Professor of Medical Anthropology (University of St Andrews, Scotland) researching zoonosis, plague, epidemics, colonial medicine, biopolitics, multispecies relations, and medical visual culture
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/social-anthropology/people/cl12
Christos Lynteris
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A great new article by Caroline Mburu on "Territories of coexistence: rodents, risk and disease in a dynamic ecosystem in rural Tanzania" @bmj.com Medical Humanities mh.bmj.com/content/earl...
Congo says number of confirmed Ebola cases rises to 515 reut.rs/4ea2iHQ
Super parution !
‘The mantra, repeated ad nauseam in those years, was “competition drives up quality,” an assertion that anyone looking at, say, the privatised water companies or privatised train companies might greet with a hollow laugh.’
Stefan Collini on the crisis in universities.
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As we near 1 month since the #Ebola outbreak in DRC & Uganda was declared, #WHO estimates the risk of further spread as very high in DRC, high in Uganda & countries neighboring those 2, but low elsewhere in Africa & globally. WHO is worried about ETU capacity in DRC.
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À l’occasion de l’entrée au Panthéon de Marc Bloch, @labnf.bsky.social honore sa mémoire et son œuvre.
Le 10 juin, une demi-journée d’études explore son rapport aux livres, entre biographies, rééditions, sa bibliothèque spoliée et lien à la Bibliothèque nationale : www.bnf.fr/fr/agenda/ma...
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The problems with Britain’s universities are systemic and deep-rooted, not just local or contingent. Yet political and...
🌟Estivales du Haut-Calavon 2026
Thème ❗Peuples des mers, des terres et des cieux❗
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Christos Lynteris
André Loez & podcast Paroles d’histoire
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London Review of Books
Helen Branswell 🇨🇦
BnF - Bibliothèque nationale de France
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Comment naît un classique de l’histoire ? Avec « Écrire La société féodale », entrez dans les coulisses du grand livre de Marc Bloch. Plus de vingt ans de correspondance révèlent la fabrication intellectuelle et éditoriale de ce « best-seller ».
Centre de recherches historiques
Centre de recherches historiques
Democratic Republic of Congo said on Sunday that the number of confirmed Ebola cases had increased to 515 after 27 new samples tested positive in the previous 24 hours.
Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society
Bad news for those UK universities who've just entered into partnerships with Microsoft to inject AI into everything...wait, I'm hearing that my university did that last week...oh.
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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society
Grumpy Philosopher
fortune.com/2026/05/22/m... Those poor AI Agents will soon be made redundant by hyper-efficient flesh-and-blood workers. It's inevitable. Either you adopt real human labour, or you go extinct. In the future, the winners will be those who can appreciate the dignity of human labour. :)
Companies are racing to incentivize employees to use AI. But as some companies are finding, the more employees that use the technology, the heavier the bill.
