Undisciplined scholar. Researching science, society+policy; humans-animals-environments; #OneHealth #microbes #STS #HistSTM #scicomm.
Author, 'Vermin, Victims and Disease: British Debates over Badgers and Bovine TB'
Angela Cassidy
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It's incredible that the entire panic over "ultra-processed foods" is based on the results of just *five* RCTs, four of which were less than three weeks long.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A wee group of angry balaclava and mask-wearing anti-immigration guys tried to stop the good people of Glasgow showing solidarity with migrants and standing up to racism and fascism. Well, the far right are far outnumbered...
#RefugeesWelcome #MigrantsWelcome #NeighboursNotStrangers #Glasgow
Passed through Brussels on my travels today. The EU really not messing about here
Hannah Graham
Only saw them briefly, but if I understood correctly these elegant @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social objects are plaster models made by Martin Rudwick c. the late 1950s to examine the functional morphology of brachiopods. Check out that Eospirifer! #FossilFriday
Angela Cassidy
Right about now, funk soul brothers.
(image on left is of the kind of pub you'd cross the road to avoid, with a police car outside it and a large crowd of anti-fascist protestors. Image on right is Norman 'Fatboy Slim' Cook in the crowd near a sign reading 'dance 4 love'.)
A complementary deep dive into the relationship between several high profile scientists and the eugenicist paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, by @cattownsend.bsky.social
The good thing is the actual sway of public opinion in the UK is massively, *massively and overwhelmingly*, against the racist hooligans. They're a small minority here. The bad news is that various facts about our political system and media ecosystem may mean that fact doesn't matter.
Aerial PARTIAL view of the anti racist, anti fascist crowd in Belfast right now. City Hall to the left for scale. This - this is the real Belfast. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
As a German in Manchester I am contractually obliged to repost any post mentioning Nico along with a reference to her connection with this city.
www.theguardian.com/music/2019/j...
Join us as a postdoctoral researcher!
"Invisible Knowledge Work in Open Science Practices", funded by OSNL #STS #metascience
Come help us map and understand the invisible labour that enables, allows, supports and shapes #openscience, and lets it grow. Mostly #qual work, with small #quant pockets.
Welcome to Maastricht University! Are you an ambitious post-doctoral researcher with an Open Science mindset who seeks to unravel the threads of visibility and invisibility of staff across research pr...
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Love this city. The racists are all stuck in a shit pub rn being yelled at by *checks notes* Fatboy slim?
Mags L Halliday
Sarah Kay
Adam Rutherford
Bart Penders
Trinket
Carsten Timmermann
No seriously they're stuck in a shit pub being yelled at by Fatboy Slim
Trinket
“Epstein was a central node in a toxic gift network that included celebrities, politicians, and billionaires. Academic scientists of the Epstein class covered for his crimes, laundered his reputation, and legitimized his pseudo-intellectual pursuit of eugenics, racism and sexism.”
She had been a top model, then sang with the Velvet Underground, and in 1981 Nico moved to Manchester. Her friends there share their touching, alarming memories of ‘a true bohemian’
