Catherine Will

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Work on personal and public health. Current attention on antimicrobial resistance and mobilisation with perspectives from STS. 
Pronouns she/her.
The pope cited Donna Haraway y'all
On route to Nürnberg to meet the „Forschungsverbund Diskriminierung & Rassismus“ and propose some conceptual & methodological considerations on studying racism in institutions - this brings several things together that I have done over the past years, so really curious what the discussion will bring
@abolisyonista @academicchatter do you not have a library?
@lukemartell I don’t know but will look at answers!
@TabeaScharrer @aleks_lewicki this looks great!
@zinken we had ones like this in Hungary in the mid 1990s. More modern materials but same design!
@ObsidianUrbex this is beautiful!

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Fascinating study looking at how certain types of E. coli train the lining of the bladder to become more vulnerable to future infections. This may in part explain why some people have bladder colonization or UTI and then continue to get more bacteruria subsequently.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-023-01346-6

Uropathogenic Escherichia coli infection-induced epithelial trained immunity impacts urinary tract disease outcome - Nature Microbiology

Uropathogenic Escherichia coli infection induces epigenetic remodelling and trained immune responses in bladder epithelial stem cells that affect susceptibility to recurrent infection.

Nature
“British politics has long been seen as a shitshow. It's taken on a more literal meaning of late. …England is the only country in the world with a fully-privatized water & sewage system, run by large — and wildly unpopular — regional monopolies.” https://www.politico.eu/article/the-politics-of-poo-how-sewage-strewn-beaches-became-britains-new-election-battleground/
The politics of poo: How sewage-strewn beaches became Britain’s new election battleground

Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives are under fire over the rancid state of Britain’s waterways.

POLITICO
RT @alison_phipps
Built of the same container modules used as torture chambers & prisons in regimes from people flee persecution - we deliberately continue persecution in fled ways. We may not yet be actively killing but we know suicide rates will rise. Despair is required https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65193446
Barge to house 500 male migrants off Dorset coast, says government

The plan - a first for the UK - is criticised for being "completely inadequate" by refugee groups.

BBC News