Christos Lynteris
Professor of Medical Anthropology (St Andrews) researching and writing on zoonoses, plague, epidemics, history of colonial medicine, animal studies, and visual culture
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- The danger of adopting a Danish-style vax schedule: "When we remove a vaccine like the meningococcal shot from the routine schedule, we aren’t just changing a line on a chart. We are inviting previously well-controlled diseases back into our high schools & colleges." www.statnews.com/2026/02/06/d...
- Alya Aglan - La double mort de Marc Bloch À paraître en mars chez Flammarion
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- My tribue to Dr Bill Foege and the lessons we can learn from his inspiring life Lessons From William H. Foege, A Global Health Legend @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/madhuk...
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- The International Fellowships 2026 scheme, run with the @royalsociety.org, supports international early career researchers to undertake a two-year research career with UK partner organisations. Find out more and apply ahead of 11 March deadline: bit.ly/3LaMIBC
- Coming soon! "Collaboration, Technologies, and the History of Shakespearean Bibliography" a minigraph from the Cambridge Elements Shakespeare and Text series (ed @roaringgirle.bsky.social and @loughnrv.bsky.social ) by me, Heidi Craig, Kris L. May, and Dorothy Todd ANNNNND it will be open access!
- Daniel Allen and I are organising an @rgsibg.bsky.social conference (hybrid) session on legal animal geographies. We invite papers that not only highlight current multispecies injustice, but seek to challenge, resist, and contest these systems to create more just multispecies worlds and futures. 1
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- "Doctors nationally are describing harrowing consequences for patients who delayed seeking care or skipped it altogether..." @danielpayne.bsky.social reports on the ICE crackdown's chilling effect on immigrants seeking necessary health care. www.statnews.com/2026/02/03/i...
- Bad and getting worse: for students like me, the loan system is the disaster that never ends | Rohan Sathyamoorthy
- TikTok could be forced to change app’s ‘addictive design’ by European Commission
- Influenza B strains are a whole different family of viruses. Even if you’ve had the flu once this season, it’s possible to get it again if you catch a different strain. www.cnn.com/2026/01/30/h...
- INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
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View full threadMy criticism of oligarch-owned news outlets does not stop at Jeff Bezos' gutting of The Washington Post. For the regime and right-wing billionaires, the value of national media is what it *doesn't* produce. bsky.app/profile/alex...
- BREAKING: @ajc.com on Tuesday evening said it will lay off approximately 50 staffers, about 15% of its headcount, as it seeks to cut costs and marshal resources to invest in its growth. The AJC published its last print edition on 12/31. About half of those laid off will come from the newsroom.
- Today is a good day to follow and support news outlets that avoid generative AI slop: bsky.app/profile/alex...
- Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfTat://did:plc:mencpxk4spd3xn3qotwkyyqf/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3ma7dtn6w7j2x
- Write it down. Tell the story of this time in your own words. All too soon, people will try to re-write history, their own complicity in these horrors will be scrubbed away. But take a pen, take to the keyboard. And write. Remember for the rest of us.
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- Amazon shares sink as Big Tech's AI spending plans worry investors reut.rs/4kqR5FS
- Kristin Zeiler reflects on features of the early field of medical humanities in Sweden, specifically focusing on Linköping University, and poses three questions for the field based on these features. thepolyphony.org/2026/02/06/m...
- We are now accepting proposals from scholars interested in applying for the EU's Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships program in 2026. This is a great program for early career (<8 yrs from PhD) scholars to be with @greenhouseuis.net for 2 years on own project. www.uis.no/en/research/...
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- Check out this recent podcast with our PI, Catherine Herfeld, which touches on her work on the history and philosophy of rational choice theory, her forthcoming book Conversations on Rational Choice, and, of course, #ModelTransfer!
- In their great podcast, I try to answer a set of challenging questions asked by Jennifer Jhun and François Allison about my book Conversations on Rational Choice and about how I would classify my work in the disciplinary landscape, among other things: hetpodcast.libsyn.com/episode-nine...
- The second talk in the Urban Multiplicities Seminar Series will be delivered by @ayonadatta.bsky.social (@uclgeography.bsky.social) Tuesday 10th February, 16:30–18:00, Small Lecture Theatre. All welcome!
- New publication! In this paper I draw on heterodox marxist engagements with subsumption to revise core approaches within marxist geography. Subsumption provides us with a dynamic tool to rethink capitalist property, uneven development and difference. Do reach out for access! doi.org/10.1177/2043...
- Fixed-term academic contracts may be holding back bold science. A new UK survey finds job insecurity pushes researchers towards safer topics — limiting risk-taking, creativity and long-term discovery. 🔗
- The quackery is relentless www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...
- Pleased to see our research team's work on the @erc.europa.eu funded PALVIREVOL project feature on this ERC report into frontier research for one health @biology.ox.ac.uk. erc.europa.eu/sites/defaul...
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- Michaela Clark reviews an exhibition that explores and complicates the social and psychiatric norms of post-war Germany. thepolyphony.org/2026/02/04/n...
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- New book by @globalhealing.bsky.social, a fabulous young mental health scholar! In "Empire of Madness," Kham "re-evaluates the Western approach to mental health, which medicates symptoms instead of changing the structures that harm the human psyche www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725148...
- Get Palantir out of the UK. Protect our NHS. Protect our country. www.thenational.scot/news/2582860...
- Two PhD studentships - University of Exeter 𝐏𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐬, 𝐏𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐞𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐆𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐑𝐡𝐚𝐳𝐞𝐬 Deadline: 26 March 2026 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐨 (Arabic): N.Fancy2@exeter.ac.uk (Classics): r.flemming@exeter.ac.uk #CSMBR #PhDs
- Today our blog introduces our terrific new books coming out this February, among which is “Occupied Refuge,” by @hannobrankamp.bsky.social. Check out the full list! buff.ly/yFB1kAQ
- Save 30% on #NewBook "Occupied Refuge" by @hannobrankamp.bsky.social, which shows how humanitarian missions often function as militarized occupations that treat camp inhabitants as new colonized subjects. buff.ly/HAgl1ii
- We're thrilled to have joined Bluesky 🎉 Follow us for updates on library resources, research support, open access, including LSHTM Press and highlights from our archives. We're looking forward to connecting and sharing with you here soon! 🙌
- The UK has lost its measles elimination status, the World Health Organization has announced. Vaccine disinformation is a worldwide pandemic that is killing us.
- “The era of hiding behind servers is over”.
- Doctors today are seeing childhood vaccine preventable diseases for the first time The whole point is that they shouldnt be seeing them! www.bbc.com/news/article...
- #Histoire #Archéologie #Asie 🛡️ « Aux origines du Khurâsân médiéval » 👨🏫 Le Pr Frantz Grenet, titulaire de la chaire Histoire et cultures de l’Asie centrale préislamique, introduit son cours de l'année 2025-2026. ⏰ Jusqu'au jeudi 16 avril 2026 Voir la suite 👉 urls.fr/05f36U
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- D’abord anonyme, le "Discours de la servitude volontaire" devint dans le contexte des guerres de religion un texte de combat. Anne-Marie Cocula fait l'histoire de ce texte qui rallie encore aujourd’hui tous les combattants de la liberté. www.lhistoire.fr/la-bo%C3%A9t...
- Abstract submissions for our 2026 meeting in Montpellier are now OPEN! ethnobotany.org/home/meeting...
- Tracing change in the public perception of plants: insights from archives and social media in China 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... by Xu et al.
