-medicine-9781472512574/
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Q&A: Katz Center Fellow Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim Vastly Expands the Map of Medieval Jewish Knowledge Transfer
Q&A: Katz Center fellow Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim opens our eyes to the to the fascinating and understudied medical knowledge networks that run along the Silk Routes
katz.sas.upenn.edu
How to sum up what I’ve been doing in the last two and a half decades? Not easy, but here’s an attempt: katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/bl...
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Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a…
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November 27, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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wonderfully inspiring few days in Seoul discussing why humanities matter. Great to see our MIT Global Humanities team
comparativeglobalhumanities.mit.edu/4th-annual-c...
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4th Annual Conference 2025 – MIT Comparative Global Humanities
comparativeglobalhumanities.mit.edu
November 27, 2025 at 3:01 AM
wonderfully inspiring few days in Seoul discussing why humanities matter. Great to see our MIT Global Humanities team
comparativeglobalhumanities.mit.edu/4th-annual-c...
comparativeglobalhumanities.mit.edu/4th-annual-c...
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If you are interested in medicine, animal studies and ecology you can attend ‘Medicinal Animals’ in Crisis: A Three-Part Symposium online this week, hosted at NUS in Singapore.
@mstanleybaker.bsky.social @jimflowers.bsky.social
9 October 2025
14:00 – 17:00 (SGT)
ari.nus.edu.sg/events/20251...
@mstanleybaker.bsky.social @jimflowers.bsky.social
9 October 2025
14:00 – 17:00 (SGT)
ari.nus.edu.sg/events/20251...
October 6, 2025 at 9:27 AM
If you are interested in medicine, animal studies and ecology you can attend ‘Medicinal Animals’ in Crisis: A Three-Part Symposium online this week, hosted at NUS in Singapore.
@mstanleybaker.bsky.social @jimflowers.bsky.social
9 October 2025
14:00 – 17:00 (SGT)
ari.nus.edu.sg/events/20251...
@mstanleybaker.bsky.social @jimflowers.bsky.social
9 October 2025
14:00 – 17:00 (SGT)
ari.nus.edu.sg/events/20251...
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IASTAM’s member Sarah Rivkin @salliebklyn.bsky.social joins Qiological’s Michael Max to discuss translation as clinical practice where every word carries weight, diagnosis is translation, and the translator’s lens shapes both scholarship and clinical practice. www.qiological.com/language-as-...
August 24, 2025 at 10:17 AM
IASTAM’s member Sarah Rivkin @salliebklyn.bsky.social joins Qiological’s Michael Max to discuss translation as clinical practice where every word carries weight, diagnosis is translation, and the translator’s lens shapes both scholarship and clinical practice. www.qiological.com/language-as-...
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Dr. Theresia Hofer will speak on “Deaf and Disability Activism in Tibet and the Himalayas”.
29 Aug 2025, 1–2:30pm
NTU, School of Humanities, Meeting Room 2 (03-93)
Drawing on two decades of fieldwork, she explores disability rights, sign language politics, and activism in Tibet, Bhutan & Nepal.
29 Aug 2025, 1–2:30pm
NTU, School of Humanities, Meeting Room 2 (03-93)
Drawing on two decades of fieldwork, she explores disability rights, sign language politics, and activism in Tibet, Bhutan & Nepal.
August 20, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Dr. Theresia Hofer will speak on “Deaf and Disability Activism in Tibet and the Himalayas”.
29 Aug 2025, 1–2:30pm
NTU, School of Humanities, Meeting Room 2 (03-93)
Drawing on two decades of fieldwork, she explores disability rights, sign language politics, and activism in Tibet, Bhutan & Nepal.
29 Aug 2025, 1–2:30pm
NTU, School of Humanities, Meeting Room 2 (03-93)
Drawing on two decades of fieldwork, she explores disability rights, sign language politics, and activism in Tibet, Bhutan & Nepal.
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Israeli media reports that the cabinet is gearing up to instruct the IDF to occupy all parts of the Gaza Strip.
The implications are a severe escalation of the carnage, starvation, and ethnic cleansing.
UK+EU sanctions should preempt this catastrophe - not respond to it belatedly.
The implications are a severe escalation of the carnage, starvation, and ethnic cleansing.
UK+EU sanctions should preempt this catastrophe - not respond to it belatedly.
August 4, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Israeli media reports that the cabinet is gearing up to instruct the IDF to occupy all parts of the Gaza Strip.
The implications are a severe escalation of the carnage, starvation, and ethnic cleansing.
UK+EU sanctions should preempt this catastrophe - not respond to it belatedly.
The implications are a severe escalation of the carnage, starvation, and ethnic cleansing.
UK+EU sanctions should preempt this catastrophe - not respond to it belatedly.
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Over the course of their career history majors out earn engineers and comp sci.
“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception."
www.mellon.org/voices/human...
www.mellon.org/voices/human...
Mellon Foundation
The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.
www.mellon.org
August 2, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Over the course of their career history majors out earn engineers and comp sci.
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WeTransfer
Aside from ML training, one of the most expansive claims on your content I've ever seen for a service.
perpetual worldwide sub-licensable transferable
for purposes of operating, developing, commercializing
to reproduce, distribute, modify
prepare derivative works based upon
perform
Aside from ML training, one of the most expansive claims on your content I've ever seen for a service.
perpetual worldwide sub-licensable transferable
for purposes of operating, developing, commercializing
to reproduce, distribute, modify
prepare derivative works based upon
perform
WeTransfer now trains on your content for machine learning, without any option to opt out. I've just told them no thanks and goodbye forever, and you can do the same.
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July 15, 2025 at 1:42 AM
WeTransfer
Aside from ML training, one of the most expansive claims on your content I've ever seen for a service.
perpetual worldwide sub-licensable transferable
for purposes of operating, developing, commercializing
to reproduce, distribute, modify
prepare derivative works based upon
perform
Aside from ML training, one of the most expansive claims on your content I've ever seen for a service.
perpetual worldwide sub-licensable transferable
for purposes of operating, developing, commercializing
to reproduce, distribute, modify
prepare derivative works based upon
perform
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Out now! “Responding to Epidemic Outbreaks in Tibetan Contexts”
Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines, Number 77, May 2025:
www.digitalhimalaya.com/collections/...
Edited by Barbara Gerke, William A. McGrath and Jan M. A. van der Valk.
Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines, Number 77, May 2025:
www.digitalhimalaya.com/collections/...
Edited by Barbara Gerke, William A. McGrath and Jan M. A. van der Valk.
May 24, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Out now! “Responding to Epidemic Outbreaks in Tibetan Contexts”
Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines, Number 77, May 2025:
www.digitalhimalaya.com/collections/...
Edited by Barbara Gerke, William A. McGrath and Jan M. A. van der Valk.
Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines, Number 77, May 2025:
www.digitalhimalaya.com/collections/...
Edited by Barbara Gerke, William A. McGrath and Jan M. A. van der Valk.
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Most of my older son's friends at a Manchester 6th-form college are sons and daughters of immigrants (so is he, of course). Are they the problem because they turn the UK into an "island of strangers", as Starmer put it, or the solution as they are the skilled workforce of the future?
What I find most jarring is this blithe confidence among British policymakers that the UK will always get the skilled migrant workers it needs, when in reality it is competing with Canada, Australia, Japan and the EU for a shrinking pool of global skilled workers looking for the best offer around.
I'm sceptical about this for three reasons. 1) The cost of public service/care provision will rise as wages get bidded up. 2) Many migrants are young and become more skilled over time. 3) Some production will be cut without migrant labour, and capital income (which is also taxed) will fall.
May 13, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Most of my older son's friends at a Manchester 6th-form college are sons and daughters of immigrants (so is he, of course). Are they the problem because they turn the UK into an "island of strangers", as Starmer put it, or the solution as they are the skilled workforce of the future?
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Strong words from Ursula von der Leyen today:
“Science belongs to humanity. We must protect it, prioritize it, and give it the freedom it needs to flourish.”
At the launch of the EU’s “Choose Science - Choose Europe” initiative, she announced four key actions.
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“Science belongs to humanity. We must protect it, prioritize it, and give it the freedom it needs to flourish.”
At the launch of the EU’s “Choose Science - Choose Europe” initiative, she announced four key actions.
🧵1/3
May 5, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Strong words from Ursula von der Leyen today:
“Science belongs to humanity. We must protect it, prioritize it, and give it the freedom it needs to flourish.”
At the launch of the EU’s “Choose Science - Choose Europe” initiative, she announced four key actions.
🧵1/3
“Science belongs to humanity. We must protect it, prioritize it, and give it the freedom it needs to flourish.”
At the launch of the EU’s “Choose Science - Choose Europe” initiative, she announced four key actions.
🧵1/3
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Borrowed from @highwayoftearz.bsky.social Twitter page ✊🏽❤️
May 5, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Borrowed from @highwayoftearz.bsky.social Twitter page ✊🏽❤️
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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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Why is the government and the news so indifferent to the meltdown happening in UK #HigherEd right now?
Our universities are the envy of the world. Yet we are at risk of losing a generation of academics and damaging the sector beyond repair.
Our universities are the envy of the world. Yet we are at risk of losing a generation of academics and damaging the sector beyond repair.
The UK car industry contributes £22bn to the economy and employs c 35k people.
Universities contribute £265bn and employ nearly 400k, over 10x as much.
Yet he seems ok to let that sector implode.
Universities contribute £265bn and employ nearly 400k, over 10x as much.
Yet he seems ok to let that sector implode.
"My choice in these volatile times is backing British brilliance," says Keir Starmer, who promises to deliver "British cars for British workers"
April 12, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Why is the government and the news so indifferent to the meltdown happening in UK #HigherEd right now?
Our universities are the envy of the world. Yet we are at risk of losing a generation of academics and damaging the sector beyond repair.
Our universities are the envy of the world. Yet we are at risk of losing a generation of academics and damaging the sector beyond repair.
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For UK peeps not following climate science across the pond, these came yday:
An executive order to override state energy laws that mention climate:
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Ending one $4M grant to study climate because it "focuses on alarming scenarios"
www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...
An executive order to override state energy laws that mention climate:
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Ending one $4M grant to study climate because it "focuses on alarming scenarios"
www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...
Ending Cooperative Agreements’ Funding to Princeton University
On Tuesday, April 8, 2025, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick announced that nearly $4 million in funding is ending to Princeton University after a detailed, careful, and thorough review of the...
www.commerce.gov
April 9, 2025 at 8:13 AM
For UK peeps not following climate science across the pond, these came yday:
An executive order to override state energy laws that mention climate:
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Ending one $4M grant to study climate because it "focuses on alarming scenarios"
www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...
An executive order to override state energy laws that mention climate:
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Ending one $4M grant to study climate because it "focuses on alarming scenarios"
www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...
How to sum up what I’ve been doing in the last two and a half decades? Not easy, but here’s an attempt: katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/bl...
Q&A: Katz Center Fellow Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim Vastly Expands the Map of Medieval Jewish Knowledge Transfer
Q&A: Katz Center fellow Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim opens our eyes to the to the fascinating and understudied medical knowledge networks that run along the Silk Routes
katz.sas.upenn.edu
March 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
How to sum up what I’ve been doing in the last two and a half decades? Not easy, but here’s an attempt: katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/bl...
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Several things wrong with this article about universities. (1) Focus on Dundee, when most of Scotland's unis in danger; (2) on top pay and benefits, which are annoying but don't make much difference; (3) on recent danger, when I told you what'd happen 5 years+ ago.
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
Nigeria currency crisis leaves Dundee University fighting to survive
Profuse spending left the institution ill-prepared for a sharp drop in foreign students after Nigeria, a fertile recruiting ground, devalued its currency
www.thetimes.com
March 16, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Several things wrong with this article about universities. (1) Focus on Dundee, when most of Scotland's unis in danger; (2) on top pay and benefits, which are annoying but don't make much difference; (3) on recent danger, when I told you what'd happen 5 years+ ago.
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
Pentagon abruptly ends all funding for social science research | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Pentagon abruptly ends all funding for social science research
More than 90 studies on threats such as climate change, extremism, and disinformation are halted
www.science.org
March 10, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Pentagon abruptly ends all funding for social science research | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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Ah yes - the free speech absolutists are at it again
NEH introduces new prohibited categories to comply with executive orders. This is an infringement of academic freedom plain and simple, and also nonsense: what is “discriminatory equity ideology”
February 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Ah yes - the free speech absolutists are at it again
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It matters that scientists speak out against what is being done to US science.
Staying silent is neither "objective" nor "staying out of politics".
Silence now *is* political - it supports the status quo, says "nothing to worry about".
We need to sound the alarm.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Staying silent is neither "objective" nor "staying out of politics".
Silence now *is* political - it supports the status quo, says "nothing to worry about".
We need to sound the alarm.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Trump’s siege of science: how the first 30 days unfolded and what’s next
The breakneck pace and devastating impact of the administration’s policy changes has shocked researchers.
www.nature.com
February 21, 2025 at 9:26 AM
It matters that scientists speak out against what is being done to US science.
Staying silent is neither "objective" nor "staying out of politics".
Silence now *is* political - it supports the status quo, says "nothing to worry about".
We need to sound the alarm.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Staying silent is neither "objective" nor "staying out of politics".
Silence now *is* political - it supports the status quo, says "nothing to worry about".
We need to sound the alarm.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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The US has so badly bungled their bird flu outbreak (obviously) that they've put the whole world at risk - but things are now getting even worse. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them
In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."
www.nbcnews.com
February 18, 2025 at 10:56 PM
The US has so badly bungled their bird flu outbreak (obviously) that they've put the whole world at risk - but things are now getting even worse. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
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Launch day for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY! So relieved to make it this far.
💙📚 🧪 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH
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💙📚 🧪 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH
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Launch Day for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY!
Welcome back, and hallo, new readers! This is it! The US launch day for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY is February 4th. I’m amazed and relieved to get to this...
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February 4, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Launch day for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY! So relieved to make it this far.
💙📚 🧪 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH
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💙📚 🧪 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH
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