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Friendly neighborhood history of science and medicine guy. Currently writing Science as White Epistemology: Decolonizing the History of Science Director: Health is Politics https://uh.edu/class/history/about/project-on-health-is-politics/
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#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlur Advertisement at a London bus stop. Ya gotta love the British…

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How to write critical histories of science and medicine amidst a climate of rising anti-science fervor?

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Hey, I'm going to do this, and I hope you will too. Not because I think a one day pause will be a devastating blow, but because coordinated action takes practice, and if you don't do the small stuff, you will have a harder time gearing up for the big stuff.

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Paul Farmer is the only author who has written the same book several times, yet I love reading each of them

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The opposite of liberal is not illiberal. It's radical.

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The middle only makes way for the Right. Go Left.

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I didnt realize this was already done. Shame!

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Spicy Louisiana crab boil on a chilly night

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Happy day. Our close friends are about to embark on their longtime dream. Someone who will work with me landed a major grant---and I finally finished the first draft of that damn manuscript! .

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Friendly reminder that fascism and genocide go (and are going) hand in hand.

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Friendly reminder that fascism and genocide go (and are going) hand in hand.

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Next week's seminar question, how did Aristotle (and Plato) end up in a Vatican fresco?

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In a genocide sometimes the only thing one can or must do, is to bear witness

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Getting ready for today's Capstone class lecture: From Aquinas to Genetics

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Musk running the US government? Think Adani, think India. The trend was set there. Sensitive materials and all that...

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Musk running the US government? Think Adani, think India. The trend was set there. Sensitive materials and all that...

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If anyone is wondering about the number of upper-caste-educated Indians in the most fascist parts of the Trump administration, look no further than the current Indian state.

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Woke up to the news of more devastating job cuts in UK universities. I will forgo the specifics as my friends are there. How long must we endure the consequences of the Browne Comm. model? It has proven to be a catastrophic failure, dismantling one of the finest university systems in the world.

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Nothing more Texan than collecting snow in ice boxes to build a snowman

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Friends, in these dark times I can only share these lines from my favorite 13th c poet Amir Khusrau, 'Gar firdaus, ruhe zamin ast, hamin asto, hamin asto, hamin ast' If there is heaven on earth, it is here, it is here, it is here.

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A genuine suggestion to my American friends worrying about the next four years: look around the world. It will help.

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Nalli nihari (lamb shank stew) for a cold winter night

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AHA strikes back. After careful deliberation and consideration, the AHA Council has vetoed the "Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza" presented at the 2025 business meeting. www.historians.org/news/busines...

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Happy, tired dog after a long walk in the park.

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This news saved me today www.bbc.com/news/live/c3...

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Job Opportunity! The School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies (SHPRS) at Arizona State University (ASU) seeks a full-time, early career tenure-track faculty member at the rank of Assistant Professor with a specialization in African American history. www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...

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