Professor; University of Exeter; Historian of Science and Medicine in Premodern Islamic Societies; Love Urdu poetry
Nahyan Fancy
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When ACA premium tax credits were boosted, record numbers of Americans got covered.
Republicans let those credits expire, then turned around and backed Trump’s $200B Iran war ask.
Less care, more war. #FundHealthcareNotWar
Thanks! I'd say this is a "Isn't science cool when it can combine w/ Humanities to help us see stuff we've never seen before" things. The scientists, ironically, have been sticking to the traditional, 700-year-old narrative. It's only us historians of medicine who've said, "We need a new narrative!"
Imagine having the unmitigated gall to publish this as a bunch of rich billionaires with more money than Croesus attempt to steal more money/power by any means necessary including gAI, a world in which one such billionaire fled to Argentina, and the folk objecting to obscene wealth are the problem?
Barack Obama is a Donald Trump ally, a Trump supporter and a Trump booster. He laughs with Trump. He is silent as Trump kills people and destroys art and science. Now he’s trying to kiss Trump’s ass and launder Trump’s image YET AGAIN thehill.com/homenews/sta...
For those who can make it to the @aahmhistmed.bsky.social meeting in Buffalo this week, a quick 🧵 on my Garrison Lecture, 6pm on Friday. (For those who can't make it, never fear: the talk will be recorded & posted on the AAHM YouTube ASAP.) First, here's the most important part of the abstract: 1/n
This is one of those isn't science cool mind blowing things
Modern tech means we can learn stuff about plague in medieval Europe we couldn't previously possibly have known, this is really fascinating stuff
Steven Thrasher wrote a good column about some of these moves to police student graduation speakers here:
👀 "This project has received $0 in research funding"👀
A great reminder that funding does not automatically equate to research excellence!
