Lukas Engelmann
@engelmal81
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Chancellor's Fellow at @UoE_Stis & @BiomedSelfSoc Author of 'Mapping AIDS' (CUP), co-author of 'Sulphuric Utopias' (MIT) PI at Epidemy (ERC): @EpidemyErc
Edinburgh, UK
Joined April 2014
A powerful review of a powerful book and as always, @bykatewomersley puts the finger on the big, sometimes painful questions at the heart of it all 👇👇👇
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They don’t. Believe me. Why do you talk such utter shite? And why are you morphing into a sovereign individual anarcho-capitalist narcissist with fascist leanings? Some journey you’ve been on.
@LeoKearse Why does the UK media, with a few exceptions, just parrot the government?
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🦠🦠 🦠🦠 From cholera to typhoid to crypto - why Britain's water system is broken. @steerewilliams and I took a deep dive into the stinking history of water provision in the UK. What has gone wrong (again and again) and what needs to be done #epitwitter 👇👇👇
Britain has never managed to eradicate systemic failures when it comes to providing safe, clean and accessible drinking water to its citizens. To understand why, we took a deep dive into the history of the UK's water and sewage systems. Find out more 👉 https://t.co/2xRyb8yTDw
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A history of death, denial and diarrhoea. Why Britain's water systems keep failing, why its an epidemiological history and what we could do to make it better. @steerewilliams and myself in @ConversationUK
https://t.co/e0vY3Fj2yL
theconversation.com
The water regulator has issued a record £168m fine to Thames, Yorkshire and Northumbrian Water for a ‘catalogue of failure’ regarding illegal sewage discharges – with more fines expected to follow.
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Why is a politician over riding trained professionals judgement? Why are these assessments not being made by those who are medically trained who can take into full account the person in front of them? And why no recognition of all about suicide risk in young trans people?
Puberty Blockers. A 🧵 Children’s healthcare must always be led by evidence. Medicine given to children must always be proven safe and effective first. I know there’s lots of fear and anxiety. Let me explain why this decision was taken. 1/9
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Terrible mistake of the new government. Streeting continues the Tory agenda of politicized healthcare. Casts patients as unreliable, projects a completely unachievable standard of evidence and - most importantly - puts people's lives unnecessarily at risk.
Puberty Blockers. A 🧵 Children’s healthcare must always be led by evidence. Medicine given to children must always be proven safe and effective first. I know there’s lots of fear and anxiety. Let me explain why this decision was taken. 1/9
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Apply and join us here in Edinburgh for a full-time, open ended lectureship in hsitory of medicine. Happy to field any questions for this job. Applications are due on 26 April.
🚨🚨 Massive job klaxon 🚨🚨 We are advertising a full-time, open-ended lectureship in the history of modern medicine. Applications are due on 26 April. Please don't hesitate to get in touch with any questions (details in the job description) 👇👇👇 https://t.co/NG36fXEEzD
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Terrific news. Congrats to both of you and to all of us 🎉
Some professional news: @DoraVargha and I are thrilled to share the launch of “Epidemic Histories,” a new global history of science and medicine series with @JHUPress. We're so excited to be working with @mxmcadam as series editors!
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Thank you Lee, this means a lot.
1/ I’m an Israeli academic. My community is too silent about the ongoing war in Gaza. Here is how I see things based on reading hundreds of articles and watching thousands of videos and images about the war. This tweet chain contains my conclusions as a sort of executive summary.
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.@bykatewomersley won our coveted Dr Elsie Inglis Award, one of 4 Global Women in Healthcare Awards, held in partnership with @rcpedin. Dr Womersley is recognised for her work to drive the adoption of a new minimum standard for inclusion of sex and gender in science.
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History should not be rewritten. Arguments against Pandemic Revisionism by @engelmal81 and @DoraVargha just out in the @ConversationUK 👇👇 COVID: there’s a strong current of pandemic revisionism in the mainstream media, and it’s dangerous
theconversation.com
Simplistic stories often become the popular ones.
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👋Final reminder to send your exciting proposals to our epidemy panel at #EASST4S2024 in Amsterdam. We invite proposals to ask how research 𝗱𝗼𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 brings epidemics into focus. Do data maketh an epidemic? Submit here until February 12: 👇👇 https://t.co/q4puLen4gT
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Fantastic. Now do Edinburgh. https://t.co/FtQmT5KbLN
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📢3xJob Klaxon! Come work with our Dr Catherine Montgomery as one of three four-year postdocs for the ERC-selected, UKRI-funded study 'Data and the Healthcare Revolution' (DARE) at the UoEdinburgh, to conduct ethnographic research into data and care practices in biomedicine. 1/5
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On medical misinformation, the contestable value of science, and the need for reproductive justice: brilliant Kate reviews the Blood by @DrJenGunter in the @ObsNewReview. Stellar. 👇👇
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