pratik-hstm.bsky.social
NEH-Cullen Chair History & Medicine, University of Houston. Director Health is Politics https://uh.edu/class/history/about/project-on-health-is-politics/
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The colonial hill stations come to mind...away from the dusty, polluted tropical plains. You know the British established all their research labs there, because the mind, they believed, worked better in cooler, idyllic surroundings.
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and I wasnt making a personal point to you. I am aware. I was raising it from my own experience
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Do you know what reading is? Becuase I dont...
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dont agree with that stupid post at all. But dont you think being able to read is a priviledge particularly in academics? A lot of people in academics struggle with reading and really dont know what reading is..I think the AI debate is taking an ablist turn among those for whom reading is natural.
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Who are these "Health leaders"? Never heard of the phrase and have no idea that means.
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Looks so interesting
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Seems like the Scotland model. Exotic zoos basically.
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No institution is good enough unless there's good politics.
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This gives me the cold chills
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There was a bill placed in Texas that the ban should go with the person. You know when was the last time the law went with the people? The Fugitive Slave Act, 1850. Just think about it.
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He regrets nothing.
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I am sorry, saying that and regretting it later is White privilege.
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I have seen body cams in cricket. They are "fun" for viewers but ultimately aren't very popular as the image is equity unstable. Sticking a camera and a mic in someone's face who has just been taken off and is still processing their thoughts is cruel.
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I remember reading a report (1900s) saying how archaeology and somatology needed to come together to study race, and ruins were integral to each other.
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"There is an emerging consensus about the problems that need to be fixed. All major parties are committed in principle to reducing low-skilled migration and ending illegal migration..." When you try to fix something that does not need finxing. "Consensus" is a hegemony.
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Never experienced a book manuscript submission system. I am just used to sending it by email. This must be quite exciting
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Congratulations!!
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I finished my recent book as the world is sinking into a dark abyss every day bit by bit and I felt guilty about keep writing my book. I found my limits in its pages.
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A very modern value judgment
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One of less known facts about Paris is its North African restaurants. These are where locals go. Of many, I remember going to the Restaurant L'Homme Bleu. Food was fabulous. Great atmosphere too.
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And son of the wonderful historian Mahmood Mamdani author of When VictimsBecome, Myth of Populationcontrol,..
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Found a biological solution to an economic, social, and environmental problem. This is the answer. What was the question? Typical.
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This battle doesn't even have the intellectual pretenses of the 19th century debates between contagionism and anticontagionism.
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I practically wrote a chapter in Rare books, in BL.
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Ist draft is often in fact the 3rd draft!
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...AI?
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They did. Momentum.
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There are definitely too many bad opinion pieces
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All of these are available elsewhere, but India makes them best.
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He's basically an youtuber trying to jump to the AI.
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No, I mean like when you tell your student something they should know but you don't want to embarrass them, kind of tone.
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Reminds me of island isolationism, Darwin phrase though, I think, still commonly used in genomics.
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Not commenting on the content, just to say that your out of the bluesky clouds are great to read. I look forward to them.
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On second thoughts, it's very much written in a whispery yet informed tone, that deserves to be in a footnote. A privilege for the latter!
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Beautiful! Obvious question. Why in footnote though?
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The tonal change in how scientists express themselves in research. Not obviously suggesting that there have been no emotional expressions in science. Those were not the norm. This seems to be.
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The tone is quite emotional if not moralistic as well. This tone is surprisingly common among environmental scientists these days. A tonal shift in science or that envmmtl and conserv. scientists are especially passionate. In the latter the point would be: prove it and it's still emotion in science!
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because knowing is possessing